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RIP Barry Humphries

23 April 2023

2:15 AM

23 April 2023

2:15 AM

It was not just Barry Humphries who died on Saturday.

It was that towering skewerer of pomposity and humbug, and gate-crasher of Royal boxes, Dame Edna Everage. It was Australia’s roving cultural attaché and Australian Minister for the Yartz, Sir Les Patterson. It was pathetic Melbourne suburban pensioner, Sandy Stone. It was colonial hellraiser Barry McKenzie. It

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