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You can buy a shortwave radio in most places, and in overseas markets.
DAB+ not so much, or even nil, no-such-receiver, etc.
ABC cutting shortwave is a big mistake, and will cost lives of Australians soon, and in later years, locally in NT and local islands and then across all Asia as only Radio Australia can break through the media walls in this hemisphere.