Millions of people across Australia party into the New Year, after farewelling 2016 beneath night skies set ablaze with colour by stunning fireworks displays. See the best from around the country here.
As 2016 draws to a close, revellers around the world are bidding a weary adieu to a year filled with political surprises, prolonged conflicts and deaths of legendary celebrities.
Paranoia over the Russian "threat to Australian Government communications" dominated discussions at a 1993 meeting of cabinet's national security committee, according to newly-released documents which remain heavily censored more than two decades on.
Billy Ray Cyrus was on the radio. Sydney was named as host of the 2000 Olympics. And the little-known Baz Luhrmann released his first film. And in a big house on the hill in Canberra, Australia's new leader was finding his feet.
The 1941 confession and account of life on the run for the first man to escape Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 50 years is released to the public for the first time.
Witnesses describe the chaos inside a stampede at the Falls Festival in Lorne that left dozens injured and prompted authorities to launch multiple investigations into the "terrifying" incident.
A four-wheel drive on a barge heading from Inskip point to Fraser Island, north of Brisbane, rolls off and sinks, taking with it passports, phones and other valuables belonging to a group of backpackers.
The Adelaide Strikers break their winless streak and finish 2016 with a bang after thumping the Sydney Sixers by 48 runs at the New Year's Eve clash at Adelaide Oval.
Hollywood legend Debbie Reynolds and her actress and writer daughter Carrie Fisher will have a joint funeral and be buried together after dying a day apart this week, their family confirms.
After being called into Australia's squad for the SCG Test at the expense of batsman Nic Maddinson, spinner Ashton Agar says he is willing and able to bat in the top seven.
Large crowds of South Koreans gather on New Years for another rally demanding the removal of impeached President Park Geun-hye, who is determined to restore her powers through a court trial.
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