Sam Lim

Bon Cheng Lim (; born 6 June 1961), better known as Sam Lim, is a Malaysian-born Australian politician. Lim was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in 2022 to represent the Division of Tangney in Western Australia. He held the seat in the 2025 election.

Biography Lim was born on 6 June 1961 in Muar in the Federation of Malaya, the eldest of eight siblings in a Malayan Chinese family. He lived for 15 years in a house with almost no electricity, no floor, and a leaking roof. His childhood dream was to be a policeman, so he became a constable in the Royal Malaysia Police in the 1980s after completing his Malaysian Certificate Examination. However, the low pay rates and weak state of the Malaysian ringgit meant that he could not share his income with his parents. The safari park closed down later, and Lim moved into small business.

Lim decided to leave Malaysia and emigrate to Australia in 2005, planning to retire with his family.

Lim speaks ten languages, including Malay, Mandarin Chinese and Indonesian. He is part of the Labor Right faction, which is more economically and socially conservative.

In the 2025 Australian Federal Election, he was re-elected as the Federal Member for Tangney.