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 ...

SYDNEY -- Two films that deal with Australian immigrant stories -- one set in the postwar era and one in the 1970s -- dominated the nominations for the Australian Film Institute Awards. By Pip Bulbeck ...

Here's an act that was #1 on the Australian pop charts in the early 1980's. Careful, it's almost unintelligible, but have a watch of it and see if you can make head or tail of what he's saying: The ...

triple j have revealed plans for a special-event Hottest 100, in which they plan to count down the Hottest 100 Of Australian Songs for the very first time – as voted by the station’s listeners. The ...

The Australian youth radio station, Triple J, runs a vote every year for the best songs released in the previous 12 months (Triple J Hottest 100). There's, as you can imagine, usually an Australian ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. Now that the covid omicron lockdown has thrown a wrench into ...

The Australian music-loving public was put to the ultimate test in recent weeks when the teams at triple j and Double J asked us to vote in the Hottest 100 of Australian Songs. In typical Hottest 100 ...