"Sydney's world-renowned New Year's Eve fireworks would become a thing of the past under a proposal to illuminate the harbour using hundreds of drones instead.

The Sun-Herald can reveal the City of Sydney council will canvass the possibility of replacing the annual fireworks extravaganza with a drone light show, which are rapidly growing in popularity around the world."
http://www.smh.com.au/national/drone-proposal-could-spell-the-end-of-sydney-s-new-year-s-eve-fireworks-display-20200215-p5413w.html

A proposal that will be welcomed by all the local dog owners and all who are really interested in reducing pollution, every little bit helps.

I have never been able to understand how a society which can vilify a little tobacco smoke, & make it public enemy No 2, after CO2, can justify pumping into the air, hundreds of tons of carcinogens much worse than Tobacco, & inviting people to come & stand under this muck, with their kids & babies.

Hooray ! Common sense appears to be making a comeback ! Now, if we can convince those morons who release thousands of balloons, race cars, boats & planes & catch tonne upon tonne of fish for "fun" & "recreation" en masse, we might just be able to regain some normalcy !
The only thing wrong with all these activities is not the activity in itself, it's the limitless indulging that is the real problem.
We can enjoy ourselves but why does it need hour upon hour to race when it can be just as entertaining over two hours ? Or, be out on the water to relax & catch a feed on way, it doesn't need an esky full ? Fishing competitions are some of the most mindless activities man invented. Killing for entertainment !
This idiotic notion of "competition" is the prime stupidity of all !

Congratulations boys. All very 'woke' comments. Play on.

I'm no fan of cracker nights, but even less of a fan of knee-jerking, PC lefty nutters who want to take the fun out of life for as many people as they can.

ttbn,
it doesn't look as knee jerking to me, just common sense sticking its head up on the horizon, again !

Hasbeen is slipping up. Lol. tic.

It's amazing many people seem to ignore fireworks residue falling into the Sydney Harbour marine ecosystem.

This must be the the work of pansies.
Drone show? Are you freaking kidding me?

The US spends trillions of dollars on bombs to blow ACTUAL people up, EVERY BLOODY DAY, Cant sell enough of the stuff, cant stop pumping oil or building new pipelines and you're all so completely brainwashed that you think getting rid of some ANNUAL fireworks is going to change the world.

Firecrackers?
NUTcrackers!

- Good for the pets though -

And it's not for adults you morons, it's for the family, and for the kids.

- Drone show, what a absolute freaking joke.

AC, don't they light the kiddy sparklers at 9pm, and have the main show for the big kids at midnight? All my years of living in Sydney I went once, never went again, couldn't get enthusiastic about it. I believe some profiteers can rent their Harbour side apartments for up to $2,000 for the night. I thought this years event should have been cancelled, after all NSW had, had enough fireworks with bushfires to last them a lifetime.

LMAO Steele.

Hey Paul1405,

Well, I do think they go a bit too far with the fireworks themselves;
- Like it's a global competition to see which city can have the best display on the news.

It really doesn't need to be such a huge display, but I don't think we should just do away with it away altogether because a few greenies scream 'climate change' and others scream 'bushfires'.

These new youngsters deserve to enjoy the fireworks and night out just as we all did as kids.
I'm not going to support taking that away forever and replacing it with some generic (and pathetic) politically correct replacement.

(That will only promulgate a future police-drone state)

Stuff that, light the crackers!

I prefer a smaller community oriented night out for the locals however, than some stupid global stage competition between international cities, which I think is dumb.

Cracker night is a grain of sand compared to an entire beach of bombs that nations we support and are allied with regularly use.

Armchair Critic,
I'm puzzled that you're not aware that bombing & fireworks are a case of (for want of a more appropriate word) necessity vs frivolity !

The millions wasted on fireworks would be useful to build a miserable prison in the desert to lock up all involved who are ripping off older people in aged care nursing homes.

Get it right fellas, for political correctness, I thought we could have dyslexic left handed people of no particular gender dress up as firecrackers, and in a show of solidarity with the disposed peasants of Siberia silently go "BANG!" at the stroke of midnight.

We can all stand around and also silently go "BANG!", you guessed it, in a show of solidarity with dyslexic left handed people of no particular gender, and the disposed peasants of Siberia, I hope I have not left anyone out, as I want to be fully inclusive. where am I?

I wouldn't think ALL those bombs are necessary,
Maybe if they had a cracker night instead people might relax and get along.

Sydney council pays $6m p.a. for the fireworks which attracts about 1 million visitors and generates about $2bn in revenue for local businesses, pay for hospitality workers etc.

The mindless left whinge killjoys that want to replace this with drones will cost taxpayers a vast fortune to cut carbon emissions by a tiny amount.

You gotta love this misguided ideologue, our resident know-it-all, Know-nothing LIBERAL Shadow Minister. Shadow tells us;

"The mindless left whinge killjoys that want to replace this with drones will cost taxpayers a vast fortune to cut carbon emissions by a tiny amount."

WHAT ARE THE FACTS;

"At Monday's meeting, LIBERAL councillor Craig Chung will put up a motion for City of Sydney council staff to explore and report back on the feasibility of replacing the fireworks with a drone light show."

Tell us SM is LIBERAL councillor Craig Chung, the driver of this proposal, one of your mindless left whinge killjoys?

To describe what you say, the word nitwit springs to mind! This is the same guy who claimed about 3 years ago, hat an arrest in the 'Beat Up' Bolt put up job was imminent! When no such thing eventuated. This guy just gets everything wrong. Must be another ScumO' at work..... PITIFUL

Paul,

Any evidence of what you say about Bolt?

You've been repeating this assertion for a while now but you seem to be shy of giving a reference.

Hi Issy,

Any evidence of what you say about Bolt? Yep, heaps! Take this on board, the bloke in the blue and white (colours often seen on Liberal party advertising) beanie. The cops had a very clear image of this conservative beanie wearer, yet they couldn't match him up with their mug shot collection of decent lefty folk in Melbourne. If he had been a truly committed leftie he would have been wearing a Rasto beanie, not something that the Liberal Party possibly threw out!

You've been repeating this assertion for a while now, No no, for more than a while, nearly three years now! And I shall repeat it until the cows come home, because its true!

Issy,

This is from someone that continually lies. For example I never claimed that an arrest was imminent and he knows it. Pauliar would be a good name for him.

Paul,

Pointless virtue signalling is an overwhelming left whinge tradition. Notable Paul Chung called for a feasibility study which if done properly will kill off the idea for good.

I'm told that both Craig Chung and Christine Forster, LIBERAL councillors for the City of Sydney, are the two councillors who very much favour a drone light show in place of fireworks. These pair must be;

"The mindless left whinge killjoys that want to replace this with drones will cost taxpayers a vast fortune to cut carbon emissions by a tiny amount." That SHADOW MINISTER is referring to.

Good one Shadow, you shot yourself in the foot.

Shadow Minister.

Firewokrks generating two bbb billion for local business is a laugh.
Its more like one million people generate 2 mmm million in revenue for government railway and bus services.

Paul,

I know that left whingers are generally crap at economics but you take the cake.

1000 000 visitors staying in Sydney paying for accomodation, meals, shopping etc spend an average of $2000 (some less, some far more) gives you $2bn spent in the local economy.

Did you maybe help Juliar with her mining tax?

Sorry was addressing JF Aus

For someone out there to the far right of Genghis Khan, SHADOW MINISTER would see a couple of pussycat LIBERAL PARTY Councillors in Craig Chung and Christine Forster as mindless left whinge killjoys!
Shadow, how many more mindless left whinge killjoys are in the LIBERAL PARTY?

The bloke couldn't look sillier if poked a shot gun up his arse and pulled the trigger.

Paul,

"You've been repeating this assertion for a while now, No no, for more than a while, nearly three years now! And I shall repeat it until the cows come home, because its true!"

If it's true then you should have no trouble giving some reliable evidence.

Paul,

For someone that's on the left of Joseph Stalin, just about everyone in the greens is a mindless left whinge killjoy.

Fell into that one Shadow, you assumed it must be those supposed left wingers who put this one up. What do we get from you? "The mindless left whinge killjoys that want to replace this with drones"

But, you didn't do any checking before making the statement, being so confident it was "left whinge" behind this proposal. Well egg on your face old chap, as it turns out to be two LIBERAL councillors behind the push. According to SHADOW MINISTER Sydney City LIBERAL councillors Craig Chung and Christine Forster, are mindless left whinge killjoys!

Shadow they will drum you out of The Melbourne Club making statements like that.

Paul,

Once again you post bollocks. I look forward to the time when your posts contain more than mangled half truths.

Firstly,

In the only commentary by Christine Forster that I could find opposed banning fireworks. So linking her is also complete BS.

Secondly,

Long before Chung suggested a "feasibility study" into using drones there were 1000s of mindless left whingers calling for the fireworks to be banned irrespective of the effect on the economy. And from what I understand of the feasibility study, the options include using drones alone, partially replacing the fireworks or supplementing the fireworks.

Finally,

The liberal party is a broad church with a wide range of views, however, Chung's measured action is far preferable to Labor and the greens knee jerk responses such as the live cattle ban which cost the country hundreds of $ms.

SHADOW, I have no problem with a live cattle export! ONTO THE SHIP YOU GO!

SHADOW, Want to know more about the "fireworks" on Sydney City Council, just use your phone to ring a Councillor.