Cameron Slater

Who is Cameron Slater?

Cameron Slater is a controversial New Zealand-based Internet blogger who is best known for publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog. Slater is the son of former National Party President John Slater. In October 2012 he was appointed the editor of now-defunct tabloid newspaper The New Zealand Truth.

Slater maintains that the name suppression laws in New Zealand need to be reformed. In late 2009, he gained notoriety for naming two high profile sex offenders and consequently became the first blogger in New Zealand to be charged with breaching a name suppression order. In January 2010 he named a third person accused of sex offences, and in February 2010 named another person convicted on child pornography charges.