Australia news live: rental vacancy rate hits new low; ‘drizzling rain’ blamed for pole top fires that leave 30,000 without power in WA | Australia news

Australia’s vacancy rate has reached a new record low of 0.7%, Domain’s February rate report has revealed.

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However there’s a slight alleviation in tenant competition as the average views per rental listing declined in February and continues to remain lower compared to previous years.

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Domain’s chief of research and economics, Dr Nicola Powell:

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While the vacancy rate hits a record low, it’s crucial to consider the bigger rental market picture. The number of prospective tenants per rental listing is easing, indicating falling competition between renters.

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This supports the trend of slowing rental growth, suggesting demand is pulling back. This could be an early indicator of an increase in vacancy rates sometime this year.

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There are a number of first-home incentives across the states and the prospects of the hotly discussed Help to Buy scheme. We’ve seen more first-home buyers entering the market.

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This trend will likely accelerate with the introduction of new incentives for first-time buyers, coupled with the possibility of interest rate cuts. This could translate to reduced demand in the rental market and an increase in available rental properties for tenants.

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More than 30,000 customers across Western Australia are currently without power.

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The Western Power outage map shows widespread outages, affecting thousands of customers in south-west parts of the state, including Perth’s northern suburbs.

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The largest outage is affecting more than 5,000 customers across the City of Joondalup and further north in Caraban, Eglinton, Yanchep, Guilderton, Two Rocks, Wilbinga, Muckenburra, Neergabby, Carabooda, Woodridge, Gabbadah and Yeal.

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Western Power has not listed a cause of the outage on its map, but we have contacted them for more information and will bring you the latest as soon as we can.

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More than 100 pieces of correspondence to the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, sent in the week the ABC pulled journalist Antoinette Lattouf off air, were blocked from release to Guardian Australia last week.

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In the week before Christmas, Lattouf was taken off her final two fill-in shifts on ABC Sydney for posting a Human Rights Watch story on her personal Instagram account.

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Guardian Australia sought access to communications to Rowland’s office in the week Lattouf was on air, related to Lattouf or the ABC’s coverage of the Israel war in Gaza.

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It came after WhatsApp group chats revealed a coordinated campaign to the ABC and the minister’s office regarding the war coverage and Lattouf.

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On Friday, the minister’s office refused to release the 102 pieces of correspondence received by her office in that week under freedom of information laws due to the claim it would “result in a real, significant or material possibility of prejudice to the impartial adjudication” of the Fair Work Commission case brought by Lattouf against the ABC.

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A similar FOI request with the ABC is ongoing.

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Asked about another major event in Australia this week, the Asean leaders’ summit in Melbourne, Albanese said he wouldn’t be partaking in what’s become a bit of a local tradition.

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I can assure you that there’ll be no shoeys at Asean.

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ABC host Craig Reucassel had asked about Kylie Minogue doing a shoey at the Brit Awards over the weekend.

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Albanese replied:

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People who know me will be having a chuckle at even the question, the idea that I would ever do a shoey. I’m far too neat and far too clean, it’s something that I would never do. I think it’s a bit weird myself.

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I am not judgmental about it, mind you.

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Here’s Our Kylie, doing us proud:

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Anthony Albanese said “we should” have truth in political advertising laws. But when ABC radio host Craig Reucassel bluntly pointed out “well you’re in charge of it”, Albanese said they were difficult issues to manage.

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The PM went on the ABC this morning after the Dunkley by-election result on Saturday, where Labor retained the Melbourne seat. He said the result was “reassuring” for the government. Some Labor people maintain the result, where the Liberals picked up a 3% swing but fell well short of winning the seat, means the government needs to do even more on cost of living issues, especially in suburban seats where mortgage and inflation pressures are still hurting many voters.

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But when asked what message he took from the result, Albanese said the message he saw was “that Jodie Belyea will take Peta Murphy’s spot as the member for Dunkley.”

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Which, you’d have to say, is more of an indisputable fact rather than a message. Albanese said:

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We will work each and every day to make a difference for people. We know people have been under cost of living pressure.

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Asked about the result, he said the Liberals benefited from an absence of the “far-right sort of parties” in United Australia and One Nation, which didn’t contest the election. He went on to criticise the opposition and the Advance conservative lobby group, which strongly campaigned against Labor.

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The Liberal party under Peter Dutton, the lesson that they’ve taken from the last election is to become more conservative and more rightwing. And we saw in the lead up to the byelection just a whole series of fear campaigns being run.

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And being run as well by Advance, this rightwing group that work hand-in-hand with the Liberal party, spent over a quarter of a million dollars on ads that were pretty disgusting, some of them. I don’t want to see Australia going down that polarised road that we see United States politics going in. But we did see that with some of the advertising and some of the misinformation that was there in that campaign.

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Asked about truth in advertising laws, which the government has talked about but not made substantive moves to implement, Albanese replied: “I think we should.”

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When host Reucassel pointed out that Albanese is indeed the prime minister of the country and leader of the government, Albanese said they were tricky reforms.

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The difficulty is how you deliver it. The people who are putting the ads in, for example Advance, aren’t politicians, they’re not a political party.

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These things are not easy to achieve. We’re examining, and there’s been various committees look at, how you might achieve that. But it is difficult because some people will argue what the facts are essentially during a political campaign.

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The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has been making the breakfast TV rounds this morning and commented on the independent inquiry into NSW police policies and procedures, following the killing of Luke Davies and Jesse Baird allegedly by a serving police officer.

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He told Nine’s Today Show:

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… we know change needs to be made. I feel so desperately sorry for the family and friends of Luke and Jesse.

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Asked if he would back calls for police-issued weapons to be installed with GPS trackers, Minns said he would consider all recommendations from the review.

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He told Seven’s Sunrise:

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I have to examine how ubiquitous those GPS trackers are on police equipment, whether they’re available in every police car or on every police officer.

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We will look at [the recommendations] really closely.

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– with AAP

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80% of people on low incomes report becoming severely unwell because of heatwaves, including more than 90% of First Nations communities, according to new research from the Australian Council of Social Service.

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Acoss CEO Cassandra Goldie told ABC News Breakfast around 15% of those people are seeking medical attention and dealing with severe health impacts.

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Overall, heatwaves are actually 80% of extreme weather hospitalisations, not floods … It’s very serious, and it’s particularly affecting people on lower incomes.

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Many people on lower incomes live in areas that are hotter already – sometimes up to 2% hotter than more wealthy areas where you live – and then if you’re a renter, you don’t have the same control over your property, and so we really need now these minimum energy efficiency standards brought in across rental properties, so that they are of good standard and the low-cost financing for landlords to do the retrofitting – that energy efficiency, solar panels, and electrification.

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We’re nowhere near where we should be at this time.

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The research involved a survey of 1,007 people across Australia, conducted by Acoss in partnership with First Nations Clean Energy Network.

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Chris Minns, said it is “a bit strange” that he was the first NSW premier to march in the Mardi Gras parade at the weekend, “given that it [has been] a fixture on the calendar for decades”.

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Speaking to ABC News Breakfast, Minns said a pro-Palestine protest that took place during the march on Saturday “wasn’t too much of a big deal on the night”.

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Look, a lot has been made of it, but to be honest, it wasn’t too much of a big deal on the night. I mean, there was some coloured flares that went off, and I said yesterday, I thought that that was actually part of Mardi Gras. So I don’t think that it disrupted me or the march too much. A little bit of protest at Mardi Gras is probably pretty standard, so not the end of the world.

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The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is due to meet the Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Melbourne today on the first day of a three-day special Asean summit.

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Australia is not a member of Asean – the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – but the special summit marks 50 years since Australia became the regional grouping’s first dialogue partner. Timor-Leste, which wants to become an Asean member, will also attend the summit.

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There are a range of bilateral meetings planned while leaders are in Australia. Albanese has previously said Anwar would be honoured as a guest of government today.

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Albanese said in a statement issued in advance of the three-day summit:

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Australia sees Asean at the centre of a stable, peaceful, and prosperous region. Strengthening our relationship ensures our shared future prosperity and security.

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The Australian government is pressing ahead with planning for a possible visit by King Charles later this year.

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The idea doesn’t come out of the blue: it was previously reported that King Charles might visit Australia and New Zealand in October 2024. But those plans were placed in doubt last month when Buckingham Palace revealed Charles had begun regular treatment for cancer.

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In a statement issued overnight, Anthony Albanese said his government was in talks with the states and territories “on options for a possible royal visit”. The prime minister said:

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Australia is preparing for a possible visit from His Majesty The King to Australia later this year.

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The King has shown his compassion for Australians affected by recent natural disasters, just as Australians have shown compassion and support for the King following his cancer diagnosis.

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The King, Queen and members of the Royal Family are always welcome in Australia.

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Charles last visited Australia in 2018, when he was the Prince of Wales, to open the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

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And happy Monday – welcome to a new week on the Australia news liveblog. I’m Emily Wind, and I’ll be taking you through our rolling coverage today.

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But first, here are some of the biggest stories from overnight: the Australian government is moving ahead with plans for a potential visit by King Charles later this year, despite the King’s cancer diagnosis. The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said his government was in talks with the states and territories “on options for a possible royal visit”.

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Meanwhile, Albanese is due to meet the Malaysian prime minister, Anwar Ibrahim, in Melbourne today on the first day of a three-day special Asean summit. We will have more on both these stories from Daniel Hurst in a moment.

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Firefighters are battling two separate blazes – one at Port Latta in Tasmania’s north-west, and one at Arrowsmith in midwest Western Australia. The fire at Port Latta was within containment lines but crews remained on site overnight due to the risk of spot fires, and in WA, an emergency warning was downgraded to a watch and act last night after a change in wind direction. More on these from AAP shortly.

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See something that needs attention? You can get in touch via X, @emilywindwrites, or send me an email: emily.wind@theguardian.com.

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Let’s get started.

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Key events

Peter Hannam

Talk of recession may loom this week

Continuing on from our last post, and two other numbers out today weren’t very positive, either.

To ease the housing squeeze, we could do with a lot more building. Unfortunately, the number of new dwellings retreated 1% in January, and while better than the 10.1% revised drop in December, economists had been predicting a 4% month-on-month uptick.

For private houses, approvals slid 9.9%, and have been in retreat for four months in a row in trend terms.

New South Wales led the retreat, with total dwelling approvals down 14.9% with Victoria’s down almost 10%. In the other direction, Queensland somehow pulled out a 31.8% rise and WA 11.4%.

Also on the weak side were job advertisements, which declined 2.8% in February, according to the ANZ-Indeed survey. The drop, though, was after January’s figures were revised higher, to a 3.4% gain.

As the ANZ said, the downward movement in job ads “suggests there is scope for the unemployment rate to rise further, as do recent changes in labour market flows”.

All up, it looks like we might hear a lot about “recession” this week, setting up debate about how soon the Reserve Bank will be cutting interest rates. The RBA board meets on 18-19 March, and presumably won’t be wasting a lot of time talking about lifting interest rates again.

Peter Hannam

Latest economic numbers underscore weakness ahead of December quarter GDP

On Wednesday, we’ll get December quarter GDP figures and it’s not out of the question we could get a negative result, at least in quarter-on-quarter terms.

CBA, for instance, was predicting GDP would come in at 0.2% growth for the quarter and 1.4% compared with a year earlier. Those forecasts, though, were before a couple of December quarter stats dropped from the ABS.

Inventories held by companies sank 1.7%, the ABS said, compared with economists’ consensus of a flat result. This drop will shave off some of that 0.2% tally.

Gross operating profits, though, were more promising. They rose 7.4%, or a lot higher than the 1.1% rise expected. (This figure seems to jump around a bit – profits sank 11.5% in the June quarter.)

Balance of payments figures are out tomorrow from the ABS which will fill in more of the GDP components. Still on the inventory numbers at least, a few quills will be sharpened today to lower GDP forecasts. (Mind you, on a per capita basis, GDP has been in retreat for a few quarters already once you take out population growth.)

A video has been released of the moment two men were rescued from Mount Bogong yesterday:

The duo called emergency services for a welfare check on Saturday evening and spent the night on Mount Bogong. They had enough supplies for the evening, so a plan was made to rescue the pair on Sunday morning.

The 63-year-old and 71-year-old men were winched to safety by Air Wing officers about 9.30am. Both were checked by paramedics but did not require treatment.

Housing vacancy rate hits new record low of 0.7%, increase predicted later this year

Cait Kelly

Australia’s vacancy rate has reached a new record low of 0.7%, Domain’s February rate report has revealed.

However there’s a slight alleviation in tenant competition as the average views per rental listing declined in February and continues to remain lower compared to previous years.

Domain’s chief of research and economics, Dr Nicola Powell:

While the vacancy rate hits a record low, it’s crucial to consider the bigger rental market picture. The number of prospective tenants per rental listing is easing, indicating falling competition between renters.

This supports the trend of slowing rental growth, suggesting demand is pulling back. This could be an early indicator of an increase in vacancy rates sometime this year.

There are a number of first-home incentives across the states and the prospects of the hotly discussed Help to Buy scheme. We’ve seen more first-home buyers entering the market.

This trend will likely accelerate with the introduction of new incentives for first-time buyers, coupled with the possibility of interest rate cuts. This could translate to reduced demand in the rental market and an increase in available rental properties for tenants.

Jack Snape

A-Leagues investigating allegations of heavy-handed police behaviour at weekend matches in Sydney and Brisbane

Two allegations of heavy-handed policing at football matches over the weekend are being investigated by the operator of the A-League Mens competition.

Australian Professional Leagues issued a statement on X this morning saying the organisation will be seeking information from clubs, venues, police and fans as part of a review.

Creating a safe and enjoyable environment both inside and outside our venues for all fans, stakeholders and staff is our number one priority.

Many of Western Sydney Wanderers’ so-called “active” fans left Saturday night’s Sydney derby in protest of behaviour by police, and a video on social media was posted on Sunday showing police officers arguing with and pushing Brisbane Roar fans.

A NSW Police statement said its response was part of a “high-visibility policing operation”. 14 people were ejected from Saturday’s match and two people were issued infringement notices, “one for offensive behaviour and a second for igniting a flare just before full time”.

A QPS spokesperson said police were “mostly satisfied with crowd behaviour” at Sunday’s match. Two people were issued with move on directions following “alleged anti-social behaviour” and a 16-year-old was arrested for “disorderly behaviour” after allegedly igniting a flare.

Communications minister blocks release of correspondence relating to Gaza coverage and Antoinette Lattouf

Josh Taylor

More than 100 pieces of correspondence to the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, sent in the week the ABC pulled journalist Antoinette Lattouf off air, were blocked from release to Guardian Australia last week.

In the week before Christmas, Lattouf was taken off her final two fill-in shifts on ABC Sydney for posting a Human Rights Watch story on her personal Instagram account.

Guardian Australia sought access to communications to Rowland’s office in the week Lattouf was on air, related to Lattouf or the ABC’s coverage of the Israel war in Gaza.

It came after WhatsApp group chats revealed a coordinated campaign to the ABC and the minister’s office regarding the war coverage and Lattouf.

On Friday, the minister’s office refused to release the 102 pieces of correspondence received by her office in that week under freedom of information laws due to the claim it would “result in a real, significant or material possibility of prejudice to the impartial adjudication” of the Fair Work Commission case brought by Lattouf against the ABC.

A similar FOI request with the ABC is ongoing.

Peter Hannam

Aukus and F-35 fighter costs are known, but why not a ‘weather bureau’ IT upgrade?

Back in 2015, the Bureau of Meteorology was apparently hacked, prompting a major overhaul of its IT system that was labelled Robust.

As we reported last August, there have been mounting costs and delays to the program, which should have been up and running by June 2023. There’s already a new supercomputer, Australis 2, becoming less new as it waits for the all-clear.

At the time, there were internal concerns about the pace of the program, including the widespread use of outside consultants, and whether critical services the BoM provides might be compromised as funds and staff get diverted to make Robust, well, live up to its name.

Senators haven’t been very impressed by the answers they’ve been getting, particularly about the cost of the program. As we report today, BoM chief Andrew Johnson provided details to staff in a video presentation of Australia Day awards – numbers senators Barbara Pocock and Jonathon Duniam have been keen to know:

As Pocock says, there had been rumours the project would cost up to $1bn but the number was considered inappropriate for a public airing.

“Why on earth can’t we find out how much an IT project at the weather bureau will cost?” After all, we know what Aukus submarines and F-35 fighter aircraft are supposed to cost (before those sums are inevitably inflated).

It’s a fair guess the next senate estimates will be asking for a few more things from BoM, including making that video public.

And, indeed, how soon Robust and Australis 2 will be fully operational. The latest update is in “calendar 2024”, Johnson told estimates last week.

Albanese confirms: no shoeys at Asean summit

Josh Butler

Asked about another major event in Australia this week, the Asean leaders’ summit in Melbourne, Albanese said he wouldn’t be partaking in what’s become a bit of a local tradition.

I can assure you that there’ll be no shoeys at Asean.

ABC host Craig Reucassel had asked about Kylie Minogue doing a shoey at the Brit Awards over the weekend.

Albanese replied:

People who know me will be having a chuckle at even the question, the idea that I would ever do a shoey. I’m far too neat and far too clean, it’s something that I would never do. I think it’s a bit weird myself.

I am not judgmental about it, mind you.

Here’s Our Kylie, doing us proud:

Josh Butler

Palestine solidarity protest at Mardi Gras ‘unfortunate’, Albanese says

Anthony Albanese said it was “unfortunate” that some attenders at Saturday’s Mardi Gras protested near the float holding the NSW premier, Chris Minns.

NSW police said they’d charged several people over the protest, where some attendees jumped the fence with a flare and a banner reading “queer solidarity with Palestinian resistance”.

Albanese said:

It’s unfortunate, I think, that some people jump the fence to protest about something that isn’t related at all to what Mardi Gras about, which is a fantastic message about inclusiveness and people participating and people being valued for who they are.

And I’m sure that it was a good thing that Mardi Gras had Chris Minns, the premier, the first premier to march at Mardi Gras.