It does say "in partnership with industry". My understanding of the change was that Veritas had been chosen to be the sole issuing body, mostly because they are already issuing cards Australia wide and they have their partnership with Aus Post as facilitators. Brisbane Airport began the transition to having Veritas issue their ASICs a month or two ago. Maybe things have changed since AMS became CISC in the latest game of government scrabble. The Govt page is
here and is dated 25 Jan.