Wikileaks in Aus

Selective quotes are grand but meaningless when the silent masses have not the slightest idea of the meanings of words.

Truth is an essential ingredient of democratic life, but participation is its protector.

Those who sit back and do nothing are but the facilitators of universal ignorance.

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Don't shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

Elizabeth Cook's artist impression of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, where he was denied bail after appearing on an extradition warrant.

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. Read more at www.theaustralian.com.au

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