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Clean Energy Council says Morrison government’s lack of ‘meaningful policies’ and leadership on climate could mark start of downturn

The Coalition's pre-election budget for the 2022-23 financial year is here and it has underwhelmed everyone, so here are the spicy reactions.

Labor has hit back at the federal government's big-spending budget featuring billions of dollars worth of tax offsets, cash payments and fuel excise relief.

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Most commentators on the coming federal election probably see a hung parliament and a minority government as one possible outcome. There is already a crossbench of seven, with five independents plus Liberal defector Craig Kelly for the United Australia Party and Greens leader Adam Bandt.

It's the first Aussie party to make abolishing student debt a policy in the lead up to the Federal Election.

With coal plants closing earlier than projected, the Greens push for a major intervention in the national electricity market to shore up stability, saying a revamped Snowy Hydro scheme could cover the electricity produced by coal.

Greens leader Adam Bandt is set to introduce a private member's bill in a bid to set a curfew on Brisbane Airport to limit aircraft noise. The idea has previously been strongly rejected by the airport.

Independent MP Helen Haines and Greens leader Adam Bandt introduced bills to tackle climate change in the last sitting week before the federal budget.

The government says $8 billion and 8000 jobs in the Hunter would be at risk

Leader Adam Bandt wants to set the terms of potential negotiations, should the Greens hold the balance of power in either the House of Representatives or the Senate, with an election due before the end of May.