Eoin Harrap Cameron is a popular radio personality in Perth, Western Australia

Perth, Western Australia

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. He currently works the ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

's Perth local station 720 ABC Perth

720 ABC Perth

720 ABC Perth is a radio station located in Perth, Western Australia broadcasting on 720 kHz on the AM band. The station is a member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Local Radio network.-History:...

 breakfast show, regularly receiving top ratings for the most popular breakfast radio show.

Radio personality

Cameron had his first job in radio at Albany radio station 6VA in 1969. Since then he has worked in many Perth radio stations including 6IX

1080 6IX Perth

6IX is historically one of the earlier radio stations in Perth, Western Australia, initially run by W.A. Broadcasters Limited. Currently it is a joint venture radio station run by Capital Radio Network and Grant Broadcasters. It plays mainly classic songs of the 1950s to 1980s.In Western Australia,...

, 94.5

Mix 94.5

MIX 94.5 is a commercial music radio station owned by Austereo in Perth, Western Australia.The station originally began as 6KY, beginning broadcasting on 23 October 1941 and would eventually end up at the frequency 1206 kHz. On 1 June 1991, 6KY became one of two Perth radio stations to convert...

 and 6PR

6PR

6PR, known as 882 6PR, is a commercial radio station based in Perth, Australia. Its focus is on news, talk and sport, and is Perth's only commercial talkback radio station. 6PR is owned by Fairfax Media, an Australian media company that owns television and radio businesses throughout Australia and...

 as well as Melbourne

Melbourne

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 station 3DB. He has made minor television appearances in "The Grant and Cameron show" and "The Entertainers", both on Channel 9.

Parliamentarian

In 1993, Cameron stood for the seat of Stirling

Division of Stirling

The Division of Stirling is an Australian Electoral Division in the inner northern and beachside suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It includes the suburbs of Balcatta, Balga, Carine, Innaloo, Nollamara, North Beach, Scarborough, Stirling, Trigg and Yokine....

 in the Federal election, winning the seat for the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

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 but immediately went into opposition with leader John Hewson

John Hewson

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 losing the election. He held the seat in the 1996 election which brought John Howard

John Howard

John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....

 to power before losing to Labor

Australian Labor Party

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's Jann McFarlane

Jann McFarlane

Jann Sonya McFarlane , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from October 1998 to October 2004, representing the Division of Stirling, Western Australia. She was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Macquarie...

in the 1998 election.

Writer

Cameron has written several books including:

• Rolling Into The World - Memoirs of a Ratbag Child (2003) ISBN 9781920731069
• The Sixties - An Irreverent Guide (2004) ISBN 1920731520
• The Voice of the Great South (2005) ISBN 1920731954