I Still Call Australia Home - Wikipedia I Still Call Australia Home `` I Still Call Australia Home '' Song by Peter Allen from the album Bi-Coastal Language English Released June 1980 Songwriter ( s ) Peter Allen Lyricist ( s ) Peter Allen `` I Still Call Australia Home '' is a song written and performed by Peter Allen in 1980. In it, Allen sings of Australian expatriates ' longing for home. Contents 1 Significance to Australian culture 2 Charts 3 Use 4 References 5 External links Significance to Australian culture It has been used to signify Australian patriotism and nostalgia for home. An example is the series of Qantas television commercials where it was sung either by individual Australian musicians or one of several Australian youth choirs. In the 1984 Summer Olympics ' Opening Gala TV special ( in Los Angeles ), Olivia Newton - John performed this song from Sydney, Australia with the choir in a medley with `` Waltzing Matilda ''. Later, both songs were used in the musical about Allen 's life, The Boy from Oz, in which Hugh Jackman starred as Allen. `` I Still Call Australia Home '' was added to the National Film and Sound Archive 's Sounds of Australia registry in 2013. Charts `` I Still Call Australia Home '' peaked at number 72 on the Australian singles chart in June 1980 when it was originally released, but re-entered the charts and peaked at number 60 in September 2015 following the screening of the mini-series Peter Allen : Not the Boy Next Door. Use The song was used in the evening closing sequence for Tasmanian television station TNT - 9 Launceston and later by TasTV. In the version of the song popularly used by Qantas, `` Rio '' is replaced by `` Rome ''. Qantas does not operate flights to Rio de Janeiro, but flew to the Italian capital at the time the video was made. The version of the song used by Qantas in its 2009 advertisement replaces the entire first verse with one sung in Kala Lagaw Ya, a dialect of the Torres Strait Islands. This version was performed by the Gondwana National Indigenous Children 's Choir and the Sydney Children 's Choir as well as the Australian Girls Choir and National Boys Choir. The song is a popular inclusion in the repertoire of several Welsh male voice choirs, including the Australian Welsh Male Choir and Morriston Orpheus Choir. The Welsh version replaces `` London '' in the line `` from New York, to Rome, and old London town '', with `` Swansea ''. Australian comedy team The Chaser 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 Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa. The song was performed by Chris Lilley in episodes one and two of `` We Can Be Heroes : Finding The Australian of the Year '' ( 2005 ). The song was performed by singer Kylie Minogue in the Sound Relief concert in benefit of the victims of the Australian Bushfires on 14 March 2009. The song featured as pre-game entertainment at the 2009 AFL Grand Final, performed by the ' Qantas choir ' and the Gondwana National Indigenous Children 's Choir. The song was performed by Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban, Hugh Jackman, Olivia Newton - John and Russell Crowe to close Oprah Winfrey 's Australian Adventure during her final season on broadcast television. This performance originally aired on US television on Friday, 21 January 2011. The naming ceremony for Qantas ' A380, VH - OQA, the Nancy Bird Walton, the flagship of their fleet, features a choir singing this song The song was adapted and translated into French by Sylvie Boisel. The title is L'Australie est ma patrie. She performed it at Sydney Town Hall for the Prime Minister of Australia John Howard and the Wallabies in 2007. The song was performed by a choir at the opening ceremonies of the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. Australian comedian and musician Tim Minchin uploaded a parody of the song called `` I Still Call Australia Homophobic '' to his Facebook page in reference to the same - sex marriage debate and proposed 2017 survey in Australia. References ^ Jump up to : Duncan Macleod. `` Qantas I Still Call Australia Home ''. The Inspiration Room Daily. Retrieved 2 July 2009. Jump up ^ National Film and Sound Archive : Sounds of Australia. Jump up ^ `` Kent Music Report No 312 -- Week Ending 16 June 1980 ''. Imgur.com ( original document published by Kent Music Report ). Retrieved 12 August 2017. N.B. The HP column displays the highest peak reached. Jump up ^ Kent, David ( 1993 ). Australian Chart Book 1970 -- 1992 ( Illustrated ed. ). St Ives : Australian Chart Book. p. 15. ISBN 0 - 646 - 11917 - 6. Jump up ^ Ryan, Gavin ( 19 September 2015 ). `` ARIA Singles : Justin Bieber ' What Do You Mean ' Keeps Top Spot ''. Noise11. Retrieved 19 September 2015. Jump up ^ `` TNT 9 Closedown Early 1980s ''. c. 1980. Retrieved 1 September 2010. Jump up ^ `` TAS TV End of Transmission ''. c. 1986. Retrieved 16 March 2012. Jump up ^ `` Wonderful Welsh Choirs ''. ( track 11 ) Jump up ^ `` Chaser QANTAS Ad ''. Jump up ^ Gondwana Choirs Ltd ( 2010 ). Annual Report 2009 ( PDF ). Annual report. Sydney. p. 7. Jump up ^ `` Tim Minchin - A heartfelt song to my homeland... '' Retrieved 11 August 2017. External links I Still Call Australia Home TVC ( 2004 ) Lyrics : Peter Allen - I Still Call Australia Home I Still Call Australia Home performed in French by Sylvie Boisel Peter Allen Studio albums Peter Allen ( 1971 ) Tenterfield Saddler ( 1972 ) Continental American ( 1974 ) Taught by Experts ( 1976 ) I Could Have Been a Sailor ( 1979 ) Bi-Coastal ( 1980 ) Not the Boy Next Door ( 1983 ) Making Every Moment Count ( 1990 ) Compilation albums It Is Time for Peter Allen ( 1977 ) The Very Best of Peter Allen ( 1982 ) Captured Live at Carnegie Hall ( 1985 ) The Very Best of Peter Allen : The Boy from Down Under ( 1992 ) The Ultimate Peter Allen ( 2006 ) Notable singles `` Tenterfield Saddler '' ( 1972 ) `` I Honestly Love You '' ( 1975 ) `` The More I See You '' ( 1976 ) `` I Go to Rio '' ( 1976 ) `` Do n't Cry Out Loud '' ( 1978 ) `` I Still Call Australia Home '' ( 1980 ) Productions Soon ( 1971 ) Legs Diamond ( 1988 ) The Boy from Oz ( 1998 ) Peter Allen : Not the Boy Next Door ( 2015 ) Related articles The Allen Brothers Liza Minnelli Bernadette Peters `` I 'd Rather Leave While I 'm in Love '' ( 1979 ) `` Arthur 's Theme ( Best That You Can Do ) '' ( 1980 ) `` I Do n't Go Shopping '' ( 1981 ) ARIA Hall of Fame Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I_Still_Call_Australia_Home&oldid=818341526 '' Categories : Australian patriotic songs Songs about Australia Hidden categories : Use Australian English from February 2012 All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English Use dmy dates from September 2010 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2010 Talk Contents About Wikipedia 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 3 January 2018, at 00 : 22. 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Question: when was i still call australia home written
Answer: 1980