Mark Cameron says his kidneys have "completely failed" and he's on dialysis three days a week.
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ACT MP Mark Cameron in select committee in February 2024.
Content warning: This story discusses suicide.
Kidney failure means ACT Party MP Mark Cameron can no longer do the job he signed up to six years ago, so the Northland farmer is calling time on politics.
Cameron, who entered Parliament in 2020, has announced he won't contest the November election due to his failing health and the toll the death of his son has taken on him.
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Tasmanian senator says it was ‘extremely difficult decision to make’ and he will leave ‘proud and grateful but exhausted’
The Liberal senator has spent 25 years in politics. He said resigning was something he'd been weighing up "for a while".
