“ only the IFRs got traffic “
That’s not true.
Most long distance enroute flying in Australia takes place above 5000’. Before the AMATs changes all aircraft above 5000’ were treated as “ in the system” and given a directed traffic information service.
Hugely expensive and a major waste of industry money. Since we changed to the ICAO 500’ VFR cruising level over 25 years ago over $1 billion has been saved by our industry and not one life lost attributed to the change.
That change was resisted at the time. Fortunately CAA has a hands on Chairman and it happened.
Now we just have to finalise the change to a modern proven system.
Are there any supporters out there? I hope so for Aussie aviation .