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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.

Catherine Helen Spence

Country Women’s Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Amanda Vanstone

Jay Weatherill

Dame Roma Mitchell

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir John William Downer

Adam Goodes

Governor John Hindmarsh

Joseph Fisher

Peter Cosgrove

Clyde Cameron

John Bannon

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sex Industry Network

John Baker

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Country Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lawrence Grayson

John Hart

Governor George Gawler

Charles Cameron Kingston

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Steele Hall

Ian Purcell

George Waterhouse

Susan Benny

Thomas Playford II

Conservation Council of South Australia

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Janine Haines

Joyce Steele

Dean Brown

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Working Women’s Trade Union

Eddie Mabo

Sir Samuel Way

National Trust of Australia

Bob Hawke

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Des Corcoran

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Quentin Bryce

United Labor Party

Anthony Albanese

Peter Malinauskas

Steven Marshall

Shirley Peisley

Mary Lee

Australian Democrats

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Price

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir John Cox Bray

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas John Napier

Isobel Redmond

John Olsen

Simon Birmingham

Gladys Elphick

Bill Shorten

King William IV

United Trades and Labor Council

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Australian Labor Party

Malcolm Fraser

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

City of Adelaide Corporation

Greens Party

Lynn Arnold

Mary Gaudron

Queen Adelaide

League of Women Voters

Edward Stirling

John Verran

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Augusta Zadow

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Reynolds

Julia Gillard

Hieu Van Le

William Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Henry John Ayers

Frank Walsh

Edmund Barton

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Wendy Chapman

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Kelly Vincent

Muriel Matters

Women’s Liberation Movement

Penny Wong

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Susan Kiefel

George Strickland Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Henry Strangways

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir John Colton

Barbara Baird

Liberal Party

David Tonkin

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Suffrage League

Mike Rann

Malcolm Turnbull

Don Dunstan

Boyle Travers Finniss

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