Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks are world famous and midnight comes earlier to Sydney than almost any other major international city, so the cameras from around the world are focusing on Sydney Harbour as its fireworks display starts.
Each year a new theme is chosen, with the event being first televised on 31 December 1995.
More than a million people gather around Sydney Harbour to ring in the New Year. The fireworks centre on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, exploding off the arches, catwalk and roadway, including the Opera House, nearby city buildings and up to eight barges evenly divided on each side of the bridge.
Its main events are two pyrotechnic displays: The 9PM Family Fireworks and the Midnight Fireworks, both of which are televised nationally, with the more popular Midnight Fireworks televised globally, with a reported 1.2 billion people watching.