Headlines: Dutton wants "graceful exit" from politics

Today's headlines include:

Peter Dutton has spoken publicly for the first time since conceding defeat on election night. 

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has announced she will step down from the force in September.

U.S. President Donald Trump has met with the recently re-elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House.

And today’s good news: Australian researchers are confident they’ve located a 170 year old shipwreck off the coast of South Australia.

Hosts: Zara Seidler and Lucy Tassell
Producer: Emma Gillespie

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
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.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
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

(00:35):
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

(00:57):
he's held since twenty ten.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
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.

(01:24):
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

(01:45):
this August.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
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

(02:12):
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

(02:33):
to stop talking about a Canadian US merger.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
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

(02:59):
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

(03:20):
and Australia. The research team plans on continuing to explore
the site to learn more about the wreckage.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
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.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
We'll be back tomorrow morning with another deep dive, but
until then, enjoy your Wednesday evening.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
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