![]() "He didn't like my attire, because I was wearing chaps, and I didn't have much on underneath."Īnd perhaps the costume wasn't his only objection. "My boss at the time didn't like what we did so we had a few words. One of the key organisers, Steven Norris, also happened to be a local policeman in the town, and he copped a bit of flack after the first parade in 2005. "So the Elliot Mardi Gras started from that."īut Australia's most remote mardi gras wasn't born without ruffling a few feathers. ![]() "And the drunker we got the more outlandish the ideas got. "There was a group of us sitting at the bar one night and we decided we needed a party to bring the whole town together. It began as a conversation between a couple of mates at a pub in the small town of Elliott, about 250 kilometres north of Tennant Creek.
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