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Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer dies at 73

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Sydney, AustraliaReuters 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 […]