Flew down to Gundaroo yesterday from Terry Hills.
Have been doing this for over 20 years.
Operated VFR and religiously monitored all the ATC area frequencies. Many of the aircraft I heard was in the Gippsland area in Victoria.
In the 20 years I have never heard another aircraft that required me to reply or make a self announcement. Then again most of the other aircraft on the frequencies were not giving position reports so I do not know where they were.
This is clearly a crazy “ cry wolf “ system. Concrete minds attempting to cling to the past.