Eoin Cameron
| Eoin Cameron | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Stirling |
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In office 13 March 1993 – 3 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Ron Edwards |
| Succeeded by | Jann McFarlane |
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| Born |
4 January 1951 Mount Gambier, South Australia |
| Died | 23 June 2016 (aged 65) Albany, Western Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Occupation | Radio announcer |
Eoin Harrap Cameron (4 January 1951 – 23 June 2016) was an Australian radio personality in Perth, Western Australia and member of the Australian House of Representatives. Until August 2015 he presented the ABC's Perth local station 720 ABC Perth breakfast show, regularly receiving top ratings for the most popular breakfast radio show. In August 2015 he took extended leave while recovering from surgery as a result of a 2013 car accident. In January 2016 he announced that he was retiring, but would return to the studio "temporarily ... to say a proper goodbye to listeners". His last day at the ABC was 11 March.
Cameron started his first job in radio at age 18, at the Albany radio station 6VA in 1969. Since then he has worked in many Perth radio stations including 1080 6IX, 94.5 and 6PR, as well as Melbourne station 3DB. His last 14 years, until his retirement, were as breakfast presenter for 720 ABC Perth, where he consistently topped the ratings for that time slot. He was described by colleague Geoff Hutchison as having a "delicious need to delight and offend in equal measure", and known for regularly ignoring political correctness.
He has made minor television appearances in The Grant and Cameron show and The Entertainers, both on Channel 9.
In 1993, Cameron stood for the seat of Stirling in the federal election, winning the seat for the Liberal Party but immediately went into opposition with leader John Hewson losing the election. He held the seat in the 1996 election that brought John Howard to power, before losing to Labor's Jann McFarlane in the 1998 election.
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