Specified work

• plant and animal cultivation
  • cultivating or propagating plants, fungi or their products or parts
  • general maintenance crop work
  • harvesting and/or packing fruit and vegetable crops
  • immediate processing of animal products including shearing, butchery in an abattoir, packing and tanning
    Note: Secondary processing of animal products, such as small goods processing and retail butchery is not eligible
  • immediate processing of plant products
  • maintaining animals for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase
  • manufacturing dairy produce from raw material
  • pruning and trimming vines and trees.
• fishing and pearling
  • conducting operations relating directly to taking or catching fish and other aquatic species
  • conducting operations relating directly to taking or culturing pearls or pearl shell.
• tree farming and felling
  • felling trees in a plantation or forest
  • planting or tending trees in a plantation or forest that are intended to be felled
  • transporting trees or parts of trees that were felled in a plantation or forest to the place where they are first to be milled or processed or from which they are to be transported to the place where they are to be milled or processed.
• mining
  • coal mining
  • oil and gas extraction
  • metal ore mining
  • non-metallic mineral mining and quarrying
  • exploration and other mining support services
• construction
  • building construction
  • heavy and civil enginerring construction
  • construction services

Work undertaken in the areas of plant and animal cultivation, fishing and pearling, and tree farming and felling must be described in the list above to meet the specified work requirement. Supporting work, such as book-keeping, in any industry described in the list above does not meet the definition of specified work.

Specified work:

• does not need to be paid work
  Example: Work undertaken as a volunteer or through the Willing Workers on Organic Farms (WWOOF) scheme may qualify if the work falls within the specified work definition listed above.
• does not need to be undertaken as a direct employee
  Example: Work undertaken as a contractor is eligible if it falls within the specified work definition listed above.
• must be described in the list above

Examples of eligible specified work:

• picking fruits on a farm or orchard
• feeding and herding cattle which are kept for commercial purposes
• constructing a house
• extracting ore on a mine site.

Examples of ineligible specified work:

• working at a cellar door providing wine tastings
• undertaking an archaeological survey
• working as a caterer or cook on a mine site
• working as an architect or town planner
• working as a cook or cleaner while volunteering through the WWOOF scheme
• helping to construct ships or boats.