Queensland’s CFMEU boss has urged the state government to work collaboratively, labelling Premier David Crisafulli’s threats to end the union’s presence in the state “offensive and dangerous”.

At the weekend, this masthead revealed a major contractor had allegedly orchestrated a campaign of attacks on a NSW union organiser’s family to suppress a scandal – allegations denied by the firm.

Amid this and other concerning behaviour in the construction industry , Crisafulli has ramped up his rhetoric about squashing the union, forgoing his previous qualifications around potential reform.

“There’s no place in a modern Queensland for the CFMEU,” he told journalists on Monday – repeating a line used on Sunday’s 60 Minutes program – as the state’s powerful inquiry into the union prepared

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