at least the Pommies look after

their own which is more than this lousy Australia does. Well if you don't like what Australia has become you can always stay in PNG. Top attitude that. It reminds of the times I took MY bat and ball onto the street with two playmates and the bullies came along in dribs and drabs until they eventually were doing all the batting and bowling with MY bat and ball and we fielded for them. As a school teacher I saw it happen all the time - big kids infiltrated little kids games becaue they could win against them. David Hicks is the little kid here for whatever his faults might be and HIS country and MY country have let him down. David Hicks for whatever he has or hasn't done is AUSTRALIAN. Michelle Corby and Ned Kelly and Dolly Dunn and wife bashers and cheats and gazumpers and tax dodgers for whatever their faults or perfections are AUSTRALIAN. David might have been stupid and misguided, he might be a loner and a loser. But he is still the son of Terry Hicks, AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN and that ought to count for something. Now even the Taliban fighters who are Afghani citizens are being repatriated. The alpha males of Australian politics are too busy sneaking in to the toilets to count the hairs on their balls that they don't care.