Images Dated 2019 December

AAP BEST OF 2019 SYDNEY SMOKE HAZE

*This picture has been selected as one of the Best of the Year News images for 2019*
Beachgoers are seen on Milk Beach as smoke haze from bushfires in New South Wales blankets the Central Business District in Sydney, Saturday December 7, 2019. There were almost 100 bush and grass fires in NSW on Saturday afternoon with more than 50 of them uncontained, and 16 burning at the "watch and act" alert level. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore)

CHRISTMAS DAY BONDI BEACH

Crowds of people are seen at Bondi Beach on Christmas Day in Sydney, Wednesday, December 25, 2019. (AAP Image/Steven Saphore)

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HOT WEATHER SYDNEY

People are seen at Bronte Beach Pool in Sydney, Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Temperatures are set to reach as high as the mid forty degrees in New South Wales over the next coming days, with a total fire ban in place across all of NSW until Sunday. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi)