MP's plea to new Congress leader: bring Hicks home

Canberra's federal Labor MPs have sent a letter to Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Party speaker of the US Congress, asking for help in bringing home accused Australian terrorist David Hicks.

ACT Senator Kate Lundy together with lower house members Bob McMullan and Annette Ellis say the US military commission process set send Hicks to trial runs against basic American values.

"As members of the Australian Parliament, we ask that members of the US Congress take steps to bring about the return to Australia of Australian citizen David Hicks, - a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay for more than five years - for prosecution here," the letter says.