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Daylight Saving Em & Wippa 20 October, 2008 - 12:56 PM

It's that time of year again when the population of WA is split down the middle. Curtains fade, cows go crazy and Colin Barnett can't play tennis at five in the morning. It's a debate that fires up the even the meekest West Australian.

That's right it's Daylight Saving time!

It's the final year of the daylight saving trail before WA voters go to the polls for the forth time, the last referendum being over 16 years ago.

WA has changed considerably in those 16 years, not only has the sky line of Perth changed but so has the demographic of the population. Since 1992 the states population has grown by over half a million people. 13% percent of the population are migrants from the UK which as had Daylight Saving for over 50 years and a third of the population where born outside of Australia. So maybe this time around the result might be different.

We want to know what how you feel the trail went. What are your arguments for and against and at the end of it all whether you'll vote for it or not.

Daylight saving starts Sunday, the 26th of October. So on the Saturday night, before you go to bed, set all your clocks forward one hour. The trial ends on the 29th of March, 2009.

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• Jan says

  Love it, Love it, Love it...
  It feels like I'm on holiday I get home from work at 6.30 and with in half an hour I've forgotten I was even there. My husband enjoys it as well as he gets to take the boys to the park for more than 10 minutes.

  Posted Monday 20 October, 2008 2:18 PM
• Katrina.Q says

  i love it. why dont the people that are against it stop whinging and just go enjoy it!!! :-)

  Posted Monday 20 October, 2008 2:50 PM
• Kym says

  Love it!
  Daylight savings is the best thing and should stay. Why do we have to be the state that kicks up such a stink about it, when all the other states have no problem with it!?!!

  Posted Monday 20 October, 2008 9:24 PM
• Amy says

  I love daylight savings! I can come home from work and still have enough time to go to the beach and enjoy the summer. All the oldies do is whinge about it. Even though they have nothing to do all say they still get up at the crack of dawn. Maybe if they got up a bit later then they would go to be later and stop whinging that the sun wont go down! It gets my vote!!!

  Posted Monday 20 October, 2008 9:59 PM
• Maria says

  Absolutely love it!!!!!! When you get hm from work - you can actually do a few more things with hubby and the kids!!!!! No probs with my kids they go to bed when they are told and that comes to parenting not the sunlight!!!! Perth people are to stuck in there old ways - come one Perth get with it and join the rest of the world!!!!

  Posted Tuesday 21 October, 2008 12:24 PM
• Alyce Jackson says

  Love it!
  Its great for us people who don't get home from work till 6 & still have time to go down the beach for a few hours..
  Be smart WA & vote YES for daylight savings!!!

  Posted Tuesday 21 October, 2008 4:49 PM
• trevor sampson says

  I am all for this daylight savings and also Have lived in sydney for two yars and they got daylight savings and it is to sweet and I loved it right down the line.
  BRING ON DAYLIGHT SAVINGS FOR A LONG TIME TO COME.

  Posted Tuesday 21 October, 2008 6:36 PM
• Farcki N. Hill says

  DAYLIGHT SAVINGS SHOULD BE BANNED.
  all you people who actually like it can get fat while you cant exercise in the mornings. try think about the whole state not just your self-absorbed selves.

  Posted Tuesday 21 October, 2008 7:09 PM
• Jane says

  I live at the moment in the UK and we have daylight saving here and it does not go dark till 11pm sometimes 11:45pm and then goes light around 4am so not much dark here in summer. but i must say it is the best thing to have. I have young kids of my own and its easy to send them to bed at 6:30pm and they sleep. Its how you have your routine. Come on the West Australians Vote Yes for Day light saving its Fab!!

  Posted Wednesday 22 October, 2008 3:56 AM
• Nathan says

  Love it sooooooo much! always feels like a holiday. Get some tea @ 6:30 and got eat it by the beach. fantastic. Shopuld stay!!!

  Posted Wednesday 22 October, 2008 8:11 AM

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