Wander Inn: beds and work in the South West

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Farm, vineyard and building work near Bunbury. Counts for your 88 days. Paid every week at award rates, with pay slips you can show for your second-year visa. You pay nothing. Ever.

Rooms, houses and hostel beds near the farms. Talk to the host direct. The price is on the listing. Bunbury, Harvey, Capel, Busselton, Donnybrook, Margaret River, Manjimup.

Hosts and hostels: list a room or a bed. Set your price and your rules. Workers contact you direct. Up to six people in a house. Stays under three months need a WA STRA number. ID sighted on a video call before a listing goes live.

Name, visa, phone, when you can start. One form or one WhatsApp message.

A job that counts for your 88 days, with a bed nearby. We check your work rights first.

Award pay every week, super paid, pay slips you keep for your second-year visa.

The Wander Inn hostel in Bunbury closed in February 2026. No beds are bookable here. The name lives on as the South West noticeboard for beds near the job and work that counts.

Hosts set the rules. Pay on time, keep it clean, look after the place, and the next backpacker gets the room after you. Students: 48 hours a fortnight in term, no cap in your breaks.

Bunbury Lodge Pty Ltd trading as Hire Statewide. A Bunbury office, a WA landline and a director who answers the phone. Whole South West: Harvey to Manjimup, Bunbury to Margaret River.

Award wages, super, WorkCover, and a work rights check before the first shift. Never an agency, never a placement fee, and workers never pay us.

Award rates, paid every week, super paid, a pay slip every week. No fees, no deductions you did not sign for. If something is wrong, tell us and we fix it that week.

We list beds, we do not own them. We never take rent, never negotiate your lease, never charge a worker. Hosts and workers deal direct.