daylight saving time

Hi there,
As you might now, the daylight saving period will end this Sunday. That means that the after work beach volleyball games during the week will end, as it will be dark by 6pm...
I find it weird that we only have 5 months of daylight saving, so I did a small research to understand the reasons of that. I thought that I would found that the reason was to be aligned with London´s time, but it seems that the objective of the daylight saving time is to have a similar daylight time during the day at the whole New South Wales (due to the big distance between the western border and the eastern cities, at the same time the amount of daylight is different).
But this is causing a lot of problems : The most important for us, of course, is that we will need artificial lights to play beachvolleyball during the week (and we don't have that in Coogee).

Other important problem is regarding the border between NSW and QLD, towns around the border have one hour difference during daylight saving time, because QLD does not change the time.
So what can we do to change this ? May be we can send a petition to the NSW and QLD parliament to ask them to create two different time zones at both states, one time zone for the east and one time zone for the west. The time zone of the east would be gmt +11, the same as the daylight saving time period. The time zone of the west will be gmt+10. In this case there is no need to change the time twice a year.

Slam Tournament in Coogee

It is well known that a picture worth a 1000 words, and here is the proof.... check these pictures from the Slam Tourmant in Coogee, two weeks ago..... Thank Paul for the photos.
Also many thanks to JAS for the sponsorship of our teams, and Marco, Peppi and the rest of organisers....
Hopefully next year we will win again the tournament, this time our A team lost in a dispute game against the champions, at the semi final....