Anyone know any farmers who would sign off seasonal work?

<blockquote>Quote<br><hr>If you can't help or provide any constructive advice then don't bother. People don't want to hear your rants! <hr></blockquote>Calm down KI - they are not rants - just pointing out the obvious: (1) this board does not permit encouraging or abetting illegal activity, and (2) undertaking three months of healthy exercise, making new friends, and getting paid for it as well, is hardly onerous if you really want a second year in the Great Southern Land.<BR><BR>Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no-one wants to die ...

Heh, yeah Kangaroo Islander.....i am actually a fella, but thanks anyways :)

To anyone who's been completely rude and unhelpful.......thanks for nothing.

You don't think i understand this is not the right way to go about getting back into Australia? You don't think i've spent the last 4 weeks since returning back from travelling researching EVERY possible visa for Australia and whats involved? Hindsights a bitch eh?, yeah if i KNEW that the visa process was so hard and complex i WOULD of done the 3 months seasonal work, instead of travelling and seeing that beautiful country.

I DID work whilest in Australia, but decided todo my chosen career (Novell Network Administartor) rather than get paid nothing for sloggin away for hours in harsh conditions. And no, it's not a matter of me being lazy, or too "soft" todo it, if you had the choice between fruit picking or your chosen career...you'd do your chosen career, simple! (Unless of course your chosen career is a fruit-picker!)

I can't apply for a Skilled Migrant visa, because i haven't been solidly working in the last 3 out of 4 years because i was travelling, and by the time i get those years working done, i shall be over 30, and then loss 5 points, and STILL not me eligable to get to Australia. I feel the experience thing is completely stupid, as if someone was to look into my work experience they'd see i got paid EXTREMELY well in my 2 jobs in Australia, and whywas i paid so well? Because i'm SKILLED in what i do, so having to prove this by being shown you've ben working 3/4 years sounds stupid.

So there you go, i'm a GUY (gotta make that clear so Kangaroo Islander ;) who's desperate to return, and settle in a country he truely loved, but unfortunately do to all the red tape thats involved, it seems i may NEVER be able todo it. So excuse me for clutching at straws and trying ANY way into the country!!!

oh boo hoo.

I understand BigDook... I'm in the same situation - I'd love to be able to live and work in Oz again but don't have enough points for a General Skilled Visa, despite my 2 degrees and 5 years experience. Seems a lot harder to get into Oz than it is for everyone to come to England. I don't blame you for trying to get a second years WHV (which btw Aussies coming to England dont even have to slave away for - they get automatically!) it just gives you a chance to find a legitimate way to stay longer-term (ie sponsorship), it's not like you're asking someone to get you a fake passport or meet you off a boat in Darwin! If you don't find sponsorship then you're back home - fair enough. As far as I can see a lot of farmers don't give a damn so if people want to get angry, maybe they should be talking to the farmers instead seeing as they're the ones making it all possible?

Good luck!

You make some good points ... and some not so good ones. Firstly, most of the regulars on this board would agree strongly that the WHV test is probably much too hard, and that at a time of alleged labour/skills shortages right around the country we should welcome young qualified people who want to stay a year or three, and will not be a burden on the social security system. But politics rules - there are many sensitive electorates (rural and outer urban) where rates of unemployment are high, and have been for a generation. These people (not all bludgers, but also not the movers and shakers either) can fly off the handle pretty quickly if they think migrants and other wogs are taking jobs in their country. Never mind the fact they would NEVER move to Gladstone, Woomera or Port Hedland - most of them wouldn't even move to the next suburb for a better economic future, it seems. There is a strong sense of entitlement here, unfortunately.<BR><BR>And of course we are aware that many farmers do not give a damn about the three-month rule, and are scathing of government and its policies generally - we do get out and about, quite a lot. But finding out about which farmers in which districts are WHV-friendly takes some initiative on the part of the traveller - it is not going to be broadcast on this semi-respectable travel forum. You may not agree - but that is the case, and will probably always stay that way.<BR><BR>And finally - you can get off the boat in Darwin and do well. I spent a couple of weeks recently in YHA Darwin and there were several UK and Irish punters there who had secured sponsorships quite readily. One was a tiler, one a diesel mechanic, and one was changing tyres in a tyre-shop. Okay - Darwin is a small and peculiar city, with a lot of jobs available and an unreliable (ie, transient) workforce - but it did happen for these three, and others were in the process. Good luck with your sponsorship attempts - I agree with liberalising the rules, but there are long-standing political positions that have to be dealt with first.

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