2025 Alfred Deakin Institute Oration
2025 Alfred Deakin Institute Oration
Event Date & Times:
Monday, 10 November 2025 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWe are delighted to invite you to attend the 2025 Alfred Deakin Institute Oration ‘Reimagining multiculturalism’ delivered by The Honourable Dr Anne Aly MP.
About the Speaker
The Honourable Dr Anne Aly MP
Dr Anne Aly is the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister for International Development, and Minister for Small Business. She was elected as the Member for Cowan in 2016, becoming the first Muslim woman elected to federal parliament.
Born in Egypt, Dr Anne Aly moved to Australia when she was two years old with her family and grew up in western Sydney. By her late twenties, Anne was a single working mother of two young boys in Perth. Before entering parliament, Anne worked as a professor at both Curtin University and Edith Cowan University with a focus on countering violent extremism.
In 2022, she became the first female Muslim minister, serving as the Minister for Early Childhood Education and the Minister for Youth. Then in 2025, Anne was appointed as the first female Muslim to serve as a Cabinet minister. Anne has many published academic works including her book Finding My Place: From Cairo to Canberra published in 2018.
About the Alfred Deakin Institute Oration
The Alfred Deakin Institute Oration is an annual oration delivered by a public leader on a topic related to cutting-edge research citizenship, diversity, inclusion and globalisation that is undertaken at the Institute.