Kate Halfpenny

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

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1 week ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist May 30, 2025 — 11.45am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Over dinner at my friend Lou’s place this week, she questioned the wisdom of including tonnes of previously protected personal stories in my upcoming book: “Darl, aren’t you worried about what people will think?”Yep. I am. A lot. I’m not sure how revelations of secret addiction, fist fighting on the lawn and a suburban nudie run will be received.

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist May 23, 2025 — 11.25am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Before I married my first husband, we broke up twice. Once at 18, a few months after meeting on the Surfers Paradise beach during HSC. I was bemused. Second time, we were 23 and living in a St Kilda flat when he pulled the pin. I was strategic. Quit my job, moved to London, replied to his Air Mail letters when it suited.

1 month ago | watoday.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

My appetite for the boilover lies less in the question of who made the first caramel slice, more in how we got here. Why are we taking our culinary inspiration from lifestyle influencers in the first place and not, say, actual cooks? And no, this isn’t a takedown of Bellamy in particular — it’s a broader question. When did we stop listening to experts and start listening to the girl with the best hair?

1 month ago | smh.com.au | Kate Halfpenny

Regular columnist May 2, 2025 — 11.35am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Last month, I fell prey to an influencer. A cool New Yorker who named Clark Wallabees among the three types of shoe we all need right now. I ordered two pairs. Then realised I’d bought desert boots with a wedge crepe heel that I’m too old to wear with the required irony.