Leader breaks ranks on Hicks

[Judi Lynn]

Leader breaks ranks on Hicks
Andrew McGarry
January 30, 2007

THE first Australian conservative party leader has publicly broken ranks with the federal Government over David Hicks, with the Country Liberal Party's Jodeen Carney calling for the repatriation of the Australian terror suspect.
The Northern Territory Opposition Leader's comments came as Hicks was expected to meet last night with his lawyers at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba after more than five years in the high-security military prison.

Ms Carney, who became the CLP leader in June 2005, criticised the Howard Government for its "lacklustre" efforts to bring Hicks's case to a head.

"It seems to me that when one of our citizens has been incarcerated for five years without charge and with no immediate prospect of being tried, then I need to say something," she told ABC radio.

"David Hicks must be tried within a reasonable time, probably a few months. If this doesn't happen, he really needs to be returned to Australia and dealt with here."
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21139483-5001561,00.html

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