FAIRFAX media has finally published the diplomatic cables at the centre of the Wikis revelations.
The relse of the cables comes more than a week after freelancer Philip Dorling began publishing stories based on the cables.
Pressure has been building on Fairfax to relse the cables in recent days, with the other media organisations including News Limited, publisher of The Australian, and the ABC calling for grter transparency.
Unlike the New York Times, the Guardian and other Wikis partner media organisations, Fairfax has so far refused to relse the cables.
This is despite Wikis founder Julian Assange calling for a new "scientific" approach to journalism that would allow rders to rd primary source documents alongside news stories.
Fairfax has so far refused to explain why it has not published the cables, but it has been suggested that the arrest of Wikis founder Julian Assange has delayed the publiion of the cables by the whistleblower website.
The cables have embarrassed the Gillard government, with revelations to date including that Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd was seen as a micro-manager by US embassy officials in Australia and that Labor powerbroker Mark Arbib was a regular "source" on ALP politics for the US.
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