I still call australia home - Peter Allen, Theme song for remembrance of English Camp @Sydney Australia, KUS-MP, Chonburi, Thailand. OCT. 2009. All photo taken during my after school city tour.
I cry every time I hear this song, being a loyal Aussie living abroad, and especially when I hear it as it is played as the plane is decending into Australian airspace for landing (used to be on Qantas). This Aussie may be living abroad, but you will never take the Aussie out of her!
Gives us chills doesn't it. I heard a group of Aussies singing this at Oktoberfest in Munich in 1994 and I don't mind admitting I bawled my eyes out. I couldn't even join in with them. I'd never felt more homesick in my life.
Flyin home on the bird after 2 years away aged 22, Aussie accents of the flight gals, the pilot tilts the plane as we pass Ayers rock over the red centre so we all can see... and this song plays on the radio. View of the beaches 🏖 before we touch down.. bloody brilliant 🎉! forever home I will always 💓 🇦🇺 🦘 🐨 💓 🇦🇺
What would we do without Peter Allen's legacy of iconic Australian songs. Both , I still call Australia Home and Tenterfield Saddler bring tears to my eyes . Thank you Peter
Far more emotional & patriotic than "Advance Australia Fair " & far more appropriate than " Waltzing Matilda " as a national anthem. We need to recognise this Peter Allen masterpiece as our next national anthem when the Queen passes away.
Great song which still gets me in the heart and should be our national anthem but hey Australia is not just bloody sydney!!! From a proud Australian not living in Sydney
In a few days I will be leaving my beloved Australia to go on an overseas adventure. It'll be so much fun but my heart will always lead me back home to my home, Australia. Eventually I'll return and I'll remember everything that happened over the course of my adventure and how great it is that I made it home
I'm an Aussie currently living in Venezuela. I loved this song before but I guess I appreciate it more now that I am travelling around and it will be a long while before I return to Australia. Thanks for posting this!!
@vicweb1978 The reason he is singing with an American Accent is that for work reasons Peter Allen live most of his adult life in the USA, so naturally he picked up the accent. Peter constantly visited Australia where he grew up in Tenerfield in NSW. He was proud of being an Aussie and he never hid that fact. The whole point of the song is to tell people that no matter where you end up living or working Australia is always special in your heart.
I heard this song at the end of the Oprah Show today! How beautiful! It was moving, to say the least.This is coming from a Bostonian,.. (Boston, MA, USA) I was surprised that it's not their national anthem. :)
Qantas the spirit of Australia I love Australia and I can’t wait until restrictions are lifted I am very proud of the country that I live in I love Australia and we are all very lucky that we live in such a good country I’ve been over to Thailand and over in Thailand a person with a disability doesn’t get treated as well as a person with a disability in Australia you know we are all very lucky that we are Australian but the best thing with living in Australia we are very multiculturalAfter I travel and I come back to Melbourne after an international flight I get emotional because I am so proud of the country that I live in I cry because I will look at my passport and I think my god I’m so proud of my country that I live in I’ll never give up my Australian passport I will never give up the coat of Arms of Australia I’ll never give up the emu and the kangaroo that’s on my passport I am very lucky that I’m Australian and we are all very lucky that we are all Australian
+Lefferable ...don't worry it is a national anthem to many, and I've travelled overseas and come home and the wheels of the aircraft have touched Australia and this song has been in my mind and a tear has formed
Has anyone realised that there is more than one city in Australia. I live in Australia, it is a beautiful country and I wouldn't just put a whole lot of pictures of Sydney if I made a version of this. Peter Allen wasn't just talking about Sydney, some day we'll cometogether once more, all the people int he cities, towns and from the outback.
I am a Korean. I stayed in Sydney from 2004 to 2005 with working for an Aussie game company. I still have lots of memories in there and still call AUS home!
I challenge anyone to listen to this song tomorrow (Australia Day) while thinking about the floods in QLD and VIC and NOT get teary!! I got teary when I heard Hugh et al singing it at the Oprah finale on Sunday night.
@rjoteach Yes this is a beautiful song. i'm australian & this song is inspiring to say the least. But the lyrics are applicable to anybody wherever their home is. wherever u go there's no place like home. steve.
It's a pity all the pictures are of Sydney and surrounds, Australia is so much more - not just a city. It's the towns, the bush, the outback, the sands, surf and blinding hot sun, the eucalyptus fragrant with aroma on a summer's day, the Rock and of course our native animals - Skippy, Blinky Bill, Cockatoo, Kookaburra, and of course - the bunyip. This is what Peter Allen would have been singing and writing about. Great man our Peter, there'll not be another like him.
+Aust Opinion It quite clearly states in the description. "Theme song for remembrance of English Camp @Sydney Australia" and "All photo taken during my after school city tour."
You should rename this video. ''I Still Call Sydney and Canberra Home'' Anyone watching this video would think they are the only two towns in Australia.
Agree Melb is better than Sydney, but if you read the bio then you'll see that the person took all these photos on a camp and that's why it's all Sydney.
Sydney can't dominate everything - Melbourne is most liveable and Canberra is capital. Plus, Melbourne was capital before Canberra, not Sydney. Every Aussie capital is great.
Make this Australia's National anthem -- and create a new flag without the disgusting Union Jack (The Butcher's Apron) in it. Happy Australia Day, mates.!!