Sam Lim

The 10 most recent “Aye” and “No” votes recorded in the Australian Parliament's own division records this term, sourced directly from aph.gov.au independently of the voting-record data above.

We estimate Sam Lim received a parliamentary salary of: $239,270

Based on the Remuneration Tribunal base salary of $239,270 plus any additional allowance for ministerial, shadow or office-holder roles held at time of generation.

• Latest quarter total: $242,329
• Telecommunications - Usage: $483
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $341
• Office Consumables and Services: $9,380
• Printing and Communications: $128,919
• Travel Allowance: $7,728
• Fares: $29,758
• COMCAR: $2,050
• Domestic Travel: $23,416
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $40,254

• Gold bullion, racehorses and a saxophone: the strangest assets declared by Canberra’s new parliament
• Coalition plans to have two nuclear power plants operating by mid-2030s – as it happened
• Afternoon Update Election 2025: Coalition costings at last; visit from a Trump heavyweight; and trouble behind Liberal lines
• Morning Mail: Trump marks 100 days with car flip-flop, music festivals under threat, recipe plagiarism claim
• Conservative son of a ‘leftist firebrand’ takes on a former dolphin trainer in Labor’s most marginal WA seat
• Battleground: the seats where the 2025 Australian federal election will be won and lost
• People rescued near Bellingen; thousands of insurance claims lodged after Cyclone Alfred – as it happened
• AFP boss questioned about PM’s knowledge of Dural caravan – as it happened
• Former ADF chief to report on Zomi Frankcom’s Gaza aid convoy death in ‘coming weeks’ – as it happened
• Woman found dead in North Bondi – as it happened

• We’re about to have Australia’s most diverse parliament yet – but there’s still a long way to go (2022-05-24)
  Tim Soutphommasane
  It may feel like a subplot for now, but this could end up being just be as significant as the teal revolution.
• Why Australian politicians are flocking to ‘Little Red Book’ to engage with Chinese voters (2024-12-11)
  Wanning Sun
  Red, as the platform is known for short, offers a more open space than WeChat for competing ideas to be heard.
• How the 2022 federal election may finally signal an end to ‘White Australia’ (2022-06-01)
  Andrew Jakubowicz
  At the 2022 election, the trajectories of change differed from each other along almost every conceivable parameter that was not old white male.
• Rewriting history in the People’s Republic of Amnesia and beyond (2018-05-28)
  Louisa Lim
  For China, national amnesia has become a ‘state-sponsored sport’. Memories of events deemed sensitive by the state are not just forgotten, they are winnowed out and selectively deleted.
• Sexism, big hair, contact books: The Newsreader gets a lot right about 80s TV journalism but the times were not so diverse (2021-08-16)
  Helen Vatsikopoulos
  Helen Vatsikopoulos began her career as a TV journalist in the 1980s. Watching a new ABC drama set in this world brought her a sense of deja vu, with one caveat.
• South Korean protests the first to bring down a president in a long history of civic activism (2016-11-30)
  Eunjung Lim
  After weeks of mass demonstrations and a growing threat of impeachment, President Park Geun-Hye has said she is willing to resign before her term ends in February 2018.
• Women’s prize for fiction: tales of power, agency, ageing and connection – six experts review the shortlist and winner (2026-06-08)
  Jenni Ramone, Alison Donnell, Anne Whitehead, Manjeet Ridon, Paty Paliokosta, Sojin Lim
  Six books that explore the various joys and challenges of womanhood.