The Northern Territory Government is failing to follow its own child protection laws that recommend Indigenous children be placed within their families and communities as a priority, the Independent Member for Nhulunbuy says.

Yingiya Mark Guyula used the anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s 2008 apology to the stolen generations to issue a warning about the way Indigenous children were being removed from their families today.

“That legislation was broken by the Government themselves — they broke their own law and that’s why I have stood here and I am standing here to say this must stop,” Mr Guyula said.