The Australian article

In 1958 a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of
Adelaide's The News, wrote: "In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems
inevitable that truth will always win."

His observation perhaps reflected his father Keith Murdoch's expose that
Australian troops were being needlessly sacrificed by incompetent British
commanders on the shores of Gallipoli. The British tried to shut him up but
Keith Murdoch would not be silenced and his efforts led to the termination of
the disastrous Gallipoli campaign.

Nearly a century later, WikiLeaks is also fearlessly publishing facts that need
to be made public.

WikiLeaks is not the only publisher of the US embassy cables. Other media
outlets, including Britain's The Guardian, The New York Times, El Pais in Spain
and Der Spiegel in Germany have published the same redacted cables.

Yet it is WikiLeaks, as the co-ordinator of these other groups, that has copped
the most vicious attacks and accusations from the US government and its
acolytes. I have been accused of treason, even though I am an Australian, not a
US, citizen. There have been dozens of serious calls in the US for me to be
"taken out" by US special forces. Sarah Palin says I should be "hunted down like
Osama bin Laden", a Republican bill sits before the US Senate seeking to have me
declared a "transnational threat" and disposed of accordingly. An adviser to the
Canadian Prime Minister's office has called on national television for me to be
assassinated. An American blogger has called for my 20-year-old son, here in
Australia, to be kidnapped and harmed for no other reason than to get at me.

In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said
"only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in
government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to
defend the right of all media to reveal the truth.

No Australian Laws broken.

Opposition Legal Affairs spokesman George Brandis accused Ms
Gillard of being "clumsy" with her language on the issue of illegality.

"As far as I can see, he (Assange) hasn't broken any Australian law," he told
Sky News.

"Nor does it appear he has broken any American laws."

Senator Brandis, a Queen's Counsel, called for any debate about the publishing
of the cables to have a well-defined understanding of the difference between
something which appeared to be morally wrong and an act which was illegal.

"As far as I can see, nothing Mr. Assange has done does break the law."

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the freedom of the small press.