John W.Howard says he is 'glad' that the wrongfully deported Australian citizen, Vivian Solon, is back in Australia, but says he will not be personally apologising to her.

He also says he cannot guarantee the same mistake will not happen again.

Ms Solon finally arrived back more than four years after she was deported to the Philippines on the mistaken belief she was an illegal immigrant and six months after she was found in a home for the abandoned. Solon had been seriously injured in a car accident and, 24 hours after this, had been taken by wheelchair to the airport and dispatched, with severe head injuries, to Manila.