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• New Year's Eve in Brisbane to deliver more bangs than ever

  

  New Year's Eve in Brisbane to deliver more bangs than everBrisbane will mark the new year with fireworks displays at 8.30pm and midnight.Photo: Michelle SmithNew Year's Eve celebrations in Brisbane are set to be the city's biggest ever, with two new river precincts joining the midnight fireworks display.In a bid to spread the party beyond the CBD, synchronised fireworks displays will be set off at Hamilton's Portside Wharf and Eagle Street Pier as well as at three traditional sites around South ..

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• Beachgoers brave wild weather in southeast

  

  Kite surfers in Moreton Bay earlier this year.A KITE surfer is in hospital after he was thrown up to 12m into a tree in Brisbane’s northeast.The man was windsurfing in Bramble Bay off Sandgate about 1.30pm yesterday when he was lifted into the air.Paramedics said he was thrown into a tree, injuring his lungs.He was taken to Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in a stable condition.Meanwhile on the Sunshine Coast, holidaymakers have been risking their lives by swimming at closed beaches.Surf Life..

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