For a country with so low a population it always amazes me how there's seemingly enough resources to run each state as if it were a sovereign country. There are countless examples of this, particularly should you happen to get shafted interstate by some retailer and find that there's a juristictional quagmire of who you can complain to.
This situation is particularly strange when it comes to time zones. See Queensland basically doesn't do daylight savings. So what that means is that when you have daylight savings, like now for example, you have this absurd situation where Melbourne is one hour ahead of Brisbane, despite quite substantially demonstrably more West of Brisbane. Hell, even South Australia is half an hour ahead. Western parts of South Australia are several thousands kilometers West of Queensland.
None of which, I guess, causes any huge issues. However it is most definately strange.
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