Episode 3091
Jamie Briggs
Mon, 2025-Oct-20 01:19 UTC
Length - 1:34
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Welcome to random Wiki of the Day, your journey through Wikipedia's vast and varied content, one random article at a time.
The random article for Monday, 20 October 2025, is Jamie Briggs.
Jamie Edward Briggs (born 9 June 1977) is an 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. Since 2024 Briggs has worked as a political advisor.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:19 UTC on Monday, 20 October 2025.
For the full current version of the article, see Jamie Briggs on Wikipedia.
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