Geoffrey Rush has spent a year talking to citizens across the country as the Australian of the Year. Source: AAP
ACTOR Geoffrey Rush has wound up 12 months as 2012 Australian of the Year.
In his valedictory speech at a lunch in Canberra for this year's Australian of the Year finalists, the Oscar winner said he was often asked what it meant to be an Australian.
Rush told how he gained a sense of Australia's multi-dimensional character while travelling on a train to Melbourne, snaking through the suburbs with ever-changing contours before dropping into the mix of people in Flinders Street.
He didn't talk with the other commuters, but they had much in common.
"We are all texting someone else who is not on that train," he said on Friday.
"Now I stand here with incomprehensible disbelief that I was at this luncheon exactly 12 months ago."
During his time as Australian of the Year, Rush visited schools and institutions throughout Australia, including Brisbane's "Ekka" show, where he sheared sheep, dodged prize bulls and drank beer with legendary barflies.
"It seems we talked with, at and to everybody everywhere on the vast shopfloor of Australia. It was amazing," he said.
Rush said perhaps the greatest moment was a visit to the National Centre for Indigenous Excellence in a resurrected schoolhouse in Redfern, Sydney.
"In the bus on the way there we had passed a giant billboard featuring the towering beautiful faces of my colleagues Jessica Mauboy and Deborah Mailman advertising The Sapphires, just about to open," he said.
"Our host Jason Glanville said simply 'this place endeavours and strives to stimulate a positive image for my people'.
"He said 'you can change perceptions in a flash, you know'. I now knew what he meant."
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