Australia welcomed in 2025 with fireworks superview – See pictures

Its inhabitants and thousands of tourists said good-bye today (31.12.2024) as early as 2024, welcoming the new year with a fireworks super spectacle in festive events in many cities of the country. More than a million people rushed to the Sydney Harbor coast in Australia, while hundreds of thousands more on the banks of the Yara River in Melbourne to attend New Year’s events that continued after the change of year. CORVERSE In the “first-year capital of the world”, attendees changed time (pp. 3:00 noon Greek time), with nine tons of fireworks lighting the sky over the opera and port, both from the east and the west side of the famous Sydney Bridge. In one of the countries first receiving the new year, many Australians declare relieved to say goodbye in 2024. “There are of course many wars and unrest in many places,” 32-year-old Stuart Edwards, working in the insurance sector, told the French Agency. “It would be good for the world if things were settled by themselves”. CORVERSE Many were foreign tourists who traveled to the city for the holidays and the change of time. As a child, Meg Brown watched in awe from her home in Britain the television coverage of Sydney’s fireworks. The images coming from across the world seemed “magic” to Brown, who had promised herself sometime the city for New Year’s. At 28, Brown did her dream this year. “It’s one of the things on my wish list,” Brown told the Australian news agency. “In Britain, Sydney fireworks are always news, it’s one of the first places to bring the new year”. Fireworks of technology launched from 27 points in Melbourne gave a show marking the change of year for over 500,000 people celebrating on the streets. About 80,000 fireworks lit the sky and the city of Brisbane, while in Perth and Adelaide, tens of thousands of people were there to celebrate with fireworks and live music. Lanceston combined New Year’s events with the city’s annual beer festival.