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  • AUSTRALIA DAY WOOOOOOOOOOH XD

  • Happy Australia Day!

  • 25 dislikes they are just jealous they dont live in our amaziiiiiing country!!!! <3 suck a dickk fagggs

  • who sings this?

  • @kctwistie2

    Rai Thistlethwayte from Thirsty Merc...

    No one does it better i reckon!

  • @toni2510 oh , ok thanks :)

  • by far the best add telstra has ever made, i say bring back this advertising, get rid of those stupid rainbow colors adds.

  • i am working with telstra and i love it!!!

  • I'm not from Australia too, but I live down under!

  • so I know the lead singer of Thirsty Merc sings this version of the song, would anyone know what the chords/tabs are? cheers

  • I wish I was born in australia

  • telstra are nothing but cunts lower then a brown snakes ass hole

  • This should be our national anthem :)

  • This song and ad make me so very proud to be Australian. I agree with @TheMusicoftheNightxx They should start playing it again.

  • AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI!

    FUCK YEAAAAH!

  • Why isn't this our national anthem?

  • 0:23 That girl has an F'd up eye.

  • @coughsyrup78 nope. That is a gift from god. Look at Tim McIlrath (greatest musician ever)

  • they should play this on the tv again! who cares if it's like 10 yrs old - go australia!!

  • I thought it was Silverchair singing this but I'd be wrong. :P

  • Any reason why they're singing it in an American accent? :|

  • @joojiepoo It's Rai Thistlethwayte, lead singer of Thirsty Merc, he's actually australian, so go figure.

  • Okay! I went through all the comments and found it! The band that sings this is Lo-Tel :)

  • whats the band that sings this?

  • i am not from Australia but i love it

  • @Ghadooo2012 Me too!

  • 24 people deserve a beatdown

  • I remember back when I saw this ad for the first time. I remember thinking, "Wow, what a great ad, makes me feel proud to be australian" and then I saw the telstra logo at the end and I thought "WTF, all that just to advertise TELSTRA?" lol

  • I am still waititng for my telstra plan that I ordered a week ago...the consultant said it would take effect immediately and the telecaller told me that it would take 72 hours. I don't think you can trust what Telstra say anymore, nor their care for customers.

  • @Commadoss I'm with TPG, unlimited for 100$ amazing customer service. So happy when my contract with telstra ended.

  • @gemimasaliva what's so bad bout that... Pfft bog deal

  • this ads the bomb

  • who sings this version?

  • @93Oz93 This one is done by a band called, Lo-Tel

    This is the video to the whole song by them: wwwDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=Vt­MNiVcmlpA

  • @93Oz93 lo-tel

  • Actual rofl'd like an alpha cunt reading all the "fuck telstra" comments.

  • Love Aussie hate Telstrra rip-off cunts lol

  • In not a fan of telstra but LOVE this ad.

  • Found telstra a shocking network... changed to optus... so much better!

  • It's excellent, so patriotic!

    But I didn't really understand the part about a disabled man in a wheelchair and his family. Can anyone explain what does it mean?

  • @povar1981 well its a telstra ad so the old lady is using a phone to hear that babies voice and just going to flashback in here memories about great times together.Thats why that sepia colour video.So be in touch with friends and families and remembering the times

  • It's excellent, so patriotic!

    But I didn't really understand the part about a disabled man in a wheelchair and his family. Can anyone explain what does it mean?

  • @povar1981 Also Telstra providing different sort of phones for disabled, elders and other special needs equipments so everybody can enjoy talking with their family. By law Telstra is bound to provide service all over Australia (any remote area as well).

  • my stupid Telstra fee's paid for this commercial ...........

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  • tesltra can get fucked...just fired alot of people and sent the jobs overseas ....boycot telstra!!!!

  • who sings this .... this version

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  • @xxxNeikixxx

    Rai Thistlethwayte, the lead singer from Thirsty Merc

  • When i grow up, i wanna be an Aussie :P and i also hate Telstra

  • @FDBarrY what do u mean

  • @awesomejalbi3 i meant i wanna by Australian, coz im not. i just live here :P and it was just a joke :)

  • I love Australia as my home and my life but I never come a cross such a bunch of fuking rude incoonsiderate people as telstra who actually ow me money but I have to chase them for it WTF! I hate Telstra shops if you go in there to ask about new phones or to sign up for something they will do any thing for you but if they have over charged you or have a poblem with there service I recon you get more help in a Nazi concentration camp. Fuck Telstra is not Australian there Dog Shit!

  • Happy Ass tralia day telstra you filty corporate crooks

  • Happy Australia day from Telstra, 80 of us have just been made redundant due to our jobs being taken out of Australia!

    Fucking filthy pricks capitalizing on Australia day while they are shipping our jobs overseas.

  • iam from Germany but i love Australia. Happy OZ Day

  • happy oz day!

  • Happy Australia day to all those near and abroad!

  • Great song. Great pictures. Shame its done with Telstra's money.

  • @310sucks if telstra was still aussie owned it wouldnt be so bad

  • really good song love it

  • Singleton Ogilvy & Mather Advertising circa 2000.

    Singer was a young man by the name of Ray Thistlewaite and the band was Thirsty Merc, unknown at the time. Ian Brown was the writer and Raj Rabindranath was the art director. Nice work lads. Still one of my favourite.

  • Great video ,, beautifully produced with a message showing the beauty of the country and its strengths due to it's diversity. An important message with the advancement of

    globalization.

  • I know someone that worked for telstra for 20 yrs+and that someone told me, the work was never done properly,nothing was ever fixed on time unless it was on overtime,no one hardly worked because it was considered to much of an effect and now days that someone says it's more fucked up now than it ever was and the whole network is collapsing,due to quantity, overriding quality.

  • Where did all asians go ,,

  • Love this song!

  • ENGLISH HSC SUCKS

    THUMBS UP

  • @Psythe878

    random but true

  • the babys crying because it knows this is a telstra add

  • hey GUYS we are australian arnt WE are one we ARE TELSTRA GOIING CHEAP AS JAFFA ROLLING DWN THE LANWAYS HAVE FUN HOT IN AUSTRALIA LMAO

    NICE ADD LIKE IS THAT OLD?

  • LOL

  • here's a tip for customer service by the way.. straight from the mouth of my employee of telstra buddy.

    just say "MANAGER" when the automated voice comes on and starts asking you questions. you should get passed it and to call waiting for a technician a.s.a.p.

  • i love the video, but god damn.. did telstra have to be the ones to make it -_-

    the part with the baby and the grandma.. that's so.. argh. it hits you seeing that..

  • i love this song and i love telstra!

  • this is such an awesome cover, any one know the band?

  • @LadyBeetleLauren

    This band is Lo-Tel

  • freaking loove this version of the song...too bad its an ad for telstra...=/

  • Makes me cry everytime I watch something aussie.. I miss my country :(

  • @B3RRYBLAST2

    me too!

  • IM PROUD TO BE AUSSIE (thumbs up if u hate telstra tho) :)

  • good ad.

    shit telecommunications company.

  • too bad there is no telstra coverage in any of the places shown in this ad...

  • what the band?They are australian?

    bless

  • These cunts are anything but Australian

  • American guy singing we are Australian?

  • FUCK TELSTRA stupid indian cunts cant even speak english srsly... my nets disconnecting every fucken 2 minutes fuck you telstra

  • I love this song. I really wish that it was our anthem rather than Advance Australia Fair. It's a shame it got picked up by Telstra, though, 'cause now it's linked in so many minds with the company.

    Sappho

  • i love being an Aussie. not many people can say that in need, a whole country supports them if they need help to get back on their feet.

    sure we have our issues, but so does every country, but i think we are one of the least selfish countries there is.

  • Best telsra commecial evar :D

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  • Im an aussie too and i hate Yanks

  • I like be Australian, but can I just say that all parties in this election suck...

  • hey does anyone know what's the background song on latest foxtel on demand ads?

  • that gave me goose bumps. i am so proud to be australian. not a thing i would not do for my country

  • Born and raised in this proud country!

  • THIS SHOULD BE OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!

  • @nevind1 I agree its such a great song. and the lyrics really make you proud to be well...an Australian

  • @nevind1 i agree lol

  • I agree :P :P

  • I Loved this add!

  • I've been living in Australia for about 14 years now.

    I love this country. I love the people.

    Believe me, I will give my live for this country.

    but..., I hate this fucking company!!!

  • Hey Telstra. If only your customer service and professionalism came within a bee's dick of being as good as this ad. You've ruined many an otherwise stress free day-off of mine. Hours on the blower I've spent trying to sort out a problem you created. I (had) a mobile phone account with you.. how hard can that possibly be for you to manage? That's (supposedly) your specialty! Pff.

    Vented my spleen.. thankyou.

  • @patthecattwice Tell me about it! Some Telstra fuck came to my door and offered me a Home phone, mobile and internet bundle with no connection fees, no installation fees and offered to pay my Optus disconnection fee. They ended up telling Optus to disconnect all my services but didn't connect me with theirs for 3 weeks! Now my first bill is $670 and I'm asking them what the fuk's going on and they don't know! I've had to call about 20 times now and I still have no home phone! I'm scared.

  • I like the way this guy sung it :L :D

  • been to oz 3 times in 2 years.great place & people....also check out my songs & videos...hit on gypwin..cheers

  • It may be a telecom ad, but it's just wonderful.

    The song is everything that Australians are about =)

  • who sings this song??? like this version of it ???

  • australian patriotism is the greatest marketing tool in this country. its a shame that a company as useless as telstra can get business through ads like this one

  • Telstra, we are Australian, hiring Mexicans and Yanks as our CEO's, watching them ripping the system, and piss off with millions in money far from earnt. Thats Australian alright! TELSTRA IS HEADING FOR THE GRAVE....

  • old mates gotta sit out in the middle of a cold paddock just to get a bloody signal for his laptop

  • Telstra Is so cool Love Them

  • i used to hate australia with a passion but now i realised that it's not only australians who are loud-mouthed, self centered, arrogant, undereducated, unemployed lazy slobs... it's the whole world and that made me gain SOOO much respect for my homeland, Australia <3

  • AUSTRALIA FTW :)

  • Im really proud of being an australian, because this song really makes me happy :)

  • Telstra suck - 24/7 technical support and I asked them to help me configure port forwarding on my router - they responded with 'unfortunately it is outside our scope of support to help you with disabling your windows firewall'. TECHNICAL support?? Router = Firewall? Bigpond = Windows? Are they training monkeys to answer calls now?

  • it's sad coz i LOVE this country, especially Sydney where i've lived since i was 2 months old, yet coz of all this white nationalist shit i hear (i'm south asian by ethnicity, proud of that too lol) i haven't FELT australian for a while which is sad.. love it here though !

  • give the cuntry back to the abos

  • fuck the lot of ya. aussie pricks

  • @sumobear1995 fuck you

  • @iluvshaundiviney lol take a joke

  • @iluvshaundiviney oh and fuck u to

  • wow... :-)

  • Who sings this version, it sounds awesome :) So proud to be an aussie

  • this song is epic, my teacher mrs jones show me this song today !!!! :D i feel proud of my country!!!!!

  • im so proud to be an aussie.

  • fuck, this song gives me the nightmare of being on hold when calling telstra.

  • i love this song

  • I'm proud to be an Aussie, but i really fucking hate Telstra

  • @WesThorburn hahahaha that is such an Australian comment. Onya!

  • @WesThorburn why wats so wrong with Telstra

  • @WesThorburn

    Damn I couldn't agree more! Took Telstra 3 damn months to finally fix my home phone!

  • @WesThorburn

    haha!!! I can't agree more!!

  • @WesThorburn what is telstra/

  • @WesThorburn Don't we all...

  • @WesThorburn

    Oh God, I totally agree with you! :D

    Telstra sucks :/

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  • i never get tired of this song

  • Shame Telstra holds no belief in this. Try calling them....you are sent offshore to speak with someone with an accent to thick you cannot understand.

  • must want to be an Australian, love the country, want to make it better for all Australians. Similarly I have told British and other friends thinking of going there to live and work that one cannot think of doing this for the short term, if you want to be accepted you must embrace Australia. Then Australia will embrace you in return.

    Thank you those who love my country, especially the comment from a refugee family escaping persecution, makes me proud to be an Aussie reading this!!!!

  • @OSMarsupial I want to move to Australia so badly! Everything about it seems amazing, from the people to the beautiful lands. Oh and plus, the "Ozzie" accent kicks ass! =)

  • @OSMarsupial good time to become one :D becoz im one i was born in here

  • Lindies18, so sorry to hear Telstra doing this to your job, it doesn't surprise me. However they certainly made a terrific commercial with this one, a teerific add that just makes me want to jump on a plane and come home.

    The debate below is most interesting about Australia and nationality - especially those recent arrivals. I want to bring my partner back home eventually, and I keep having to explain that it's not enough to get a bit of paper verifying your new Aussie citizenship, you really

  • I am an Australian Telstra employee, answering calls from Australian customers, relieved to be hearing an Australian... however my job will soon be made redundant and shipped overseas.

  • I am leaving Telstra for this very reason and have been a loyal customer since Telecom. I wish you the best of luck lindies18.

  • i like this

    its good :)

  • My parents brought us here to escape religous persecution,we embraced our new country with open arms. New Australians reading this should remember why you came here.stop complaining about our culture and Your very lucky to be here ,dont abuse it.if you dont have a positive solution then shut your mouths or go back to were you came from because we didnt invite you here, you requested to come, because we are protective of our way of life. God bless Australia, Australians and our way of life.

  • well i think coming to this country and gettin a piece of paper sayin ur aussie doesnt make u australian, prove ur worth,no disrespect intended and the kids of today dont no wat patriotism means

  • totally agree - a piece of paper means nothing, you have to show you properly love your adopted country. but that's where the distinction should end - shouldn't matter what colour someone is, or where they came from. if they love Australia, that's more than enough for me.

  • what do you mean children of today dont no what patriotism is me and all my mates since forever weve been proud of our country i feel lucky everyday when i wake up that i was born here and ill die here.

  • @xxch1pzxx People who insult the 'kids of today' forget who raised them!

  • @WTF7176 , They are Australian citizens fuck head, in Australia you do have to look like a certain race, to be classified as Australian.

  • Yes you do cunt. Sheik mufti has been here for 50yrs, doesn't speak a word of english, dresses like an arab, talks like an arab and acts like an arab. If it walks like a duck dickhead, it probaly is!

  • Ausralia= AMAZING ....

    Love this song.. Love the ad

    im so proud to be Australian

    Hope you all had a good one for Australia day !

  • does anyone know the Singer for this ad?

  • lol wat the scary thing is that we were nearly colonized by the dutch or the french :0 imagine wat australia would be like if that had happened *thinks* brain hurts e.e must loose thoughts of mimes

    we are one...but we are many.....

  • ok, i don't know what half of you are talking about, i'm not australian. but i got linked to this ad randomly and the song gets stuck in my head so often, it's almost distracting.

  • This updated version is done by the band "Lo-Tel" if you are interested.

  • nice! thanks :D

  • I deal with telstra utes at work even they fail with dying batteries and other problems XD

    Telstra takes fail to a whole new level

  • Totaly irrelevant, but Telstra made me almost fail my SOSE class XD We got an imaginary $5000 to invest in stock markets and my teacher said not to pick Telstra because she did and lost most of her money... so I didn't... and Telstra did really well and the companies I invested in sort of crashed and burned. I love the song and ad though~

  • We are one, we are many

  • This was made during a majority-government controlled Telstra. Shame great ads like this aren't made by 'stra anymore.

  • love it..

  • whenever i watch this video, i cant help but feel a continuous sense of pride. we are a powerful country that stands strong.

  • love this add! it shows Aussies for being ourselves!!! green and gold all the way!!

  • I am.....

  • who sings this?

    oh, and i prefer this song over the actual Australian Anthem any day