I have lived in two states: one with and one without it.

I am opposed to the chopping and changing of daylight saving. It was a stupid idea to begin with. I don't care whether we start earlier or later as long as we stick to the same time year round. Apart from anything else, studies have shown adverse effects in terms of heart attacks and adverse mental health:

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/daylight-saving-health.html

I agree with rehctub - I would rather just get up an hour earlier and
it makes more sense to get up early if we want to have daylight at the end of the work day.

Qld and WA - stick to your guns.

As the arguments are clearly based on personal preference. (I like DS but my wife doesn't)

However, this could be used to sort out traffic congestion, if half the people elected to start their day early. I know there are problems with this, but it could be better than building new roads.

As an ex yachty, I used to get up when it got light and go to bed when it got dark. It just seemed to make sense to me. Now retired, I can still make my own hours to some extent, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to have to wait 4 hours-plus after sunrise in the Summer to conduct any business. I would have thought it more economical to cut the working day shorter at the end rather than the beginning when it is cooler, particularly for those working outside. After all it was created during the war to save power.

I think most South East Queenslanders would like to have daylight saving but they may be reluctant to have it for 6 months. Most would not want it to go into early April as it does here in Victoria.
I personally think they were right to extend daylight saving to the start of October but were wrong to extend it into April.
Seeing as both Brisbane and the Gold Coast are more east than Sydney and Melbourne, it would make sense but I think South Eastern QLD,and all the DLS states should agree on an earlier finishing time

No.

(The north Queensland take on it).
Just let Brisbane join in with the other states, as Brisbane is where the support for the idea is.
We dont want or need it at this lattitude, it gets dark at about 6-6.30pm, and gets light again about 6-6.30am. While it might be nice to have an extra hour to fish after work each day, it would mean it would still be dark at 7.30am the next morning. It seems to escape some, that the actual amount of daylight each 24 hour period (at that lattitude) will not change.
Yes make fun of us rural people about the cows going off their milk and the curtains fading, but it does seem mostly ill-informed urbanites that cannot comprehend the consequences of the Earths sphericity and nature of its' orbit around the sun.

Thankfully I've got a job where I can start early. Occasionally some odd looks from people who started work 2 or 3 hours later than me when I leave mid afternoon but those first couple of quiet hours in the office let me get a lot of stuff done which is harder to do when the distractions start and being home with a couple of hours of daylight left is even better.

We should have more focus on staggered work hours where practical as well as reducing the number of people who spend hours a day to commute to an office where they communicate with customers by phone and email. There must be better ways of managing staff than that.

For most daylight saving would add little if commutes to work were a thing of the past.

R0bert