Ok. You all win. It's ok for VFR in Australia to make self announcements on ATC separation frequencies. The other countries that prohibit this to protect their Air Traffic Controllers are wrong.
It's not about 'winning', Dick. It's about putting a coherent argument.
It's completely incoherent to say VFR should be prohibited from making self announcements on ATC separation frequencies, on the grounds that they could overtransmit an important ATC instruction, but say VFR are allowed make a transmission requesting flight following on ATC separation frequencies. A request for flight following is just as likely to overtransmit an important ATC instruction as any other transmission. And there are already lots of overtransmissions on ATC frequencies, but the system seems to be capable of dealing with the consequences.
That said, if you get the system changed and VFR sticks to 126.7 or the CTAF in the vicinity while in G - that's fine. We can all do that. Let's just hope the change is implemented properly.
But maybe room for a little more workload so we could have a bit of E at Ballina .
I agree with this point.