A.I. music just entered the public record.

“It’s All About The Music” points back to my complaint record on #ACMA #MyID Digital ID gates, #children #Privacy #disabled access, and #publicservice exclusion.
#Australia
#ombudsman 2026-045360
#oaic EN26/05776

This is a public domain song, proudly created using #AI and #Suno

The Felicity Station
https://stream.radio.co/sb766dcb88/low

Kmart & Target busted selling illegal two-way radios to children

CANBERRA, ACT. — The Anko-branded walkie-talkie has been programmed with radio frequencies that require a licence for use in Australia. Using the equipment in its current state may cause interference with other licensed services operating on the 467.425 MHz band and cause unintended disruption.

VicNews

Reading this gives me all warm and fuzzy feelings of safety and compliance enforcement by my local radio communications regulator, the #ACMA ... NOT.

Nothing quite like letting interference go on for months.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-06/car-locks-disabled-signal-jammed-bunbury-hospital/106647316

Car locks disabled at hospital as signal interference sparks security concern

Radio interference from nearby cranes is identified as the reason visitors to Bunbury Hospital have been unable to lock their cars.

The wheels of the ACMA sure run slowly. But I’m closer to a Freedom of Information request being achieved. More in my radio blog.

#radio #acma #australia

https://james.cridland.net/blog/2026/acma-foi-tapt/

Fakt Tapt vid, the ACMA FoI, and how local is US radio really?

Plus a whole lot of AM switchoff

James Cridland - radio futurologist
The verdict is in: the government's communications authority is forcing telcos to change how it shows mobile coverage on maps. Not everyone is happy. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2026/acma-set-to-change-how-coverage-maps-work #news #phones #telcos #acma #government #optus #telstra #tpg #vodafone

An email received by a client from ACMA has this phrase in it:

This decision has been made by the operation of computer programs.

We are now trying to decide if this was:
a) generated by some form of AI/LLM, or
b) drafted by a committee of public servants following arcane legislative requirements, or
c) all of the above

🤔

#acma #llm #ai

The rules of what constitute mobile reception and reach look set to change this year, and the result could make more sense for why calls drop out when you're in areas where it shouldn't. https://www.pickr.com.au/news/2026/real-world-usability-set-to-define-mobile-coverage #news #phones #telcos #4g #5g #acma #telstra #tpg #vodafone

Due to our youth social media ban stuff in AU, the ACMA has blocked access to ACMA Assist to little humans under 15 years of age as they can't get a digital ID.

https://acma.createsend1.com/t/d-e-gtyduz-tttjlivul-r/

#HamRadio #ACMA #Australia

Youth access to ACMA Assist

Got another spam from another Aussie retailer, this time from Frank Green, who I’ve purchased from before but deliberately opted out of their offers. Yet, here I am, getting spam from them.

Reported to ACMA.

In the past year it’s as though Australian retailers collectively decided that they’re just going to add all of their customers to their promo lists, even if they’d already opted out.

#FrankGreen #Aussie #Spam #BlackFriday #ACMA