Eoin Cameron

Eoin Cameron
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Stirling
In office
13 March 1993 – 3 October 1998
Preceded byRon Edwards
Succeeded byJann McFarlane
Personal details
Born
Eoin Harrap Cameron

(1951-01-04)4 January 1951
Mount Gambier, South Australia
Died23 June 2016(2016-06-23) (aged 65)
Albany, Western Australia
Political partyLiberal Party of Australia
ChildrenRyan Cameron, Jacinta Branson, Jane Gaspar
OccupationRadio 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,[1] 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.[2] In January 2016 he announced that he was retiring, but would return to the studio "temporarily ... to say a proper goodbye to listeners".[3] His last day at the ABC was 11 March.[4]

  1. ^ "Eoin Cameron". 720 ABC biography. 2 July 2002. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ^ Linda Parri (15 November 2015). "Breakfast radio king Eoin Cameron may be forced to retire with back problems". PerthNow. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Eoin Cameron, ABC Radio breakfast king, to farewell listeners". PerthNow. 3 January 2016. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Eoin Cameron: ABC radio ends 47-year career for retirement and recovery". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 March 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2016.