Clive Palmer has agreed to pay entitlements to workers from his Queensland Nickel company, three years after the refinery was shut down.
Hundreds of workers and taxpayers were owed some $70Mn after Queensland Nickel went into liquidation in 2016.
Despite continuing to refuse responsibility for the dismissal of the workers, Palmer has agreed to pay the $7.16Mn in worker entitlements that were left outstanding by liquidators. It remains unclear whether he will also agree to cover the remaining $66Mn owed to taxpayers.