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Google faces a staff revolt over plans to launch a "censored search engine" in China. Stephanie Hare is an independent technology commentator, and assesses the likely impact of the employees' move. We hear about a New York Times interview with entrepreneur Elon Musk, in which the boss of Tesla describes the last year as "the most difficult and painful" of his career. Our reporter takes a look plans to go upmarket from fast-food restaurant McDonald's. Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, is now entirely in drought, leaving many outback farmers struggling to survive; Phil Mercer reports from Gunnedah, 430 kilometres north of Sydney. Plus we look back at the rest of the week's big business stories with Justin Fox of Bloomberg, and Nina Trentmann of the Wall Street Journal.

(Picture: A Chinese woman behind a Google logo. Picture credit: Getty Images.)