Fed: Howard suggests time zone shakeup

AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1999
Fed: Howard suggests time zone shakeup

Queensland could be forced on to daylight saving under a shake-up of Australian time
zones suggested by Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD today.

Aside from a brief flirtation earlier this decade, Queensland has resisted daylight
saving, leaving it an hour behind New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

But Mr HOWARD's told Brisbane radio 4BC the current system, with different time zones
around the country over summer, is ridiculous.

He's suggested replacing state time zones with regional zones.

South-east Queensland would move to daylight saving with Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart,
while Broken Hill in far-west New South Wales would run on Adelaide time.

Mr HOWARD says there's no reason someone living on the Gold Coast should be in a different
time zone from someone in Sydney.

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KEYWORD: DAYLIGHT (CANBERRA)

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