Australia Work Guide

You will need permission from DIAC in the state or territory where you are living, If you want to work part-time in Australia.For work permission, complete a form 157P from DIAC, and pay $60 as an application fee.you will need to show letter from your institution as evidence that you havecommenced your course of study and your current student visa.You need to fill all this information in form.You also can apply online but after aprovel you need to go DIAC office to get a new visa label into your passport.You also can include your spouse in same form to get work visa. Student work visa has some conditons. You must follow these condition.otherwise your visa may be cancelled.

After you have started your course of study, you may apply for work permission up to 20 hours a week. You must also applyto the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) to do volunteeror unpaid work which counts toward the 20 hours a week limit you areallowed under your visa.For more information, visit DIACs websiteat www.immi.gov.au

You must obtain a Tax File Number (TFN) from the Australian TaxationOffice (ATO) if you are going to work in Australia. You can also need aTFN to open a bank account. To apply TFN you can obtain form from post office or ATO website.You can use the ATO’s online registration system to get TFN but ensure that you must get permission to work before apply TFN.

Australia is a land of opertunities.If student have good skills in perticular feild then they can get job in their feild otherwise international students can find work in retail, hospitality andadministration and factories. Dependingon work and age they can get $10-20 an hour. They may be paid morefor working on nights, Sundays or public holidays.There are many websites where you can find work. some of these are:-
http://www.seek.com.au/
http://www.gumtree.com.au/
http://mycareer.com.au/
There are plenty of part time jobs available for international students in Australia, especially the major cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide etc. I haven't lived in a small town but I am sure there must be lots of part time jobs in small towns too.The first place to find a job are two websites, seek.com.au and mycareer.com.au However, the above two websites mostly advertise professional jobs and do not have blue collar jobs listed on them.The big super market companies, fast food chains, gas stations like the following:
1. Coles 2. Woolsworth 3. KFC 4. MacDonald
5. Opporto 6. Pizza Hut 7. Domino's 8. Nandos
9. Hungry Jacks 10. BP 11. Shell 12. Caltex
13. Bunnings 14. Harvey Norman 15. Domain
16. Bing Lee 17. Myer 18. David Jones
19. JBHifi 20. Greater Union 21.FedEx 22. Bob Jayne T-Marts 23. Borders Book stores
24. Dymock Book stores
25. Dick Smith Electronics Australia
26. Boost Juice Bars 27. Krispy Kreme Coffee and Doughnuts
etc are some of the few places where you can get a part time blue collar jobs. Apart from the above mentioned established businesses, there are a plethora of Indian/Turkish/Thai/Chinese/Japanese restaurants where you can get work.
Please note that according to law you are only allowed to work 20 hours per week.
You should be able to easily make around $1000 per month which would cover your expenses. Getting a job at first is not easy because most new arrivals from the Asian countries don't know how to make a resume, prepare for the interviews and give the right answers to all the tricky questions of the interviews

The simple, honest and straight forward answer is a BIG NO!. You cannot make your tuition fees from simply working 20 hours per week. However, you might be able to do that during the vacations in which you are allowed full time work.There are two academic semesters every year in Australia. From Feb to June and from August to Nov.You get one month worth of vacations between June and August and almost 3 months worth of vacations between Nov and Feb.You can work full time during these vacations. By working full time you can earn around $4000 in one month but the tuition fees per semester for four subjects these days is around $10,000.So you will not be able to make the tuition fees for your semester which starts in August as there is only one month to available for full time work.However, you have a good chance of making your tuition fees by working full time three months for the semester which starts in Feb.All this depends whether your employer is willing to give you full time work or not. Towards the end of your semester, you should start looking for full time work.

You will need to lodge an income tax return, If you work in Australia.You can complete it through a registered tax agent or by completing it yourself.You can get guide and forms from post office or news agencies. You also can do it by e-tax. This is the fastest way to refund. You can downloade-tax from the ATO website. For more information visit www.ato.gov.au.

If you are international student, and are paid $450 or more per month, you may be entitled to superannuation. Youremployer is usually required by law to pay money into a superannuationor retirement savings account for you. If you you permanently leave Australia, you may be entitled torefund this money. For more infomation about superannuation visit www.ato.gov.au.