Australia Casual, Part-Time & Christmas Casual Jobs 2026 — Updated Daily

Live casual, part-time, temp and seasonal jobs across Australia — retail, hospitality, warehouse & delivery, care, events, cleaning and campus work. 1185 selected roles below, refreshed daily from employer career pages. Search the broader Australian collection on Workopia using the link below.

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| Browse here on GitHub | Search on Workopia | | --- | --- | | 1,185 selected roles | 50,801 tracked Australian casual, part-time and contract/temp postings |

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This repository is a compact selection: matching employer/role/location postings are grouped, and category and employer limits keep the list varied. The website offers the broader pool and location, role and employment-type filters. Related hourly roles can also appear with their actual employment labels. These are different scopes, not a count of the entire Australian job market.

Website pool snapshot: 2026-11-01T01:06:24.664Z. Repo snapshot: 2026-11-02. Counts refresh with the daily data pipeline.

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How to find a casual job in Australia — 2 Nov 2026

Casual jobs in Australia are filled fastest by people who apply where the roles are actually posted — employer career pages — and who make their availability obvious. As of 2 Nov 2026, this repository lists 1,185 active casual, part-time and seasonal roles from Australian employer career sites, including 1,349 Christmas and seasonal roles. Five steps that work:

1. Pick your city, days and hours first. Employers filter on availability before anything else. Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane have the most listings in this repository right now. → Browse casual jobs by city
2. Search employer career pages, not only job boards. Large chains post casual roles on their own career sites and ATS feeds. → Browse 1,185 roles by category
3. Use the right filter for your situation. No experience → current roles that say so. Student → student-friendly roles. Weekend or night → weekend and night roles. Christmas → live roles and hiring timeline.
4. Put availability, work rights and required certificates in the top third of a one-page resume. RSA, White Card, WWCC and Police Check appear in listings. → What to prepare · Resume Library
5. Apply online for chains; ask in person only at independent venues. Chain applications usually run through a career portal and may include a chat or video screen. → What casual interviews look like

Live data summary

| Measure | Current repository snapshot | |---|---:| | Active roles | 1,185 | | Employers represented | 460 | | Christmas and seasonal roles tracked | 1,349 | | Roles explicitly open to no-experience applicants | 64 | | Top locations | Melbourne (157) · Sydney (146) · Brisbane (103) | | Data date | 2 Nov 2026 |

Counts are employer career-site postings represented in this repository, not the whole Australian job market. The dataset is rebuilt from Workopia's daily employer-source feed.

🙏 Spotted a wrong or closed role? Open an issue — see the contribution guide. 🙏

Browse 1185 roles by category

• 🧑‍⚕️ Care & Disability Support (174) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 54
• 🎓 Campus, Tutoring & Childcare (180) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 60
• 🎤 Events, Promo & Casual Staffing (146) — Casual 60 · Part-time 58 · Temp & seasonal 28
• 📦 Warehouse, Delivery & Driving (180) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 60
• 🧹 Cleaning & Facilities (147) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 27
• 🍽️ Hospitality & Food (178) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 58
• 🛍️ Retail & Supermarket (180) — Casual 60 · Part-time 60 · Temp & seasonal 60

🎄 Christmas & seasonal hiring — open now

1349 seasonal and Christmas casual roles are live right now. Australian retailers post the bulk of their Christmas casual roles from September–October, and the earliest "festive" and "seasonal" roles appear from August — this section fills as they open.

📖 How to get hired as a Christmas casual — employer-by-employer guides →

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Legend

• 🆕 Posted in the last 2 days
• 🎄 Christmas / seasonal role
• 🌱 No experience required — training provided
• 💵 Hourly pay as disclosed by the employer — casual loading and penalty rates are set by the role's award, confirm on the job page
• 🎫 Certificate or check the ad asks for (RSA, RCG, White Card, WWCC, Food Safety, police check, driver licence…)
• 🔥 Notable / high-growth employer

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FAQs

What does “casual” actually mean in Australia? A casual employee has no guaranteed hours and no paid annual or sick leave — in exchange they are paid a casual loading on top of the base rate, set by the relevant modern award or agreement. Part-time is the opposite trade: set hours and pro-rata leave, lower hourly rate. Check the rate for your role and award on Fair Work's Pay Calculator.

When do Christmas casual jobs open? Most Australian retailers post the bulk of their Christmas casual roles in September–October, with the earliest "festive"/"seasonal" roles from August. This list is rebuilt daily, so the 🎄 section above shows what is genuinely open today rather than last year's timeline.

Do I need experience? Often not. Roles flagged 🌱 say in the ad that no experience is required or that training is provided — common in supermarket nightfill, trolley collection, fast food, warehouse picking and event staffing.

Which certificates will I be asked for? The Ticket column lifts it straight from the ad: RSA to serve alcohol, RSA + RCG for gaming in NSW, White Card for construction sites, WWCC / Blue Card for work with children, Food Safety for food handling, plus police checks and driver licences. Requirements and issuing bodies are state-based — confirm on the employer's ad before you pay for a course.

I'm on a student visa — how many hours can I work? Student visa holders have a capped fortnightly work limit while their course is in session (unlimited during scheduled course breaks). The cap has changed more than once — check the current figure on the Department of Home Affairs work-conditions page before you commit to a roster.

How is this list built? Every role comes from the employer's own career page or ATS feed — never scraped from another job board — and is classified with Workopia's employment-type tagging. Apply links open the role on Workopia, where you also get a match score and a tailored CV. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

🧑‍⚕️ Care & Disability Support

Casual (60)

💡 Casual = no guaranteed hours, paid a casual loading instead of paid leave. Highest hourly rate, most flexible.