Hadley also said he agreed with an argument Jones was attempting to make on Monday, when he declared that Australia needed more "stolen generations". Alan Jones has reiterated his claim that Australia needs more stolen generations. Credit:Jessica Hromas Jones later expanded on his views, saying there were children today, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who should be removed from their dysfunctional families, where alcohol and drug abuse and violence proliferated. But Jones claimed authorities were too scared of being accused of creating another stolen generation. Hadley said social engineers in government agencies in Australia had decided some time ago that "the community would be best served by leaving children with their biological parents, regardless of the circumstances". "Now this is not about black children, nor is it about white children, it's about children," Hadley said.

"About children of different backgrounds, black or white, at risk of being left in the care of people incapable of looking after themselves, let alone their children." Some Indigenous leaders had branded Jones racist for his comments following the weekend's Indigenous All Stars rugby league match. On Monday, Jones had taken a call from a listener, Dell, who criticised the minute's silence held to acknowledge the stolen generation before the rugby league match kicked off at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Saturday night. Dell claimed the commemoration was a "load of twaddle", and that "half the stolen generation were taken for their own protection", to which Jones responded: "Correct. To look after them. And we need stolen generations." On Tuesday morning, Jones told his listeners: "Now if there have been children in the past wrongly taken from their families on the basis of their Aboriginality, well that of course is appalling, and [former prime minister] Kevin Rudd apologised for that years ago.

"That's not the point I'm making," Jones added. "There are children, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, out there today who are being given no hope in life from an early age because they're being returned to families where drug, alcohol addiction and violence predominate. "What Australian, hand on heart, can say this is the best we can do for these kids? But are we frightened to take them away from their biological parents for fear of being branded as creating a stolen generation?" Jones also quoted a 2014 editorial written by conservative commentator Andrew Bolt, in which Bolt claimed that "the stolen generation is a myth". In that editorial, a section of which Jones read out on air on Tuesday, Bolt claimed: "No academic or Aboriginal group has yet met my challenge ... to produce even 10 names of children stolen just for being Aboriginal. Even so, no politician dares question the myth for fear of seeming racist." Jones also referred to the case of an 11-year-old boy in Perth who was charged with murder following the death of a 26-year-old man last month.

"My heart broke for this little boy, an Aboriginal boy," Jones said. "His father had been in and out of jail more times than you could imagine. It was a large family. I believe the grandmother wanted the family removed to other accommodation to protect them from wandering the streets. She was ignored. What would have happened had this little fellow, he's called Max, been given a home, removed from violence and the dysfunctionality that he has lived with all his 11 years? Now he's charged with murder." On Monday, Professor Tom Calma, the co-chair of Reconciliation Australia, said Jones' "racism" was a denial of rights and history. "For decades Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have suffered wrongs and have had abuses committed against them," he said. "Many of our mob were removed from their families, banned from travelling freely, punished for speaking our languages and denied access to citizenship, education and health care."

He said reconciliation required acknowledging injustices of the past, making amends and ensuring they never happened again.