2025 – A year of anniversaries
Not only are we celebrating our own 65th anniversary – it is also the 65th anniversary of flagship research publication, the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL), and the 30th anniversary of Adult Learners Week!
We look forward to letting you know more about how we are celebrating these milestones.
The theme for ALA’s anniversary is Celebrating 65 Years of Excellence in Adult Education: Renewing Futures, Empowering Communities.
Originally established as the Australian Association of Adult Education (AAAE) in Hobart in 1960, we amalgamated with the Australian Association of Community Education in 1989.
In 1998, the name Adult Learning Australia was adopted to reinforce our central focus on learners and the range of informal and non-formal ways in which learning can take place alongside formal education and training systems.
Celebrate with us!
As part of our 65th anniversary, we are gathering 65 messages to celebrate.
We are going to include these messages in our social media and collate them as a record of our sector in 2025.
We would love to receive a short message from you (up to 100 words) in response to the anniversary or our theme. Send to comms@ala.asn.au. We would also welcome an image.
Thank you to all our Quest readers for being part of our journey and celebrations!
“ACOSS warmly congratulates ALA for reaching such an incredible organisational milestone. We applaud and recognise ALA’s effort to ensure that all people, especially those experiencing poverty, disadvantage and hardship, have equitable access to lifelong learning”. Edwina MacDonald, Chief Strategy Officer, ACOSS
