Radio Journalist (ANZSCO 212414)

On the Regional Occupation List and Core Skills 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 Journalist 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.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

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).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Radio Journalist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Radio Journalist is a Group B occupation, assessed against an AQF Bachelor degree or higher in a highly relevant field plus the standard employment test. Its own alternate title is Radio Reporter. Unlike Print Journalist, Radio Journalist carries Regional Occupation List membership rather than Short-term Skilled Occupation List — an unusual combination in this family, paired with Core Skills Occupation List access that its four better-connected journalism siblings also carry.

Where these applications come unstuck

Radio Journalist is the one code in the journalism cluster carrying ROL plus CSOL rather than the STSOL plus CSOL combination every one of its four siblings carries — Print Journalist, Television Journalist, Technical Writer, and Journalists and Other Writers nec. What in VETASSESS's or Home Affairs's own reasoning explains that split could not be confirmed from the pages fetched for this research; treat it as an observed fact about the list rather than a settled explanation.

An honest read on this pathway

Radio Journalist reaches only three visas — 186, 482, 494 — missing 190, 407 and 491 entirely, despite reaching the same two employer-sponsored routes, 186 and 482, that Print Journalist, Television Journalist and Technical Writer all also carry. A radio reporter and a print reporter covering the identical beat, on the identical employer, do not have identical visa options under their respective codes.

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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