Ross Alexander Cameron was born on 14 May 1965 and is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 until 2004, representing the division of Parramatta.
18 Facts About Ross Cameron
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Since 2023, Cameron has served as the president of the New South Wales Libertarian Party.
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Ross Cameron was policy adviser and research officer to the New South Wales Minister for Transport, Bruce Baird, and an intern to United States Republican Senator Mark Hatfield.
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Ross Cameron was elected to parliament in the 1996 Federal election, winning the Division of Parramatta from the sitting Labor member Paul Elliott.
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Ross Cameron held the traditionally Labor seat of Parramatta for three terms.
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Ross Cameron ran regular prayer meetings for politicians in his office in Parliament House.
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Ross Cameron has been associated with the American evangelical Christian organisation, The Fellowship.
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Ross Cameron ran an eight-year campaign while in office against the Parliament House contemporary art collection.
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Ross Cameron "was a frequent overnight visitor to the house his mistress shared with a reporter".
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Ross Cameron was one of only three sitting coalition members to lose their seat at that election.
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In 2011 Ross Cameron said he may run for a seat at the next federal election and had discussed the matter with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, but this did not eventuate.
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Ross Cameron was a founder and original board member of MyATM, along with three time undischarged bankrupt Don Fleming, Kym Weir, Tim Scala and Grant Chapman.
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From 2013 to 2018, Ross Cameron was a regular contributor to programs on Sky News Australia.
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In July 2014, Ross Cameron became a co-host alongside Kristina Keneally on weekly panel show The Contrarians every Friday afternoon, before the pair were given their own self-titled program Keneally and Ross Cameron.
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From 4 December 2016, Ross Cameron began co-hosting Outsiders on Sky News.
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In February 2017, Ross Cameron was reported to have spoken as a VIP member at a fundraiser for the far-right Q Society of Australia.
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Also in February 2017, Ross Cameron was suspended by the Liberal Party's NSW state executive for four-and-a-half years, after he gave an interview to the ABC's 7.30 Report in which he referred to Liberal Party processes as "corrupt" and called the party "basically a gay club".
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Ross Cameron was sacked by Sky News on 2 November 2018, after making racist remarks on Outsiders.