The Drover’s Wife: Director Leah Purcell gives Henry Lawson’s classic a First Nations twist

Leah Purcell holds nothing back in her re-imagined period Western. Photo: Roadshow

It’s a timeless classic. A dramatic, Australian short story penned by poet Henry Lawson back in 1892.

It tells the story of a woman left alone with her four children after her husband heads off droving sheep for three months.