{"id":664799,"date":"2025-12-31T13:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664799\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:57:10","slug":"heavy-police-presence-in-sydney-for-new-years-celebrations-after-bondi-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664799\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy police presence in Sydney for New Year&#8217;s celebrations after Bondi attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Separately, Minns had urged Sydneysiders to not let the &#8220;horrible criminal terrorist event&#8221; at Bondi change the way they live, as he called on people to &#8220;show defiance&#8221; and celebrate the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This sentiment was shared by some of the spectators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Out among the crowds at Barangaroo&#8217;s Observatory Hill, a close spot to the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was H\u00e9l\u00e8ne from Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the BBC people &#8220;cannot live in fear&#8221; following the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hours ahead of the countdown, hundreds of thousands of people flocked towards the harbour, with many official viewing areas filling to capacity by early evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the harbour, sailboats dotted the water &#8211; one of the best spots to watch the midnight fireworks display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sydney&#8217;s celebration &#8211; with its iconic fireworks display &#8211; kicks off a chain of events, from Dubai, to London and New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Separately, Minns had urged Sydneysiders to not let the &#8220;horrible criminal terrorist event&#8221; at Bondi change the way&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-664799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115814534076614690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}