{"id":31061,"date":"2022-12-09T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=31061"},"modified":"2022-12-09T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T18:02:27","slug":"australia-licensing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/news\/gb2rs\/headlines\/2022\/12\/09\/australia-licensing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia licensing changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September 2022, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acma.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Australian Communications and Media Authority<\/strong><\/a> (ACMA), proposed that Australia\u2019s amateur radio operators move to a class-based licensing scheme in July 2023, opening a consultation period that closed at the end of November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wia.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wireless Institute of Australia<\/strong><\/a> (WIA) has replied to the ACMA proposals with a comprehensive evidence-based response.<\/p>\n<p>The ACMA proposes moving Australia\u2019s radio amateurs from individual apparatus licences, to one licence for the amateur service as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The principal reason cited is a reduction in the administrative burden for both the ACMA and the amateur radio community.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate benefit would be that licence and licence-renewal fees would disappear.<\/p>\n<p>The Wireless Institute of Australia\u2019s response to the consultation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wia.org.au\/newsevents\/news\/2022\/20221206-1\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>can be found<\/strong><\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the end of September 2022, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), proposed that Australia\u2019s amateur radio operators move to a class-based licensing scheme in July 2023, opening a consultation period that closed at the end of November 2022. The Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) has replied to the ACMA proposals with a comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-page-news","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}