Thinking of going to Australia for a while

[Master]

Never been but want to go in a couple of years when the kids are a bit older to appreciate what they are seeing and I am getting value for money. Got cousin in Melbourne and will see them when I have the time.

[Andre]

Can you ride a motor bike? I would buy one out here, so you can get anywhere you wish cheap with no hassle.

Travel the countryside and work seasonal work on vineyards while traveling between major cities and states just work at whatever when ever you can and stay where you wish too once you find the right place. Avoid Darwin.

Theres work on private building sites on farms in pubs dish washing on golf course resorts cooking preparing, dish washing. Deck hand on fishing vessels or fishing charter boats, Theres is work on the large sailing vessels in north Queensland and you meet hundreds of tourist girls and party hard every night.

All the resorts up there change staff frequently.

The further you get around and the more people you talk to, the more you will experience and the more opportunities will arise.Just going to an outback pub and having lunch at the main bar ad a beer will broaden the horizons once a local chats to you but you have to engage them by asking if theres any work in area etc.

What is you line of work usually?

[Xwetie]

Can you ride a motor bike? I would buy one out here, so you can get anywhere you wish cheap with no hassle.

Travel the countryside and work seasonal work on vineyards while traveling between major cities and states just work at whatever when ever you can and stay where you wish too once you find the right place. Avoid Darwin.

Theres work on private building sites on farms in pubs dish washing on golf course resorts cooking preparing, dish washing. Deck hand on fishing vessels or fishing charter boats, Theres is work on the large sailing vessels in north Queensland and you meet hundreds of tourist girls and party hard every night.

All the resorts up there change staff frequently.

The further you get around and the more people you talk to, the more you will experience and the more opportunities will arise.Just going to an outback pub and having lunch at the main bar ad a beer will broaden the horizons once a local chats to you but you have to engage them by asking if theres any work in area etc.

What is you line of work usually?

A motorbike wouldnt be any problem! Love riding, to bad there's alot of camras though

Sounds like there's alot of jobs from you aswell, I recently sended an email to a shipping company who loading and unloading containers! It was in Queensland and it was located in nine diffrent places.
So i was hoping i could work a month or two at one place and then move to another and just swap the location.
Would like to work on a ferry, I'm getting kind of tired of rave parties and all about alcohole, But i dont mind once in a whole!
About beer, Victoria bitter and four x is pretty good, that will do fine!
I worked for my father who owns a shipping company so I actually helped him load and unload containers thats why I applied to the shipping company! But im still open for other business!
Just worried about finding a place to live!

What's up with Darwin?
I went to Cairns and Byron bay and it was quite nice towns!

Andree, where are you located may I ask? And thanks for the info man!

, Xweetie!

[Ghost]

Darwin is hot at this time of year.

What type of heavy equipment have you used? Cranes, forklifts.. etc.

[Xwetie]

Darwin is hot at this time of year.

What type of heavy equipment have you used? Cranes, forklifts.. etc.

Dang I like it hot though!

We used forklifts, dont have a driving licens for one, as we need in Sweden.
Not quite sure if you need a licens for it in Australia or not!

We used ramps and drove cars into the containers, if they didnt start we used a forklift!

[armyash]

A mate of mine is off there in a week or so. He finished in the army and been working civvy street 18months or so. obviously feels theres opportunities elsewhere.

I know he got his work visa sorted and I think one of the conditions is he has to have so much money in his bank account before they let him in. Good way to make sure people are serious about going and not planning on sponging off the government - Is that even possible in Australia or is it just England where you can get paid for sitting on your arse making explosives in your grotty flat? (here's one I made earlier)

My mate has his plant qualifications from the army plus he has got other licences and I think he plans to work at the quarries somewhere although he has said any work that allows him to earn enough to get by will do.

Moving to the other side of the world is not my cup of tea but I can see why it appeals to loads of people. I'm too soft the furthest I would go is Spain that way if a family member (God forbid) fell ill or something I can get back asap.

I think if you go and work hard you can make a good life.

He who dares......

[Andre]

Darwin is stinking hot for the next few months. Its full of alcoholic people on the streets of an evening I hear and they arent parting .



Out of town is fine but not inner city from what I hear. Im in Melbourne we love it, we get all weather here,we live on the Peninsula out on the beaches.
Tasmania is a fine place too. South Aust is ok.

WA great place too, hotter though not humid like way up north and the far nth east, its a dryer more user friendly heat in southern WA. North WA is nasty though,40 deg days no wind,dust. Great wages on the mines up there though.

Hard to get onto the wharfs here and in Sydney as its a closed shop,have to be introduced or born in if you get my meaning.