VisitOz Working Holiday programmes (Brisbane, Queensland)
Experience the Real Australia and get paid doing it! – Guaranteed!
VisitOZ is your passport to a serious job with good pay and conditions – not a holiday. The holiday comes after the job when you have a pocket full of money!
A real outback ranch work experience. We take all the hassle out of your plans and give you a full 365 day programme of work and play around Australia – paid at the Award wage or better!
The Visitoz programme is a one year programme which means that we are here in Australia to look after participants with work and or administrative help for the whole validity of their visa.
Visitoz offers guaranteed work in the Outback and rural areas following a short introduction to Australian agricultural techniques. The introductory training skills and activities are relevant to life in the countryside with a special focus on safety. We are unique in that we are able to guarantee the work which is all paid at the union negotiated rate or better. Visitoz is the only Australian organisation to make this guarantee
Visitoz can offer a self financing gap year as all the jobs are properly paid with the opportunity to save the money earned to spent later on tourist activities with the knowledge, once the money starts to run out, that second or third jobs are available.
We have WORK for all those with Visas which allow work.
We have WORK EXPERIENCE for student visa holders and visitor visa holders.
Guaranteed Work
Our programme guarantees well paid work, in rural and outback Australia for the whole of your working holiday visa – work where the well paid jobs are – then party in the cities and on the coast.
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VisitOz programmes
Everyone who wants to have outback or rural work of any sort – working with horses, cattle and sheep, tractor and header/combine driving, bulldozer work, fencing, mechanical work, chainsaw work, horsework at stables, in trail riding centres, on Host Farms, with racehorses, polo ponies, camp draft horses or on cattle properties doing bore running, yard work, maintenance and ag bike work with cattle and sheep – must attend the Introduction to Agriculture Course at our farm or one of the associate farms.
Those who want Hospitality work – on Host Farms, in hotels and motels, bars and roadhouses will attend the Introduction to Agriculture course as all the work is in rural areas. It is sometimes possible to combine hospitality and horse riding work.
Whilst on the host training farm
You will ride horses and agricultural motorbikes, work with cattle, drive and operate tractors, work with fencing and chain sawing skills and have some basic vehicle maintenance tuition. Farm and outback safety skills are also taught.
Volunteer work with VisitOz is for young people without internship qualifications and or English proficiency, those or people over 31 years of age, or from those countries unable to get a Working Holiday visa.
The First nine days comprise:
- Met on arrival at Brisbane Airport, the preferred arrival is Thursday morning.
- Transported to a hostel in central Brisbane
- Hostel accommodation is included for one night.
- Bus ticket to Rainbow Beach on Friday for three days to get over jet lag.
- Hostel accommodation is included for three nights.
- Bus ticket from Rainbow Beach to Gympie from where they are collected and brought to Goomeri – or, if a large group, our bus will collect at rainbow Beach.
- Lunch in a restaurant and shopping in Goomeri.
- Buy boots, long sleeved shirts, jeans, pocket knives, mobile phones, sim cards and phone cards, torches, adapters and buy alarm clocks and induction paperwork.
- Induction paperwork including opening a bank account, applying for a Medicare card if eligible, applying for a Tax File Number will have already been completed for you.
- Choose a t-shirt and an Aussie All-rounder broad brimmed hat and a water bottle.
- At this point participants are collected by their host farms for five nights.
Programme FEE* (2017 prices)
Option 1 : Full price 365 days package starts at AU$ 2,450
Option 2 : Full price 90 days package AU$ 1,299
* included in the fee
• Activities mentioned
*the fee DOES NOT include:
• health insurance AU$ 50/month
Working Holiday visa for people from:
United Kingdom, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland; Italy and France, Cyprus, Malta, Canada, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Estonia and Taiwan
Work and Holiday visa for people from: Argentina (500 visas per year), Bangladesh (100), Chile (1500), Indonesia (100), Malaysia (100), Thailand (500) Turkey (100), Uruguay and the USA (no cap)
Special Programme Internship Visa for people from:
Andorra, Austria, Brunei, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Republic of San Marino, Singapore, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Vatican City – plus all those that can get 417 and 462 visas.
The Australian Government Department of Immigration is in consultation with several other countries and additions to the list above will be posted when announced.
