Jobs on cattle and sheep stations in Outback Australia are easily the most popular with those coming from overseas. Here you get first hand experience of mustering, working in the yards and looking after the animals, whether large or small, stud cattle or wilder ones, even buffalo.

There are dozens of different opportunities available for those who can ride horses well, or would like to improve their skills. Obviously some of these jobs are only open to those with good skills - other people are willing to teach their employees.....

You need to be a good horse rider, able to cope with chasing recalcitrant animals at speed and strong enough to cope with yard work in the heat.






We have work for:
teachers and graduates
mechanics and  engineers
carpenters and joiners
plumbers and electricians
builders and construction labourers
veterinary students and nurses
students and gap year students
agricultural college students and graduates
pre agric college students
anyone who has lived on a farm
good horse riders
ex-military servicemen and women
and
anyone who does not mind getting their hands dirty and is willing to have the experience of a lifetime!

Much of the mustering is done in conjunction with helicopters or fixed wing mustering planes, or gyrocopters and motorbikes.

Other jobs are with Three Day Event horses, Show Jumpers, Polocrosse or Polo Ponies, Stock Horse studs, Dressage or Endurance horses, with racehorses and at Trail Riding Centres. For some it is not always essential to be a first class horseman or woman;  you will be learning and in some cases a smaller wage is paid to compensate for the teaching received.

A fair bit of your work would be on the ground, caring for the horses - possibly in stables, but also feeding and checking them in the paddocks, perhaps lungeing them and preparing them for the owner to ride.

At the Trail Riding Centres most of the horses and ponies are very quiet and once you know the routes taken you can be very useful and have a thoroughly enjoyable job. Trail Riding work is seasonal in the southern States of Australia. There are several Trail Riding centres offering work for keep only - so this is available for people who are not able to have working visas.

If you are wanting horse work of any sort in Australia with Visitoz then you must attend the short course at Springbrook Farm.

This is in order that we can confirm to our employers all over Australia that you are competent and safe.

It is no good sending a worker several hundred kilometres only to find that he or she cannot do what they said they can do!

As a result of this course we have employers who trust VisitOZ to introduce them to the right sort of workers - and always return to us when looking for staff.

We also have employers, when approached direct, who pass the workers on to VisitOZ to train before agreeing to employ them.