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