Editing Archie Cameron (section)

===Early years===
Cameron was elected to the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] at the [[1934 Australian federal election|1934 federal election]], standing as the LCL candidate in the seat of [[Division of Barker|Barker]]. He joined the parliamentary Country Party upon his election, in accordance with LCL rules which allowed their federal MPs to choose to sit with either the Country Party or the [[United Australia Party]] (UAP).<ref name=adb/> Shortly after taking his seat he moved a motion to expel [[Lang Labor]] MP [[Jock Garden]] from parliament for his former Communist affiliation, which caused a "near-riot".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/273647978|title=Mr. Speaker|newspaper=Daily Mirror|location=Sydney|date=28 February 1950}}</ref>

Cameron did not have long to wait for ministerial preferment; in 1937 he was appointed an assistant minister in the government of [[Joseph Lyons]]. In November 1937, Cameron stood for the deputy leadership of the Country Party following the retirement of [[Thomas Paterson]]; he did not win enough votes to make the second ballot.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104184300|title=Mr. Thorby, Deputy Leader|newspaper=[[The Land (newspaper)|The Land]]|date=3 December 1937}}</ref>  He briefly served as acting minister for commerce in 1938, and during that time became the first minister to be "named" by the Speaker.  Later that year, he became [[Postmaster-General of Australia|Postmaster-General]].  He temporarily suspended radio [[2KY]]'s licence because he objected to political views expressed on it (2KY was the property of the ALP's New South Wales branch).<ref name=adb/>