Thread: A fair cross section of Queenslanders?

Originally Posted by isuzutoo-eh

I can't tell which one of them has the IQ point.

But Yorkie should be concerned at where they all are!

concerned or comforted?, going by the mugshots i will stick with concerned!.

Yes, Yorkies Knob is a real place. A great big knob (geo term) of land sticking up and out of the mangroves north of cairns.
Not as funny as Bones Knob (always gets a titter) near atherton. You don't laugh if you know it's dark past.
The funny thing is that recently, the developer of a high cost developement tried to change the name to Yorkeys point.
Crash and burn.
Local uproar and rightly so.

Yep, it's fairly representative. I grew up in NSW, lived in Qld for 10 years and now reside in Vic.

I found that even well educated people failed to grasp the concept of daylight savings and just wrote it off as "something us queenslanders don't need" Cough....MENTAL .....Cough

Personally I love daylight savings, it is amazing!

I personally love day light savings. but then again I am not a QLDer TG :P
The main reason I like it is because after school(when I was at school) I could come home and do things for a good while

Awww here we go , nothing like make yourself feel better by belittleing others. Now where did i put my banjo ?

Live in SE Qld, I get up at 4.30 most mornings to go to work, sun is up

I leave at 5.30 without headlights

We don't need daylight saving in S.E.Qld

Oh and Yorkes Knob is in far north Queensland, why ask the question up there???????

Mrs hh

Originally Posted by Treads

They must be the 70% who Campbell Newman claim support the new bikie laws.

The reason we have daylight saving is that because the majority of people in the media and the majority of politicians like it. Seems that surveys in the street indicate people prefer it.
Some people have no strong preference for or against daylight saving. For others, eg who work indoors during the day it can make life more pleasant allowing more outdoor leisure time. However, with the daily schedule many people have it makes life more difficult. I find daylight saving results in less social activity during summer because when many things are scheduled is a better time to get much outside work done than in the heat of the day.

What is needed everywhere daylight saving is practised in Australia is a year without it then a referendum. Note it was first tried in Qld, then Joh correctly said the majority did not want it again. Subsequent Labor Governments have had two one year trials then referendums. Was rejected both times. In Western Australia it was trialled three times for one year each = in the 1970's, 1983 and 1992. After each trial it was rejected at referendums. Then more recently a Labor Govt imposed a three year trial, probably hoping people would become more used to and favour daylight saving. They did not. Was rejected again.

The only referendum endorsing daylight saving was in NSW in the "70's. Was carried by yes majority in NSW (Newcastle Sydney Wollongong) nut apparently almost all country areas opposed it. I think there would be less support for it in Victoria, where for most of the population the sun rises and sets later than Sydney area. The longitude of Melbourne is similar to Cobar and Bourke.

Daylight saving in Australia is obviously wanted by a noisy minority, who like others with strong opinion but a weak case often resort to personal abuse of opponents.