Sydney's iconic fireworks display to go-ahead despite calls to cancel due to bushfire crisis

Sydney's iconic fireworks display to go-ahead despite calls to cancel due to bushfire crisis

By Naveel Krishant
31/12/2019
Sydney Harbour Bridge 2018 new year's fireworks display. [image:sydney.com]

Sydney's iconic fireworks display on New Year's Eve will go-ahead despite calls for it to be cancelled due to the bushfire crisis.

The New South Wales  Rural Fire Service granted organisers an exemption from a total fire ban covering the region.

NSW has been ravaged by bushfires intensified by record-breaking temperatures and months of drought.

A number of fireworks displays across NSW have been cancelled.

Organisers of the Sydney display were urged to call off the demonstration and instead donate the money to farmers and the fire service.

A petition calling for the Sydney spectacle to be scrapped - saying it sent the wrong message at a time swathes of the country was suffering from bushfires - has gathered more than 270,000 signatures.

[Source: BBC]

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