David Hicks
So Hicks comes back on a G5 at a reported (but hard to believe) cost of $500,000. I note that it was a US aircraft. I'm sure there are Aussie operators that could have handled this job. Brickbats to the Feds on this !! Then we have reportedly 40 cops from SA needed to take him from Edinburgh to Yatala. Ditto the SA Govt!!.
Both exercises seem to me a profligate waste of taxpayers' money and a gross overreaction to a relatively simple and straightforward task.