Comments:Former Australian PM attacks parliament on apology to the Stolen Generations

"I do not believe, as a matter of principle, that one generation can accept responsibility for the acts of an earlier generation. I don't accept that as a matter of principle," Mr Howard said.

One then has to wonder how Mr Howard keeps to his religious beliefs - the ones that state that the sins of Adam are visited upon us all by a supposedly all-merciful, all-good god.