Can an RTO still enrol new students in DEF51212?

For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 24 January 2014. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in DEF51212?

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).

DEF51212 Diploma of Defence Public Affairs

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.

DEF51212Superseded — equivalentDiploma of Defence Public Affairs
equivalent
DEF52712Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Defence Public Affairs
not equivalent
DEF50517Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Defence Public Affairs
not equivalent
DEF50525CurrentDiploma of 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.

PUA51206DEF51212equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF51212DEF52712equivalent23 January 2013
structure and packaging rules changed

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for DEF51212 and for its training package DEF12 (release 2.0), 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.

DEF51212_R1.pdfDEF51212 release 1 · product document · published 20 July 2012
DEF51212_R1.docxDEF51212 release 1 · product document · published 26 November 2024

Is DEF51212 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF51212 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.

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 DEF51212 is made of

training.gov.au lists 15 units for DEF51212. 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 15 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBADM502A	Manage meetings	`N/A`	not current
BSBADV507A	Develop a media plan	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM404A	Lead work teams	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM501B	Manage personal work priorities and professional development	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM502A	Provide leadership in the workplace	`N/A`	not current
BSBFLM506A	Manage workplace information systems	`N/A`	not current
BSBMGT503A	Prepare budgets and financial plans	`N/A`	not current
BSBSUS301A	Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices	`N/A`	not current
CHCCOM4B	Develop, implement and promote effective communication techniques	`N/A`	not current
CUSADM04A	Manage a major project	`N/A`	not current
CUSADM07A	Establish and maintain work and contractual relationships	`N/A`	not current
PUACOM009B	Manage media requirements at major incident	`N/A`	not current
PUATEA002B	Work autonomously	`N/A`	not current
TAADEL301C	Provide training through instruction and demonstration of work skills	`N/A`	not current
THTFME02B	Provide on site event management services	`N/A`	not 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 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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