Speaker 1: From The Daily Os. I'm Zara Sideler, I'm Lucy Tassel.
Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, the seventh of May. Here's what's making headlines
Speaker 1: this evening.
Speaker 2: Peter Dutton has spoken publicly for the first time since
Speaker 2: conceding defeat on election night. The former Liberal Party leader
Speaker 2: traveled to Canberra from Brisbane today following Labour's landslide victory
Speaker 2: at the polls on Saturday. Dutton will no longer lead
Speaker 2: the coalition opposition after he lost his seat of Dixon
Speaker 2: to Labour candidate Ali France. Dutton had held the Brisbane
Speaker 2: seat for twenty four years. Speaking to reporters at Canberra Airport,
Speaker 2: Dutton thanked his supporters for their well wishes and said
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party will quote rebuild. Dutton indicated he would
Speaker 2: make a quote graceful exit from politics and maintain what
Speaker 2: he called a graceful silence. Meanwhile, Green's leader Adam Bant
Speaker 2: is confirmed to have lost his seat of Melbourne, which
Speaker 2: he's held since twenty ten.
Speaker 1: New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb has announced she
Speaker 1: will step down from the force in September. According to
Speaker 1: a statement from New South Wales Police Commissioner Webb has
Speaker 1: decided to retire following discussions with her family. Webb has
Speaker 1: served as a police officer for thirty eight years and
Speaker 1: became the state's first female police commissioner in February twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, a role that she described as her greatest honor.
Speaker 1: Web has recommended the state government appoint her deputy, Peter Thurtle,
Speaker 1: to acting commissioner following her departure later this year. She said,
Speaker 1: I knew when the time was right, I would know,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to give the state government time to
Speaker 1: recruit and appoint a new commissioner going into an election
Speaker 1: period in less than two years time. Web will officially
Speaker 1: be farewelled from the force at the Goblin Police Academy
Speaker 1: this August.
Speaker 2: US President Donald Trump has met with the recently re
Speaker 2: elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House.
Speaker 2: It follows months of increasing tensions between the two countries,
Speaker 2: hed by Trump's tariffs and comments about making Canada the
Speaker 2: fifty first US state. Canada's Liberal Party secured an unexpected
Speaker 2: election victory last week after Carney promised voters he'd push
Speaker 2: back against Trump's aggression. Speaking about Canada becoming the fifty
Speaker 2: first State. During Carney's visit to Washington this week, Trump
Speaker 2: said the arrangement would be quote much better for Canada,
Speaker 2: but we're not going to be discussing that unless somebody
Speaker 2: wants to discuss it. Carney reiterated Canada was not for
Speaker 2: sale and told reporters he had privately asked President Trump
Speaker 2: to stop talking about a Canadian US merger.
Speaker 1: Australian researchers are confident they've located an one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy year old shipwreck off the coast of South Australia.
Speaker 1: The eight hundred ton Dutch merchant vessel was lost near
Speaker 1: Robe in June eighteen fifty seven, days after it brought
Speaker 1: over four hundred Chinese migrants to Australia. After decades of searching,
Speaker 1: the side of the wreck has been discovered by a
Speaker 1: research collaboration between the Australian Maritime Museum and Flinders University.
Speaker 1: Doctor James Hunter from the Maritime Museum told TDA that
Speaker 1: finding the ship gives us quote the opportunity to learn
Speaker 1: more about the Dutch ships that brought Chinese migrants to
Speaker 1: Australia for the Victorian gold Rush. He said it's an
Speaker 1: untold story within the shared maritime history of the Netherlands
Speaker 1: and Australia. The research team plans on continuing to explore
Speaker 1: the site to learn more about the wreckage.
Speaker 2: That's the latest from the Daily Os newsroom. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for something else, you can listen to today's Deep Dive,
Speaker 2: where we explain the latest on the mushroom murder trial
Speaker 2: of Erin Patterson.
Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
Speaker 1: until then, enjoy your Wednesday evening.
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