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Introduction
Anne Aly is an Australian politician who has been a Labor member of the House of Representatives since the 2016 election, representing the electorate of Cowan in Western Australia. Aly is currently the Minister for Early Childhood Education and Minister for Youth in the Albanese ministry.
Aly is the first female federal parliamentarian of Islamic faith and one of Australia’s first two government ministers to be Muslim. Aly was a professor, lecturer and academic specialising in counter-terrorism, and she is considered a global authority on understanding how and why young people are drawn into violent extremism. Aly founded People Against Violent Extremism (PaVE) to address extremism in Australia.
Early life
| Name | Anne Aly |
| Net Worth | $4 million |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Height | 1.68m |
| Age | 55 years |
Anne Azza Aly whose birth name is Azza Mahmoud Fawzi Hosseini Ali el Serougi was born on March 29, 1967 (age 55 years) in Alexandria, Egypt. Her mother was a nurse and her father an engineer. When Aly was two years old she and her parents moved to Australia via an assisted migration program, living first in Queensland, before settling in the western Sydney suburbs Lakemba and Chipping Norton, where Aly attended a private Anglican girls’ school, Meriden, and her parents worked in factories and as a bus driver.
Aly returned to Egypt for university, then returned to Australia with her first husband to raise their children in Perth close to her retired parents. She graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with high honours in English Literature, with a minor in Acting.
In 1994, she received a Graduate Diploma of Arts (Language Studies) from Edith Cowan University; followed by a Master of Education degree in 1996, and PhD in 2008, both from Edith Cowan University. Her PhD thesis focused on media and culture, and was entitled A study of audience responses to the media discourse about the ‘Other’: The Fear of Terrorism between Australian Muslims and the Broader Community.
Aly is one of eleven MPs in the 46th Parliament of Australia who possesses a PhD, the others being Katie Allen, Fiona Mart in, Jim Chalmers, Andrew Leigh, Daniel Mulino, Jess Walsh, Adam Bandt, Mehreen Faruqi, Anne Webster and Helen Haines.
Career
Anne Aly worked part-time teaching English to migrants while studying. In 2001 Aly became a policy officer for the Government of Western Australia, where she worked in education and multicultural affairs policy from 2000 to 2007, including as a senior policy officer in the Office of Multicultural Interests from 2003. After the 9/11 attacks she worked on Western Australia’s response to the Federal Government’s counter-terrorism action plan.
Aly worked for the Equal Opportunity Commission WA from 2007 to 2008. Aly operated her own policy consulting firm from 2011. Anne Aly lectured in counter-terrorism and security at Edith Cowan University from 2009 to 2011, and then at Curtin University from 2011. She was appointed Associate Professor at Curtin in 2014, and Professor at Edith Cowan in 2015.
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She is an active member of Curtin University’s The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT), leading its Countering Online Violent Extremism research program. Aly has written published academic papers, books and newspaper articles on terrorist recruitment and counter-messaging and the involvement of former white supremacists in speaking out against violent extremism.
In 2008, Aly received the Dean’s Award for Best New Researcher from Edith Cowan University. In 2009, she won a Publication Award from the Australian Institute of Professional Intelligence Officers, and she was appointed to the Council for Australian Arab Relations at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and remained on the board for six years.
In 2011, she was inducted into the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame. Aly’s research has been funded by the Australian Research Council’s Safeguarding Australia Initiative. In 2011, former prime minister Kevin Rudd launched Aly’s first book, Terrorism & Global Security: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
In 2013, Anne Aly founded a youth-led not-for-profit organization, People Against Violent Extremism (PaVE), to address extremism in Australia. PaVE received a $115,000 grant from the federal Attorney-General’s Department to develop videos to counter extremism, and in 2015, Aly announced that PaVE had raised $40,800 for a mentoring program for young activists. The mentoring program includes training through MyHack, which trains university students to brainstorm and develop counter-messaging to extremist propaganda online.
In 2015, Aly was the only Australian invited to address Barack Obama’s Countering Violent Extremism summit at the White House in 2015. In 2016, Aly was nominated for Australian of the Year.
Politics
Anne Aly was preselected as the Labor candidate for Cowan for the 2016 federal election and was successful in winning the seat from the incumbent, Luke Simpkins, with a 5.2% swing, by a slender margin of 0.68 points. During the 2016 election campaign, Liberal Party Justice Minister Michael Keenan was accused of starting a smear campaign against Aly in regards to her previous counter-terrorism work at PaVE.
Deputy PM Julie Bishop, Mathias Cormann, John Howard, and Luke Simpkins followed Keenan’s lead. However, prior to Aly becoming a Labor candidate, Simpkins had written to Aly in 2015 to convey his admiration for her counter-terrorism work including “content of your media interviews and approach to the threat of radicalisation,” and Aly’s work had been actively supported by the Coalition government.
Anne Aly was the victim of a fake-news attack in 2017 claiming that she refused to lay a wreath at an ANZAC Day service in Perth. The story was promulgated by the Love Australia or Leave Party. Aly asserted that she was ‘insulted by the allegation she refused to lay a wreath’. Indeed, the leader of the Love Australia or Leave Party later apologized for the social media post and the inaccuracy of the information.
Aly was reelected in the 2019 federal election with a slightly increased margin of 1.6%. During the 2019 federal election campaign, unauthorized anonymous flyers were distributed in the Cowan electorate targeting Aly with unsubstantiated claims. The Labor Party condemned the flyers as “racist.”
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She has stated she believes in marriage equality, is economically conservative and “more left” on social policies, believes in a strict separation of church and state, and defends the rights of women to wear a hijab if they choose though she does not wear one herself, and that she demonstrated against the Iraq war. In her maiden speech, Aly highlighted the growing income disparity and her intention to bring the benefits of growth to every suburb.
Husband
Anne Aly is currently married to her third husband David Allen. She has been married three times and has two children Adam Rida and Karim Rida. Her current husband is a former police officer and Canadian ice hockey player David Allen. However, in interviews and Aly’s 2018 autobiography, Finding My Place, she discusses the domestic abuse she suffered at the hands of her first husband, the pressure she was under to stay with him, and the struggles to raise her sons as a single mother after the divorce.
Anne Aly net worth
How much is Anne Aly worth? Anne Aly net worth is estimated at around $4 million. Her main source of income is from her career as a politician. Aly salary and other earnings are over $2 million annually. Her successful career has earned her some luxurious lifestyles and some fancy car trips. She is one of the richest and influential politicians in Australia. Following Labor being elected to government at the 2022 federal election, Anne Aly was appointed Minister for Early Childhood Education and Youth.