Partner Updates Page
This page is to provide information and significant updates about the programme and booking conditions.
This page is to provide information and significant updates about the programme and booking conditions.
Hello and greetings from us all.
We have just said goodbye to our last intake of the year - and they were a fantastic group of keen young people and gone straight to their jobs - all will be working over Christmas as they wanted to start right away.
We have done a rough calculation - Germany is the top country yet again, closely followed by the Netherlands. The United Kingdom and France are not far behind and we have notable numbers from Mongolia. Indians are now balloting for their visas and we are expecting them to feature well in 2025. The top partner in 2024 booked 70+ participants in the year.
Quite a lot of you have been asking about different types of work at different times of the year, so here is a rough guide.
To start with the weather-related jobs:
Employers are going to need people to feed out fodder to sheep and cattle when there is a drought.
They are also going to need extra people to clear up and rebuild fences after a flood.
Employers at the 'top end' of Queensland, NT and WA are unlikely to want horse riders in 'the wet' - November to March.
Horse work, working for polo stables, racehorse stables, studs competition yards and liveries is available throughout the year.
So is work on small mixed family farms (100,000 hectares) doing cattle, sheep and some machinery work.
Work as Homestead Helpers is also available throughout the year, helping in the home with the children and small animals.
Governess work is available in January and families prefer to have someone there for a whole year. There are options for
the second semester, starting in July, for families who have had to make a change part way through the school year.
The Government changed the "six months with one employer" rule last February. Workers can stay with their employers
as long as a year if they wish if the work is in production. Producing crops, calves, lambs, foals, chicks, piglets and so on.
Using big machinery for ploughing, seeding and harvesting takes place throughout the year, somewhere in Australia. These
jobs usually last for 6 - 8 weeks and skilled people are highly paid. Work on cotton farms is similar.
Dairy farm work is available throughout the year and this is very well paid because of the 'unsocial hours'. It is shift work
and you could find yourself starting at 2am (if they milk three times a day) or 5 am with a break for a few hours or doing
other jobs in the middle of the day.
If people are thinking about finding fruit picking work it is better not to send them to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or
Perth in the winter months, June to August. These jobs, sourced from Brisbane, are available throughout the year.
Vineyard and olive grove work is available mostly from January to May - doing hospitality or tourism work in these
places is available for most of the year.
We do have links to tourism jobs with surfing, sailing, diving and other waterborne activities. For those with good
qualifications there are excellent opportunities.
Cooks, chefs and domestic workers are needed throughout the year. Plumbers, builders, carpenters, electricians and
welders are always needed on the big properties as they cannot get local tradies to work in the outback.
Vets, veterinary nurses and those who like to work with animals - there are jobs throughout the year for them.
Young people who can ride motorbikes well or are motocross competitors are always needed on the sheep stations, for
mustering work taking directions from a chopper or plane overhead. Many cattle stations also use motorbikes now.
Australia is a huge country, bigger than most of Europe, with some farms bigger than Belgium. It is essential for young
people to have a driving licence (preferably manual) before coming here. There are very few employers willing to take
on those who have no licence - for insurance reasons - and many farms are crossed by public roads.
Hospitality work is available throughout the year. For those on the Working Holiday Visa any rural hospitality job is
good for the second visa - for those on Work and Holiday visas the jobs need to be north of the Tropic of Capricorn or
the whole of the NT.
We do not provide city hospitality work but part-time jobs are often quite easy to get - but part time work will not provide
enough money to find a place to live and buy food. It is better to go rural where almost all the income can be saved.
If you have young people who have booked an arrival package with you in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth they are likely to
find they want to have a job which will allow them to stay longer in Australia - to gain the second visa. We can offer
the training and jobs for these people when they want to start. It is also possible to sell them a package which includes
our programme at a time of their choosing once they are in Australia - open dated - when they need to start all they
have to do is to contact us and reserve a place. British people no longer need to do farm work to get their second visa
but many are still wanting to do it for the adventure, for work experience and to save money.
We are always happy to have volunteers who want to come to improve their English and have work experience. They
would come on a Tourist or Cultural Exchange Visa but cannot have any paid work. This is available to those who
cannot qualify for a Work & Holiday visa for some reason (not enough English, not high enough qualifications or just
too late for the small number of visas available) and those who wish to come for a few weeks only.
I hope this has given you more of an insight into what is available for your participants throughout the year. We can
do almost anything for anyone wanting rural work of any sort in Australia!
Visit the Real Australia and Get Paid Doing It! 25 years ago we used this call to action - it is the same to-day!
Now the bad news, sadly we will have to raise our prices for 2025, not as much as last year, this time only to $3700
(365 day 2/3 job programme) and $3300 (4 month and 1 job only) for those who book after 31 December. You can
still book for 2025 at 2024 prices during the last two weeks of December. Those who book the shorter programme
are able to update with the payment of the fee difference - $400.
Sadly Precel is leaving us for a Queensland Government job in early January and her husband, Amiel, is also looking
at other options. Happily Jane Mendes has joined us on a part-time basis and Alison Nightingale helps in the office
and with everything we do when she is not busy studying Business at the University of Queensland. She and Precel
have made a short video for the US market - there is a link here. It was filmed on Ali's farm - next time we will do
one on Clinton's training farm.
Australian Working Adventures Marketing Video.mp4
We are changing bank accounts and hopefully the invoicing method for 2025 - not set in place yet. The new
account details will appear on the invoices and information forms. Also we will be asking for a 2 minute video
from everyone from now onwards - it should be in English and talk about what they have done so far and what they
hope to do in Australia. This can include any horse riding and motorbiking or other work action if they wish. This
video is proving very popular with our employers when deciding to whom to offer work.
Many good wishes for Christmas and the New Year and we look forward to working with you again in 2025. I am
attaching the 2025 Calendar now - you can see that some dates are already not available. Please contact us before
confirming places on the Yellow Dates.
We have just said goodbye to our last intake of the year - and they were a fantastic group of keen young people and gone straight to their jobs - all will be working over Christmas as they wanted to start right away.
We have done a rough calculation - Germany is the top country yet again, closely followed by the Netherlands. The United Kingdom and France are not far behind and we have notable numbers from Mongolia. Indians are now balloting for their visas and we are expecting them to feature well in 2025. The top partner in 2024 booked 70+ participants in the year.
Quite a lot of you have been asking about different types of work at different times of the year, so here is a rough guide.
To start with the weather-related jobs:
Employers are going to need people to feed out fodder to sheep and cattle when there is a drought.
They are also going to need extra people to clear up and rebuild fences after a flood.
Employers at the 'top end' of Queensland, NT and WA are unlikely to want horse riders in 'the wet' - November to March.
Horse work, working for polo stables, racehorse stables, studs competition yards and liveries is available throughout the year.
So is work on small mixed family farms (100,000 hectares) doing cattle, sheep and some machinery work.
Work as Homestead Helpers is also available throughout the year, helping in the home with the children and small animals.
Governess work is available in January and families prefer to have someone there for a whole year. There are options for
the second semester, starting in July, for families who have had to make a change part way through the school year.
The Government changed the "six months with one employer" rule last February. Workers can stay with their employers
as long as a year if they wish if the work is in production. Producing crops, calves, lambs, foals, chicks, piglets and so on.
Using big machinery for ploughing, seeding and harvesting takes place throughout the year, somewhere in Australia. These
jobs usually last for 6 - 8 weeks and skilled people are highly paid. Work on cotton farms is similar.
Dairy farm work is available throughout the year and this is very well paid because of the 'unsocial hours'. It is shift work
and you could find yourself starting at 2am (if they milk three times a day) or 5 am with a break for a few hours or doing
other jobs in the middle of the day.
If people are thinking about finding fruit picking work it is better not to send them to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or
Perth in the winter months, June to August. These jobs, sourced from Brisbane, are available throughout the year.
Vineyard and olive grove work is available mostly from January to May - doing hospitality or tourism work in these
places is available for most of the year.
We do have links to tourism jobs with surfing, sailing, diving and other waterborne activities. For those with good
qualifications there are excellent opportunities.
Cooks, chefs and domestic workers are needed throughout the year. Plumbers, builders, carpenters, electricians and
welders are always needed on the big properties as they cannot get local tradies to work in the outback.
Vets, veterinary nurses and those who like to work with animals - there are jobs throughout the year for them.
Young people who can ride motorbikes well or are motocross competitors are always needed on the sheep stations, for
mustering work taking directions from a chopper or plane overhead. Many cattle stations also use motorbikes now.
Australia is a huge country, bigger than most of Europe, with some farms bigger than Belgium. It is essential for young
people to have a driving licence (preferably manual) before coming here. There are very few employers willing to take
on those who have no licence - for insurance reasons - and many farms are crossed by public roads.
Hospitality work is available throughout the year. For those on the Working Holiday Visa any rural hospitality job is
good for the second visa - for those on Work and Holiday visas the jobs need to be north of the Tropic of Capricorn or
the whole of the NT.
We do not provide city hospitality work but part-time jobs are often quite easy to get - but part time work will not provide
enough money to find a place to live and buy food. It is better to go rural where almost all the income can be saved.
If you have young people who have booked an arrival package with you in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth they are likely to
find they want to have a job which will allow them to stay longer in Australia - to gain the second visa. We can offer
the training and jobs for these people when they want to start. It is also possible to sell them a package which includes
our programme at a time of their choosing once they are in Australia - open dated - when they need to start all they
have to do is to contact us and reserve a place. British people no longer need to do farm work to get their second visa
but many are still wanting to do it for the adventure, for work experience and to save money.
We are always happy to have volunteers who want to come to improve their English and have work experience. They
would come on a Tourist or Cultural Exchange Visa but cannot have any paid work. This is available to those who
cannot qualify for a Work & Holiday visa for some reason (not enough English, not high enough qualifications or just
too late for the small number of visas available) and those who wish to come for a few weeks only.
I hope this has given you more of an insight into what is available for your participants throughout the year. We can
do almost anything for anyone wanting rural work of any sort in Australia!
Visit the Real Australia and Get Paid Doing It! 25 years ago we used this call to action - it is the same to-day!
Now the bad news, sadly we will have to raise our prices for 2025, not as much as last year, this time only to $3700
(365 day 2/3 job programme) and $3300 (4 month and 1 job only) for those who book after 31 December. You can
still book for 2025 at 2024 prices during the last two weeks of December. Those who book the shorter programme
are able to update with the payment of the fee difference - $400.
Sadly Precel is leaving us for a Queensland Government job in early January and her husband, Amiel, is also looking
at other options. Happily Jane Mendes has joined us on a part-time basis and Alison Nightingale helps in the office
and with everything we do when she is not busy studying Business at the University of Queensland. She and Precel
have made a short video for the US market - there is a link here. It was filmed on Ali's farm - next time we will do
one on Clinton's training farm.
Australian Working Adventures Marketing Video.mp4
We are changing bank accounts and hopefully the invoicing method for 2025 - not set in place yet. The new
account details will appear on the invoices and information forms. Also we will be asking for a 2 minute video
from everyone from now onwards - it should be in English and talk about what they have done so far and what they
hope to do in Australia. This can include any horse riding and motorbiking or other work action if they wish. This
video is proving very popular with our employers when deciding to whom to offer work.
Many good wishes for Christmas and the New Year and we look forward to working with you again in 2025. I am
attaching the 2025 Calendar now - you can see that some dates are already not available. Please contact us before
confirming places on the Yellow Dates.