1. Jamie Edward Briggs was born on 9 June 1977 and 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.
18 Facts About Jamie Briggs
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Jamie Briggs 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.
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Jamie Briggs lost his seat in the 2016 federal election to Nick Xenophon Team candidate Rebekha Sharkie.
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Jamie 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.
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Jamie Briggs attended St Joseph's College where he excelled in cricket before moving to Adelaide to pursue his dreams of playing for Australia.
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Jamie Briggs became a member of the Liberal Party in 1999 and was on the Liberal Party State Council from 2000 to 2002.
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Jamie Briggs was an employment relations adviser for Business SA from 2000 to 2002.
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Jamie 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.
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In September 2012, Jamie Briggs was appointed to the Opposition frontbench as the Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Supporting Families.
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Jamie Briggs has pursued the Gillard government over a Freedom of Information decision to refuse access to Greens policy costings.
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Jamie 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.
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On 29 December 2015, Jamie Briggs quit the First Turnbull Ministry and moved to the backbench.
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Jamie Briggs acknowledged that his behaviour had not met the "particularly high standards required of ministers", although he said that nothing illegal had occurred.
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Jamie Briggs' wife Estee, a former Liberal staffer, responded hours later on Facebook by posting a family picture of the two along with their three young children, and reportedly said the scandal was a "complete exaggeration and over-reaction".
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Jamie Briggs announced that he intended to re-contest the Liberal seat of Mayo at the 2016 federal election and to return to the ministry one day.
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Jamie Briggs was beaten at the 2016 federal election by his former staffer Rebekha Sharkie, who successfully contested Mayo for the Nick Xenophon Team.
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Jamie Briggs lost over 16 percent of his primary vote from 2013, and finished just three percent ahead of Sharkie on the first count.
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Jamie Briggs is married to former Liberal staffer Estee Fiebiger and has three children.