If he’s there, he really does.

Although this one will be again one of our more nerve-racking ones. I think it’s wonderful. Sarah, a struggling university student, was earning extra cash by helping to man a polling booth at the local school.Mark, a member of the WA Labor Party, was acting as a scrutineer to watch over the counting of the votes.Amid the frantic shuffling of papers and nervous chatter, Sarah, also a Labor supporter, was keen to find out how the supposedly “unwinnable” election was shaping up.She spotted a young man with a friendly face, wearing a scrutineer badge. View the profiles of professionals named "Sarah Mcgowan" on LinkedIn. He does wash and iron – he’s more than capable of doing it.’’Those home skills – as well as his hardworking nature and his “honest intentions’’ – make him fit to lead the nation’s economic powerhouse as WA’s Premier, Mrs McGowan says.“Obviously people will make their own minds up and I know Mark and, regardless of his policies, I think that he is a good person who has good values,’’ she says. I’m just a mum to three kids.“People say that as though it’s a negative thing. He does nice things. SARAH McGowan, the wife of WA s Opposition Leader, breaks her silence to reveal the couple s fairytale courtship and her nervousness ahead of the March 9 state election. Subscribe now to read it online.Don’t miss a single edition of your daily newspaper. Subscribe now to read it online. Wij willen hier een beschrijving geven, maar de site die u nu bekijkt staat dit niet toe. He has excellent values that I think are the values that are needed in a leader.“I hope that he becomes Premier. I think he has the right ideas for what WA needs but I also know him and I know his intentions – and they’re honest and good. Unless he’s away, he’s committed to seeing the kids every day.”While raising their young children has become a full-time job for Mrs McGowan, she says she wouldn’t want it any other way.“I do quite a lot of the raising of the children because he isn’t there, but I couldn’t be happier doing that. “Members of Parliament should not have their private home, their private life treated in that way.’’“I didn’t like it – I feel like our home is our sanctuary,’’ she says. And it works well because I’m not pulled in a million directions to attend functions with Mark or be involved, or be available. Her grandfather, George Holland, was the town’s only butcher many years ago, his legacy still visible today in a Hollywood-style star that lines the foreshore.The same foreshore that once hosted her grandfather’s horse and cart is now regarded as one of Perth’s most picturesque coastlines, with its white sandy beaches bordering crystal blue waters being a long way from it’s “bogan heartland’’ reputation.“Because I’ve always lived here and my family has always been here, I think that people do know who I am but they just know me as Sarah, rather than as perhaps Mark’s wife,’’ she says.But there are times when the two worlds collide – and violently.

“The (1996) election (when Mr McGowan won his seat) was the Saturday before our wedding.“We got married in the Uniting Church and then we had our reception out at Garden Island because, up until seven days before, Mark was obviously still in the navy as a lawyer and then he took leave when he ran and then when he won, obviously he resigned that day. He does remember flowers – he’s great like that.“And as a father, I couldn’t ask for a better dad. It was a huge week.“We had worked so hard so I felt, I hoped, he would and I was ecstatic when he won. I didn’t like it.”She decided early on that she’d take a back seat to her husband’s political career.“It was because Mark’s role – for all the children’s lives – has been so time-consuming, so we talked about that and I was happy to take on the role of more caring for the children.“So we just drew a line and that was Mark’s work and this was my work. Even though he’s really busy, if they’ve got an assembly item or if they’re getting a merit certificate at school, he’s always there.”Far from feeling her husband’s demanding schedule as Opposition Leader disadvantages the children, she believes it only adds to their development.“I think it adds to their lives, rather than takes away, to really have a belief to want to do what he wants to do and to get there and see the hard work is a good thing.

We still went out for dinner and, of course, I said yes. I couldn’t have afforded to go out for a coffee.’’Her sparkling blue eyes light up and a smile crosses her face as she reflects on the young navy lawyer who had caught her by surprise.“We were obviously very similar and we had similar beliefs,’’ she says. “I didn’t think that sort of thing happened – that someone tracked you down.

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