Hanson leaves wriggle room in her 'primitive' apology

One Nation's Pauline Hanson has issued a qualified apology for comments on Indigenous Australians. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Pauline Hanson says she regrets calling Indigenous Australians "the most primitive race on Earth", adding it wasn't her intention to cause hurt with the widely derided remarks.

But the One Nation leader still insisted in a News24 interview on Tuesday that Indigenous Australians were "primitive" compared with the first English settlers.