Is it time to end daylight saving on health grounds?

Alarm clock

The topic of daylight saving, for most Australians, evokes the ritual of moving the clock one hour ahead to capture the joy of light-filled summer evenings, only to go back an hour when the days start to chill.

The health consequences have rarely been debated â€” even in Queensland and WA, where opposition to changing the clocks resulted in referenda mandating the respective governments to return to permanent standard time.