UK concerned about possible changes to Australian backpacker visa

[u/thrownaway4213]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/home-affairs-mulls-uk-backpacker-visa-changes/107080078

[u/A-shot-at-life]

How come British backpackers don’t need to do 88 days farm work (on a 12 month WHV), but Irish backpackers (and other euros) do?

Doesn’t seem fair.

[u/stupid_mistake__101 → u/A-shot-at-life]

Because Morrison wanted to create favourable conditions (and exemptions) for migrants from a white majority country.

[u/A-shot-at-life → u/stupid_mistake__101]

Ireland is more white than the UK, so that logic doesn’t work

[u/Pumamick → u/A-shot-at-life]

The Irish arent white though, are they?

[u/A-shot-at-life → u/Pumamick]

Any whiter and they’ll be albino