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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.

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Shirley Peisley

Natasha Stott Despoja

Thomas John Napier

King William IV

Queen Adelaide

Sir John Colton

Country Women’s Association

Boyle Travers Finniss

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Hieu Van Le

Sir William Morgan

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Cosgrove

Steven Marshall

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Frank Walsh

League of Women Voters

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Playford II

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Amanda Vanstone

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sex Industry Network

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Queen Elizabeth II

Joseph Fisher

Aborigines Progress Association

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Hart

Sir John William Downer

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Lee

Australian Labor Party

Lawrence Grayson

Country Party

Lynn Arnold

Anthony Albanese

Muriel Matters

George Strickland Kingston

Gladys Elphick

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Gough Whitlam

Dean Brown

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Baker

Conservation Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Adam Goodes

Edmund Barton

Susan Benny

Bob Hawke

Clyde Cameron

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Liberal Party

Thomas Price

Sir Thomas Playford

Lock the Gate

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Quentin Bryce

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Jessie Cooper

Peter Malinauskas

Jay Weatherill

William Boothby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Robin Millhouse

John Verran

Thomas Reynolds

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Mike Rann

Simon Birmingham

Janine Haines

Augusta Zadow

Governor George Gawler

Women’s Liberation Movement

Ian Purcell

Australian Democrats

Eddie Mabo

Henry John Ayers

Catherine Helen Spence

Wendy Chapman

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Susan Kiefel

AIDS Council of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Samuel Way

George Waterhouse

Women’s Suffrage League

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir James Boucaut

Edward Stirling

Penny Wong

Working Women’s Trade Union

Joyce Steele

Greens Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

City of Adelaide Corporation

Don Dunstan

Isobel Redmond

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Mark Oliphant

Rob Kerin

Des Corcoran

Benjamin Boothby

United Labor Party

Mary Gaudron

Steele Hall

John Olsen

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bill Shorten

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Bannon

David Tonkin

Francis Stacker Dutton

Barbara Baird

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