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| New Year's Eve celebrations - live | New Year's Eve celebrations - live |
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| 1.03pm GMT13:03 | |
| Melbourne and Sydney have welcomed 2016 with lavish firework displays. | |
| Around 1.6 million people are celebrating the new year in Sydney harbour. | |
| Updated at 1.13pm GMT | |
| 12.23pm GMT12:23 | 12.23pm GMT12:23 |
| New Year celebrations have begun around the world with the Pacific islands of Samoa and Kiribati the first to usher in 2016. | New Year celebrations have begun around the world with the Pacific islands of Samoa and Kiribati the first to usher in 2016. |
| Samoa used to be one of the last countries to greet the new year until 2011 when the date line was shifted to the east of the island and it became one of the first. | Samoa used to be one of the last countries to greet the new year until 2011 when the date line was shifted to the east of the island and it became one of the first. |
| New Zealand welcomed the new year an hour later with revellers in Australia enjoying New Year’s Eve fireworks as the countdown to midnight draws closer. | New Zealand welcomed the new year an hour later with revellers in Australia enjoying New Year’s Eve fireworks as the countdown to midnight draws closer. |
| HAPPY 2016... New Zealand! #NYE from #RVA @CBS6 @KristenLuehrs @NikkiDeeRay pic.twitter.com/pideFzmq3P | |
| Updated at 1.06pm GMT | |
| 12.22pm GMT12:22 | 12.22pm GMT12:22 |
| More than 1 million are expected to gather in Sydney to enjoy a display featuring a multicoloured firework “waterfall” cascading off the Harbour Bridge and pyrotechnic effects in the shapes of butterflies, octopuses and flowers. | More than 1 million are expected to gather in Sydney to enjoy a display featuring a multicoloured firework “waterfall” cascading off the Harbour Bridge and pyrotechnic effects in the shapes of butterflies, octopuses and flowers. |
| While in Melbourne, the country’s second-largest city, people are expected to gather by the hundreds of thousands despite blistering temperatures to watch nearly 11 tonnes of fireworks light up the sky. | While in Melbourne, the country’s second-largest city, people are expected to gather by the hundreds of thousands despite blistering temperatures to watch nearly 11 tonnes of fireworks light up the sky. |
| Updated at 12.23pm GMT | Updated at 12.23pm GMT |