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    RTE’s Morning Ireland featured a story on Australi…

    By admin | August 8, 2006

    RTE’s Morning Ireland featured a story on Australia’s changes to its “Working Holiday� and “Work and Holiday� visa programme. Ireland has the third-highest proportion of participants in the programme, behind the UK and South Korea, with 12,500 to 13,000 a year. The main change is that now participants on the programme can work six months with each employer, up from the former three-month limit. The seasonal work for second“Working Holiday� visa applicants has been expanded to include plant and animal cultivation, fishing and pearling, and tree farming and felling.
    More information is available at http://www.immi.gov.au.

    http://dynamic.rte.ie/av/228-2163537.smil
    http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0808/morningireland.html
    More information on the changes is available at:
    http://www.immi.gov.au/visitors/working-holiday/whats-new.htm

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