<P> In 2000, all eastern jurisdictions that normally observe daylight - saving time--New South Wales, Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania--started daylight - saving time early, due to the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . These jurisdictions changed on 27 August 2000 . South Australia did not change until the regular time, which that year was on 29 October . </P> <P> In 2006, all states that followed daylight - saving time (the above listed states plus South Australia) delayed the return to their respective Standard Times by a week, due to the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne . Daylight - saving time ended on 2 April 2006 . </P> <P> Daylight saving was first used in Australia during World War I, and was applied in all states . It was used again during the Second World War . A drought in Tasmania in 1967 led to the reintroduction of daylight saving in that state during the summer, and this was repeated every summer since then . In 1971, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory followed Tasmania by observing daylight saving . Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not . Queensland abandoned daylight saving time in 1972 . </P> <P> Originally Tasmania alone commenced daylight saving on the first Sunday in October, while the other states began on the last Sunday in October and finished on the last Sunday in March, until 2008 . From 2008 / 09 daylight saving has been extended another four weeks in NSW, Victoria, SA and the ACT, in addition to Tasmania, from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April . </P>

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