Her acting work includes iconic Australian TV shows A Country Practice as a guest actor, and a two year stint on Home and Away as Kylie Burton.
[citation needed] Oades has been described as one of Australia’s leading documentary theatremakers,[1][3] noted particularly for her work pioneering headphone verbatim techniques[4][5][6][7] where actors near simultaneously speak the recorded words of real people as they listen to them.
[8] The development of her headphone theatre techniques started from observing them as a drama exercise in a workshop run by director Mark Wing-Davey.
[1] Her audio-scripted performance work Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday received the Green Room Award for outstanding writing for the Australian Stage and in 2019 Oades received a special Green Room Award for Technical Achievement in theatre.
[12] Three of her works have been published as a compilation titled Acts of Courage by Currency Press, including Stories of Love and Hate (made in response to Cronulla riots through interviews with 65 people over a two-year period)[1] Fast Cars and Tractor Engines and I'm Your Man[13]