Rudd's nephew ejected

Security guards ejected Kevin Rudd's nephew from the Melbourne Museum yesterday as he sought to draw attention to the 2001 sinking of the asylum seeker vessel SIEV X, in which 146 children drowned.

The political activist Van Rudd placed a dummy of a child in a pram as a "museum-style art piece" in the Titanic exhibition, which is a collection of artefacts from the doomed ocean liner.

Rudd hoped the toddler mannequin, with its outstretched hand and a painted-on face of fear, would draw attention to the sinking of the Indonesian fishing boat SIEV X on October 19, 2001, just south of Java, killing 353 people.

But Rudd's stunt simply puzzled visitors and within minutes security guards had pushed Rudd and his supporters outside.