Hello possums! Dame Edna is a playful tribute to the iconic character Dame Edna Everage. Apparently Dame Edna Everage began life as Edna May Beazley in Wagga Wagga. Before her meteoric rise, she was Edna May Beazley, the daughter of Bruce and Gladys Beazley, who moved to Wagga from Melbourne as times were hard after World War I and “things weren’t so pricey in the bush”. “My earliest memories are of the country in the old township of Wagga Wagga … looking up through the flyproof net over my bassinette,” Edna recalled in her 1989 autobiography My Gorgeous Life. https://regionriverina.com.au/riverina-rewind-the-forgotten-wagga-origins-of-a-wisteria-hued-megastar/62547/