Australia's federal opposition has accused the Labor government of delivering a "trifecta of housing failures" through its tax policies, pressing the government in parliament over its unmet housing construction targets. Health Minister Mark Butler fired back at the Coalition over its pledge to cut tobacco excise by 80%, accusing opposition leader Angus Taylor of playing "follow the leader" with far-right party One Nation, which had proposed a similar cut a week earlier. The exchanges came amid wider political turbulence, including Liberal MP Andrew Hastie threatening One Nation with a "costly" legal and political fight after the party labelled him a "traitor" to Australia, and reports that Guardian Australia and the ABC were barred from a One Nation press conference in Victoria addressing drug-use allegations against the party's state leader, Warren Pickering.