Milton Stanley Whiting (11 March 1922 – 5 July 2010) was an Australian politician. He was born in

Merbein Merbein is a town just north of Mildura, Victoria, in the Sunraysia region of Australia. It is on the Calder Highway between Mildura and the Murray River crossing at the Abbotsford Bridge to Curlwaa. At the , the town had a population of 1,9 ...

to horticulturist Stanley Joshua Whiting and Isobel Maude Venville. He attended

Mildura Mildura is a regional city in north-west Victoria, Australia. Located on the Victorian side of the Murray River, Mildura had a population of 34,565 in 2021. When nearby Wentworth, Irymple, Nichols Point and Merbein are included, the area had ...

High School and worked on his father's property from 1937 to 1941, when he enlisted in the

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. He was a wireless operator and air gunner before being captured, spending 1942 to 1945 as a

prisoner of war A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of wa ...

in Germany. On his return he was part of the

soldier settlement Soldier settlement was the settlement of land throughout parts of Australia by returning discharged soldiers under soldier settlement schemes administered by state governments after World War I and World War II. The post-World War II settlemen ...

scheme and became a farmer of citrus and dried fruit at

Robinvale Robinvale is a town on the south bank of the Murray River in north western Victoria, Australia. It is connected by a bridge to Euston on the other side of the river in New South Wales. At the , Robinvale had a population of 3,313, however a p ...

in 1947. On 22 May, 1948 he married Veda Rose Spiller, with whom he had four children. In 1950, he was the founding secretary of the Robinvale branch of the Country Party. He was elected to the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding ...

in 1962 as the member for

, serving as a backbencher until his retirement in 1988.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Whiting, Milton 1922 births 2010 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II Royal Australian Air Force airmen Australian prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Germany