Dr Anne Aly

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The threat from the darknet: The intersection of cybercrime and terrorist activity

29th April 2021

Dr Anne Aly, Federal Member for Cowan, Western Australia

OPINION: A more co-ordinated integration of cybercrime and terrorism is leading to the growth of cyber terrorism, warns Western Australia MP and counter-terrorism expert Dr Anne Aly – and more trained experts, extra resources and strong legislation are needed to tackle the terrorist exploitation of the internet.

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Dr Anne Aly
Federal Member for Cowan, Western Australia

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Dr Anne Aly MP has been the Federal Member for Cowan since 2016. By her late twenties, Anne was a single mother of two young boys earning the minimum wage to put food on the table. She went on to study her Masters and PhD and worked as a professor, academic and practitioner in counter-terrorism and countering violent extremism. The founder of People against Violent Extremism, Anne was the only Australian representative to speak at President Obama's 2015 White House summit on countering violent extremism. Dr Aly is a 2011 inductee into the Western Australian Women’s Hall of Fame, a 2016 nominee for Australian of the Year and a 2016 recipient of the prestigious Australian Security Medal. In 2021, she was awarded the McKinnon Prize for Emerging Political Leader of the Year, in recognition of her Parliamentary work against both right-wing extremism and family and domestic violence.