Suicides at Guantanamo Bay: is Mr Howard capable of interceding on behalf of an Australian citizen?

The reported suicide of three detainees in the Guantanamo prison/ detention facility/ concentration camp: see here , has, not surprisingly, failed to elicit a response from the Prime Minister or Foreign Minister, each of whom has continued to wash his hands of any responsibility for, let alone concern for, the fate of David Hicks, an Australian citizen whose fate has been consigned to the extra-judicial mercies of a President Bush (or Mr Rumsfeld) appointed military commission.