Nelson says thanks with highway placard

20 October 2009 | 11:12:35 AM | Source: AAP

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Former federal opposition leader Brendan Nelson has personally thanked all his supporters on Sydney's upper North Shore. (AAP)

Former federal opposition leader Brendan Nelson has personally thanked all his supporters on Sydney's upper North Shore.

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Wearing his motorcycle leathers and standing beside his bike at Roseville in his northern Sydney electorate, Dr Nelson was holding up a big "Thank You" placard on the Pacific Highway on Tuesday morning.

Dr Nelson formally tendered his resignation on Monday as the federal MP for Bradfield.

He was first elected as its MP in 1996.

He became education minister in 2001 and then defence minister in 2006.

In November 2007, after the defeat of the Liberal government, he became opposition leader, but was defeated in a ballot for the leadership in September 2008 by Malcolm Turnbull.
   
Dr Nelson trained as a GP and became federal president of the Australian Medical Association in 1993.
 

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