Working Holiday - Australia - advice needed!

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my 22 year old DD has an office job but never did the gap year thing due to Covid. She found a perfectly nice office job which she has been doing for 2 years now but is bored senseless. She is thinking about taking 6 months or a year out to work/travel on her own. Are there any companies that help with this? As she’ll be on her own, I’m keen we organise it properly!

She needs to organise it, not you.
the whole point (or a large point) is to grow up and mature.
My son did this at 21, the only thing I did was take him to the airport.

Exactly. Airport lift only and my son was only 18 and went for nearly a year to work so there's no reason a 22 year old adult can't sort herself out. And should sort herself out. That's the point of a gap year.

I did this. As pp my parents took me to the airport. What do you think needs organising? I just turned up and went to a hostel.

She can book somewhere to stay in advance easy enough these days. And register with a temping agency in advance if she needs to hit the ground running. But you don’t need to pay a company to do it.

Tbf you could say the words "working visa" to her. But I'd suggest that would be all you might want to do. And maybe not even that.

Agreed she needs to work it out herself. I went by myself in the early 90s pre-internet at the same age, my parents had nothing to do with the planning. I sorted a work visa for Australia, and first night accommodation in Canada which is where I went first. After that I had to find accommodation and travel routes from my Lonely Planet book and asking at bus stations et. Way easier now with internet!

There were people who had ‘gone through a company’ that arranged work for them in Australia, and it was a complete rip-off, they just found work for them that they could easily have found themselves, with a big fee.

Your DD will have fun planning her route, don’t over organise it for her.