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#AceDailyNews says Queensland daylight saving was last trialled in the ’90s. Two mayors want today’s voters to have their say local media reports
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner says it’s time Queenslanders had a fresh say on whether daylight saving should be reintroduced, 30 years after the last referendum.
Queensland last trialled daylight saving in the early 1990s, with a referendum in February 1992 narrowly deciding against continuing it.
At the time, votes in favour of daylight saving were higher in south-east Queensland and lower in the north and west of the state.
But 30 years later, Cr Schrinner said it was time for new generations to have their say on whether it should be reintroduced in a bid to give Queenslanders more evening sunlight and improve connections between the states.
Cr Schrinner said he calculated three million Queenslanders out of the state’s 5.1 million population had no input on the 1992 referendum.
“There is a massive per cent of our population that just hasn’t had a say on daylight saving. They would like to have a say, but they didn’t get a say,” he said.
“Anyone under the age of 48 did not have a say on daylight saving. Plus, anyone who has moved to the state in the last 30 years did not get a say.”
Not a state priority
Late last year, Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman responded to a petition signed by more than 18,500 people calling for daylight saving.
Ms Fentiman wrote that it was “not currently under consideration”, but noted the petitioner’s arguments that daylight saving would ease social disadvantage and bring Queensland into synchronicity with the southern states.
University of Queensland political lecturer Graeme Orr said rather than call a full referendum, the government could simply run several opinion polls as a cheaper option to take the community’s temperature.
He said it was not a constitutional issue, but a “social question”.
“The Premier can’t decree daylight saving, she can’t change times or the rising and setting of the sun, but Parliament can do that,” he said.
2024 referendum proposal
Previous attempts to bring daylight saving back post-1992 included whether it should be reintroduced only for south-east Queensland.
Cr Schrinner suggested a referendum could be tied to the 2024 state or local government elections.
“The great thing about the 2024 opportunity is we could have a trial the next summer, the 2022-23 summer … to give people an opportunity to see how it goes,” he said.
Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate threw his support behind the proposal, saying a referendum would “keep politicians out of daylight saving considerations”.
“Let Queenslanders decide without political influence,” Cr Tate said.
“A separate referendum would allow this and it is something I have been calling for over the past four years.”
But Traeger MP Robbie Katter rejected the south-east Queenslanders’ call, saying Mr Schrinner was not “mayor of Queensland”.
Mr Katter said daylight saving would “affect livability” in the majority of Queensland by lengthening summer days and forcing people to work outside on mine sites, farms and outdoor industries for longer.
“If we see [daylight saving] introduced out in the rural and regional areas, then you’ll be drawing the curtain on a 45-degree day at 8 o’clock at night,” he said.
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