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Cameron Atfield

Cameron Atfield is a senior reporter at the Brisbane Times

The Brisbane City Council is planning $80 million worth of upgrades to the Inner City Bypass.

Toll hike to pay for Inner City Bypass upgrade

Toll road operator Transurban will fund the Inner City Bypass upgrade and take over ongoing maintenance and operation of the road in return for increased tolls on existing Brisbane toll roads.

Qantas engineer Andrew Howard oversaw the 500-hour installation on the Hawaiian Airlines plane.

Brisbane engineers install $825,000 sensor on Airbus

Brisbane-based Qantas engineers have spent the best part of the past month installing sensitive atmospheric monitoring sensors on a Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330 in a bid to fill a major gap in global climate research.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will extend trading hours in the state.

Palaszczuk government backs extended trading hours

Trading hours are set to be standardised across the state, with inconsistent rules about when certain types of businesses could trade set to be simplified, allowing early morning weekend trips to the hardware store and car purchases on Sundays.

New research shows lower income households are most likely to install solar panels.

Solar uptake more popular in outer suburbs

A Queensland researcher has identified the kind of people most likely to install solar panels on their homes, and it was not the latte-sipping, inner-city greenies of political lore.