Background
He was born in Merbein to horticulturist Stanley Joshua Whiting and Isobel Maude Venville. He attended Mildura High School and worked on his father"s property from 1937 to 1941, when he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force.
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Milton Whiting
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He was a wireless operator and air gunner before being captured, spending 1942 to 1945 as a prisoner of war in Germany. On his return he was part of the soldier settlement scheme and became a farmer of citrus and dried fruit at Robinvale in 1947. In 1950 he was the founding secretary of the Robinvale branch of the Country Party.
He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1962 as the member for Mildura, serving as a backbencher until his retirement in 1988.
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Born
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Nationality
Australia -
Political Party
Country Party