The Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association has called for a halt to compulsory welfare quarantining for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory.
The Labor Member whose electorate covers South Australia's far north says it is up to the Northern Territory to lift a ban on renal patients from the far north-west Aboriginal lands, not South Australia.
Australia's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation says it will support Australian shipbuilders during an industry downturn, if builders find credit-worthy clients.
Queensland's Attorney-General Cameron Dick says contractors, not the Government, are to blame for at least one incident involving asbestos at a north Queensland school.