G'day Heely,As you well know, Ballarat and the Eureka Stockade are very much seminal to the Australian character. Sadly, very few songs came from (or, at least, survived from) the events. There is a brief reference in the English Army song The Hungry Army that places the soldier singing in the troops that suppressed the Stockade ... and that is about it, at least in the real tradition.
John Manifold, oddly, has an English song The Île de France in his Penguin Australian Songbook ... Only after you consult the note, do you realise that he heard the tune from a lady ... who did not remember the words of her father's song ... but recalled that it had been about an expred term convict, shipwrecked on sailing for England, caught up in the gold rush and the Miners' protests against the £3/month licence fee and fighting at the Eureka Stockade.
I was so frustrated that I ended up writing a song to the general description! I will look it up and post it when I get home (if the next big heritage Ball practice does not compel me to work on my dance music ... !).
Regards,
Bob Bolton