ABC Radio National

Today the Australian reports that the presenter of ABC Radio National Breakfast Program has been counselled for inappropriate comments. What he did was to ask David Hicks's US military lawyer a forthright question "if David Hicks is released, will it in fact be a very dramatic illustration that the only reason he's been in Guantanamo Bay over these past four years is because of the bloody-mindedness of the Australian Government?"

A forthright question, which should perhaps have been directed at the government but one which needs to be asked.