New research has found the majority of Queenslanders want to join with their southern state counterparts to introduce daylight savings.
The University of Queensland’s Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Thomas Sigler, has contributed with new research showing that 60% of Queenslanders now support daylight savings, growing as high as 70% in the capital.
Research from earlier this year suggested that the economic cost to Queensland of resisting daylight savings is more than $4 billion.
Meanwhile, a petition is currently in parliament closing at the end of this month opposing daylight savings because of its effects into artificially lengthened “working days” characterised by an additional hour of heat and sunshine for a six-month period.
If you want to support this petition you can find it on the Queensland Parliament website.