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Speaker 1: Your city, Your News Now, Sydney's one oh one point

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Speaker 1: seven Wsfair.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, I'm Natasha Lee. The family of Barry Humphreys

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Speaker 2: is in talks with the Victorian government about a state

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Speaker 2: funeral for the much loved comedian, best known for playing

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Speaker 2: Dame Edna Everridge. The eighty nine year old passed away

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Speaker 2: in hospital in Sydney on Saturday following complications from hip surgery.

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Speaker 2: While it's also been revealed King Charles made a phone

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Speaker 2: call to Barry while he was in hospital.

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Speaker 3: The King did phone him while he was in hospital

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Speaker 3: for that operation. King sadly died and we know there's

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Speaker 3: always been a close affinity not just between the King

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Speaker 3: and Barry Humphries or his alter ego day Medna Everage,

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Speaker 3: but also the Queen and the Queen Mother were huge fans.

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Speaker 2: That's British broadcaster Camilla Tommeny on nine there, while British

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Speaker 2: actress Miriam Margolis has hit out at the Melbourne International

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Speaker 2: Comedy Festival, accusing it of mistreating the comedian in his

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Speaker 2: final years. The festival removed Humphrey's name from a key

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Speaker 2: award in twenty nineteen following comments he made about transgender people.

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Speaker 2: She's told the ABC, while she doesn't agree with some

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Speaker 2: of his views, he was treated poorlye oh dare they?

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Speaker 4: He'd had more talent in his little finger than they

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Speaker 4: did in their whole bodies, all of them. I'm outraged

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Speaker 4: by it and i want to speak up now to

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Speaker 4: support him, and I'm furious at the way he was

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Speaker 4: treated in Australia. I think it's disgraceful.