Linda Kirk (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Is the minister aware that this weekend marks five years in custody without trial or conviction for Australian man Mr David Hicks? Can the minister explain why the Prime Minister has been so callous as to let an Australian rot in a foreign jail without trial for half of the life of his government? Now that coalition backbenchers have joined the calls of every state and territory Attorney-General, the UK Attorney-General, the UK Lord Chancellor, a former High Court judge and many other eminent Australians, will the government ask the United States to release Mr Hicks into Australian custody so that he can be dealt with under our laws?