Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will use the pledge today to mark the 10th anniversary on Tuesday of the official government apology to the survivors delivered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The Shorten pledge will be accompanied by promise of a $10 million “Healing Fund” and a commitment that in its first 100 days a Labor Government would hold the first of annual summits on indigenous children.

Tuesday will be the anniversary itself, but Monday will see it noted in speeches by Mr Rudd and statements to Parliament on progress in “closing the gap” between the living standards of Aborigines and other Australians.

Mr Shorten will argue “the Apology was so much more than a set of well-chosen words”.

“It was not just an expression of sorrow or regret, but a declaration of intent, a promise for action,” advanced speech extracts say.

“The continuing weight and meaning of the Apology comes from what we do now, from our actions, from the change we drive, the gaps we close and the unfinished business we resolve.”

Thousands of indigenous children were taken from families and communities under laws which slowed the practice from 1905-69 — as many as one-in-10 by one calculation.

Some 2000 were removed in the Northern Territory when it was under Commonwealth care. No compensation has been available to the 150 or so still alive.

“They are still waiting for saying sorry, to be matched by making-good,” Mr Shorten will say today.

“It’s time the Commonwealth lived-up to its rhetoric.”

Mr Shorten will announce Stolen Generations survivors in the NT and the ACT and Jervis Bay would under Labor receive one-off ex gratis payments of $75,000 and $7000 for funeral expenses.

The Healing Fund would be set up to deal with “inter-generational trauma” caused by childhood dislocations, and annual summits would be held on First Nation’s Children.

“The traumatic effects of forced removal and separation from families, communities and culture have been severe and long-lasting for the Stolen Generations and their descendants,” says Mr Shorten’s announcement.

He said the Healing Fund would be “an indigenous-run organisation that supports the ongoing needs of the Stolen Generations with services such as counselling, family reunion, return to country, and support for elderly survivors.

“In recent years, the number of First Nations children removed from their families has risen rapidly. In 2017, more than 17,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children were living in out-of-home care, compared with about 9000 a decade ago.”