Premier David Crisafulli has used his first major post-election address to the LNP’s organisational wing to deliver a warning about lingering division in its ranks.

While reiterating his desire to set the party up for “generational” state government over the next four years, he also turned his attention to the looming federal election.

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“Our next challenge, PD for PM, and it’s something that this room has to get behind,” Crisafulli said of federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to applause in the room.

Addressing a meeting of the LNP state council in Rockhampton, one Labor stronghold seat picked up by the new government in October, Crisafulli also stared down internal elements.

Not mentioning the abortion issue that dogged his campaign by name, nor other internal policy debates beyond the “four crises” he campaigned on, Crisafulli called for discipline.

“We don’t exist for cultural wars. We don’t exist to be the strongest in opposition. We exist to bring good government to Queenslanders and we are proving that,” he said on Sunday.

“There will be times that … you have to compromise, where things are a little bit imperfect. But overall, when you govern, you can embed the kind of things that you want to see for a state.”