Le Working Holiday Visa (WHV)

Une véritable aubaine pour toute personne qui désire avoir une expérience de vie à l’étranger, apprendre ou perfectionner son anglais et découvrir l’Australie, ce pays de l’autre bout du monde qui laisse encore rêveurs bon nombre d’Occidentaux…

Le Working Holiday Visa (WHV) ou Visa Vacances Travail (VVT), est un visa qui permet aux personnes qui ont entre 18 et 30 ans de découvrir l’Australie pendant un laps de temps déterminé et d’y travailler.
Il est délivré par le site de l’immigration Australienne.
Ce visa est également de connu sous le nom de “Working Holiday Maker” ou visa 417.

1. Les pays partenaires :

Pour pouvoir en bénéficier, il faut déjà qu’un partenariat soit passé entre votre pays et l’Australie, ce qui est le cas de 19 pays actuellement : la France, la Belgique et le Canada, mais aussi le Royaume-Uni, l’Irlande, l’Allemagne, Le Japon, La Suède, La Norvège, Le Danemark, La Finlande, Chypre, Hong-Kong, Tawaïn, La Corée du Sud, Malte, L’Italie, l’Estonie et enfin les Pays-Bas.

2. Le WHV en pratique :

• Vous pouvez rester jusqu’à 12 mois en Australie. Pendant ce laps de temps vous avez le droit de quitter l’Australie et d’y revenir autant de fois que vous le souhaitez.
• Vous pouvez voyager partout en Australie.
• Depuis novembre 2005, vous pouvez postuler pour un second Working Holiday Visa si pouvez justifier de 3 mois de travail en fruit-picking.
  Attention, renseignez-vous bien avant car toutes les régions ne sont pas prises en compte.
• Vous ne bénéficierez pas de l’assurance santé australienne.
• Avec un WHV, vous pouvez étudier jusqu’à 4 mois (depuis le 1er juillet 2003). Si vous obtenez un second WHV vous disposerez de 4 mois supplémentaires d’études si vous le souhaitez.
• Vous pouvez travailler durant votre séjour et jusqu’à 6 mois avec le même employeur (depuis le 1er juillet 2006). Quels sont les types d’emplois ? Récoltes, cueillettes et vendanges.

LE FRUIT_PICKING

Le fruit-picking est le travail le plus souvent effectué par les voyageurs en WHV. Il ne nécessite pas de compétences particulières - seulement une bonne motivation - et les offres sont nombreuses toute l’année.  Le fruit-picking consiste, comme son nom l’indique, à ramasser des fruits (mais aussi des légumes) : tomates, raisins, melons, mangues, pommes, citrons, bananes, fraises, avocats, etc. Attendez-vous à un travail très physique (ouyouyouille le dos…) et très salissant.
Le salaire dépend du type de produits récoltés : les gros fruits ou légumes (pommes, poires…) sont plus chers payés que les petits (fraises, petits-pois).
Suivant les fermes, vous serez rémunéré à l’heure (souvent plus avantageux) ou au nombre de seaux.
Salaire moyen : comptez entre 10 et 14AUD de l’heure, (soit entre 6 et 8,40EUR).

Très souvent vous pourrez loger sur place dans la ferme, dans des backpackers environnants (souvent en partenariat avec les fermes) ou bien dans un camping. Si vous voyagez en travaillant pour plusieurs fermes, n’oubliez pas qu’il est interdit de traverser les frontières des Etats avec des fruits et légumes.

Conseils pratiques :

·         La crème solaire et le chapeau sont des accessoires indispensables pendant la période estivale et dans les régions les plus chaudes.

·         Emportez également avec vous les fringues les plus pourries et de solides chaussures (les tongs c’est pour la plage !)

·         Si vous faites du fruit-picking dans l’optique de renouveler votre WHV, attention des restrictions existent sur les régions

LE WWOOFING : travail volontaire dans les fermes bio

Le Wwoofing est le travail volontaire dans des fermes bio (Willing Worker On Organic Farms).
Le principe est le suivant : en contrepartie de votre travail à la ferme on vous offre l’hébergement et le repas. C’est un très bon moyen de s’intégrer et de découvrir des gens et une culture.
Suivant les fermes, les régions et la période de l’année, vous pourrez être amené à faire toute sorte de petits boulots : couper du bois, nourrir les animaux, réparer une clôture, jardiner, cueillir des fleurs, ramasser des légumes, semer, planter, récolter…, etc.
La durée quotidienne du travail doit correspondre à peu près à 1/2 journée, soit entre 4 et 6h.
Les seuls critères requis sont les suivants :

·         Être agé d’au moins 17 ans.

·         Avoir une condition physique en adéquation avec un travail à la ferme.

·         Etre ouvert et positif.

En contrepartie vous recevez :

·         Une carte de membre avec un numéro identifiant personnel, valable 12 mois.

·         Le “Wwoof Book” avec la liste et les coordonnées des fermes participantes au programme (essentiellement dans le New South Wales, le Victoria et le Queensland).

·         Une assurance qui vous couvre en cas de petits accidents sans gravité.

Les conditions du séjour (type de travail, temps de travail, hébergement, durée du séjour, etc.) devront être définies au préalable avec la ferme. Sachez que vous êtes obligé de rester un minimum de 2 nuits au même endroit.

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Date: June 2, 2008

Rapid increases in interest rates have slammed Australian home owners with a mortgage to a point where they are now making the highest repayments in the developed world. Thankfully, one consolation is that generally house values are holding up.

I know there is a big increase in home repossessions and loan defaults, and property values are relatively stagnant, but compared with the rest of the world our real estate prices are staying pretty solid.

The question now is whether Australian residential property prices are overvalued and could we see the same sort of cracks which are happening overseas.

The news from overseas is just appalling. A recent US house price survey by the National Association of Realtors recorded an average 7.7 per cent drop for the year to March - the biggest fall since records started in 1982.

Would you believe states such as California and Florida are seeing average falls of up to 30 per cent over the past year as the credit crunch bites hard. At this stage 1-in-194 homes in the US have been repossessed and that ratio is climbing constantly. There are reports that some financiers are repossessing homes and then asking the owners to stay rent free to protect the property from vandals.

Now there are fears this sort of property crash could spread to Britain based on its current valuations. Average house prices in Britain are running at six times average earnings, which is way above the historic average of 3.7 times wages.

Australian residential property values are currently double Britain’s historic high - 12 times earnings in Sydney and 10 times in Melbourne.

Australian mortgage repayments are 57 per cent of average incomes compared with 50 per cent in Britain where the historic average is just 30 per cent.

A recent survey in The Economist magazine says Australia has the most overvalued residential property in the world.

All these comparisons make for very nervous reading and you’d think would point to an impending crash the size of that in the US. That may very well be the case a few years down the track.

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Firstly, the high skilled and business immigration numbers combined with low construction levels is creating a shortage of supply accentuated by the banks tightening development financing.

Full employment also means that even though higher loan repayments are stretching family budgets, household incomes won’t fall.
The other factor is the rental crisis. Strongly rising rents are usually a precursor to rising values as investors chase property to take advantage of the strong yields.

For property owners it looks like a crash in values isn’t on the cards for at least a few years. For those looking to get on the property merry-go-round for the first time, property is not going to get any more affordable either.

But it seems there is hope of picking up an affordable bargain if you know where to look.

Last week on my Sunrise program we interviewed Terry Ryder who is a former property writer and now runs a business called Hot Spotting, which analyses property issues.

Terry Ryder put together a list of the top 12 places to buy a house for under $200,000. Yep, $200,000 and many on the list are well below that level down to $90,000 in one area.

Now before you chortle and say they must be in the middle of nowhere, Ryder’s 12 locations all have good community facilities and reasonably good employment prospects for people moving there, because they’re booming.

There are only two locations on the list close to a capital city - Melton near Melbourne and Elizabeth on the outskirts of Adelaide.
Ryder says most areas close to Sydney and Brisbane were priced out of this list.

His personal pick is Parkes in regional NSW because of its location as a transport hub.

In Queensland, Charters Towers is the best pick while in NSW there’s Broken Hill, Glen Innes and Inverell.

In Victoria, the best buys are Gippsland, Melton and Mildura.

Further south in Tassie, George Town and the Rosebery-Zeehan area are on the list.

In South Australia, Elizabeth rounds out the top 12.

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