Monthly Archives:: September 2011

Backpackers Buddy has won a case it lodged for client Matthew Groves against the Australian Taxation Office. The favourable ruling enables all backpackers who have lodged a tax return in the last two years to resubmit the paper work to seek amendments that will increase their refund amount. In 2010, Groves, a British backpacker and [...]

Cairns to me feels like a giant shopping mall…very comfortable and whilst it has everything you need, you wouldn’t want to stay there longer than needed. Cairns is a very popular Backpackers destination and it shows! There are over 40 Hostels in the city, I stayed at Calypso (some people know it as Zanzibar (which [...]

An hour and a half south of Cairns is the town of Innisfail, all though small it offers more than many picking and packing towns. There are 4 main Hostels which all cater for travellers looking for work. There is employment offered all year round, although in the winter (still stupidly hot) it does slow [...]

Airlie is basically Nimbin but instead of Ganja the streets are overflowing with tour operators…you are approached at every intersection being asked if you’ve booked onto a sailing trip yet. Airlie Beach only consists of a few streets, the main high street and the esplanade. It doesn’t even have a real beach but a man [...]

This little town is the northern most surfing spot in Queensland. When people ask me why they should stop in Agnes Water I struggle to convey how great the place is, there is very little here, one pub, a few shops, a beach….urm…a national park…. But I’ve been here 4 or 5 times and each [...]

Tonnes of travellers come to Bundy to get fruit picking and packing work so that they can extend their visa’s. The problem is that so many people come for work that they often find it tough to get any more than a couple of days a week. Most of the hostels in town help you [...]

This town is just a group of anonymous suburbs, 99% of the Backpackers stopping here are going to Fraser Island. All the others are here to Whale watch. Its hard not to feel a bit like a piece of meat being shipped form one container to the next in Harvey Bay…the hostels come and collect [...]

Noosa is a small town famous for its long peeling point break surf spots and good beaches. The town itself has everything you would want from a holiday town offering good café’s and a few night spots. Noosa is trying to rid its self of Backpackers and capitalise on higher flying, bigger spending customers, when [...]

Lots of people I met in Brisbane had been staying there for a while having found work in bars etc. I found the city a bit limited in its appeal, you don’t get the same self important going places feel that Sydney has about it…and this is probably one of the main reasons people tend [...]