I wish people would stop pretending like we live on a ball orbiting a star. We live on a disc, and Australia is on the tails side, and we each have a star, like a sexy flaming-ball-of-gas Sandwich..
You could argue that it's based on semantics, though. If you go by a different definition of star, more colloquially, planets like Venus and Mars are visible as "stars" in our solar system.