Australia’s Global Talent Visa – Target Sectors

Australia’s Global Talent Visa is one of the most popular visa options for talented working professionals or academics looking at applying for permanent residency there.

The program was designed to bring the best talent into Australia, as a focus of the country’s recovery from Covid-19 and to increase their level of innovation, which Australia has been very popular for but has become less so over the last 10 years.

To do this, they’ve allocated 30,000 slots over the financial years of 2020-2022, which is a very large cap for a visa like this.

And because of that, the visa requirements change throughout the year, which you have to adapt to very quickly.

To give you perspective, a normal skilled visa may make 1 change to the regulations in 2 or 3 years.

For the global talent visa, we’ve had 2 changes to just the target sectors in the last 6 months!

Global Talent Visa Target Sectors (Updated)

The target sectors actually remain unchanged from the last few months, but the good news is they’ve given further clarity on what each of the sectors may include (i.e. sub-sectors).

I’ve listed each one below with the new sub-sectors indicated.

Resources

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Engineering
• Geology
• Metallurgy
• Waste management
• Energy saving technology
• Extraction and processing

Agri-food and AgTech

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Seed technology
• Nanomaterials
• Biofuels
• Supply chain and packaging
• Wearable technologies

Energy

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Clean energy
• Resource robotics
• Computational metallurgy
• Geostatistics
• Benefication
• Battery/energy storage

Health Industries

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Medical and biomedical technology
• Pharmaceutical and vaccine research and development
• IT biochemistry
• Digital health
• Implantables and wearable devices
• Genomics

Defence, Advanced Manufacturing and Space

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Astrodynamics
• Satellite systems
• Rocket and avionics systems
• Urban mobility
• Military equipment acquisition and sustainment
• Automation and robotics
• Nano-manufacturing
• Sustainable manufacturing and life-cycle engineering

Circular Economy

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Bioenergy
• Sustainable production
• Recycling
• Waste treatment
• Waste to energy technology
• Emissions technology
• Ecologically sustainable manufacturing

DigiTech

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Quantum computing
• Cyber sciences
• Cyber security
• Artificial intelligence
• Blockchain, IoT
• Big data
• Disruptive technology
• Smart cities
• Machine learning
• Network engineering
• Cloud computing

Infrastructure and Tourism

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Travel and tourism infrastructure
• Water infrastructure
• Energy infrastructure
• Regional development

Financial Services and FinTech

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Neobanking
• Payment systems
• Wealth and regtech
• Blockchain

Education

This sector includes, but is not limited to, the following specialisations:

• Cutting edge skills in emerging fields of the industry
• Developing advanced educational systems and curricula
• Improving the education infrastructure in Australia
• Digital data and eResearch platforms

In a future article we’ll break down each of the sectors in further detail, but note that every section says ‘but is not limited to’ so other sub-sectors and specialisations can still apply.

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