See if you can trace a book by John Meredith and Hugh Anderson. Folk Songs of Australia and the Men and Women who sang them. Published by Ure Smith, Sydney. 1967.

You can find more songs from John Meredith's collection on a double CD called Sharing the Harvest; Field Recordings from the Meredith Collection in the National Museum of Australia.

Also, you would want to check anything you can find by Sally Sloane. Absolutely wonderful singer from New South Wales (I think), with a considerable number of English and Irish songs. Larrikin Records issued an Lp of her many years ago. So far as I know it's never been reissued on CD, but I did hear a rumour that someone once issued a cassette of her.

The idea that the Australian tradition consisted entirely, or even primarily, of songs about roustabouts and shearers is somewhat mistaken.