Hong Lim
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2015}}
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| name = Hong Lim
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| constituency_AM1 = Clarinda
| assembly1 = Victorian Legislative
| term_start1 = 29 November 2014
| term_end1 = 24 November 2018
| predecessor1 = New seat
| successor1 = Meng Heang Tak
| constituency_AM2 = Clayton
| assembly2 = Victorian Legislative
| term_start2 = 30 March 1996
| term_end2 = 29 November 2014
| predecessor2 = Gerard Vaughan
| successor2 = Seat abolished
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1950|11|11}}
| birth_place = Cambodia, French Indochina
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| party = Labor Party
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| education = University of Tasmania
Monash University
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Hong Lim ({{zh|t=林美豐|s=林美丰|p=Lín Měifēng}}; born 11 November 1950) is an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2018, representing the seat of Clayton until 2014 and Clarinda from 2014 to his retirement in 2018. He represented the Labor Party.
Lim was born in Cambodia, and is of Chinese Cambodian origins. He was educated at schools in Phnom Penh before coming to Australia in 1970, and then at the University of Tasmania and Monash University, Melbourne, where he graduated in arts. He was Chairman of the Victorian Indo-Chinese Communities Council 1984–92 and president of the Cambodian Association of Victoria 1992–96. He was a commissioner of the Victorian Ethnic Affairs Commission 1985–92, and a member of the Monash University Council 1996–98.{{cite web|title=Lim, Hong | publisher=Parliament of Victoria |url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=118 | accessdate=2010-02-08}}
Lim was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1996, and was an appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Victorian Communities, John Thwaites, in 2002.
Lim retired in 2018 after 22 years in parliament.{{cite web | url=https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/audio/mp-hong-lim-retires-after-22-years-in-victorian-parliamentary | title=MP Hong Lim retires after 22 years in Victorian parliamentary|date=2018-10-10|website=SBS }}
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External links
- [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/19/1066502077090.html Mr Lim's select guest list]
- {{in lang|zh}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20110728122824/http://www.australianet.net/chinese7.htm 林美丰] (archived from http://www.australianet.net/chinese7.htm
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Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Category:Labor Right politicians
Category:Australian people of Chinese descent
Category:Cambodian emigrants to Australia
Category:Cambodian people of Chinese descent
Category:Naturalised citizens of Australia
Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly