Happy New Year, Australia | New Year's 2009 | News.com.au
Happy New Year, Australia
January 01, 2009 12:03am (Aussie time) or 4 am Indonesia time
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New Year's Eve, Sydney
All fired up ... Sydney Harbour turned on its usual spectacular fireworks show to welcome in the New Year.
AUSTRALIANS have seen in the New Year in a flurry of fireworks, hugs and popping champagne corks, focusing on fun rather than economic gloom.
Sydney again turned on a pyrotechnical display to dazzle the world as one of the first major global cities to celebrate the start of 2009.
The $5 million show, with the theme of Creation, was a storm of never-seen-before fireworks and effects including simulated lightning, thunder and rain above the iconic Harbour Bridge.
An estimated 1.5 million Sydneysiders and tourists flocked to the harbour foreshore to soak up the sounds and sights of 100,000 individual pyrotechnic effects.
Revellers stood awestruck as the smoke and smell of gunpowder from 5,000kg of explosives wafted across the water.
An emotional Emelia Arangio, 25, who has just moved to Australia from Argentina, said welcoming 2009 in Sydney was an amazing moment.
"I've heard a lot about it. I've read a lot about it, and I come from so very far away," she said at the fireworks lit up a clear Sydney night.
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