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:
➤ Plant and animal cultivation
➤ Tourism and hospitality
➤ Fishing and pearling
➤ Tree felling and farming
➤ Mining
➤ Construction
➤ Bushfire or Flood Recovery
➤ COVID-19 work in the medical sector
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:
➤ Producing small goods
➤ Milling or
➤ Dairy retail
➤ Wine tasting
➤ Brewing wine and distillation
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
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:
➤ Residential building
➤ Non-residential building
➤ Heavy engineering and
➤ Civil engineering
In addition to that, you can also take up a few specific services-oriented works related to construction. These are:
➤ Land development
➤ Site preparation
➤ Building installation
➤ Building structure
➤ Building completion and others
Apart from that, there are also other options to choose specified work from, such as:
➤ Landscaping the construction site
➤ Interior and exterior painting of new houses and buildings
➤ Scaffolding and
➤ Erecting fences around the site
Again, a few specific types of jobs are not considered to be specified work for the subclass 417 working holiday visa holders. These include:
➤ Architecture
➤ Ship or boat building
➤ Town planning and
➤ Manufacturing building materials
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 stormwater 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:
➤ General administration
➤ Financial services at any care facility
➤ Producing and selling personal hygiene and protective equipment
Other medical services, such as physiotherapy or occupational therapy unrelated to COVID-19, are exempted.
