Career
Born in Middle Swan in Western Australia, she came from a political family. In the late 1950s Annette and Gerald were flown to China by the Maoist government to visit Sam, who had suffered a heart attack. The West Australian alleged that Mao Zedong was so impressed by her that he "made it clear that a place was waiting for her as his consort".
Annette"s interests lay in the Australian communist movement, however, and she stood as a candidate for the Senate in 1955 and 1958 and for the House of Representatives in 1966.
During the 1960s she was prominent in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Sam Aarons died in 1971 and Annette remarried Duncan Cameron, who was also an active communist.
They were leading organisers of the Vietnam War moratoriums and campaigned for Aboriginal rights.