Solid Plasterer (ANZSCO 333212)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Solid Plasterer on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Solid Plasterer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Solid Plasterer is the name Home Affairs' Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List attaches to code 333212, sitting under the earlier ANZSCO edition's unit group, simply called Plasterers, with no specialisation listed. It describes the same solid-plaster and render work as the current-edition Renderer (Solid Plaster) name — decorative and protective coverings of plaster, cement and similar materials on building interiors and exteriors. A points-tested 189 or 491, or post-study 485, applicant nominates under this name. TRA's construction occupations list also uses Solid Plasterer, not the current ABS name, when marking the trade Prioritised for faster processing. Assessment is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal qualification and documented pay evidence throughout.

Where these applications come unstuck

ABS's own current classification treats “Solid Plasterer” as merely an alternative title of a different occupation name, Renderer (Solid Plaster) — so a Solid Plasterer researching their trade on ABS's live site will land on the current-edition page and could easily assume there is one occupation, one visa list, when Home Affairs is actually running two separate rows for the code with two different visa sets. Nominating this name for an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 application targets the wrong list; that pairing sits with the Renderer (Solid Plaster) row instead. NSW licenses this trade as wet plastering, its own category requiring a Certificate III in Solid Plastering, independent of the federal naming question.

An honest read on this pathway

Solid Plasterer reaches the points-tested 189, state-nominated 190, working-holiday 407, post-study 485, regional 491 and 494 — not 186 or 482, which sit under the current-edition Renderer (Solid Plaster) name for the same code. Neither name is more correct than the other; Home Affairs runs both mappings live simultaneously, and which one determines an application's success is entirely a function of which visa programme is actually being pursued. NSW's wet-plastering licence sits on top of either outcome, gated on its own qualification and threshold, regardless of which federal name a Migration Skills Assessment was lodged under.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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