Bree Cameron

A new doctor at Northern Districts Hospital, Bree was first seen treating Cash after he was shot in the line of duty, where she had him rushed back into theatre with internal bleeding. When Cash came round, Bree tried to counsel him over the fact he’d killed someone and pointed out to him that he wasn’t strong enough to leave the hospital. However, she concluded being in hospital wasn’t good for him psychologically and let him stay with Felicity and Tane. She agreed to a drink with Remi and realised Ziggy was pregnant when she saw her feeling faint. She became a regular sight among the local surfers.

She treated Remi for concussion after he was robbed and, when he wondered why she always kept him at arms length, revealed she was married: She had been with her husband Jacob since high school and he spent a lot of time working away as an engineer in the mines. She continued to spend time with Remi and they shared a moment, which she argued was because she missed intimacy with Jacob. Rose, unaware that she was married, tried to set her up with Xander. Bree and Xander paid her back by first pretending they were on a date anyway and then setting her up an account on Smouldr.

Jacob arrived in town while Bree was having breakfast with Remi. Bree tried to downplay her friendships with him and Xander but it was clear Jacob was unhappy. She told Remi they needed to stay away from each other when Jacob was in town, but when Jacob found out they’d spoken, he beat her, leaving her with a bruised face and cut lip which she did her best to cover up. She suffered another beating after Jacob had a run-in with Remi and Eden, who had realised what was going on. She told them to stay out of it and Remi told her to come to him if she needed help.

Jacob announced he’d resigned and was going to stay in Summer Bay with her. She convinced him to take another three month rotation, during which time she’d find a home for them and they could try for a baby. After he’d gone, she went to Remi for help but was reluctant to move on from continuing to chat to Jacob on the phone. Remi invited her to a gig at Salt and she got dressed up for it but changed her mind on realising she was getting dressed up for a man who wasn’t her husband. Despite this, when Remi came to check on her, she slept with him. They embarked on an affair, prompting Eden to accuse her of using Remi as a distraction. Bree insisted she had never done anything similar before.

Bree looked after Ziggy after she fell down the steps at Salt but became suspicious of Dean when he behaved in an aggressive manner and wanted Ziggy to give up work during her pregnancy. She insisted on keeping Ziggy in overnight, sending Dean home, and then reported the incident to Cash as domestic violence. However, when Ziggy reacted in horror to Dean being forced to stay away from her and Bree overheard Dean asking Mackenzie to look after her, she realised she’d misjudged the situation. She not only told Cash she’d been wrong but made a statement about Jacob’s abuse of her. She was told Jacob had been charged and bailed and had an AVO taken out against him. Bree stayed at Remi’s but decided to move out when he took over her phone conversation with Jacob to tell him to stay away.

She cleared the air with Remi and they soon renewed their relationship. She confided in Ziggy, then learned Jacob hadn’t turned up for work. She shut herself away at the motel, afraid Jacob was going to turn up, and learned he had emptied their joint bank account. She arranged to change rooms but eventually decided to stop being frightened, openly dating Remi and telling everyone she was going to divorce Jacob. However, Jacob then turned up at the motel and demanded she come away with him. When Jacob tied up Remi and broke his hand, Bree agreed to go with him to stop him killing Remi.

She spent the next few days stuck out in the woods with Jacob, playing the dutiful wife as he planned to give them new identities. She tried to leave a note for Remi assuring him she did love him but Jacob found it. Jacob knocked her out and she recovered to find him digging a grave. She struck him with a shovel and accidentally killed him. Summoning the authorities, she was taken to hospital where she refused to see Remi. She admitted to Rose that she had been sleeping with Jacob to keep him onside and didn’t know how to tell Remi. When she learned Remi had made his hand injury worse by playing the guitar too soon, Bree convinced him to see a specialist. She ended up moving into the Diner flat with Rose and Xander.

She was left with mixed feelings on the day of Jacob’s funeral and when the note she wrote Remi turned up. Remi saw her with Xander and accused them of being together. On learning Remi was considering leaving town, she showed him the note and asked him to wait for her. She treated Dean and Ziggy’s new daughter Izzy for viral gastro and ran tests on Gabe Miller on learning he had battled cancer in the past. She attended Remi’s first gig back in action but avoided him afterwards. She admitted to Rose that she was pregnant and didn’t know who the father was. Rose convinced her to go and see Remi but she left without telling him after seeing him showing a woman out of the house first thing, and decided to have an abortion. Before doing so, she told Remi what was going on and he ended up accompanying her to her appointment. She was called into work when Xander was attacked and slept with Remi for the first time since her experience with Jacob. She was uncomfortable when Remi went away with the band for a gig and avoided him on his return, admitting it brought back memories of when Jacob used to go away and she didn’t know what he’d be like when he came back, However, she was unhappy when he cancelled the next tour in order to rehearse for a Battle of the Bands competition, saying he’d robbed her of the power to be all right with him going away. Remi convinced her it was good for the band anyway. She stopped Rose gatecrashing Mali’s birthday party.

She was uncomfortable to meet Mercedes Da Silva, an old friend of Remi’s but tried to be friendly towards her and listen to her stories of Remi’s past. Eden warned Bree not to trust her, since Mercedes had tried to convince Remi to ditch Lyrik once. Bree struggled to find time alone with Remi, although she accompanied the group to Battle of the Bands and ended up being needed when Felicity was raped at the event, taking her to hospital and carrying out an examination. Not long after, she was called upon to treat John, Roo and Mali when they were injured in a bomb blast. She tried to help Remi with his album plans but felt pushed out by Mercedes and accused her of being after Remi, while Mercedes in return said she had no idea why Remi was with Bree. Remi missed a meeting with a studio producer to reassure her. She decided to stay away from the recording sessions to show Remi she trusted him, Remi told her Mercedes might not do the album.

When Bree went along to one of the sessions, she found out why when she overheard Remi and Mercedes discussing the fact she’d kissed him. She confronted Remi, who managed to convince her he was innocent, and then Mercedes. She then found herself talking Mercedes into sticking around and doing the last recording session.

Bree attended the launch event for Lyrik’s album where she inadvertently stirred up controversy by making a caustic remark about Mercedes within earshot of a journalist. She had a vinyl copy of Lyrik’s album made as a present for Remi and helped Cash come to terms with Felicity’s rape. She also helped Remi deal with Kirby leaving the band. With relations between the former friends strained, she arranged for Kirby to take over her room while she moved in with Remi and convinced Remi to let her handle the household bills. Alf asked her advice about moving Roo to Northern Districts where Bree tried to make arrangements for her to go home. When she learned Roo had told Marilyn to move out, she told her she’d been discharged on the understanding someone would be there to look after her and would have to go back to hospital if there wasn’t. She struggled to deal with Remi’s depression over losing his music career and even when Kirby wanted to return to Lyrik, Remi’s mood didn’t improve, prompting Bree to decide to swap homes with Kirby again. She treated Justin after his ordeal at the hands of Vita Nova and warned Leah that his heart was failing and she should prepare for the worst. Fortunately, he recovered.

She refused to move back in with Remi after he sorted things with Kirby, explaining she wanted to enjoy her independence. She helped Leah and Rose realise that Jordan, an orderly at the hospital, was actually a member of Vita Nova, leading to his arrest. Leah asked her for sleeping tablets to deal with nightmares but she recommended a therapist instead. Remi asked her to accompany him to his parents’ anniversary dinner and she met Graham and Nicola for the first time, although she was uncomfortable that Remi had told them nothing about how they met. After enjoying the dinner, she privately told them everything about Jacob next morning. She was uncomfortable however when Remi talked about them being like his parents, still together after 35 years.

She treated Mackenzie when she was brought in after a heart attack and was surprised when a call asking for advice brought Levi Fowler, a top cardiothoracic surgeon. She admitted to Remi that she wasn’t comfortable with having her future mapped out when she didn’t know what was she was going to do with her life. She spoke to Levi about his work with Doctors Without Borders and considered doing something similar. Theo called her for help when Leah suffered a psychotic break and threatened Justin with a knife: Bree managed to talk her down and spent the night keeping an eye on her. Next morning, she helped Leah check into a clinic. She was thrown to realise it was a year since everything had happened with Jacob and decided to see her counsellor again. She was advised to break out of her comfort zone and let Remi talk her into going for a motorbike ride. She decided to apply for Doctors Without Borders and asked Remi to come with her. He agreed until he realised it would mean being away the best part of a year. Bree was ready to give up on the idea but Remi convinced her to do it on her own.

She was shocked when Remi was brought into hospital badly injured, having been knocked off his bike and furious when Levi carried out a risky surgery to resolve a cardiac tamponade, telling Eden that Levi had made him worse. She was even more furious when, after Remi regained consciousness, Levi had him moved out of intensive care, and became obsessed with protecting him from infection, sending Kirby away when she visited him. She learned her father was on life support in hospital after an accident at a building site. Kirby encouraged her to visit him but she told Remi she wouldn’t leave him. However, Kirby told Remi the truth and he convinced her to go.

She was annoyed to return to find out that Remi had been out of hospital for a week and no-one had told her, then revealed her father had died and they’d already had the funeral. She admitted she had been worried about bringing Remi with her because of reactions to what happened with Jacob. She was offered a place with Doctors Without Borders but would have to be in Belgium for training in two weeks. She turned it down, having decided spending time with the people she loved was more important. She was horrified when Justin and Kirby had Remi’s bike restored, seeing it as putting his life at risk again, and told him they were over if he ever rode it. Remi agreed to get rid of the bike but quickly admitted he’d actually had Justin store it. She concluded that since he hadn’t been willing to give up the bike for her they should break up.

Bree went along to the fundraiser at Salt for the abandoned baby Tane had found, only to find Remi performing, and ended up spending the night flirting with Levi to take her mind off him. She learned Remi had slept with Stevie Marlow when Xander showed her a photo Stevie had posted of the two of them online. She ended up getting drunk and kissing Xander. Embarrassed, she decided to move out and asked about renting a caravan but Xander convinced her she didn’t have to. Remi went to her for help over getting Theo into a rehab programme but she made things awkward between them by bringing up Stevie, who Remi had thought she didn’t know about.

She tried to get over it by seeing Nelson Giles, only to learn he was Stevie’s director and have to endure a dinner with Stevie and Remi. She went out for dinner with him and he took her back to his villa where they slept together. She was shocked when Remi came home with Stevie but stuck around even though it meant an awkward encounter next morning, made worse by her riding off with Nelson on his motorbike. When Stevie was shot, Bree was part of the team that tried and failed to save her. She comforted Nelson but also went to see Remi to offer him her support. She kissed him, prompting him to say they should stay away from each other. Nelson invited her to join him in Italy for his new film. She told him about the kiss with Remi and then that she couldn’t go with him. She then told Remi she wanted to be with him but he asked her for time.

She treated John when he was brought in after collapsing following his opening a crate on the beach and placed him and Dana, who had been with him, in isolation. After the samples from the crate came back clear, Bree realised the source of the contamination was the Diner. Dana asked her to look into inconsistencies surrounding her supposedly terminally ill housemate Bronte Langford but Bronte declined to show Bree her files. She treated Levi when he was stabbed and Iluka after he was beaten up.

Bree helped Dana search Bronte’s medical records and found no trace of her. When Dana disappeared, Bree shared the discovery with John and Xander, later filling in Irene and Leah. Kirby and Theo set her and Remi up to end up in Salt together and, despite staging an argument for Kirby’s benefit, they ended up reuniting. They kept it secret, with Bree having to hide when Eden came home while they were together. Theo found them out and agreed to keep quiet. Bree was disappointed when Kirby and Eden found out as well, but told Remi she was just worried about things changing and did want to be with him. She was uncomfortable with everyone in town talking about them but accepted they were just happy for them.

When Irene was brought to hospital after a fall, Leah told Bree that Irene had had an alcoholism relapse. Bree convinced Irene to stay in overnight to prove she wasn’t having alcohol withdrawals, then caught her drinking from a hip flask, leading to Irene going into rehab. Soon after, she found herself treating Felicity for an aneurysm but had to declare her brain dead and talk Cash through transplant options. She was upset at having to be around the loved ones of someone she hadn’t saved and her guilt increased when Cash broke up with Eden. She became overly cautious, calling Claudia Salini back into hospital after clearing her to run a battery of unnecessary tests. She then walked away from a patient with a head injury to clean blood off her scrubs. When Harper turned up, Dana thought Bree was too tired to see her and sent her home. However, when she heard no obstetrician had turned up, Bree went back and gave Harper a scan that put her mind at ease. She accused Dana of undermining her, especially when she overheard her talking to Remi about her. She downplayed her issues but then got up during the night to obsessively clean and tidy. Remi caught her and she agreed to see a counsellor.

However, Bree was lying and continued to insist everything was fine. She froze while treating Alf for a heart attack, refusing to administer the necessary medication and then walking out and leaving him in crisis, saying she needed to check his bloods. Levi ended up stepping in and saving Alf but Bree refused to admit she had done anything wrong so Levi reported her. Bree was suspended and ended up in arguments with Marilyn and Levi, getting thrown out of Salt by Mackenzie. She tried to get Levi to withdraw the complaint, then tried to get Dana to back her up. When facing the tribunal, she told them Levi was an egotist who interfered with her case. When Remi refused to support her, she withdrew the complaint and took leave but just treated it like a holiday, insisting there was nothing wrong with her. In order to keep Remi happy, she attempted to apologise to Marilyn and Levi but the former descended into an argument when she continued to insist she had done nothing wrong. She then threatened to break up with Remi if he didn’t support her. Remi did an online search and she admitted she was showing all the symptoms of paranoid psychosis but refused to see a doctor, worried it would hurt her career. When Alf asked her about what had happened, she admitted she should have acted sooner, but was annoyed when she realised Remi had got Xander to keep an eye on her. After a talking to from Levi, she agreed to go for a mental health assessment where no-one knew her.

She returned with an OCD diagnosis, at peace now she knew what was wrong, but refused to tell anyone and hid away when Roo came round to have a go at her about abandoning Alf. She began seeing a counsellor for real and was the first to learn Remi had inherited five million pounds left in trust for him by his grandmother. She was unsympathetic to his debating what to do with the money and reluctantly accepted him paying off her student loan. She felt guilty at seeing Alf down, feeling his problems started with his health crisis, so she and Remi offered to fund a new bait shop. She went away with the band when Remi organised an island retreat.