The theme for the Mardi Gras is Looking forward Looking Back from the Slim Dusty song. Looking back to the origins of the game, what has, is and the future of AFL.

Have and will ask for more information from AFL to help with float information.

Some ideas :

• Aborigines (with paint?) with the origins of the game coming from them. The name they called it ?
• 2 Cricketers in whites with a game designed to keep cricketers fit. (placard, A game to keep us fit.)
• Early VFL teams on placards. Champion VFL players/ brownlow winners names on placards.
• Theme songs from the clubs/ one day in September / up their cazaly etc playing.
• Next generation & auskick posters & info. Red tops of the auskick people. School teachers. Letter to all auskick kids asking to join in? or school newsletters.
• Umpires in their strip. Field, boundary & goal umpires.
• Pickerings & Southern cross banners. Major sponsors.
• Web site placards, club placards.
• Victoria to Australia / Australia to the world / world to the universe
• Countries that play afl on placards.
• New oval info
• Kangaroos & lions info being QLD. What about mascots from the clubs.
• 40 years of Mount Isa AFL.
• Have everybody in a jumper.
• footies / packs to give away ?
• Mums & sisters in the action too(family)
• Couch / chairs, esky & TV with people watching footy on tele ?
• Placards of for the future teams
• Mars roos V Jupiter swans
• Moon bombers V Satan hawks
• venues Lions v Uranus Demons
• A score board. use our scoreboard names.
• blow up afl footy or pvc goal posts in buckets of sand.
• Spot lights & colored lights? generator? streamers to throw out.

• NI TRANS offered his semi low loader, What is the satin truck Maddo?
• Anything else ideas, leads? Cardboard supplier / paint for placards.