New Year in Sydney...(2007)

Already 3 month in New Zealand we realized that New Year was coming up soon.So the question was,where to celebrate New Year's Eve?At this time we probaly would be on the south island,anywhere in the middle of nowhere...Since most parts of the south island are very remote, we thought about..Sydney!I remember siting in the travel agency, looking for the cheapest flight 3weeks before New Year.We found a cheap flight but it was impossible to find a hostel which wasn't already booked out...