cresta57

Wow what a fantastic piece of constructive debate, your obviously a native Queenslander

bcworld

I wish you wouldn't make posts like that...because I can think of someone who will be along shortly to claim your attitude is typical of daylight savings supporters. Your comments will probably end up on a website somewhere.

DeadVim

Yeh but let's not be hasty there ARE some valid points there

cresta57

Ohh O.K then, just a couple though, well three, maybe four

pproehann

My arguments for more leisure time are not thinly veiled I openly want more leisure time on an evening and the trade argument doesn't majorly effect me as everyone I ring or email at work are in QLD. The other posts by the person formerly known as me also argued for more leisure time on an evening as my main driver. By the way the sun still rises over the Dutch Womans House and she's still in it...

fish.01

wow, your ego must have taken a right kicking lately to feel the need to be superior to that many people........ I'd put that standard of debate up there with the stupidest of qlder's

cresta57

So if you ring them say lunchtime is it your lunchtime or theirs? Don't forget that immovable 1 hour lunchtime is now two hours of not being able to contact someone. First your on lunch for an hour then just up the road an hour they'll be on lunch an hour later. Factor in the hour they miss in the morning & the hour you miss in the evening it leaves you just a four hour window from your 8 hour shift to contact anyone North of Noosa.

Like I say dividing the state is stupid, have all or nothing or even divide the state along the longitudinal line 139˚E. That way the guys out West of Mount Isa will have no complaints. It makes far more sense than splitting the SE corner.
BRISBANE is 153˚E and Mt ISA 139.5˚E there is a "real time difference" of some 13,5˚ of longitude, that is approx 54 minutes, there's the magic hour of DST.

pproehann

As everyone I ring tends to be int the CBD or just outside I should be fine as everyone I ring will be on the same time zone. The start, lunch and end of day time zone problems are no different to what occurs now between QLD and NSW. Without looking up the longitude and latitude given if that leaves Brisbane in the daylight savings zone does me. I used Noosa I think as an example earlier of where the time zone could change but it wasn't set in stone as an Anna referendum should give a rough line where votes change from majority want to majority don't and line could just be stuck there bit like pin the tail on the donkey.

ABCDiamond

Now that's an idea

I like tea

I wasn't debating the agument merely predicting the outcome and giving my opinion as to why it will fail. This ploy by Bligh is just to distract the voters away from the mismanagement and incompetence of her government eg.
1) Desalination plant that is not yet operational.
2) Traveston Dam
3) Bundaberg hospital & Dr Patel
4) Go card
5) Clem 7 minimal usage due to high cost and bottlenecks when exiting.
6) Hospital pay - current debarcle
7) Education - 50% of High school students now attend private schools.Why?Queensland came 7th in most areas of National testing. Why ?
To name a few.

Bligh has done a 180 degree backflip on this topic and I for one can't see any change to the status quo. Like the trail in the 80's it was good while it lasted but Goss didn't have the b---s to follow through and make it policy.
Keep dreaming Queensland it won't happen.

cresta57

It's set in stone in so much as the current political topic is for just the SE Qld region to adopt DST. S.E Qld is defined as NSW border North to the top of the Sunshine Coast & West as far as the Lockyer Valley. See map below:

bcworld

No she hasn't...she's playing politics now.

pproehann

So Gympie will be in I take it from map and from earlier posts. As you said earlier it will effect people on the border more than others but after all these snapshot polls on the issue that they've used to avoid a referendum it's about time she put it to the full referendum and finds out what people really want. It could end up being another no vote in the long run but if it never happens we'll never know.

cresta57

Nope the border is drawn just below Gympie, since regional restructuring We're not part of the Sunshine Coast.
As I said earlier the line runs from just North of Noosa

pproehann

By North of Noosa I thought that included up there, but read about 50 threads since then and watched TV, listened to music and read some of a book so can't remember exactly what you put. You could vote in favour and then you'd be on same time as Noosa or move South if it comes in, other than that I daren't answer in case it's misconstrued...