Kate Miller-Heidke#Fatty Gets a Stylist

Kate Melina Miller-Heidke was born on 16 November 1981 in Gladstone, Queensland.{{cite web | publisher = APRA AMCOS | title = 'Caveman Days' at APRA search engine | url = https://www.apraamcos.com.au/search?works=true&title=Caveman%20Days&writer=&performer= | access-date = 5 February 2021 | archive-date = 20 October 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221020163215/https://www.apraamcos.com.au/search?works=true&title=Caveman%20Days&writer=&performer= | url-status = live }} Note: For additional work user may have to select 'Search again' and then 'Enter a title:' &/or 'Performer:'{{cite book | author1 = McFarlane, Ian | author-link1 = Ian McFarlane | others = Jenkins, Jeff (Foreword) | title = The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop | chapter = Kate Miller-Heidke | date = 31 March 2017 | publication-date = 2017 | location = Gisborne, Victoria | publisher = Third Stone Press | edition = 2nd | page = 317 | isbn = 978-0-9953856-0-3 }}{{cite news | url=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=273605 | title=Kate Miller-Heidke introducing Kate Miller-Heidke | last=Miller-Heidke | first=Kate | date=18 June 2007 | publisher=ninemsn | access-date=5 February 2021 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929121635/http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=273605 | archive-date=29 September 2011 | df=dmy-all }} Her mother, Jenny Miller, was a ballet dancer and then a dance teacher and her father, Greg Heidke, is a high school principal.[https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/can-kate-bring-eurovision-gold-glory-to-gladstone/3728133/ "Can Kate bring Eurovision gold glory to Central Queensland?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716105352/https://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/can-kate-bring-eurovision-gold-glory-to-gladstone/3728133/ |date=16 July 2019 }} by Christine McKee, Sunshine Coast Daily, 15 May 2019 {{subscription required}} After her parents separated, she was raised between Indooroopilly with her mother and Auchenflower with her father; she has two siblings. One of her cousins, Annie Lee, portrays Mourne Kransky in the comedy trio, the Kransky Sisters.

For secondary education Miller-Heidke attended Kelvin Grove State College (two years), Brigidine College, Indooroopilly (one year) prior to graduating from St Aidan's Anglican Girls' School (two years) in 1998.[https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/diva-brisvegas-kate-millerheidke-from-opera-to-pop-and-back-again/news-story/724c683d53db94cc77b6837900a832f0 "Diva Brisvegas Kate Miller-Heidke: from opera to pop and back again"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719113801/https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/diva-brisvegas-kate-millerheidke-from-opera-to-pop-and-back-again/news-story/724c683d53db94cc77b6837900a832f0 |date=19 July 2021 }} by Candida Baker, news.com.au, 7 March 2014 She completed a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Voice from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music at Griffith University on full scholarship,{{cite web |url=https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-queensland-conservatorium-of-music-alumni-and-students/reference?var=6 |title=Famous Queensland Conservatorium Of Music Alumni |work=www.ranker.com |date=2018 |access-date=15 April 2018 |archive-date=14 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714222058/https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-queensland-conservatorium-of-music-alumni-and-students/reference?var=6 |url-status=live }} followed by a Master of Music degree at Queensland University of Technology.

As a classical singer, she has won awards: Elizabeth Muir Prize (2000), Donald Penman Prize (2001), Linda Edith Allen Memorial Prize (2002) and Horace Keats Prize (2002). Her conservatorium performances were in Orpheus in the Underworld (2000), Venus and Adonis (2002) and The Pilgrim's Progress (2002).{{cite web |url=https://opera-australia.org.au/opera/oaweb.nsf/lookups/C12C16D07B9344CACA25704E000D9C33?opendocument |title=Artist Biography: Kate Miller-Heidke |access-date=7 January 2009 |publisher=Opera Australia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080722161756/http://www.opera-australia.org.au/opera/oaweb.nsf/lookups/C12C16D07B9344CACA25704E000D9C33?opendocument |archive-date=22 July 2008 |url-status=dead }} As an Opera Queensland Developing Artist, Miller-Heidke has performed as an understudy in productions, Sweeney Todd, Don Pasquale and Un ballo in maschera. In July 2005 she made her solo professional operatic debut with Opera Queensland in the role of Flora in Britten's The Turn of the Screw.

File:1KateMillerHeidkefestival.jpg, December 2008. She had been named Queen of the Festival back in 2002–2003.]]

Miller-Heidke, while a tertiary student, from 2000 played in several Brisbane alternative pop bands.{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304015825/http://admin.pbsfm.org.au/sites/PBS/Documents.asp?ID=3425&Title=Kate+Miller-Heidke+Band | title = Real Radio – Kate Miller-Heidke Band | publisher = PBS 106.7FM | date = | access-date = 5 February 2021 | url = http://admin.pbsfm.org.au/sites/PBS/Documents.asp?ID=3425&Title=Kate+Miller-Heidke+Band | archive-date=4 March 2009 | url-status = dead }} She was lead singer and songwriter with acoustic pop/folk band Elsewhere,{{cite web | url=http://thebrag.com/kate-miller-heidke/index.html | title=Kate Miller-Heidke | author=Weiss, Kristi | website=The Brag | date=29 July 2014 | via=National Library of Australia | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20190615070204/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/169055/20190615-0055/thebrag.com/kate-miller-heidke/index.html | archive-date=15 June 2019 | access-date=5 February 2021 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} which formed in 2000, and released a self-titled extended play of original songs before breaking up in 2003. She briefly played keyboards in Pete Murray's backing band, and started her solo career in 2003.

She performed at an annual event, Women in Voice, three times: in 2002, 2004 and 2005, where she shared the stage with Pearly Black, Margret RoadKnight, Jenny Morris and Chrissy Amphlett. Miller-Heidke became known in Brisbane from these performances and her 2005 appearance in Women in Voice 14 won her the Helpmann Award for Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert.{{cite web|url = http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=winners&year=2005|title = Helpmann Award Winners for 2005|access-date = 12 April 2010|publisher = Helpmann Awards|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110612052625/http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/default.aspx?s=winners&year=2005|archive-date = 12 June 2011|df = dmy-all}} John Shand of The Sydney Morning Herald felt, "The young [Miller-Heidke] raised the bar with a witty rendition of David Byrne's 'Psycho Killer', part Peter Sellers and part mock-opera."

In June 2004 Miller-Heidke independently recorded and distributed her first EP, Telegram; from its seven tracks, five were written or co-written by her and two by her then-boyfriend, Keir Nuttall.Profile by Noel Mengel, "Something for Kate among the rock hits", Brisbane Courier-Mail, 10 August 2006 Nuttall is the founding mainstay lead guitarist and vocalist in Brisbane-based progressive rock band Transport, which formed in 2001. Nuttall and fellow Transport members have also worked as part of Miller-Heidke's backing band since 2004. In 2005 she released a second EP with four tracks, Comikaze, however only 500 copies were made. It was later referred to as an "aborted comedy CD." In 2007 she explained that it was a "big mistake and promptly stopped pressing them."[https://archive.today/20120712202041/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/276769/miller-heidke-dedicates-song-to-spears "Miller-Heidke dedicates song to Spears"], AAP/ninemsn.com (24 August 2007)

Miller-Heidke was preparing to sing the role of Mabel in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance with Opera Australia in late 2005. Instead she turned from classical to pop music when "Space They Cannot Touch", a track from Telegram, became a hit on Australia's national youth radio network, Triple J and was named by station presenter Richard Kingsmill as his "pick of the week" in September.{{cite news | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051124205625/http://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/kate-millerheidke/2005/11/11/1131578219130.html | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/gig-previews--reviews/kate-millerheidke/2005/11/11/1131578219130.html |title = Too much too young? You ain't seen nothing yet |access-date = 5 February 2021 | last = Blake | first = Jason | archive-date = 24 November 2005 | date = 11 November 2005 | work = The Age | url-status = dead }} Radio support led to increased national attention for her music: not only did she gain thousands of fans, she signed with EMI Music Australia, obtained her first talent manager, Leanne de Souza, and her first agent, Dorry Kartabani, at the Harbour Agency. She then began touring Australia with her band.

As well as touring Australia she appeared at festivals in Woodford – where she was named Queen of the Woodford Folk Festival in 2002–2003[http://www.abc.net.au/oztrax/stories/s1115664.htm "Kate Miller-Heidke from the album Telegram"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114160858/http://www.abc.net.au/oztrax/stories/s1115664.htm |date=14 November 2013 }}, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), OZtrax, 2004 – and in Port Fairy and Blue Mountains. She was a guest panellist on TV shows, RocKwiz, Spicks and Specks and Q&A. She has performed on ABC TV's The Sideshow and Q&A, on Network Ten's Rove and Good News Week, Seven Network's Sunrise and The Morning Show, and on live broadcasts of the ARIA Music Awards.

File:Kate Miller-Heidke Australia Day Live.jpg (on acoustic guitar at left) and Mia Dyson, Australia Day Live, January 2007. All three had performed as part of the Broad Festival in August 2006.]]

Miller-Heidke was invited by Australian singer-songwriter Deborah Conway to take part in the 2006 Broad Festival project during August, with three other Australian female artists, they performed their own and each other's songs.{{Cite news | url = http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/ladys-night-at-the-beckoning-microphone/2008/08/18/1218911561072.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 | title = Lady's Night at the Beckoning Microphone | last = Elliott | first = Tim | newspaper = The Sydney Morning Herald | publisher = Fairfax Media | date = 19 August 2008 | access-date = 5 June 2011 | archive-date = 8 October 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161008015800/http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/ladys-night-at-the-beckoning-microphone/2008/08/18/1218911561072.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1 | url-status = live }} Joining Miller-Heidke and Conway were Melinda Schneider, Mia Dyson and Ella Hooper.{{Cite web|url=http://www.broadfestival.com/broad_2006.html |title=Broad 2006 |publisher=Broad Festival |access-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008201951/http://www.broadfestival.com/broad_2006.html |archive-date=8 October 2007}}

Miller-Heidke released her third EP, Circular Breathing with six tracks, in May 2006 via Waterbear Records/Sony BMG.{{Citation | author1=Kate Miller-Heidke (Performer) | title=Circular Breathing | year=2006 | publisher=Waterbear Records, Sony BMG (Distributor) | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37119705 | access-date=5 February 2021 | archive-date=20 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820171555/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37119705 | url-status=live }} For the EP she provided vocals, piano and wurlitzer, with Nuttall on guitars, Emma Dean on violin and vocals, Steve Pope on drums and percussion, Scott Saunders on bass guitar, and John Turnbull provided a whistling cameo in "Jamie".{{Citation | author1=Miller-Heidke, Kate | title=Circular Breathing | year=2006 | publisher=Sony BMG | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32376419 | access-date=5 February 2021 }} Pope and Saunders are Nuttall's band mates from Transport. Eleven Magazine{{'}}s reviewer rated it at four-and-a-half stars and explained, "It's very boppy and very light and carefree. The lyrics are a bit lacking, a bit like diary of a teenager kind of thing. Though, the acoustic element of the album, particularly the strong piano use holds it together."{{cite journal | url=http://www.elevenmagazine.com.au/content/features/2006/august/circular_breathing.html | title=Kate Miller-Heidke: Circular Breathing // EP review | editor=Kate Kachor | journal=Eleven Magazine | year=2006 | via=National Library of Australia | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060819143323/http://www.elevenmagazine.com.au/content/features/2006/august/circular_breathing.html | archive-date=19 August 2006 | access-date=5 February 2021 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} The album provided a single, "Apartment", also in 2006.{{cite web | url=http://theblurb.com.au/Issue66/KateMHeidke.htm | title=Circular Breathing – Kate Miller-Heidke | author=James, Phil | website=the Blurb | issue=66 | year=2006 | via=National Library of Australia | archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20060821144628/http://theblurb.com.au/Issue66/KateMHeidke.htm | archive-date=21 August 2006 | access-date=5 February 2021 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}

She followed with her debut album, Little Eve, on 26 May 2007. It was produced by Magoo (Regurgitator, Not from There, Gerling) at Black Box Studios, Brisbane.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001102134|title=Little Eve – Kate Miller-Heidke|last=Macgregor|first=Jody|access-date=5 February 2021}} Aside from herself and members of Transport, Miller-Heidke used strings by Zhivago String Quartet and Danielle Bentley, a choir/chorus of seven singers, and additional session musicians. It peaked at No. 11 on the ARIA Albums Chart and was certified gold in 2008 by ARIA for shipment of 35,000 copies.Kate Miller-Heidke peaks in Australia:

• For all except noted: {{cite web |url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Kate+Miller%2DHeidke |title=Kate Miller-Heidke discography |last=Hung |first=Steffen |website=Australian Charts Portal |access-date=5 February 2021 |ref=none |archive-date=8 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208021916/https://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Kate+Miller-Heidke |url-status=live }}
• Live at the Hi-Fi: {{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/issue1027.pdf|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20091104130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20091105-0000/issue1027.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-11-04|title=The ARIA Report – October 19, 2009|publisher=ARIA|access-date=18 December 2011}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• Live at the Sydney Opera House: {{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Kate+Miller-Heidke+%26+The+Sydney+Symphony+Orchestra&titel=Live+At+The+Sydney+Opera+House&cat=a|title=australian-charts.com – Kate Miller-Heidke & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Live At The Sydney Opera House|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=21 August 2017|archive-date=6 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906003332/http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Kate+Miller-Heidke+%26+The+Sydney+Symphony+Orchestra&titel=Live+At+The+Sydney+Opera+House&cat=a|url-status=live}}
• Fatty Gets a Stylist: [https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110729140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20110730-0000/Issue1115.pdf The ARIA Report – Issue 1115]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• "Zero Gravity": {{cite web|url=https://www.auspop.com.au/2019/5/aria-chart-watch-526/|title=ARIA Chart Watch #526|publisher=auspOp|date=25 May 2019|access-date=25 May 2019|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525073959/https://www.auspop.com.au/2019/5/aria-chart-watch-526/|url-status=dead}}
• Child in Reverse: {{cite web|url=https://www.aria.com.au/charts/albums-chart|title=ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart|publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association|date=9 November 2020|access-date=7 November 2020|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201010071058/https://www.aria.com.au/charts/albums-chart|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupageshttpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2008Albums.htm|title=2008 Albums Accreditations|publisher=ARIA|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-date=12 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112192933/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupageshttpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2008Albums.htm|url-status=live}} Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, felt it, "drew comparisons with Kate Bush and Tori Amos or 'like Nina Hagen, just with a much better voice'." AllMusic's Jody Macgregor gave it four-out-of-five stars and observed, "When she uses her deceptively gigantic voice to sing about these little lives, Miller-Heidke achieves something that goes above and beyond the simple pleasures of pop music – a genuine profoundness."

Its lead single, "Words", released in the same month, reached the top 50 on the related ARIA Singles Chart. ARIA's Ian Wallace observed, "Although traces of her operatic style are recognisable in her songs, [she] has since decided to shy away from the opera circuit and make a dash for the pop scene."{{cite journal | date = 4 June 2007 | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20070618140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20070619-0000/ISSUE900.pdf | title = Week Commencing ~ 4th June 2007 ~ Issue #900 | last = Wallace | first = Ian | journal = The ARIA Report | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | issue = 900 | pages = 2–3, 7, 11, 14, 19 | url = http://www.aria.com.au/pages/documents/issue900.pdf | archive-date = 18 June 2007 | access-date = 5 February 2021 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} At the ARIA Music Awards of 2007 she received five nominations, Best Female Artist, Best Pop Release, Breakthrough Artist – Album for Little Eve and Producer of the Year for Magoo's work on Little Eve, and Breakthrough Artist – Single for "Words".{{cite web | url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2007 |title=ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2007: 21st Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=5 February 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118143950/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2007 |archive-date=18 November 2007 }} A re-recorded version of "Space They Cannot Touch" (originally on Telegram) was issued in March of the following year as her third single from Little Eve.

File:Kate Miller-Heidke at the Brunswick Music Festival 18 March 2009.jpg

Miller-Heidke's second album, Curiouser, was released on 18 October 2008, which was recorded in Los Angeles, she worked with co-producers Nuttall and Mickey Petralia (Beck, Flight of the Conchords).{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001695423|title=Curiouser – Kate Miller-Heidke|last=Macgregor|first=Jody|access-date=8 February 2021}} The tracks were mostly written during a two-month period with creative collaborator and now-husband, Nuttall.{{YouTube|id=vhXa2oeu3o8|title=Interview with Kate Miller-Heidke}} (8:51) The album's lead single, "Can't Shake It" debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at No. 38 in October 2008, making it her first top 40 song. Curiouser was her first top 10 album: peaking at No. 2. McFarlane called it her "major breakthrough." In April 2009 Miller-Heidke returned to operatic works and won critical acclaim for her performance as Baby Jane in Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Sydney Opera House.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/arts-reviews/jerry-springer-the-opera/2009/04/16/1239474986049.html?page=fullpage |title=Jerry Springer: The Opera |access-date=22 April 2009 |last=Blake |first=Elissa |date=17 April 2009 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |url-access=subscription |archive-date=4 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104091118/http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/arts/arts-reviews/jerry-springer-the-opera/2009/04/16/1239474986049.html?page=fullpage |url-status=live }}

Miller-Heidke and Nuttall co-wrote "Caught in the Crowd", which was issued as the album's second single in February 2009, which peaked at No. 33 on the ARIA singles charts in June. They were awarded the $US25,000 grand prize in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition for its composition.{{cite web |url=http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners2008_backup.htm |title=ISC: 2008 Grand Prize Winner |access-date=24 July 2019 |publisher=International Songwriting Competition |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100816125701/http://www.songwritingcompetition.com/winners2008_backup.htm |archive-date=16 August 2010 }} They were the first Australians to win the grand prize. It was used by Australian secondary schools for anti-bullying programs. "Caught in the Crowd" was re-released in November and was accredited as a gold single in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.auaccreds2010.htm|title=ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2010 Singles|access-date=7 April 2018|archive-date=12 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112143717/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.auaccreds2010.htm|url-status=live}}

Her following single, "The Last Day on Earth" (July 2008), reached No. 3 in Australia, her first top 10 hit. It had been used in promos for TV soap opera, Neighbours. Due to that single's popularity, Curiouser re-entered the top 50 in August 2008; it also reached No. 1 on iTunes for three weeks. The track later peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Australian Artist Singles Chart. "The Last Day on Earth" and Curiouser were both certified platinum by ARIA for shipment of 70000 units.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesSINGLEaccreds2012.htm |title=ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2012 Singles |access-date=7 April 2018 |archive-date=6 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706145320/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesSINGLEaccreds2012.htm |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesariacharts-accreditations-2009albums.htm |title=ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 Albums |access-date=7 April 2018 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305011747/http://www.aria.com.au/pages/httpwww.aria.com.aupagesARIACharts-Accreditations-2009Albums.htm |url-status=live }} Curiouser gained critical praise in the United States: Sasha Frere-Jones from The New Yorker, wrote "I got lucky last week and found a gem in the pile; Curiouser. If your favourite American pop star is coming across slightly washed out, you will want to hear Miller-Heidke. Curiouser is a big clutch of pantone swatches."[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/10/stacks-kate-miller-heidke.html "Stacks: Kate Miller-Heidke"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110909145217/http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2009/10/stacks-kate-miller-heidke.html |date=9 September 2011 }} by Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker (29 October 2009)

At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009 in November, the Miller-Heidke performed and was also nominated four more times, Single of the Year for "The Last Day on Earth", Best Video for "The last Day on Earth" (directed by Mark Alston) and Best Female Artist and Best Pop Release for Curiouser.{{cite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2009 |title=ARIA Awards 2009: History: Winners by Year: 2009: 23rd Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=13 June 2012 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091124212945/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php| archive-date= 24 November 2009 | url-status= live }} She toured throughout the US, United Kingdom and continental Europe as support act for Ben Folds. Folds explained, "she's one of those people that actually does deserve to be called a unique talent." She released her first music DVD, Live in San Francisco (October 2010). "The Last Day on Earth" received another nomination, for Most Popular Australian Single, in the newly installed public-voted categories at the ARIA Music Awards of 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2010 |title=2010 ARIA Awards Winners by Year |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=13 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140228203958/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2010 |archive-date=28 February 2014 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history-by-year.php?year=2010 |title=ARIA Awards 2010: History: Winners by Year 2010: 24th Annual ARIA Awards |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=9 November 2010 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Through 2010 to 2011, Miller-Heidke played at international festivals, Coachella, Lilith Fair, Rifflandia, Byron Bay Bluesfest, Southbound and Peats Ridge Festival. She also featured on UK singer Passenger's album Flight of the Crow (2010).

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On 24 June 2011 Miller-Heidke's side project, Fatty Gets a Stylist, released a self-titled album. She had formed the project as a short-term, alternative pop duo with Nuttall.{{cite web |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsHQL2sM3w |title = Announcement of Fatty Gets A Stylist via videoblog at YouTube |website = YouTube |access-date = 7 June 2011 |archive-date = 8 July 2012 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120708062800/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vsHQL2sM3w&gl=US&hl=en |url-status = live }}{{cite web |url = http://www.myspace.com/fattygetsastylist |title = Fatty Gets A Stylist at MySpace |access-date = 7 June 2011 |archive-date = 31 May 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110531032934/http://www.myspace.com/fattygetsastylist |url-status = live }} The album was written and recorded on a lap top over several months, with Nuttall producing, in different locations in Australia, South East Asia and West London. It reached No. 90 on the ARIA Albums Chart. Its second single, "Are You Ready?" (June), was used in a New York Lottery ad on US TV{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/business/media/09adnewsletter1.html|title=It Only Takes a Minute, Lottery Ads Declare|work=The New York Times|date=9 May 2011|access-date=7 June 2011|first=Stuart|last=Elliott}} and in promo for the Seven Network's shows, in which actors from various shows mime to the words while walking, ending with Alf Stewart from Home and Away yelling the final line, "Let's go!". Fatty Gets a Stylist, was credited to Miller-Heidke as her third solo album, Liberty Bell, outside Australia.

When English opera director, Tom Morris, saw Miller-Heidke in the role of Baby Jane back in 2009, he had asked her to audition for his production of John Adams' opera The Death of Klinghoffer for the English National Opera (ENO) at the London Coliseum. Following two months' rehearsals, she sang the role of British Dancing Girl for a two-week run in early 2012.{{Cite news|first=Iain|last=Shedden|title=Kate Miller-Heidke finds a delicate balance between pop, opera and folk|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/kate-miller-heidke-finds-a-delicate-balance-between-pop-opera-and-folk/story-fn9n8gph-1226323859497|newspaper=The Australian|date=14 April 2012|access-date=15 April 2012|archive-date=14 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414220003/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/kate-miller-heidke-finds-a-delicate-balance-between-pop-opera-and-folk/story-fn9n8gph-1226323859497|url-status=live}} She performed the role again at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in October 2014.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/kate-millerheidke-takes-a-dizzy-twist-in-a-playful-direction-with-new-album-o-vertigo/story-fn9d2mxu-1226848101229 "Kate Miller-Heidke takes a dizzy twist in a playful direction with new album O Vertigo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420085839/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/music/kate-millerheidke-takes-a-dizzy-twist-in-a-playful-direction-with-new-album-o-vertigo/story-fn9d2mxu-1226848101229 |date=20 April 2014 }} by Iain Shedden, The Australian, 10 March 2014[https://www.metoperafamily.org/opera/the-death-of-klinghoffer-adams-tickets The Death of Klinghoffer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611042421/http://www.metoperafamily.org/opera/the-death-of-klinghoffer-adams-tickets |date=11 June 2014 }}, The Metropolitan Opera[http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/bio.aspx?customid=8292&type=1 Kate Miller-Heidke] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421021132/http://www.metopera.org/metopera/season/bio.aspx?customid=8292&type=1 |date=21 April 2015 }}, profile at Metropolitan Opera

On 13 April 2012 Miller-Heidke's third Australian studio album, Nightflight, was released.{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0002360410|title=Nightflight – Kate Miller-Heidke|last=Raggett|first=Ned|access-date=8 February 2021}} It had been recorded at two studios in Melbourne and another in London: Nuttall co-producing with Lindsay Gravina (Jebediah, the Living End, Thirsty Merc). AllMusic's Ned Raggett gave it three-and-a-half stars and declaimed, "[it] doesn't surprise so much as reinvigorate, with [her] working of sometimes familiar tropes turning into one strong song after another. Caught somewhere between cleanly energetic rock, piano-led moments, and [her] sometimes swirled vocals, the result is a remarkably enjoyable melange." Rave Magazine{{'}}s Josh Donellan observed, "It's still built on catchy pop hooks and melodies and will undoubtedly find itself at home on a few commercial radio stations, but the songs on this album also reveal a darker side to her songwriting."{{cite journal | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120414052510/http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/32344/180/ | url = http://www.ravemagazine.com.au/content/view/32344/180/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 14 April 2012 | date = 9 April 2012 | title = Kate Miller-Heidke – Nightflight | last = Donellan | first = Josh | journal = Rave Magazine | access-date = 8 February 2021 }}

Nightflight peaked at No. 2 – equal highest chart position with Curiouser – and provided three singles, "I'll Change Your Mind" (April 2012), "Sarah" (February 2013) and "Ride This Feeling" (July 2013). However, none of the singles reached the top 50. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2012 she was nominated for two more public-voted categories: Best Video for "I'll Change Your Mind" (co-directed by Miller-Heidke and Darcy Prendergast) and Best Australian Live Act for her tours in support of the album and related singles.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/news/22/aria-nominations-announced-for-2012 |title=Winners & Nominees Announced |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |date=3 October 2012 |access-date=5 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006022415/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/news/22/aria-nominations-announced-for-2012 |archive-date=6 October 2012 }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2012 |title=2012 ARIA Awards Winners By Year |publisher=Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) |access-date=5 October 2012 |archive-date=9 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209061200/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2012 |url-status=live }} "Ride this Feeling" was selected as the promotional theme for the "Visit Brisbane" TV ad campaign in 2013 by Brisbane Marketing as part of the Brisbane City Council's Economic Development Board.

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Miller-Heidke sang the screen-role of Amber in the world premiere of Michel van der Aa's opera Sunken Garden for the ENO in April 2013.[https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/arts/music/sunken-garden-by-the-english-national-opera.html?_r=0 "A Fantastical Tale to Set the Ears and Eyes Popping"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160118203313/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/arts/music/sunken-garden-by-the-english-national-opera.html?_r=0 |date=18 January 2016 }} by Steve Smith, The New York Times, 16 April 2013
[http://www.vanderaa.net/sunkengarden-teaser2 Video clip of "Slipping out of Mirrors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204701/http://www.vanderaa.net/sunkengarden-teaser2 |date=29 October 2013 }} from Michel van der Aa's opera Sunken Garden In September Miller-Heidke left Sony Records, which she described as a "corporate juggernaut".{{quote without source|date=June 2022}} She started work on her fourth Australian studio album, O Vertigo! (14 March 2014), and sought crowd-funding via PledgeMusic to record it independently, as well as donations for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef. She broke the record on Pledge for the fastest target achievement: in three days the album was paid for and donations for the reef continued.{{cite web|url=http://au.launch.yahoo.com/features/article/-/19214940/miller-heidke-breaks-pledge-music-record/|title=Miller-Heidke breaks Pledge Music record|access-date=16 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131117080015/http://au.launch.yahoo.com/features/article/-/19214940/miller-heidke-breaks-pledge-music-record/|archive-date=17 November 2013}} O Vertigo! was produced by John Castle for Cooking Vinyl Australia{{cite news |title=Kate Miller-Heidke To Release New Album Through Cooking Vinyl Australia |url=https://themusic.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-to-release-new-album-through-cooking-vinyl-australia/uDWrqq2sr64/17-12-13 |access-date=10 January 2023 |publisher=the music |date=17 Dec 2013 |archive-date=10 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110041943/https://themusic.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-to-release-new-album-through-cooking-vinyl-australia/uDWrqq2sr64/17-12-13 |url-status=live }} and reached No. 4 on the ARIA Albums Chart. It was also nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album in 2014.{{Cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/news/2014/2014-aria-awards-connected-by-telstra-nominated-ar | title = 2014 ARIA Awards Connected By Telstra | Nominated artists revealed | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | date = 8 October 2014 | access-date = 9 October 2014 | archive-date = 8 January 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150108113816/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/news/2014/2014-aria-awards-connected-by-telstra-nominated-ar | url-status = live }}{{Cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2014 | title = 2014 ARIA Awards Winners By Year | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | access-date = 9 October 2014 | archive-date = 23 September 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923185239/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/2014 | url-status = live }}

Miller-Heidke was co-commissioned by Lyndon Terracini of Opera Australia in late 2014 to write an opera, The Rabbits, based on John Marsden's children's novel of that name, to be performed in 2015.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/rabbits-let-loose-as-opera-australias-lyndon-terracini-opts-for-high-drama/story-e6frg8n6-1227021005020 "Rabbits let loose as Opera Australia's Lyndon Terracini opts for high drama"] by Matthew Westwood, The Australian, 12 August 2014 The Rabbits was premiered at the Perth Festival in February 2015, to critical acclaim.[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/18/the-rabbits-review-triumphant-adaptation-of-a-deeply-tragic-story "The Rabbits review – triumphant adaptation of a deeply tragic story"] by Van Badham, The Guardian, 17 February 2015[http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/live-reviews/review-rabbits-perth-festival "Review: The Rabbits (Perth Festival)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925180808/http://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/live-reviews/review-rabbits-perth-festival |date=25 September 2017 }} by Clive Paget, Limelight, 14 February 2015 At the Helpmann Awards of 2015 she won two more categories for The Rabbits: Best New Australian Work (shared with co-writers Lally Katz and Iain Grandage) and Best Original Score (shared with co-composer Grandage).{{Cite web |url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2015/nominees-and-winners/industry |title="2015 Helpmann Awards" |access-date=5 December 2015 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208155821/http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2015/nominees-and-winners/industry |url-status=live }}

She took on the role of "female protagonist" in van der Aa's interactive song cycle film, The Book of Sand (June 2015), based on the short story of the same name from 1975, by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.{{cite magazine| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200807094616/https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/time-falling-or-what-kate-miller-heidke-did-next/ | url = https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/features/time-falling-or-what-kate-miller-heidke-did-next/ | title = Time Falling or What Kate Miller-Heidke Did Next | last = Paget | first = Clive |magazine=Limelight| archive-date = 7 August 2020 | date = 19 March 2020 | access-date = 9 February 2021 | url-status = live | url-access = subscription }}{{cite journal |title=Guide to a Festival of Great Gifts |last1=Bertels |first1=Lieven |last2=Gallasch |first2=Keith |date=1 December 2015 |journal=Realtime |issue=130 |issn=1321-4799}} In November 2015, she issued a non-album single, "I'm Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas", featuring comedy rock group, the Beards.{{cite web |url=http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2015/11/25/kate-miller-heidke-teams-up-with-the-beards-for-awesome-charity-xmas-single |title=Kate Miller-Heidke Teams Up with the Beards for Awesome Charity Xmas Single |work=themusic.com.au |access-date=31 October 2016 |archive-date=7 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807122124/https://themusic.com.au/news/all/2015/11/25/kate-miller-heidke-teams-up-with-the-beards-for-awesome-charity-xmas-single/ |url-status=live }} The charity single was used to raise funds for bowel cancer research.{{cite web |url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-growing-beard-downstairs-christmas-festive-charity-single-beards/ |title=Kate Miller-Heidke & The Beards Just Dropped a Festive Charity Christmas Single About Pubes |website=Music Feeds |date=25 November 2015 |access-date=21 July 2020 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810083657/https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-growing-beard-downstairs-christmas-festive-charity-single-beards/ |url-status=live }} She also debuted as a TV actress in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) comedy opera miniseries, The Divorce (December) in the role of Caroline.{{cite news | title=High notes for comic opera about divorce | last=Pobjie | first=Ben | journal=The Age | date=7 December 2015 | page=31 | issn=0312-6307 }} She also sings on the related soundtrack album, The Divorce: Original Cast Recording.{{Citation | author1=Kats-Chernin, Elena | author-link1=Elena Kats-Chernin | author2=Murray-Smith, Joanna (librettist) | author-link2=Joanna Murray-Smith | author3=Scammell, Vanessa (director) | author-link3=Vanessa Scammell | author4=McClune, Lisa (performer) | author-link4=Lisa McCune | author5=Prior, Marina (performer) | author-link5=Marina Prior | author6=Sheridan, Hugh (performer) | author-link6=Hugh Sheridan | author7=Miller-Heidke, Kate (performer) | author8=O'May, John (performer) | author-link8=John O'May | title=The Divorce: Original Cast Recording | year=2016 | publisher=Universal Music Australia | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/207472930 | access-date=16 February 2021 | archive-date=20 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820171556/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/207472930 | url-status=live }} At the 2016 ARIA Music Awards she was nominated for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album with The Rabbits: Original Live Cast Recording (April 2016) and Best Comedy Release for "I'm Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas" (shared with the Beards).{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/aria-award-nominations-have-a-hairy-surprise-among-the-flumes-and-avalanches-20161004-grv17p.html |title=ARIA Award nominations have a hairy surprise among the Flumes and Avalanches |last=Zuel |first=Bernard |date=5 October 2016 |website=The Age |access-date=5 October 2016 |archive-date=4 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004102147/http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/aria-award-nominations-have-a-hairy-surprise-among-the-flumes-and-avalanches-20161004-grv17p.html |url-status=live }}

In August 2017 a live album, Live at the Sydney Opera House, was issued by Kate Miller-Heidke and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.{{Cite web|url=https://www.katemillerheidke.com/posts/kate-miller-heidke-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra-live-at-the-sydney-opera-house|title=Kate Miller-Heidke & The Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Live at the Sydney Opera House|website=katemillerheidke.com|access-date=28 October 2017|archive-date=28 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028201737/https://www.katemillerheidke.com/posts/kate-miller-heidke-the-sydney-symphony-orchestra-live-at-the-sydney-opera-house|url-status=live}} She received two more ARIA nominations in 2017: Best Classical Album for the album and Engineer of the Year for Bob Scott's work.{{cite web | url = https://ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/2017-aria-awards-nominated-artists-revealed | title = 2017 ARIA Awards Nominated Artists Revealed | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | date = 10 October 2017 | access-date = 11 October 2017 | archive-date = 11 October 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171011021808/https://ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/2017-aria-awards-nominated-artists-revealed | url-status = dead }}{{cite web | url = https://www.ariaawards.com.au/News/2017/AND-THE-ARIA-AWARD-GOES-TO | title = And the ARIA Award Goes To... | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | date = 28 November 2017 | access-date = 29 November 2017 | archive-date = 19 August 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180819083051/https://www.ariaawards.com.au/news/2017/and-the-aria-award-goes-to | url-status = live }} Miller-Heidke and Nuttall co-wrote new music and lyrics for the musical theatre version of Muriel's Wedding, which was directed by Simon Phillips and adapted from the 1994 comedy-drama film of the same name – both written by P. J. Hogan.{{cite web | url = https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/126951 | title = Event: Muriel's Wedding | publisher = AusStage | access-date = 14 February 2021 | archive-date = 23 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201123223412/https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/126951 | url-status = live }} It premiered at the Roslyn Packer Theatre Walsh Bay, Sydney by the Sydney Theatre Company and ran from 6 November 2017 to 28 January 2018.{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830140937/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/muriels-wedding-revived-as-a-musical-in-sydney-theatre-companys-2017-season-20160908-grbu8g.html |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/theatre/muriels-wedding-revived-as-a-musical-in-sydney-theatre-companys-2017-season-20160908-grbu8g.html |title=Muriel's Wedding Revived as a Musical in Sydney Theatre Company's 2017 Season |last=Taylor |first=Andrew |archive-date=30 August 2017 |date=8 September 2016 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |access-date=14 February 2021 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live }}

A documentary, Making Muriel, including interviews with Miller-Heidke and Nuttall, was broadcast by ABC TV in late November 2017.{{cite web | archive-url = https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20171128234316/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/124062/20171129-0800/tvtonight.com.au/2017/10/airdate-making-muriel9574.html | url = http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2017/10/airdate-making-muriel9574.html | date = 30 October 2017 | title = Airdate: Making Muriel | via = Trove | last = Knox | first = David | work = TV Tonight | archive-date = 28 November 2017 | access-date = 14 February 2021 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} At the Helpmann Awards of 2018 she won Best Original Score (shared with Nuttall) and was nominated for Best New Work (shared with Nuttall and Hogan) for work on Muriel's Wedding.{{cite web |url=http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2018/nominees-and-winners/industry/ |title=2018 Nominees and Winners: Industry |website=Helpmann Awards |access-date=14 February 2021 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322013049/http://www.helpmannawards.com.au/2018/nominees-and-winners/industry/ |url-status=live }} During 2019 the musical toured to Melbourne,{{cite web|url=http://artsreview.com.au/muriels-wedding-the-musical-to-head-to-melbourne-in-2019/|title=Muriel's Wedding The Musical to head to Melbourne in 2019|date=26 August 2018|website=Arts Review|publisher=|access-date=2018-09-05|quote=|archive-date=6 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306165540/http://artsreview.com.au/muriels-wedding-the-musical-to-head-to-melbourne-in-2019/|url-status=live}} Sydney and Brisbane.{{Cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/musicals/you-cant-stop-progress-muriels-wedding-gets-second-sydney-run-20180120-h0llq6.html|title=You can't stop progress: Muriel's Wedding gets second Sydney run|last=Cooper|first=Nathanael|date=2018-01-22|work=The Age|access-date=2018-01-21|language=en-US|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122130558/http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/musicals/you-cant-stop-progress-muriels-wedding-gets-second-sydney-run-20180120-h0llq6.html|url-status=live}}[https://www.couriermail.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=CMWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/muriels-wedding-the-musical-is-heading-for-brisbane-in-september/news-story/26ab3b140579943717d6dfc6b2091bb5&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&is_silent_authentication=true&error=login_required "Muriel's Wedding the Musical Is Heading for Brisbane in September"] Miller-Heidke and Nuttall also co-wrote the music for Phillips' 2018 production of Twelfth Night for the Melbourne Theatre Company where they were performed by Colin Hay.[https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/kate-millerheidke-serves-her-own-food-of-love-for-colin-hay-in-twelfth-night-20181029-h178fb.html "Kate Miller-Heidke serves her own 'food of love' for Colin Hay in Twelfth Night"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715203534/https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/kate-millerheidke-serves-her-own-food-of-love-for-colin-hay-in-twelfth-night-20181029-h178fb.html |date=15 July 2024 }} by Sonia Harford, The Sydney Morning Herald, 9 November 2018 At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018 Miller-Heidke sang alongside Missy Higgins and Amy Sheppard on their rendition of "Ain't No Little Girl" in honour of that year's ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Kasey Chambers.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/11/aria-awards-2018-amy-shark-and-courtney-barnett-lead-nominations |title=Aria awards 2018: Amy Shark and Courtney Barnett lead nominations |last=Harmon |first=Steph |date=10 October 2018 |website=the Guardian |access-date=14 February 2021 }}

File:ESC-Australia-2019-KateMiller-Heidke-001.jpg" during the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She won the semi-final and finished ninth in the final.]]

In early 2019 Miller-Heidke was one of ten candidates to represent Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with "Zero Gravity" at Eurovision – Australia Decides. The track was co-written by Miller-Heidke, Nuttall and Julian Hamilton and was short-listed for the APRA Song of the Year of 2020.{{cite web | url = https://www.ampal.com.au/news-and-events/2020/2/14/short-list-announced-for-the-2020-peer-voted-apra-song-of-the-year | title = Short list announced for the 2020 Peer-Voted APRA Song of the Year | date = 14 February 2020 | publisher = Australasian Music Publishers Association Limitied (AMPAL) | access-date = 16 February 2021 }}{{cite web | url = https://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2020-awards/apra-music-awards/song-of-the-year-nominees/ | title = Song of the Year | publisher = APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) | year = 2020 | access-date = 16 February 2021 | archive-date = 11 August 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200811135855/https://apraamcos.com.au/awards/2020-awards/apra-music-awards/song-of-the-year-nominees/ | url-status = dead }} She won the Australian candidacy in February for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was joined onstage by Israeli backing singers.{{Cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190507091921/http://www.euromix.co.il/2019/04/30/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%95-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94/ | url = http://www.euromix.co.il/2019/04/30/%d7%90%d7%95%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%94-%d7%96%d7%9e%d7%a8%d7%99-%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%95%d7%95%d7%99-%d7%99%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%95%d7%95-%d7%90%d7%aa-%d7%94/ | title =אוסטרליה: זמרי ליווי ישראליים ילוו את השיר האוסטרלי | trans-title = Australia: Israeli backing singers will accompany the Australian song | language = he | author = Avi Z | archive-date = 7 May 2019 | date = 30 April 2019 | website = EuroMix | access-date = 16 February 2021 | url-status = live }} "Zero Gravity" won the first semi-final, before placing ninth in the grand final in May with 284 points.{{cite web |title=Grand Final of Tel Aviv 2019 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/tel-aviv-2019/grand-final |website=Eurovision Song Contest |access-date=19 May 2019 |archive-date=12 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190812083824/https://eurovision.tv/event/tel-aviv-2019/grand-final |url-status=live }} Miller-Heidke received the Marcel Bezençon award in the Artistic category, given to the best artist as voted on by the commentators of the contest.

In October 2020 Miller-Heidke released her fifth studio album, Child in Reverse, which peaked at No. 9. It was recorded and produced in Melbourne by Evan Klar for EMI Records.{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200921011702/https://scenestr.com.au/music/kate-miller-heidke-returns-with-her-first-pop-album-in-6-years-20200807 | url = https://scenestr.com.au/music/kate-miller-heidke-returns-with-her-first-pop-album-in-6-years-20200807 | title = Kate Miller-Heidke Returns with Her First 'Pop' Album in 6 Years | author = staff writers | website = scenestr.com.au | archive-date = 21 September 2020 | date = 7 August 2020 | access-date = 16 February 2021 | url-status = live }} The Music AU{{'}}s Guido Farnell, observed, "eleven nuggets of finely crafted pop tunes that are soft, dreamy and impossibly silky smooth whilst moving to compulsive grooves".{{cite web | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201108223949if_/https://themusic.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-child-reverse-album-of-the-week/cBxoYmVkZ2Y/30-10-20/ | url = https://themusic.com.au/news/kate-miller-heidke-child-reverse-album-of-the-week/cBxoYmVkZ2Y/30-10-20/ | title = 'That Was Really Scary': Kate Miller-Heidke Took a Huge Leap of Faith with Her New Album | last = Farnell | first = Guido | website = The Music AU | archive-date = 8 November 2020 | date = 30 October 2020 | access-date = 16 February 2021 }} Staff writers for scenstr.com.au, noticed that the tracks were "sculpted into 3 and 4-minute shots of love and fear, memory and empathy, rage and redemption". In the same year she participated in The Masked Singer Australia as the "Queen" and was the runner-up on the second season of the show.{{cite web|last=Whitehead|first=Mat|url=https://10play.com.au/the-masked-singer/articles/bonnie-andersons-bushranger-wins-the-masked-singer-australia-2020/tpa200914rfzip|title=Bonnie Anderson's Bushranger Wins The Masked Singer Australia 2020|date=14 September 2020|website=10 Play|publisher=ViacomCBS ANZ|access-date=14 September 2020|archive-date=30 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130073945/https://10play.com.au/the-masked-singer/articles/bonnie-andersons-bushranger-wins-the-masked-singer-australia-2020/tpa200914rfzip|url-status=live}}

Miller-Heidke appeared in episode 2 of the 2021 ABC TV comedy show Preppers as herself and a fantasy character, the Penrith panther, singing her song, "I Am My Own Panther Now". She and Nuttall collaborated again in 2021 with the Melbourne Theatre Company and Simon Phillips, writing music for their production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.[https://aussietheatre.com.au/news/mtc-returns-to-the-stage-with-shakespeares-as-you-like-it "MTC returns to the stage with Shakespeare's As You Like It"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118074706/https://aussietheatre.com.au/news/mtc-returns-to-the-stage-with-shakespeares-as-you-like-it |date=18 November 2021 }}, 27 October 2021, aussietheatre.com.au The couple composed in collaboration with Connor D'Netto the monodrama The Call for Opera Queensland and Brisbane Festival 2022, featuring soprano Ali McGregor.{{cite web|url=https://theweekendedition.com.au/gold-coast/event-news/opera-queensland-2022-season-highlights/|title=Ten reasons you need to experience Opera Queensland's dazzling 2022 season|author=Sara Weckerle|date=27 January 2022|work=The Weekend Edition|access-date=11 June 2022|archive-date=26 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220526021536/https://theweekendedition.com.au/gold-coast/event-news/opera-queensland-2022-season-highlights/|url-status=live}} Miller-Heidke and Nuttall composed the music for the 2022 television series Darby and Joan.[https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/darby---joan-2022/36547/ "Darby & Joan production details"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240203110222/https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/the-screen-guide/t/darby---joan-2022/36547/ |date=3 February 2024 }}, Screen Australia They wrote the musical comedy Bananaland, directed by Phillips, for the 2023 Brisbane Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/whats-on/2023/bananaland|title=Bananaland|publisher=Brisbane Festival|access-date=15 June 2023|archive-date=6 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606080534/https://www.brisbanefestival.com.au/whats-on/2023/bananaland|url-status=live}} Miller-Heidke sang the national anthem before the 2023 AFL Grand Final and appeared in the half-time show.[https://www.afl.com.au/news/1030792/the-holy-grail-returns-to-the-mcg-at-the-2023-toyota-afl-grand-final "The Holy Grail returns to the MCG at the 2023 Toyota AFL Grand Final"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240208122632/https://www.afl.com.au/news/1030792/the-holy-grail-returns-to-the-mcg-at-the-2023-toyota-afl-grand-final |date=8 February 2024 }}, 12 September 2023, Australian Football League

In February 2024, Seven Network announced that Miller-Heidke would be joining the thirteenth season of the singing competition show The Voice Australia as a coach, replacing Jessica Mauboy.{{Cite web |date=2024-02-06 |title=Revealed: New superstar coaches for The Voice Australia 2024 |url=https://7news.com.au/entertainment/the-voice-australia/new-coaches-for-the-voice-australia-announced-for-2024-c-13497590 |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=7NEWS |archive-date=7 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240207194656/https://7news.com.au/entertainment/the-voice-australia/new-coaches-for-the-voice-australia-announced-for-2024-c-13497590 |url-status=live }} The season premiered in August 2024, and she features alongside returning coach Guy Sebastian and fellow new coaches Adam Lambert and LeAnn Rimes. She will return as a coach in 2025 with Melanie C, Ronan Keating, and Richard Marx.{{Cite web|author=Adriana Mageros|date=2024-02-07 |title=New coaches for The Voice Australia confirmed in panel shake-up |url=https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/the-voice-australia-2024-adam-lambert-leann-rimes-and-kate-millerheidke-join-guy-sebastian-as-new-coaches/news-story/73824a0b6e6080f2c2d521e663f37f95 |access-date=2024-02-10 |website=skynews}} Miller-Heidke performed along tenor Rosario La Spina and soprano Rachelle Durkin at Opera Queensland's 2024 Festival of Outback Opera in Winton, singing Vivaldi's motet {{ill|In furore iustissimae irae|ca}}, arias from her opera The Rabbits, and her "Zero Gravity".{{cite magazine|url=https://limelight-arts.com.au/features/blue-sky-opera/|access-date=6 May 2024|url-access=subscription|title=Blue-Sky Opera|author=Jansson J. Antmann|date=22 April 2024|magazine=Limelight|pages=51–52}}

On stage and in the studio Miller-Heidke was backed by members of Brisbane-based rock band Transport from 2003: Nuttall on lead guitar and backing vocals, Scott Saunders on bass guitar and Steve Pope on drums. Her backing band initially also included multi-instrumentalist and singer, Emma Dean, who left in 2006 to pursue a solo career. Dean was replaced by Sallie Campbell on keyboard and vocals. Early in 2008 Campbell left to focus on her own band, Speed of Purple, and Nicole Brophy joined on guitar and vocals.

From April to June 2007 while Transport were working in the US and UK, Miller-Heidke's touring band was Campbell joined by Mark Angel on guitar, Ben McCarthy on bass guitar and backing vocals and Joachim Alfheim on drums. Both Angel and Alfheim went on to play for Kristy London & the Other Halves. McCarthy stayed with Miller-Heidke until 2008. On the 2010 US tour she was supported by Nuttall only. The 2011 line-up was Nuttall, Brophy, Pope joined by Nathan Moore on bass guitar and backing vocals. Brophy and Moore both left in the following year and were replaced by Madeleine Page and James O'Brien, respectively. Her 2012 tour of the US and Canada for the North American release of Nightflight included only Dan Parsons and Madeleine Paige. Dates in support of Ben Folds included only Nuttall.

File:Miller-Heidke Nuttall 2018.jpg on guitar and vocals, Blue Mountain Music Festival, Katoomba, March 2018]]

Miller-Heidke, as a member of a group, took part in an unplugged band competition at Toowong's Regatta Hotel, which lost against a fellow Brisbane-based group. She started dating the other group's lead singer and guitarist, Keir Nuttall, in the early 2000s while both attended Queensland Conservatorium of Music.{{cite web | url = https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/musos-get-parents-backing/1092822/ | title = Musos get parents backing | last = Johnson | first = Callum | work = The Chronicle | publisher = | date = 6 September 2011 | access-date = 12 July 2020 | archive-date = 12 July 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200712075457/https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/musos-get-parents-backing/1092822/ | url-status = live }} Nuttall and his group, Transport, became part of her backing band by 2003. Nuttall has also collaborated in songwriting, side projects and as a record producer. The couple married in November 2007,{{cite news |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304160027/http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24501196-5003421,00.html

|url = http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24501196-5003421,00.html |title = Kate Miller-Heidke finds a songwriter in her heart |archive-date = 4 March 2009 |access-date = 13 July 2020 |last = Mengel |first = Noel |date = 17 October 2008 |work=The Courier-Mail|url-status = dead }} and in 2016 they had their first child.[https://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/kate-millerheidke-gives-birth-to-baby-boy/news-story/522377c8422a8ce8eff73e3d0ee7a250 "Kate Miller-Heidke gives birth to baby boy"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309160218/https://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/confidential/kate-millerheidke-gives-birth-to-baby-boy/news-story/522377c8422a8ce8eff73e3d0ee7a250 |date=9 March 2022 }}, The Courier-Mail, 7 June 2016

{{Main|Kate Miller-Heidke discography}}

Albums

• Little Eve (2007)
• Curiouser (2008)
• Nightflight (2012)
• O Vertigo! (2014)
• Child in Reverse (2020){{Cite tweet|first=Kate|last=Miller-Heidke|user=kmillerheidke|number=1291184985987141632|title=I'm thrilled to announce that my new album Child in Reverse is out 30 October. You can pre-save or pre-order the album here – including a whole bunch of great merch bundles.|date=6 August 2020|access-date=6 August 2020}}

The Australian Independent Record Awards (commonly known informally as AIR Awards) is an annual awards night to recognise, promote and celebrate the success of Australia's Independent Music sector.

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| 2018{{cite web|url=https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/2018-air-awards-nominees-announced/|title=2018 AIR Awards Nominees|date=17 April 2018|access-date=20 August 2020|archive-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716122600/https://theindustryobserver.thebrag.com/2018-air-awards-nominees-announced/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.air.org.au/awards/history|title=History Wins|website=Australian Independent Record Labels Association|access-date=18 August 2020|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310102536/https://www.air.org.au/awards/history|url-status=dead}}

|Live at the Sydney Opera House

| Best Independent Classical Album

| {{nom}}

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The APRA Awards are held in Australia and New Zealand by the Australasian Performing Right Association to recognise songwriting skills, sales and airplay performance by its members annually.

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| 2009

| "Can't Shake It" (with Keir Nuttall)

| Rowspan="4" | Song of the Year

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web

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|title=2009 APRA Music Awards: Nominees Announced

|access-date=29 May 2009

|publisher=APRA-AMCOS

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090531125825/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/news/allnews/2009APRAMusicAwardsNomineesAnnounced.aspx

|archive-date=31 May 2009

}}

|-

| rowspan="2"| 2010

| "The Last Day on Earth" (with Keir Nuttall)

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web | url = http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/Nominations/SongoftheYear2010.aspx | title = Nominations for Song of the Year – 2010 | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | access-date = 27 May 2010 | archive-date = 8 March 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110308002753/http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/APRAAwards/MusicAwards/Nominations/SongoftheYear2010.aspx | url-status = live }}

|-

| "Caught in the Crowd" (with Keir Nuttall)

| {{shortlisted}}

| {{cite web|url=https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/voting-now-open-for-apras-song-of-the-year-award/|title=Voting Now Open For APRA's Song of the Year Award|website=Music Feeds|date=18 March 2010|access-date=28 April 2022|archive-date=20 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420021537/https://musicfeeds.com.au/news/voting-now-open-for-apras-song-of-the-year-award/|url-status=live}}

|-

| 2020

| "Zero Gravity" (Kate Miller-Heidke, Julian Hamilton, Keir Nuttal)

| {{shortlisted}}

| {{cite web|url=https://themusic.com.au/news/apra-2019-song-year-finalists/_zQbExIVFBc/06-02-20|title=APRA Has Revealed The 2020 Song Of The Year Finalists|website=The Music|date=6 February 2020|access-date=26 April 2022|archive-date=13 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713144033/https://themusic.com.au/news/apra-2019-song-year-finalists/_zQbExIVFBc/06-02-20|url-status=live}}

|-

| 2021

| "The Worst Block in Town" (with Keir Nuttall)

| Best Music for an Advertisement

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web | url = https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/screen-music-awards-2021#_51347 | title = Screen Music Awards 2021 | publisher = APRA AMCOS | access-date = 8 April 2021 | archive-date = 8 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308230429/https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/screen-music-awards-2021#_51347 | url-status = live }}{{cite web | url = https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/screen-music-awards-2021 | title = APRA AMCOS: 2021 Screen Music Awards | publisher = APRA AMCOS, AGSC | access-date = 30 December 2021 | archive-date = 29 December 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211229172557/https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/screen-music-awards-2021 | url-status = live }}

|-

| 2022

| "I Am My Own Panther Now" (from Preppers) (with Keir Nuttall)

| Best Original Song Composed for the Screen

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web| url = https://www.noise11.com/news/missy-higgins-and-josh-pyke-nominated-for-apra-screen-music-awards-20221013| title = Missy Higgins and Josh Pyke Nominated for APRA Screen Music Awards| website = Noise11| date = 13 October 2022| access-date = 14 October 2022| archive-date = 14 October 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221014043514/https://www.noise11.com/news/missy-higgins-and-josh-pyke-nominated-for-apra-screen-music-awards-20221013| url-status = live}}

|-

| 2023

| "The Call" (Connor D'Netto [composer], Miller-Heidke and Nuttall [librettists])

| Art Music Awards Work of the Year: Dramatic

| {{nom}}

| {{cite web | url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/2023-art-music-award-winners | title=2023 Art Music Award Winners | publisher=APRA AMCOS | date=15 August 2023 | access-date=20 August 2023 | archive-date=19 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819063725/https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/2023-art-music-award-winners | url-status=live }}{{cite web | url=https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/art-music-awards-2023#_368881 | title=2023 Art Music Awards finalists announced | publisher=APRA AMCOS | date=12 July 2023 | access-date=20 August 2023 | archive-date=19 August 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819063718/https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about/supporting-the-industry/awards/art-music-awards-2023#_368881 | url-status=live }}

|}

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.[http://ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=K&artist=Kate%20Miller-Heidke ARIA Awards: Kate Miller-Heidke] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304132620/http://ariaawards.com.au/history-by-artist.php?letter=K&artist=Kate+Miller-Heidke |date= 4 March 2009 }} Miller-Heidke has been nominated 18 times.

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|-

| rowspan="5"| 2007

|rowspan="3"| Little Eve

| Best Female Artist

| {{nom}}

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| Best Pop Release

| {{nom}}

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| Breakthrough Artist – Album

| {{nom}}

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| Magoo for Little Eve

| Producer of the Year

| {{nom}}

|-

|"Words"

| Breakthrough Artist – Single

| {{nom}}

|-

|rowspan="4"| 2009

|"The Last Day on Earth"

| Single of the Year

| {{nom}}

|-

| Mark Alston for "The Last Day on Earth"

| Best Video

| {{nom}}

|-

| rowspan="2"| Curiouser

| Best Female Artist

| {{nom}}

|-

| Best Pop Release

| {{nom}}

|-

| 2010

| "The Last Day on Earth"

| Most Popular Australian Single

| {{nom}}

|-

|rowspan="2"| 2012

| Nightflight tour

| Best Australian Live Act

| {{nom}}

|-

| Miller-Heidke, Darcy Prendergast for "I'll Change Your Mind"

| Best Video

| {{nom}}

|-

| 2014

| O Vertigo!

| Best Adult Contemporary Album

| {{nom}}

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|rowspan="2"| 2016

| The Rabbits

| Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album

| {{nom}}

|-

|"I'm Growing a Beard Downstairs for Christmas"

| Best Comedy Release

| {{nom}}

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| rowspan="2"| 2017

| Live at the Sydney Opera House

| Best Classical Album

| {{nom}}

|-

| Bob Scott for Live at the Sydney Opera House

| Rowspan="2" | Engineer of the Year

| {{nom}}

|-

| 2021

| Tony Espie for Child in Reverse

| {{nom}}{{cite web |url=https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |title=ARIA Awards nominees revealed: Amy Shark & Genesis Owusu lead the charge |work=The Music Network |date=20 October 2021 |access-date=24 October 2021 |author=Kelly, Vivienne |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020000045/https://themusicnetwork.com/2021-aria-awards-nominees/ |archive-date=20 October 2021 |url-status=live}}

|-

|}

The Music Victoria Awards (previously known as The Age EG Awards and The Age Music Victoria Awards) are an annual awards night celebrating Victorian music.

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| 2009

| herself

| Best Female Artist

| {{won}}

|-

| 2012{{cite web|url=https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/awards-2012-nominations-announced-induct-weddings-parties/|title=EG Awards 2012 Announce Nominations, Induct Weddings, Parties, Anything|website=Tone Deaf|date=3 October 2012|access-date=19 August 2020|archive-date=22 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210422051656/https://tonedeaf.thebrag.com/awards-2012-nominations-announced-induct-weddings-parties/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.noise11.com/news/the-temper-trap-oh-mercy-win-eg-awards-20121121|title=The Temper Trap, Oh Mercy Win EG Awards|website=noise11|date=21 November 2012|access-date=19 August 2020|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029221310/http://www.noise11.com/news/the-temper-trap-oh-mercy-win-eg-awards-20121121|url-status=live}}

| Kate Miller-Heidke

| Best Female

| {{nom}}

|-

{{end}}

The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia. Established in 2001, the annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.

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| 2005 || Women in Voice 14 || Best Performance in an Australian Contemporary Concert{{cite web |title=2005 Helpmann Awards winners list |date=9 August 2005 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025194520/https://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/2005-helpmann-awards-winners-list/2005/08/08/1123353256847.html |archive-date=25 October 2012 |url-status=live |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/2005-helpmann-awards-winners-list/2005/08/08/1123353256847.html}} || {{won}}

|-

| rowspan="2"| 2015 || rowspan="2"| The Rabbits|| Best New Australian Work (with Lally Katz and Iain Grandage) || {{won}}

|-

| Best Original Score (with Iain Grandage) || {{won}}

|-

| 2016 || MOFO 2016 Kate Miller-Heidke and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra with visuals by Amy Gebhardt || Best Australian Contemporary Concert || {{won}}

|-

| rowspan="2"| 2018 ||rowspan="2"| Muriel's Wedding || Best Original Score (with Keir Nuttall) || {{won}}

|-

| Best New Australian Work (with Nuttall and P. J. Hogan) || {{nom}}

|-

| 2019 || Twelfth Night (with Keir Nuttall) || Best Original Score|| {{nom}}

|-

|}

The J Awards are an annual series of Australian music awards that were established by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's youth-focused radio station Triple J. They commenced in 2005.

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| 2014{{cite web|title = The J Award 2014|website = Triple J|url = https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jawards/14/|publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation|year = 2014|access-date = 15 August 2020|archive-date = 4 December 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141204191240/https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/jawards/14/|url-status = live}}

|herself

| Double J Artist of the Year

| {{nom}}

{{end}}

The Queensland Music Awards (previously known as Q Song Awards) are annual awards celebrating Queensland, Australia's brightest emerging artists and established legends. They commenced in 2006.{{cite web|url=https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/about|title=About the Queensland Music Awards|website=Queensland Music Awards|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=18 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318081104/https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/about|url-status=live}}

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|-

| 2006{{cite web|url=https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2006|title=Past Winners 2006|website=Queensland Music Awards|access-date=25 March 2021|archive-date=5 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405050658/https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2006|url-status=live}}

| "Apartment"

| Pop Song of the Year

| {{won}}

|-

| scope="row" rowspan="2"| 2011{{cite web|url=https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2011|title=Past Winners 2011|website=Queensland Music Awards|access-date=25 March 2021|archive-date=5 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405050411/https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2011|url-status=live}}

| Rowspan="3" | herself

| Export Achievement Award

| {{yes2|awarded}}

|-

| Rowspan="2" | The Courier-Mail People's Choice Award Most Popular Female

| {{won}}

|-

| 2012{{cite web|url=https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2012|title=Past Winners 2012|website=Queensland Music Awards|access-date=25 March 2021|archive-date=5 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405050130/https://www.queenslandmusicawards.com.au/past-winners/2012|url-status=live}}

| {{won}}

|-

|}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20190209182207/http://www.musichall.uk.com/artist.aspx?artist=89 Profile] at musichall.uk.com
• {{YouTube|u=katemillerheidke|Kate Miller-Heidke}}

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