After the Bishop-era, Smith stamps his mark as a model speaker

By Tony Wright
Updated May 13 2017 - 2:33pm, first published 2:28pm
Speaker Tony Smith in the Speaker's chair, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 10 August 2015. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Speaker Tony Smith in the Speaker's chair, at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 10 August 2015. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Tony Smith burbles in a V8 Holden ute around the far reaches of Melbourne's east. Out here, the suburbs sputter out and sprawl into fields of strawberries and wine grapes, the land rising from the Yarra Valley to the blue heights of Mount Dandenong.

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