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AgForce backs Bligh on daylight saving

6/10/2008 2:24:00 PM
AgForce supports Premier Anna Bligh's stand against daylight saving because it says it is not suited to Queensland's tropical and sub-tropical climate.

AgForce president John Cotter said daylight saving may work well in southern temperate climates, but Queensland's hotter summers mean it would be a backward step for a State the size of Queensland.

"Queensland is a vast state and as the Premier has rightly said the city of Cairns is as far west as Charleville which has implications in terms of what time of "the working day" the sun rises and sets – regardless of whether we have daylight saving or not," Mr Cotter said.

"While some people make jokes about cows not milking or the curtains fading, there is a more serious side to this debate.

"It is about people and the fact that daylight saving is strongly opposed by the majority of the regions in Queensland."

Mr Cotter said the Premier's decisive stand on this issue and to govern for all Queenslanders makes a lot of sense.

"Any suggestion of a split time zone to accommodate daylight saving in the south-east is completely impractical and would increase the perceived divide between the south-east corner and the rest of Queensland."

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While the northern areas in Queensland may have their case, the South East part of Queensland deserves also to have a referendum on the matter. With the vast change in population since the last referendum the people deserve to be heard. The gains by having Day light saving introduce in the South East are too signaificant to be ignored.
Posted by Sanjay on 3/11/2008 3:49:27 PM

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