This week, the UK parliament became the first country to declare an “environment and climate” emergency.

While other countries are taking the existential threat of climate change seriously, Australia’s media in Nine, News Corp, the TV networks and the ABC have failed to see it for what it is: the core issue in this election. Read Bernard Keane’s analysis of this failure and the rest of our election coverage from all the candidates we’ve lost this week to Pauline Hanson’s crocodile tears.

What other issues are being missed in this year’s election? Write to boss@crikey.com.au and let us know.

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BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

The media's coverage of climate change in the election campaign has reflected the Coalition's long-term strategy of denialism, rather than a desire for genuine scrutiny.

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

Victimhood is essential to Pauline Hanson's politics. And the media has been only too happy to help her cultivate that identity.

FELICITY RUBY 4 minute read

On World Press Freedom Day, Julian Assange sits in "Britain’s Guantanamo Bay" not knowing whether he will face extradition to the US.

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

By embracing Pauline Hanson and her party, the Nationals have turned their backs on the best part of their legacy and are openly enabling racism and the growing threat of white supremacism.

JASON MURPHY 4 minute read

The RBA continues to fail to do what it is supposed to: keep inflation in the target range.

JENNINE KHALIK 5 minute read

Politics is a ruthless business, as several dumped candidates recently found out.

GUY RUNDLE 4 minute read

The question for Labor as the election heads towards the final weeks is whether the deliberate omission of a big picture creates a vacuum.

EMILY WATKINS 2 minute read

Apparently no media outlets thought to verify the big news with a phone call.

KISHOR NAPIER-RAMAN 4 minute read

It's time to stop punishing candidates for the crime of being born in the 1980s or 1990s.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

Kerryn Phelps' style is of the outsider who is politically effective. But she's up against a representative of a system of power that is used to getting its own way.

GLENN DYER and EMILY WATKINS 3 minute read

The deal was announced yesterday. Now the speculation begins.

CHARLIE LEWIS 4 minute read

Some are happily oblivious to the impending election. But others say the mood has never been so angry.

WILLIAM BOWE 3 minute read

Certainly the deal is of use to Palmer in his bid for a Queensland Senate seat. But that's not all.

CHARLIE LEWIS 5 minute read

Tony Abbott's key challenger in Warringah doesn't want to change the system — she wants to see it managed better.

GUY RUNDLE 5 minute read

He was a poet who reached across the aeons to Homer, yet he lived in a land which has never willingly taken a single poem to its heart.