AUSTRALIAN LEGENDS
This year's Australia Post Australian Legend is satirist and actor Barry Humphries AO. For more than SO years Humphries has exposed the national psyche with characters including "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone, cultural attache and improbable ambassador Sir Les Patterson, and internationally renowned Housewife Megastar Dame Edna Everage. This stamp issue also celebrates the half-century since Moonee Ponds housewife Mrs Norm Everage took her first tentative steps onto the stage at the University of Melbourne's Union Theatre on 19 December 1955 in the sketch "Olympic Hostess".
STAMP AND COVER DESIGN: Beth McKinlay, Australia Post Design Studio
STAMP PHOTOGRAPHS: the Arts Centre, Pe forming Arts Collection, Melbourne. Barry Humphries/ Dame Edna Everage Collection. Photograph Reg Wilson (Edna in 1969); the Arts Centre, Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne: John Timbers Photographic Archive (Edna in 1973, 1982); Greg Gorman (Edna in 2004, Barry Humphries).
COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Thos Robinson /Getty Images
The John Timbers Photographic Archive was donated to the Arts Centre, Performing Arts Collection by The Sidney Myer Fund in honour of Geoffrey Cohen, Trustee 1992-2003.
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