Australia rang in the New Year Sunday with a spectacular display of rainbow-coloured fireworks cascading from Sydney Harbour Bridge.
About 1.5 million people packed the city’s foreshore to watch the pyrotechnics light up the sky above the historic bridge and the iconic opera house, the first major celebrations worldwide after New Zealand.
Early fireworks — displayed a few hours before midnight for families with children — light up the sky next to Melbourne Cricket Ground (R) ahead of the main show at midnight, in Melbourne on December 31, 2017. Mal Fairclough / AFP
The “family fireworks”, displayed three hours before midnight every year ahead of the main show at midnight, fill the sky over the Opera House in Sydney on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2017. SAEED KHAN / AFP
Fireworks light up the sky from building rooftops along the Yarra River during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Melbourne early on January 1, 2018.
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