Living on the Clock Line in a Divided Town

For a child, 8:30 in the morning is normally 8:30 everywhere that matters. A cross-border school run complicates that innocent assumption rather quickly. Families living around Tweed Heads and the southern Gold Coast may work, study, shop, and socialize on opposite sides of the state line, so a school timetable can belong to a different clock from the one hanging in the kitchen at home. During daylight-saving months, leaving New South Wales for Queensland effectively gives the family an hour back on the clock; the afternoon trip reverses the arithmetic.