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Brisbane Times

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The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The people your children bring home may seem a bit random, but loving them is an investment in your family.

yesterday 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The people your children bring home may seem a bit random, but loving them is an investment in your family.

yesterday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The people your children bring home may seem a bit random, but loving them is an investment in your family.

yesterday 20

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The sad Beckhams split is a reminder to be a cheer squad not a jury

The people your children bring home may seem a bit random, but loving them is an investment in your family.

yesterday 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Listening to my mum’s neurosurgeon, I went into a brief fugue state, thinking about how to condense a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into a soundbite.

08.08.2025 6

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Listening to my mum’s neurosurgeon, I went into a brief fugue state, thinking about how to condense a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into a soundbite.

08.08.2025 2

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Listening to my mum’s neurosurgeon, I went into a brief fugue state, thinking about how to condense a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into a soundbite.

08.08.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Want to give great advice to your loved ones? Try these three words

Listening to my mum’s neurosurgeon, I went into a brief fugue state, thinking about how to condense a lifetime’s worth of knowledge into a soundbite.

08.08.2025 5

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

The plan was not to spend Saturday listening to a music countdown, but I found myself making orange cake to These Days and hanging washing to Under...

01.08.2025 30

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

The plan was not to spend Saturday listening to a music countdown, but I found myself making orange cake to These Days and hanging washing to Under...

01.08.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

The plan was not to spend Saturday listening to a music countdown, but I found myself making orange cake to These Days and hanging washing to Under...

01.08.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

Forget the debates, the Hottest 100 revealed a truth about Australians

The plan was not to spend Saturday listening to a music countdown, but I found myself making orange cake to These Days and hanging washing to Under...

01.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

25.07.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

25.07.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

25.07.2025 50

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

Who hasn’t cheated? I have. So why do we mock the Coldplaygate couple?

I live in real life, not on the Jumbotron. Like many others, I’ve been betrayed and a betrayer. I know what those early days feel like.

25.07.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Wayne Carey was mayor of Grub Island, but this time I agree with him

We’ve all seen this Carey plot before, but what is the big deal with this viral video of him leaving a toilet? We should be more concerned about the...

18.07.2025 5

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Wayne Carey was mayor of Grub Island, but this time I agree with him

We’ve all seen this Carey plot before, but what is the big deal with this viral video of him leaving a toilet? We should be more concerned about the...

18.07.2025 3

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Wayne Carey was mayor of Grub Island, but this time I agree with him

We’ve all seen this Carey plot before, but what is the big deal with this viral video of him leaving a toilet? We should be more concerned about the...

18.07.2025 6

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Wayne Carey was mayor of Grub Island, but this time I agree with him

We’ve all seen this Carey plot before, but what is the big deal with this viral video of him leaving a toilet? We should be more concerned about the...

18.07.2025 6

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

If someone like Erin Patterson could do this, how well do we really know anyone?

Unlike Patterson, most of us don’t act on our worst impulses. But like her, we’re taken on appearances, and we all have our own secrets.

11.07.2025 40

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Bravo to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. It was vulgar but they did their wedding right

Why shouldn’t two people in love throw an ultra-decadent party for their second marriage? Who says second weddings have to be quietly dignified...

04.07.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Bravo to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. It was vulgar but they did their wedding right

Why shouldn’t two people in love throw an ultra-decadent party for their second marriage? Who says second weddings have to be quietly dignified...

04.07.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Bravo to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. It was vulgar but they did their wedding right

Why shouldn’t two people in love throw an ultra-decadent party for their second marriage? Who says second weddings have to be quietly dignified...

04.07.2025 20

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Bravo to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. It was vulgar but they did their wedding right

Why shouldn’t two people in love throw an ultra-decadent party for their second marriage? Who says second weddings have to be quietly dignified...

04.07.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Who’s your daddy? Anyone but Donald Trump, please

The minute geopolitics intersects with “daddy” as a term of endearment, we have officially entered end times.

27.06.2025 8

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Who’s your daddy? Anyone but Donald Trump, please

The minute geopolitics intersects with “daddy” as a term of endearment, we have officially entered end times.

27.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Who’s your daddy? Anyone but Donald Trump, please

The minute geopolitics intersects with “daddy” as a term of endearment, we have officially entered end times.

27.06.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Who’s your daddy? Anyone but Donald Trump, please

The minute geopolitics intersects with “daddy” as a term of endearment, we have officially entered end times.

27.06.2025 8

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Rebuilding trust after rehab with uncertainty, love and scrambled eggs

My husband was just out of rehab for his self-destructive tendencies, and here I was, self-destructing in my own quieter, more Pinterest-worthy way.

22.06.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Rebuilding trust after rehab with uncertainty, love and scrambled eggs

My husband was just out of rehab for his self-destructive tendencies, and here I was, self-destructing in my own quieter, more Pinterest-worthy way.

22.06.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Rebuilding trust after rehab with uncertainty, love and scrambled eggs

My husband was just out of rehab for his self-destructive tendencies, and here I was, self-destructing in my own quieter, more Pinterest-worthy way.

22.06.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Rebuilding trust after rehab with uncertainty, love and scrambled eggs

My husband was just out of rehab for his self-destructive tendencies, and here I was, self-destructing in my own quieter, more Pinterest-worthy way.

22.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

I was at the airport and did the opposite of the Let Them theory – I have no regrets

It all started with my friend Amy in Boston, who realised she had to change the habit of a lifetime. The change starts small, but it’s addictive.

20.06.2025 5

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

I was at the airport and did the opposite of the Let Them theory – I have no regrets

It all started with my friend Amy in Boston, who realised she had to change the habit of a lifetime. The change starts small, but it’s addictive.

20.06.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

I was at the airport and did the opposite of the Let Them theory – I have no regrets

It all started with my friend Amy in Boston, who realised she had to change the habit of a lifetime. The change starts small, but it’s addictive.

20.06.2025 40

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

I was at the airport and did the opposite of the Let Them theory – I have no regrets

It all started with my friend Amy in Boston, who realised she had to change the habit of a lifetime. The change starts small, but it’s addictive.

20.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

‘Like being in bed with Richard Burton’: how alcohol became the third wheel in our marriage

My husband was worried that if things continued the way they were, he might die.

13.06.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

‘Like being in bed with Richard Burton’: how alcohol became the third wheel in our marriage

My husband was worried that if things continued the way they were, he might die.

13.06.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

‘Like being in bed with Richard Burton’: how alcohol became the third wheel in our marriage

My husband was worried that if things continued the way they were, he might die.

13.06.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

‘Like being in bed with Richard Burton’: how alcohol became the third wheel in our marriage

My husband was worried that if things continued the way they were, he might die.

13.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Instagram has decided I’m a sad old sack. It’s only partly true

An email had warned me I was locked out of my account due to “suspicious activity”. And like that, I lost milestones, breakdowns and my dog’s I...

06.06.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Instagram has decided I’m a sad old sack. It’s only partly true

An email had warned me I was locked out of my account due to “suspicious activity”. And like that, I lost milestones, breakdowns and my dog’s I...

06.06.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Instagram has decided I’m a sad old sack. It’s only partly true

An email had warned me I was locked out of my account due to “suspicious activity”. And like that, I lost milestones, breakdowns and my dog’s I...

06.06.2025 10

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Instagram has decided I’m a sad old sack. It’s only partly true

An email had warned me I was locked out of my account due to “suspicious activity”. And like that, I lost milestones, breakdowns and my dog’s I...

06.06.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

Deborra-Lee Furness called it as she saw it on ex-husband Hugh. About bloody time

At a time when most celebrities paint rosy pictures of divorce, Furness offered honesty, and reminded us of the power of playing a long game.

30.05.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

Deborra-Lee Furness called it as she saw it on ex-husband Hugh. About bloody time

At a time when most celebrities paint rosy pictures of divorce, Furness offered honesty, and reminded us of the power of playing a long game.

30.05.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

Deborra-Lee Furness called it as she saw it on ex-husband Hugh. About bloody time

At a time when most celebrities paint rosy pictures of divorce, Furness offered honesty, and reminded us of the power of playing a long game.

30.05.2025 20

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

Deborra-Lee Furness called it as she saw it on ex-husband Hugh. About bloody time

At a time when most celebrities paint rosy pictures of divorce, Furness offered honesty, and reminded us of the power of playing a long game.

30.05.2025 40

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

The Coalition break-up isn’t a divorce. They’re just sleeping in different bedrooms

Ley and Littleproud should note, a trial separation needs to be done right. Otherwise, you’re dragging around unresolved mess.

23.05.2025 10

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny