Palmer was also a lay Methodist preacher and Sunday school superintendent, a strong temperance advocate and a prominent member of the Loyal Orange Institution and the Protestant Federation.

[1][2][3] In 1906 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Echuca as an Anti-Socialist Party candidate, defeating the sitting member for the abolished Moira, Thomas Kennedy, by just 32 votes.

[4] This election was declared void by the Court of Disputed Returns,[5] and Palmer won the subsequent by-election more comfortably.

He opposed a parliamentary pay rise on the basis that the voters should have the opportunity to express their opinion at an election first.

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