DEF30417 Certificate III in Defence Public Affairs

deletedthe status token training.gov.au records

Transition clock

All enrolled learners must complete and be certified by 13 April 2027 — two years from the date it was removed from the National Register (s 14(1)(b), F2025L00355), unless ASQA has approved otherwise.

For an RTO registered by ASQA, nobody may be allowed to commence training and assessment in DEF30417 today. training.gov.au lists it as Deleted, and s 14(2) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025) requires the organisation to ensure it does not allow individuals to commence training and assessment in a training product that has expired, been removed or deleted from the National Register. s 14(2) carries no transition period of its own and no date to compute, and the “unless otherwise approved by the National VET Regulator” opening sits in s 14(1) only. It governs starts, not learners already enrolled: s 14(2) sets no date of its own for them — their completion period under s 14(1)(b)/(c) is stated separately on this page. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

The status above is the one training.gov.au records for DEF30417, written exactly as the register writes it. It is not one of the three we put into words, so we leave it in the register's own terms.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
DEF — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
12 April 2025
Latest release
Release 1 · 17 August 2017
Supersedes
DEF33012
Superseded by
nothing — no replacement listed

Where the register points next

training.gov.au does not publish a supersession path from DEF30417. There is no chain to follow from here.

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.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF30417 and for its training package DEF (release 7.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

Is DEF30417 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF30417 sits on your own scope today, or what else on that scope has moved without anyone noticing. Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.

Public code, nothing else. We read your live scope from training.gov.au and answer here — we keep neither the code nor the answer; what remains is the two-minute abuse counter described on our privacy page.

Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

What DEF30417 is made of

training.gov.au lists 19 units for DEF30417: 6 core and 13 elective. To complete it, the register publishes a rule of 6 core units plus 7 electives — 13 units in all.

Core units 6 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
DEFDPA001Promote the organisation's mission and valuescurrent
DEFDPA002Identify material suitable for media publicationcurrent
DEFDPA009Apply knowledge of public affairs in a service environmentcurrent
DEFGEN001Work in a teamcurrent
DEFGEN006Work with equity and diversitycurrent
DEFGEN019Write material suitable for publication within Defencecurrent

Elective units 13 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBWHS201Contribute to health and safety of self and othersnot current
BSBWOR301Organise personal work priorities and developmentnot current
PSPGEN003Deliver a service to clientsnot current
PSPGEN011Build and maintain internal networksnot current
PUACOM001CCommunicate in the workplacenot current
PUACOM003BManage informationnot current
PUACOM005BFoster a positive organisational image in the communitynot current
PUACOM006BPlan and conduct a public awareness programnot current
PUACOM007BLiaise with other organisationsnot current
PUACOM011BDevelop community awareness networksnot current
PUACOM012BLiaise with media at a local levelnot current
PUAMAN002BAdminister work group resourcesnot current
PUAOPE015AConduct briefings and debriefingsnot 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 14 October 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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Take this with you — one email with how the register lists DEF30417 today. Its dates need the full read this page does, and the email says so rather than estimating them. Nothing scheduled after it.

No account, no card. Your address gets this one email — no list, no marketing. Cutoff alerts only ever come from a watch you start yourself — the box just records your yes now — and every alert has a one-click stop.

Is DEF30417 still on your scope? Type your RTO code and get the free breakdown — every superseded product on your live scope, and whether the register flags each replacement equivalent.

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