The true story of Ballarat's George Devine Treloar, the subject of a new Sturt Street Gardens statue

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Updated January 23 2019 - 10:16am, first published 10:00am
HONOURED: Treloar helped 108,000 refugees. Picture: courtesy of the George Treloar Memorial Committee
HONOURED: Treloar helped 108,000 refugees. Picture: courtesy of the George Treloar Memorial Committee

He was known as a courageous soldier, a controversial politician and a straight talker. But for the descendants of refugees helped by George Devine Treloar – who will be commemorated in a new Sturt Street statue – it is simple. He was a hero whose work saved their lives.

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Jolyon Attwooll

Journalist

Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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