PSPSS00038 Writing in a Politically Sensitive Context in Government Skill Set

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for PSPSS00038 ended on 5 March 2016 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 7 March 2017 — 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The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted.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Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule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
Skill set
Training package
PSP12 — Public Sector Training Package
Currency period ends
5 March 2016
Latest release
Release 1 · 1 November 2012
Supersedes
PSPSS00018
Superseded by
PSPSS00052 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. PSPSS00038Superseded — equivalentWriting in a Politically Sensitive Context in Government Skill Set
  2. equivalent
  3. PSPSS00052Superseded — not equivalentWriting in Politically Sensitive Context in Government
  4. not equivalent
  5. PSPSS00059CurrentWriting in Politically Sensitive Context in Government

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 PSPSS00038 on your scope?

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What PSPSS00038 is made of

training.gov.au lists 4 units for PSPSS00038: 4 core and 0 elective. 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.

Core units 4 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
PSPGOV406BGather and analyse informationnot current
PSPGOV413ACompose complex workplace documentsnot current
PSPGOV422AApply government processesnot current
PSPGOV515ADevelop and use political nousnot 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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