Make a bid for this original Dame Edna dress to support the Reject Repoly campaign
This Barry Humphries/Dame Edna Great Barrier Reef inspired Dress or Fish Frock designed in 2011 by Kenneth Everett comes with certificate of release from Barry Humphries. Her dresses are greatly valued as demonstrated in the recent Christies auction. All Proceeds from the sale of the dress will be Generously donated to the ReJect RePoly campaign.
Among the star’s dresses up for sale at the Christie’s auction in London in February was a scarlet chiffon evening gown, worn by Humphries as Dame Edna at the Royal Variety Show in 2013, which fetched £21,420 ($A42,604).
The Fish Frock, which is open for bids closing on December 9 as part of a Kangaloon home contents auction, was purchased by former advertising exec and NSW Southern Highlands resident Linda Hopkins in 2011 and has been generously donated to raise funds to ReJect RePoly.
“This beautiful one-of-a-kind dress designed by my son Kenneth Everage was inspired by the Great Barrier Reef, where he often snorkels with his roommate Clifford Smale. It has a very daring hemline that flatters my famous legs.
“I never give away anything that I would not want to keep and it was a wrench to part with this exquisite garment.”
Dame Edna Everage 2011
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Help Fund the Fight: Reject RePoly’s Plastic Factory in the NSW Southern Highlands.
If approved, RePoly would become Australia’s largest plastics recycling and remanufacturing facility. It would operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, within the Sydney Water Catchment — a system that supplies drinking water to more than five million people.
The proposed site sits directly on riparian waterways that flow into the Wingecarribee River and Warragamba Dam. It is also located in a high-risk bushfire zone and there is no local hazardous-materials response capability.
Research into microplastic and nanoplastic contamination is rapidly expanding. Early findings — including the presence of degrading plastics in breast milk and human brain tissue — have already raised significant concerns. Industrial processes that generate micro- and nanoplastics present additional, unavoidable risks.
RePoly (formerly Plasrefine) is appealing the NSW Independent Planning Commission’s (IPC) decision to reject a massive plastic processing factory in the NSW Southern Highlands — a proposal that the IPC refused in January this year.
Sam Wood, the chairperson of Southern Highlands Matters, has formally registered as a Respondent in the appeal, meaning they are now represented as a legal party to the proceedings and will be represented in Court.
But legal action is expensive. They need to raise around $180,000 to fund senior legal counsel, expert witnesses and coordination of the full legal process.
If you’re not interested in the Dame Edna Dress but would still like to support the cause donate to ReJect RePoly’s GodFundMe page.