Western Australia's breakfast radio king Eoin Cameron has died, only three months after hanging up his headphones.
Cameron died from a suspected heart attack while visiting family in Albany overnight, aged 65.
The veteran broadcaster hung up his headphones for the last time on March 11, 47 years after starting his radio career, due to severe back pain after breaking three vertebrae in a 2013 car accident.
Cameron was honoured by former prime minister John Howard and former Labor party leader Kim Beazley, who he named as his favourite politicians in that last program.
Mr Howard said he got to know Cameron when he was a Liberal MP for Stirling from 1993-98.
"He was his own man," Mr Howard told ABC radio on Friday.
"In every respect he was a strong Liberal and he was loyal to the party but he was not a person who could be taken for granted and he always had an independent view.
"He had a tremendous sense of humour and a great belly laugh, a booming voice which was absolutely heaven-made for radio and a person who entertained people and impressed people with his intelligence and his energy."
Cameron consistently dominated ratings for his early morning slot on 720 ABC Perth, which he hosted for the past 14 years, and was well known for his love of Dusty Springfield and Eurovision.
He had a wide range of interests, having worked in a cheese factory, in the bush as a roustabout and as an author.
Mr Beazley said Cameron had a very humorous mind but a disciplined one that would focus when it had to.
"It's a very sad morning. He was such a great radio man," Mr Beazley said.
Cameron's family said they were proud of everything he had achieved in life and he was a much loved and respected colleague to many at the ABC.
"We will cherish so many memories of the wonderful times we had with him," they said in a statement.
They said he was loving, fun, full of life and had a wicked sense of humour but a shocking taste in music which he subjected his family to daily.
"He was always there for the family and the family loved every minute we spent with him," they said.
"Eoin lived a full life achieving so much in such a short time."
Cameron leaves behind his wife Wendy, three children and nine grandchildren.
