This was filmed pre covid and QANTAS has sat on this video until Australia fully opened up to world earlier this year. The people in the ad are Firsts Nations Elder- Rene Kulitja Kylie Minogue Troye Silvan Hugh Jackman The kids in the white shirts are the Australian Girls Choir and the National Boys Choir- QANTAS have used them in the ads since 1998 ish The schools kids in the maroon school uniforms are from the town of Longreach- where QANTAS was founded. The woman in the FILA was tennis player Ash Barty who recently retired The man on the edge of the pool is AFL legend Adam Goodes The two women swimming on the reef where Olympian Bronte Campbell and Para Olympian Ellie Cole The first nations dancers are the Bangarra Dance Theatre There is also the Gondwana Choir QANTAS have been using this song for 35 years. QANTAS make the best videos using I Still Call Australia Home You should have a look at some others
"I Still Call Australia Home" is a song written and performed by Peter Allen RIP in 1980. In it, Peter Allen who was married to Liza Minnelli Judy Garlands daughter sings of Australian expatriates' longing for home. It has been used to signify Australian patriotism and nostalgia for home. An example is the series of Qantas television commercials where it was sung either by individual Australian musicians or one of several Australian youth choirs. This is also remade in their 2020 safety video, where various covers of the song were made accompanying a 100-year history visualization. In the 1984 Summer Olympics' Opening Gala TV special (in Los Angeles), Olivia Newton-John performed this song from Sydney, Australia with the choir in a medley with "Waltzing Matilda". Later, both songs were used in the musical about Allen's life, The Boy from Oz, in which Hugh Jackman starred as Allen. "I Still Call Australia Home" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. In Australian English speech of earlier generations, "home" referred to Britain. Thus by contrast, "calling Australia home" became for a period a particularly piquant expression of Australian identity. Peace out.
@@schrader.w.e 7 years they lasted together Liza's mother Judy Garland introduced him to her daughter Peter also wrote a song about Judy called "Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage" . Peter died of AIDS-related illness aged 48 Judy died of a barbiturate overdose aged 47. Peace out.
That “mother” talking to the young child was world no.1 female tennis player Ash Barty talking to her niece. Also showed AFL great Adam Goodes and Olympic and para Olympic swimmers.
Yes, Kylie Minogue was in the quiz. She began in an Aussie TV show as a teen, went on to become a singing star, HUGE in Britain. Australian Ash Barty, world Number 1 women's tennis player was the one talking to the little girl, her sister and niece, on the phone.
RIP The Boy from Oz, Peter Allen. Taken too soon. Always was his song, always will be his song. But glad Qantas have adopted it as it’s played on the flight just before landing in Sydney and always makes me cry!!
Coming home from an international trip, they play this as you leave the plane walking to get your bags. (Haven't travelled since Covid so not sure if still played) Always gives me chills and brings a tear to my eye.
My favourite thing when coming home from big international trips. Always fly Qantas coming home for this reason. Also haven't travelled since 2019 so can't confirm if stilla thing
There's something magical about Australia and it's definitely the landscape. Wherever you go you can sense that this is a very old continent and that great age is evident in the rocks, the hills and mountains etc. This place definitely has a spirit that comes out of the land, the soil, the trees and the old aboriginal people are very much atuned to it. Although I want to travel abroad , I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
Please never forget my ancestors the Australian Convicts they were taken from their families and homeland. Used as slaves to build the country I was born in. A lot of these convicts weren’t criminals they were trying to survive the Great Depression yet these convicts have never been thanked or even acknowledged for the deaths, slavery and torture they endured. One day I pray my ancestors will be remembered and just acknowledge for what they went through and what we built along with the indigenous people of Australia. There is a white stolen generation that have never been spoken about. The convicts are never spoken about and if they are it’s in a negative light..
The singer at the piano is Kylie Minogue, and the group of singing children at Longreach, is the place where Qantas Ltd commenced in 1920, and have a museum there. The pink lakes exist in several places around Australia y the way. In closing, I always love hearing this beautiful song. 👍🤗😁
Phezz, you should have seen me when I first heard 'I Still Call Australia Home' since living in the US. I choked up big time. Australia will always be home for me no matter where I am.
🎶 I've been to cities that never close down From New York to Rio and old London town But no matter how far Or how wide I roam I still call Australia home. I'm always travelin' And I love bein' free So I keep leavin' the sun and the sea But my heart lies waiting over the foam I still call Australia home. All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the world Away from their families and friends Ah, but as the world gets older and colder It's good to know where your journey ends. And someday we'll all be together once more When all the ships come back to the shore Then I realize something I've always known I still call Australia home. No matter how far Or how wide I roam I still call Australia home.🎶 Peter W Allen.
This is the Australian Girls Choir and the National Boys Choir. My Father founded The National Boys Choir in 1964. All these children have been afforded such opportunity, and I’m so grateful that he had the vision to do so. ❤
I want to go out on a limb and say the kids playing rugby are in Winton the birth place of QANTAS. Longreach school kids are shown singing as this was were the headquarters of QANTAS was moved in the 1920’s. QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territory arial service so there’s is a shot of the old Darwin airport at 6:42 which was basically a hanger and it makes sense to open the shot with Uluṟu as the heart of Australia but also the NT association with QANTAS.
The original song I still call Australia home was written and performed by Australian Peter Allen it was a big hit for him, and just a bit of trivia he was also married to Liza Minnelli the daughter of Judy Garland.
Ash Barty (the one in Tokyo) and Adam Goodes (the one near the beach pool) are two legendary indigenous players of tennis and AFL. Kylie Minogue (the one playing piano in London) is our very own Aussie pop princess.
The grandma is Maggie Beer AO, an Australian cook, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer living in the Barossa Valley. She is an Aussie legend!
I’m Australian , living in Canada now and have lived in a number of other countries - I’ve sung this to myself many times and it definitely brings out the emotion. We have another amazing song called, We Are One! You’ve got to hear it. X
I always bawl my eyes out when a QANTAS commercial comes on but I always thought it was just some good old fashioned patriotism being an Aussie. Seeing an adult American man get a tear in his eye really warmed my heart. We are fortunate to call Australia home and any time you guys want to come and visit we’ll make sure to turn on the good weather, fire up the grill, and get our backyard cricket on for you fellas. Thanks for this lovely vid. ❤️
I've lived in several other countries, and travelled to dozens of countries, but every single time I return home to Australia I get all choked up and sentimental. For Aussies, traveling far and often is in our DNA, but coming home is the best feeling in the world.
I went to the USA for 3 months back in 1998. I had a 4 hour stop over in Japan on my return trip. I just stayed at the airport and God damn when I heard some Aussies talking, I was over the moon. I couldn't wait to get home.
IMHO, true patriotism is loving what's great about your country, but being able to be honest about what's not so great about it, calling it out, and always working to make things better.
I always get goosebumps when I hear that. Peter Allen is the original singer/writer of this song... The Man From Oz. Ash Barty world no 1 female tennis player (just retired) was the woman talking to her nephew/niece on the mob fone.
Nah, I am Australian should be the anthem, I still call Australia home should be reserved as the expat anthem. I do agree with though our current anthem is NAFF….
I’d vote Waltzing Matilda first and I still Call Australia Home second, our current one is lame and when we become a Republic in the near-future in sure we’ll vote on a new one.
@@TheBlank124 Let's get one thing straight, the song is about corrupt police and squatters who took all the good land, gained favour with the corrupt police and let everyone else live terrible lives in comparison. Matilda was trying to survive in a world that was against him and he'd rather die than be held hostage to that world. He was a hero and had more courage than most people have today.
Hey Guys! You watched it! I’ve been to the US lots of times. I have relatives who live there and I feel you when I see that big kangaroo on a red tail at LAX etc it really does make an old Aussie like me tear up. A big Aussie get together of your Aussie viewers if you two came over here would be awesome! I'd come to that! VK3CRG is not a word. It is my ham radio callsign! Callsigns starting with "VK" are from Australia and the "3" denotes my State Victoria. The "CRG" is obviously my name :) Craig - Australia
ANY AND EVERY AUSTRALIAN WHO KNOWS THIS SONG sings along just like i do when i watch people react to this song, . any Australian who knows this song cant help but sing along with pride when we hear this song
'I still call Australia home' was popular before Qantas commercialised it.😮💨 Another song by Peter Allen worth listening to is 'Tenterfield Saddler'. It's about Peter Allen's father and grandfather.
It features a few famous Aussies who reside in other countries or have travelled overseas extensively for work. It’s saying even though they’re not able to be here, it’s still their home. Kylie Minogue - Singer Troye Sivan - Singer/Actor Hugh Jackman - Actor Ash Barty - World #1 retired tennis player Adam Goodes - Retired AFL great Brontë Campbell and Ellie Cole - Olympic Swimmers The Bangarra Dance Theatre - First Nations performers and story tellers
600 Episodes! Great work guys. This song is always a tear jerker, the video makes it doubly so. As for QANTAS, It is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920; it began international passenger flights in May 1935. Many great Aussies in this vid.
The thing that stands out to me about this reaction, is that our sense of patriotism doesn't come from exceptionalism, unlike a lot of the USA. We just have a general sense of pride, family, mateship and home. I rarely tear up but Qantus definitely killed it with this ad, as they often do.
Miles, this is especially for you, a different QANTAS series: ua-cam.com/video/x7XFafi4IGo/v-deo.html I can’t express to you how it feels, after spending time in a foreign country, to step on board a QANTAS flight to head home, and suddenly realising you’re already home because this is an Aussie plane with Aussie staff and Aussie food and drinks! There’s nothing to compare with that!
Since it's admission time, I block my ears and make humming sounds when any version of this song is played, because it hits hard. Great vid. Cheers. :)
The woman with the Fila gear on is Tennis World Number One Ash Barty. The kids singing in the school hall wearing maroon shirts are from Longreach in Queensland where Qantas started. The other kids in the white shirts are the Qantas sponsored Australian Children's Choir. They tour all over the world, in non covid.
This song was written by Australian singer, Peter Allen, and recorded in 1979. Peter Allen's life was made into a stage musical, The Boy From Oz. It is considered an "unofficial" national anthem, along with poems/songs like "Waltzing Matilda", written by Banjo Patterson, and "I am Australian" by The Seekers. Also, Qantas had already made another commercial using this song back in 1998, but they decided to use it again for this commercial, to celebrate coming together again during the lifting of Covid travel restrictions. Both adverts feature the Australian Girl's Choir and National Boy's Choir, but this new one also features the Gondwana Choir, as well as celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, and Troy Sivan.
When you did the review of Australian inventions, did you notice that many were related to transport and communications? No coincidence. Australia is a vast country, with towns and cities separated by great distances. Plus, Australians love to travel overseas and because it takes so long to get overseas, we tend to stay there a long time once we do. We also have a "gap" year, when young people often take time to travel and work overseas before starting higher education or a full time job. So Australians have taken home-sickness to Olympic gold medal standard.
That was Kylie Minogue, one of the most popular and famous pop singers in the World. She started on the "Neighbors" TV show. Dont be scared of Roos, the big reds are the scary ones, they live in the deserts and Central Australia. Most roos in the Southern States are "greys", a smaller more placid version. And Uluru is actually sitting sideways and goes 2km underground. Its so large it takes 3-4 hours to walk around (approx 10 kms, 5 miles). QANTAS (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920;[10][11] it began international passenger flights in May 1935.
I worked and lived abroad in 3 stints totalling over 10 years. And whenever hearing this song when I was 'away' was always just so moving and emotional. Beautiful song 🇦🇺❤️
The mother talking to her sister and niece, was World tennis number one, Ashleigh Barty. There were half a dozen other Australian celebrities in that commercial, including a former footballer, sisters who are Olympic champion swimmers, etc.
@@HMAP792 Oh! The first shot goes by so quickly, I never noticed that before! Floating on their backs, it just looks like her knee is bent, but you’re right, I had to stop the video to really take a look! Another thing that fooled me was Cate’s TikTok videos popping up on my FB feed every day, you just get conditioned to it, and I recognised Bronte’s face so assumed it was Cate with her. 😍 Great to have a girl from each Olympics in there!
Qantas has a long history of using Peter Allen’s “I still call Australia home”. Like Peter Allen himself, Australians are among the most travelled per capita with a lot of Australians living temporarily overseas. This is particularly so with countries like the UK and the US (where Australians are the only foreigners that have their own special working visa purely for the purposes of long term, but temporary work in the E3), It was sad that Qantas had their 100th anniversary during the pandemic. It’s the oldest continually operating airline and the 3rd oldest after KLM and Avianca (BA managed to work out a really deceitful link between carriers to state they’re older, but anyone looks up the history and reviews how British Airways got to that conclusion would raise an eyebrow)
Honestly would be better than our current anthem ... truly a fantastic culturally relevant piece from an Aussie company that has historically advertised way better than our own Tourism Australia to encourage people to travel to our fantastic home :)
Qantas Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services started in Winton in western Queensland and have a museum there along with dinosaur skeletons and footprints n Lark Quarry
Did you know Qantas is the only word in the English language without a U after the Q? Why? It stands for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service. The schoolkids in the hall were at Longreach, home of Qantas in Queensland - where it all started. The kids playing in the field were near a clothes line. That is called a Hills Hoist and was invented in Australia. Each scene was very quintessentially Aussie.
I was born in England and my family emigrated when I was 8, so when we said "back home" it was always England. Then, when I was 25, I went for a working holiday back to the UK, and ever after Australia has been "Home".
Kylie Minogue; Troye Sivan & Hugh Jackman...That was Tennis great Ash Barty with her sister & niece on the phone; Adam Goodes football star at Bondi Icebergs.....
Have you heard of Peter Allen? He was once married to Liza Minelli. He wrote many songs including this one, and QANTAS adopted it as their theme song. Aussies love this song, it always beings tears to our eyes!
You can not be Australian and not tear up. It is extremely emotional. I think it’s even more emotional seeing as they had produced this add just before they restarted the planes once we opened the borders.
Hi guys, I just came across your channel today, and I like it a lot, so I subbed. I am a proud Aussie, and I love your comments and reactions. This always brings tears to my eyes, cause it's just how I feel, so priviledged to have been born in this wonderful country. xx The people in this video I know are singer Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, tennis player Ash Barty and indigenous AFL football great Adam Goodes. The others I don't know. xx
To walk around the entire base of Uluru is about 6.2 Miles (see what I did there)… that thing is massive and I can’t wait to see it when I go in September.
That "squid games building" is MONA in Hobart. It's a seriously amazing museum/art gallery. To me, the building is a a reason to visit apart from the exhibitions.
This song was written by the late great Peter Allen in 1980. He was colloquially known as The Boy From Oz. As a proud Australian this song fills my heart with pride and sends a shiver down my spine.
By the way. The school kids singing in a hall with the words Longreach over the stage. Longreach is an outback town in central Queensland where QANTAS began. It must be noted that QANTAS just picked this song up to use on their advertisements. It’s wasn’t written for them or with them in mind. It was written by Peter Allen, the great showman, singer, songwriter, former husband of Liza Minnelli, discovered and brought to America by Judy Garland, writer of I Go To Rio, Tenterfield Saddler, I Honestly Love You, Quiet Please (there’s a lady on stage) and many many more including Carole Bayer Sager songs (Moving out Today).
Peter Allen wrote the song I Still Call Australia Home“ the man from Oz” was done by Hugh Jackman after Peter Allen died. Peter didn’t want to put it on the “ Radio” to him it was HIS song for him but he was talked into it..Thankfully ……..I got home from school to see my mum bawling with this song on the radio and even by the end I was crying. The next day the radio stations phones went out of order from everyone in Aussie ringing. It come out on record, tape, cd everything. The one u walked was lasts years Qantas “ come to Aussie “ ad we get a new ad with it every 2nd year… But watch the very first Peter Allen sing it. He was married to Liza Minnelli at the time and he just missed home . You grew up in the country or outback Australia and he just missed Australian wrote that for himself but it got out and we are so lucky to have that is our song
@Erik Likyarn Most of Uluru is underground. About 2.5 klms with 348 metres showing above the surface. I got to climb the rock a long time ago. Was quite a climb and not a smooth surface on top of it. A few people died from heart attacks attempting the climb. Climbing this rock has been banned for a few years now in respect that it is a very spiritual place for our Indigenous people. I'm not religious, don't really believe in spirits or ghosts, but hmm. We camped near the rock at that time. But over the couple of days spent there, you (well me) could just feel something about the area, spooky almost, but tranquil. One of those things you just cannot describe. Some of the Aboriginal spirits? Dunno!
How to make a room full of Australians overseas quite???. Play 2 songs I Still Call Australia Home written by Peter Allen and I Am Australian written by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and Dobe Newton of the Bushwhackers. How to make Australian troops cry play these its a guarantee.
Musicians are Kylie Minogue (based in London), Troye Sivan (based in LA), and triple threat Hugh Jackman. Also featured in Tokyo is ex-number one Tennis champ, Ash Barty. By pool is Adam Goodes from Sydney Swans. Aboriginal dancers are a group called Bangarra. And the choirs are the Australian Girls Choir together with National Boys Choir and the Gondwana Choir.
That's going straight to the pool room ... Kinda reminds me fo the "Ship Song Project", which shows a lady from the Sydney Opera House walking out at the end of a shift (and taking the scenic route in the process), while a variety of Australian entertainers do a collab of "The Ship Song" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
They played this before take off on the qantas flight home (Melbourne) when I was coming back from London. I’m not ashamed to say it had me in tears…that 24 hr flight couldn’t go fast enough.
5:05 to 5:14, filmed in Tasmania at an Art gallery called Mona. The whole Complex looks as if it's a villain's HQ from James Bond. The owner, David Walsh made his money through developing a system in gambling. Not sure if it's true, but folklore has said the Australian Taxation Office were after him so he established the gallery as a bit of philanthropy to get them off his back.
Tasmanian people used to be allowed to visit for free, but recently he's been asking for a down-payment so I think Mr Walsh can eat a sausage. I'm not paying him a cent with any "promise" for a refund once I prove I'm Taswegian. F that guy.
The song was written by Peter Allen when he lived in USA. It was used by QANTAS a long time ago. It is beautiful and we all really do miss Australia when we travel. It's a wonderful and beautiful country. I think that may have been Kylie Minogue early on
That, 'musician' was Kylie Minogue (known by her detractors as the singing budgie). She comes from a long line of Aussie stars who started in Soap Operas (in her case, 'Neighbors').
Landing at Sydney international airport, walking out into the muggy air that smells like flowers and coffee and mateship. The magpies singing along with all the other birds. I still call Australia home.
Longreac is the outback town where QANTAS (Queensland And Northern Territitory Air Service) was founded, hence the kids in the old town hall. The hangar shown with the old images projected on it is real, it is still there.
I'm Aussie born and bred. This song should be our National Anthem. The lady sitting on the bed on the phone was our Tennis Champion Ash Barty. I live in the same town she does, good old Ipswich. Ipswich is west of Brisbane only a 40min drive. You guys are awesome 😎🤙👍👍👍🤗
Believe me whenever Australians hear this song it will make us pause and fill us with pure pride 🇦🇺
You must be from Dutch heritage with a user name like that
With that username did you have fam at a cycling race.😳
Absolutely.
A few more tweaks we would have an awesome country..😁
Totally agree 👍 love the song
😷mahamamamha
This was filmed pre covid and QANTAS has sat on this video until Australia fully opened up to world earlier this year.
The people in the ad are
Firsts Nations Elder- Rene Kulitja
Kylie Minogue
Troye Silvan
Hugh Jackman
The kids in the white shirts are the Australian Girls Choir and the National Boys Choir- QANTAS have used them in the ads since 1998 ish
The schools kids in the maroon school uniforms are from the town of Longreach- where QANTAS was founded.
The woman in the FILA was tennis player Ash Barty who recently retired
The man on the edge of the pool is AFL legend Adam Goodes
The two women swimming on the reef where Olympian Bronte Campbell and Para Olympian Ellie Cole
The first nations dancers are the Bangarra Dance Theatre
There is also the Gondwana Choir
QANTAS have been using this song for 35 years.
QANTAS make the best videos using I Still Call Australia Home
You should have a look at some others
I REALLY hope you mean maroon not moron🤣🤣🤣🤣
Please change the spelling of moron to maroon? I know it's just a typo, but still... lol.
@@utha2665 no problem- the typing area is so small I must have missed it!!
@@kelliemorse6340 LOL, no problem at all. I just thought it would look bad years from now, as obvious a typo as it was, lol.
Thanks for naming them all. I knew most 🙃
"I Still Call Australia Home" is a song written and performed by Peter Allen RIP in 1980. In it, Peter Allen who was married to Liza Minnelli Judy Garlands daughter sings of Australian expatriates' longing for home. It has been used to signify Australian patriotism and nostalgia for home. An example is the series of Qantas television commercials where it was sung either by individual Australian musicians or one of several Australian youth choirs. This is also remade in their 2020 safety video, where various covers of the song were made accompanying a 100-year history visualization.
In the 1984 Summer Olympics' Opening Gala TV special (in Los Angeles), Olivia Newton-John performed this song from Sydney, Australia with the choir in a medley with "Waltzing Matilda". Later, both songs were used in the musical about Allen's life, The Boy from Oz, in which Hugh Jackman starred as Allen.
"I Still Call Australia Home" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013.
In Australian English speech of earlier generations, "home" referred to Britain. Thus by contrast, "calling Australia home" became for a period a particularly piquant expression of Australian identity. Peace out.
I'm stuck at Peter Allan was married to a chick was that before he found the key
@@schrader.w.e 7 years they lasted together Liza's mother Judy Garland introduced him to her daughter Peter also wrote a song about Judy called "Quiet Please, There's a Lady on Stage" . Peter died of AIDS-related illness aged 48 Judy died of a barbiturate overdose aged 47. Peace out.
So interesting! Thanks Steve
Peter Allen was truly a great entertainer. I still think of his version above any of the covers I have heard. He was a great songwriter.
So amazing how much we learn about our own country through these kinda youtube channels ,,, love it
THIS is our Australian patriotism wrapped up in a song. It always sends a chill up my spine and brings a tear to my eyes.
It should be our national anthem 😊
Every time without fail 😭
The good kind
This and "I Am Australian" by The Seekers are truely moving and are unofficial anthems for us❤️🇦🇺
An Australian iconic song❤️
Yeah,it hits you in the guts when you're overseas or comin back home & you hear this.
🖤💛❤️ 🇦🇺🌏
Absolutely 💯
I think it makes every last on of us emotional as Australians!.
That “mother” talking to the young child was world no.1 female tennis player Ash Barty talking to her niece. Also showed AFL great Adam Goodes and Olympic and para Olympic swimmers.
Yes, Kylie Minogue was in the quiz. She began in an Aussie TV show as a teen, went on to become a singing star, HUGE in Britain. Australian Ash Barty, world Number 1 women's tennis player was the one talking to the little girl, her sister and niece, on the phone.
RIP The Boy from Oz, Peter Allen. Taken too soon. Always was his song, always will be his song. But glad Qantas have adopted it as it’s played on the flight just before landing in Sydney and always makes me cry!!
This song was written by the seekers. It was never Peter Allen's song
@@brianjamieson7851 written by Peter Allen
Peter Allen wrote this
Coming home from an international trip, they play this as you leave the plane walking to get your bags. (Haven't travelled since Covid so not sure if still played) Always gives me chills and brings a tear to my eye.
My favourite thing when coming home from big international trips. Always fly Qantas coming home for this reason. Also haven't travelled since 2019 so can't confirm if stilla thing
Can confirm was travelling interstate last week on Qantas and they were playing the instrumental as waiting to disembark music
There's something magical about Australia and it's definitely the landscape. Wherever you go you can sense that this is a very old continent and that great age is evident in the rocks, the hills and mountains etc. This place definitely has a spirit that comes out of the land, the soil, the trees and the old aboriginal people are very much atuned to it. Although I want to travel abroad , I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.
Beautifully said👌😊
@@Sydneysider1310 Ditto
You feel it too mate. The land is part of us and we are part of it
Please never forget my ancestors the Australian Convicts they were taken from their families and homeland. Used as slaves to build the country I was born in. A lot of these convicts weren’t criminals they were trying to survive the Great Depression yet these convicts have never been thanked or even acknowledged for the deaths, slavery and torture they endured. One day I pray my ancestors will be remembered and just acknowledge for what they went through and what we built along with the indigenous people of Australia. There is a white stolen generation that have never been spoken about. The convicts are never spoken about and if they are it’s in a negative light..
The singer at the piano is Kylie Minogue, and the group of singing children at Longreach, is the place where Qantas Ltd commenced in 1920, and have a museum there. The pink lakes exist in several places around Australia y the way. In closing, I always love hearing this beautiful song. 👍🤗😁
Delta Goodram.
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Phezz, you should have seen me when I first heard 'I Still Call Australia Home' since living in the US. I choked up big time. Australia will always be home for me no matter where I am.
🎶 I've been to cities that never close down
From New York to Rio and old London town
But no matter how far
Or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.
I'm always travelin'
And I love bein' free
So I keep leavin' the sun and the sea
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home.
All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the world
Away from their families and friends
Ah, but as the world gets older and colder
It's good to know where your journey ends.
And someday we'll all be together once more
When all the ships come back to the shore
Then I realize something I've always known
I still call Australia home.
No matter how far
Or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home.🎶
Peter W Allen.
This song fills me with so much pride since I first heard it on the adds for Qantas in the 1990's as a child...
Thank you sandgroper .
Don't worry, I cry everytime I hear that song. And " I am Australian" gets me.
"I am, you are, we are Australian" just has a way of hitting home
I agree! I love the Telstra ad version from about 15 yeara ago of "We are Australian" .
This is the Australian Girls Choir and the National Boys Choir. My Father founded The National Boys Choir in 1964. All these children have been afforded such opportunity, and I’m so grateful that he had the vision to do so. ❤
I want to go out on a limb and say the kids playing rugby are in Winton the birth place of QANTAS.
Longreach school kids are shown singing as this was were the headquarters of QANTAS was moved in the 1920’s.
QANTAS stands for Queensland and Northern Territory arial service so there’s is a shot of the old Darwin airport at 6:42 which was basically a hanger and it makes sense to open the shot with Uluṟu as the heart of Australia but also the NT association with QANTAS.
The original song I still call Australia home was written and performed by Australian Peter Allen it was a big hit for him, and just a bit of trivia he was also married to Liza Minnelli the daughter of Judy Garland.
Ash Barty (the one in Tokyo) and Adam Goodes (the one near the beach pool) are two legendary indigenous players of tennis and AFL. Kylie Minogue (the one playing piano in London) is our very own Aussie pop princess.
The grandma is Maggie Beer AO, an Australian cook, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer living in the Barossa Valley. She is an Aussie legend!
She definitely is!! I bet your childhood was amazing having her food at all the events during the year.
The grandma in the airport? That’s not Maggie Beer.
@@nicksb5 yep definitely not Maggie
Who???
I’m Australian , living in Canada now and have lived in a number of other countries - I’ve sung this to myself many times and it definitely brings out the emotion.
We have another amazing song called, We Are One! You’ve got to hear it. X
I always bawl my eyes out when a QANTAS commercial comes on but I always thought it was just some good old fashioned patriotism being an Aussie. Seeing an adult American man get a tear in his eye really warmed my heart. We are fortunate to call Australia home and any time you guys want to come and visit we’ll make sure to turn on the good weather, fire up the grill, and get our backyard cricket on for you fellas. Thanks for this lovely vid. ❤️
Poud to be an Australian this country is in our heart.🤠🇭🇲
Check out the final farewell tour of the Seekers singing We are Australian
I've lived in several other countries, and travelled to dozens of countries, but every single time I return home to Australia I get all choked up and sentimental. For Aussies, traveling far and often is in our DNA, but coming home is the best feeling in the world.
I went to the USA for 3 months back in 1998. I had a 4 hour stop over in Japan on my return trip. I just stayed at the airport and God damn when I heard some Aussies talking, I was over the moon. I couldn't wait to get home.
I’m an Aussie and no matter how many times I see this, I still tear up..😢
IMHO, true patriotism is loving what's great about your country, but being able to be honest about what's not so great about it, calling it out, and always working to make things better.
Yep, what he said! There are better places to live and there are much worse.
My country right and wrong if right to be kept right if wrong to be made right again
I’m Australian and every time I hear this song it pulls at my heart strings.
I 💯 believe this should be our national anthem.
🇦🇺 🥰
I always get goosebumps when I hear that.
Peter Allen is the original singer/writer of this song... The Man From Oz.
Ash Barty world no 1 female tennis player (just retired) was the woman talking to her nephew/niece on the mob fone.
Yep niece
This song should be the Australian National Anthem, more emotion in this than the stale one we have now
Nah, I am Australian should be the anthem, I still call Australia home should be reserved as the expat anthem. I do agree with though our current anthem is NAFF….
Agree this really should be the National Anthem
I’d vote Waltzing Matilda first and I still Call Australia Home second, our current one is lame and when we become a Republic in the near-future in sure we’ll vote on a new one.
@@maitlandbezzina2842 it's about a sheepstealing homeless man who kills himself🤣 maybe not the best message
it should be I am Australian
@@TheBlank124 Let's get one thing straight, the song is about corrupt police and squatters who took all the good land, gained favour with the corrupt police and let everyone else live terrible lives in comparison. Matilda was trying to survive in a world that was against him and he'd rather die than be held hostage to that world. He was a hero and had more courage than most people have today.
Hey Guys! You watched it! I’ve been to the US lots of times. I have relatives who live there and I feel you when I see that big kangaroo on a red tail at LAX etc it really does make an old Aussie like me tear up. A big Aussie get together of your Aussie viewers if you two came over here would be awesome! I'd come to that! VK3CRG is not a word. It is my ham radio callsign! Callsigns starting with "VK" are from Australia and the "3" denotes my State Victoria. The "CRG" is obviously my name :) Craig - Australia
ANY AND EVERY AUSTRALIAN WHO KNOWS THIS SONG sings along just like i do when i watch people react to this song, . any Australian who knows this song cant help but sing along with pride when we hear this song
The celebs that sang in this song was Kylie Minogue, Troy Sivan, Hugh Jackman, Ash Barty & Adam Goode's! Thank you guys you made Aussies proud 😊!
'I still call Australia home' was popular before Qantas commercialised it.😮💨 Another song by Peter Allen worth listening to is 'Tenterfield Saddler'. It's about Peter Allen's father and grandfather.
It features a few famous Aussies who reside in other countries or have travelled overseas extensively for work. It’s saying even though they’re not able to be here, it’s still their home.
Kylie Minogue - Singer
Troye Sivan - Singer/Actor
Hugh Jackman - Actor
Ash Barty - World #1 retired tennis player
Adam Goodes - Retired AFL great
Brontë Campbell and Ellie Cole - Olympic Swimmers
The Bangarra Dance Theatre - First Nations performers and story tellers
600 Episodes! Great work guys. This song is always a tear jerker, the video makes it doubly so. As for QANTAS, It is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920; it began international passenger flights in May 1935. Many great Aussies in this vid.
When/if you do come to Australia, plan ahead, Australia is so large you need time to get to places, well worth the visit
This is such a special song to us Aussies. I always tear up when I here this…. Loved your reaction guys.💖
It is a old Peter Allen song from 1980.
The thing that stands out to me about this reaction, is that our sense of patriotism doesn't come from exceptionalism, unlike a lot of the USA. We just have a general sense of pride, family, mateship and home.
I rarely tear up but Qantus definitely killed it with this ad, as they often do.
Miles, this is especially for you, a different QANTAS series: ua-cam.com/video/x7XFafi4IGo/v-deo.html
I can’t express to you how it feels, after spending time in a foreign country, to step on board a QANTAS flight to head home, and suddenly realising you’re already home because this is an Aussie plane with Aussie staff and Aussie food and drinks! There’s nothing to compare with that!
Since it's admission time, I block my ears and make humming sounds when any version of this song is played, because it hits hard. Great vid. Cheers. :)
The woman with the Fila gear on is Tennis World Number One Ash Barty.
The kids singing in the school hall wearing maroon shirts are from Longreach in Queensland where Qantas started. The other kids in the white shirts are the Qantas sponsored Australian Children's Choir. They tour all over the world, in non covid.
The woman Face-timing her family is tennis champ Ash Barty 👍🇦🇺
This song was written by Australian singer, Peter Allen, and recorded in 1979. Peter Allen's life was made into a stage musical, The Boy From Oz.
It is considered an "unofficial" national anthem, along with poems/songs like "Waltzing Matilda", written by Banjo Patterson, and "I am Australian" by The Seekers.
Also, Qantas had already made another commercial using this song back in 1998, but they decided to use it again for this commercial, to celebrate coming together again during the lifting of Covid travel restrictions. Both adverts feature the Australian Girl's Choir and National Boy's Choir, but this new one also features the Gondwana Choir, as well as celebrities like Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, and Troy Sivan.
When you did the review of Australian inventions, did you notice that many were related to transport and communications? No coincidence. Australia is a vast country, with towns and cities separated by great distances. Plus, Australians love to travel overseas and because it takes so long to get overseas, we tend to stay there a long time once we do. We also have a "gap" year, when young people often take time to travel and work overseas before starting higher education or a full time job. So Australians have taken home-sickness to Olympic gold medal standard.
Every time I hear this song it makes me cry! 🇦🇺 proud to be Australian. Such great cinematography on this add.
These qantas ads always gets me teary and all I have to do is step outside and there's my Australia lol. Love this great southern land
That was Kylie Minogue, one of the most popular and famous pop singers in the World. She started on the "Neighbors" TV show. Dont be scared of Roos, the big reds are the scary ones, they live in the deserts and Central Australia. Most roos in the Southern States are "greys", a smaller more placid version. And Uluru is actually sitting sideways and goes 2km underground. Its so large it takes 3-4 hours to walk around (approx 10 kms, 5 miles).
QANTAS (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) is the world's third-oldest airline still in operation, having been founded in November 1920;[10][11] it began international passenger flights in May 1935.
I worked and lived abroad in 3 stints totalling over 10 years. And whenever hearing this song when I was 'away' was always just so moving and emotional. Beautiful song 🇦🇺❤️
As a Aussie myself, this song still brings tears to my eye's. True Australian patronage at its finest.
Every few years Qantas dos a remake, always well received, due to Covid this one was overdue
This has been a song since I was a kid. I love it. It’s true I have travelled the world 🌎 and I still call Australia home 🏡
The mother talking to her sister and niece, was World tennis number one, Ashleigh Barty. There were half a dozen other Australian celebrities in that commercial, including a former footballer, sisters who are Olympic champion swimmers, etc.
The swimmers were Brontë Campbell and Ellie Cole. They are not sisters.
@@HMAP792 Oh! I thought it was Cate and Bronte Campbell!
@@Jeni10 yeah so did I until someone else corrected me. If you look carefully one of the girls only has 1 leg and a short stump.
@@HMAP792 Oh! The first shot goes by so quickly, I never noticed that before! Floating on their backs, it just looks like her knee is bent, but you’re right, I had to stop the video to really take a look! Another thing that fooled me was Cate’s TikTok videos popping up on my FB feed every day, you just get conditioned to it, and I recognised Bronte’s face so assumed it was Cate with her. 😍 Great to have a girl from each Olympics in there!
Qantas has a long history of using Peter Allen’s “I still call Australia home”.
Like Peter Allen himself, Australians are among the most travelled per capita with a lot of Australians living temporarily overseas.
This is particularly so with countries like the UK and the US (where Australians are the only foreigners that have their own special working visa purely for the purposes of long term, but temporary work in the E3),
It was sad that Qantas had their 100th anniversary during the pandemic. It’s the oldest continually operating airline and the 3rd oldest after KLM and Avianca (BA managed to work out a really deceitful link between carriers to state they’re older, but anyone looks up the history and reviews how British Airways got to that conclusion would raise an eyebrow)
Honestly would be better than our current anthem ... truly a fantastic culturally relevant piece from an Aussie company that has historically advertised way better than our own Tourism Australia to encourage people to travel to our fantastic home :)
Qantas Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services started in Winton in western Queensland and have a museum there along with dinosaur skeletons and footprints n Lark Quarry
Did you know Qantas is the only word in the English language without a U after the Q? Why? It stands for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Service. The schoolkids in the hall were at Longreach, home of Qantas in Queensland - where it all started. The kids playing in the field were near a clothes line. That is called a Hills Hoist and was invented in Australia. Each scene was very quintessentially Aussie.
Scrabble says "qi" is a word too
@@tinfoilhomer909 Think about it. Who ever uses the word 'qi' and in what context?
Qantas is an acronym not a word.
@@LordPinbarren It's been wordify'd now boiii
I was born in England and my family emigrated when I was 8, so when we said "back home" it was always England. Then, when I was 25, I went for a working holiday back to the UK, and ever after Australia has been "Home".
It’s truly an Aussie anthem, I tear up every time. Qantas has been doing these ads for a very long time. It’s like a much needed hug and welcome home.
That's 101 years of logos. Only KLM is older, by one year.
I have ALWAYS loved that song those words the music! Qantas put that song together with the Australian Airline Wow! What a combination! BEAUTIFUL
At 5.05 im fairly sure the children are singing in different parts of the Sydney Opera House! ?
Kylie Minogue; Troye Sivan & Hugh Jackman...That was Tennis great Ash Barty with her sister & niece on the phone; Adam Goodes football star at Bondi Icebergs.....
That’s why I simply ❤️ love Australia 🇦🇺
I’m Australian and I get emotional watching the Huka too. I can cry watching anything, especially patriotic stuff and sport events
Same
Have you heard of Peter Allen? He was once married to Liza Minelli. He wrote many songs including this one, and QANTAS adopted it as their theme song. Aussies love this song, it always beings tears to our eyes!
This song was written by Peter Allen who was married to Liza Minelli. Qantas used it for a promo.
You can not be Australian and not tear up. It is extremely emotional. I think it’s even more emotional seeing as they had produced this add just before they restarted the planes once we opened the borders.
Hi guys, I just came across your channel today, and I like it a lot, so I subbed. I am a proud Aussie, and I love your comments and reactions. This always brings tears to my eyes, cause it's just how I feel, so priviledged to have been born in this wonderful country. xx The people in this video I know are singer Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, tennis player Ash Barty and indigenous AFL football great Adam Goodes. The others I don't know. xx
To walk around the entire base of Uluru is about 6.2 Miles (see what I did there)… that thing is massive and I can’t wait to see it when I go in September.
If you wear a fu manchu moustache and squint your eyes, they might even let you pay to walk on it. 🙄
I cry at everything, even those home makeovers when they bring family back. This song does it to me every time.
That "squid games building" is MONA in Hobart. It's a seriously amazing museum/art gallery. To me, the building is a a reason to visit apart from the exhibitions.
This song was written by the late great Peter Allen in 1980. He was colloquially known as The Boy From Oz. As a proud Australian this song fills my heart with pride and sends a shiver down my spine.
I cry every time time I see this damn ad. I LOVE IT
That rocky place near the water is Cape Hauy in Tasmania. It is the location of the Candlestick and Totem Pole, and is absolutely stunning
By the way. The school kids singing in a hall with the words Longreach over the stage. Longreach is an outback town in central Queensland where QANTAS began. It must be noted that QANTAS just picked this song up to use on their advertisements. It’s wasn’t written for them or with them in mind. It was written by Peter Allen, the great showman, singer, songwriter, former husband of Liza Minnelli, discovered and brought to America by Judy Garland, writer of I Go To Rio, Tenterfield Saddler, I Honestly Love You, Quiet Please (there’s a lady on stage) and many many more including Carole Bayer Sager songs (Moving out Today).
If it's one song that brings a tear to any Aussie eye, it's this one.!
Can't tell you how proud we are to sing this song.❤🇦🇺
No matter the version of I still call Australia home I always cry. That is the power of the song. I am proud to be Australian
This is the sweetest thing to see you guys admitting your feelings and emotions ❤
Peter Allen wrote the song I Still Call Australia Home“ the man from Oz” was done by Hugh Jackman after Peter Allen died. Peter didn’t want to put it on the “ Radio” to him it was HIS song for him but he was talked into it..Thankfully ……..I got home from school to see my mum bawling with this song on the radio and even by the end I was crying. The next day the radio stations phones went out of order from everyone in Aussie ringing. It come out on record, tape, cd everything. The one u walked was lasts years Qantas “ come to Aussie “ ad we get a new ad with it every 2nd year… But watch the very first Peter Allen sing it. He was married to Liza Minnelli at the time and he just missed home . You grew up in the country or outback Australia and he just missed Australian wrote that for himself but it got out and we are so lucky to have that is our song
In the opening scene of Uluṟu I don’t think people realise how huge it really is…. It’s over 1100 feet high!
@Erik Likyarn Most of Uluru is underground. About 2.5 klms with 348 metres showing above the surface. I got to climb the rock a long time ago. Was quite a climb and not a smooth surface on top of it. A few people died from heart attacks attempting the climb. Climbing this rock has been banned for a few years now in respect that it is a very spiritual place for our Indigenous people. I'm not religious, don't really believe in spirits or ghosts, but hmm. We camped near the rock at that time. But over the couple of days spent there, you (well me) could just feel something about the area, spooky almost, but tranquil. One of those things you just cannot describe. Some of the Aboriginal spirits? Dunno!
every time i watch the video, my pride swells up and brings a tear to my eye
As an Australian this makes me well up with tears EVERYTIME 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Australian lands are pure like no other.
How to make a room full of Australians overseas quite???. Play 2 songs I Still Call Australia Home written by Peter Allen and I Am Australian written by Bruce Woodley of the Seekers and Dobe Newton of the Bushwhackers. How to make Australian troops cry play these its a guarantee.
Vote 1 for "I am Australian" for National Anthem. 🦘
Musicians are Kylie Minogue (based in London), Troye Sivan (based in LA), and triple threat Hugh Jackman. Also featured in Tokyo is ex-number one Tennis champ, Ash Barty. By pool is Adam Goodes from Sydney Swans. Aboriginal dancers are a group called Bangarra. And the choirs are the Australian Girls Choir together with National Boys Choir and the Gondwana Choir.
Kylie has now moved back to Melbourne permanently
@@HMAP792 nice!
That's going straight to the pool room ...
Kinda reminds me fo the "Ship Song Project", which shows a lady from the Sydney Opera House walking out at the end of a shift (and taking the scenic route in the process), while a variety of Australian entertainers do a collab of "The Ship Song" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
They played this before take off on the qantas flight home (Melbourne) when I was coming back from London. I’m not ashamed to say it had me in tears…that 24 hr flight couldn’t go fast enough.
All these things fill me with pride as a true Australian: with ash Barty saying I miss you filled my heart miss the kangaroos back home
5:05 to 5:14, filmed in Tasmania at an Art gallery called Mona. The whole Complex looks as if it's a villain's HQ from James Bond. The owner, David Walsh made his money through developing a system in gambling. Not sure if it's true, but folklore has said the Australian Taxation Office were after him so he established the gallery as a bit of philanthropy to get them off his back.
Tasmanian people used to be allowed to visit for free, but recently he's been asking for a down-payment so I think Mr Walsh can eat a sausage. I'm not paying him a cent with any "promise" for a refund once I prove I'm Taswegian. F that guy.
The song was written by Peter Allen when he lived in USA. It was used by QANTAS a long time ago. It is beautiful and we all really do miss Australia when we travel. It's a wonderful and beautiful country. I think that may have been Kylie Minogue early on
Hilarious to hear Miles doing vocal gymnastics trying to read a ham radio call sign as a name phonetically... VK3 CRG
The mother with the logo was world number 1 on tennis tennis - Ash Barty.
Qantas adds with this song always bring a smile to my face.
**I** still also call Australia home, because that's where I grew up.
As an Aussie living in Aus this ad was just beautiful. Though on the TV they have a shorter version.
That, 'musician' was Kylie Minogue (known by her detractors as the singing budgie). She comes from a long line of Aussie stars who started in Soap Operas (in her case, 'Neighbors').
Landing at Sydney international airport, walking out into the muggy air that smells like flowers and coffee and mateship. The magpies singing along with all the other birds. I still call Australia home.
This ad makes me tear up. And not much is capable of that! Can't afford to travel, but this ad sure makes me want to see more of Australia. My home!
Kylie Minogue is the lady you speak of!
Longreac is the outback town where QANTAS (Queensland And Northern Territitory Air Service) was founded, hence the kids in the old town hall. The hangar shown with the old images projected on it is real, it is still there.
I'm Aussie born and bred. This song should be our National Anthem. The lady sitting on the bed on the phone was our Tennis Champion Ash Barty. I live in the same town she does, good old Ipswich. Ipswich is west of Brisbane only a 40min drive. You guys are awesome 😎🤙👍👍👍🤗