Television Journalist (ANZSCO 212416)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Television Journalist on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Television Journalist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Television Journalist is a Group B occupation on both the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, reaching six of the eight visas covered in this family. Its own alternate title is Television Reporter. This research pass found no occupation-specific suitable or excluded-occupations list published on this page, though Print Journalist's own page names Television Journalist among its excluded sibling titles, confirming the two are treated as separate occupations.

Where these applications come unstuck

Television Presenter, in a different unit group of this family, sounds like an adjacent on-screen broadcast role but sits on a far weaker list — Regional Occupation List only, one visa. A television journalist and a television presenter can appear in identical settings on the same broadcast, but VETASSESS's list placement treats reporting and presenting as very different migration cases, and confirming which the actual work matches is worth doing before nominating either.

An honest read on this pathway

Television Journalist reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. That is the same reach as Print Journalist and Technical Writer, and a materially wider reach than Radio Journalist, which despite covering the equivalent reporting work on a different medium reaches only three visas under its own code.

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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