The Liberal candidate Howard Ong will challenge a former dolphin trainer, Sam Lim, in Saturday’s election for the knife-edge Western Australian seat of Tangney, on the same day his little brother – Singapore’s health minister – goes to the polls.
Ong, an IT consultant born in Singapore, will face off against the Labor incumbent, Malaysian-born Lim, while his brother, Ong Ye Kung, stands for the governing conservative party, the People’s Action party.