When must new enrolments into DEF60812 stop?

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.

Is there a deadline for learners already enrolled in DEF60812?

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).

DEF60812 Advanced 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.

DEF60812Superseded — equivalentAdvanced Diploma of Defence Public Affairs
equivalent
DEF60912Deleted from the registerAdvanced Diploma of Defence Public Affairs

The register does not list a current endpoint for this chain: DEF60912 is the last product it points at, and DEF60912 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.

PUA60806DEF60812equivalent14 March 2012
The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.
DEF60812DEF60912equivalent23 January 2013
structure and packaing rules changed

Is DEF60812 on your scope?

This page is the register's record of one product. What it cannot tell you is whether DEF60812 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Enter your RTO number and we read every product on your live scope against training.gov.au and tell you which ones are superseded and which replacements the register flags not equivalent.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 DEF60812 is made of

training.gov.au lists 24 units for DEF60812. 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 24 listed

Code	Unit	Core or elective	In this product
BSBSUS501A	Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability	`N/A`	not current
PSPETHC601B	Maintain and enhance confidence in public service	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV601B	Apply government systems	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV602B	Establish and maintain strategic networks	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV605A	Persuade and influence opinion	`N/A`	not current
PSPGOV606A	Prepare high-level/sensitive written materials	`N/A`	not current
PSPLEGN601B	Manage compliance with legislation in the public sector	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT602B	Manage resources	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT605B	Manage diversity	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT607B	Develop a business case	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT609B	Formulate business strategies	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT610A	Manage public sector financial resources	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT701B	Provide strategic direction	`N/A`	not current
PSPMNGT703A	Lead and influence change	`N/A`	not current
PSPOHS602A	Manage workplace safety	`N/A`	not current
PSPPA501A	Provide public affairs writing and editorial services	`N/A`	not current
PSPPA502A	Coordinate public affairs events and activities	`N/A`	not current
PSPPA601A	Manage public affairs	`N/A`	not current
PSPPA602A	Provide public affairs advisory service	`N/A`	not current
PSPPA603A	Manage media relationships	`N/A`	not current
PSPPM601B	Direct complex project activities	`N/A`	not current
PSPPOL601A	Develop public policy	`N/A`	not current
PSPPOL603A	Manage policy implementation	`N/A`	not current
PSPPOL701A	Influence strategic policy	`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 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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