Television Presenter (ANZSCO 212114)
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 Television 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
Processing priority
Television Presenter isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.
Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Television Presenter comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
Television Presenter is a Group B occupation, assessed against an AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field plus the standard employment test. As with Radio Presenter, its closest sibling by function, this research pass found no occupation-specific suitable or excluded-occupations list, and no showreel or portfolio guidance, published on the page — a gap relative to several screen-production and journalism codes elsewhere in this family.
Where these applications come unstuck
Television Presenter and Television Journalist sound like adjacent, easily confused roles, but they sit on very different lists and VETASSESS treats them as separate occupations — presenting scripted or hosted content is not the same classification as reporting and producing news content, even when both happen in front of the same camera on the same broadcast. Confirming which describes the actual duties matters more here than the job title alone would suggest.
An honest read on this pathway
Television Presenter is Regional Occupation List only, reaching a single visa — subclass 494. Television Journalist, in the adjacent journalism cluster of this family, reaches six visas including employer-sponsored 186 and 482 — a wide gap between two on-screen broadcast roles that a casual read of the job titles would not predict, and one worth checking before assuming presenting and reporting are close enough to interchange.
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.
Talk it through with a registered agent
Whether nominating Television Presenter is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.
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