Saat tahun kelima penahanan Hicks di pangkalan Amerika Serikat di Kuba itu mendekat, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja memberi alasan bahwa perutusan negara lain sudah mengunjungi penjara tersebut dan sudah waktunya Australia juga dibolehkan.
As the fifth anniversary of Hicks's detention at the US military base in Cuba nears, Senator Natasha Stott Despoja argued that similar delegations from other countries had visited the facility and it was time Australia was allowed to have one, too.