Free David Hicks

Beware. If you listen to the latest Peter Combe offering you will find yourself humming Free David Hicks for the rest of the day.
This is two minutes and 19 seconds of seriously addictive kiddy pop - except of course it isn't.
The man who brought us Wash Your Face in Orange Juice, Toffee Apple and Spaghetti Bolognaise has turned his attention to something quite different - the plight of Australian terrorism suspect David Hicks in Guantanamo Bay.
It has to be said that he has given it the full Peter Combe's treatment complete, on YouTube, with a delightfully colourful animation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGaryo3tm7Q).
Combe's puts a powerful argument but the the rights and wrongs of the David Hicks case aren't the issue here.
It's the children's music treatment of such a political issue that raises interest.
Combe's argues that it is not a song for children and that the style "just happened" when he set down to pen it. Perhaps that's because almost all of the 750,000 albums CDS and videos Combe has achieved have been children's music.
Combe has one adult album but it's kids music he does best and for which he is undoubtedly best known.
That doesn't mean that Combe must forever be pigeon-holed as a children's entertainer. He has a right to be any type of entertainer he likes.
But using children's music to sell such a political issue is disturbing trend.
Our kids have the right to laugh at the concept of washing their face with orange juice and not be burdened with the notion of an Australian Guantanamo Bay.
There are already too many people trying to politicise our children, too many people trying to capture their minds.
Lets allow our kids to be kids and keep the rights and wrongs of the Hicks' case to a different forum and t a different music style.
The last thing we need is the Wiggles' view on mandatory detention of the Hooley Dooley's on the War in Iraq.