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Former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer dies at 73

Australian Trade Minister Tim Fischer arrives for the second day of the 10th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting in Kuala Lumpur November 15, 1998.

Former Australian deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, whose rural voter base was critical for the introduction of tough gun control laws in the aftermath of the country’s worst mass shooting in 1996, has died aged 73.

Fischer was the quintessential, laconic rural Australian, always wearing a rabbit-skin Akubra hat. He described campaigning for elections as going on the “wombat trail”, a reference to the marsupial wombat that can be found in burrows dotted around farmlands.

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