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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.

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Wendy Chapman

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Gaudron

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Country Women’s Association

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas Playford II

League of Women Voters

Sir John William Downer

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Alexander Cockburn

Des Corcoran

Thomas Price

Sir Arthur Blyth

Quentin Bryce

John Hart

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

George Waterhouse

Jay Weatherill

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry Strangways

Malcolm Fraser

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Liberation Movement

William Boothby

Janine Haines

John Bannon

Susan Benny

Liberal Party

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Isobel Redmond

Steele Hall

Jessie Cooper

United Trades and Labor Council

Joyce Steele

Shirley Peisley

Sir James Boucaut

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Henry John Ayers

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Susan Kiefel

Conservation Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

Dean Brown

Sir Thomas Playford

Mike Rann

Charles Richmond Glover

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Muriel Matters

Governor John Hindmarsh

Greens Party

Peter Malinauskas

George Strickland Kingston

David Tonkin

Governor George Gawler

Eddie Mabo

Anthony Albanese

John Verran

Australian Democrats

Natasha Stott Despoja

Malcolm Turnbull

Clyde Cameron

Don Dunstan

Charles Cameron Kingston

National Trust of Australia

Frank Walsh

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Samuel Way

Gladys Elphick

John Olsen

United Labor Party

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lynn Arnold

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Adam Goodes

Julia Gillard

Augusta Zadow

Bob Hawke

Queen Adelaide

Barbara Baird

Catherine Helen Spence

Steven Marshall

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Labor Party

Country Party

Sir William Morgan

Bill Shorten

Edward Stirling

Edmund Barton

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mary Lee

Joseph Fisher

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lock the Gate

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sex Industry Network

Sir John Colton

Thomas Reynolds

Ian Purcell

Robin Millhouse

Peter Cosgrove

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Benjamin Boothby

Thomas John Napier

Working Women’s Trade Union

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Suffrage League

Kelly Vincent

Rob Kerin

John Baker

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Hieu Van Le

King William IV

Penny Wong

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