At a Tuesday news conference, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said the man was an Indian national, who was working in the country under a temporary visa.
"He was sponsored by the Queensland Health Department," Howard said. "He was working as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital."
Beattie said the both doctors were recruited from Liverpool last year, through an ad in the British Medical Journal, to work in Australia.
The doctor who was in custody was considered a good employee in the emergency department and was "regarded as a model citizen, excellent references," Beattie said.
Earlier, authorities identified Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdulla, 27, as one of two men who rammed an explosives-laden SUV into a terminal at the airport in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, a British source said.
British authorities said they believe those two men are the same ones who parked two car bombs in Central London on Friday. The cars, packed with fuel and nails, could have killed hundreds if they had been set off.
In addition to Abdulla, police also arrested Dr. Mohammed Asha, a Jordanian-educated physician who moved to England two years ago, according to a source with knowledge of the investigation.
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