The classic song (anthem) "I Still Call Australia Home" by Peter Allen, sung by a cast of Australians including Kylie Minogue, Hugh Jackman, Troye Sivan, the Australian Girls Choir, the National Boys Choir and the Gondwana Choir. This video identifies the locations where the different scenes were filmed and the Australians shown.
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I've been to cities that never close down
From New York to Rome and old London town
But no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home
I'm always travelling, I love being free
And so I keep leaving 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 family and friends
I miss you, can't wait to see you
But as the world gets older and colder
It's good to know where your journey ends
Someday we'll all be together once more
When all of the ships come back to the shore
I realise something that I've always known
I still call Australia home
But no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia
I still call Australia
I still call Australia home
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QANTAS I Still Call Australia Home Campaign:
More than 35 years after Qantas first launched an advertising campaign using the iconic Peter Allen anthem I Still Call Australia Home, the airline has unveiled a new version of the advertisement to showcase Australia as the world re-opens and travellers return to the skies.
The advert has a contemporary arrangement of the song and features the vocals of a new generation of the Australian Girls Choir together with National Boys Choir, the Gondwana Choir and some of Australia’s most loved personalities.
Along with Kylie Minogue, Ash Barty, Hugh Jackman and Troye Sivan, the campaign also stars children from Longreach, Qantas staff, Adam Goodes, members of Bangarra Dance Theatre, swimmers Bronte Campbell and Ellie Cole and Aboriginal Elder Rene Kulitja.
The advert was filmed pre-COVID at locations around Australia, from the spectacular Hutt Lagoon in WA to the jagged cliffs of Cape Raoul in Tasmania. Scenes were also filmed in Melbourne, Uluru (Ayers Rock), Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney, South Australia’s salt lakes, Longreach, the Whitsundays, Los Angeles, Tokyo and London.
The final cut of the advertisement highlights emotional reunions with loved ones as more Australians are travelling domestically and international visitors are returning.
(Campaign text sourced from QANTAS media release)
