Fairfax releases WikiLeaks cables

FAIRFAX media has finally published the diplomatic cables at the centre of the WikiLeaks revelations. 

The release 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 release the cables in recent days, with the other media organisations including News Limited, publisher of The Australian, and the ABC calling for greater transparency.
Unlike the New York Times, the Guardian and other Wikileaks partner media organisations, Fairfax has so far refused to release the cables.
This is despite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange calling for a new "scientific" approach to journalism that would allow readers to read 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 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has delayed the publication 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.