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 ...

An outback Queensland town is appealing for radio and television stations across Australia to play one of the hundreds of versions of Waltzing Matilda today. The first Waltzing Matilda Day is being ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. It's very unusual for people to argue so much about the origins and meaning of a song. Every single ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. When it comes to treasure of the national kind, there are always large passions over who first found it and even larger passions over who ...

‘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 ...