Hicks’ Gag Tightened
It seems that no matter what he does David Hicks is going to make headlines, but the government is determined that he wont make any money from those headlines. Today the South Australian Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, announced a new bill that will be presented to parliament which is designed to prevent Hicks getting any money from telling his story. Mr Atkinson says this bill will close loopholes in federal law which could have been exploited in the Hicks’ case. But obviously the story of David Hicks is going to be told, and because people are interested in it, telling that story is worth money… Leigh Sales is an ABC journalist and author of Detainee double zero two, a book about the Hicks case. She and Magaret Kelly, the President of the South Australian law society, spoke about the reasons why this new law could be troublesome.