The Queensland senator-elect Pauline Hanson has mistakenly referred to “what’s happened in Paris” when speaking of the suspected terrorist attack in the French Riviera city of Nice.

Hanson, in a video to supporters on her Facebook page outlining her refusal to back down on her Islam policies in a phone call with the prime minister, noted “beefed up” security at Brisbane airport on Friday “because of what’s happened in Paris”.

The attack, in which a French-Tunisian petty criminal drove a truck through Bastille Day crowds, killing 84 people, took place 1000km away in Nice.

“I’m in Cairns and I actually got here on a commercial flight so at the Brisbane airport I was surprised to see so many security people there beefed up because of what’s happened in Paris,” Hanson said.

Pauline Hanson in a video to supporters on her Facebook page. Pauline Hanson in a video to supporters on her Facebook page.

“The terrorist attack again claimed by Islamic state. They are responsible for it. And on the last count 77 people have lost their lives and it’s possibly still rising. My heart goes out to them and I feel for the people who’ve lost their lives and their families. This is not good enough and it must stop.”

Islamic State has not claimed responsibility for the attack and François Molins, the Paris prosecutor leading the investigation, said the perpetrator Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had no obvious links to radical Islam.

The One Nation leader, whose policies include a ban on building new mosques until a royal commission into whether Islam is a religion or an ideology has been held and installing CCTV cameras in all existing mosques, said Turnbull called her on Friday night to congratulate her on winning a Queensland seat in the upper house.

“He said ‘you have every right to take your place on the floor of parliament, over half a million people voted for you’ – and that is correct,” she told supporters in the video.

Hanson said Turnbull was “taken by surprise” when she told him she would have four and possibly seven senators.

She told the prime minister, who before the election said she was unwelcome in Australian politics, that she wanted to work with the government to “get good legislation for the people”.

“But I also told him I will not back down on my issues to do with Islam,” she said.

“We have a right to protection in this country. We cannot back away from these views and we cannot just ignore a religion or an ideology that does not and is not compatible with the Australian culture and way of life.”

Hanson said Turnbull had assured her that border security was “very big on his agenda” and the pair would meet when she travelled to Canberra.

She added: “I just want you to know I have got the ear of the prime minister now on your behalf because I’m working for you and it’s very important, as I said to him, that we all work together to find the right answers.”