The Courier-Mail
NEW calls have been made for a referendum on daylight savings to be held at the next State election.
Member for Nicklin Peter Wellington called for the referendum this morning in State Parliament.
Mr Wellington called for a split time zone proposal.
The referendum would ask Queenslanders if they support daylight savings for south east Queensland, leaving the rest of the state on standard time.
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COMMENT: If Broken Hill in New South Wales can operate quite
successfully on South Australian time, then there is no reason
that daylight saving would not work in southeast Queensland.
This would be the best of both worlds - the people of regional
and rural Queensland who oppose daylight saving would stay on
standard time and the time of SE Queensland who support daylight
saving would be on the same time zone as the other three eastern
states of Australia. This compromise is a no-brainer and should
be implemented as a matter of priority.
PAUL TULLY - PaulGTully@gmail.com
