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Ross Alexander Cameron (born 14 May 1965), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 1996 to October 2004, representing the Division of Parramatta, New South Wales. The son of Jim Cameron, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, he was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and was educated at Sydney University. He was a lawyer before entering politics. He 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. Cameron was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services 2001-03 and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer (Peter Costello) 2003-04. Cameron is a strong conservative and argued that Christian family values should be the basis of social policy. He was a founding member of the conservative Parliamentary Christian Fellowship group. In August 2004, however, he admitted that he had had an extra-marital affair. Cameron said he had told his wife about the infidelity, because he was tired of "this sense of living with your own hypocrisy." At the 2004 Federal election Cameron lost his seat. Cameron, Ross Cameron, Ross

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