In January 2007, at Wollongong for a trial match, Beale appeared in his senior match for New South Wales against the ACT. He scored the first of many notable tries he would score after coming off the bench by edging the full-back and past the winger. NSW won the contest 12-0.
Beale took a last-second break to assist in the game-winning try against the Crusaders two weeks later after again coming off the bench. Beale signed a one-year deal with the Waratahs and ARU for 2014 after spending two seasons with the Melbourne Rebels.
The professional rugby player played inside center for the Waratahs in the 2014 Super Rugby season. The team’s success was greatly aided by Beale’s partnership with Bernard Foley at flyhalf, Israel Folau at fullback, and Adam Ashley-Cooper at outside center.
He played in the Super Rugby Championship game against the Crusaders and helped the Waratahs in their 33-32 victory over the seven-time defending champions by setting up two tries for Adam Ashley-Cooper.
Rugby Australia announced in February 2022 that Beale would join the New South Wales Waratahs after spending the 2021-22 Top 14 season in Paris with Racing 92.
Beale could then represent Australia at a fourth World Cup. The Waratahs would then sign Beale to play for them from the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season.
Kurtley was chosen for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, where the Wallabies lost unceremoniously to England in the quarter-finals. Beale left Super Rugby and later signed with Racing 92 in the Top 14. Beale proved reliable at Racing 92.
Despite fulfilling Giteau’s legislative requirements, he was not selected for the Wallabies in 2020. Beale was, however, recalled to the Wallabies in 2021, due to Reece Hodge’s injury, and he started on the bench against Scotland.
Controversial
Kurtley Beale has also been part of a controversy. To detail, on September 29, 2014, it was revealed that the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) would be looking into allegations that Kurtley Beale and a Wallabies team official, Di Patston, had a furious argument during a 10 hour trip from Johannesburg to So Paolo.
Patston was upset and resigned from her job immediately after the incident, causing her to leave the tour early. Despite the incident, McKenzie kept Beale in the squad for the game against Argentina but did not include him in Matchday 23.
Kurtley Beale was fined $45,000 for a serious breach of the ARU’s code of conduct and admitted submitting an obscene photo, according to the independent tribunal’s decision.
