You'd think David Hicks wasn't an Australian citizien, the way foreign minister Alexander Downer talks:
"If Mr Hicks and his lawyers want to try to circumvent justice by going to some other country and think that will help them, that's a matter between him and that country," he told reporters.
"Our point about Mr Hicks is that he should face justice. I would have thought charges like conspiracy to commit war crimes and attempting to murder people are charges that should be heard."
In fact, justice is exactly what Hicks should get. In a properly constituted court of law that at least has the pretense of impartiality, not some shady military commision created by presidential decree that many other countries, including the UK, want no part of. It's simply outrageous that our foreign minister supports the trial of an Australian citizen under such circumstances.