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On ABC Radio Sydney Breakfast, Ruby Cornish shared her special limerick dedicated to this weekend’s Mardi Gras celebration: It’s a super-sized Mardi Gras year And Sydney has turned up the queer Oxford Street’s tailor-made For the rainbow parade That our alphabet friends commandeer And while we feel gay and warm-hearted Let’s remember the way it all started The first demonstrators Our 78-ers The difficult course that they charted Risking prison and sackings and violence They marched for their rig