New Zealand celebrates the New Year ahead of Australia.
Australia celebrates the New Year first.
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The first two countries to which Australia exported sugar were New Zealand and the United Kingdom. This occurred in 1923.
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Kiribati
New Zealand.
New Year is celebrated first in Samoa and Kiribati, followed by New Zealand, Australia, and then Asian countries like Japan, China, and India. The UK and France celebrate New Year later than these countries due to the time zone differences.
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.
That would be Fiji and New Zealand, both two hours ahead of Australia's east coast.
Australia celebrates the New Year first.