Controversial talkback radio host Alan Jones has told listeners that Australia needed to have another Stolen Generation to save Indigenous children from drug and alcohol addicted Aboriginal mothers and fathers. Jones was responding to a listener who called into his 2GB radio show on Monday morning to complain about the traditional Aboriginal dance and minute of silence for the stolen generation at the NRL Indigenous all stars game on Saturday. “What a load of coddle,” the listener said. “And they even had to stand for a minute silence for the Stolen Generations. When are they going to believe that half the Stolen Generation were taken for their own protection”. Jones responded, “Correct, to look after them”.

“Yeah, we’ve gone mad haven’t we? We have gone mad I just thought it was unbelievable [the minute’s silence],” Jones said.

“Suddenly they go back into an environment where children are brought up in those circumstances [drug and alcohol abuse], those children, for their own benefit, should be taken away”.

Last week marked the eight-year anniversary of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s historic apology to the Stolen Generations.