Helen Dale (not on your team, but always fair)

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@fill_two_sh Oh lord yes remember that!

@_HelenDale Joh warned us - that daylight savings would fade the curtains!

There are days when I wish I didn’t get really epic jet lag. Today is one of those days. I even get jet lag from daylight savings (clocks forward especially). So irritating.

@a_swift_half @rclu The wiki entry is surprisingly good on these issues—Qld did properly stress-test the idea with that huge trial, then put it to a vote. And lost. Hey ho, STRAYA.

@_HelenDale @rclu If QLD had DST, those in the west wouldn't see the sun until 8am in the winter, but I suspect most of the reason to reject it was having spare time in the mornings instead of the evenings, where it's a lot cooler.

@AngryExile Melatonin helps me to a degree but none of the other hacks do.

@_HelenDale Do you try to switch to destination time the day before you fly? I find it makes the trip between MEL and LHR easier. Well, easier is a relative term of course, but it feels more like crossing a continent than going halfway round the world. If that doesn’t work try Chili purrs.

PASSING: 2026 version, decolourised.

@rclu Queensland’s referendum was an unusual case because the majority voted it down after a full two-year trial—and we know it was a “true” majority due to compulsory voting. I suspect it may even be unique.

@_HelenDale Thank you! I got so irritated by all the claims that “most people want to get rid of Daylight Savings” (as though the details of what happens after that don’t matter) that I had to dig further into it. It’s OK if other people want different things from me. But let’s be clear.

Recently I spoke with Ann Jones about the strange trials of pigs and weevils, for “What the Duck!” on ABC abc.net.au/listen/program…

@MauiGuy6 It me.

The referendum failed—and Queensland still has no daylight savings time. When I voted, I tried to think from the perspective of people unlike me. This piece (by @rclu) provides the best summary I’ve read of the arguments (both pro & con). lawliberty.org/sleep-training…

I try not to be doctrinaire about the summertime/daylight savings issue, & recall voting YES in the referendum below. Voting is compulsory in Australia, so this represents everyone in a particular state being compelled to the polls to give their opinion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Quee…

@TobyAmies @TeamYouTube @netflix @BBC @NOWNESS @SkyArts Have you had any luck as with this as yet?

@TeamYouTube My channel's been terminated for a (good faith) policy violation. I'm an independent filmmaker who's made films for @Netflix, @BBC, @Nowness, @SkyArts with over 2.5 million views on your platform. I'm asking for a human review so I can carry on making films here.

@aquinasofaquino 4Chan geoblocks the UK. Yes, people in the UK use VPNs to get around the geoblock, but that, I’m afraid, is on those UK users.

@_HelenDale You can find a better analogy than that Helen. This is about a service that is accessible to people located in the UK.

If you think this response is arsey, consider how, say, South West Rail would respond to a US quango fining it for failing to permit concealed carry on its trains.

@frankinsensible SNORT.

@_HelenDale It would probably reply with something like this

His worst novel by far. If you want a readable & exciting Patrick White, go with A Fringe of Leaves. He takes the “escaped convict” trope & really does something with it.

@_HelenDale @Tonyvanminn Could never get past page 40 of Voss

Once again, the lesson: when one can’t sleep on planes, never, ever watch recent Oscar winners. There’s half an hour of my life I’ll never get back thanks to attempting One Battle After Another.

Male Blackbird checking me out! 😁 Taken this week through my kitchen window. 😍🐦

@ian_34South @NeilThin After their behaviour during the lead-up to the Voice referendum—& then the churlish response to losing it—I’m now of the view that Aborigines should assimilate as well. There isn’t enough substance to their culture to keep demanding separate development.

@_HelenDale @NeilThin Nobody even dares use the word anymore It'd be the rational approach but it's too tainted from the stated goal to assimilate Aboriginal Australians

Do critics of "diversity" really want us to abandon multiculturalism? Multiculturalism potentially makes societies more fun and interesting than parochial ones. Let's not give up on it just because some "diversity divas" promote it in hamfisted ways. dailysceptic.org/2026/03/18/wha…

Assimilation was the Australian approach until very recently (far more so than elsewhere) & the country is now crab-walking its way back towards assimilation post Bondi massacre. The old(er) system was that immigrants got to keep food, folkdancing, and foreign languages—and that was it. One must still be a citizen to vote and obtaining citizenship is not a quick process (5 years +). Mind you, Australia had a Benthamite founding, so forcing immigrants to drop significant aspects of their religion comes more readily to Australians than, say, Americans. I should note that the author of that piece is Australian (he’s an immigrant from Canada) & because the “this is inevitable” claim is much newer & weaker in Australia, it is now getting significant electoral pushback.

@_HelenDale @NeilThin bring back assimilation, it's not genocide

Assuming that a phenomenon is inevitable is at the root of lazy policy making. Blair made a similar argument about globalisation (recall his 2005 Labour conference speech). His definition was both precise and lazy, & although I’m picking on him because he’s British, a lot of leaders did something similar. In reality, it’s always possible to pick & choose different aspects of a phenomenon & govern accordingly. This is a useful discussion on that point: prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/45478/t…

@_HelenDale Yes, crucial to look at how different populations may be adversely affected. But there is no "it". "Diversity", "inclusion", and "multiculturalism" have lots of forms. Embracing zenophobia makes no sense. Globalization is happening anyway. Who really wants parochial monoculture?