Aussie anti-war senators heckle Bush in parliament

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.”

Both minority Green Party MPs, Senator Bob Brown and Senator Kerry Nettle, were ordered out of the chamber, but refused to leave. Brown even shook Bush’s hand after the address that was capped by a standing ovation.

The son of a terror suspect being held by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was removed from the public gallery.