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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.

Women’s Liberation Movement

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Price

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

Robin Millhouse

Edmund Barton

George Waterhouse

Sex Industry Network

Janine Haines

Bob Hawke

Working Women’s Trade Union

Gough Whitlam

George Strickland Kingston

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Queen Adelaide

John Hart

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Joseph Fisher

Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Turnbull

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bill Shorten

Quentin Bryce

King William IV

Mary Gaudron

Francis Stacker Dutton

Australian Democrats

Mike Rann

Kelly Vincent

William Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Ian Purcell

Thomas Playford II

Peter Cosgrove

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Muriel Matters

Dean Brown

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Bannon

Lawrence Grayson

Simon Birmingham

Henry John Ayers

John Baker

Liberal Party

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Richmond Glover

Country Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

League of Women Voters

Anthony Albanese

Don Dunstan

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Des Corcoran

Charles Cameron Kingston

Isobel Redmond

Benjamin Boothby

Penny Wong

Steven Marshall

United Labor Party

Adam Goodes

Frank Walsh

Barbara Baird

Aborigines Progress Association

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John Colton

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eddie Mabo

John Alexander Cockburn

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Suffrage League

Rob Kerin

Catherine Helen Spence

David Tonkin

Sir Thomas Playford

Shirley Peisley

Augusta Zadow

City of Adelaide Corporation

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas Reynolds

National Trust of Australia

Governor George Gawler

Lynn Arnold

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Peter Malinauskas

Greens Party

Susan Benny

Sir Samuel Way

Lock the Gate

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Australian Labor Party

Mary Lee

Amanda Vanstone

John Verran

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Wendy Chapman

Governor John Hindmarsh

Julia Gillard

Jay Weatherill

Steele Hall

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Hieu Van Le

Sir James Boucaut

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Eight Hours Day Committee

Edward Stirling

Sir John William Downer

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Olsen

Joyce Steele

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Women’s Association

Clyde Cameron

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