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Amateur radio, also called 'ham radio' is a communications hobby which is shared by about three million people throughout the world.  It involved radio transmission communication between radio amateurs by voice, digital techniques, Morse code, pictures and video signals.

More information can be found on the website of the Wireless Institute of Australia (WIA) at....
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http://www.wia.org.au/discover/introduction/about/