Daylight saving prompts border move talk

YOU don’t need to move mountains to turn the clock forward.

Instead of ending the perpetual headache that is daylight saving by simply agreeing to adopt the time change with southern states on Sunday, Premier Anna Bligh has instead suggested the colossal idea of moving the border south.

“We’d be happy if they moved the border south of Tweed,” she said.

Her tongue-in-cheek comment came in response to a proposal by Tweed Nationals MP Geoff Provest — who despises daylight saving — to move the Queensland time line south to include Tweed Shire.

“One of the chief issues in this town is the impact of daylight saving,” Mr Provest said.

 

“A lot of people have approached me about being in sync with Queensland and maybe we should draw another time line on the map and put it at the end of the Tweed Shire boundary.”

Mr Provest said the NSW Government was advertising for a cross-border commissioner to deal with issues affecting communities straddling state boundaries, with daylight saving topping the list.

“What I am doing is using this as a public forum to get the community actively involved in exploring these potentials. Now that we are going to have a cross-border commissioner there is a perfect avenue for that to happen,” he said.

Mr Provest said the Tweed Shire boundary would provide a sensible cut-off point, particularly as its southern regions were relatively sparsely populated.

But the proposal has met a lukewarm response from the NSW Government, which would have to sign off on the time zone change through an act of Parliament.

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