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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.

Peter Cosgrove

Country Party

Isobel Redmond

Benjamin Boothby

Rob Kerin

Mary Lee

Bob Hawke

Sir James Boucaut

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Julia Gillard

Sir Thomas Playford

John Alexander Cockburn

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

Gough Whitlam

Working Women’s Trade Union

King William IV

Queen Adelaide

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Mike Rann

Edmund Barton

Natasha Stott Despoja

Barbara Baird

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Joyce Steele

Clyde Cameron

Gladys Elphick

Ian Purcell

John Baker

United Labor Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Dean Brown

Susan Kiefel

Lawrence Grayson

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Thomas Playford II

Queen Elizabeth II

Joseph Fisher

Edward Stirling

Shirley Peisley

John Bannon

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John William Downer

John Verran

Quentin Bryce

Janine Haines

Kelly Vincent

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Liberation Movement

Frank Walsh

Adam Goodes

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lynn Arnold

Malcolm Fraser

Country Women’s Association

Penny Wong

William Boothby

Steven Marshall

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Hart

Anthony Albanese

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Catherine Helen Spence

Susan Benny

Thomas Reynolds

Steele Hall

League of Women Voters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas Price

Bill Shorten

Australian Labor Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

George Strickland Kingston

Muriel Matters

Governor Richard MacDonnell

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John Cox Bray

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Waterhouse

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Colton

Aborigines Progress Association

National Trust of Australia

David Tonkin

Sir Samuel Way

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir William Morgan

Peter Malinauskas

Sex Industry Network

Robin Millhouse

Wendy Chapman

Malcolm Turnbull

City of Adelaide Corporation

Augusta Zadow

Francis Stacker Dutton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Australian Democrats

Amanda Vanstone

Simon Birmingham

Des Corcoran

Jessie Cooper

John Olsen

Mary Gaudron

Sir Mark Oliphant

Jay Weatherill

Greens Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

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