STOP PRESS: Non-Cricketer Wins Father of the Year

A retiring Shane Warne was in the mix. The Pigeon, Glen McGrath, was also a possibility. Captain Courageous, Ricky Ponting must have gone close. We treasure those Ashes after all and all three worked extremely hard over fifteen long, hot days to bring them 'home'.

But no, my 2006 Australian Father of the Year is not a cricketer. However he also has been working hard to effect a repatriation; that of his son David from the Most Powerful Nation on Earth's gulag, Guantanamo Bay.

Of course that man is Terry Hicks.

No son could have asked for a more courageous and dedicated father who for five long, gruelling years has battled to save his son from the tortures that are been inflicted upon him by the cowardly Neo-Cons of the Whitehouse.

Well played Terry.