What you said about daylight savings being introduced to Qld for 2032 Olympic Games

It’s the annual daylight savings debate, fresh with an Olympic twist. HAVE YOUR SAY

It’s the annual daylight savings debate, fresh with an Olympic twist.

Business leaders are calling for daylight saving to be introduced in South East Queensland ahead of the 2032 Games.

Queensland Hotels Association CEO Bernie Hogan said the hospitality industry would like to see daylight saving introduced in at least the South East ahead of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games to showcase the region to the world.

“It’s not going to work for the entire state but for South East Queensland, it encourages people to use that sunlight after work and that’s the vibrancy you see in so many world cities,” he said.

Daylight saving runs in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia but Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory will stay stubbornly on standard time.

Despite Queenslanders again being plunged into the annual daylight saving “time warp” – causing confusion for everything from business and government to travel and even cross-border school drop-offs and pick-ups – Labor and the LNP have dismissed it as a non-issue.

Premier Steven Miles and opposition leader David Crisafulli have both ruled out revisiting daylight saving any time soon, despite new research revealing most Queenslanders support having an extra hour of sunshine and a warning that politicians ignore the issue “at their own peril”.

Queensland’s daylight saving debate is an annual event.

Even Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, an ardent daylight saving advocate, has toned down his rhetoric amid the state election campaign.

Readers were quick to weigh in, with votes relatively evenly split among more than 1300 online voters.

Others said it’s time Queensland got with the rest of the country, while some insist it should never happen.

See what you had to say below and join the conversation >>>

WHAT YOU SAID

Not this again

Jeanne

NO … NO … NO … we’ve already had it twice and we all hated it .....so.....NOT AGAIN … PLEASE!!!!

PETA

I’m in the NO camp. Our hot days extend well into the evening and changing clocks forward means it will be hotter at bed time. Plenty of people live in countries with different time zones. We’ll survive if the states that have DST make an effort to remember their time isn’t the only time.

NickD

Only the transplants want it – and they can easily go back to NSW or Vic if they want it so badly. The debate has been done and dusted – we don’t want it in Qld.

Trekka

Never wanted the games. Never want daylight savings.

Pro-daylight saving campaigner Dr Thomas Sigler from the University of Queensland.

Yes, make it happen

Justin

About time, bring it on! What did Joh say again? … that the cows won’t get enough sleep. The joke is up!

Andrew

They should introduce it in stages first, ideally North of the line of Capricorn down to the border. If successful add other jurisdictions north of there.

Rex

Once again we are reminded that Queensland is one hour behind the rest of the East Coast and three hours and forty nine years behind New Zealand! Surely it’s time for Queenslanders to move out of the 19th Century?

Andrew

If they want to tackle crime then Daylight Saving is a solution. There is evidence all around the world that Daylight Saving reduces crime in the early evening.

It’s all a mess

Shirley

NSW had their referendum in 1976. So no-one in NSW who is younger than 66 has ever had a say in the continuation of DST in NSW.

Maxwell

The USA seems to get along OK with four different time zones on the mainland, about the same size as us.

Glenn

Who wastes their money every year getting people to “research” this tired old topic. Spend your time and money on something worthwhile. This has been done to death every year.

Tony

No political party has what it takes to get this question resolved.

Originally published as What you said about daylight savings being introduced to Qld for 2032 Olympic Games