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

The late performer was remembered for eminent service to the arts' and is one of six Australians to be made a Companion of the Order of Australia

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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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