Aboriginal leprosy claims investigated

SOME Aboriginal children taken from their parents under past government policies were used as guinea pigs in medical experiments, an Australian senate inquiry was told yesterday.

The allegation was made by a member of the Stolen Generations Alliance of Aborigines, who were forcibly removed from their homes to be raised in white institutions in an attempt to foster assimilation.

“As well as being taken away, they were used... there are a lot of things that Australia does not know about,” Kathleen Mills told the first day of the inquiry into compensation for the so-called “Stolen Generations”.