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 ...

Two historians say one of Australia's much-loved songs, Waltzing Matilda, was written to impress a woman and is not a political allegory. Peter and Sheila Forrest say they have collected evidence over ...

It is 100 years since the words and music of Australia's unofficial national anthem were first published as a song. Waltzing Matilda historian Richard Magoffin says the ballad was written by Banjo ...

“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.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The nation's sports-loving prime minister John Howard will be singing Australia's unofficial national anthem "with gusto" at tonight's ...