Eoin Cameron

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 Radio 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.

Radio personality

He made minor television appearances in The Grant and Cameron show and The Entertainers, both on Channel 9.

Parliamentarian Cameron stood for the seat of Stirling in the 1993 Australian federal election, winning the seat for the Liberal Party. He held the seat in the 1996 election, before losing to Labor's Jann McFarlane in the 1998 election.

Writer

Cameron wrote a number of books including: Rolling into The World – Memoirs of a Ratbag Child (2003) The Sixties – An Irreverent Guide (2004) The Voice of the Great South (2005)

Personal life Cameron was born in Mount Gambier, South Australia, the second of ten children. He left school at 14 His family moved to Western Australia when he was 16.

In 2013 he was involved in a car crash and suffered serious back injuries, requiring multiple operations over the next two years and two metal discs to help hold his spine and support his body weight. As a result of Eoin's ongoing health battles, he was forced into an early retirement from the ABC in 2016.