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Posted: 2016-11-30 23:56:00

Brendan Jones and Amanda Keller at work on WSFM. Picture: Brett Costello

“I FEEL so guilty ... I’m as sorry as hell.”

They’re the emotional words radio star Brendan ‘Jonesy’ Jones said on air this morning as he broke down in tears on the WSFM breakfast show he co-hosts with Amanda Keller.

The pair were discussing the controversial SBS show First Contact in which six well-known Aussies spent 28 days learning about Aboriginal Australia.

The second episode of the three-part series aired last night and Jones said on air this morning that he was shocked by the behaviour of one of the stars, former One Nation politician David Oldfield.

“I did find David Oldfield to be the most offensive,” Jones said.

“Within seconds of arriving in a lady’s house in a small town ... he starts berating her about the rubbish she’s got around the place ... She’s got like 25 people living in this four bedroom house with one toilet.

“But I think the most offensive thing he did was question the validity of the stories of two men who were talking about their experiences with being taken away from their families and he’s one of those guys that’s still of that mind that we don’t need to apologise to the Stolen Generation.”

Jones revealed that he thought he “knew a lot about regional Australia because I’ve lived in a lot of remote communities in Western Australia and I’ve seen indigenous communities up close.”

But he bravely confessed he was wrong and is ashamed of what he used to think of indigenous Australians.

“You know I used to think like David Oldfield,” Jones said.

“I used to think, ‘Oh why don’t you let them go out of the community and go back to their old ways but the thing is, they can’t go back to their old ways, we took them away.”

Jones then broke down in tears and said, “I just ... I feel so guilty and I’m a white Australian and I’m as sorry as hell.”

Jones isn’t alone. Many viewers have expressed shock at some of the comments made by Oldfield on First Contact so far.

The former politician said that Aboriginal culture “should have died out like the stone age” and that it was “unnecessary”.

“It’s not good for Aborigines to remain Aborigines. You just naturally let it die out,” he said.

Oldfield has claimed the program is “a propaganda exercise in shame and guilt” and has alleged that he has been a victim of selective editing.

The final episode of First Contact airs tonight on NITV and SBS at 8.30pm

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