Jamie Briggs

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jamie Briggs
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jun 9, 1977(1977-06-09)
Age	47
Birthplace	Kyneton
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Gemini

Jamie Briggs Biography

Jamie Briggs is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on June 9, 1977 in Kyneton, Australia. Liberal politician, who was elected as a Member in 2008 to the Australian Parliament. In 2013, she was appointed Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development.

He is now a member of the Australian Parliament. This was previously the case for Paul Keating.

Briggs grew up in the River Murray town of Mildura, where his father was a local bank teller and his mother volunteered in the canteen at the Sacred Heart Catholic primary school. He attended St Joseph’s College where he excelled in cricket before moving to Adelaide to pursue his dreams of playing for Australia. Briggs became a member of the Liberal Party in 1999 and was on the Liberal Party State Council from 2000 to 2002. He was an employment relations adviser for Business SA from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he started working for the then South Australian Treasurer, Rob Lucas, before moving to Canberra in 2003 to work for Kevin Andrews in the Howard Government. From 2004 to 2007 he was a senior advisor for WorkChoices to the Prime Minister, John Howard.

Briggs was pre-selected as the Liberal Party of Australia candidate for the 2008 Mayo by-election to replace former Liberal leader and minister Alexander Downer. In the absence of a Labor candidate, Briggs won the seat with a reduced 53.03 percent two-candidate vote against the Greens, in comparison to the 2007 election with a 57.1 percent two-party vote against Labor. The Liberal two-party vote was increased to 57.4 percent at the 2010 election and to 62.5 percent at the 2013 election.

Estee Briggs and he have three children, Elka, Henry, and Scarlett.

Jamie Briggs Net Worth

Jamie Briggs is one of the richest Politician from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jamie Briggs 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Before assuming office, he was a political advisor.

In 2010, he was elected Chairman of the Coalition’s Scrutiny Of Government Waste Committee.

Jamie Edward Briggs (born 9 June 1977) is a former Australian 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.

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Who is Jamie Briggs Dating?

According to our records, Jamie Briggs married to Estée Fiebiger. As of December 1, 2023, Jamie Briggs’s is not dating anyone.

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Briggs was on crutches with an injured leg after a failed crash tackle on Abbott at a boisterous late-night party in Abbott’s office on the night he was deposed as Prime Minister in September 2015. For the next two months, Briggs insisted that he had damaged his anterior cruciate ligament while jogging the following morning, and had not been not involved in shattering an expensive Italian marble table in Abbott’s office. It was expected that the damage to the table would be repaired at the taxpayer’s expense, but Abbott later said he would pay for it.

Facts & Trivia

Jamie Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Jamie Briggs celebrates birthday on June 9 of every year.

In April 2016, Briggs supported calls from two state Liberal parliamentarians for seal culling in South Australia, after witnessing a “massacre” of dozens of fairy penguins on Kangaroo Island.

Top Facts about Jamie Briggs

1. Jamie Edward Briggs (born 9 June 1977) is a former Australian politician who represented the House of Representatives seat of Mayo for the Liberal Party of Australia from 2008 to the 2016 federal election.
2. Briggs grew up in the River Murray town of Mildura and attended St Joseph’s College where he excelled in cricket before moving to Adelaide.
3. He became a member of the Liberal Party in 1999 and worked as an Employment Relations Adviser for Business SA from 2000 to 2002 and as a senior advisor for WorkChoices to Prime Minister John Howard from 2004 to 2007.
4. He won the Mayo by-election in 2008 with a reduced 53.03 percent two-candidate vote against the Greens and increased the Liberal two-party vote to 62.5 percent at the 2013 election.
5. After the 2013 election of the Abbott government, Briggs was appointed to the outer ministry as Assistant Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development.
6. In 2015, he quit the ministry and moved to the backbench due to inappropriate conduct during an overseas trip.
7. At the 2016 federal election, Briggs was beaten by his former staffer Rebekha Sharkie who contested Mayo for the Nick Xenophon Team.
8. Briggs is married to former Liberal staffer Estée Fiebiger and has three children.
9. He wrote The Little Book of Big Labor Waste in 2013 with the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, and the Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey.
10. Briggs pursued the Gillard Government over a Freedom of Information decision to refuse access to Greens policy costings.
11. He was on crutches with an injured leg after a failed crash tackle on Abbott at a boisterous late-night party in Abbott’s office on the night he was deposed as Prime Minister in September 2015.
12. He was initially dumped from the Turnbull Ministry, but when Bruce Billson declined to remain he was reinstated.
13. He quit the First Turnbull Ministry in December 2015 due to inappropriate conduct in a Hong Kong bar.
14. Briggs supported calls from two state Liberal parliamentarians for seal culling in South Australia in April 2016.
15. After his resignation, he distributed a photo of the complainant to colleagues which later appeared in a national newspaper.