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Brisbane Times

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

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...

previous day 4

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

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

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...

previous day 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

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

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...

previous day 9

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

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

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...

previous day 4

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

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

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

WA Today

Kate Halfpenny

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

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

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

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

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 5

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

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

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

The Age

Kate Halfpenny

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

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

Brisbane Times

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.

15.08.2025 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.

15.08.2025 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.

15.08.2025 40

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.

15.08.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Kate Halfpenny

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

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 4

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kate Halfpenny

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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