Australia

The Great Ocean Road is something every Irish person should try to do while on their working holiday visa in Australia. One of our members from my Facebook group Irish …

It is pretty funny before we make the move to Australia our lovely friends who are already here regularly tell us about the big crazy spiders in Australia. Only to …

For over 10 years, the Irish Around Oz Facebook groups have been where Irish people in Australia look for work, and where employers who want Irish staff come to find …

Moving back to Ireland after years in Australia is a bigger job than moving out was. You arrived with a backpack. You’re going home with a car, a flat full …

Leaving Australia the time comes for a lot of us. Some sooner than we had hoped. Either your visa runs out, or you have just had enough of Australia and …

Leaving Australia? Every dollar your employers paid into superannuation is yours to claim once you’ve gone. It’s called a Departing Australia Superannuation Payment (DASP), and after a year or two …

Regional work is paid work in certain industries and areas of Australia that you do to qualify for another Working Holiday visa. Home Affairs calls it “specified work”. On an …

Updated October 2026. The Working Holiday visa (subclass 417) is how most Irish people get to Australia. It lets you live and work here for a year, and up to …

Hello everyone if you are one of our regular followers you might have noticed a lack of articles and posts on our Facebook page, well part of the reason is …

We get a LOT of messages on our main Facebook page  Irish Around Oz and yesterday we received this great poem from one of our followers. Similarly if you have anything …

Heading home to Ireland, or moving to Australia with more than a suitcase? This is the guide I send people when the shipping question comes up in the groups, which …

We all know someone who came to Australia on a working holiday visa for a year and is still here twelve years later. This is how they did it. Below …

Tax time deadline: if you lodge your own return, it is due by 31 October each year. When that falls on a weekend, as it does in 2026, you have …

Missing home? Here’s where to buy Irish food in Australia: Barry’s, Tayto and Club Orange in Woolworths and Coles, The Irish Shop online, and Irish butchers making rashers, sausages and pudding. Plus what you can bring in your suitcase, what the Mammy can post, and the foods we all miss. Checked October 2026.

So you are moving to Australia? We wanted to write this post as there are so many things you learn along with your stay in Australia, from little working holiday …