Top stories, important regional news and recent events across Australia. - First concession: billionaire businessman Clive Palmer has agreed to pay $18 million to settle an $88 million liquidators' claim for unpaid Queensland Nickel rail transport fees. - Former foreign affairs minister Julie Bishop has been announced as the next Chancellor of the Australian National University. - Australia's transcontinental railway, the Ghan, has departed Adelaide on a 90-year commemorative service to Darwin.
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