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It's often attributed to either Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, or his wife Flo. I can't find a definitive source after a quick Google search, though.
by jlangenauer 8y ago
It's often attributed to either Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, or his wife Flo. I can't find a definitive source after a quick Google search, though.
- cromulent 8y agoI'm pretty sure it was him in the 1970s sometime. I don't know who complained that "the men would get their morning erections while on the bus" though. Edit: Another Queensland premier Peter Beattie claimed daylight savings would increase skin cancer rates. https://www.theage.com.au/national/now-daylight-saving-causes-cancer-20061025-ge3ew3.html https://www.theage.com.au/national/now-daylight-saving-cause...
- chrismorgan 8y agoPeter Beattie’s statement doesn’t seem unreasonable to me; if daylight savings time causes people to spend more time outdoors when the sun is up, or that for the time they spend the sun is up more—which is basically the whole purpose of DST—then increased skin cancer rates is what you would expect. How much increased, I wouldn’t care to comment, and it’s difficult to measure most such things unless you have parallel measurable universes.