Queensland

It is the responsibility of the presenter to check whether they need a blue card or not. Go to the following link for more information https://www.qld.gov.au/law/laws-regulated-industries-and-accountability/queensland-laws-and-regulations/regulated-industries-and-licensing/blue-card/required/individuals

Exemptions (as of Jan 31, 2025)
Not all environments involving children will require a person to hold a blue card. You don’t need a blue card if you are:

• a paid employee, volunteer or student—and you are not a restricted person or a running a business— who works for no more than 7 days in a calendar year, noting that a
  • calendar year starts from 1 January and ends on 31 December
  • ‘day’ is for any period of time on 1 day, irrespective of whether it is a full day or part day
• a volunteer who is under 18 and is not a restricted person, however if you continue volunteering after you turn 18 you will need to apply for a blue card; we can accept your application 3 months before you turn 18 and—if it’s approved—your card will be issued on your 18th birthday
• an Australian lawyer providing legal or advocacy services
• supervising or working alongside a person who is under 18, for example if you are supervising a 17-year-old colleague or a student while they do work experience, including school students
• involved in a team, club or group activity that also has members under 18, for example if you participate in an under-20s sports group with a member who is 17.

An organisation may ask a person to sign a declaration before entering a child-related regulated environment, stating that they have not exceeded the frequency exemption and are not a restricted person. This is part of a risk management strategy that assists the organisation to create safe environments for children.

Victoria 

It is the responsibility of the presenter to check whether they need a working with children card or not. Go to the following link for more information https://www.vic.gov.au/do-i-need-check

Exemptions (as of Jan 31, 2025)

• People under 18 years of age are exempt from the Check.
• Parents are exempt and do not need a Check to volunteer in the same activity their child is participating, or normally participates in.
• If you are closely related to each child you work with, and are not a kinship carer, you do not need a Check. Closely related to a child means:
  • spouse or domestic partner
  • parent, step-parent, mother-in-law or father-in-law
  • grandparent
  • uncle or aunt
  • brother or sister, including half sibling, step sibling, brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
  • In the case of domestic partners, a person who would be closely related to the child if the domestic partners were married to each other

• Students aged 18 or 19 years of age do not need a Check to do volunteer work organised by, or held at, their educational institution.
• Visitors who normally live outside Victoria and hold an equivalent Check from their home State/ Territory, you can do child-related work in Victoria without a Check for a maximum of 30 days in a calendar year, which can comprise one or several events or occasions.
• Visitors who normally live outside Victoria and don’t hold an equivalent Check from their home State/ Territory, can do child-related work in Victoria without a Check on only one occasion or event per calendar year, which may last for a maximum of 30 days.
• Victorian or Federal police officers who have not been suspended or dismissed.
• If you’re a teacher with the Victorian Institute of Teaching (VIT) you are exempt from the Check. However, if your VIT registration is suspended or cancelled, the exemption no longer applies.

Western Australia

Exemptions (as of Jan 31, 2025)

It is the responsibility of the presenter to check whether they need a working with children card or not. Go to the following link for more information https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-communities/working-children-check-who-needs-wwc-check#exemptions

Certain people do not require a WWC Check because they fit within the description of an exemption that applies to the specific category or categories of child-related work they engage in.

If a person’s work is covered by an exemption, then they are not in child-related work and are ineligible to apply for a WWC Check. There are some general exemptions which apply across all categories while others are specific to a particular category. It is important to consider all the work a person does when deciding whether they are exempt and do not require a WWC Check.

Exemptions which apply across all categories:

1. Child volunteers: work carried out on a voluntary basis by a child.
2. Unpaid students on placement under 18 years of age: work carried out on an unpaid basis by a student under 18 years of age as part of their educational or vocational course of study with an education provider.
3. Short-term visitors to Western Australia:

• • applies to work carried out by visitors to Western Australia, where the person is not ordinarily resident in Western Australia; and only applies during the two-week period after the person arrives in Western Australia and cannot exceed a total of two weeks in any period of 12 months; and
  • cannot be used in conjunction with the one-off national events and national tours exemption (below). A person cannot use both exemptions in the same 12-month period.

For frequently asked questions relating to this category, including information about external contractors, please refer to Factsheet ORG05 – Working with Children Checks, education sector. 

Tasmania 

Exemptions (as of Jan 31, 2025)

It is the responsibility of the presenter to check whether they need a working with children card or not. Go to the following link for more information https://www.cbos.tas.gov.au/topics/licensing-and-registration/work-with-vulnerable-people/exemptions

You may not need to register if you qualify for an exemption. An employer or volunteer organisation can still ask you to register even if you are exempt (Section 9 of the Registration to Work with Vulnerable People Act 2013).

You may be exempt if:

• you are under the age of 16
• you are working or volunteering with children for 7 days or less per calendar year
• you hold a current interstate registration in a similar regulated activity
• you are a close relative of the child (this does not apply to kinship carers)
• you are a police officer or a correctional officer
• you are an emergency management worker dealing with an emergency
• you are a school student on a work experience placement or doing practical training
• you are doing the same activity as the child (for example, playing together in a sporting team)
• your only contact with a child is working with a record of them.

Please note:

• the 7 days or less exemption is based on days not hours. Per day includes one event in a day. That is, one hour of parent help at a school or one hour working as a soccer coach for a club/association count as a day

If you are a teacher from interstate then you must be registered to work with vulnerable people in Tasmania before you can be registered under the Teachers Registration Act 2000