Peter Hicks, father of one of the Guantanamo Bay detainees, was asked to march in the dawn march this year, thereby causing great fuss. Much complaining about 'bringing politics into Eureka Stockade Celebration....

Which is amusing when you realise just WHY the miners made a (political) fuss about human rights, and that pretty well most political reform in Australia flowed as a result of the incident - universal suffrage, vote for women, etc, many of them before other countries did so too...

And Peter Hicks, amusingly enough, is actually a descendant of one of the original protesting miners.... :-)