We present the first results from the Southern Infrared Proper Motion Survey .
Using 2 Micron All Sky Survey data along with that of the SuperCOSMOS sky survey we have been able to produce the first widefield infrared proper motion survey .
Having targeted the survey to identify nearby M , L and T dwarfs we have discovered 72 such new objects with proper motions greater than 0.5 ” /yr with 10 of these having proper motions in excess of 1 ” /yr .
The most interesting of these objects is SIPS1259-4336 a late M dwarf .
We have calculated a trigonometric parallax for this object of \pi = 276 \pm 41 milliarcseconds yielding a distance of 3.62 \pm 0.54 pc .
We have also discovered a common proper motion triple system and an object with a common proper motion with LHS 128 .
The survey completeness is limited by the small epoch differences between many 2MASS and UKI observations .
Hence we only recover 22 % of Luyten objects with favourable photometry .
However the Luyten study is itself unquantifiably incomplete .
We discuss the prospect of enhancing the survey volume by reducing the lower proper motion limit .