In true New Year's Eve spirit, Canberra celebrated the start of 2018 into the early morning on Monday.
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Civic was busy with people saying goodbye to 2017 with friends until dawn, when the clean-up got under way.
While some were long in bed, others stuck around as buskers played, and police patrolled the area on foot and on bike.
Before their customers headed home to sleep off the night's celebrations, fast food stores and pizza stands stayed open for hungry party-goers.
ACT Policing said it attended to no notable incidents on New Year's Eve.
Earlier, thousands celebrated the end of 2017 in Canberra's Civic Square on Sunday night.
There was a free all-ages concert in the middle of Civic Square, headlined by Sydney electronic dance trio Art vs. Science.
Harry Carman also played to give the concert a bit of local flavour, as did the Brass Knuckle Brass Band, who returned after playing New Year's Eve in 2016.
More than 35,000 people came into the city to celebrate, according to acting Minister for the Arts and Community Events Shane Rattenbury.
Festivities were punctuated by two colourful fireworks displays from City Hill near the parliamentary triangle, with the first at 9pm followed with a customary bang at the stroke of midnight.
Although the crowd was in a celebratory mood, there was also a strong police presence to keep a lid on any anti-social behaviour.