sonos not playing fave ABC radio stations

Not a huge fan of VPNs for changing location data, but you may want to call Sonos Support to discuss it. That being said, it may be that the RadioApp plug in uses a different form of recognition as to where the device is. I don’t think there’s any rules on how they enforce their own legal requirements. And unfortunately, if they have copyrighted content that they don’t have authorization to play outside Australia, they may be blocking it in one of many ways, so they don’t get sued. 

Well, I can’t get the aged pension because I don’t live in Australia now so I guess it’s just another blow.

I hear you. I enjoyed the several months I lived in Bangkok, it’s a lovely country. Fond memories of renting a motorbike and visiting various locations in the south.

Even though I’d set up several Sonos and Apple video products in my hotel, (with all the associated attempts to get the hotel to whitelist on their network, then finally setting up a travel router for use) I wasn’t able to get F1 on the BBC feed while I was there. This was many years ago, and F1 was on ESPN and at the time DirecTV was satellite only, so I had no access via Apple TV either.