A member of the Stolen Generations speaking at a Senate Inquiry in Darwin says Aboriginal children were used as guinea pigs for medical tests, and some were injected with leprosy serum.

The inquiry is examining a compensation scheme for the Stolen Generations.

Outside the inquiry, Kath Mills told the ABC Aborigines at a site in Darwin were used as test subjects for leprosy.

She says Aborigines have not spoken about the tests because they feel ashamed by it.

"My uncle worked as a medical orderly, he gave me the name of the medicine and I'm not going to talk about it but it made our people very ill and he said the treatment almost killed them," she said.

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