 He ousted Don Cameron, the Minister for Health in the Menzies Liberal government, on a nine-point swing.Hayden's win was part of a 15-seat swing to Labor that nearly brought down the Menzies government.Overcoming initial resistance to his membership of the Labor party (due to a distrust within the party of his father's views as being too radical), Hayden was soon popularly elected as one of the then youngest members of the federal parliament (only 28 years old at the time he entered it).