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 ...

Gloria "Teddy" Key grew up in Australia, and as a headstrong teen in 1942 she fell for an older American sailor, a Texan who'd been plucked from a life raft after two hellish weeks in a dangerous sea, ...

Midnight Oil’s 1987 hit “Beds Are Burning” might be one of the most authentically Australian songs to become a worldwide hit. The song is up there with “Land Down Under” by Men At Work. But while the ...