The premier, David Crisafulli, announced a “landmark inquiry” into the state branch of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) on Sunday, which he described as the “most powerful tool” at the government’s disposal. That report, titled Violence in the Queensland CFMEU, described a union that “embraced a culture which encouraged and celebrated the use of threats of violence, intimidation, misogyny and bullying”. Watson said he feared his investigation “only scratched the surface of the violence in the Queensland CFMEU”. His deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, likened the inquiry into the union to the landmark Fitzgerald inquiry that led to the downfall of longstanding conservative premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. “The LNP will purge the underbelly of the CFMEU and its enablers in Queensland,” Bleijie said.