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As Barry Humphries announces Dame Edna Everage's retirement with a final Eat, Pray, Laugh! UK tour, including a run at London's Palladium, we reflect on our top 5 Dame Edna career highlights as we prepare to say - Goodbye Possum!

The legendary entertainer Barry Humphries and his well-known alter-egos — inebriated cultural attaché the Honorable Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and irrepressible Dame Edna Everage — will bid adieu to their London fans at the iconic London Palladium with a farewell tour Eat, Pray, Laugh!.

She's not shy but she is retiring, and Dame Edna Everage has similar advice for how Julia Gillard might boost her popularity: "Retirement, I'm afraid."

When Dame Edna graces the London stage in the pantomime production of Dick Whittington, it’s not just the Aussies in the audience who swoon. TIM MARTIN found out that the Brits are actually quite fond of the ‘housewife from Melbourne’ too and she’s right at home in panto.

INTERVIEW | With a career spanning more than half a century, BARRY HUMPHRIES has been a godfather-like figure in the Australian entertainment scene, with his work leaving an undeniable impact on theatregoers, critics and fans the world over. KIEL EGGING sits down with the veteran entertainer to discover why some ...

BLOG & REVIEW: Oz is well represented as usual at Edinburgh (or 'Embra', as we like to say), but there is a whole venue at Summerhall in the south of the city showcased as 'Made in Adelaide'. Our Aussie culture vulture paid a visit.

London hosts a swag full of Australia Day events for happy little Vegemites of every persuasion. Here’s your tip-top choices.

Linguistic experts believe Britons are turning up their noses at typical Australian slang like barbies, tinnies and sunnies.

From WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to Australia's answer to Justin Bieber, Australian Times got it straight from the horse's mouth in 2013. Here are this year's Top 10 interviews.

The Sunday session is an Aussie tradition worth adhering to at Sunday in the Apartment, where emerging artists take centre stage. For Australia Day 2014 a special Sunday in Australia House event will take place, including a number of special guests.

REVIEW | Eat, Pray, Laugh! Barry Humphries Farwell Tour at the London Palladium is probably the furthest thing from a stage version of the best-selling novel Eat, Pray, Love.

MUSIC FROM THE MOTHERLAND | Kimbra now top of the pops, Jet landing low and some milestones for our Aussie icons.

An Australian's time spent in the UK can be filled with any number of traditionally English experiences. But one is both easily experienced and a truly English cultural experience, going to see a pantomime.