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Daylight savings: Your guide to staying cultured in Sydney on a budget (The Sydney Morning Herald)

There's plenty you can do on the cheap while expanding your cultural horizons. And the best bit? Everything we have picked is under $100.

[Playwave](https://playwave.com.au/), which offers cheap (and sometimes free) tickets to performances for those aged 15-20. If you want to plan further ahead, tickets to preview performances at STC are discounted, too ($65 if you want to see Richard Roxburgh in The Tempest, which starts on November 15). The Musical, or [lasttix.com.au](https://lasttix.com.au/), which has tickets for shows under $50. So keep that in mind while you book $47 partial view tickets to Opera Australia shows at the Sydney Opera House. GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY Subscribing is the cheapest way in, with packages for the 2023 main season starting from $140 for four plays (that’s less than $50 a show!). SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY Every Thursday at 9am, $30 tickets go on sale for shows on the following Monday to Sunday. COMEDY Crack a funny for a pineapple, or less, with these acts at Just For Laughs, the six-day annual comedy jamboree in November and December. ART GALLERY OF NSW General entry is free, and you can pimp your ride even further, by joining a free guided tour on Wednesdays or booking a free ticket to the gallery’s cinema. AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM You can look at dinosaurs, a 2500-year-old Egyptian mummy, indigenous artefacts and a gallery of “preserved” birds with a free general admission ticket to the museum. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Let art wash over you at Art Flow: A Wellbeing Experience, the MCA’s free mind-health program allowing observers to contemplate a painting, sculpture, photo or installation with an art educator. Exploring Bowie’s music, fashion and creativity, kids listen to the song Starman, create choreography and costumes and make a music video David would be proud of. The Dine & Discover vouchers have run out, the Parents NSW vouchers are just about to expire and prices are going up everywhere.

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Brisbane lord mayor's daylight saving fight divides the LNP (Brisbane Times)

After the southern states turned their clocks forward at 2am, Adrian Schrinner came out on Sunday to again push for daylight saving in Queensland.

“It’s a simple document that can be introduced into the parliament. “I remember the trial back from when I was a kid,” he said. As of the 2020 state election, that number had increased by 84 per cent, to 3,377,476. “It’s five pages,” he said. It was the second time this year that Schrinner has led the charge for change. “It’s not fair that a large percentage of the Queensland population has not had a say on this,” he said.

Brisbane mayor calls for a daylight saving trial in Queensland 30 ... (ABC News)

Adrian Schrinner says Queensland is missing out economically by not moving the clock forward; LNP leader David Crisafulli says he does not support the Brisbane ...

"Queensland is a big state and once you get past the Tropic of Capricorn it's a little different for us here in the north. "If they don't want it after that, that's fine. "It's always better to do these things across the whole state. Queensland is a different place," Ms Hill said. Mr Schrinner said it would be easy for the state government to introduce legislation for a new daylight saving trial, based on the state's last trial 30 years ago. It happens for us naturally," she said.

Calls for Qld to make daylight saving switch (NEWS.com.au)

Brisbane's Lord Mayor has refreshed calls for Queensland to trial daylight saving after southern states turned their clocks forward an hour.

“Queensland is a big state and once you get past the Tropic of Capricorn it’s a little different for us here in the north. “This morning, the rest of the eastern seaboard of Australia switched their clocks over to daylight saving time, and sadly, once again, Queensland has missed out on this opportunity,” he said. “Thirty years ago [was] the last time that Queensland has had the opportunity to experience daylight saving,” he said.

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