SM4 Pirate, why don’t you tell the full story? Especially the fact that I apologised to the air traffic controllers concerned the following day on the same radio station.
What is criminal is the complete lack of training given by Airservices Australia to the air traffic controllers. As we know, Class E airspace works incredibly safely in other countries (see
here) however it appears that Australian air traffic controllers are not trained when one aircraft is under full air traffic control and the other is receiving flight following, to give a simple heading so one can avoid the other. It happens all the time in the USA, Europe, Canada and New Zealand. Why can’t it happen here?