An inquiry into the Australian print media will examine increasing regulation but will not go as far as breaking up the nation’s largest newspaper empire owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, a government minister said today.

SOME Aboriginal children taken from their parents under past government policies were used as guinea pigs in medical experiments, an Australian senate inquiry was told yesterday.

TWO senators opposed to the US-led war in Iraq heckled the American president when he spoke to Australia’s Parliament yesterday, but George W. Bush shrugged it off, smiled broadly and won applause by saying: “I love free speech.”

Two senators opposed to the US-led war in Iraq have heckled the American president as he spoke to Australia's Parliament.