2025 Draft Core Skills Occupation List
Submission Date: 26 September 2025
The Law Council of Australia provided a submission to Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) on the 2025 Draft Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL).1 This submission is informed by input from the Migration Law Committee of the Law Council’s Federal Dispute Resolution Section, the Law Institute of Victoria (LIV) and the Law Society of Western Australia.
As expressed in the submission on the 2024 Draft CSOL,2 the Law Council’s position remains that:
- A skilled occupation list should be abolished in favour of a skill level classification;
- There should be clear and certain pathways to permanent residency for temporary skilled migrants; and
- Skilled occupation lists need to be flexible and apply to areas of genuine shortage in a timely manner.
The Law Council understands that the CSOL will transition from the Australia and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) list to the Occupation Standard Classification for Australia (OSCA) list. It will be important that occupations that are specified as “Not Elsewhere Classified” (NEC) in the current CSOL, which uses ANZSCO codes, are not omitted from the updated list to enable emerging or evolving occupations to be included for skilled migration purposes.
1 Jobs and Skills Australia, 2025 Core Skills Occupations List (CSOL) Consultations (Web Page, August 2025).
2 Law Council of Australia, Submission to Jobs and Skills Australia, Draft Core Skills Occupation List (4 June 2024).
Last Updated on 30/09/2025
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