1/30New Year‘s Day crowds at Sandgate, 1907 Photo: State Library of Queensland
FLASHBACK: Brisbane New Year’s celebrations through the years
As we prepare to welcome 2023, explore how Brisbane celebrated New Year’s over the last century – from swinging ballrooms to dancing in the streets and bringing in a new millennium. SEE THE PICS
2/30Relaxed group on the Manly Jetty, on New Year‘s Day, 1923. Photo: State Library of Queensland
3/30Men pushing a car through soft sand on a beach of North Stradbroke Island Photograph taken during outing over New Years Eve in 1935
4/30New Year‘s party with Mrs R. W. Thomas and other revellers, Brisbane, 1950. Photo: State Library of Queensland
5/30New Year revellers gather to welcome 1949 at the Cloudland Ballroom. Three thousand patrons were present. Photo: The Courier-Mail Photo Archive
6/30Wife of businessman Christopher Skase, Pixie with former Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen at Qintex Christmas/new year party in 1985. Photo: Courier Mail photo archives
7/30New Year revellers cheered and waved as balloons and confetti welcomed 1949 at the Cloudland Ballroom. Three thousand patrons were present. Photo: The Courier-Mail Photo Archive
8/30Picture of a police officer and a woman kissing on New Years Eve 1986. Photo: Courier Mail archives
9/30Typical of many surfside camp sites after Cyclone Annie made landfall New Year’s Day 1963. Mr V Clancy and family of Moorooka sorted through their wrecked camp at Mooloolaba Picture by Al Pascoe/The Courier-Mail Photo Archive
10/30Bellevue Hotel at the corner of George & Alice Streets, Brisbane, in 1970 where revellers will get ready to attend New Years Eve celebrations. The hotel was demolished a few years later. Photo: Courier Mail archives
11/30New Year’s skyline looking out over Petrie Bight Wharf, Creek Street Brisbane 1980. Picture by Karol Gawlick/The Courier-Mail Photo Archive
12/30(L-R) English tourists Jill Legge, Rex Northen & Michelle Forster celebrate New Years Eve 1994. Photo: Courier Mail archives
13/30Steve Bracks kissing his wife Terry on New Years Eve 1999. Photo: Courier Mail archives
14/30People watching fireworks during New Years Eve party celebrations in Queen Street Mall, Brisbane, Queensland 01 Jan 2000. Photo: Courier Mail archives
15/30Angela Brown (L) kisses Christian Munn while Jackie Nasser talks with Julian Cornall as they celebrate NYE Millennium at Southgate December 31, 1999. Picture: James Croucher.
16/30Kaitlin Moylan and brother Jack of Duffy's Forest wearing 1996 New Year’s Eve Mask. Photo: Courier Mail archives
17/302010’s New Years Eve fashion - Model is Linka Torsleff - Photo Bruce Long
18/30Andy Scott and Elle Schmidt celebrate the start of 2006 Photo: Robyne Cuerel
19/30Terry Gill and his wife Carole-Ann at the Tivoli Theatre Restaurant which closed it’s doors after 30 years of business. Their last show was preformed be on New Year's Eve 2011
20/30Homeless man Barry Pollard enjoys NYE meal at Brisbane City Mission, New Years Eve 1999. Picture: Patrick Hamilton
21/30New Year’s Eve 2004 celebrations. Rick Wallace of Brisbane, Keely Mohr of Brisbane and Rebecca Hasson of Sydney. Picture: Richard Webb
22/30Grandmother Margot Barth, with her family (ages at the time) Zhaydan Van Wyk, 9, Jerren Van Wyk, 5, father Raymond Van Wyk, Xander Van Wyk, 5, and mother Olga Van Wyk, who had recently moved to Australia from Namibia. Pictured at Brisbane's South Bank on New Year's Eve 2008. Photo: Courier Mail archives
23/30Colin MacDonald and Margo McAuley of Wavell Heights during the 2014 New Year’s Eve celebrations at South Bank in Brisbane. Picture: Josh Woning
24/30EagleAir promoting its New Years Eve flights with the Eagle Angels 2005. Eagle Angel Hayley Anderson. Picture: David Clark
25/30Varun Pillai holds his ears as New Year’s Eve fireworks light up over the river in Brisbane 2008. Photo: Courier Mail archives
26/30Enjoying new Years day 2007 on the beach were the girls from Brisbane Girls Grammer School. Photo: David Thomas
27/30Backpackers L-R Justine Gallagher, 23, from Ireland, Andreas Zoumaras, 29, from Jersey, Shannon O'Neil, 23, from New Zealand on the shoulders of Sinead McGuire, 24, from Ireland - relax on New Years day, at the Southbank Streets beach, Southbank 2008: Photo: Courier Mail archives
28/30Erika Lawry and Hannah Dagwell gear up for New Year’s Eve 2021 celebrations at Emporium Hotel Southbank in Brisbane. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT
29/30Yolanda and Shane Coetzee from Bulimba with children Ava, and Aiden, at Southbank New Year’s Eve 2019. Photo: Lachie Millard
30/30People kissing in the street during the start of the new year, New Year's Eve 2020, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. Photographer: Liam Kidston.
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