DEF31812 Certificate III in Defence Public Affairs

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for DEF31812 ended on 22 January 2013 — 13 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 24 January 2014 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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.

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
DEF12 — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
22 January 2013
Latest release
Release 1 · 15 March 2012
Supersedes
PUA31806
Superseded by
DEF33012 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. DEF31812Superseded — equivalentCertificate III in Defence Public Affairs
  2. equivalent
  3. DEF33012Superseded — not equivalentCertificate III in Defence Public Affairs
  4. not equivalent
  5. DEF30417Deleted from the registerCertificate III in Defence Public Affairs

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF30417 is the last product it points at, and DEF30417 is not marked current either.

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.

  • PUA31806DEF31812equivalent14 March 2012

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • DEF31812DEF33012equivalent23 January 2013

    Structure and packaging rules changed

Is DEF31812 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF31812 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.

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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 DEF31812 is made of

training.gov.au lists 13 units for DEF31812. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 13 listed

CodeUnitCore or electiveIn this product
BSBCMN211AParticipate in workplace safety proceduresN/Anot current
BSBCMN302AOrganise personal work priorities and developmentN/Anot current
BSBSUS201AParticipate in environmentally sustainable work practicesN/Anot current
DEFEQ001CWork with equity and diversityN/Anot current
DEFPR302BConduct an interview to support written materialN/Anot current
PUACOM001CCommunicate in the workplaceN/Anot current
PUACOM002BProvide services to clientsN/Anot current
PUACOM003BManage informationN/Anot current
PUACOM010BPromote the organisation's mission and servicesN/Anot current
PUACOM011BDevelop community awareness networksN/Anot current
PUACOM012BLiaise with media at a local levelN/Anot current
PUAMAN002BAdminister work group resourcesN/Anot current
PUATEA001BWork in a teamN/Anot current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "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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