For five hours today, people in the Northern Territory will be able to blow up fireworks with no permits or training, to celebrate Territory Day.
It's the only time in Australia that the public sale, use and possession of fireworks without a permit is legal.
Originally held on Guy Fawkes Day, it was moved after the NT parliament decided that date was "inappropriate because it is based on an old English custom ... [and] not celebrated in any other State of Australia". Hundreds of tonnes of explosives are shipped into the territory in the weeks leading up to the big day.
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