Working holiday visas


The weird, wacky world of holiday work

Working holidays often result in work that you wouldn’t normally ever do. Like, Rafiq Copeland who judged whether or not genitalia was being flashed on a dating show. Bit different than fruit picking…

Kevin Andrews, the Aussie sex workers’ friend

The Howard and Costello promises that wages will be lower under a Liberal government seems to be occupationally selective, but there is a catch in Kevin Andrews plan to inflate sex workers’ salaries, writes Michael Pascoe.

Get grandma off the couch and back to work

The average Australian worker is certainly putting in the hours, but there’s one section of the community that’s not pulling its weight: its latest bulletin, the RBA points a sharp stick at the 55+ age group as workforce bludgers on an international scale.