Personal Life
Nelson has been married three times and has two children. In 1995, his brother, Philip, died after a long battle with AIDS. His hobbies include playing guitar and riding motorcycles, which he started at 17 after he dropped out of an economics degree at Adelaide University and needed a cheap form of transport.
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