John Meredith and Hugh Anderson's "Folk Songs of Australia" includes a song from Queensland, "The Gun Canecutter", with a verse

We asked the cook, and a good job too,
Because we wouldn't have seen the season through;
For the first three weeks he fed us half-cooked rice,
And now he's got the cheek to feed us Weil-diseased mice...

Apparently this led to a strike in northern Queensland. (Weil's disease is a serious problem in mines, which is why miners took their lunch down below in sealed tins to keep the rats and mice out).