The Week at a Glance

MILESTONES:

DELIVERED - this year's federal budget with Treasurer Scott Morrison, who told parliament it's all about "fairness, security, and opportunity".

DIED - Private Jason Challis in Darwin, the second Australian soldier within a week to die during army training exercises.

SMASHED - a pie into Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's face while he addressed a conference in Perth.

RELEASED - Canberra man Baxter Reid, who was jailed after overstaying his US visa by 90 minutes, and is now allowed to return to Australia.

TRIUMPHED - Sydney FC over Melbourne Victory in the nail-biting A-League grand final.

QUOTES:

"Thank you very much for the confidence you've shown in me" - John Coates after being re-elected AOC president.

"While I am not proud of my reaction to the situation, I was offended by a spectator yelling out abusive and derogatory comments about my family" George Calombaris after assaulting a spectator at the A-League grand final in Sydney.

"You can't introduce a tax like this of this magnitude at such haste and not have unintended consequences" - NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn in response to the Turnbull Government's levy on the big banks.

"It's all been bloody marvellous" - A tweet from Mark Colvin's account, hours after the ABC journalist passed away from autoimmune disease.

"Our beautiful boy has gone. His cheekiness and loving ways will stay with us forever" - Soldier Jason Challis's family in a statement after their son died during an Army training exercise in the Northern Territory.

"That we should be facing a potential energy crisis in the eastern states is a serious condemnation of the political process" - Former PM John Howard on the federal budget ignoring the looming energy crisis.

"Obviously, he's forgotten where Queensland is" - Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, angry at Malcolm Turnbull for not promising any dedicated funding for the Cross River Rail in the federal budget.

"You should not rely on these figures for future planning or budgeting purposes" - NSW Department of Education secretary Mark Scott in an email to all public school principals, in response to the federal government's new education policy.

"I wouldn't have signed Pat Howard again ... I think he's useless, personally" - former Test quick Stuart Clark on the decision to re-sign Cricket Australia's manager for another two-year contract.

ODDITIES:

+ Drone Charges - A 27-year-old UK man has been charged with using drones to smuggle cannabis, steroids and mobile phones into Birmingham's Winson Green jail. West Midlands Police said Michael Tovey is accused of using two drones to fly contraband into the prison's exercise yard on October 29 and November 6 last year. In the first charges of their type brought by West Midlands Police, Tovey faces a total of 13 counts of conveying banned items into a prison.

+ Hitch-Hiking Toad - Australian quarantine authorities have urged travellers through Asia to avoid bringing in hitch-hiking amphibians after a passenger arrived at an airport with a dead Indonesian toad in his shoe. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources issued the warning that travellers check their luggage and other belongings for biohazards after toads from Thailand and Indonesia were found recently at three Australian airports. The department's head of biosecurity Lyn O'Connor said a sniffer dog reacted to a shoe that an Australian was wearing as he arrived at Cairns Airport in north-east Australia. She said the black-spined toad found inside the shoe had only recently died and was probably alive when the passenger put the shoe on in Indonesia.

+ Avocado Injuries - An eminent plastic surgeon has suggested that avocados should carry warning labels following a rise in the number of knife injuries from cutting into the fruit. Simon Eccles, honorary secretary of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, said he treated about four patients a week at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for wounds caused by an avocado accident, with staff dubbing the injury "avocado hand". Mr Eccles told the UK's The Times: "People do not anticipate that the avocados they buy can be very ripe and there is minimal understanding of how to handle them."