I want to stress at the outset that, whilst the New South Wales government is working our way through holding some type of fireworks event on New Year’s eve, can I stress it will not be like any other New Year’s Eve we had.
The vast majority of us will be watching from home, but what we are doing is considering what options there are to do it in a COVID safe way.
I want to be clear that the New South Wales government would never support or condone any activity which was not consistent with the health orders.
I really want to make that clear. We want to have some type of event that evening, however it will be vastly different from any other new year as eve any of us have celebrated in and around the harbour. I wanted to make that very clear.
We are still discussing and having negotiationsment we are hopeful that we will have a positive outcome, it will be extremely limited in a COVIDSafe way that is within the health orders.
So I would anticipate that if people are starting to plan ahead already, apart from a ticketed event at a restaurant or other formal ticketed venue, most of us will be watching it from home, although we are still considering discussions with local council whose have indicated they would like to have some opportunity for some COVID safe activity in their public spaces and those discussions will be ongoing.
As soon as we have some firm outcomes, we will let the community know.
