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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.

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Thomas Playford

Francis Stacker Dutton

Gough Whitlam

Eight Hours Day Committee

Charles Richmond Glover

Barbara Baird

Edward Stirling

John Baker

Sex Industry Network

Janine Haines

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lynn Arnold

Steele Hall

John Alexander Cockburn

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Reynolds

Jessie Cooper

United Labor Party

Mike Rann

Sir Samuel Way

Thomas John Napier

Joseph Fisher

Steven Marshall

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

League of Women Voters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Hart

City of Adelaide Corporation

Penny Wong

Gladys Elphick

Susan Kiefel

Augusta Zadow

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir James Boucaut

Lawrence Grayson

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Peter Malinauskas

John Verran

Bob Hawke

Country Women’s Association

Hieu Van Le

George Strickland Kingston

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Playford II

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Cameron Kingston

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Dean Brown

Edmund Barton

Wendy Chapman

Sir John Colton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Catherine Helen Spence

Henry John Ayers

National Trust of Australia

Julia Gillard

Liberal Party

Adam Goodes

Eddie Mabo

Queen Elizabeth II

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lock the Gate

Australian Labor Party

Jay Weatherill

Quentin Bryce

Country Party

David Tonkin

Lowitja O’Donoghue

AIDS Council of South Australia

Rob Kerin

Muriel Matters

William Boothby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Queen Adelaide

John Olsen

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Malcolm Fraser

Des Corcoran

Thomas Price

Sir Arthur Blyth

Isobel Redmond

Australian Democrats

Ian Purcell

Sir William Morgan

Susan Benny

Robin Millhouse

Greens Party

John Bannon

Women’s Liberation Movement

Aborigines Progress Association

Shirley Peisley

Governor Richard MacDonnell

George Waterhouse

King William IV

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Mark Oliphant

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Anthony Albanese

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Peter Cosgrove

Joyce Steele

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

Bill Shorten

Henry Strangways

Simon Birmingham

Frank Walsh

Dame Roma Mitchell

Clyde Cameron

Don Dunstan

Kelly Vincent

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Suffrage League

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