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The Federal Election is in 3 days and Australians seem to have tuned out completely.
This is particularly bad news for Peter Dutton and the Federal Opposition, who needed to put on a big show in the final week before Australians head to the polls
After a string of gaffes and policy backflips dampened the first month of Dutton’s election campaign, his party have insisted that ‘internal polling’ shows that a majority Coalition government is not unrealistic – they just need to get in front of voters.
But with the Pope’s passing, Easter and ANZAC Day drowning out the news cycle, Peter Dutton has not been able to come up for oxygen – in an election campaign dominated by medicare reform, cost-of-living relief and the rise of Independent candidates.
But in the final lap of the Federal Opposition’s march towards Election Day, it seems that Australians are already talking about other things.
Namely, this extremely juicy scandal that has embroiled two of Australia’s most famous cookbook Queens.
Sydney-based RecipeTin Eats founder, Nagi Maehashi has made explosive claims about the Queensland social media personality and fellow cook, Brooke Bellamy.
In a statement, Nagi said two recipes in Bellamy’s cookbook ‘Bake with Brooki’ were uncannily similar to recipes previously published on RecipeTinEats.
Bellamy is insistent that she “did not plagiarise any recipes” and her recipes existed before Maehashi’s were published – and the finished products were indeed available at her bricks and mortar Brisbane bakery, known as Brooki’s Bakehouse.
This scandal has rocked the Australian public and appears to have completely overshadowed the Federal Election.
Furthermore, Australians have also turned their attention to mysterious mushroom killings.
Nearly two years since three people died after eating Erin Paterson’s beef Wellington dish in regional Victoria. Prosecutors remain certain it was deliberately laced with poisonous mushrooms. The trail starts on Monday.
