That’s a wrap – thank you for reading the Need to Know blog today. These were some of the main stories:

• Labor to speed up $1b in defence spending in budget: Australia will bring forward $1 billion in defence spending in Tuesday’s federal budget to boost its military capability.

• PM accuses opposition of lacking its own policies: The prime minister hopes the budget cycle will force the opposition to show its cards as he confirmed Australians would go to the polls in May.

• Monique Ryan’s husband filmed removing Liberal sign: A man with a striking resemblance to the husband of independent teal MP Monique Ryan has been filmed taking a campaign poster for Ryan’s Liberal opponent Amelia Hamer and refusing to give his identity when confronted about it.

• Kremlin dials down Trump hopes of Ukraine ceasefire by Easter: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin appeared at odds on Sunday night (Monday AEDT) over peace talks as delegations prepared to discuss a possible ceasefire in Ukraine.

• Coalition to bring budget back to ‘structural surplus’: Opposition finance spokeswoman Jane Hume is promising the Coalition will restore “fiscal guardrails” and bring the budget back to a “structural surplus”.

• ‘Common sense and a cannoli’: Crisafulli explains his negotiating style: Liberal National Party Premier David Crisafulli has clarified that he supports Peter Dutton while announcing Queensland’s education funding agreement in a joint press conference with Anthony Albanese.

• Queensland secures $2.8b in national school funding deal: Queensland has signed up to the national school funding deal, meaning an agreement has now been reached with all states and territories.

• Coalition’s working from office policy is ‘out of date’: Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says working from the office full-time is an “out-of-date” view, as federal Labor works to frame working from home as a cost-of-living issue.