Overview
- Grace Grace, who served as Queensland’s industrial relations minister, denied the claim Thursday following Wednesday’s testimony at the CFMEU Commission of Inquiry.
- Counsel assisting said she told the Toowoomba Second Range Crossing contractor to work with the CFMEU or risk the government cancelling its contract.
- A former project director described a February 23, 2018 meeting after a crane cage dropped 30 centimetres as tense and said the minister’s tone was very aggressive.
- Evidence showed a sharp rise in Workplace Health and Safety Queensland improvement notices and CFMEU entry notices through early 2018 that preceded Nexus withdrawing its industrial case.
- Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and Premier David Crisafulli demanded answers, and a separate clash over an investigator’s unrecorded witness notes highlighted scrutiny of the inquiry’s methods.