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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist April 11, 2025 — 11.31am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. When the rogue dumper slammed my gasping, half-dacked husband on the Thailand beach in 2018, he took a while to regroup. From the safety of his towel, he scanned for a second Poseidon Adventure-style wave and then for the roving ice cream seller to take the sting off near-death. Too rattled to read, Chris started watching a nearby couple.
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1 week ago | 
watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
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2 weeks ago | 
domain.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
By Kate HalfpennyApril 7, 2025If you could go back a decade, would you still buy in a blue-chip inner Melbourne suburb? Or would you take a chance on the fringe? New CoreLogic data reveals the areas where you should have bought 10 years ago – and they’re not the usual suspects. Since 2015, Melbourne’s middle and outer-ring suburbs have significantly outpaced many of the city’s most prestigious postcodes in terms of where your investment would have grown.
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If you could go back a decade, would you still buy in a blue-chip inner Melbourne suburb? Or would you take a chance on the fringe? New CoreLogic data reveals the areas where you should have bought 10 years ago – and they’re not the usual suspects.
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2 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist March 28, 2025 — 11.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ten years into our marriage – my second shot at forever – and I’m staring at a blank anniversary card. They cost so much you don’t want to stuff up what you write, so I’m having a practice run to get it right for the real thing. Ergh. What do you write to the man who’s seen you through a decade of your midlife?
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
OpinionMichelle Obama loves heading to bed straight after dinner – and I’m all for itSaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeFor a tiring period in the olden days, I was a gossip columnist. Openings, plays, clubs – yep, last to leave. Drink card in hand, heels wrecked, one particularly bad morning-after memory of doing a cartwheel in a mini and G-string. At a recent work reunion, an old colleague took in my matronly respectability: “You were wild. Never home.” He wasn’t wrong.
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist March 21, 2025 — 11.30am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For a tiring period in the olden days, I was a gossip columnist. Openings, plays, clubs – yep, last to leave. Drink card in hand, heels wrecked, one particularly bad morning-after memory of doing a cartwheel in a mini and G-string. At a recent work reunion, an old colleague took in my matronly respectability: “You were wild.
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1 month ago | 
watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
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1 month ago | 
smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny
Regular columnist March 14, 2025 — 11.14am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. And now, time for something that puts me in danger of choking on my tomato and caprese mozzarella ladybird. Gawd. Make a mea culpa to Meghan Markle, or as she wants it known, Meghan Sussex. Before her With Love, Meghan show premiered, the trailer alone drove me bananas.
