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.
“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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 CZcams. The version by the other composer, Bruce Woodley of The Seekers is amazing. Those two gentlemen created a masterpiece.
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. ☺
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
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 😅
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. czcams.com/video/bpyZkxEaiTs/video.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.
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...
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.
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
I moved to Australia in 1966 from the UK. Australia is my home. Greatest country on earth.
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Me too!
Welcome home Aussie!!
WELCOME HOME AUSSIE!!
WELCOME HOME AUSSIE
Please let people know it was the great PETER ALLEN who wrote this FANTASTIC SONG 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺💝💝💝
@user-gy4gf5cx9b yes so proud of my cousin 😪
The girl on the phone in the dark is Ash Barty, former Australian No.1 tennis world champion.
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.
@wesleygalvin9983 yes he did Peter was my cousin and it was one of his proudest moments
“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.
I didn’t know that. Made me cry.
I think you'll find the advert was made years before Covid, it's an old one.
@@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.
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.
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.
Correction, not Judy, he was married to her daughter, Lisa Minnelli.
@@judileeming1589 ugh. thanks for that. It was late and I'd had a few. editing now :)
You should check out Peter Allen’s version. He wrote it for Australia’s bicentenary. He sings it with love.
This was actually an advert for Qantas. The song wasn’t written for Qantas it was written by Peter Allen
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.
The Ad. was in circulation long before Covid.
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
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.
Nevertheless, they have never fallen out of the sky.
Joyce wasn't Australian.
@@John-ri4uy officially he's Irish-Australian, and he lives in Sydney.
@@GreenDistantStar has never been an aussie and never will be he is a leprechaun.
@@GreenDistantStardidn't he run off back to Ireland with his golden handshake before he could be interrogated for his disgusting actions?
Reason for the big names is because their Aussie but live overseas, but Australia is still their home
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.
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.
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
Yes and did you know the indigenous woman at the start was the artist who designed the indigenous artwork seen on the outside of Qantas planes?
@@Dr_KAP No, but I do now. Cheers Dr Kappy
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.
@@user-ul9dv2iv9s yes it’s embarrassing and disgusting and I’ve voiced this myself many times on CZcams since the referendum
@@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
Listen to the original version by singer song writer Peter Allen also the song Tenterfield Saddler about his grand father Cheers from OZ
Saddler is one of my all time favourites So beuatiful
@philliphemphill4980 it is an amazing song and a fitting tribute to George. Peter was my cousin so proud that he is still being recognised
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!!
@ellyneulsen2865 yes it will always be his song everytime I hear it I am brought to tears as he was my cousin 😪
@@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.
You need to check out the seekers I am Australian
Judith Durham's gorgeous voice really does it justice.
@@SuzyQ334 should be our national anthem instead of the racist crap we have now
In this video there are stars, personalities, sports persons and ordinary Aussies all representing the most wonderful country on earth.
Listen to The Seekers I am Australian. Best song of all.
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 CZcams. The version by the other composer, Bruce Woodley of The Seekers is amazing. Those two gentlemen created a masterpiece.
Beautiful song! It always brings tears to my eyes.
@TY-ms1nf yes I’m the same way, but not the same way Peter was my cousin 😪
A song by Peter Allen, "The Boy from Oz". Perhaps another anthem, that most Australians know by heart.
I think Hugh Jackman also did the stage play "The Boy From Oz" too.
He certainly did @@utha2665
Hugh Jackman won awards for his performance in 'The Boy from Oz' as Peter Allen, the very man who wrote and first performed this song.
Based off the earlier Quantas ad with the Royal Australian Children's Choir
there is no U in Qantas - Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service.
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. ☺
Listen to Tenterfield Saddler by Peter Allen who wrote this song.
A great song to watch is “ Great Southern Land “by Icehouse
This song was written by Peter Allen
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
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 😅
Let the song play and talk later. Really ruins the song to hear your narrative all the way through..
It's a reaction video, not just the song... did you know you can go watch the original if you don't want to hear the reaction? Just a tip...
So cool. This is an updated remake of the Qantas advert. Original song written by Peter Allen. Wonderful song.
I still prefer the one with the Children's choir for Qantas from 1998. A beautiful Peter Allen song.
QANTAS changed a lyric. The original was 'From New York to Rio', but QANTAS didnt fly to Rio de Janeiro at the time, but they flew to Rome.
The little blonde girl was a choir member
This one always makes me choke up. IMHO it would be a great national anthem to replace the dreary Advance Australia Fair.
Qantas will play this song when coming into Australian airspace to welcome weary travellers home xx
You should watch Hugh Jackman in Les Miserables …..amazing
Absolutely! That version was all about the story and the acting. The singing was just the vehicle for the story. Anne Hathaway was brilliant too.
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.
For those interested, QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territory Air Services - the original name of the company.
When we were at school we said it stood for Quite A Nice Trip, Any Survivors? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@LG-nb5ur lol
This is an advertisement for QANTAS! Australia's main airline.
It’s a great song but turned into a qantas ad is annoying
You need to hear it in full
Ayers Rock, Central Australia.
They need a longer version of this maybe there could be a scene inside a plane
Was this the ad that was meant to go out just as Covid began, got held back and had 'together again' stuck on the end, after the national lockout.
This is our Anthem too stand and well up it doesn't matter which version all rule
Check out the qantas 100 year centenary safety video being recorded by actual staff members recreating the old era of qantas
That was Ash Barty in Japan. Look up Peter Allen
Yes extremely idealistic video, one of Peter Allen’s best , my fave is Tenterfield Sadler 🌺
I prefer the original Peter Allen version; he wrote the song. An amazing talent
The children singing in Longreach is because that's the QANTAS launched
Where
Should be our national anthem
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
As an Australian, this is the most annoying version of 'I still call Australia home' which I have ever heard! Go the original...
czcams.com/video/_OCKXLXWNXg/video.htmlsi=A8VYcNwCCd-UrMFy
Do the original, please, mate.
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
Is it the 1998 one?
Still, always call Perth home.
The best version is with Peter Allen. This is not that great.
Check out adam hills version national anthum
Please listen to Peter Allen doing this. It’s his song.
Dude!! Try THE ANGELS! SKYHOOKS were cool also!! DRAGON SA WELL!!I think U will go THANKS girl!!
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Our unofficial national anthem
Zero "traditional" stuff here/ FYI - Queensland and Northern Territory Air Service [ QANTAS ]
The commercial use of this song grates a bit.
Watch it performed by the songwriter himself for the quintessential version.
czcams.com/video/bpyZkxEaiTs/video.htmlsi=Hn_lh34IC378hNbS
Talked All the way through it.. missed heaps 😔
Qantas promo lol
Troy?? Shaun mendez
Goods the fucking drongo
WHY are you reacting to a Quantas Commercial???
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.
@kathleenmayhorne3183.
Maybe you should learn about our country also, There are 8222 Islands within the borders of Australia and nearly 12000 beaches.
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...
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.
Beautiful country great people.Shit government,but then aren't they all.
Aliens, literally!!
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
Yeah , they call Australian home but they don’t want to live here.
Well I most certainly do