Australia ? An Australian former Guantanamo Bay inmate today became a completely free man for the first time in seven years when the final restrictions stemming from terrorism allegations ended.

David Hicks, a 33-year-old ex-kangaroo skinner and Outback cowboy, spent more than five years in U.S. custody at the military detention center in Cuba before striking a plea deal that returned him home to Australia to serve a nine-month sentence.

Hicks was released a year ago after completing the sentence for providing support for terrorism, but was placed under a strict court order that required him to report to police three days a week, observe a curfew and banned him from using any telephone or Internet account not approved by police.