As it happened: Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin taken from Buckingham Palace to Westminster; ASX200 rises after heavy losses on Wednesday

London: The Duke of Sussex’s memoir is expected to be delayed because of the royal mourning period and is now likely to be published next year, sources have confirmed.

Ever since it was announced last July, the book has cast a long shadow over the Royal family amid fears that it will be used to settle scores.

Published by Penguin Random House, it was originally scheduled for release in “late 2022″ and was expected to appear around Thanksgiving, in time to cash in on the Christmas market.

But the death of Queen Elizabeth II last week has thrown the long-held publication and publicity plans into turmoil.

Welcome to your five-minute recap of the trading day, and how the experts saw it.

The numbers: The Australian sharemarket ended in positive territory at market close, stabilising after Wednesday’s heavy losses when the local bourse shed around $63 billion.

The ASX 200 finished 14.3 points, or 0.21 per cent, higher at 6842.9 points, though there were just three of the 11 industry sectors in the green.

The lifters: Energy stocks surged, adding 3.7 per cent. Whitehaven Coal, Woodside Energy and Santos stocks pushed the sector higher with gains of 4.6 per cent, 4.3 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively. Financial stocks also performed well, gaining 1.1 per cent as all big four banks rose.

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has appointed an independent consultant to determine if more than one million ancient rock engravings on Western Australia’s Burrup Peninsula are threatened by adjacent industry, including two giant Woodside gas export plants.

The investigation comes after decades of disagreement about whether heavy industry can coexist with fragile engravings that include some of the earliest depictions of the human face.

Save our Songlines, an Indigenous group campaigning to protect the 40,000-year-old rock art, applied for a long-term declaration from Plibersek to protect the area they call Murujuga under section 10 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act.

One of the applicants, Raelene Cooper, said she welcomed the investigation but in the meantime some rock art was unprotected from the construction of a fertiliser plant after Plibersek in August rejected an application for a stay on construction.

A senior police officer says worsening economic conditions driven by cost-of-living pressures and interest rate hikes could lead to more crime in the coming year.

Victoria Police deputy commissioner Rick Nugent said on Thursday that, while crime rates were down in most categories of offending, in particular robberies and burglaries, the impact of continued inflation might lead some people to resort to crime.

Analysis by the Crime Statistics Agency released on Thursday showed there was less crime across Victoria in the previous 12 months, although some types of offending, such as blackmail and aggravated burglaries, spiked.

Nugent said police expected the number of offences to increase next year as behaviour returned to pre-pandemic norms and worsening economic conditions put pressure on some families.

Complaints to Brisbane council about Airbnb-style rentals have outnumbered by a factor of eight the development approvals needed to list properties in the past three years.

Data provided by Brisbane City Council shows the local government has received 52 short-term accommodation applications since July 2019, which are required to allow an owner to rent out a house or unit for stays of less than three months.

The Queensland state government is urging local councils to do more about the housing crisis, as industry leaders are calling for a housing summit.

The national medicines regulator will consider restricting the sale of paracetamol after an independent expert report raised concern about overdoses in teenagers.

In a statement, the Therapeutic Goods Administration said it would begin a consultation process regarding recommendations in the report, which included purchase limits of one or two packs per person and restricting sale without a prescription to over 18s.

Last year, 3575 cases of intentional paracetamol poisoning were reported to the NSW Poisons Information Centre, which handles half of the nation’s poisoning calls. A University of Sydney study found rising rates of poisoning among young people reported to the centre and its Victorian counterpart, with a 98 per cent increase between 2006 and 2016.

Professor Nicholas Buckley, who led that research as well as the independent review, said a 50 per cent increase in incidents had been observed in the five years since.