Graham F. Smith was born into a middle-class family in Port Lincoln, South Australia, in 1924. After serving in the Australian Army in 1942 he joined the Communist Party, remaining a critical supporter throughout his life. As a prominent and popular activist in community groups, political circles, trade union affairs, education reform, women's advancement and the peace movement, he spent his life fighting to remedy what he saw as society's ills. Father of five children, he died in 1989.
