About 28,500 headstones and monuments will be inspected to make sure they're not at risk of killing visitors, Wollongong City Council has said.

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Some older headstones and monuments, particularly some built mid-last century, may be at risk of toppling and hurting people.

Some headstones have been found to be "non-compliant to the current Australian standards", the council said - hardly surprsing given the relevant standard was published in 2019.

But no-one wants a situation where people go to a cemetery to pay their respects, only to end up in

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