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Queensland doesn’t need daylight saving – and neither do the southern states
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It's a shame the author only briefly touches on the strongest reasons not to do daylight saving in a throwaway line in the penultimate paragraph. But yes, daylight saving literally kills people and has no measurable benefits. We don't need it.
I'm always annoyed at pro-DST people who say they do all these activities "in the extra hours of daylight after work"...
It's not extra HOURS.... Its one extra hour!
Its basically the difference between driving home with your headlights on the whole way, or only half the way. You're not suddenly having backyard parties and trips to the park with friends.
And it's one hour that could just as easily be gained by choosing to work earlier if that's what you really care about. And it's added in at the time when it's least needed. Boxing day in Melbourne is light at 10 pm. Without DST that would be 9 pm. It's absurdly late either way.