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Kate Halfpenny

Brisbane Times

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The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 60

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

The cautionary tale of Duchess Meghan, the Kardashians and the missing poppy

Just so we’re clear, the Duchess of Sussex is a chancer, a phony and insufferably earnest in my book. But she deserves a break.

14.11.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 30

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 7

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

From Beckham to Melham, what’s left when you’ve already achieved your dream?

This week jockey Jamie Melham won the Melbourne Cup and David Beckham received a knighthood. When your greatest wish is realised, you have to readjust...

07.11.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

I was never a ‘Bali person’. I’d cringe when friends would say they were going. How wrong I was

My holiday mates in Bali were a tattooed “contract killer” who spent the day braiding his daughter’s hair and a woman who looked like she’d...

31.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 2

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 3

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

It was time for a purge. I had no idea how much those trinkets would be worth

The price of gold has gone through the roof. But when friends told me to take my old jewellery to a gold guy in a Collins Street office, I did not...

17.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 30

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Is six weeks too soon to fall in love after a breakup? Nicole has nailed the optics of divorce

I’ve done a bunch of bad things during my life, and was widely judged for my behaviour after my 23-year marriage ended.

10.10.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 9

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 6

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

My dad went to an 86-year-old’s funeral. She was carried out to Rod Stewart’s ‘Hot Legs’

How many funerals have you been to where the eulogy has been a wild mismatch with the dearly departed? When they die, everyone becomes a goody-goody....

03.10.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s separation is the hardest, truest love story of all

Strip away the gowns and guitar solos and the glowing red carpets, and maybe Keith and Nicole’s home life looked a lot more like ours than we knew.

30.09.2025 3

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s separation is the hardest, truest love story of all

Strip away the gowns and guitar solos and the glowing red carpets, and maybe Keith and Nicole’s home life looked a lot more like ours than we knew.

30.09.2025 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s separation is the hardest, truest love story of all

Strip away the gowns and guitar solos and the glowing red carpets, and maybe Keith and Nicole’s home life looked a lot more like ours than we knew.

30.09.2025 4

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s separation is the hardest, truest love story of all

Strip away the gowns and guitar solos and the glowing red carpets, and maybe Keith and Nicole’s home life looked a lot more like ours than we knew.

30.09.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Mum guilt is so universal it inspired the name of my company

Being pregnant is to experience one guilty thought after another. We don’t need Donald Trump adding to that stress.

26.09.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Mum guilt is so universal it inspired the name of my company

Being pregnant is to experience one guilty thought after another. We don’t need Donald Trump adding to that stress.

26.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Mum guilt is so universal it inspired the name of my company

Being pregnant is to experience one guilty thought after another. We don’t need Donald Trump adding to that stress.

26.09.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Mum guilt is so universal it inspired the name of my company

Being pregnant is to experience one guilty thought after another. We don’t need Donald Trump adding to that stress.

26.09.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule

Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

19.09.2025 40

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule

Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

19.09.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule

Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

19.09.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

With a wag of his finger, Trump has broken Australia’s most sacred rule

Now we’ll see if Anthony Albanese can stand up for one of us and stare down the most powerful whinger on earth.

19.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Instead of pashing my husband I’m watching Jennifer Aniston with a blowdryer. I’m a phubber

Maybe I’ve been married too long, but suddenly the phone has become inexplicably irresistible.

12.09.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Instead of pashing my husband I’m watching Jennifer Aniston with a blowdryer. I’m a phubber

Maybe I’ve been married too long, but suddenly the phone has become inexplicably irresistible.

12.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Instead of pashing my husband I’m watching Jennifer Aniston with a blowdryer. I’m a phubber

Maybe I’ve been married too long, but suddenly the phone has become inexplicably irresistible.

12.09.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Instead of pashing my husband I’m watching Jennifer Aniston with a blowdryer. I’m a phubber

Maybe I’ve been married too long, but suddenly the phone has become inexplicably irresistible.

12.09.2025 20

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

There’s something comedic about the grandad child-swap case, but it hurts my heart

I know that nannas would drive through walls for their beloved grandbabies, but they shouldn’t have to. It’s our failure that is putting so much...

05.09.2025 7

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

There’s something comedic about the grandad child-swap case, but it hurts my heart

I know that nannas would drive through walls for their beloved grandbabies, but they shouldn’t have to. It’s our failure that is putting so much...

05.09.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

There’s something comedic about the grandad child-swap case, but it hurts my heart

I know that nannas would drive through walls for their beloved grandbabies, but they shouldn’t have to. It’s our failure that is putting so much...

05.09.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

There’s something comedic about the grandad child-swap case, but it hurts my heart

I know that nannas would drive through walls for their beloved grandbabies, but they shouldn’t have to. It’s our failure that is putting so much...

05.09.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Many celebrity couples are doomed. But Taylor-Travis will be different

After years of dating sensitive musicians and British actors, Taylor Swift went for the big dag who tackles people for a living. And I’m here for it.

29.08.2025 4

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Many celebrity couples are doomed. But Taylor-Travis will be different

After years of dating sensitive musicians and British actors, Taylor Swift went for the big dag who tackles people for a living. And I’m here for it.

29.08.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Many celebrity couples are doomed. But Taylor-Travis will be different

After years of dating sensitive musicians and British actors, Taylor Swift went for the big dag who tackles people for a living. And I’m here for it.

29.08.2025 3

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Many celebrity couples are doomed. But Taylor-Travis will be different

After years of dating sensitive musicians and British actors, Taylor Swift went for the big dag who tackles people for a living. And I’m here for it.

29.08.2025 4

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

The AFL’s dithering over slur shows they’re not ready to embrace an Ian Roberts moment

I will lose it next time I hear “we’re wrapping our arms around” a bloke who behaves badly and then gets paid time off from his dream job to...

22.08.2025 6

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

The AFL’s dithering over slur shows they’re not ready to embrace an Ian Roberts moment

I will lose it next time I hear “we’re wrapping our arms around” a bloke who behaves badly and then gets paid time off from his dream job to...

22.08.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny