Kerry Nettle (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate:

(a)

notes that Australian citizen, Mr David Hicks has been detained for 1 888 days; and

(b)

calls on the Government to return Mr Hicks to Australia.

Steve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—Family First has supported similar motions for David Hicks’s immediate return in the past but, given reports that David Hicks is about to be charged, I call on the government to assure Australian families that Mr Hicks will receive an immediate and fair trial. When I was in Washington last week I met with a number of members of congress and senators during which I urged them to lobby the Bush administration to ensure that Mr Hicks be immediately charged and given a fair trial or returned to Australia. Hicks has already served five years and should not be detained indefinitely. Family First would support a motion along those lines.

Question put:

That the motion (Senator Nettle’s) be agreed to.