Howard cartoons, July 2003 in Sydney Morning Herald [Back]

SMH, July 2003, Our Man in Asia (Alan Moir)

James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960, Lithograph

source: American Treasures of the Library of Congress

SMH, July 2003, All Australian Heroes (Alan Moir)

SMH, July 2003, Hicks Tribunal,

(Alan Moir)
David Hicks: Human Rights on Trial ABC Background Briefing, 13 July 2003

Extract from the briefing:

Helen Thomas: For Australia, David Hicks, one-time rodeo rider and ‘roo skinner, is at the centre of a quite extraordinary international legal debate, an argument that’s only grown more impassioned since that list of six was made public ten days ago.

John Howard: I am satisfied on the information that I have that if any Australians are tried in the United States, the basic conditions of a presumption of innocence, of access to a lawyer and so forth, all of the things that are basic to the judicial system as we understand it, will be applied.