Jamie Briggs

Jamie Briggs
Minister for Cities and the Built Environment
In office
18 September 2013 – 29 December 2015
Prime MinisterTony Abbott
Malcolm Turnbull
Preceded bySharon Bird (as Minister for Regional Development and Minister for Road Safety)
Succeeded byPaul Fletcher
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Mayo
In office
6 September 2008 – 2 July 2016
Preceded byAlexander Downer
Succeeded byRebekha Sharkie
Personal details
Born (1977-06-09) 9 June 1977 (age 47)
Kyneton, Victoria
NationalityAustralian
Political partyLiberal Party of Australia
SpouseEstée[1]
ChildrenThree[1]
OccupationPolitician

Jamie Edward Briggs (born 9 June 1977) is an Australian former politician, who represented the House of Representatives seat of Mayo for the Liberal Party of Australia from the 2008 Mayo by-election to the 2 July 2016 federal election. Briggs was promoted from a shadow parliamentary secretary role to the outer ministry upon the 2013 election of the Abbott government. He remained in the outer ministry, though with a change in portfolio in the Turnbull government; however, he quit the ministry and moved to the backbench in late 2015 following inappropriate conduct during an official overseas trip. Briggs lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Nick Xenophon Team candidate Rebekha Sharkie.[2]

  1. ^ a b Starick, Paul (30 December 2015). "Ousted federal minister Jamie Briggs' wife Estee posts Facebook picture standing by him and family". The Advertiser. Adelaide.
  2. ^ "Mayo - Australia Votes | Federal Election 2016 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2016.