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Picturing Democracy

by the Centre of Democracy

This site encourages you to explore the people, groups, and social and political movements that have made Australia what it is today. Click on a thumbnail image to read more, and use the tabs on the left or the search function to look for specific people, or use keywords and discover something new.

Steven Marshall

Queen Adelaide

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

Mike Rann

AIDS Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

Sir Samuel Way

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Ian Purcell

Susan Benny

Queen Elizabeth II

United Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Sir John William Downer

Simon Birmingham

John Alexander Cockburn

Wendy Chapman

Lock the Gate

Frank Walsh

Women’s Suffrage League

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Hart

Sir Mark Oliphant

Joyce Steele

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Henry John Ayers

Sir John Colton

Clyde Cameron

Sir Thomas Playford

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Natasha Stott Despoja

Country Party

Dean Brown

Conservation Council of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

National Trust of Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Julia Gillard

Sir John Cox Bray

Gladys Elphick

Rob Kerin

George Strickland Kingston

Liberal Party

Jay Weatherill

Joseph Fisher

Australian Labor Party

Muriel Matters

Sir Arthur Blyth

Jessie Cooper

John Olsen

Janine Haines

Kelly Vincent

Adam Goodes

Charles Cameron Kingston

City of Adelaide Corporation

Governor George Gawler

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Edward Stirling

Women’s Electoral Lobby

United Trades and Labor Council

John Bannon

Sex Industry Network

Governor John Hindmarsh

David Tonkin

Edmund Barton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

League of Women Voters

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Douglas Nicholls

George Waterhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lynn Arnold

John Verran

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Des Corcoran

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Gaudron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Anthony Albanese

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Malcolm Turnbull

Hieu Van Le

Sir James Boucaut

Thomas Playford II

William Boothby

Greens Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir William Morgan

Quentin Bryce

King William IV

Bob Hawke

Charles Richmond Glover

Mary Lee

Peter Cosgrove

Steele Hall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Reynolds

Isobel Redmond

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Australian Democrats

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Don Dunstan

Catherine Helen Spence

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Price

Barbara Baird

Working Women’s Trade Union

Robin Millhouse

John Baker

Boyle Travers Finniss

Susan Kiefel

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Fraser

Bill Shorten

Augusta Zadow

Francis Stacker Dutton

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