Brendan Nelson

Brendan John Nelson ( born August 19, 1958 in Melbourne) is an Australian politician of the conservative Liberal Party of Australia. He was on 23 November 2001 to January 26, 2006 Minister of Education, Science and Training and by the end of 2007, the Minister of Defence of Australia.

Journey

Brendan Nelson attended school in Adelaide, where he also began an economics degree at Flinders University, but soon umsattelte on medicine. As a general practitioner practicing in Hobart, Tasmania. There he was in 1990, their federal presidency he finally held until 1992, two years state chairman of the Medical Association, the Australian Medical Association from 1993 to 1995. Nelson, who some years was a member of the Australian Labor Party from 1988, moved the first time on March 2, 1996 as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Bradfield in the north of Sydney in the Federal Parliament in Canberra.

Leader of the Opposition

After the electoral defeat of John Howard 24 November 2007 Nelson became its representing in succession on 29 November 2007 in a crucial vote against the previous Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former commercial banker an electoral district in the east of Sydney in Parliament, the parliamentary leaders the Liberal Party elected and thus 12 leader of the Liberal opposition leader and 30 of the Australian story.

Because of its public unpopularity, he was replaced on 16 September 2008 as Party Leader of the Liberal Party by Malcolm Turnbull.

Private

Brendan Nelson is married for the third time and has three children. 1995 his brother died of AIDS.