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 ...

“Matilda” is the Australian National Dictionary’s (AND) Word of the Year for 2023. It is a very old Australianism (word usages originating in Oz), best known down under for the song “Waltzing Matilda” ...

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 ...