Happiness and trauma resurface as 'brothers and sisters' meet again at WA mission

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Happiness and trauma resurface as 'brothers and sisters' meet again at WA mission
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Almost 85 years after it was established, the Indigenous people who lived on a mission in Western Australia as children have returned for an emotional reunion.

Dozens of former mission children and missionaries have a attended a reunion at Norseman, WA

The event has caused memories, both happy and painful, to resurface, and sparked renewed calls for reconciliation

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