PerthNorg

No. Three failed referenda are enough.

I’d love to have daylight saving! The thought of going through another referendum is pretty off-putting though, but I’d do it happily to see the light again …

I am not in favour of it - we don’t need it here in WA. It’s designed for places which have much greater variation between summer and winter than we do - Perth at 32 latitude is the second most northerly of the 5 major cities. It’s also a problem for children as the 10-2 sun zone becomes 11-3 when many of them are coming home from school - I remember this from being a 13-year-old during the last trial.

Also, WA has the unique situation of having the same timezone as most of Asia, which does not have daylight saving.

The only reason the rest has had daylight saving since 1971 (Queensland abandoned it after about 15 years) was pressure from Tasmania, which lies in the 40s latitude like much of Europe, America etc and so has more need for it. Many states never had any choice or say in the matter - we have, and we said no.

Sorry to post twice - it should be noted the current changes are also at the instigation of Tasmania, to bring the rest of Australia into line with it. For some reason they are heavily over-represented in Federal Parliament. I have nothing against Tasmania - been there a couple of times and loved it - but what works there with -3 in winter and 10pm sunsets doesn’t here.

Perth needs daylight saving - the inefficiencies created by the additional loss of an hour in the working day when dealing with the eastern states makes no economic sense. Many of the arguments fall down when you put them under scrutiny - the majority of the Western Australian population is in lower half of the state, which would benefit the most from daylight saving. Because we are further north than Tasmania in Perth, if daylight saving was adopted, the latest the sun would set would be 8.50pm, on December 20, at the peak of the party season and when many are on holidays. Kids still have 5 weeks of holidays to go, so bedtime for school is not such an issue. That extra hour of daylight would mean Dads could get home from work early enough to go to the beach with the kids,or have a BBQ in daylight. What is not to love? It works everywhere else in the world - it is time we caught up with it. We are already the world’s most isolated city - this contributes to that isolation. We don’t need another referendum on this, just a government that is prepared to bite the bullet and just introduce it.

Daylight saving, bring it on I say, and the sooner the better. Having been brought up in England I can safely say, without fear of contradiction, that the long warm summer nights of DAYLIGHT were absolutely sensational. Time to play, time to do activities with the family, time to do after school sports activities…. I could go on! In an era where for the sake of minimal adjustment we can make more ‘family time’ for ourselves without detriment to the economy it really is time we hauled WA into the 21st Century and made the most of our time and opportunities.

……….. more daylight saving - more boating and fishing! On a more serious note, there are some persuasive opinions in the comments by all Cit J’s. At time of writing, it is 10:30 am in Perth and Jakarta/Indonesia is an hour behind us. Doing a major portion of my business with the Eastern seaboard, daylight saving makes my working hours a lot more productive. Increasing the daylight hours would enhance tourism and leisure and family activities, so I am for it

OK, I’m in favour of dayight saving in WA too. But wouldn’t that set a dangerous precedent for making other things consistent across the land? Like common school curricula and school holiday dates for example. Or all of us having the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on the same day. Good grief, next you’ll be expecting Australia to act like a single country, when we all know it’s really six or seven different countries flying in close formation.