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When an American writer claims Australia is '50 years behind the United States,' Margot Robbie's Vanity Fair interview resurfaces, she says it's '50 years behind the United States.'

www.dailymail.co.uk, July 30, 2023
All Australians now live and die with the plot turns of soap operas in Melbourne and Perth, according to a 2016 interview with Barbie star Rich Cohen, whose American author Rich Cohen wrote. I can't avoid thinking about Margot Robbie's 2016 Vanity Fair profile, that my country will never forget,' wrote Australian writer and commentator Alexander Wells as he posted the article's opening passage on Saturday. To understand Robbie, you need to know Australia, according to the author. 'Australia is America 50 years ago, sunny and stuggish, a throwback,' writes Mr Cohen, who explains why you go there for throwback people.' The piece was met with howls of derision, with others branding it 'insane' and 'unhinged'.