Norman Brown is one of maybe half a dozen songs about the police shooting of a young miner in 1929 in Rothbury NSW. The best known song (which began as a poem) is Dorothy Hewett's as uploaded above, but the Union Songs online collection also has 3 other songs one of which was written at the time and sung at Norman Brown's funeral

see

A Sad Day on the Coalfields at http://unionsong.com/u553.html

Rothbury at http://unionsong.com/u031.html

The Country Knows The Rest at http://unionsong.com/u031.html

In 2007 a drama documentary was made about this attack on miners and this had another song written for the film. For more about the film Lockout see http://www.lockout.tv/