More than 1m people flock to Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks spectacular

Nine tonnes of fireworks set off around the harbour, but parts of Queensland again hit by heavy rain and flooding

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Australians have bid farewell to 2024, ringing in the new year with one world-famous" fireworks display and many others not so famous.

More than a million people rushed to the shores of the Sydney Harbour and hundreds of thousands more to the banks of the Yarra River in Melbourne to watch the midnight displays.