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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Caitlin Cassidy

Barry Humphries honoured in king’s birthday list as prizes achieve gender parity in 50-year first

Composite image featuring (L-R) King's birthday honours recipients Judith Lucy, Barry Humphries and Clover Moore
Comedian Judith Lucy, the late Barry Humphries, and Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore were among the recipients of the king’s birthday honours. Composite: The Guardian / EPA

The late Barry Humphries has been awarded the highest accolade in the king’s birthday honours list, as the prizes achieve gender parity for the first time in their five-decade history.

Humphries was one of six Australians to be made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), alongside the former premier of Western Australia Colin Barnett, Parkinson’s researcher Glenda Margaret Halliday and the former Labor minister Jenny Macklin.

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