Visitoz is a Working Holiday programme which guarantees well paid jobs for young people from more than 70 countries of the world. The work is all in rural areas and jobs could be in teaching, child care, housekeeping, farm work, animal care, hospitality, tourism, nursing, construction and a mixture of all of any of them (the participant chooses). We meet participants at Brisbane Airport on a Thursday morning and they spend four days getting over jetlag by the beach and this is the time to meet all their new friends. The following Monday they travel to the Training farm where they learn everything to be useful in a rural enviroment, whatever job they will decide to do. They ride horses and motorbikes, drive tractors, use chainsaws and do fencing tasks, work with cattle and build and repair fences. They learn life skills such as how to change a wheel on a vehicle. On their 9th day they travel to the job of their choice. After three or four months work the money is burning a hole in their pocket (paid at the award wage and food & accommodation is provided) so that they have to go to spend it - with their new friends they go to the coast and the cities and 'play' sailing, diving, surfing, bungy jumping and sunbathing and taking tours. Just before they run out of money we ask them to call us again and they get another job - so that, in their year out, they can work and play their way around Australia without hassles.
Director: Joanna Burnet & William Taunton-Burnet
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