Career
Until August 2015 he presented the American Broadcasting Company"s Perth local station 720 American Broadcasting Company 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 American Broadcasting Company 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 American Broadcasting Company Perth, where he consistently topped the ratings for that time slot.
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.
Cameron has written several 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).