OutBackPackers News and Events

We regularly update this page with New and Interesting News Items relating to to our Students, Courses, or about the Australian Outback Rural community.

OutBackPackers Joke of the Week!
WorkCover and Student Safety
New OutBackPackers site launched!!!

OutBackPackers Joke of the Week!

Ireland's worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a
Small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery. Irish search and
Rescue workers have recovered 1826 bodies so far and expect that number
To climb as digging continues into the night...

WorkCover and Student Safety

All travellers with a working holiday visa are entitled to the same workplace conditions as Australians. Our travellers must be covered by your workcover schemes in the unfortunate event that they are involved in an accident.
We now also have an online Injury Report form (for OBP benefit only). This will only take 5 minutes of your time to complete and saves a lot of phone calls and emails from worried parents.

New OutBackPackers site launched!!!

Welcome to th NEW LOOK OutBackPackers Web Site .... we've put a lot of time and effort into the new design - trying to make it better for YOU... our users...

Rachel has now emailed all employers their new user name and password for the Potential Employee Login. Some people have obviously changed their email addresses. If you haven't recieved an email from Rach, please contact her on students@outbackpackers.org so we can get your details to you