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After chasing each other around the building today, One Nation senator Rodney Culleton has had his meeting with party leader Pauline Hanson.

The meeting happened in Hanson’s office, so she won that little arm wrestle, although Culleton told Sky News it was “a little patronising” of her to request his attendance on ABC TV last night.

Culleton told Guardian Australia he explained the circumstances around the Queensland attorney general’s decision to refer his letter to a magistrate to the Queensland police, after concerns it may amount to a threat or perverting the course of justice.

Culleton denies the letter was a threat and said it was written “in the interest of justice” on behalf of a distressed individual. He said Hanson was “very comfortable” with his explanation and “fully supportive of me”.

Culleton said Hanson had asked if he was “alright to keep going” because she wanted to check her senators were “firing on all cylinders”. Culleton said he was OK, and she accepted that.

The pair also discussed the Australian Building and Construction Commission bill. Culleton foreshadowed further amendments but didn’t commit to vote one way or the other.

Asked if he would attend One Nation party room meetings, he told Guardian Australia “once I’m fully over the high court case, I suppose”. One Nation party room meetings are “not compulsory” he said, and Hanson wasn’t the type of leader to tell people what to do.

Culleton told Sky News he was not pleased Hanson had backed the Senate referral of his eligibility, claiming she and others had “been misled”.

