Morning Mail: Coalition ties immigration intake to housing build, Trump in China, farewell to rent-vesting?

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletter Morning everyone. Angus Taylor’s big moment arrives today, as the opposition leader steps up to deliver his first budget reply speech. He’s expected to outline a plan to restrict the number of people coming to Australia by how many houses were built the previous year. As the budget wash-up continues, we ask whether it spells the end of “rent-vesting”. Overseas, Donald Trump has arrived in China for his summit with Xi Jinping, and another cruise ship is in quarantine (this time it’s norovirus). Plus, the Stella prize has its first non-binary winner, and the NFL is coming to Melbourne. ‘Elegant artistry’ | The Melbourne-born writer Lee Lai has become the first non-binary person and first graphic novelist to win the Stella prize after her book Cannon was praised for its “elegant artistry”. Immigration plan | The Coalition will directly link Australia’s temporary immigration intake to the number of new homes built around the country, using housing completion figures as a hard ceiling for overseas arrivals. Prison death | A 19-year-old man has died in