Following on from above ...
Only in Queensland could the argument be put and believed that introducing Daylight Saving would fade the curtains faster ...
Every State Government since hasn't gone near the subject despite the obvious financial benefits doing business in the same time zone as the southern states, the increased social amenity, the ongoing and expanding urbanisation of the S E Corner.
And, more importantly ... my kids would sleep till 6.30am and not up with the sun @ 5.30 (says Dad watching the Sunday Comics with his boys while Mum gets a well deserved Sunday lie in).