Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 26 February. On Sunday the Nationals deputy party leader, Bridget McKenzie, denied the leak had come from the party. The Greens senator Nick McKim said the proposal could see a fatal corruption of the integrity of Australia’s visa system with “access to Australia packaged up and sold to the highest bidder”. Michael McGowan asks why can’t the right and left stop sounding off about phonics and find a bipartisan way forward. Sign upIf you would like to receive the Guardian Australia morning mail to your email inbox every weekday, sign up here.

Source: The Guardian February 25, 2018 20:00 UTC