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A working holiday down under can be financially rewarding, the pay is amongst the highest of all first world countries for unskilled labour. Your employer will be withholding tax which you’re entitled to claim from the tax office at the end of the financial year, June 30.The average refund for backpackers is approximate $2600, which is exactly what you’ll need to get you over to New Zealand, South East Asia or road trip up the east coast. You Beauty! Find the right tax agent can be a confusing matter,  some charged fixed fees, some charge % based fees. All Members Read more

Irish Enjoy Hot Aussie Summer

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Phillip Island - L. Bastien

“The snakes are bloody bad, there’s nothing poisonous in Ireland,” David Brown said of his first impressions of Australia. Mr Brown is one of more than 50 Irish backpackers working in the Narromine and Trangie districts during the summer. Twenty-three-year-old Irish backpackers Mr Brown and his friend Kristopher Vance were working on a cotton farm at Narromine. Part of their work included starting siphons and “making socks for people back home”. The men explained they had come to Australia for more than just a holiday. “There’s no work in Ireland,” Mr Vance said, adding that thousands of people were leaving Read more