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Daylight Savings

Daylight savings has always been a hot potato that has divided the community and fiercely debated. Some of the arguments range from outrageous to just plain silly. The curtains will fade and the cows won't know when to be milked, just to name a few. For the majority of voters in this state, it's just daylight robbery.

People in favour of daylight saving would like us to believe there are so many benefits with daylight saving we would have to be mad not to embrace it. But just like the curtains will fade and the cows won't know when to be milked, they are just silly arguments to support their life style.

In a lot of cases, for & against daylight saving comes down to employment, those who start early hate it & those who start late love it. All the rest is just nonsense.

Daylight Saving Party

The Daylight Saving Party was officially launched by President Tom Cunneen on the 20th December 2004. A one policy party with one aim, to inflict pain on the 53% majority who have already voted NO three times.

The Daylight Saving Party President's Address: The policy of the party is simple... to legislate the introduction of Daylight Saving to WA. We don't want another referendum because we think that it may be voted down. http://www.daylightsavingparty.org.au/executive.htm

The Daylight Saving Party makes a lot of claims of improved lifestyle, economy, saves energy and saves life's on the road.

Daylight Saving Time saves lives on our roads

The Daylight Saving Party opening statement is "Daylight Saving Time saves lives on our roads" This scare tactic is based on overseas propaganda from Canada, Japan, UK and US to back up the argument for DLS. At best it is misinformation, The facts are Western Australia's road toll for 2005 was 162, 2006 was 204 and 2007 is 234.

Reduced road toll

The ‘reduced road toll’ theory is another persistent daylight saving myth, one that is based almost entirely on the premise that darkness reduces road visibility. Daylight saving research on the subject of road fatalities tends to base its estimates on this premise, concentrating heavily on the evening hours and virtually ignoring the morning. In reality, however, more people die on the roads at night than during the day because they socialise more, drink more alcohol, suffer more fatigue and drive faster in the presence of fewer cars — factors that can only be improved by changing attitudes, not clocks. http://www.nodaylightsavingqld.com/Light.htm

The facts on electricity consumption and Daylight Saving

Release Date: 31 October 2007

Western Power today announced it recently completed research into the impact of last summer's daylight saving. The research found daylight saving contributed only a 0.6% increase in electricity consumption in WA's main grid.

Western Power's General Manager System Management, Mr Ken Brown said daylight saving produced a negligible impact on electricity consumption and said the increasing use of air conditioners was far more significant in the electricity network. Click here for the full story.

Extract from the Parliament of W.A. Web Site Hansard,

HON GIZ WATSON (North Metropolitan) [8.42 pm]: I do not wish to make extended remarks, but I will put on record a few issues with this bill. This is one of the most extraordinary debates in which I have played any part in this place. The whole development of this bill has been unlike any other. It seems to have gathered some sort of momentum that defies logic. I can only assume that something strange is happening with the planets, because there is no other really good explanation of why we are debating this bill at this time and the nature in which we are doing it. The bill seems to have been dreamt up on the back of an envelope, given some sort of time synchronicity and brought into being to assist a couple of members to regain some public profile.

Hon Graham Giffard: You cynic!

Hon GIZ WATSON: One must be slightly cynical about this. I am not usually a cynical person, as members will understand. There is the question of momentum. Enough people in this and the other place have decided that this bill will get some priority; that it will roll along; that there is some urgency; and that people are hanging on to find out whether it will be voted on tonight or tomorrow. I have never known anything quite like it. Quite frankly, I think the debate is largely contrived for a whole range of reasons. However, having said that, we are having the debate. The Greens are again in a situation of being asked to consider a bill that is not ours. We are usually considering government bills, but this is a private member’s bill. We would be delighted if our private members’ bills were given the same degree of acceleration and interest.

I reiterate the point made by other members that this bill is misnamed. It is not about daylight saving. The concept of daylight saving arose in the Northern Hemisphere, an area with many people in high latitudes. It was introduced to extend the amount of daylight available to them. Our concept of daylight saving is about shifting the clock versus the available daylight. It is not a properly named bill. As other members have pointed out, a lot of members do not know how to spell it on their e-mails. There is certainly no shortage of daylight in summer in WA. The bill is misnamed for that reason.

I have some degree of cynicism as to why we are debating this bill at this point. It seems to be convenient for various political agendas. It has become apparent to me, after being lobbied on this issue, that some underlying plot has been driven along, certainly by people within the major parties, although I do not know quite who they are; it is another interesting phenomenon associated with this debate. With those comments, on behalf of the Greens and my constituents in the North Metropolitan Region, I am willing to support the proposed three-year trial and then the issue being put to a referendum.
http://www.mp.wa.gov.au/giz-watson/speeches/2006/daylight01.html