WA's nickel industry has collapsed this year but multi-billion-dollar projects are still being developed with an eye on a future recovery.

The ABC's Queensland journalists have been recognised for their excellence in reporting at the state's annual media awards.

Around 200 Woolworths workers are picketing a distribution centre in Melbourne's south-east which the supermarket giant is trying to reopen to ease a shortage of some items at its stores.

When you check your phone, turn on your kitchen tap or drive your car to work, you're using copper, a crucial mineral found in all these devices. Copper is also essential for renewable energy construction, but a global shortage is looming.

The ASX 200 edges higher, managing a new record. Better-than-expected retail sales figures dampen rate cut talk. Here's how the day's trade unfolded, with insights from our business reporters, on the ABC News markets blog.