Though the title of the song sounds like it’s about a dance with someone named Matilda, it’s actually born of an Australian style of poetry called a “bush ballad”—slang in the country for traveling on ...

Generations of Australians have been cooed to sleep with a soft, cradle-side rendition of the ballad of a thieving bushman who drowns himself rather than being captured by the law, a song that ...

‘WALTZING Matilda’ is Australia’s unofficial national anthem but behind that iconic song lies a scandalous love triangle, as Matthew Benns and Terry Smyth reveal. ‘WALTZING Matilda’ is Australia’s ...