Education funding will be high on the agenda for Canning Vale teacher and Labor candidate for Tangney Marion Boswell.
Ms Boswell moved to WA from Scotland 18 years ago and now teaches at Southern River College.
She has seen first hand how recent cuts to education funding have impacted classrooms and she wants to push for great funding in the sector.
“My life has been involved in education and business,” she said.
“I was in a situation teaching disadvantaged children and more and more I was finding I had no assistance because of education cuts.
“By this year it was really getting to a ridiculous stage where I had a class of 24 students who really needed a lot of help, more than I could do by myself.
“So I was jumping up and down about this and I spoke to my husband and said really we have to do more for education.
“My husband said stop talking about it, do something about it.
“We’re members of the Labor Party so I thought I’ll put my hand up for Tangney.” She will push for more science, technology, engineering and maths subjects in schools to prepare children better for future industries.
She also wants to see the state Labor Party’s public transport project Metronet get off the ground and was excited by Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s $1 billion federal commitment to the project.
