Round Fourteen Carlton v Brisbane Lions - Carlton Hawthorn v Western Bulldogs - Hawthorn Fremantle v Port Adelaide - Fremantle Collingwood v West Coast Eagles - Collingwood Adelaide Crows v Essendon - Adelaide Crows Geelong v North Melbourne - Geelong Richmond v Sydney Swans - Richmond St Kilda v Melbourne - St Kilda more

Letter to Prime Minister regarding Mount Barker Development Plan Click here to download: LinkClick.aspx

Letter to Prime Minister regarding Mount Barker Development Plan Click here to download: LinkClick.aspx

Increased support for Australia’s veterans and ex-service personnel I am pleased to announce that a Coalition Government will introduce new indexation arrangements for Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits Scheme (DFRDB) members, benefiting Australia’s veterans and ex-service personnel in Mayo.   Under a Coalition Government, from 1 July 2011 those DFRDB members aged 55 years or older will have their military superannuation pensions indexed to the greater of the Consumer Price Inde... more

Speaking with Richard Marles on SkyNews AM Agenda, Monday, 28 June, 2010 Download part one here: LinkClick.aspx Download part two here: LinkClick.aspx more

Rann Labor fails Mount Barker Today I have written to all residents in the District Council of Mount Barker urging themto ensure their voice is heard by the Rann Labor Government in relation to their proposed amendment to the Mount Barker Development Plan. The proposed amendment to the Development Plan for Mount Barker fails because it appears to have given no consideration to the future sustainability of the Adelaide Hills region. This amendment proposes to release some 1,310 hectares of lan... more

Rann Labor’s plan fails Mount Barker On Thursday 10 June, the Rann Labor Government released a draft amendment to the Mount Barker Development plan causing significant concern in our local community. This week I took the unusual step of writing to all residents in the District Council of Mount Barker because I am very concerned that the draft plan fails our area and I believe residents must ensure that they take the opportunity to voice their concern. I believe this draft plan fails because i... more

QUESTION - Mining Tax - Wednesday, 23 June 2010 Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (2:16 PM) —My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to Penrice Soda, which employs over 300 people at its Angaston mine and Osborne manufacturing plan in South Australia. In the last five years, this company has invested over $130 million in capital projects. I refer the Prime Minister to a letter from Penrice Soda that states: … the new proposed tax would have a major and immediate impact on the compet... more

CONSTITUENCY STATEMENT - Norton Summit Primary School - Wednesday, 23 June 2010 Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (9:54 AM) —This morning I rise to talk about a very important issue to a small local school in my electorate, which is the Norton Summit Primary School. It is having extreme difficulties with getting the federal government to understand the need for some reconsideration of the out-of-school-hours care program which was defunded some time ago because of an appalling bureaucratic classification decis... more

Rann Labor fails Mount Barker Today I have written to all residents in the District Council of Mount Barker urging themto ensure their voice is heard by the Rann Labor Government in relation to their proposed amendment to the Mount Barker Development Plan. The proposed amendment to the Development Plan for Mount Barker fails because it appears to have given no consideration to the future sustainability of the Adelaide Hills region. This amendment proposes to release some 1,310 hectares of lan... more

STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS - Mr John Coombe - Monday, 21 June 2010   Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (6:52 PM) —I rise tonight to pay tribute to the Chief Executive Officer of the Alexandrina Council, Mr John Coombe, who on 7 June this year announced that, as of 22 December, he will retire from being the CEO of the Alexandrina Council, a position he has held since its establishment in 1997, at which time he had been CEO of one of its precursor councils since 1988. This adds up to 22 years, which is a substa... more

QUESTION - Apples and Pears and Agricultural Land, Thursday 18 June, 2010   Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (11:46 AM) —I think you would agree with this line of questioning as well. I also rise to speak on the very important issue of apples and pears to my electorate of Mayo. The Adelaide Hills probably produce the finest apples in Australia. My apple and pear producers are extremely worried. I wrote to the minister yesterday on the Chinese import risk assessment that the shadow minister so eloquently... more

Round Thirteen Hawthorn v Essendon - Hawthorn Carlton v Fremantle - Carlton Brisbane Lions v Richmond - Brisbane Lions North Melbourne v Port Adelaide - North Melbourne West Coast Eagles v Western Bulldogs - Western Bulldogs St Kilda v Geelong - Geelong Sydney Swans v Collingwood - Collingwood Adelaide Crows v Melbourne - Adelaide Crows more

CONSTITUENCY STATEMENT -  Local Roads - Thursday, 17 June 2010 Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (9:55 AM) —Firstly, I will speak briefly on a couple of points that the member for Hindmarsh made. Generally he is a good man, but it was of course John Howard and the member for Wentworth who initially came up with the idea of a national takeover of water in this country, so it is actually a Liberal Party initiative that remains our policy. We are the only people who are interested in saving the Lower Lak... more

ADJOURNMENT - Murray-Darling Basin - Thursday 17 June, 2010 Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (4:50 PM) —I rise again in this place to talk about the crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin and the catastrophic conditions faced by the communities in and around the Lower Lakes in my electorate and that of the member for Barker. I apologise, Mr Speaker, as you have heard me speak on this issue in this debate on many occasions. However, I think the issue is so significant that we should continue talking about it s... more

  MAIN COMMITTEE - QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE - Morgan Stanley Report - Wednesday, 16 June, 2010 Mr BRIGGS» (Mayo) (2:29 PM) —My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the respected economic analyst Morgan Stanley’s latest research report, released this morning, which finds that under the Prime Minister’s proposed great big new tax on mining the Olympic Dam expansion has no economic value and now is unlikely to proceed. Given the importance of the Olympic Dam expan... more

MAIN COMMITTEE - QUESTION - Building the Education Revolution - Tuesday, 15 June, 2010 Mr BRIGGS (Mayo) (6:27 PM) —My question to the Deputy Prime Minister relates to the Building the Education Revolution program, or the school hall program, that she is administering. I have written to her on several occasions about this. It relates specifically to cost shifting that the South Australian government is engaging in, which the Deputy Prime Minister quite clearly ruled out when she first ... more

SPEECH TO THE MAIN COMMITTEE -  Electoral Reform Act - Tuesday, 15 May, 2010 Mr Briggs» (Mayo) (7:58 PM) —I also rise to speak on these four bills: the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill (No. 2) 2010, the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Bill 2010, the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010 and the Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measu... more

Speaking with Mike Kelly on SkyNews AM Agenda - Monday 14 June, 2010 Download part one here: LinkClick.aspx Download part two here: LinkClick.aspx

Round Twelve North Melbourne v Carlton - Carlton Hawthorn v Adelaide Crows - Hawthorn Essendon v Geelong - Geelong Port Adelaide v Sydney Swans - Port Adelaide Richmond v West Coast Eagles - Richmond Western Bulldogs v Brisbane Lions - Western Bulldogs Fremantle v St Kilda - Fremantle Melbourne v Collingwood - Collingwood more

Labor mates mining Rudd’s new-found cash deposit Two weeks ago I wrote for the Punch a piece about Kevin Rudd breaching his election commitment and dumping the Auditor General from the advertising process. This was in response to the politically motivated advertising on the so-called health reforms that were launched by Rudd Labor. However it turns out Kevin Rudd wasn’t satisfied with simply breaking part of his pre election commitments on government advertising; he wanted to go all the way. ... more

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Round Eleven Richmond v St Kilda - St Kilda Carlton v Melbourne - Carlton Adelaide Crows v Fremantle - Adelaide Crows North Melbourne v Brisbane Lions - Brisbane Lions West Coast Eagles v Geelong - Geelong Sydney Swans v Essendon - Sydney Swans Hawthorn v Port Adelaide - Hawthorn Collingwood v Western Bulldogs - Collingwood more

Main Committee - ADJOURNMENT - Building the Education Revolution Program - Thursday, 3 June, 2010 Mr Briggs» (Mayo) (12:30 PM) —Mr Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to speak this afternoon on adjournment in relation to a very important issue in my electorate: the waste and mismanagement of the Building the Education Revolution building program which we are seeing in my electorate—massive waste, massive mismanagement and examples of cost shifting by the incompetent Rann state Lab... more

Speech to the House - ADJOURNMENT - Ambleside Crossing Loop - Monday, 31 May, 2010 Mr Briggs» (Mayo) (9:30 PM) —I rise this evening to put on the record a major issue of concern to many residents in the Adelaide Hills, in my electorate. The Australian Rail Track Corporation is planning to construct a 2.1 kilometre crossing loop at Ambleside in the Adelaide Hills just near Verdun to increase the productive capacity of the Adelaide to Melbourne rail freight line. As part of the Rudd Gove... more