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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.

Benjamin Boothby

National Trust of Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Verran

Governor John Hindmarsh

Henry John Ayers

Mary Gaudron

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Price

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Ian Purcell

Australian Labor Party

Kelly Vincent

Thomas Reynolds

League of Women Voters

Julia Gillard

John Bannon

David Tonkin

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Frank Walsh

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor George Gawler

United Trades and Labor Council

Anthony Albanese

Rob Kerin

Sir Arthur Blyth

Joyce Steele

Peter Malinauskas

Dean Brown

Malcolm Turnbull

Augusta Zadow

Isobel Redmond

Catherine Helen Spence

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Henry Strangways

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Samuel Way

Barbara Baird

Susan Kiefel

George Strickland Kingston

Australian Democrats

Country Party

United Labor Party

Bill Shorten

Conservation Council of South Australia

Jessie Cooper

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir William Morgan

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Suffrage League

Mary Lee

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sex Industry Network

Thomas Playford II

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Colton

Mike Rann

Shirley Peisley

Lynn Arnold

Greens Party

George Waterhouse

Sir John William Downer

Liberal Party

John Hart

Peter Cosgrove

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Cameron Kingston

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Country Women’s Association

Simon Birmingham

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Clyde Cameron

Don Dunstan

Lock the Gate

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Mark Oliphant

Steven Marshall

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Sir Thomas Playford

William Boothby

Gough Whitlam

Wendy Chapman

Susan Benny

Women’s Liberation Movement

Edward Stirling

Queen Adelaide

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Hieu Van Le

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Bob Hawke

Aborigines Progress Association

Working Women’s Trade Union

AIDS Council of South Australia

Robin Millhouse

Adam Goodes

John Baker

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

John Olsen

Eddie Mabo

King William IV

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Fraser

Gladys Elphick

Muriel Matters

Amanda Vanstone

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir James Boucaut

Steele Hall

Des Corcoran

Queen Elizabeth II

Joseph Fisher

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Edmund Barton

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