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Qantas later reused the song as part of safety videos since 2018, with the 2018 safety video recorded in many parts around the world, including New York and London. In addition, "Rio" was used in this version of the song instead of "Rome". When Qantas was celebrating the centennial anniversary of its
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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.
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The Australian hip hop group TLK used the song as the inspiration for their 2006 song "I still call Australia home" which referenced historical violence against Aborigines.
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composed a parody of the Qantas version of the song, called "I Still Call Australia 51 per cent Home" in response to Qantas outsourcing some of its engineering services to
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speech of earlier generations, "home" referred to Britain. Thus by contrast, "calling Australia home" became for a period a particularly piquant expression of
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foundation, the instrumental version of the song tailored to each time period portrayed in the safety video (with a children's choir singing at the end).
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The song was adapted and translated into French by Sylvie Boisel. The title is L'Australie est ma patrie. She performed it at
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uploaded a parody of the song called "I Still Call Australia Homophobic" to his Facebook page in reference to the
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The version of the song used by Qantas in its 2009 advertisement replaces the entire first verse with one sung in
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in 1994; it was performed and arranged by Noel Elmowy, and sung by Chris Lloyds and Andrew Oh, with
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and peaked at number 60 in September 2015 following the screening of the mini-series
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Brad Porfilio; Debangshu Roychoudhury; Lauren M. Gardner (23 September 2014).
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In one version of the song popularly used by Qantas, "Rio" is replaced by "
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in 1980. In it, Allen sings of Australian expatriates' longing for home.
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Peter Tschmuck; Philip L. Pearce; Steven Campbell (16 April 2013).
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regularly performs "I Still Call Australia Home" in their concerts.
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The song was performed by a choir at the opening ceremonies of the
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The song was used as the closing for Australia Day celebrations at
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as well as the Australian Girls Choir and National Boys Choir.
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The song is a popular inclusion in the repertoire of several
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in June 1980 when it was originally released, but re-entered
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The song was used in the evening closing sequence for
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Index

Song
Peter Allen
Bi-Coastal
Songwriter(s)
Lyricist(s)
Peter Allen
Australian patriotism
nostalgia
Qantas
1984 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles
Olivia Newton-John
Sydney
Australia
Waltzing Matilda
The Boy from Oz
Hugh Jackman
National Film and Sound Archive
Sounds of Australia
Australian English
Australian identity
Australian singles chart
the charts
Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
Darling Harbour
Sydney
Prince Charles
Tasmanian
TNT
TVT

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