CUA40118 Certificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for CUA40118 ended on 11 August 2025 — 13 months ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 13 August 2026 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
CUA — Creative Arts and Culture Training Package
Currency period ends
11 August 2025
Latest release
Release 2 · 21 February 2019 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
nothing — no earlier product listed
Superseded by
CUA40125 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. CUA40118Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing
  2. equivalent
  3. CUA40125CurrentCertificate IV in Professional Writing and Editing

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • CUA40118CUA40125equivalent12 August 2025

    All superseded imported units have been replaced with the most current unit. All deleted imported units have been removed. Replaced units include a core unit of competency, which has been identified as equivalent by the relevant JSC.

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What CUA40118 is made of

training.gov.au lists 29 units for CUA40118: 6 core and 23 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 6 core units plus 6 electives12 units in all.

Core units 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBITU303Design and produce text documentsnot current
CUACMP311Implement copyright arrangementscurrent
CUAIND311Work effectively in the creative arts industrycurrent
CUAWRT404Perform writing and editing taskscurrent
CUAWRT405Write fiction materialcurrent
CUAWRT406Write nonfiction materialcurrent

Elective units 23 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBITU306Design and produce business documentsnot current
BSBITU309Produce desktop published documentsnot current
CUAGRD301Prepare files for publicationnot current
CUAIND402Provide freelance servicesnot current
CUAPPR301Produce creative worknot current
CUAPPR401Realise a creative projectnot current
CUAPPR405Develop and discuss ideas for own creative worknot current
CUARES402Conduct researchnot current
CUARES403Research history and theory to inform own arts practicecurrent
CUAWRT301Write content for a range of mediacurrent
CUAWRT302Write simple storiescurrent
CUAWRT401Edit textscurrent
CUAWRT403Write narration and material for current affairs, features and documentariesnot current
CUAWRT407Develop content for publicationcurrent
CUAWRT409Write creative nonfiction materialcurrent
CUAWRT410Write comedycurrent
CUAWRT411Write for young childrencurrent
CUAWRT413Write poetrycurrent
CUAWRT414Write narrativescurrent
CUAWRT601Write scriptscurrent
ICTICT408Create technical documentationnot current
ICTWEB410Apply web authoring tool to convert client data for websitesnot current
ICTWEB420Write content for web pagesnot current

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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