Media
For media enquiries
News, information and images.
For New Year’s Eve media enquiries:
Elaine Kelly
NYE Senior Media Manager
+61 477 362 550
ekelly@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au
Images
The City will distribute images following the 9pm Calling Country display and the midnight fireworks.
The City of Sydney holds the copyright to this content and provides access to this publicly distributed content for editorial purposes only.
No archiving, commercial use or third-party distribution of the image is permitted without prior written consent from the City of Sydney.
When using content for editorial purposes, you must include the following image credit adjacent to the content: “Photographer’s Name/City of Sydney”
Media accreditation
The 2023 Sydney New Year’s Eve TV broadcast partner is the ABC and the official radio partner is KIIS 1065.
The City of Sydney can provide images and a video feed but, as with previous years, there will be no access or accreditation permitted for other broadcast media within the City of Sydney local government area.
Photographers and media wishing to film from other locations outside the City of Sydney local government area will need to contact the relevant land owners directly.
Find out more about fireworks vantage points and their relevant land owners.
Downloads
NYE highlights reel, images and fact sheets .
News access document
ABC NYE23 - Broadcast News Access Document . (PDF 96.4MB)
Media releases
Crowds head to the harbour to welcome 2024
Vivid pylon projections, a special appearance from Bluey and a series of stunning fireworks wowed people around harbour as they celebrated the start of 2024.
Sydney set to go global with NYE spectacular
Sydney will light up in all its glory tonight with fireworks lighting the Harbour Bridge from shore to shore and pyrotechnics spanning 6 kilometres across the harbour.
Sydney ready to ignite NYE spectacular
The team behind one of the world’s largest and most technically advanced fireworks displays is putting the final touches on the Sydney New Year’s Eve celebrations, ready to entertain hundreds of millions of people around the foreshore and globe.
Sydney front and centre of the global New Year’s Eve stage
The countdown has begun for one of the world’s grandest and most memorable nights of the year – Sydney New Year’s Eve.
New Year’s Eve fireworks light up First Nations stories
The Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks will kick off with a mammoth celebration of First Nations culture that includes a very special smoking ceremony and the spectacular Calling Country 9pm fireworks.
Countdown to Sydney New Year’s Eve now on
Sydney New Year’s Eve celebrations are coming back with a bang, with free access to many vantage points around the harbour and ticketing scrapped for all City of Sydney sites.