As one of the world’s first major New Year’s celebrations, Sydney’s fireworks display lit up the sky over Sydney Harbour as Australia’s biggest city ushered in the new decade with a spectacular burst of colour – as well as with an equally spectacular price tag.
As many as 1.5 million people crowded the foreshore to welcome in 2010 with a fireworks display that included 10,000 individual effects, part of the city’s five million dollar party. New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally described the celebrations as the “best show on Earth”, adding that as many as one billion people would watch the celebrations broadcast on television.
Around 4,500 kilograms of fireworks were set off from the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and four barges on the water, bathing the city in colour and light during the 12-minute show. Organisers said the display was the most complex ever staged, involving computer microchips and a rare blue colour difficult to achieve.
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