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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.

Susan Benny

Augusta Zadow

Gladys Elphick

John Hart

Mary Lee

Malcolm Turnbull

AIDS Council of South Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Alexander Cockburn

Gough Whitlam

Bill Shorten

Aborigines Progress Association

Eight Hours Day Committee

David Tonkin

Natasha Stott Despoja

Australian Democrats

Adam Goodes

Joseph Fisher

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Joyce Steele

Sir William Morgan

Penny Wong

Steven Marshall

Eddie Mabo

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas Playford II

Hieu Van Le

Henry Strangways

Sex Industry Network

John Baker

National Trust of Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

George Strickland Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Clyde Cameron

Thomas John Napier

Quentin Bryce

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Wendy Chapman

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Lynn Arnold

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Working Women’s Trade Union

Ian Purcell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Governor George Gawler

Queen Elizabeth II

Dean Brown

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Price

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Susan Kiefel

Don Dunstan

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lock the Gate

Sir James Boucaut

Peter Cosgrove

League of Women Voters

Henry John Ayers

Edward Stirling

Edmund Barton

Kelly Vincent

Country Party

Country Women’s Association

Des Corcoran

Robert Storrie Guthrie

City of Adelaide Corporation

King William IV

Benjamin Boothby

Lawrence Grayson

Charles Richmond Glover

Greens Party

Shirley Peisley

Sir John Cox Bray

William Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Muriel Matters

Steele Hall

Sir John William Downer

George Waterhouse

Queen Adelaide

Amanda Vanstone

Frank Walsh

John Olsen

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Boyle Travers Finniss

Mike Rann

Rob Kerin

United Labor Party

Robin Millhouse

Sir John Colton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Barbara Baird

Janine Haines

Simon Birmingham

Dame Roma Mitchell

Peter Malinauskas

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Francis Stacker Dutton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Liberal Party

Mary Gaudron

Isobel Redmond

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Bannon

United Trades and Labor Council

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Mark Oliphant

Conservation Council of South Australia

John Verran

Anthony Albanese

Bob Hawke

Australian Labor Party

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