Sydney has scrapped its New Year’s Eve (NYE) family fireworks show for the second year in a row, despite being weeks away from reopening, with authorities saying the move is needed for the event to be managed in the “most COVID-safe way” possible. There will be a fireworks display from the Sydney Harbour Bridge at midnight, but with potential restrictions regarding travel and crowd size. A spokeswoman for the City of Sydney, the official presenter of the event, said the “difficult decision” had to be made to allow the NYE celebration to “remain resilient” in the face of the changing health situation and public health order. “For an event the scale of Sydney New Year’s Eve, contracts are signed, and money spent months in advance,” she said in a statement on Tuesday. “The fireworks always generate very large crowds, and the two separate displays result in the crossover of large …