As mentioned elsewhere in the comments, this song was written by the late Peter Allen. He first performed it at a Royal Charity Concert in 1980 at the Sydney Opera House before the Queen and Prince Philip.
Hi, my wife and I along with our 4 young children emigrated to Australia in 1970, we grew up in South London and later we lived in Byfleet in Surrey. We have been back to the UK many times over the years mainly to visit family and I have to say that after living in Aus we do call it home even when returning from the UK we look on it as going home.
“Together once more” made me immediately burst into tears. Australia was in lockdown with closed borders for so long. My sister was in London at the time and I missed her so much. It meant everything to me when she was able to come home.
The reunion at the airport was real footage of a family coming home after the lifting of covid. The grandmother had never met her grandchild. I am australian and it doesn't matter how often I see this advertisement or hear an Australian sing it, I always shed a tear.
@@wyattfamily8997 this is the most recent, it was made in 2022. You can goggle it and the singers that are mentioned are the ones in it. I actually remember that grandmother because I saw her interviewed at the airport on that day. It is and probably the most poignant of all the ads and they have all been brilliant
@@wyattfamily8997 it is the most recent and was made in 2022. The grandmother reuniting with her family I remember watching on the news and I am pretty sure it was in Adelaide. I think this ad, is the most sentimental because it was when families could get back home after covid, but they are all wonderful.
The ones didn't know like the girl in Japan are Aussie sports stars. The girl is French, Wimbledon & Aussie open winner & ex world number 1 tennis player Ash Barty who has since retired after winning the Aussie open
Fun Fact for you: Hugh Jackman starred in the musical "The Boy from Oz" which is about the life of Peter Allen. Peter Allen was married to Judy Garland's daughter, Liza Minelli and he wrote this song.
Yes, it's a great ad, but most Aussies would agree that Qantas has fallen far from its icon status. It treated staff and others dreadfully during the pandemic, deliberately sold cancelled flights, and more. Its CEO pocketed a fortune before running away as the merde hit the fan.
Back in 2022 Qantas was able to travel overseas after the covid pandemic so they celebrated by creating this wonderful Peter Allen musical ad. Qantas has been using the song as their theme for quite a few years esp since Peter died. 👍🤗 The little kids at Longreach were from a Queensland town where Qantas was created in 1920.
Qantas was using Peter Allen's beautiful song way before 2022. They first introduced it in 1987 as an advertising jingle and it has evolved over the years.
@@wyattfamily8997quite right that the song has been used by Qantas since 1987 but this particular ad was done for Qantas’ 100 year anniversary in 2020 but due to the airline being grounded at that time, it wasn’t shown until 2022 after the airline restarted flying in November 2021
An Aussie Peter Allen wrote the song. He used to be Mr Liza Minelli and performed with Judy Garland. He was a great songwriter and entertainer. He wrote "I Honestly Love You" with Jeff Barry. Olivia Newton John had a Number 1 in USA with it At the 17th Grammy Awards in 1975, the single won both Record of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.
Kate Blanchet, Adam Goods, Ash Barty etc all live in Australia but travel overseas. Huge Jackman and Kylie Minogue were the only ones shown who live overseas.
This is Peter Allen’s song, always has been and always will be!! I had the pleasure of actually seeing Peter in Concert in Sydney many, many years ago, an experience I will never, ever forget, he was absolutely brilliant!!
@@9eyeswideopen I’m very sorry for your loss, and a very big loss it was for everyone who knew him or just loved his music and his performances. He was the ultimate Showman with so much talent, gone too soon but never forgotten especially by me!
@@ellyneilsen2865 thank you it was a big loss to everyone it is so lovely to see him still recognised for he was the ultimate showman but more importantly, he was an amazing person inside and out.
It was great to hear The Bushwackers sing it on The Voice recently. We can now hear the co-composer of this beautiful song (Dobe Newton) sing it with his colleague on RU-vid. The version by the other composer, Bruce Woodley of The Seekers is amazing. Those two gentlemen created a masterpiece.
The indigenous man, standing on the edge of the pool, and bends 1 knee back, is Adam Goodes, an indigenous legend in our AFL (Australian Football League). He was a star for the Sydney Swans team. I support the West Coast Eagles, but still admire our true "footy" champions, Adam is in that category. Geez that man could play, and he did it all, what looked to be so effortless, he ran like a gazelle, flew like a bird, and out skilled the very best of em. MUCH respect Adam, and I hope you're having a well deserved retirement cobber
Sorry to rain on this particular parade, but the recent referendum defeat for the first people still rankles. Adam Goodes, like nearly all really successful indigenous sports stars are rentlessly attacked as soon as they raise the slightest, the smallest protest at injustices towards the first people. Predictable, vicious as befits a deeply racist country as Australia is.
@@Dr_KAP I'm very glad to hear I'm not alone in that Kappy. It's embarrassing for all of us YES voters, and it makes me very upset when people jump to the conclusion that we're all racist. I also get upset about it, because I know at least half a dozen Indigenous people who all voted No, which just makes no sense to me, but each to their own. How anyone can judge us as racist, when many Indigenous themselves voted No, is just mind boggling to me. Shrugs
The choirs were the Australian Girls' Choir and the National Boys' Choir, not the Royal Australian Children's Choir. In Fact, the two choirs sang the song and appeared in the footage filmed in Australia, , but for the overseas footage they used children form those countries to mime the song. it was cheaper than flying the two choirs to all the countries that appeared in the commercials.
@@luziferschadenfreudevonhol8487 Some of the childern singing in this latest version of the ad are the kids of girls that sang in the original in 1995!
@@paulditty2908 yes, i know. It's good to see next generations of past members singing the song! Still the Australian Girl's Choir singing the song with the National Boys' choir. ☺
It was nice but I like the older ones QANTAS made which were just the children's choir. Also the song pre-dates QANTAS' use of it. They actually changed the lyrics because they don't fly to all the places mentioned in the original song 😅
Hi There - you don't need to go too far from the city to see Kangaroos at least here in NSW - just a 25 - 35 minute drive down the coast to the Royal National Park and you should see some - sometimes at the parks near the beach or camping grounds. They are up and down the coast as well as central Australia. The song is quite old and has been redone nicely. Ash Barty who was the young woman in contacting folk from home is our Australian Tennis Champ among other well known stars you already knew. :)
Dancers are probably the Bangarra dance troupe based in Sydney. Ash Barty, the tennis player also makes an appearance. All these are Indigenous Australians
This is an ad for what was once regarded, and possibly even beloved, as Australia's national carrier. Qantas is no longer a beloved Australian icon, it's just another big corporation that treats its customers like absolute trash and gouges them at every turn because it can. Any national affection for it, and the once prevalent sense of national loyalty to it as 'our' airline, is long gone. It's just another Big Airline. It's sad, but screw you, Qantas.
The celebrates you missed. The woman speaking on the phone was one of Australia's greatest tennis players who is an indigenous person. The guy who was a bit reluctant to get into the swimming pool is one of our greatest AFL players who won the individual champions aware twice. He is also indigenous. The two women swimmers were two champions. One was a disabled athlete. The video is of course a sales pitch for an airline coming out from COVID using nostalgia and pride of country to sell a few seats. It is a great piece of propaganda. Fifty years ago Australia was a backwater which only allowed white immigrants and treated Indigenous people in an appalling way. That changed and the country decided to attract migrants based on skill rather than skin color. As a result the country now has about 20% of the population born overseas. The sorts of people attracted have been doctors, nurses, accountants and engineers. They have been part of turning the country into an economic success. More importantly like Britain it has become a success in creating a multi- cultural society. The structure of the song is to first show Ularu. A sight that is sacred to Indigenous Australians. The images are aimed at showing respect for Ingenious people and thus suggesting a spirit of inclusion and pride in all cultures. it was a good add produced by an airline that was facing a lot of scandals and needed all the image improvement it could get
That’s the first one that popped up for me with that title. Can you tell me the full title and channel the original is on and I will be sure to check it out 😀 I think links will get automatically blocked
The commercial use of this song grates a bit. Watch it performed by the songwriter himself for the quintessential version. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bpyZkxEaiTs.htmlsi=Hn_lh34IC378hNbS
How many beaches do you think there are? We have a thousand or so islands and a similar number of beaches. How long will you take to see most of them? We do not do expeditions to see animals, we have zoos etcetera. This is not africa. You can do a boat trip, on the Daintree river, where they feed a huge croc, but that is not a cruise, takes a lot shorter time frame. You can swim or snorkel or dive on the great barrier reef and see the fish. Even the reef is longer than your whole country. You can take a few hours and travel top to bottom of your country Scotland to Cornwall. In Queensland, you can travel for days and still be in the same state, there are 7 states and the capital territory. Find out some more about us and find out how far you can get in one trip. State to state by plane saves time, but the distances make planes more exy than you would have thought.
This is a misrepresentation. I am Aussie born and breed, as were my grandparents and great-grandparent, and this does not represent modern Australia. There is not unity or commonality in modern woke Australia.
And yet people voted still "No" in the referendum last year to recognise Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islanders as the first peoples of Australia in the country's "Constitution"...The majority of European Australians didn`t want that to go ahead thus voting "No"...For obvious reasons...
would be much better and more impressive if you did not talk so much. Surely you do not need to interrupt every 5 seconds? The more it continues the MORE annoying you become
