Thirty years after Queensland’s failed referendum to implement daylight saving time (DST), it remains the only eastern state to not change the clocks over the warmer months. But Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has renewed calls for a new referendum on the matter. In 1992, 54.5% of Queenslanders voted against daylight saving (which means that 45.5% voted in favour, right?). Fellow east coasters have long chuckled about worries for confused cows and faded curtains, but the Queensland tropics get less variation in daylight hours as seasons change. Now, Schrinner believes more than 70% of Queensland’s southeast – home to more than half the state’s population – supports introducing DST. He says having the same timezone along Australia’s east coast all year round would make interstate business easier and make better use of the sunlight hours. But with FNQ still opposing the idea, Schrinner says another option could be splitting the state up into different timezones. It’s not the first time Quexit has been floated… #SquizShortcut