Radio Presenter (ANZSCO 212113)
On the Regional Occupation List
From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.
Which lists is Radio Presenter on?
ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.
Visas this occupation can access
Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Radio Presenter comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Radio Presenter is a Group B occupation, assessed against an AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field plus the standard employment test set out in the general framework. This research pass found no occupation-specific suitable or excluded-occupations list, and no showreel, recording or self-employment guidance, published on this page — unlike several performing and screen-production codes elsewhere in this family that do carry that guidance.
Where these applications come unstuck
Without a stated exclusion list, an applicant working across radio and other broadcast media has no authority-published boundary to check their nomination against the way, for example, a director choosing between Director, Program Director, Stage Manager, Technical Director and Video Producer does. The absence itself is worth noting rather than assuming the boundary simply doesn't matter — it may only be that this page's guidance was not published in the same style as its screen-production neighbours.
An honest read on this pathway
Radio Presenter is Regional Occupation List only, reaching a single visa — subclass 494. That places it well below Print Journalist, Television Journalist and Journalists and Other Writers nec — three broadcast-and-media-adjacent codes elsewhere in this family that reach six visas each including employer-sponsored 186 and 482 — despite radio presenting sitting squarely in the same broadcast-media world as reporting and writing for radio.
VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.
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