No, not my picture, I 'borrowed' it from Google, it's of a previous year of Sydney Harbour bridge at New Year. I have been there twice, but not at New Year. It's a fantastic city and I can thoroughly recommend it if you ever get a chance to go.
I was in Melbourne in the run up to Christmas on one trip, and there is a big department store in the city centre that has a great tradition of decorating their store windows. Apparently all of the state of Victoria want to go and visit it, but to me, it was incredibly wierd to be so hot, and looking at Christmas things. I know that pommies adjust when they go out to live there, but I don't think that a visitor can so easily.