Young Gomeroi leaders led a passionate protest in opposition to Santos鈥 plan to drill 850 coal seam gas wells on their Country in north-west NSW, reports Zebedee Parkes.
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News
Thailand's royal excesses were mercilessly parodied in street theatre in Sydney, reports Peter Boyle.
Geelong Trades Hall Council has decided it will seek broader interest in a new campaign for a sustainable green jobs, reports Tim Gooden.
What started as a 24-hour strike for a fair redundancy package has become indefinite industrial action by workers at Coles鈥 Smeaton Grange depot, reports Jim McIlroy.
Jim McIlroy reports that the Transport Workers Union has warned Qantas on its latest job cuts, saying it will 鈥渉urt the airline deeply鈥.
Rainbow Rebellion marched and chanted through the city鈥檚 street on November 28 as part of Pride Week, reports Petrina Harley.
Supporters of West Papua's struggle for self-determination took part in a Morning Star flag-raising ceremony at Leichhardt Town Hall, reports Peter Boyle.
Tickets to Women of Steel, which premiered in Perth on November 26, sold out some two weeks in advance, reports Sam Wainwright.
Janet Parker reports that the 30th annual听Silent Domestic Violence Memorial March was held in Perth.
WA Police brutally attacked senior protesters, among others,听at an Extinction Rebellion action highlighting the need to tackle the growing climate emergency. Petrina Harley reports.
John Shipton, the father of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,听has called on the federal government to听follow its own rules, reports Jim McIlroy.
Stop Adani protesters took their anti-coal message directly to the first international one-day match of the cricket听season, reports Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy.
Rachel Evans reports on a protest听to mark Transgender Remembrance Day and oppose a transphobic bill being pushed by One Nation in NSW.
Climate-concerned residents organised听actions calling for 100% renewables in Parramatta and Newtown as part of a national day of action against the federal government's gas-led recovery. Kerry Smith reports.
Kerry Smith reports that actions were organised to听#ProtectOurFutureNotGas听on November 28,听rejecting the Coalition government's gas-led recovery听plan. Here is a collection of some of the best protests photos from the day.
Analysis
PM Scott Morrison is using a nationalism-charged diversion to take the focus off the Brereton report's findings into Australian special forces war crimes in Afghanistan, argues Pip Hinman.
Far-right activist Phillip Galea听has been jailed on terrorism charges after threatening to commit violence against left-wing activists and Muslims.听Sue Bolton discusses what it will take to defeat such extremists.
Jon Strauss discusses the legacy of the Labor government-sponsored Prices and Incomes Accords of the 1980s and 1990s.
The union-bosses-government working groups to discuss industrial relations reform have not delivered and the PM has signalled new IR laws before Christmas. Sarah Hathway argues union leaderships need to get prepared.
As spring exited into summer with record temperatures in much of New South Wales and South Australia, public support for strong action on the climate continues to grow. Margaret Gleeson 谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.听
While Kevin Rudd鈥檚 petition for a 鈥渟trong鈥 and 鈥渄iverse鈥 news media has proved to be very popular, Alex Bainbridge suggests a royal commission won't solve the fundamental problem.
Farmers have the potential to become carbon sequestration heroes but are being failed by the major parties, argues David Bell.
Communities and farmers say the billions being allocated on raising dam walls is not a 鈥渟olution鈥 to the latest drought or to long-term climate change. Tracey Carpenter reports.
World
Venezuelans are set to vote in elections like no other in the country鈥檚 recent history when they go to the polls to elect a new National Assembly on December 6, writes Federico Fuentes.
Thanks to an international campaign, climate activist Baba Jan and three fellow political prisoners were finally freed on November 28, writes Susan Price.
All around the world, supporters of the long struggle for West Papuan self-determination raised the Morning Star flag of independence on December 1, writes Peter Boyle.
The current upsurge of COVID-19 infections in the United States is, by far, the most serious of the pandemic to date, writes Barry Sheppard.听
Unidas Podemos is engaged in a thuggish operation against members of the Forward Andalusia coalition, writes Dick Nichols.
Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara has always been illegitimate.听Responsibility for the resumption of war lies with the United Nations, argue听the听Socialist Alliance.
Despite police repression and the COVID-19 pandemic, workers, farmers and their allies participated in a nationwide strike听against recent neoliberal reforms pushed through by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. People's Dispatch reports.
In interviews with African Americans who did not vote, many said their lives have not, and will not likely change under Donald Trump or Joe Biden, writes Malik Miah.听
Diego Maradona听will always be remembered听as the football god who played on the side of the poor, writes Federico Fuentes.
Culture
Returning from his time as a US Army Special Forces medic in Afghanistan and Iraq, Graham Barnhart had much to think about and utilised poetry as his sounding board, writes Barry Healy.
Ash Brennan will never forget New Year鈥檚 Eve 2019 when he lost his house to a raging firestorm in Conjola Park. Peter Boyle spoke to him about his new film,听We are Conjola, which听will have a special online release this New Year's Eve.
Barry Healy reviews two books 鈥撎齩ne a novel, the other a narrative history 鈥 that reveal the personal costs of Vietnam's听fight, first against French colonialism and then the US-led invasion.
Mat Ward听looks back at November's political news and the best new music that relates to it.