Americans React To I Still Call Australia Home 

Believe me whenever Australians hear this song it will make us pause and fill us with pure pride 🇦🇺

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

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.

"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.

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. 🖤💛❤️ 🇦🇺🌏

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.

🎶 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.

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.

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!!

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. 👍🤗😁

Don't worry, I cry everytime I hear that song. And " I am Australian" gets me.

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.

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’m Australian and every time I hear this song it pulls at my heart strings. I 💯 believe this should be our national anthem. 🇦🇺 🥰

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.

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!

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.

I’m an Aussie and no matter how many times I see this, I still tear up..😢

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.

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.

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.

Poud to be an Australian this country is in our heart.🤠🇭🇲

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. ❤️

This song should be the Australian National Anthem, more emotion in this than the stale one we have now

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.

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.

That's 101 years of logos. Only KLM is older, by one year.

The woman Face-timing her family is tennis champ Ash Barty 👍🇦🇺

When/if you do come to Australia, plan ahead, Australia is so large you need time to get to places, well worth the visit

**I** still also call Australia home, because that's where I grew up.

Miles, this is especially for you, a different QANTAS series: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x7XFafi4IGo.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!

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.

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

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 is a old Peter Allen song from 1980.

As a Aussie myself, this song still brings tears to my eye's. True Australian patronage at its finest.

That’s why I simply ❤️ love Australia 🇦🇺

Honestly the 'Channel 7' ad for the upcoming Commonwealth Games is pretty lit too. The full length one.

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

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 such a special song to us Aussies. I always tear up when I here this…. Loved your reaction guys.💖

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. ❤

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.

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.

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)

'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.

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.....

Every few years Qantas dos a remake, always well received, due to Covid this one was overdue

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.

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.

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

This song was written by Peter Allen who was married to Liza Minelli. Qantas used it for a promo.

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.

I’m Australian and I get emotional watching the Huka too. I can cry watching anything, especially patriotic stuff and sport events

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

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 🏡

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.

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 🇦🇺❤️

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).

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 😎🤙👍👍👍🤗

As an Aussie you just cry everytime you hear this song...Peter Allen was a national treasure ...should be our National Anthem only to be challenged by I Am Australian...there is a Telstra ad done beautifully to that song that is a tear jerker too

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.

Every time I hear this song it makes me cry! 🇦🇺 proud to be Australian. Such great cinematography on this add.

if you want a "moving" song you must watch The Seekers farewell concert singing "I am Australian" pure patriotic gold!

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 😊!

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.

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!

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 cry every time time I see this damn ad. I LOVE IT

Kylie Minogue is the lady you speak of!

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.

In the opening scene of Uluṟu I don’t think people realise how huge it really is…. It’s over 1100 feet high!

I cry at everything, even those home makeovers when they bring family back. This song does it to me every time.

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.❤🇦🇺

Check out the final farewell tour of the Seekers singing We are Australian

The woman with the Fila logo on her shirt is the recently retired world number one female tennis player Ash Barty. The man you recognised as the greatest showman is Hugh Jackman and the female singer you recognised is Kylie Minogue. This song was penned and originally performed by the late Peter Allen who was known as “The Boy from Oz”. You should listen to his version it tears me up every time.

As an Australian this makes me well up with tears EVERYTIME 🇦🇺🇦🇺

I would call this song the Australian traveller or expat's unofficial "thinking of home" anthem. Qantas is very smart to make it their song connecting Aussies abroad with calling "Australia home"

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, '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').

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!

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.

Another Aussie song that makes me cry is 'l was only 19' by Redgum, released in 1983, story about a young bloke going to Vietnam war.

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 is the sweetest thing to see you guys admitting your feelings and emotions ❤

I saw Hugh Jackman sing this on Broadway in 2004. The musical was based on the life of the writer of this song, Peter Allen, and he sings this towards the end, when he knows that he is dying. If the video is emotional, imagine hearing it live!

"I Still call Australia Home" was a song written by Peter Allen who was from Tenterfeild nsw. Peter also wrote a song called Tenterfeild Saddler (about a man George Woolnough & his life in Tenterfeild who made saddles they built & named the local library in Tenterfeild after him) another beautiful Peter Allen song. QUANTAS stands for "QUEENSLAND AND NORTHERN TERRITORY AIR SERVICE & the Australian Celebs & Sports stars in this video: Kylie Monogue (Actress & Singer/Song writter) Troy Ivan (Singer/Song writter) Hugh Jackman (Actor) Ashley Barty - (Indiginous Australian Professional Tennis player) Adam Goodes (Indiginous Australian Rules Football/AFL player) Indiginous Dancers - (Bangarra Dance Company) QUANTAS first used this song for their commercial back in 1987 vocals sung by Allan Johnston & he sang of cities LA Rome Ol London Town OG Artist Peter Allen used cities New York Rio & Ol London Town QUANTAS changed the cities New York Rome & Ol London Town. R.I.P Peter Allen "The Boy From Aus" 🦋💫🕊

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.

QANTAS - Queensland and Northern Territory Air Services - started in Longreach, Queensland, hence the kids at Longreach singing the song.

celebs in this video are - singers, kylie monique and troye sivan. then hugh jackman. retired world number 1 tennis player, ash barty and retired aussie rules footy player, adam goodes - dancing by the pool. then olympic swimmers , ellie cole and bronte campbell, swimming in the ocean.

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.

There are several commercials done by qantas with this theme, qantas comes out every few years with a “I call Australia home commercial” Aussie Aussie Aussie

I have ALWAYS loved that song those words the music! Qantas put that song together with the Australian Airline Wow! What a combination! BEAUTIFUL

My Nonna and Nonno moved to Australia in the late 50s from Italy and settled down in Melbourne, Victoria, they had my dad and aunt not long after. Anyway years go by and my mum and dad eventually meet and they introduce their parents to each other and my mum’s dad, my Pa who was the most Australian man ever, said my Nonno, who was the most Italian man ever, was a true blue bloke 😂. And when he passed away in 2002 he told my mum it was one of the saddest days of his life because he lost a good friend. No matter where your from and you come and live here in Australia you can and will always call it 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.

I Still Call Australia Home is not an ad for Qantas. It's an Australian song by Peter Allen. Qantas uses it in their advertising.

As an Australian I tear up every time I hear it.