Facts: - successor: '' seat abolished '' - constituency am: clarinda clayton - party: australian labor party - predecessor: '' new seat '' gerard vaughan - term end: 29 november 2014 - term start: 29 november 2014 30 march 1996 - assembly: victorian legislative victorian legislative - name: hong lim - birth date: 11 november 1950 - birth place: cambodia Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of hong lim .
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hong muy lim -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- born 11 november 1950 -rrb- , australian politician , has been a member of the victorian legislative assembly since 1996 , representing the seat of clayton until 2014 and clarinda thereafter .he represents the australian 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 .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 .