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We're saving it.

I don't know what's going on in Western Australia at the moment. Some sort of political rush of blood to the head - first we get daylight saving time, and now I hear that we'll be able to alcohol on Sundays without also ordering a three course meal. WA comes leaping into the 20th century.

Add that to Australia's new "craze" of environmental awareness, fresh blood at the helm of the Labour Party, and the Democrat's Bush-thumping in the US, and the world seems a marginally brighter place.

All that remains is for someone to shrink the 50 cent coin to something smaller than an Olympic discus and I'll be all set for a merry Christmas.

Of course WA has tried daylight saving time before, but it's always been abandoned on account of it distressing cows, fading carpets or some other tosh. The premier of another state even claimed that it would lead to a surge in skin cancer. This time around we have a three year trial, after which there will be a referendum on keeping it for good.

Let's hope the dairy farmers and carpet lovers aren't in the majority when the time comes.