Australia celebrates the New Year first.
New Zealand
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The first two countries to which Australia exported sugar were New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This occurred in 1923.
Kiribati
New Zealand.
Ireland celebrated halloween first!!
Japan is a "first world" country - the "first world" refers to the industrialized capitalist countries of western Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
The first country to receive daylight is Kiribati, with a timezone of +14 from UTC. This is followed by New Zealand along with the rest of the Pacific and then Australia and Eastern Russia.
Australia celebrates the New Year first.
That would be Fiji and New Zealand, both two hours ahead of Australia's east coast.
Papua New Guinea is the closest country to Australia. Other close countries to Australia are East Timor,Indonesia, New Caledonia and New Zealand.