NORTHERN Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles has expressed regret to the victims of forced adoption in his jurisdiction, but stopped short of saying he was sorry.
"To all those Northern Territory families past and present who were separated by an adoption that was forced upon them, on behalf of this assembly I express our heartfelt sympathy," Mr Giles told the NT parliament.
"To all those affected by the policy of forced adoption please accept this statement of deepest regret in the spirit in which it is offered," he said.
Mr Giles said modern social services could not rescue people from the events of the past and the "dark practices" that changed lives forever.
Earlier Mr Giles told journalists he did not think it appropriate to apologise on behalf of the NT government, because the jurisdiction was not self-governing when the forced adoptions occurred.
"I find it abhorrent personally, but the point is we were not an NT government until 1978," Mr Giles told reporters.
"None of these adoption practices were undertaken post-1978."
Last week Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a national apology to women who had children taken from them.
From the 1950s to the 1970s an estimated 150,000 unwed Australian mothers had their babies forcibly adopted under a practice sanctioned by governments, churches, hospitals, charities and bureaucrats.
Some women were tricked into signing adoption papers, drugged and physically shackled to hospital beds.
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