Peter Andrew Treloar is an Australian politician who represented the
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.
Overview
The House of Assembly was crea ...
seat of
Flinders
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* Flinders Peak, near the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
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* Flinders County, New South Wales
* Shellharbour Junction railway station, Shellharbour
* Flinders, New South W ...
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
Whip
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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
Leader of the Opposition
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instead.
Treloar grew up at
Cummins
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on
Eyre Peninsula
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north.
Originally called Eyre’s Peninsula, it was named af ...
in his electorate. He studied at
Prince Alfred College
, motto_translation = Do Brave Deeds and Endure
, established = 1869
, type = Independent, single-sex, day & boarding
, headmaster = David Roberts
, chaplain = Reverend Ma ...
in
Adelaide
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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''.
References
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of South Australia
Living people
21st-century Australian politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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