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Trade Minister Don Farrell has countered American claims Australia has been breaking agreements with the US on aluminium trade.
Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro has said Australia was killing the US aluminium trade through its imports by essentially flooding the market, or dumping.
But Mr Farrell says Australia has been complying with obligations agreed to by previous governments.
He says the government has been encouraging steel and aluminium manufacturers to seek alternative markets.
Australia is seeking an exemption from U-S President Donald Trump's 25 per cent tariff on all imported steel and aluminium.
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The Prime Minister has announced a redress scheme for Stolen Generations will be extended, as the federal Parliament marks the 17th anniversary of the national apology.
Anthony Albanese says the scheme will be extended to the end of June in 2028, giving survivors from the Northern Territory, ACT and Jervis Bay Territory an extra 18 months to apply for compensation.
The anniversary of the apology is being observed days after a Healing Foundation report found only six per cent of the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing Them Home Report, which investigated the forced removal of children from their families, had been implemented.
Mr Albanese has told guests at the Parliament's official national apology day breakfast that he understands there is more work to do.
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Nurses and widwives have rallied in central Sydney to try and reassure the public that healthcare is safe, in the wake of the anti-semitic video from Bankstown Hospital.
Two nurses have been stood down, and are being investigated by police, after making anti-semitic comments in uniform at the hospital... one of the nurses saying she would kill, rather than treat, Israeli patients.
The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association has scrapped a proposed rally outside New South Wales Parliament House pertaining to their current pay dispute, to instead send a message to the public.
The Association's Michael Whaites says the two nurses are not at all typical of most healthcare workers.
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A category five cyclone is closing in on the Pilbara coast of Western Australia.
Tropical Cyclone Zelia is rapidly intensifying, with wind gusts of up to 250 kilometres per hour.
It's due to hit the coast, west of Port Hedland, tomorrow, bringing flash flooding along with the destructive winds.
About a dozen schools in the area have been closed, and roads, including the Great Northern Highway in the state's north-west, are set to be closed, with an evacuation centre being set up.
A cyclone warning is in place for the area from Bidyadanga to Dampier, about 1,500 kilometyre north of Perth, and extending inland to Marble Bar.
Australia's largest iron ore port at Port Hedland was shut down yesterday, and B-H-P has paused non-essential travel to the town, with Fly In, Fly Out workers leaving.
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One person has died and at least 25 others have been injured in a high speed collision between a train and truck in Germany.
Authorities say the accident happened on the outskirts of the German city of Hamburg when the train rammed the truck which was on a crossing.
The truck driver has been taken in for questioning by police.
The train has already been towed away and one track of the railway line reopened.
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In football, Melbourne Victory teenager Alana Murphy has earned a surprise call up to the Matildas' squad.
She's been picked as the replacement for Clare Wheeler, who has withdrawn from the Australian squad for the SheBelieves Cup in the United States, having suffered a thigh injury playing with her English club, Everton.
Murphy is a 19-year-old defensive midfielder who has never before played for the national side.
The Matildas will play Japan, Colombia and the United States in the SheBelieves Cup- their first game coming against Japan on the 21st of February.
