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 ...

“That’s a nice song,” I said. I was shooting whiskey with rogue warriors from Australia in a makeshift bar in the dusty Vietnamese village of Phuoc Tuy. “Thanks mate! It’s our national anthem,” Capt.

Is Waltzing Matilda a song about a sheep thief, a shed-burning shearer or a serenade to a secret love? Grab your swag and join Leisa Scott as she delves into the roots of Australia’s iconic song. No ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. TONY EASTLEY: A couple of outback historians may be rewriting the story behind one of the Australia's ...

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A controversial new play challenging the origins of Australia's favourite song, Waltzing Matilda, contends that the lyrics were written about a love affair and are a coded manifesto of workers' rights ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

BRISBANE, Australia — Of all the sounds that might charm an ear on a sidewalk at a pub window near a midnight, here came a ripper. It flowed from inside a half-full bar called the Cauldron, up the ...