Kiama Region Who's Who
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Recycling made easy – drop off at our depot or let us come to you!
Rockdale Return and Earn provides a convenient and friendly way for households, businesses, schools, sporting clubs and community organisations to recycle their eligible 10c bottles and cans and receive their Return and Earn refund.
Walk-In Depot
Bring your eligible bottles and cans directly to our Rockdale Return and Earn depot. Our friendly team will process your containers for you, making it a quick and easy alternative to feeding containers into a reverse vending machine yourself.
Whether you have a few bags or a larger quantity, simply bring them in and we do the counting and sorting for you.
Collection Service – We Come to You
Short on time or have too many containers to transport yourself? Our convenient collection service comes directly to you.
We provide collection options for homes, businesses, schools, sporting clubs, hospitality venues and community organisations throughout our collection area.
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Distinguished and Famous people from Kiama Region
📚 Charmian Clift
Kiama-born writer Charmian Clift was putting the town into words early: at eight, she wrote a poem about its blowhole. The coastal landscape remained an influence after she left, including in Walk to the Paradise Gardens and the unfinished childhood novel The End of the Morning, published in 2024. Living overseas widened her literary world, while her newspaper essays after returning to Australia in 1964 challenged assumptions about women, migration and social justice. Kiama was both her childhood home and a recurring imaginative landscape, not merely a convenient birthplace in a literary biography.
🎭 Orry-Kelly
Costume designer Orry-Kelly was born Orry George Kelly in Kiama and attended its public school. The son of a tailor, he moved towards theatre rather than the banking career initially intended for him. Hollywood eventually provided a rather larger wardrobe: he worked on more than 300 films and won three Academy Awards, including for Les Girls and Some Like It Hot. With no formal design training, he built his career through practical work in art, sets and costume. His international success began a long way from the film studios, with a Kiama childhood and family exposure to performance.
