Under current EU legislation, all 28 EU countries must move their clocks forward one hour on the last Sunday in March and switch back on the final Sunday in October. The European Commission conducted polling that showed the majority of its citizens want daylight saving extended to last the entire year, and the EU is seriously considering the proposal.
The polling showed 84 per cent of 4. In Queensland, there has long been a push by groups in the south-east corner for the daylight saving to be introduced. Queensland's biggest newspaper, the Courier Mail, has been pushing for another referendum on the issue, arguing that the state has changed.
After the newspaper published its own polling in August, showing strong support for introducing daylight saving, it posted the article on Facebook, and readers left comments strongly in favour of the proposal. But Queensland is an enormous state, and outside the south-east corner, communities tend to be against daylight saving. A thousand kilometres north of Brisbane, the Townsville Bulletin posted its own article on Facebook and the feedback was very different. And heading even further north to Port Douglas, with its tropical climate, the winter provides months of glorious warm sunshine and people are not pining for the extra hours in summer.
The whole of Australia gave daylight saving a brief run in , and then again in Since then, Western Australia has trialled daylight saving numerous times and held four referendums on the issue, the most recent in when voters rejected the concept. Queensland trialled daylight saving again in the s and then for three years from , ending with a referendum in when the proposal was again rejected. The Northern Territory hasn't trialled daylight saving since the Second World War and the prospect doesn't seem to have generated much interest there.
Maybe it's horses for courses — the further from the equator you are, the more daylight saving improves your lifestyle, but if you're lucky enough to live in the tropics, who really cares?
Johnson died in but his wife, Anicia, says his case ended up being dismissed by the court. The autumn transition, on the other hand, is popularised as adding one hour to sleep time, she says, but data shows no evidence of extra sleep on that night. If you'd like some expert background on an issue or a news event, drop us a line at explainers smh.
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Where did daylight saving come from? Credit: Wikipedia But it was Tasmania that kick-started it yet again, in , a move prompted by drought, wrote parliamentary librarian Terry Newman in Why did Queensland and WA say no? Illustration: Matt Golding Credit: The issue has been returned to several times, including with a proposal to create a separate time zone for south-east Queensland.
Credit: Craig Sillitoe Does daylight saving confuse cows? It takes a while to adjust. Credit: Shutterstock Can daylight saving affect your health? Then there are the energy savings. That it gets dark earlier also means more peak-hour road accidents. A University of Queensland-led study found that adopting DST in south-east Queensland would lead to a decrease in car collisions with koalas, and potentially other nocturnal or crepuscular animals such as kangaroos and wallabies.
He has fond memories of playing outside in the daylight, until late on a summer evening. Moving to Brisbane proved a shock to someone unaccustomed to life without DST. Or just sit on the veranda and watch the sunset. Unfortunately, I only get to do that about 20 days a year.
Despite strong support in Brisbane for daylight saving time — a poll run by the Courier Mail in showed support for DST in south-east Queensland at 88 per cent and a petition for a referendum garnered over 20, signatures — it remains a contentious issue, especially around election time.
Cairns is about as far away from Brisbane as Melbourne. The border with South Australia is kilometres west. The minority voice represents older Queenslanders, it represents more conservative Queenslanders and it represents more marginal voters. Skip to Main Content Broadsheet.
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