A split time zone in SEQ would not cost the ALP any votes in regional Queensland and would boost its vote in the southeast corner given that 70% of voters in SEQ support daylight saving.
The LNP must have its hands in both its pockets over this issue given the polarised views on daylight saving of the former Liberal and National Parties.
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Well the issue of daylight saving was being addressed during the March 2009 state election...but only by one party - The Daylight Saving for South East Queensland Party (DS4SEQ) www.ds4seq.org.au
A group of ordinary people, frustrated that this issue continues to be swept under the carpet by both major parties, set up this single-issue party in December 2008. They were only 3 months old when contesting the election, and still were able to have 32 candidates and averaged about 2.5% of primary votes over the electorates they contested. Not bad considering they are still widely unknown and didn't have any funding. With neither major party adequately addressing daylight saving in this state, the DS4SEQ party have formalised the proposal of a dual time zone - having prescribed a proposed boundary, encompassing major transport routes and running along local council boundaries. The daylight saving debate is well and truly alive and I'm sure DS4SEQ will continue to make sure of that!!
The 150 meridian line is a good idea that was sent to the QLD Premiers office a couple weeks ago having DST to the EAST of that line. Hopefully there is backing towards that idea and DST is implemented within that zone along with the other states on 04 Oct at 2am.
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