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New Year's Eve Celelebrations

Welcome To The New Year Fireworks

Episode 1

Join hosts Eddie McGuire and Tracy Grimshaw for millennium celebrations from Australia and around the world.

Millennium Live

The New Millennium Arrives In Victoria, NSW, Tasmania and ACT

Welcome 2000 South Australia

Happy New Century Queeensland

Northern Territory Welcomes The New Year

The New Year in Western Australia

The New Dawn in Australia

New Year's Eve 2000

Welcome to 2001: Sydney Harbour Fireworks

Hosted by Richard Wilkins.  From the Sydney Opera House, with roving reporter Natalie Gruzlewski.

New Year's Eve 2004

Midnight Fireworks

Hosts Gretel Kileen and Daniel MacPherson on Sydney Harbour for pre-midnight family fireworks and performances from some of Australia's hottest acts.

Family Fireworks

Join hosts Cameron Williams and Alicia Gorey for the pre-midnight family fireworks.

Stephanie Brantz and Lawrence Mooney present coverage of New Year's Eve celebrations from Sydney Harbour

New Year's Eve: Welcome

Stephanie Brantz and Lawrence Mooney present coverage of the pre-midnight family fireworks from Sydney Harbour

Stephanie Brantz and Lawrence Mooney present continued coverage of New Year's Eve celebrations.

Celebrations

ABC's annual New Year's Eve concert and fireworks celebration. NYE25 hosts Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe live from Sydney Opera House's Northern Broardwalk, overlooking Sydney Harbour.

Welcome to NYE

Stunning animations inspired by connection, memory and renewal will be projected onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge, illuminating the 9pm Calling Country fireworks in vibrant colors.

Calling Country Fireworks

Front row seat to ABC's NYE25 Concert, led by Melanie C, Matt Corby, The Cat Empire, Peach PRC, Marcia Hines, Casey Donovan, and more.

Live Concert from the Sydney Opera House

Celebrate New Year's countdown with music from Melanie C, Matt Corby, The Cat Empire, Peach PRC, Marcia Hines, Casey Donovan, and Don West. Hosted by Charlie Pickering and Zan Rowe.

Countdown to Midnight

At midnight, the world-famous fireworks display will light up Sydney's Harbour Bridge, Opera House and surrounds, signalling the end of 2025, and a new beginning for 2026.

After the concert and fireworks, NYE25 coverage concludes with a new take on the tradition of Auld Lang Syne, welcoming in a new beginning for the start of 2026.

Auld Lang Syne

Sydney New Year's Eve is an annual multi-tiered event held every New Year's Eve over Sydney Harbour, centering on the Harbour Bridge. Its main features are two pyrotechnic displays, the 9pm Family Fireworks and the Midnight Fireworks, both of which are televised nationally with the latter also televised around the world.

Each year the event takes on a new theme and is regularly viewed by more than one million people at the harbour and one billion worldwide for the televised Midnight Fireworks. For the 2010–11 event, an audience of 1.5 million watched the display at the river bank and 1.1 billion are reported to have watched it globally.

All Episodes of Sydney New Year's Eve

Season 1

New Year's Eve Celelebrations

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/31/1996

Welcome To The New Year Fireworks

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/31/1996