Peter Andrew Treloar is an Australian politician who represented the

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seat of

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for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia from the March 2010 election until 2022. Treloar held the position of Deputy Opposition Whip from soon after his election, promoted to Opposition

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on 4 February 2016. He also held the Shadow Minister portfolios of Emergency Services, Volunteers and Veterans' Affairs from 6 November 2012 to 8 February 2013 at which time he became Parliamentary Secretary to the

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instead. Treloar grew up at

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in his electorate. He studied at

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. He won a Nuffield Australia Farming Scholarship. The topic of his report was ''Investigation of value adding opportunities and the study of grain industry structures''.

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