410:. Tablelands was considered a safe seat for the rural conservative National Party, held by a margin of more than twenty percent, and Nelson was not generally considered likely to pose a serious threat to Gilmore. Despite having only had three months to campaign, he polled more than 42% of the vote on election day, defeating Gilmore on preferences and becoming Queensland's youngest member of parliament. He declared his priorities upon his election as being the abolition of mining lease fees, the reintroduction of the death penalty, opposition to Aboriginal native title and resisting the deregulation of the dairy industry.
422:. He caused some early controversy by calling for the legalisation of prostitution in Queensland, echoing the pro-sex industry position he had taken while president of the ACT branch, in sharp opposition to the stance of new party leader Feldman. He was again the cause of some controversy later that month, when he declared on television that students protesting against One Nation were "being used by communists and socialists in their agenda to destroy the unity of Australia". Nelson was the party's nominee for speaker in the new parliament, but lost to Labor candidate
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508:. All three announced that they would serve out the remainder of their terms as independents. Nelson was harshly critical of his former party in the days afterwards, declaring it to be "totally undemocratic" and "on the verge of collapse", and claiming that Oldfield and Feldman were conducting a smear campaign against him. The prospect of Nelson joining the National Party in the wake of the defection was briefly discussed, but subsequently ruled out by the National Party.
445:. He also twice made inadvertent breaches of parliamentary privileges, using the parliamentary crest on letters advertising a One Nation function and referring to himself with the "honourable" title, which as a backbencher he had not been granted. He was repeatedly critical of the anti-immigrant party being labelled as racist, but was himself accused of racism after claiming that there were "Aboriginal children lying drunk in the gutter" in the north Queensland town of
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December 1999, arguing that the laws would be impossible to enforce. He caused some controversy in May 2000 when, along with Dorothy Pratt, he was suspended from parliament for 28 days and threatened with expulsion for pouring a milk churn down the stairs of parliament during a protest against the
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National candidates, with One Nation candidate Long the
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Tablelander at this moment." He has largely remained out of public life since his election defeat, and has not run for any other public office.
533:. Nelson became the first MP in four years to be suspended from parliament in July 1999 after repeatedly defying the speaker's calls for order during a vocal parliamentary attack on then-health minister
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O'Malley, Brendan. "Families Minister faces fight to stay in the fold".
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Roberts, Greg. "Hanson's heroes: grab-bag politics enter parliament".
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Madigan, Michael. "Beattie finds it's a new world without order".
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Low, Marie, Blakesley, Lea and Paterson, Duncan. "Poll line-Up".
838:"Qld: Student minds infected by communist poison – One Nation".
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Meade, Kevin and Nason, David. "MPs to debate euthanasia".
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Gordon, Collie. "One Nation elects first state executive".
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Webster, Danielle. "One Nation takes grip in Tablelands".
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Roberts, Greg. "MPs under scrutiny as poll draws near".
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Morley, Peter. "Out! Milkman Nelson heads Wild Bunch".
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Balogh, Stefanie. "No store set by boutique brothels".
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Retschlag, Christine. "Nelson rejects 'racist' label".
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Hart, Matthew. "Red means stop for boutique brothels".
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