Don Cameron | |
Honorific-Suffix: | AM |
Constituency Mp: | Griffith |
Parliament: | Australian |
Predecessor: | Wilfred Coutts |
Successor: | Ben Humphreys |
Term Start: | 26 November 1966 |
Term End: | 10 December 1977 |
Constituency Mp2: | Fadden |
Parliament2: | Australian |
Predecessor2: | New seat |
Successor2: | David Beddall |
Term Start2: | 10 December 1977 |
Term End2: | 5 March 1983 |
Constituency Mp3: | Moreton |
Parliament3: | Australian |
Predecessor3: | James Killen |
Successor3: | Garrie Gibson |
Term Start3: | 5 November 1983 |
Term End3: | 24 March 1990 |
Birth Date: | 1940 2, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Brisbane, Queensland |
Nationality: | Australian |
Spouse: | Lila Cameron |
Party: | Liberal Party of Australia |
Children: | Heather Cameron, Andrea Cameron, Alana Cameron, Suzanne Cameron |
Occupation: | Corporate executive |
Donald Milner Cameron AM (born 6 February 1940) is a former Australian politician. He was born in Brisbane, and educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School[1] and the University of Queensland.
He became a junior corporate executive and then industrial officer for the Australian Association of Employers of Waterside Labour. He joined the Liberal Party of Australia, and in 1966, aged 26, he won the marginal seat of Griffith in inner Brisbane, and held it against determined challenges from the Australian Labor Party until 1977, when a redistribution nearly erased his majority there. He then shifted to the safer seat of Fadden.[2]
In the big swing to Labor at the 1983 election, Don Cameron was defeated, but he was re-elected shortly after at a by-election for the seat of Moreton, which he held until 1990, when he was again defeated.[3]
In the 2000 Queen's Birthday Honours, Don Cameron was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "service to the community, particularly youth, and to the Australian Parliament".[4]