John Madigan (Victoria, Democratic Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In 2008, Prime Minister Rudd rightly apologised to the members of the stolen generation for the actions perpetrated against them and stated that the injustices of the past must never happen again. Minister Carr, can you advise whether the government consider these injustices to be limited to our own shores or whether they have considered at what point they will have to apologise to the stolen generations of West Papua for the tacit approval of these injustices by the silence of successive Australian governments?