제목 없 음 Working Holiday MakersThe Working Holiday Program provides opportunities for people between 18 and 30 to holiday in Australia and to supplement their travel funds through incidental employment . Australia has reciprocal Working Holiday Maker arrangements in effect with the United Kingdom , Canada , the Netherlands , Japan , Republic of Ireland , Republic of Korea , Malta , Germany , Denmark , Sweden , Norway , the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ( HKSAR ) of the People ' s Republic of China , Finland , the Republic of Cyprus , France , and Italy , Belgium , Estonia and Taiwan . Upcoming changes to the Working Holiday Maker Programme : From 1 July 2006 , several changes will be made to the Working Holiday Maker ( WHM ) ( visa subclass 417 ) programme , including : Increasing the work limitation with each employer from 3 to 6 months ; Increasing the study / training limitation from 3 to 4 months ; andExpanding the definition of ‘ seasonal work ’ ( for second WHM visa eligibility ) to include some primary industries ( see new definition below ) . These changes apply only to WHM visa applications lodged on or after 1 July 2006 . Seasonal work completed before 1 July 2006 in the industries listed below may be counted toward the three months of seasonal work in regional Australia requirement for WHM visa applications lodged on or after 1 July 2006 . Expanded Definition of ‘ Seasonal Work ’‘ Seasonal Work ’: picking fruit , nuts and other cropspruning and trimming vines and treesgeneral maintenance crop workimmediate processing of plant productsother work associated with packing or transporting the harvestcultivating or propagating plants , fungi or their products or partsmaintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce , including natural increaseimmediate processing of animal products including shearing , butchery , packing and tanningmanufacturing dairy produce from raw materialconducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish , turtles , dugong , beche - de - mer , crustaceans or aquatic molluscsconducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shellplanting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felledfelling trees in a plantation or forest , ortransporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed .