Australia brings in the New Year, live updates: 2024 celebrations down under
NYE celebrations in Australia: countdown as it happened
Everything you need to know about leap years
Given that 2024 is a leap year, you might also be interested to read Joe's lowdown on the phenomenon.
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If you're in the US and your thoughts are now turning to the New Year's Eve celebrations in New York's Times Square, you might wish to peruse my colleague Joe Brennan's guide to the iconic 'ball drop'.
Watch NYE festivities in Melbourne
If you'd like to check out how things are hotting up ahead of midnight in Melbourne's Federation Square, let me point you in the direction of the Fed Cam.
Check out Sydney's 9pm fireworks
Ahead of midnight, there have already been some spectacular fireworks in Sydney.
Australia sees in the new year before much of the rest of the planet - but it's not the very first country in which the clock strikes midnight.
AS USA's Will Gittins takes a look at where the earliest 2024 celebrations are.
New Year's Eve celebrations in Australia: welcome!
Welcome to our live coverage of the New Year's Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia - where revellers will be completing the countdown to midnight before most others around the world.
In Australia, it will officially be 2024 at 8am ET/5am PT.