Working Holiday Visa

(Subclass 417)

If you have fulfilled all the requirements and completed the tenure of your first working holiday subclass 417 visa, you may extend it further for the second and third subclass 417 visa and do some ‘specified work’ in Australia.

The Approved Areas and Industries for Working Holiday (Subclass 417) Visa

As you may know, ‘specified work’ is available in specific industries and areas, and payments for these jobs are made according to the legislation.

You may apply for voluntary work under this category while applying for your work and holiday visa 462 & working holiday subclass 417 visa.

The specific areas and industries are:

Moreover, these jobs are available only in specific postcodes initiated by the Government.

Plant and Animal Cultivation

Your primary job will involve harvesting or packing fruits and vegetables. However, other jobs responsibilities in this category of specific work include:

Trimming or pruning trees related to the cultivation and commercial sale of their produce
General crop maintenance
Propagating or cultivating plants and fungi
Product processing
Animal maintenance and feeding for the natural increase and selling them or their produce
Processing animal food products
Dairy product manufacturing
Stud farming or horse breeding
Reforestation and environmental conservation
Plant or animal cultivation in the zoo

You cannot work as a caregiver on a farm. You are also not eligible for jobs like provision or secondary processing of animal or plant products, namely:

Tourism and Hospitality

This type of service is required explicitly in moderately to very remote areas. You may apply for it for your second or third subclass 417 visa.

The job roles and responsibilities include:

Tourist guides
Tourist operators
Outdoor activity or adventure instructors
Transport
Museum guides
Restaurant chefs
Tourist bus drivers
Gallery curators
Event organizers

Hospitality and hotel accommodation
Bars, cafes, restaurants, casinos managers
Producing small goods
Milling or
Dairy retail
Wine tasting
Brewing wine and distillation

However, with the subclass 417 working holiday visa, you are not eligible for cleaning work or a driver of a school bus.

Fishing and Pearling

If you have Visa Subclass 417, you can do some jobs related to fishing and pearling, limited to directing operations while catching fish and collecting or culturing pearl shells or pearls.

Tree Felling and Farming

You can take up specific work in a tree plantation or forest. You may plant or tend trees to cut them when fully grown. You may also actively participate in a tree cutting process in the forest or on a plantation.

You may also transport the trees or their parts to the processing or milling plant.

Mining

You can participate actively in a few jobs in different mines. These are:

Mining coal, metal, and mineral ore
Extracting oil and gas
Material mining for construction
Exploration
Quarrying and mining non-metallic minerals and
Offering support services

However, you will not be eligible for cooking food or catering on the site or offering any services specialized for social science, such as archaeological or anthropological assessments.

Your job will also not involve cleaning or swapping the buildings of the mines.

Construction

If interested, you can take up specific work if you have a second or third-working holiday subclass 417 visa. You can take part in different areas of construction, such as:

In addition to that, you can also take up a few specific services-oriented works related to construction. These are:

Apart from that, there are also other options to choose specified work from, such as:

Again, a few specific types of jobs are not considered to be specified work for the subclass 417 working holiday visa holders. These include:

Bushfire or Flood Recovery

This is another specific work area open for people with working holiday subclass 417 visa. There are different areas to choose from, which include construction, farming, and other jobs related to the restitution or recovery of property, land, wildlife, or farm animals.

You may also offer assistance or support services to the people living in the affected areas or working there.

You can, however, choose to be a paid worker or a volunteer and get involved with other different types of jobs in connection to bushfire and flood recovery and the affected community, such as:

Caring for flora and fauna
Rebuilding the destroyed fences of the houses
Assisting the victims or volunteers working
Digging trenches
Clearing land
Demolition and earth moving and
Renovating or repairing residential and non-residential buildings

Your job may also include constructing roads, footpaths, parking lots, bridges, dams, railways, sewage, irrigation systems, and storm water drainage.

Such recovery, however, does not involve jobs that do not fall under the areas damaged by the bushfire or flood.

Critical COVID-19 Work

In the medical sector, specified work related to COVID-19 include:

Nursing
Medical treatment
Contact tracing
Research and testing
Support services
Mental health support
Cleaning quarantine and testing facility

Services exempted in this category include:

Other medical services, such as physiotherapy or occupational therapy unrelated to COVID-19, are exempted.

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