"About 5 seconds ago. An naked Aboriginal child stalked me then broke into my apartment and sprinkled magic teleportation sand into my hands. Now I'm in Australia."
@bunniansprouse Australia definitely isn't for normal people; only for the mentally unstable suffering from insane stress at home being stalked by naked babies. An ad taking itself too seriously? You bet.
Baz Luhrmann, famous for making utterly shitty movies, went on to surprise millions of people by making an utterly fucking shitty tourism commercial.
Not only does this make me regret living in Australia, it makes me want to launch Luhrmann into the sun on a one-way rocket. And take your stupid fucking movies with you.
I think it's a very powerful advert, makes me emotional, I went there for the first time two years ago when this advert came out, will always remind me what a fantastic place it is and how our lives can get too wrapped up in work etc, I know I was, I came back a different person, just returned from my second trip there and can't wait to go back again, I love this advert, it's my favorite :)
Sure - The Australian Aboringinal people have a highly developed spiritual connection with the land. Going "walkabout" is to put aside everything and to journey into the bush to connect your soul to the the land. This ad is encouraging people to put thier highly stressful lives on hold - to visit Australia - and to reconnect with who they truly are as a person through seeing the incredible natural wonders Australia has to offer.
.. that all of us have "trashed & crushed" was untrue and an exaggeration. I was just irrationally angry after watching the ad. But I do think all of us have, to some extent, had a hand in it (even just through silence). And I have to go so I can't finish this.
It's a good ad for those who don't know anything about Australia or are completely ignorant. Using the very culture and traditions we, white Australia and all immigrants, have trashed and crushed to sell it to a bunch of tourists?
Apparently, culture matters only when we can gain financially from it. Like Uluru. Typical of Australia, and the government.. yes, lets all promote the cultural significance and beauty of it but let a bunch of tourists trample all over it and piss on it.
@brownlow4lyf I actually support tourists visiting Australia because I think everyone should get a chance to see our wonderful country, given they respect it. But I also understand this comment.
Although I, personally, haven't done anything, I do feel quite ashamed of what my (white) ancestors have done to the Aboriginal community, and I'm disgusted by what still goes on today. But I don't think you can correctly say 'all' outsiders have
@brownlow4lyf (continued) trashed & crushed the culture and traditions. A lot of people are very ignorant to the issues in Aboriginal communities, but there are still a lot of people who feel very strongly about them. I think it's great that these people are free to see these sites. It opens the mind and often takes away the ignorance. I am glad that they're going to stop letting tourists climb Uluru, though.
@lauramoodyy Oh yes, I don't really mind tourists to Australia as long as they are respectful of the Aboriginal culture.. (even if my comment didn't sound like it). And I am an economics student so... obviously I don't think stopping tourism is the answer. My anger is/was more towards the governments, corporations and Australian individuals that enable and promote such disrespect with full knowledge of their beliefs and Australian history & present realities. And I admit my declaration (cont)
God I hate this commercial so much, I had to come look to see who made it just so I could tell my friend what commercial I hate so fucking much. This one.
Life should be about our contact with nature and inner self, about simple moments, joy and serenity. And Australia still represents that. One of the last gems on this Earth... Wish I were there.
@yogicm Ehm... Speaking as an Australian, no it doesn't. That's a fantasty cultivated for tourism. We really aren't that different. Most of us live in very modern, largely unremarkable cities around the coast.
@mermaydlondon piss off.... we don't want Asylum Seekers.. are quite okay..? we don't want anyone from 3rd world countries in Australia.. tarnishing our culture, have you actually had a close look around Sydney & Melbourne... both once beautiful and uniquely Aussie, are becoming gross, these migrants don't even work, just sit on welfare..! and its America whose helped create the wars, not Australia. yea and the majority of people in the Over-crowded UK would die to have the space we have.
@paddlepopkid ew ew ew....... the fuck is wrong with you? you're like, a family first voter, YOU'RE the gross one... ew... go die. you have the exact same political views at hitler, you're stuck in the fucking 1900s.
@Alkners huh..? whats eww.... your utterly confused.. with what gross/eww means.! and no Hilter's views was to actually "kill off" people... i don't share this view at all, so what are you on about..? i simply said... i dont want asylum seekers in my country... or 3rd world migrants who can't work... and contribute little...which is a veiw shared by all Aussies.... whats a "family voter"..?
@paddlepopkid what is ew, is how bluntly you view people in poverty and despair, and your lack of well, hope for humanity - something you share much in common with Hitler.
@paddlepopkid I'm Aussie and I can't stand Australia. not because of the migrants, they actually bring some culture to the place. I just can't stand white anglo saxon redneck bogan Aussies. Roughest, most unsophisticated people on earth - you sound exactly like one of them. I can't wait to get back to Europe to be with real people!
@haze555ful i sound exactly like a 'redneck unsophisicated bogan'... how so..? i actually happen to be finishing a uni degree this year, meaning im in top 26% of our population, by means of education and ablitity to get educated... but i will admitt with all honesty, i am racist,, i hate 3rdworld migrants, they are both vile, dirty, arrogant and in considerate, and they don't add any culture to the place at all, they infact tarnish our culture..! Keep out all Non-European Ancestory people..
@paddlepopkid We're all immigrants. The only "real" Australians are the Aboriginals who had been living here for thousands of years pre-european contact.. Everybody else has migrated to Australia.. So unless you're of Australian aboriginal descent you don't really have "culture", Australia doesn't have their own unique "culture" because we are an amalgamation of variety of different ones. If anything.. We'd be the slack, bogan (and as much as they'd hate to admit it) descendants of the Brits.
@haze555ful ah, but you would know not all of us fall in that category. I love the fact our country has been enriched with a diverse range of cultures, life experiences, stories, etc. People like paddlepopkid does represent the worse aspect of the underlying ignorance and inherent racism that this country does have. I do love Australia, and I love the people who have made Australia great. The people you describe don't do that for Australia, they give the rest of us a bad name
I know, I was on the bus the other day and a teenage girl behind me started making derogatory remarks about a woman waiting at the traffic light... She was calling her a "turban head". (burqa!!!!) It was rather terrifying.. this mystery girl masked behind the cloth might have been a TERRORIST :O ! ...
No actually, it was the fact that we're so damn ignorant and afraid that we have to cover up our fear of foreigners with disgust. :(
I live in the Western suburbs of Sydney and I've seen how Australia is and what it can be like. Aboriginal Australians have already accepted our apology and now our country only defends our own people from racism. We have more multiculturalism than any other country in this world so if people like Ribbetlicious and paddlepopkid wish to call them self Australian start bloody well acting like it. First rule No RACISM! or accusing people for being RACIST when issues in the world now aren't RACISM!
@RoboDouche we're the ones that let them in,,, what do they do for us? Australia donates more money to international disasters than any other country including the USA. But yet people expect more from our country to take in all these poor foreigners and give them rich sustainable homes but yet let our natives and people go without homes. I'm sorry to say this but its there problem for entering Australia and ending up in there. Australia tries there hardest to support everybody.our people come1st
@DracoSCREENINGS We let them in because we are obliged to by international law. They are refugees fleeing persecution, after all. Sadly, the authors of the Geneva Convention never thought to include an article forbidding the imprisonment of asylum seekers while their claims are processed. A shame.
"Our people come first." Classic 'us vs them' xenophobia. And yet you have the cheek to say Australia doesn't have a problem with racism.
@RoboDouche We let them in yeah because its in international law okay, but we don't go giving them a house when *citizens* of Australia deserve more right then Asylum seekers. If we let too much of them in its going effect our economy and "Our people come first" is not 'xenophobia' its a clarified depiction of Australia's goals. Australia is one of the friendliest countries in the world and we don't deserve this useless bagging just because we have tonnes of immigrants. You should be ashamed.-.-
@DracoSCREENINGS Ashamed of what? Defending the rights of people fleeing from persecution? And why do citizens deserve more rights than Asylum Seekers? I'm thinking you're not really clear on what rights are or how they work. As for letting too many of them in, Australia receives no more than a few thousand boat people a year. At the current rate it would take 30 YEARS to fill the MCG with the new arrivals. If you think the economy is at risk from refugees you have bought into a political lie.
@RoboDouche Ashamed of bagging Australia, And how could you say citizens don't deserve more rights than Asylum seekers, they enter our oceans illegally and claim that they are, and are you Australian? because if you are you would listen to the national news and discover that there are more boat people than the MCG a year. It would be like me trying to live in your house because my house is falling apart, and that I deserve more rights than you in your own house.You need to learn more bout rights
@DracoSCREENINGS You are 100 percent wrong. Asylum seekers are NOT illegal immigrants. There's NOTHING illegal about entering a country like Australia if you are fleeing persecution. And no, the number of boat people arriving every year is not more than the MCG. The most that have arrived in any year is slightly above four thousand. You are obviously not acquainted with the basic facts of this subject. I challenge you to educate yourself properly on such matters before forming opinions.
@DracoSCREENINGS PS. Yes, I am Australian. And yes I know what rights are. My formal education is in rights theory. It is clear that you do not understand what an asylum seeker is or what rights they posses in accordance with international law, not to mention standards of moral decency.
@RoboDouche If you were taught well in Rights and you live in Australia then you should understand the pressure on our country in taking all these immigrants in, and by the way they are illegal immigrants to our country, they do not possess an official password, however i understand that you may feel empathy or anger at this. If this is a legal INTERNATIONAL law, then why has prime minister Kevin Rudd himself halt the entering of Asylum Seekers, and just over 4.000 a year is enough!
@RoboDouche and P.S. The rights your talking about are International rights. but in our nation a certain amount of illegal immigrants is enough! Australia gives alot to Sri Lanka and then they show up to our shores with no passwords just 40 people crammed onto 1 boat looking down at the sea patrol party begging "Let Us IN" empathy is conveyed here even I feel that feeling but if we continue to let them in it is showing an example to the rest of the world.
I can't say i liked this ad very much, too much of a promotion for the movie Australia than anything else, i found the storyline in the ad stupid..it was too much for an ad and i had to watch it right to the end to really care and even then it wasn't grabbing my attention, which is a pity because i do love things from Baz Luhrmann..just not this
Oh stop you guys, get a grip. I am from way across the world and I wanted to come to Australia after this ad. False or true representations, the intention is to ATTRACT. And that's what it did.
This doesnt show Australia at all its just the emotion, Show Australia how it actully is, Big Vast Unique Beatiful land. with the beast beaches and icons in the world, with an awsome society that also loves to party hard, this is a dark Rainy ad, Australia is Hot Sunny Beautiful. WAKE UP TOURISM AUSTRALIA,
Honestly - what a FUCKING awful ad. Yeaaahh... I want to visit a big muddy hole.
Yep, come on everyone down to Australia and go walkabout with the Aborigines. Learn their culture and see just how much they've been fucked over by colonisation and continue to be racially stereotyped - just like in Baz's ad!!! Yep, for all you gullible dicks, Australia only has Aboriginal people living in the outback and they haven't changed at all!!!!!
what the hell dumb-arse...? they were already fucked up before colonisation happened more than 250years ago..? firstly people need to get ova the past... and move forward... secondly, what is aboriginal culture... some rock paintings and dancing around camp fires..? they didn't even know how to built shelter..? look at what they acheived b4 white people came..? barely anything...! if australia wasn't colonised... they'd be still naked, eating bugs. and sleeping under trees..!
I hope im not coming across as "white superior" or "racist" coz im far from... infact i'v done community help for aboriginal communities..! but when people say that this generation of people living in australia should give back the land and worship abo's... thats totally wrong!! and plus b4 colonisatio occured... there was not one single building or major civilisation advancement on the continent... they only made sticks blocks and bomarangs! while euros had already seen into space....!
@MissCarolion Well as far as I know crocs can't climb limestone escarpments hundreds of metres high. I have swum in plenty of amazing spots in NT like they do in this ad.
Now swimming at the bottom of the falls is another story..
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The little boy, skin as brown as the earth, travels barefoot from across the globe to give a little bit of himself to the white woman lost in her concrete jungle. Such a typical fetishization of non-white bodies.
It's the magical negro factor. The person of color in the fiction narrative who enriches the lives of an innately good white person through his or her wisdom by dint of difference.
People of color are always thought to have some kind of ineffable connection to nature and everything that's orignary that white people lack.
Are you sure about the director? I just saw this spot credited to Bruce Hunt as director on the Biscuit Filmworks website. Doesn't really look like Baz's style.
what a fantastic ad, sophisticated, beautiful and powerful.
Its about time we did something like this as the tacky, trashy, slutty, beachy, corny ad's haven't and wont sell australia. There are thousands of pretty beaches in europe and the americas, so why would u fly 35 hours to us.
And its nice to see an indigenous person, this as an ozzie living in europe is what i constantly hear from people wanting to go to australia to learn more about, but its never sold to them.
what the fuck is this shit? This actually makes me want to go to australia less, because it is apparently the most pretentious nation on Earth. Fuck you, Baz Luhrman.
This ad is weird. it makes out like you go to australia to save your marriage. Its kinda a sad spin. Ads promoting Australia should show how fun australia is and how relxing it is! not that its a place to fix or escape your problems. Baz, you know nothing about marketing. Who let him do this??
i LOVE this advert - when i saw it on british tv the 1st time it stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me of how magical and beautiful australia can be- god i miss being in Oz!! any aussies want a cockney lodger??? LOL :)
not all aussie haye aboriginals i dont and i am from sydney it is a fucking great loss about them and i think that we should have said sorry a long time ago ... and australia is a great movie... also sport and a good beer is a excellent option
i just wen to new zealand recently and they treat their indigenous people (maoris) with the upmost respect, and if you see an aussie beer ad they all love it, when you c an aboriginal on the tv representing australia, they all hate it, which i think is ironic, i think we should all be equal you know, and in australia theyre happy to be careless and laid back, which is disappointing because there is unrest here still
From someone who lives in Australia, I find this ad kind of stupid. Sure, the music is touching or whatever, but where I live is practically where the lady lived at the beginning. It's not really that different. I don't see the big deal. But I suppose if it does get people to see the beauty of Australia...
Agreed. What the hell? The video is cute, but has nothing to do with Australia. A video about escaping and swimming in some lagoon? Could be anywhere. Australia has a bit more to offer than that!
I love this music. If there has ever been a commercial that actually told a story within 60 seconds, this is it. Hauntingly beautiful music that deserves its own track. I'd buy it.
Actually this commercial is kind of terrifying! Stalked by some creepy kid.
CoyKiyote 2 weeks ago
what is the song???
mouse746 1 month ago
My English lesson at school today sent me here
mmmPIZZA100 2 months ago
@mmmPIZZA100 Me too
Sarah99200 1 month ago
0:12 - shit just got real
zadzibuglica 2 months ago
FUCK YOUR WRIT1001, CRACKED SENT ME!
Owens867 2 months ago 13
Thumbs up if you're watching this for WRIT1001 ;)
brytonlaw 3 months ago 6
This is the most pretentious shit I've ever seen.
admiralzzyx 3 months ago
"Don't tell me what I can't do."
JGrayshon 3 months ago 3
OMG OMG OMG WHAT IS THE SONG PLAYED IN THE BACKROUND!!!>>???? X3
Tea4Darkness 3 months ago
As much as I hate Australians, this is a great ad
h7p10 4 months ago
"So when did you arrive in Australia?"
"About 5 seconds ago. An naked Aboriginal child stalked me then broke into my apartment and sprinkled magic teleportation sand into my hands. Now I'm in Australia."
ahlegro 4 months ago 7
How did this even get made?
DrunkFaggotyMo 4 months ago
Brilliant ad!
jacaalii 4 months ago
Every advert should be like this. AMAZING
JasperSoSo 4 months ago
o.0 What the fuck was that shite?
I live in Australia; been here all my life; and that... that was complete bullshite!
CalamityM 4 months ago
@CalamityM Do you mean at 0:12? Thats acturlly sand, not shite XD To be honest I did think the same as you at first
mmmPIZZA100 2 months ago
Beware of the small Aboriginal child in your house.
Mysterymanmonkey 4 months ago 5
Fuck Australia and fuck this commercial
kakashi76767 5 months ago
Thumbs up if you're here from cracked! :D
bunniansprouse 5 months ago 2
@bunniansprouse Australia definitely isn't for normal people; only for the mentally unstable suffering from insane stress at home being stalked by naked babies. An ad taking itself too seriously? You bet.
loopofpoop 4 months ago
So is this a Lost flashback scene?
archer1949 5 months ago
This was actually directed by Bruce Hunt NOT Baz Luhrmann!
lotor666 5 months ago
Nobody likes a bogan, but everyone can learn from an aboriginal spirit child. Makes perfect sense.
eier 5 months ago
This commercial is ridiculous, and creeps me out on a few levels.
@DesuConcrete @PKBitchGirl His shorts seems to be flesh colored to make him appear naked, which is one of the things that creeps me out.
JamX3K 6 months ago
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Obviously filmed by some pretentious NYU film student.
Despite the very silly commercial (IMO), I always did want to go to beautiful Australia. One day.
StevenFallonOfficial 6 months ago
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StevenFallonOfficial 6 months ago
so she got fired?
dancedanceeyeah 6 months ago
nice .. its the bloke from australia .. i loved the movie
boonatwork 6 months ago
at :35 ... was that the kid's junk??!
DesuConcrete 6 months ago
@DesuConcrete No, he's wearing shorts
PKBitchGirl 6 months ago
Is that the little boy that was in that movie Australia?
doobiesmoke15 6 months ago
@doobiesmoke15 Yes he is, and he's fucking adorable.
TwicePea 6 months ago
Baz Luhrmann, famous for making utterly shitty movies, went on to surprise millions of people by making an utterly fucking shitty tourism commercial.
Not only does this make me regret living in Australia, it makes me want to launch Luhrmann into the sun on a one-way rocket. And take your stupid fucking movies with you.
Zebonka 7 months ago
'Coming Summer 2012'
spamkinglol 7 months ago 4
hmmm...New York looks cool. I want to go there now.
IndigoPhoenix2 7 months ago 2
is it just me or does she look like a less attractive meryl streep?
chickenpun 8 months ago
So whens this movie coming out?
Exilebutcher 8 months ago
if that's what Australia is like then I don't want to go, lol
krasblak 9 months ago
Why does the aboriginal kid have an erection at 0:35 ?
omglollmao123 9 months ago 3
DAMMIT CRACKED!
I didn't want to got to Australia before, and now I don't want to go even less.
TheBehattedOne 9 months ago
So... Let me get this straight... "Come to Australia - Aboriginal children will whisper in your ear whilst you sleep?"
jacobtrotter1 10 months ago 5
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i love my country :) <3
WilliWilliPoo 11 months ago
What pool/billabong are they swimming in?
darkartemis 11 months ago
@darkartemis That's me backyard, mate.
Neonman78 10 months ago
this makes me want to build free housing for Aboriginals...
Cronini 11 months ago 26
@Cronini Why Aboriginals? Why not everyone?
kittycatcarley 9 months ago
I think it's a very powerful advert, makes me emotional, I went there for the first time two years ago when this advert came out, will always remind me what a fantastic place it is and how our lives can get too wrapped up in work etc, I know I was, I came back a different person, just returned from my second trip there and can't wait to go back again, I love this advert, it's my favorite :)
lisacameron72 1 year ago 5
Watch Samson and Delilah and you'll realise why it's racist and exploitative.
skava89 1 year ago
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I wanna visit Australia :'(
ploccoson 1 year ago
I wanna visit Australia :'(
ploccoson 1 year ago
can someone tell me in detail what is this commercial trying to convey?
chocolatepowerhouse 1 year ago
Sure - The Australian Aboringinal people have a highly developed spiritual connection with the land. Going "walkabout" is to put aside everything and to journey into the bush to connect your soul to the the land. This ad is encouraging people to put thier highly stressful lives on hold - to visit Australia - and to reconnect with who they truly are as a person through seeing the incredible natural wonders Australia has to offer.
Hope this helped - cheers
1ofbartspeople 1 year ago 5
.. that all of us have "trashed & crushed" was untrue and an exaggeration. I was just irrationally angry after watching the ad. But I do think all of us have, to some extent, had a hand in it (even just through silence). And I have to go so I can't finish this.
brownlow4lyf 1 year ago
@brownlow4lyf Understandable. I completely aggree :)
lauramoodyy 1 year ago
It's a good ad for those who don't know anything about Australia or are completely ignorant. Using the very culture and traditions we, white Australia and all immigrants, have trashed and crushed to sell it to a bunch of tourists?
Apparently, culture matters only when we can gain financially from it. Like Uluru. Typical of Australia, and the government.. yes, lets all promote the cultural significance and beauty of it but let a bunch of tourists trample all over it and piss on it.
brownlow4lyf 1 year ago 4
@brownlow4lyf I actually support tourists visiting Australia because I think everyone should get a chance to see our wonderful country, given they respect it. But I also understand this comment.
Although I, personally, haven't done anything, I do feel quite ashamed of what my (white) ancestors have done to the Aboriginal community, and I'm disgusted by what still goes on today. But I don't think you can correctly say 'all' outsiders have
lauramoodyy 1 year ago
@brownlow4lyf (continued) trashed & crushed the culture and traditions. A lot of people are very ignorant to the issues in Aboriginal communities, but there are still a lot of people who feel very strongly about them. I think it's great that these people are free to see these sites. It opens the mind and often takes away the ignorance. I am glad that they're going to stop letting tourists climb Uluru, though.
lauramoodyy 1 year ago
@lauramoodyy Oh yes, I don't really mind tourists to Australia as long as they are respectful of the Aboriginal culture.. (even if my comment didn't sound like it). And I am an economics student so... obviously I don't think stopping tourism is the answer. My anger is/was more towards the governments, corporations and Australian individuals that enable and promote such disrespect with full knowledge of their beliefs and Australian history & present realities. And I admit my declaration (cont)
brownlow4lyf 1 year ago
amazing ad
igl4 1 year ago 2
very old ad concept, beautifully presented
whatthe88888 1 year ago
beautiful
sydneysider1002 1 year ago
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:') I love this country
h4tchetman 1 year ago
its kinda creppy when the kid wisspers to her..
Olliebollietree 1 year ago
Yea Australia is sweet as
BrodieAdeyHansen 1 year ago
I love this ad :)
kateclaudia 1 year ago
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paddlepopkid 1 year ago
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paddlepopkid 1 year ago
i love the rain. i love the music.
trilex47 1 year ago 3
I thought she was going to get raped.
5haiHulud 1 year ago
@5haiHulud By a child?? HOW? If there were a way in which I could study for my Master's degree and get work after graduation, I'd go there in a shot.
mannecyberguy 1 year ago
I'd drop that mother fucker if he was in my house :|
JubeJube45 1 year ago
God I hate this commercial so much, I had to come look to see who made it just so I could tell my friend what commercial I hate so fucking much. This one.
ErgonomicChair 1 year ago
This reminds me of home... :(
spammage84 1 year ago
Life should be about our contact with nature and inner self, about simple moments, joy and serenity. And Australia still represents that. One of the last gems on this Earth... Wish I were there.
yogicm 1 year ago 26
@yogicm Ehm... Speaking as an Australian, no it doesn't. That's a fantasty cultivated for tourism. We really aren't that different. Most of us live in very modern, largely unremarkable cities around the coast.
BBobFrankk 8 months ago
@BBobFrankk Yes we do but that doesn't mean there aren't any truely beautiful places in Aus.
MsVanillaSmile 8 months ago
@yogicm
Because there are no cities in Australia? And there are no open wild spaces left anywhere else on Earth?
zoor90 7 months ago
@yogicm So you're the only human being not disturbed by this?
singhisking853 6 months ago
@mermaydlondon piss off.... we don't want Asylum Seekers.. are quite okay..? we don't want anyone from 3rd world countries in Australia.. tarnishing our culture, have you actually had a close look around Sydney & Melbourne... both once beautiful and uniquely Aussie, are becoming gross, these migrants don't even work, just sit on welfare..! and its America whose helped create the wars, not Australia. yea and the majority of people in the Over-crowded UK would die to have the space we have.
paddlepopkid 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid ew ew ew....... the fuck is wrong with you? you're like, a family first voter, YOU'RE the gross one... ew... go die. you have the exact same political views at hitler, you're stuck in the fucking 1900s.
Alkners 1 year ago
@Alkners huh..? whats eww.... your utterly confused.. with what gross/eww means.! and no Hilter's views was to actually "kill off" people... i don't share this view at all, so what are you on about..? i simply said... i dont want asylum seekers in my country... or 3rd world migrants who can't work... and contribute little...which is a veiw shared by all Aussies.... whats a "family voter"..?
paddlepopkid 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid what is ew, is how bluntly you view people in poverty and despair, and your lack of well, hope for humanity - something you share much in common with Hitler.
Alkners 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid I'm Aussie and I can't stand Australia. not because of the migrants, they actually bring some culture to the place. I just can't stand white anglo saxon redneck bogan Aussies. Roughest, most unsophisticated people on earth - you sound exactly like one of them. I can't wait to get back to Europe to be with real people!
haze555ful 1 year ago
@haze555ful i sound exactly like a 'redneck unsophisicated bogan'... how so..? i actually happen to be finishing a uni degree this year, meaning im in top 26% of our population, by means of education and ablitity to get educated... but i will admitt with all honesty, i am racist,, i hate 3rdworld migrants, they are both vile, dirty, arrogant and in considerate, and they don't add any culture to the place at all, they infact tarnish our culture..! Keep out all Non-European Ancestory people..
paddlepopkid 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid so when you say keep out all non-European ancestry people, does that in your small mind include the first Australians?
nupthatisit 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid hey Pauline Hanson, I didn't know you went by that alibi! How's the political party goin? Anyboddddyyy supportin' you yet?
Alkners 1 year ago
@paddlepopkid We're all immigrants. The only "real" Australians are the Aboriginals who had been living here for thousands of years pre-european contact.. Everybody else has migrated to Australia.. So unless you're of Australian aboriginal descent you don't really have "culture", Australia doesn't have their own unique "culture" because we are an amalgamation of variety of different ones. If anything.. We'd be the slack, bogan (and as much as they'd hate to admit it) descendants of the Brits.
bridg963 1 year ago
@haze555ful ah, but you would know not all of us fall in that category. I love the fact our country has been enriched with a diverse range of cultures, life experiences, stories, etc. People like paddlepopkid does represent the worse aspect of the underlying ignorance and inherent racism that this country does have. I do love Australia, and I love the people who have made Australia great. The people you describe don't do that for Australia, they give the rest of us a bad name
nupthatisit 1 year ago 2
@haze555ful
I know, I was on the bus the other day and a teenage girl behind me started making derogatory remarks about a woman waiting at the traffic light... She was calling her a "turban head". (burqa!!!!) It was rather terrifying.. this mystery girl masked behind the cloth might have been a TERRORIST :O ! ...
No actually, it was the fact that we're so damn ignorant and afraid that we have to cover up our fear of foreigners with disgust. :(
bridg963 1 year ago
It was so cute Australia really is lovely.
ILUVMUSICANDTV 1 year ago
73 days, I'll be there!
tombud10 1 year ago
@tombud10 oh nice! Hope you love it here :)
Chastrie 1 year ago
@tombud10 Not another bloody pom.
5haiHulud 1 year ago
@5haiHulud Yup, another bloody Pom.
tombud10 1 year ago
This was my favourite tourism advertisement for Australia ever.
McMakisha 1 year ago
I live in the Western suburbs of Sydney and I've seen how Australia is and what it can be like. Aboriginal Australians have already accepted our apology and now our country only defends our own people from racism. We have more multiculturalism than any other country in this world so if people like Ribbetlicious and paddlepopkid wish to call them self Australian start bloody well acting like it. First rule No RACISM! or accusing people for being RACIST when issues in the world now aren't RACISM!
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
@DracoSCREENINGS No racism in Australia? Tell it to the refugees in prison camps. When will they get their apology? Another fifty years?
RoboDouche 1 year ago
@RoboDouche we're the ones that let them in,,, what do they do for us? Australia donates more money to international disasters than any other country including the USA. But yet people expect more from our country to take in all these poor foreigners and give them rich sustainable homes but yet let our natives and people go without homes. I'm sorry to say this but its there problem for entering Australia and ending up in there. Australia tries there hardest to support everybody.our people come1st
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
@DracoSCREENINGS We let them in because we are obliged to by international law. They are refugees fleeing persecution, after all. Sadly, the authors of the Geneva Convention never thought to include an article forbidding the imprisonment of asylum seekers while their claims are processed. A shame.
"Our people come first." Classic 'us vs them' xenophobia. And yet you have the cheek to say Australia doesn't have a problem with racism.
RoboDouche 1 year ago
@RoboDouche We let them in yeah because its in international law okay, but we don't go giving them a house when *citizens* of Australia deserve more right then Asylum seekers. If we let too much of them in its going effect our economy and "Our people come first" is not 'xenophobia' its a clarified depiction of Australia's goals. Australia is one of the friendliest countries in the world and we don't deserve this useless bagging just because we have tonnes of immigrants. You should be ashamed.-.-
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
@DracoSCREENINGS Ashamed of what? Defending the rights of people fleeing from persecution? And why do citizens deserve more rights than Asylum Seekers? I'm thinking you're not really clear on what rights are or how they work. As for letting too many of them in, Australia receives no more than a few thousand boat people a year. At the current rate it would take 30 YEARS to fill the MCG with the new arrivals. If you think the economy is at risk from refugees you have bought into a political lie.
RoboDouche 1 year ago
@RoboDouche Ashamed of bagging Australia, And how could you say citizens don't deserve more rights than Asylum seekers, they enter our oceans illegally and claim that they are, and are you Australian? because if you are you would listen to the national news and discover that there are more boat people than the MCG a year. It would be like me trying to live in your house because my house is falling apart, and that I deserve more rights than you in your own house.You need to learn more bout rights
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
@DracoSCREENINGS You are 100 percent wrong. Asylum seekers are NOT illegal immigrants. There's NOTHING illegal about entering a country like Australia if you are fleeing persecution. And no, the number of boat people arriving every year is not more than the MCG. The most that have arrived in any year is slightly above four thousand. You are obviously not acquainted with the basic facts of this subject. I challenge you to educate yourself properly on such matters before forming opinions.
RoboDouche 1 year ago 2
@DracoSCREENINGS PS. Yes, I am Australian. And yes I know what rights are. My formal education is in rights theory. It is clear that you do not understand what an asylum seeker is or what rights they posses in accordance with international law, not to mention standards of moral decency.
RoboDouche 1 year ago
@RoboDouche If you were taught well in Rights and you live in Australia then you should understand the pressure on our country in taking all these immigrants in, and by the way they are illegal immigrants to our country, they do not possess an official password, however i understand that you may feel empathy or anger at this. If this is a legal INTERNATIONAL law, then why has prime minister Kevin Rudd himself halt the entering of Asylum Seekers, and just over 4.000 a year is enough!
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
@RoboDouche and P.S. The rights your talking about are International rights. but in our nation a certain amount of illegal immigrants is enough! Australia gives alot to Sri Lanka and then they show up to our shores with no passwords just 40 people crammed onto 1 boat looking down at the sea patrol party begging "Let Us IN" empathy is conveyed here even I feel that feeling but if we continue to let them in it is showing an example to the rest of the world.
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
this ad works brilliantly. shows australia has sophistication
MrGino1991 1 year ago
I saw the first part of this ad on TV and I thought is she going to get robbed? Oh its only a kid.
Stewards3 1 year ago
I can't say i liked this ad very much, too much of a promotion for the movie Australia than anything else, i found the storyline in the ad stupid..it was too much for an ad and i had to watch it right to the end to really care and even then it wasn't grabbing my attention, which is a pity because i do love things from Baz Luhrmann..just not this
AbiLush 1 year ago
acutaully it doesn't have much to do with australia,it reminds me of Vermont when i am watching this.
supernigirisushiboat 1 year ago
Oh stop you guys, get a grip. I am from way across the world and I wanted to come to Australia after this ad. False or true representations, the intention is to ATTRACT. And that's what it did.
gsisntm 1 year ago 4
This doesnt show Australia at all its just the emotion, Show Australia how it actully is, Big Vast Unique Beatiful land. with the beast beaches and icons in the world, with an awsome society that also loves to party hard, this is a dark Rainy ad, Australia is Hot Sunny Beautiful. WAKE UP TOURISM AUSTRALIA,
blake20193 1 year ago
Wow I freaking love it!!
By the way, does it say she departed as Kate or as Kata?
DIANAROSS4EVER 1 year ago
what a horrible ad. it just reaffirms all the false stereotypes of australian aborigines.
aussiecan 1 year ago
Honestly - what a FUCKING awful ad. Yeaaahh... I want to visit a big muddy hole.
Yep, come on everyone down to Australia and go walkabout with the Aborigines. Learn their culture and see just how much they've been fucked over by colonisation and continue to be racially stereotyped - just like in Baz's ad!!! Yep, for all you gullible dicks, Australia only has Aboriginal people living in the outback and they haven't changed at all!!!!!
What a piece of trash.
DeluxeReissue 1 year ago
what the hell dumb-arse...? they were already fucked up before colonisation happened more than 250years ago..? firstly people need to get ova the past... and move forward... secondly, what is aboriginal culture... some rock paintings and dancing around camp fires..? they didn't even know how to built shelter..? look at what they acheived b4 white people came..? barely anything...! if australia wasn't colonised... they'd be still naked, eating bugs. and sleeping under trees..!
paddlepopkid 1 year ago
I hope im not coming across as "white superior" or "racist" coz im far from... infact i'v done community help for aboriginal communities..! but when people say that this generation of people living in australia should give back the land and worship abo's... thats totally wrong!! and plus b4 colonisatio occured... there was not one single building or major civilisation advancement on the continent... they only made sticks blocks and bomarangs! while euros had already seen into space....!
paddlepopkid 1 year ago
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lhmvanessa 10 months ago
@paddlepopkid wtf your such a loser, did that comment help your life in anyway other then being racist ??
Ribbetlicious 1 year ago
hey, hey! girly men! how many whales did you save today!?
godordevil7 1 year ago
ficken=?
marcienator9 1 year ago
Who shot this? Mandy Walker?
ProfessorHanson 1 year ago
Baz Lurhman.
semtex84 1 year ago
did John Locke see this Ad?
mjdvfc 1 year ago
Wow, i actually shed a fiew tears, beautiful, truly a work of art.
Aheadstix85 1 year ago
NOT Directed by Baz... it was directed by BRUCE HUNT....
why does everybody get this wrong...
lotor666 2 years ago
they didn't show the crocodiles swimming around them while they were swimming =P eff that for a holiday haha
MissCarolion 2 years ago
@MissCarolion Well as far as I know crocs can't climb limestone escarpments hundreds of metres high. I have swum in plenty of amazing spots in NT like they do in this ad.
Now swimming at the bottom of the falls is another story..
BigBanana4321 1 year ago
i am deeply touched by this commercial.
jdengsky 2 years ago
this ad is amazing. and Brandon Walters, aka Nullah..can't say too many good things about that little boy!
flickchick29 2 years ago
That kid is amazing in the film and I like Sibylla Budd from The Secret Life of Us too, nice ad.
jamesmcburnie 2 years ago
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The little boy, skin as brown as the earth, travels barefoot from across the globe to give a little bit of himself to the white woman lost in her concrete jungle. Such a typical fetishization of non-white bodies.
Thejordans 2 years ago
So racist it's comical!
It's the magical negro factor. The person of color in the fiction narrative who enriches the lives of an innately good white person through his or her wisdom by dint of difference.
People of color are always thought to have some kind of ineffable connection to nature and everything that's orignary that white people lack.
Thejordans 2 years ago
Emotive, sensual and visually stunning like everything Baz puts his hands to!!
salig16 2 years ago 3
It's a beautiful ad :)
pinkpolish9 2 years ago
Such a well done add...in every respect. Cinematography is unreal.
Zuckdawg 2 years ago
Spent a year here and did 16000 miles around it sMagical just avoid the cities they are no different from anywhere else on planet....
oldschoolpirate 2 years ago
native people arent as great as that kid is.....lol
Exorites 2 years ago
i only like the cenery and music here
KidsOnAirrr 2 years ago
whats the song called? i know its elliot wheeler, but does anyone know the songs title?
latchie 2 years ago
Are you sure about the director? I just saw this spot credited to Bruce Hunt as director on the Biscuit Filmworks website. Doesn't really look like Baz's style.
scottscaggs 2 years ago
put me on the next flight to Australia!
Berriiblue 2 years ago 36
what a fantastic ad, sophisticated, beautiful and powerful.
Its about time we did something like this as the tacky, trashy, slutty, beachy, corny ad's haven't and wont sell australia. There are thousands of pretty beaches in europe and the americas, so why would u fly 35 hours to us.
And its nice to see an indigenous person, this as an ozzie living in europe is what i constantly hear from people wanting to go to australia to learn more about, but its never sold to them.
I like the advert.
cosimawriter83 2 years ago 6
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rolfe727 2 years ago
what the fuck is this shit? This actually makes me want to go to australia less, because it is apparently the most pretentious nation on Earth. Fuck you, Baz Luhrman.
ktb636 2 years ago
Quantas ads own this.
LlortnA 2 years ago
This ad is weird. it makes out like you go to australia to save your marriage. Its kinda a sad spin. Ads promoting Australia should show how fun australia is and how relxing it is! not that its a place to fix or escape your problems. Baz, you know nothing about marketing. Who let him do this??
Lianabanana88 2 years ago 2
Baz knows nothing about marketing, but the geniuses at marketing should, and they're the ones who hired him to do this ad.
You're not wrong about the ad, but it's not Baz's fault; he was hired to make an ad and he did. The fault lies with the people who hired him.
confusedmatthew 2 years ago
i love it.. i wish is lady sarah ashley
Mskitty19911 2 years ago
Beautiful ad. Does it show how beautiful Australia is though? No.
ToiletGreece 2 years ago 3
it leaves alot to the imagination which i like, and thats something Lara Bingle didn't do.
cosimawriter83 2 years ago
gayest add ever -__- Australia cizitens shud get to choose which ad shows their country
MrNaNaINC 2 years ago
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itzmarcuss 2 years ago
A total waste of taxpayers money! Baz needs to go back to theatre and leave film to real directors.
FilmpoetsTV 2 years ago
God Baz Lurman is an idiot. It takes a full minute for him to bother showing us Australia. This is self indulgent rubbish. Absolutely meaningless.
LEEJ73 2 years ago
this ad is amazingly beautiful.
NTLYF 2 years ago 2
i LOVE this advert - when i saw it on british tv the 1st time it stopped me in my tracks. It reminded me of how magical and beautiful australia can be- god i miss being in Oz!! any aussies want a cockney lodger??? LOL :)
Madfaery1 2 years ago 29
It looks like some sad, emotional movie trailer. Until it says to go to Australia..
Ammit5 2 years ago 2
looks like a great commercial for a movie
OtaraCaranalE 2 years ago
Where is this place at 1:10 mins? Its sooo beautiful!
lee24k 2 years ago
Here! Australia! Probably Catherine Gorge in the Northern Territory.
What sucks is that most of us can't afford to visit this place. It is cheaper for us to go overseas than to explore our own country.
verticalsmurf 2 years ago
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NTLYF 2 years ago
@lee24k its Kakadu in the Northern Territory... Well thats what it looks like anyways.
DracoSCREENINGS 1 year ago
not all aussie haye aboriginals i dont and i am from sydney it is a fucking great loss about them and i think that we should have said sorry a long time ago ... and australia is a great movie... also sport and a good beer is a excellent option
ANZAC0001 2 years ago
i just wen to new zealand recently and they treat their indigenous people (maoris) with the upmost respect, and if you see an aussie beer ad they all love it, when you c an aboriginal on the tv representing australia, they all hate it, which i think is ironic, i think we should all be equal you know, and in australia theyre happy to be careless and laid back, which is disappointing because there is unrest here still
xoxoNewRomanticxoxo 2 years ago
Australia is a wonderfull country
everyone is so laid back and friendly
i love it
xskinsaddictedx 2 years ago 3
i dont get it? little boy tells her to go to austrailia?
slippp40 2 years ago
I was very surprised when I saw it was a tourism commercial. Thought it was some dark drama movie.
TheLunaDivider112 2 years ago 2
From someone who lives in Australia, I find this ad kind of stupid. Sure, the music is touching or whatever, but where I live is practically where the lady lived at the beginning. It's not really that different. I don't see the big deal. But I suppose if it does get people to see the beauty of Australia...
silenceisdistance 2 years ago
Agreed. What the hell? The video is cute, but has nothing to do with Australia. A video about escaping and swimming in some lagoon? Could be anywhere. Australia has a bit more to offer than that!
stevenpam 2 years ago 4
aussies dont like ti commercial, they did a poll, they hate it
they dont like anything to do with aboriginals, they prefer sports and beer drinking
xoxoNewRomanticxoxo 2 years ago
I love this music. If there has ever been a commercial that actually told a story within 60 seconds, this is it. Hauntingly beautiful music that deserves its own track. I'd buy it.
BeatleLover1111 2 years ago
I couldn't tell if it was a movie trailer or a tourism commercial... It's still good though
SplittingTheAtom 2 years ago
I love this!
IndiemmaJones 2 years ago