Cam grew up in Taranaki where he attended New Plymouth Boys High School. He went on to study Dental Surgery at Otago University where he was a keen tramper, Capping Concert participant and an officer in the “Blue Berets”, the Otago University Medical Company.

While working in private practice in New Zealand and Australia he completed a post-graduate Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons.

He spent 6 months travelling overland with a pack on his back from Australia to U.K where, after a spell working in London, he bought and ran his own group dental practice in Cambridge.

He continued to run the practice whilst studying for his medical degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, where he won a University Prize. During his time domiciled in England, in between study and work, he found the time to travel extensively in Europe, Central Asia, East Africa and North and South America.

Cam returned to New Zealand and worked in medicine for a number of years before becoming involved in importing, promoting, administering and representing New Zealand in his chosen sport – petanque. He served on the executive committee of the FIPJP , the global governing body of the sport , and is a past president of the French NZ Business Council. He is married with two children.

A member of the National party since 2003, he has served as Policy and Electorate Chairman North Shore, in various Regional roles, authored discussion papers on Law and Order, Environment and Education.

Cam is a member of the Law and Order and Local Government and Environment Select Committees.

As a member of the Blue-Greens Caucus Committee he believes that the opportunities for New Zealand in Clean – Green Technology are significant and is interested in strategies to promote the decentralised generation of power from renewable sources.

His background, as a medical practitioner, has convinced him of the importance of personal responsibility in the maintenance of a healthy population. He is an enthusiastic advocate of a campaign to raise awareness of prostate cancer among New Zealand males.

Having a long term interest in Education Cam is looking at ways we can improve numeracy and literacy skills of those kids in our Early Childhood system.

When time and opportunity allow he enjoys reading, music, sailing, surfing, pig – hunting and fishing as well as the odd game of petanque.

Top 5 Issues

1. Building a stronger economy
   • Balance the books sooner.
   • Borrow less so we can have lower interest rates for longer.
   • Keep personal taxes lower to encourage hard work.
   • Make New Zealand more competitive so our exporters can sell more overseas and create more real jobs.
   • Encourage savings and investments.
   • Use the mixed-Ownership model to fund infrastructure to help us grow faster.
   • Invest in skills training and tertiary education that gets results.
   
2. Building world-class infrastructure
   • Ultra-fast broadband for greater innovation.
   • More, and better, roads to ease congestion.
   • Investing in more rail and public transport.
   
3. Building a safer New Zealand
   • Staying strong on crime – tougher sentencing, stronger bail laws, and a focus on victims.
   • Keep working to lower the crime rate further so our families are safer.
   • Making our roads safer, so we can keep the road toll lower.
   
4. Rebuilding Christchurch
   • $5.5 billion recovery fund
   • Re-establishing essential infrastructure
   • More construction-related training
   
5. Building better public services
   • Better Schools – identifying and helping children falling behind, school reports in plain English.
   • World-class healthcare –more doctors and nurses, more operations, shorter waiting times.
   • Effective welfare- more people back into work, more incentives to work, payment cards for teens on benefits.
   

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