Editing Dame Edna Everage (section)

=== Honours ===
[[File:Dame Edna Place commons.jpg|thumb|upright|Dame Edna Place in Melbourne, marked by lit signs on each wall]]
On 7 March 2007, Melbourne renamed a city street in her honour: Dame Edna Place,<ref>{{cite news|title=Melbourne alley named after Dame Edna|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-03-07/melbourne-alley-named-after-dame-edna/2210862|access-date=24 September 2013|newspaper=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]|date=7 March 2007}}</ref> formerly Brown Alley off Little Collins Street, was officially opened by the [[Lord Mayor]] of Melbourne, [[John So]]. Dame Edna Place is opposite Royal Arcade and The Causeway, between the major roads, Elizabeth Street and Swanston Street; it was, until its renaming, a service alley for adjoining buildings. Dame Edna was not at the renaming ceremony but was represented by ten look-alike Dames. Everage Street in suburban [[Moonee Ponds]] has also been named in her honour.

In 1982, Dame Edna's alter-ego Barry Humphries was made an Officer of the [[Order of Australia]] for "services to the theatre"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869869|title=It's an Honour – Honours – Search Australian Honours|work=itsanhonour.gov.au|access-date=11 February 2015|archive-date=11 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174719/https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869869|url-status=live}}</ref> and on 16 June 2007 he was made a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] for services to entertainment.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21915846-2,00.html?from=public_rss News.com.au Dame Edna wins Queen's award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071102142523/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C21915846-2%2C00.html?from=public_rss |date=2 November 2007 }}.</ref>

In [[MAC Cosmetics]] 2008 Winter Line-Up, a Dame Edna collection of cosmetics were released including eye shadow, lipstick, powder, and nail polish.

A bronze statue was unveiled at [[Docklands, Victoria|Melbourne Docklands]] in January 2009. It is located by the Yarra river near Harbour Town which also includes statues of singer John Farnham, Dame Nellie Melba, and Graham Kennedy.

In 2020, a species of brightly iridescent Australian [[soldier fly]] was named ''[[Opaluma ednae]]'' in honour of the character, "whose signature hair has a striking resemblance to the colouration of this species." Other species described in the same article were named ''[[Opaluma rupaul|O. rupaul]]'' (after drag queen [[RuPaul]]) and ''O. [[wiktionary:fabulous|fabulosa]]''.<ref name=LW>{{cite journal |author1=Bryan D. Lessard |author2=David K. Yeates |author3=Norman E. Woodley |title=Opaluma Lessard & Woodley, gen. nov: a new genus of iridescent soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) from Australia, including seven new species |journal=[[Austral Entomology]] |date=August 2020 |volume=59 |issue=3 |pages=467–486 |doi=10.1111/aen.12485 |s2cid=221463567 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aen.12485 |access-date=16 September 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref>