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David Hicks wants to be left alone to get on with his life which involves getting a job and attending university, his father Terry says.
The convicted terrorism supporter is scheduled for release from Adelaide's Yatala Prison today.
A media pack will be camped outside as the former Guantanamo Bay detainee re-enters society after spending a total of six years locked up.
"He's on a high at the moment," Terry Hicks told the Seven Network.
"He's just looking forward to the next few days and finally stepping out into the open."
Mr Hicks said his son does not want to speak to the media and is not "fully aware of how much interest there is out there".
"All he wants to do is get out of the place and try to get on with some sort of normality."
Hicks said his son's plans include getting a job and studying with hopes of attending university.
"He's got a lot of processes that he's looking at and he's just hoping that he be left alone to get on with them."
David Hicks is not allowed to profit from selling his story and will be subject to a midnight to 6am curfew.
He will be subject to an interim control order and must report to police three times a week.
Amnesty International's Australia campaigner Katie Wood said the control orders severely restricted a person's liberty.
"The control order issued to David Hicks weakens Australia's human rights record," Ms Wood said in a statement.
"Control orders violate human rights including the right to a fair trial, the right to liberty, the right to freedom from arbitrary detention, the right to freedom of movement and the right to be presumed innocent."
But the US military said justice would have been done when Hicks walked out of Adelaide's Yatala Prison.
"Hicks has been held accountable for his material support of terrorism in Afghanistan during the months after September 11," US military spokesman, Commander J. D. Gordon said.
Hicks' guilty plea in March to a charge of providing material support for terrorism was trumpeted by US President George W. Bush's administration as a milestone in the US' so-called war on terror.
Hicks' conviction was the first under the President's new Military Commission Act and was America's first war crimes conviction since World War II.
- AAP
