A new report from the Healing Foundation has revealed a stark failure to implement the Bringing them Home recommendations, as data from the Productivity Commission revealed the number of Indigenous children being removed from homes across the country has continued to rise, which Indigenous experts have previously said is leading Australia down the "path of another Stolen Generation".

On the eve of the 17th anniversary of Kevin Rudd's Parliamentary apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008, the Healing Foundation released the Are you waiting for us to die? report, calling for a package of "urgent changes" to allow the remaining elderly survivors to "live out their days with dignity".

"We have already lost too many survivors, even in the last few weeks," Foundation chief executive Shannan Dodson said.

"Immediate and prioritised action is needed to provide equitable redress for all survivors, rectify issues preventing survivors from accessing their own family records, offer ongoing support for Stolen Generations organisations and ensure there are culturally safe, trauma informed aged care and health services for survivors."

The Healing Foundation's chair Professor Steve Larkin said survivors had "specific and complex ageing needs" as a result from their forced removal, noting they were "likely to fare worse than other older Indigenous people on a range of outcomes".

"They are the gap within the gap. Yet we know survivors are often not accessing necessary services due to fear of re-traumatisation," Professor Larkin said.

The 1997 Bringing Them Home inquiry found "Indigenous families and communities have endured gross violations of their human rights. These violations continue to affect indigenous people's daily lives."

"They were an act of genocide, aimed at wiping out Indigenous families, communities, and cultures, vital to the precious and inalienable heritage of Australia."

Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday, Senator Lidia Thorpe, whose mother, Marjorie, was the Victorian Co-Commissioner for the Stolen Generations inquiry, said the inaction of governments on the recommendations from Bringing Them Home was shameful.

"The Stolen Generations continue," she said.

"In the Northern Territory, we're seeing a calculated reversal of progress, with the government moving to dismantle the Aboriginal child placement principle, which ensures our children stay connected to kin, culture, and Country."

Referencing the data, which found one-in-eight Victorian children are "forcibly stolen," Senator Thorpe added: "It's a return of the genocidal policy of assimilation."

It is estimated that as many as one-in-three Indigenous children were "stolen" from their families between 1910 and the 1970s as part of official government assimilationist policies.

Nonetheless, responding to comments from opposition leader Peter Dutton, who said the Stolen Generations ended in 1970, Lead Convenor of the Coalition of Peaks, Pat Turner, told reporters on Monday: "Well, it didn't."

"It's still going on today, and we've got far too many children in out-of-home care and most of the children in detention are on remand," Ms Turner said.

Are you waiting for us to die? found only five of the 83 recommendations have been implemented, whilst 54 per cent (45) of the recommendations had failed to be implemented.

"Whilst the Bringing Them Home report and the testimonies of the Stolen Generations survivors left an enormous legacy, progress against its recommendations has been woeful," the authors of Are you waiting for us to die? said.

"It is hard to conceive that gross human rights violations, documented and bravely retold by survivors in public forums, can be met with systematic inaction in so many areas. Yet that is the confronting reality that exists in Australia."

Yorta Yorta survivor Ian Hamm said the test of a nation is "not how far it advances its brightest and its best. The test of a nation is how far behind it chooses to leave its most vulnerable".

Senator Thorpe agreed, telling Parliament: "Sorry means you don't do it again."

Are you waiting for us to die? called for a comprehensive National Healing Package for Stolen Generations survivors, including reparations; rehabilitation and research; records, family tracing and reunion; acknowledgements and apologies - including from police in numerous jurisdictions and churches; education and training; and monitoring and accountability.

Ms Dodson said there was a need for a coordinated response from all governments, organisations, and anyone in contact with stolen generation survivors to ensure real change and progress.

"There must also be ongoing support to the many Stolen Generations organisations across the country that have the expertise and knowledge to provide holistic, culturally safe, and trauma-informed responses to the needs of survivors," she said.