00:00this is the latest battle between celebrity cooks nagi mahashi and brooke bellamy and it was nagi
00:08mahashi who took home the chocolates winning the award for the best illustrated book at the book
00:13industry awards here in melbourne last night and of course we all remember that very highly
00:18publicized spat which followed allegations of plagiarism when nagi mahashi accused brooke
00:25bellamy of copying her recipes for caramel slice and baklava in brooke bellamy's latest cookbook
00:33baking with brookie now it must be said that brooke bellamy has denied the allegations so
00:40too has her publisher penguin and she's issued a statement saying that in fact she was baking and
00:46selling these recipes long before they appeared in miss mahashi's cookbook but at the end of the day
00:52it was nagi mahashi who won this award and when she left the awards ceremony she let this slip
01:00i'm sorry i don't have cookies for you i mean cake no cookies
01:06so we'll leave it up to you as to what you think about that response from nagi mahashi i think that
01:12it was a pretty honest slip up but one thing is for sure she's not just a winner when it comes to that
01:18award she is also a winner at the checkout because she has once again with her tin eats tonight book
01:25managed to break records in the first week of sales racking up more than 78 000 sales which is a
01:32record in australia for a non-fiction book now there were other many well-deserved winners here at the
01:39book industry awards last night not the least of which was australian music legend john farnham
01:45and filmmaker poppy stockwell they won the overall book category as well as best audio book and also
01:53the best biography for john farnham's uh recounting of his battle with throat cancer with the voice
02:01inside now another person who is very close to many of our hearts who was also a very worthy winner
02:08was the 2024 co-australian of the year richard scollier he won the best social impact book for his book
02:16brainstorm now this recounts his battle with brain cancer this is what he had to say on news breakfast
02:22a short time ago i just delighted i guess to to be recognized in this way but ultimately we're trying
02:29to make a difference for brain cancer patients and i hope that's where it ends up that's richard scollier
02:35speaking on news breakfast and after not such a great prognosis that he received about his brain
02:40cancer recently he has said that his main message to people out there is to really enjoy life be
02:47passionate and enjoy especially hanging out with the people that you love most
03:01you
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