Webinar invitation for community stakeholders: Hiring Overseas Religious Workers
The Department of Home Affairs, through the Business, Industry and Regional Outreach Network, invites community stakeholders and religious organisations to attend a free information webinar to learn more about visa pathways for religious workers in Australia. This webinar will address the Minister of Religion Labour Agreement (MoRLA) and the subclass 408 Temporary Activity Religious Work visa. The webinar will be opened by the Assistant Minister Hon Matt Thistlethwaite MP and will include presentations on religious worker visa pathways and an online question and answer forum for participants.
The MoRLA enables religious organisations to employ and recruit skilled overseas workers to fill critical skill shortages by workers on a temporary or permanent basis in circumstances that are not covered by the standard visa programs. The MoRLA supports the recruitment of overseas workers within the occupations of Minister of Religion, or Religious Assistants.
The subclass 408 Temporary Activity Religious Work visa is a temporary visa which allows an overseas worker to do full-time religious work to serve a religious institution in Australia for up to two years.
This webinar will explain and compare these visa pathways, and will provide a deep dive on which pathway is appropriate different types of religious work.
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
Time: 3:30PM – 4:30PM AEST (NSW, QLD, ACT, VIC, TAS)
3:00PM-4:00PM (SA, NT)
1:30PM-2:30PM (WA)
Please register here to attend, or via the QR code below.
We encourage you to share this invite with your networks.
