Edited sentence: Howard did not attend the sitting but all other living former prime ministers - Gough Whitlam, Malcolm Fraser, Bob Hawke and Paul Keating - were in attendance.On 13 February 2008, the first full day of the new (42nd) Parliament, the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, moved a motion in the House of Representatives stating that the Australian government and parliament apologised to the Stolen Generations.The Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson supported the motion and it was approved unanimously, without debate (one member, Wilson Tuckey, was absent)