DEF42912 Certificate IV in Defence Public Affairs

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for DEF42912 ended on 15 August 2017 — 9 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 17 August 2018 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
DEF12 — Defence Training Package
Currency period ends
15 August 2017
Latest release
Release 1 · 24 January 2013
Supersedes
DEF41612
Superseded by
DEF40117 not 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. DEF42912Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Defence Public Affairs
  2. not equivalent
  3. DEF40117Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Defence Public Affairs
  4. not equivalent
  5. DEF42925CurrentCertificate IV in Defence Public Affairs

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.

Is DEF42912 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF42912 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 DEF42912 is made of

training.gov.au lists 21 units for DEF42912: 7 core and 14 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 7 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
DEFPA002Identify material suitable for media publicationnot current
DEFPR303BWrite material suiable for publication within Defencenot current
PUACOM005BFoster a positive organisational image in the communitynot current
PUACOM006BPlan and conduct a public awareness programnot current
PUACOM007BLiaise with other organisationsnot current
PUAOPE015AConduct briefings and debriefingsnot current
SITXEVT017BProvide on-site event management servicesnot current

Elective units 14 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBCMM401AMake a presentationnot current
BSBOHS301BApply knowledge of OHS legislation in the workplacenot current
BSBWOR501AManage personal work priorities and professional developmentnot current
DEFPA003Conduct market profilingnot current
DEFPA004Manage media requirements at major eventsnot current
DEFPA005Develop and implement media plansnot current
DEFPA006Develop and implement public affairs strategic plansnot current
DEFPA007Develop and implement effective communication strategiesnot current
DEFPA008Manage public affairs projectsnot current
DEFPA009Capture video imagesnot current
DEFPR304BEdit provided copynot current
PSPGOV406BGather and analyse informationnot current
PUATEA002BWork autonomouslynot current
PUATEA003BLead, manage and develop teamsnot 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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