Tomorrow, the southern states will move their clocks forward by an hour, marking the start of six months of time zone confusion. Queensland voted ‘no’ to daylight savings more than 30 years ago, but it is an issue that continues to polarise. Many are not asking whether it’s time for the sunshine state to give daylight savings another go.
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00:00It's a debate as certain as the setting sun, yet after decades of arguing about turning
00:08back the clocks, Queenslanders are still no closer to consensus
00:20on daylight saving.
00:27Just from the border between Tweed Heads and the Gold Coast, members of this bowls
00:31club say one hour divides more than just two states.
00:36They're crossing the lines all the time, so they see that as being the one community.
00:44The Sunshine State tried daylight saving more than 30 years ago.
00:48The seemingly endless summer came to an abrupt end with a referendum in 1992.
00:55Every time we have a discussion about a time, it always has to be preceded with the old
01:00are we talking Queensland or NSW?
01:05Andrew Tribe pays more just to keep operating his Tweed Heads caravan park over summer.
01:11I have to employ every staff member an extra hour every day to stay open that extra time.
01:18Research shows the majority of Queenslanders want change.
01:22Daylight saving is the single most petitioned topic in Queensland to the state parliament
01:29after car registration fees.
01:31But in the state's north west, the days are already long and hot.
01:35Don't be so charlie to turn the bloody clock back, we're all adults here, just get up a
01:40bloody hour earlier.
01:42It's a serious problem for the kids out west when it's still 40 degrees at 9, 9.30 at night
01:48and the sun's still up and they've got to get up in the dark to go to school.
01:53Tropical fruit growers at Bungandarra, near Yapoon, don't support it.
01:58The greatest idea would be if NSW and Victoria gave it away.
02:02Dividing the state is another option.
02:05There are 14 American states that are split and also NSW is split so Broken Hill is on
02:09a different time zone to Sydney and that's because they're much farther west.
02:13It may divide Queensland but it's one issue the state's political leaders are united on.
02:19In the lead up to the October state election, both major parties have ruled out any changes
02:24to daylight saving.
02:26Putting the question aside for another lap around the sun.