France bans short flights, side hustles are soaring, how Affleck wooed J.Lo

All the news that's fit to mint.

All the news that's fit to mint.

What's happening in (The) Oz:

🤑 Side hustles are on the rise in Australia

🇺🇸 Gen Z is in the House

👏🏼 Dylan Alcott's new project

✊🏾 South Australia will be getting a Voice

🚊 France is going full McGowan 2020, looks to ban travel

🩸 Elizabeth Holmes is pregnant but may go to jail next week 

🎙 Em Rata has a podcast and the name is very familiar

👩🏻‍💻 Jennifer Lopez doesn't know we've already seen You've Got Mail

Good morning!

It's Thursday. Let's get this day like Maxwell Frost got his new job.

Frost was, before Wednesday, an Uber-driving activist. Now he's the first Gen Z MP.

The 25-year-old won a Senate spot in Florida in the Midterm elections which are still wrapping up in the US after polls closed overnight.

Florida was where most of the action took place as it is a state that has overwhelming turned Republican red as Ron DeSantis - now Donald Trump's biggest threat to a second term as President - was re-elected as Governor.

READ MORE: Trump's #1 frenemy is only big Republican winner in the Midterms

Hustling hard back here

Meanwhile down under, we're all working like Bill Heslop with his "You can't stop progress" motto.

New employment data from the ABS released on Wednesday shows the number of people with a side hustle, a second or even a third job, is on the rise.

When you break down the stats it shows about one in every six-working people now has, at least, a second job.

That works out to around 2.4 million people and its women who are, by far and away, more likely to have a second job, and therefore a second income.

Sky News Business editor Ross Greenwood told us he thinks side hustles will become a permanent fixture in our economy.

“With skills shortages, you can easily understand the demand for people to work more. Add to that risings costs for mortgages and energy and there's no doubt that trend will continue. It might be that you drive an Uber, work in a cafe or restaurant or that you're an Instagram influencer. If it's bringing in the cash, it's paying the bills right?" Greenwood said.

The Voice hits its first high note

In South Australia of all places is where more details for a State First Nations Voice have been revealed.

Under the SA model, which is set to be introduced into the South Australian Parliament in 2024, the State First Nations Voice will only have the power to make presentations to Parliament, but will be have the authority "to create, amend or veto bills".

SA Attorney-General Kyam Maher told The Australian the Voice model was “in no way” a threat to the authority or primacy of Parliament and with looming rollout in SA will mean voters around Australia will get to see how a Voice to Parliament works ahead of a national vote at the referendum, which is expected to go ahead in  2025.

He also said the proposal had been discussed ahead of its release on "several occasions" with Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney who is reportedly "watching how SA manages the process".

“We do hope that our Voice does a couple of things to help the national debate,” Maher said. “The first is to show that there is nothing to be afraid of, that it’s not taking power from anyone else, and that the main thing it will achieve is that better legislation and outcomes will come from it.

“The second is that for the first time anywhere in the nation we will have a fully-elected body with the guaranteed ability to talk to the Parliament.”

The details of the SA model followed an address by some of the authors of the Uluru Statement from the Heartat the National Press Club on Wednesday.

Here's what Professor Megan Davis had to say:

DIVE DEEPER: It's time Australia knows our story

This is why he's our best Aussie this year

Dylan Alcott has a message to those who "rort' the NDIS.

“They can go and get stuffed,” the tennis legend and Australian of the Year Alcott said of people taking advantage of the system which leaves vulnerable people poorer and with less resources.

Alcott was fired up about the issue as he launched a groundbreaking new disability-inclusive job website designed, delivered and led by people living with a disability, called The Field.

While he was introducing the new platform, Alcott was questioned about the fraud uncovered in the NDIS that is under investigation by the fraud fusion taskforce.

“There are some dodgy people out there doing dodgy things, and the government has already commissioned the fusion fraud taskforce and that’s going to find people who do the wrong thing.”

He said those who take advantage of the NDIS system, are selfish whose actions could even take away the chance for someone to shower.

Alcott also praised the NDIS saying, calling it "bloody awesome" he wished it were around when he was growing up so it would have given him the independence to make friends.

Keep calm and carry on only 

France is making us take public transport.

Not due to the aviation system there being as...(in)capable as Australia's, but thanks to the country's investment in high-speed rail infrastructure which is paying off dividends when it comes to lowering emissions.

The French government has banned domestic flights where there is an alternative train route travellers can take for journeys of under 2.5 hours or less.

Banning short haul domestic flights may sound drastic. However, just 12% of the country's domestic flights will be affected.

According to science and data cited by the Macron administration, trips of the same distance  - which take approximately two hours by train - produce six times less carbon emissions than if you flew. 

It's a move the British government is now being urged to consider by leading think tanks.

The Austrian government made it a condition of the bail out of Austrian Airlines, post Covid, to cut domestic flights where there is an alternative train journey.

Considering Australia can't ever get the trains to run on time, or without an annoyed workforce, in its biggest city, it just goes to show how far behind we are on climate efficiency.

Australia - the Perth of the world.

Elizabeth Holmes is with child, but without a new trial

Judging from these new photos Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, does in fact know, how to love.

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The convicted scammer has had her bid for a retrial denied by federal judge in the US despite being visibility pregnant.

Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos Inc., leaves a federal court with husband Billy Evans.

She now faces up to 20 years in prison after being found guilty on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy back in January.

Holmes called for a do over after a remorseful witness for the prosecution got in touch with her. The judge found the interaction provided no new evidence and therefore denied her another shot to prove her innocence.

She'll be sentenced on November 18.

Emily Ratajkowski is filling the Joe Rogan void 

And she is into sex and not into "normal" relationships.

Just some of the things you'll learn when you tune into her new project, a podcast called - High Low.

For those of you around when podcasts were not as ubiquitous as they are today, the name is lifted from the best podcast to ever hit the internet (DO NOT @ ME ON THIS) by authors and commentators Pandora Sykes And Dolly Alderton, which ended in 2020. 

But back to Em Rata's contemporary version.

In her latest episodes she explained to Julia Fox she “can’t imagine” having a traditional relationship “ever again" as the pair compare the struggles of being single parents. 

It's the first time she has opened out about the demise of her marriage to Sebastian Bear-McClard (he cheated, I can't).

The model and author is now living with her best friend and raising the couple's son, Sylvester Apollo Bear, and speaks her truth, which is,  as per usual, enlightening and bang on for most women.

"Spending time with another woman and just how much I don't have to ever tell her - our instincts are so aligned. When you're living with a man and you're taking care of a child, you have to tell them. It's so exhausting."

"They never get it right," Fox sympathised.

When it comes to seeking out another romantic relationship with a man, Ratajkowski added: "The main thing I would want from a relationship is emotional support, and men are having such a hard time giving that to women. I can't really imagine wanting that with someone else and having this traditional family structure. What I want is an emotional partner who can help me feel good about myself day-to-day."

How Bennifer got it together

Now we know why Ben Affleck and J.Lo didn't work 20 years ago - the internet.

The pair who dated in the 2000s reportedly broke up due to media pressure, turns out it was because the technology that led to social media wasn't sophisticated enough at the time.

Email is how they rekindled their friendship and then romance for chapter two.

J.Lo told Vogue about their reconciliation, which, actually just reads like a pitch for You've Got Mail 2.

She revealed her now-husband was the one to make the first move.

“Obviously we weren’t trying to go out in public. But I never shied away from the fact that for me, I always felt like there was a real love there, a true love there,” she said.

“People in my life know that he was a very, very special person in my life. When we reconnected, those feelings for me were still very real.”

Lopez, 53, said that Affleck, 50, emailed her after his split from Ana De Armas to let her know he had raved about her in an interview. From there, they kept talking and they started hanging out.

She noted that reconnecting with an ex isn’t always a good idea, however.

“I don’t know that I recommend this for everybody... Sometimes you outgrow each other, or you just grow differently.”

Lopez explained that she and Affleck “lost each other” and then “found each other” again.