Federal Labor will seek to bring down the cost of essential food and groceries in remote Indigenous communities, using new taxpayer subsidies to control prices on products including milk, bread, rice, chicken, toothpaste and toilet paper.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used Monday’s 17th anniversary of the national apology to members of the Stolen Generation to announce moves to bring down the cost to consumers of the items across 76 stores, where some prices are as much as double what shoppers in major cities pay.