Senate debates

Wednesday, 14 June 2006

Guantanamo Bay

4:42 pm

Photo of Bob BrownBob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)
notes the suicide of three prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, none of whom, despite years in captivity, had been charged or brought before a court;
(b)
recognises that Australian citizen David Hicks has been detained in the prison for more than 4 years without trial;
(c)
calls on the Government to take active measures to influence the United States Administration to close Guantanamo Bay and return Mr Hicks to Australia; and
(d)
takes urgent action to ensure that Mr Hicks receives a full and fair trial that meets international standards of human rights and justice.

Question put.