TRAVEL WESTERN AUSTRALIA by FACTS4YOU.NET

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Hi everyone out there in our big wide world. Here’s a bit of an “aside non related travel  story” to relieve the pressure us folks who love to travel suffer from …ha ha ha…joking of course. How can “voluntary” travel ever be pressure!

This weekend, a great win occurred for West Aussies, that cheered me up hugely. This win was achieved by the “no” vote section of the voting community of the huge state of Western Australia. The “yes” voters in yesterday’s referendum on day light saving received their dues.  The  “yes” voting guys & gals were thrashed! Hooray!

However, before I amplify on the big win, here’s why I needed a win to cheer me up!

If you are the owner of a “computer printer”, & that surely covers around 30% of the Earth’s human population, make sure you dont do the “stoopid” thing I did earlier last week. I purchased a new photo printer…a little beauty called a Cannon IP4600. The Cannon printer it was to replace obviously required removal. I picked up the old printer from it’s resting place for the past few years. Then carried it through my office out to the garage at the rear of the house via the family room, etc.

When I arrived  back at my office, to my absolute horror, what did I see on the “beige” carpet of my office….little circles of a blue black substance. You got it right….ink had leaked from the ink cartridge inside the printer, which muggins me had not thought to remove prior to moving the printer. Panic…panic…I was going to get murdered for this stupidity.  Then I thought….if it’s fallen on this carpet it must also be on the carpet through the rest of the house where I had trecked with the printer.  I sprinted back through the house.

Fortunately a miracle had happened. The ink spots stopped just at the edge of the kitchen tiles & did not restart until I had reached the rear patio which is a painted concrete surface…Phewwww…what a relief. Anyway I retained the presence of mind to let the ink dry, otherwise it would have spread. A few hours later I attacked the ink stains with an ink stain remover & eliminated the worst offenders. However the carpet will never be quite the same in a home which is still new! Anyone out there with a miracle cure to completely remove ink stains from carpet; please…your comments will be most welcome.

Anyway that’s why I needed a morale booster. And Saturday the 16th May, 2009 provided that morale booster.

Since 1975, a period of 34 years, Western Australians have been subjected to three referendums on the question :

“Do you or do you not want daylight savings?” in various formats.

And in the first 3 referendums the NO vote demolished the YES vote. Amazingly our politicians who evidently work on the theory of  “lets grind the bastards down”, arbitrarily legislated in a three year trial daylight savings period in late 2005, or thereabouts, despite the obvious fact that the voting public had already, on three previous referendums told them they could stick daylight savings you know where! At the conclusion of the trial daylight saving period in March 2009, fortunately the politicians were forced to provide yet another referendum. Thank goodness. No wonder most folks dont trust politicians! No is NO!

The three year trial period expired at the end of March, 2009, much to the relief of practically everyone I know. You see, in Western Australia we get boodles & boodles of sunlight. In fact we get too much sunlight. As a result we get too much skin cancer & melanoma…killers! Our summers are blisteringly hot & awfully humid during this period of rapidly increasing global warming. So the last thing most west Aussies need was to be forced to have their hot, humid days extended artificially by playing around with the clock.

Now, when I resided in Victoria where they have permanent summer daylight saving the idea was great & widely accepted. Why? Because good old Melbourne is a fair way south of where the  Western Australian capital city of Perth is situated. Melbourne needs all the sunlight it can get! Perth & West Aussie in general dont need mucking around with clocks!

Undoubtedly the business lobby of Perth were the big movers on the YES vote due to Perth’s 3,000 K,  plus distance from the major eastern states capital cities, & the fact Perth is 2 hours behind the eastern states. Well guys dont inconvenience the rest of  the West Aussie population.. you guys & gals just need to get up an hour earlier when the eastern states turn their clocks back! You guys & gals dont object to forcing thousands of people who work in retail to work weekends & late week day hours….. so  you can do your bit!

Anyway I am delighted to report that on Saturday the 16th May, 2009, the NO vote romped in with around 56% of the voting population voting a resounding “NO”…for the fourth time in 34 years! And with the biggest winning margin of all four referendums.  Hope you politicians take the hint once & for all. This has cost the public millions of dollars for nix return!

Hopefully that’s the end of the question on daylight saving forever in the state of “sunlight aplenty”! What a relief that come this October our clocks wont be forcibly moved backwards that ruddy hour!

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