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Weekly news from the WIA:
MP3 edition of news available at:
http://www.wia-files.com/podcast/wianews-2025-04-27.mp3 Text edition:

2025 APRIL 27  WIA NATIONAL NEWS BROADCAST ON VK1WIA
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THE BEST NEWS YOU'LL GET ALL WEEK

THIS LINK IS A VIDEO VERSION OF NEWS COMPILED BY VK5BD BEVAN
tinyurl.com/WIA-News-Videos

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NATIONAL NEWS FOR WEEK COMMENCING APRIL 27 2025
IN OUR 30th YEAR OF NON STOP NEWS

THIS WEEK:-

WIA's Peter Clee VK8ZZ with the final notice on registration for anyone
thinking of going to Bendigo Saturday May 3 for the WIA AGM


NOW WAIT - THERE'S MUCH MUCH MORE IN THIS EDITION OF NEWS FROM THE
WIRELESS INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA.

I'M EDITOR GRAHAM VK4BB

WIA

JOIN THE WIA
tinyurl.com/yyj87b9y

This is a reminder that the Annual General Meeting of the WIA is being held
in

Bendigo Victoria on the 3rd May.
Please note that it is essential to register to attend either online or in
person.

There is no charge to attend the AGM.

It is also essential to register to attend and prepay for the dinner on the
Saturday

night. The cost of the dinner is $35 per person. Dinner registrations can
also be

made on the AGM registration site. The dinner is open to both members and
non-members. During the dinner there will be telebridge open to the
International

Space Station and students from a local school will ask questions of the
crew.


The Bendigo Amateur Radio and Electronics Club (BAREC) will be holding a
technology

festival on the Sunday 4th May at the Bendigo show grounds, Trade displays,
First

responders, Car Boot sales promise to be plentiful on the day. Entry costs to
the

technology festival is $7.00 at the gate. WIA members can purchase entry to
the

Technology Festival when they book for the AGM, bypassing the que at the gate
on theSunday morning.


Important to note that registration for the AGM, the dinner and the
Technology

festival will close at 11.00pm tonight, Sunday 27th April. So dont delay, get
in

quick and register to attend. Just again REGISTRATION TO ATTEND THE AGM and
DINNER

will close at 11.00pm tonight.

I look forward to seeing you all in Bendigo in May.

This has been Peter Clee VK8ZZ from Darwin in the Northern Territory.

AUSTRALIANA

NSW Rural Fire Service has fitted Starlink to the first 53 of a planned 5000
vehicles under a $69 million project, with 20 vehicles participating in
tests.

Jihad Dib, Customer Services and Digital Government minister, was questioned
about the programs progress during NSW Budget Estimates earlier this month.
During the hearing, he said that around 50 vehicles had been upgraded and
that 20 were in the trial and testing phase.

We are rolling them out progressively, he added.

The RFS added that new RFS vehicles will be equipped with VaaN from their
initial deployment by September this year. VaaN is Vehicle as a Node.

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(itnews)

AI ON THE RISE.

Macquarie Bank is looking to AI to reduce the cognitive load on customers
when it comes to managing their financial affairs, with more than 30
AI-augmented products and services in the works for 2025.

Chief digital officer Luis Uguina told the Google Cloud Next 25 conference
that the bank had set itself up for the current AI era courtesy of a
decision to move all the digital workloads and our customer data into
Google Cloud

While noting a tendency for AI to be used to increase efficiency and reduce
cost, Luis suggested the technology's real potential is to drive revenue
and to have more customers happier and using systems more and more often.
Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) has improved its hiring effectiveness by
implementing a new talent acquisition system and transforming its
recruitment processes looking at AI for further enhancements.

In total, the organisation has seen a 33 percent reduction in talent
acquisition costs and a "conservative" 30 percent time saved thanks to AI.

In the area of recruitment, with the addition of Sapia.ai, an "AI hiring
agent". "The process of setting that up was straightforward. Its going to
save more time from our manager's perspective by enabling automation of
chat interviews.

The organisation also is exploring other AI-enabled enhancements

CBA AND AI

Some 16,000 people from its Australian and Indian banking operations have
come together. AI is being used as a support in this process primarily to
summarise lengthy materials and get to the crux of a conversation much
faster.

AI is used to summarise that documentation.

AI to helps quickly get to the content to have the right conversation as
early as possible, rather than reading a document, [sending an] email,
[having another] email, [having another] meeting.

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