Melbourne welcomes Oprah

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Welcome to Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city! Want to sound like a native? Drop the "r" and pronounce the city's name like "Mel-bin."

Melbourne's citizens

Photo: George Burns/Harpo Studios


With its sporty citizens, elegant cafés and sophisticated shopping districts, Melbourne is known as Australia's cultural capital. One survey judged it to be the third most-livable city in the world.

Oprah and Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister

Photo: George Burns/Harpo Studios


Oprah and Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister, have a private conversation along the picturesque bank of the Yarra River.

"How exciting is it for you to be the first female prime minister of this country, or does that even register for you?" Oprah says.

"I don't get up and think, 'I'm a woman doing this job,'" Prime Minister Gillard says. "But if there's a girl in an Australian school who lifts her eyes that day and sees me, and says, 'I can do anything. I can grow up to be anything,' that's just so important."

Watch more from Oprah's one-on-one interview with Prime Minister Gillard. Watch

Pop star Jessica Malboy

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Chart-topping Aussie singer Jessica Mauboy performs for thousands who gathered in Melbourne's Federation Square to support The Oprah Show's first visit Down Under.

Human Nature


Australia's number one vocal group Human Nature belts out a few Motown favorites for the enthusiastic crowd during the free, two-hour event.

Melbinian fans greet Oprah

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Oprah and Prime Minister Gillard take the stage.

Oprah takes the stage in Melbourne


Oprah wishes everyone a big Melbourne "G'day."

"I have to say, I've never seen a welcome like this in my life. Nothing like this in my life! I love the fact that you all have supported me and supported this show," Oprah says. "I was sorry to arrive in this country and hear about all of the devastation happening with the floods, but I know that you're open-hearted, big-hearted giving people, and you will look inside yourselves and where you can give back and where you can help and where you can be generous with those victims of the flood, you will do that."

Help flood victims in Queensland by donating to the Premier's Flood Relief Appeal.

The adventure is just getting started...check back to see where else Oprah and our Ultimate Viewers visited.

Published 01/18/2011