One hundred survivors and their descendants gathered in Canberra this week to mark the 18th anniversary of the apology

Warning: This article contains descriptions of historical events that will be distressing to some readers

Valerie Wenberg vividly remembers the first time she saw her mother’s face. It was in a photograph tucked away in a box of black and white pictures under her older brother’s bed.

“I said to my brother, ‘who is that?’,” she recalls. “He said: ‘Don’t you know? That’s our mother.’”

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