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Kate Mcilwain

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 15, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Kate McIlwain

    This is Australia's most surreal outback town - no grass but plenty of opals (opens the original)

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    I went on a whirlwind coach trip through the outback - and this was the highlight. As we set out to discover the pale orange moonscape of Coober Pedy, our guide Bev keeps repeating one thing: "That is a true story." It's a necessary qualifier for this desert settlement, famous for opals, natural rock formations and underground homes, which is so unlike anywhere else, it feels like another planet. Take the golf course, with its "Keep Off Grass" sign. At the edge of a town miles from anywhere, sur

  2. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Kate McIlwain

    Inside the laugh-out-loud pop-fueled Jane Austen parody on stage in Wollongong (opens the original)

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    It's a truth universally acknowledged that anything written about Pride and Prejudice must start with these words. Trust me, I've read and watched pretty much every version of the fervently-loved Jane Austen novel (Colin Firth forever) over the years, but still found so many surprising and hilarious delights in the one I saw on stage in Wollongong this week. Called Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), it's a five-person stage show, with modernised language (kids cover your ears), romantic pop song n

  3. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Kate McIlwain

    Community over cash: this school's 'climate of kindness' is a recipe for success (opens the original)

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    When Sabrina Kelly looks at the news, she often feels deep sadness and worry - "like a punch in the stomach" - about the world where her kids are growing up. Which is why the Kiama mum tries to channel her energy - and the efforts of Kiama Public School P&C - into improving life, even in the smallest ways, for those around her. "It's a really tough time in the world at the moment," she said. "You can't not be affected by the images, particularly of children, in the news. But I love the saying, t

  4. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Kate McIlwain

    Pain is like a changing mole: Wollongong surgeon's health message gets global recognition (opens the original)

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    When it comes to thinking about the long-term health of her patients, Meghan Dares isn't most concerned with an 85-year-old with advanced arthritis. Instead, the prominent Wollongong orthopaedic surgeon wants to focus on the exhausted 45-year-old who can't dance in her lounge room to 90s RnB. In a TEDx talk that has just been recognised globally as an "editor's pick", Dr Dares used the case of a patient - "mid-40s real estate agent, married with kids, brilliant, capable, exhausted" - to show how

  5. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Kate McIlwain

    The staffing crisis holding back a new birthing unit at Shellharbour Hospital (opens the original)

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    "May we always be staffed" was one of the well-wishes tied to the branches of the tree hoisted up to mark a construction milestone for the new Shellharbour Hospital. But as he joined health officials and local politicians to talk about the next steps for the $800 million project, it was staffing that Health Minister Ryan Park said would hold back plans to open a much-wanted birthing unit there. At a ceremony for the "topping out" of the huge health complex, Mr Park announced there would be close

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