Email

First Cut: Nelson responds to apology

Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has used his reply to the Prime Minister's apology to the Stolen Generations to warn against judging actions of the past by the standards of the present. Watch Dr Nelson's speech, in which he supports the apology but refers to Opposition unease about the use of the word, "stolen", saying many white Australians involved in the removal of black children had good intentions.

Tags: indigenous, stolen-generations, government-and-politics, federal-government, federal-parliament, the-apology, australia, act, parliament-house-2600