A young girl sits on stage, her hair in plaits, her hands in fists.

For a year, the 60-kilogram bronze statue representing Chinese comfort women has been in the garage of Chinese Australians for Peace president Jimmy Li.

On Saturday, at a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, she was unveiled to fanfare and original Chinese music composition and dance, but she remains without a permanent public home. By night, she would be back in the garage.

Comfort women, according to the United Nations, is a euphemism for hundreds of thousands of girls and women from several countries, including Korea, China and the Philippines, who were abducted and forced into sexual slavery before and during World War Two by the then Japanese Imperial Army.

Li said the statue, dedicat

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