I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don’t have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We’re very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

Jackman frames his enthusiasm for food as an outgrowth of Australia’s immigrant-rich cultural landscape. By listing multiple national cuisines, he signals a cosmopolitan palate and suggests that “Australian” identity is less about a single canonical tradition than about everyday exposure to many traditions. The remark also works as a soft cultural argument: multiculturalism is not abstract policy but something lived—at the table, through taste, habit, and shared meals. Implicitly, he positions openness to other cultures as normal and formative, presenting culinary diversity as a positive marker of Australian life and of his own upbringing.