Jacki Weaver: ‘I like to sit in fabulous bars and listen to other people’

Jacki Weaver is the host of Australia: An Unofficial History, which premieres Wednesday 5 March on SBS and SBS On Demand. Photograph: Mark Rogers/SBS

You’re hosting the series Australia: An Unofficial History, which includes government tourism films from the 1970s. How would you sell Australia to the world now?

When people ask me, having lived in Los Angeles for 14 years, how is Australia superior to America, I say, “No guns, free medical, affordable education.”