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The decade began with total US dominance and ended with a challenge from the rise of China
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Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss the rise of Australian fiction.
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Kate Grenville talks to James Naughtie about her novel The Secret River.
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The Australian government's deal with an indigenous community to take their nuclear waste.
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