Single mother Jennifer Hinton spent months saving for a trip from Mackay to Melbourne with her daughter, but now it's looking unlikely that they will get a refund any time soon.

The US says it is "over 50 per cent complete" with getting the pier set up several miles off the Gaza coast.

While $3 million will be put towards the Gloucester and Dave Evans Bicentennial Trees in this year's budget, locals and prospective visitors face a wait of at least 12 months for both tourist attractions to reopen. 

The credit is almost twice as large as the rebate in last year's budget and will be applied directly to bills. 

Queensland government officials have given sworn statements saying Adani's mine could be "causing environmental harm" to protected wetlands after CSIRO rejected the miner's groundwater modelling as "not fit for purpose".