Jamie Briggs
In early 2006 Jamie Briggs was appointed to a senior adviser’s role in the PM’s office, one of the youngest ever to hold that title.
Following the Howard Government’s election loss in 2007, he won a by-election held in 2008 to replace the retiring Alexander Downer in the Federal seat of Mayo.
He is a member of the House of Representatives Standing Committees on Health and Ageing, Economics, and the Joint Statutory Standing Committee on Public Accounts and Audit.
Articles by Jamie Briggs
SA election: Why Mike Rann’s time is up
In his book, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, the exiled Czech novelist Milan Kundera, explains how to rewrite a…... Read more
Labor’s IR scare campaign: can the souffle rise twice?
Kevin Rudd has a big political problem. Tony Abbott has thrown him off balance with a couple of short jabs…... Read more
Australian apiarists left with half a bee industry
Food security is one of the major challenges facing the world. In the coming decade with the population expected to…... Read more
The dambusters: tax review’s threat to mining
South Australia stands at the edge of a potential golden era, a golden era of opportunity like the state has…... Read more
Hopes evaporate for the Murray-Darling
The recent significant rain event in the northern stretch of the Murray Darling Basin has not only given hope to…... Read more
Net filtering ‘plan’ is a fraud
In August this year I wrote on this site about the lunacy of the Rudd Government’s proposed mandatory ISP internet…... Read more
The column on Kevin Rudd you wouldn’t get in the post
In the dying days of the1996 election campaign Paul Keating famously said “when you change the government, you change the…... Read more
Entrepreneurial spirit beats government every time
Last week I was fortunate to be invited to be part of the launch of a new business on Kangaroo…... Read more
No interjections: Question Time needs reforming
I noticed on Facebook recently that there was a group called ‘I confess: I watch Question Time and I LIKE…... Read more
Julia: full-time worker or part time spinner?
Over the last couple of weeks the Deputy Prime Minister has been plugging two developing holes in a massive dam…... Read more
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The confession manual for a politician’s mistress
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