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Barnaby Joyce secured up to $34billion for regional areas and critical infrastructure after his National Party backed net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
The federal Budget will have something for everyone because the cost of living is surging, an election is due in weeks, and the government is behind in polls.
Australians earning less than $126,000 will from July 1 get an existing tax offset of up to $1,080 plus a bonus $420 to help manage the rising cost of living in a $4.1billion policy.
Trailing Labor by a massive 10 points in the polls, Scott Morrison is splashing taxpayer cash in a desperate bid to buy votes less than two months before polling day in May.
With inflation tipped to climb above four per cent for the first time in 14 years economist Chris Richardson said Budget handouts would make an interest rate rise more likely in 2022.