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International
students in Australia on a student visa can apply for
permission to work. A student can work up to 20 hours a week on a casual basis
during course time and full-time during vacation periods if they have been
granted a visa with work rights. If you are studying a Masters or Doctorate
course under subclass 574 you are permitted to work unlimited hours. Family
members can apply for permission to work up to 20 hours a week throughout the
year. You can only apply for a visa with work rights after you arrive in
Australia and have begun studying. The application charge for a student visa
with permission to work is A$50. The money you earn from working in Australia
should only supplement your income and not be used as your only source of
income. It can be a risk for international students to rely too much on
part-time work as their main and only source of income; they may be asked to
work for different working hours for varying payments. Sometimes it becomes too
difficult to handle studies alongside a job, especially towards the end of the
term.
Most students take part-time or casual jobs at some time
during their studies. Some jobs are closely tied to courses of study (such as
formal cadetships and informal arrangements such as part-time work by law
students in solicitors' offices). Some students tutor school children or get
jobs on campus in the canteen, the bookshop, in the institution's offices and
as laboratory assistants. Some jobs are entirely outside the education
community such as bartending, babysitting, gardening, hospitality, sales,
information technology, restaurants, checkout work or fruit picking.
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