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The Dean Smith Five

7 August 2017

7:21 AM

7 August 2017

7:21 AM

Watching Liberal senator Dean Smith on the ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, I was impressed by the quiet and dignified man it’s been my privilege to know since the days of the Howard government.

Smith, as the drafter and chief proponent of the same-sex marriage bill that has devoured the political debate this past week, was the careful, cautious, decent man of principle his friends know him to be.

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