Being seeing these adds in some of the hunting mags of late. I'm not really interested in doing one but just out of interest, what are the job prospects in Australia for someone who graduates from this course?

Ferk me Bakesy having you as a Game manager would be like having the fox looking after the henhouse hahaa

Seriously mate I too looked at those ads and thought straight off " ah! Jobs for the boys"

and thats only the boys...you know the ones with mates in the right places.

Getting paid to Hunt and work with Hunters,sounds like dream job.

I just can't see that there would be too many jobs in Australia for someone with those quals

We have already been given the mail a few months ago that one prominent 'face' is reputed to sneak into lets say "certain spots" that one shouldn't be carrying a firearm in!

Quite a few jobs as game mangers have come up in last 12 months and as more forests come on online there will be more jobs,i'm guessing.

I've been visiting this site for a while now but this is my first post. I did this course last year and found it very useful and informative. Given that our State Govt has just passed the new Biosecurity legislation listing ALL deer in this state as having a pest status notification (graded 1 -3), my objective in doing the diploma was to allow me to draw up "property based game management plans" for landowners wishing to defend the right to survive of any deer they have on their land.The status 3 listing is afforded to the historic Red Deer herd in the greater Brisbane Valley and the historic Fallow of the Stanthorpe region. Level 3 listing allows these deer to survive in areas not considered to be of significant environmental concern ??? Theoretically ALL other deer in QLD are now under threat of some form of control. We argued that the same status should be afforded the equally historic herd of Chital around Charters Towers but that was rejected. What's the bet the leaseholders up there will be told to eradicate the Chital in order to retain their leases.
So for all you stalking Mexicans who enjoy chasing our Chital,Rusa, (Hog and Sambar !!!!)or any other species not a part of the designated historic herds it may be that the game is over.
I know a few ADA guys have also done the course with the same objectives in mind.
None of us are likely to get paid for this and that's not the reason we completed the study.
A senior Game Council executive who hunted this years roar up our way did tell me he considered this qualification to be a must for any prospective job applicants into that organisation.
The times they are a changing so it wouldn't hurt for more like minded people to get involved in this aspect of our sport.
Given the QLD govt is at least as broke as any other state in this country it's hard to see how they are going to afford to do much about the deer at this stage. Hell - they can't even manage to be effective in dealing with the pigs, cane toads and wild dogs. Bad legislation is worse than none.

Not much good doing the course now, as if you are correct there will be no bloody deer left to hunt after eradication.

Will stick to Vic sambar thanks.

Aren't most of these game manger jobs in NSW??

Welcome to the forums Ridgeman and thankyou for your insights.

As far as I know this is the only course of it's kind in the country and as it's completed via home study and assignments you can do it anywhere.
Don't worry Gryphon we are going to make dam sure there will be plenty of Red Stags to hunt but the future of the Chital and Moluccan Rusa is probably in doubt.
Some of you are probably not aware of the fact that a lot of the deer in this state are on private property - no chance of us getting into the state forests up here and little chance of a Game Council model either.

I lived in Qld all up for 6.5 years and was dismayed to find out that citizen owned State Forests were off limits....so glad to be home in the land of the free now where Sf`s are for all of us to use.