More important issues than daylight saving, says MP
WITH daylight saving ending in NSW last week, it's no surprise that it came up at last week's Tweed Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting.
Gold Coast MP Jann Stuckey addressed a few border issues at the breakfast.
But she kept council on the daylight saving issue.
"My husband is always in my ear about it," she said.
Mrs Stuckey's husband is a doctor.
"It's always going to be an issue for patients travelling over the border," she said.
"I do understand the problems," she said.
Mrs Stuckey said there were more important issues on the agenda.
"There are a few other border issues we need to fix first," she said.
Mrs Stuckey has stuck to her guns in regard to daylight saving and said she didn't want to tear the state in two.
Her electorate adjoins the Queensland/New South Wales border.
The Liberal-National Party's Member for Currumbin said she surveyed constituents on issues which concerned them most and daylight saving barely rated a mention.
"There will always be a percentage of people and perhaps even a growing percentage of people in south-east Queensland who feel they would benefit from daylight saving," she said.
"But for me being here on the border and who experiences the difficulty, most people have made it very clear to me that they want morning policing, tougher sentencing and they want to be able to get a hospital bed."
Daylight Saving for South East Queensland (DS4SEQ) was a single issue political party that launched a campaign in 2008 to introduce daylight saving to southern Queensland.
In March 2012, DS4SEQ presented a formal submission to the newly appointed NSW Cross Border Commissioner, Cr Steve Toms, to inform him of the ongoing daylight saving debate within Queensland
"It is a pretty big issue and it is up to each state to resolve," Cr Toms said.