WA Travellers Reminder

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Don't forget the Referendum forThe daylight saving referendum to be held on Saturday 16 May 2009. And organise your Postal Vote.

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Reply By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 22:59

Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 22:59
Hi Doug, How is Dusty?

This is one person who won't for get it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the reminder.

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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:05

Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:05
Me too...
The old fella still enjoying life..not to the fullest , all he does these days is sleep, eat, bump into things and gets lost if too far from the van and enjoy's the a/c , I'm his eyes now when outside,
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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:16

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:16
Hi Doug, as long as Dusty is enjoying life still, I'm sure you don't mind being his 'eyes' for him,

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Reply By: Richard Kovac - Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:31

Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:31
And remember to VOTE: YES

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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:43

Thursday, Mar 26, 2009 at 23:43
Sorry Richard, I'll be happily voting NO. Look at the MOORE results for each year. and if the trend continues ....WOW

My Electorate results
Moore 1975 Yes 1,056 No 5,522

Moore 1984 Yes 2,155 No 7,137

Moore 1992 Yes 1,674 No 9,306

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Follow Up By: Member - Duncan W (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:01

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:01
That's a YES from me and she.
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:04

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:04
Hi Richard

Vote NO and just get up an hour earlier if you want to. people can get up earlier without mucking up the clocks, and businesses can start work earlier without mucking up the clocks.

NO vote is for choice. Yes is a vote is for Dictatorship.

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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:29

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:29
Hi Richard,

"And remember to VOTE: YES "

Why would I do that???????? I can go to the beach at any hour of the day, I am not interested in dealing with businesses in the Eastern States, if I was I would get up earlier if need be.

Quite frankly I hope that this will be the last of DS in this State however I have that feeling that if the NOs get in it will raise it's ugly head yet again. My opinion only.

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Follow Up By: Rolly - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:38

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:38
Perth is roughly 24 minutes behind the solar time without the ridiculous resetting of the clocks twice a year.
California is 3 hrs behind New York time and somehow has no problem with conducting its business across the USA.
Hong Kong and Singapore, with whom many Perth businesses conduct much of their business are in the same time zone as Perth.
Letting the kids out of school into the hottest part of the day is simply not very clever.
Maybe we should all come to our senses and programme in a three hour siesta into the day.
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Follow Up By: get outmore - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:00

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:00
Rolly with the wonders of modern internet and the BOM site that furphy of letting the kids out at the hottest part of the day went out the window. frequently it is hotter from 3.30pm on than between 2.30 and 3.30 WST

and coming from a pretty hot weatbelt town with pre fab classrooms and no fans we had DLS and it made alot of sense as come about 1.00 it was often too hot and they would take us down the pool.
Without DLS we would havve frequently of missed an extra hour of school
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Follow Up By: Teddals - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:13

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:13
How many referendums does it take to convince these beaurocrats that we don't want it.
My vote is NO!! again.
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Follow Up By: ross - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:19

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:19
Im voting NO.
If stockbrokers want to play the eastern states stock market they can get out of bed an hour earlier,they dont need me to get up with them.
Im sick of big business wanting to change clocks around so it suits them.
Those December January afterooons are just too long and hot
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Follow Up By: Member - Mark - Exmouth WA - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:37

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:37
I will be voting NO NO its the biggest crock of s--t, we dont need it in Exmouth, if u wont daylight savings move east, how many referendums do they need here in WA before it sinks in that its not wanted.

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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:16

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:16
I love WA its a fabulous place.

Three problems with the state in my view (Unless they have changed anything since I was last there)
No Daylight Savings, Shops shut on Sunday and the price of Dim Sims in the Fish & Chip Shops.

All mean WA is rather regressive compared to the civilized East Coast :-))
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 18:43

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 18:43
As can be seen, most of us are thoroughly against daylight saving in WA. Votes from people living in other states don't count! Let's hope this one will be the last.

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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 22:12

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 22:12
Well that s seven... LOL.. No vote and one Or two from up north (who cares)... :-)
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:03

Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:03
who cares Doug... :-)
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Reply By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:18

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:18
Thanks for the link Doug. I hope to be on the road by then, so need to do a postal vote. We totally missed the last state election - to late to do anything about it by the time we heard the election had been called. I don't want to miss voting on this one.

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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:44

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 00:44
Hi Motherhen, where are you off to this time????????????? you are never home LOL

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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 18:48

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 18:48
Hi Deanna

Hoping to see a bit more of Oz this winter. We'll spend a bit of time with our new grand daughter (Boxing Day baby) in the Pilbara, then head east via the Gary Junction Road. This time we plan to see north of Alice Springs, and where ever the road takes us. The Adelaide show and ram sale is in September, and my bet is that what ever the navigator says, the driver will turn that way. We'll probably be away around four to five months.


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Follow Up By: Member - Dunworkin (WA) - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:12

Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:12
Sounds fantastic, we don't have any plans this year so far but that could change somewhat. There will be the usual short trips, Albany, Bunbury, Margaret River, Shark Bay but nothing big yet.

I think I would like to just go and park the van somewhere in the Murchinson/ Pilbara for a while, just relaxing and enjoying the sun but we'll see.

Enjoy your trip

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Reply By: Ray - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:09

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 07:09
There is no such thing as DAYLIGHT SAVING it is a big con. It is just fiddling with the clocks. Now it is still dark at 7am. No vote from me
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Reply By: Member - Ann D (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:59

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:59
My vote will be No again,its about time the pollies listened and stopped wasting our money
Sick of going to work in the Dark

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Reply By: Gone Bush (WA) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:05

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:05
For years they tried to get daylight saving in QLD, especially during the Bejlke-Petersen era.

Old Jo wasn't going to have a bar of it.

He reckoned the sun shone out of his arse and he wasn't going to get up an hour earlier for any bugger.

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Reply By: Rod W - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:52

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:52
Its the NO vote here and the same from wife.

But by what I've read the question is rigged so when the NO vote wins they can still introduce a shorter period.
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Reply By: bgreeni - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:02

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:02
I will certainly be voting YES.

For a number of reasons.

I work in a national business and found 3 hours time difference with the eastern states a pain. Not unworkable but certainly difficult, and it was not the morning that was a problem, but the fact that I had just come back from lunch when they went home.

I also work with China - 1 hour difference one way or the other is not a problem.

I also believe that the comments about the tropics is unconvincing. I lived in T'ville when Qld had daylight saving, and loved it. Had young kids at school with no problems, and in fact when there was no DLS many schools started earlier in the morning when it was cooler.

I have also lived in UK where getting up in the dark, and getting home in the dark was a fact of life for half the year. Same as at the moment in Perth where I leave for work with the sun rising. In summer there, it was daylight till 11:00 at night and kids still slept.
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Follow Up By: new boy - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:12

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 16:12
Just one point It's only and hour Not 3 as we're already behind the E.S by 2 .
Working with the east -1 Hour difference should also be No Probs
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:02

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:02
Hi bgeeni

Then get out of bed two hours earlier and work the same hours as your ES counterparts - but don't expect the rest of us to when it does NOT suit our businesses.

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Follow Up By: Wheatbelt Wayne - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:13

Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 07:13
And when they then shut at 3pm instead of 5pm are you going to whinge that you cant access products or services??
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 14:37

Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 14:37
Hi Wayne

Most local businesses (eg grocery store) are not linked to ES, so would not be in the category of those wanting to be in sync with ES counterparts. Really, there are not many that would. We have coped with 11 am - 3 pm bank hours. So long as we know of a businesses opening times, it wouldn't matter in the least. Businesses we frequent in our town may open 8, 8.30 or 9 am, and close 5 or 5.30 pm. We know who is open when and visit accordingly - no whinging at all.

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Reply By: The Explorer - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:04

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 13:04
DLS from another angle..



Apologies for occasional rude word

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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:02

Saturday, Mar 28, 2009 at 03:02
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Reply By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:09

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 19:09
When daylight saving was explained to him, an old (American) Indian said -

"Only the Government would believe that you could cut a foot of the top of a blanket, sew it onto the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
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Follow Up By: get outmore - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:25

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:25
A better anaalagy would be if your blanket is too short and your shoulders warm but feet cold then the cutting trick would work perfectly
giving you blanket where its most usefull
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:52

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:52
Why go to all that trouble cutting and sewing, when all you have to do is move the blanket? Just move YOUR blanket - not make us all move ours too.

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Reply By: get outmore - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:23

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 20:23
Sorry Doug
on the news today postal voting forms wont be available for about a month
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 21:42

Friday, Mar 27, 2009 at 21:42
That's ok, I have the form filled out, will post it next time I go into town and they will send the postal vote when the time comes, plenty of time ..

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