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Last Update: Thursday, October 23, 2003. 4:20pm (AEST) Greens banned from Parliament after anti-Bush protest
Two Greens Senators have been banned from Parliament for 24 hours after yelling out in protest during US President George W Bush's speech.
Mr Bush appeared unfazed after Senators Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle were ordered to leave today's joint sitting of Parliament.
"Sergeant will remove Senator Nettle," Speaker of the House Neil Andrew said.
"I love free speech," Mr Bush said.
But the Senators, wearing photographs of the two Australians detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, defied the Speaker's orders and remained in the chamber.
Their attempts to present a letter and photograph to Mr Bush were stymied by Government MPs who stood between the senators and the President.
Senator Nettle says she was shocked and disturbed by their conduct and comments allegedly made by Senator Ross Lightfoot.
"To the effect of 'you should go off and die'," she said.
Senator Lightfoot's office says he merely told Senator Nettle to go away.
The disciplinary motion passed against the Greens senators means they will not be permitted to attend a Parliamentary address by China's President tomorrow.
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Bush protest march turns violent
A protest march in Canberra involving more than 1,000 people has turned violent, with some protesters breaking through a police barricade outside the United States Embassy.
The protesters were marching from Parliament House to the Lodge where President George W Bush is to spend the afternoon.
But a rowdy group has broken through police lines and officers have responded with physical force to stop the protesters advancing on the embassy.
Earlier, the protesters booed the President and chanted "go home Bush", as he arrived at Parliament House.
Andrew Wilkie, the former intelligence officer who quit in protest against the Iraq War, spoke to the crowd drawing on the similarities between the US and the Australian administrations.
"All of Bush's and Howard's lies have turned out to be only the start of it because the whiff of criminal behaviour now hangs heavily over both their administrations," Mr Wilkie said.