DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ON LINE POLL S.E.QLD.
October 8, 2007 9:40 am Daylight SavingsDAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BORDER PROBLEMS.
Soon Northern NSW- Tweed Heads and South East Queensland – Southern Gold Coast will face the complex problems of DST.
We cannot sit back and allow Queensland to cause enormous problems to businesses on both sides of the border in particular but also to the rest of Australia eg the Airlines.
We have organised an on line e-poll which can be reached on the right side of this blog- just scroll down until you see ” Would you like SE Queensland to have DST etc.
The e-poll will only take less than a minute and is completely confidential. The results will be forwarded to the Qld. Premier, Members of Parliament on both sides of the border and local media. (completed – Ed)
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME AND ENCOURAGE YOUR BUSINESS CONTACTS TO DO THE SAME!!
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A substantial discount is available to Business Excellence Sponsors and Supporters by contacting John at john@businessexcellence.net.au . This investment course is excellent and I recommend it most highly having recently completed the course with Garry & Kieran- two top advisors.
For more info please email me at my address above.
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See you at the Ric Wilmot Business Excellence breakfast- Tweed Heads Bowls Club Wednesday 17th October.
More news on the on line e-poll next newsletter.
Have a great week and enjoy the beautiful weather.
John Hurd
October 8th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
Hi John, pleased to see a forum on this issue.
I don’t mind the “Daylight Saving Time” itself, but I hate having to cope with 2 different time zones as a business. My business is in South Tweed, but a fair bit of my trade is from QLD, and I have to stay open longer to service them. So, longer hours of work but no extra business (they don’t get out of bed til half the morning is over………).
So, my hate is the confusion locally, but there must be a lot of Qld businesses that would rather be on the same time zone as the rest of the East Coast. Let’s make a bit of noise…..
October 8th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
PREMIER Anna Bligh stood by her decision to end the daylight saving debate despite many people saying the State Government’s latest survey was flawed.
Ms Bligh yesterday ruled out a fresh vote or review of the issue, despite calls from business leaders and community officials for a second opinion.
“It is off the table . . . it is no longer on my agenda,” Ms Bligh said, speaking from Sydney where she was urging skilled workers to move north.
But tourism, business and other concerned Queenslanders want a new daylight saving survey because they believe the State Government’s recent study, conducted by Nielsen, may not have reflected true opinion across the state.
Concerns include:
• Southeast Queensland was under-represented in a survey of 1000 residents and 600 businesses.
• Some questions referred negatively to the introduction of daylight saving.
• In one question, respondents were initially told “the rest of the state is generally opposed to the idea”.
• The question of whether southeast Queensland should be in a separate time zone was preceded by a question about “agreeing in principle” on the idea of daylight saving.
• Some respondents may have been confused about what they were being asked.
• More options to register “drawbacks” of daylight saving were available to questioners than there were “benefits.”
Queensland Tourism Industry Council chief executive Daniel Gschwind said results of the Government’s survey would be different if the questions were better worded.
October 13th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
“We cannot sit back and allow Queensland to cause enormous problems to businesses on both sides of the border in particular but also to the rest of Australia eg the Airlines.”
These are common words seen in queensland, isn’t it nasty of Qld to cause such a problem?
Wait a minute, Qld didn’t start the daylight saving issue, it was the southern states that dicided to create the issue, adjusting the clock instead of adjusting the work hours.
Why should Qld take on a system that is only viable for the southern states? I don’t see any reason why we should do it just because the southern states reacon we should.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
get with the times queenslanders why do we have to be backwards compared to all the other states . State government don’t let us make any other choices so why are they asking for our opinion now why not bring us in line with the rest of australia you know you want it.I don’t remember anyone asking for my vote Just do it !