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Happy New Year Australia!!!
New South Wales and Victoria have rung in the new year, with hundreds of thousands of revellers gathering on the shores of Sydney Harbour and the Yarra to celebrate the midnight fireworks.
Here’s where we’ll leave our coverage of Australia’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. Thanks so much for joining us for what was a fabulous night of spectacles in Sydney and Melbourne.
In the coming hours, the rest of Australia and eventually the rest world will welcome the new year.
To follow along as revellers ring in 2025 around the globe, we’ve got a dedicated story that will update with each celebration here.
It was a big day out in Sydney for those who gathered along the harbour for a view of the fireworks, but it would have been well worth it for the potentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the world-famous display.
Flick through our gallery below to see how our photographers captured the day.
New Year’s Eve revellers in Melbourne can get a free ride home from celebrations on public transport, before paid fares kick in again at 6am.
Southern Cross and Flinders Street stations are open all night, while stations at Parliament, Melbourne Central and Flagstaff in the city will be open until 3am.
Trams are also running.
People in Melbourne are advised to use the public transport available, given it’s hard for taxis and rideshare services to get into the city right now with so many road closures.
Sydney revellers are also advised to take public transport, with many extra services running.
That includes metro services, running every four to five minutes through to 2am (and every 10 minutes thereafter), and trains, with frequent services until the morning.
Some buses terminate at Central Station in Sydney between 11pm and 4am on New Year’s Day, and buses will not travel on the Harbour Bridge until after 1.30am.
The Sydney fireworks have just wrapped up, so here’s a little reminder of some of the stats behind another glorious 12-minute-long New Year’s display.
Nine tonnes of fireworks were set off in the $6.3 million display. For the first time, the show featured fireworks exploding from drones midair as well as from the western side of the Harbour Bridge.
The display was set to a soundtrack composed by Australian musician Luna Pan, and saw 53,500 fireworks set off around the harbour, including from the top of the Sydney Opera House and CBD skyscrapers.
Wolter Peeters has delivered this year’s money shot: Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks as seen from Mrs Macquaries Chair.
Hundreds of thousands of revellers in Melbourne have rung in 2025 with an impressive rooftop fireworks display and laser show.
The spectacle was set to light up more than six square kilometres of the city across 27 skyscrapers, and was met with cheers and applause when the clock struck midnight.
The display is being set to a soundtrack produced in partnership with Nova 100.
The lasers shot high into the city’s skyline, darting green and blue colours off of Melbourne’s skyscrapers. The famed Flinders Street Station was lit up in flashing colours, complimenting the fireworks.
Happy New Year Australia!!!
New South Wales and Victoria have rung in the new year, with hundreds of thousands of revellers gathering on the shores of Sydney Harbour and the Yarra to celebrate the midnight fireworks.
There are only fifteen minutes left in 2024, as we kick off the countdown to the midnight fireworks.
Our photographers are in position in Melbourne and Sydney, and we’ll bring you the first pictures of the spectacle as soon as we have them.
As we near midnight, if you want to catch the fireworks on TV, here’s what you need to know.
ABC has the exclusive rights to the Sydney show, so you’ll have to switch on the national broadcaster if you want to see Australia’s most famous fireworks display.
The annual NYE broadcast has included performances from Casey Donovan, Fanning Dempsey National Park (the duo consisting of Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey), G Flip and headline act Robbie Williams.
Meanwhile, the Melbourne fireworks can be viewed on Nine in the official broadcast, which got underway at 11pm.
A handful of countries in the Pacific, including New Zealand, have already rung in 2025.
The first major fireworks display of the year takes place in Auckland, with an impressive display centred on the city’s Sky Tower.