Hugh Stevenson Roberton (18 December 1900 – 13 March 1987) was an Australian politician.

Roberton was born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, Scotland, son of Sir Hugh Roberton, a Scottish composer and founder of the Glasgow Orpheus Choir. He was educated at the West of Scotland Agricultural College and Glasgow University and emigrated to Australia in the 1920s. He became a farmer and grazier at Old Junee

Old Junee, New South Wales

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 and a writer on political and economic subjects, particularly in the rural newspaper the Land under the name, "Peter Snodgrass". During World War II he served as a gunner in the Middle East.

Roberton stood for the Country Party

National Party of Australia

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 at the 1949 election

Australian federal election, 1949

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 for the House of Representatives

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 seat of Riverina

Division of Riverina

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 and defeated the Labor

Australian Labor Party

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 member, Joseph Langtry

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. He was a proponent of government intervention to stabilise the price paid to wheat-growers. In February 1956, he was appointed Minister for Social Services

Minister for Human Services (Australia)

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 in the seventh Menzies Ministry

Seventh Menzies Ministry

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, a position he held until his resignation from parliament in 1965. He was then appointed Australia's first ambassador to Ireland until 1968.

Roberton was survived by his wife, Eileen, and a daughter.