[4] Her mother was born in the United Kingdom and she held British citizenship by descent until renouncing it in 2018 prior to running for parliament.
[5][6] She holds the degrees of Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University and Master of Science from the London School of Economics.
[5] She is a former board member of Transit Systems, a bus company co-founded by her father Neil.
[11] In her maiden speech to the Senate, Smith called for Labor to retain its 2019 election policy of funding preschool for three-year-olds "to ensure all children can access world-leading early education and care, regardless of what their parents do, how much they earn or where they live.
[13] Her husband Clint Feuerherdt is the managing director of SeaLink Travel Group and former CEO of Transit Systems.