Remembering missing Tongan woman in Australia with a milk bottle

Amelia Hausia disappeared 27years ago from the Woden Plaza Shopping Centre just before Christmas after a fight with her boyfriend.

Numerous sightings have been reported since her disappearance but no positive identification has ever been made, Australia’s 10 Daily has reported.

The Dubbo girl was just 17 years old when she vanished in Canberra in 1992.

Recently, thousands of bottles of milk sent out to stores across Canberra had been plastered with Hausia’s face along with 11 other missing Australians, some of whom disappeared decades ago.

“Authorities are hoping the joint initiative, between the Australian Federal Police and Canberra Milk will start a new conversation about the region’s missing people, and ultimately help police find them,” AFP Assistant Commissioner Debbie Platz reportedly said.

Before her 25th anniversary of her disappearance in 2017, her brother John, two years younger than Amelia, told of the heartache he feels, Daily Liberal reported.

“There’s always that sorrow and anger and sheer grief, I suppose, that is relived, just talking from my own perspective,” he said.

“Especially at anniversaries, her [recent] birthday… the date where she was last reportedly seen in Canberra.

“For me personally, it’s like a wound that never heals.”

Amelia attended Dubbo West Primary School and Delroy High before going to Canberra to finish her secondary education, staying with relatives.