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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.

Quentin Bryce

Wendy Chapman

John Baker

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Adam Goodes

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

Jessie Cooper

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Robin Millhouse

Henry John Ayers

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor George Gawler

Julia Gillard

Dean Brown

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas John Napier

Eddie Mabo

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Gaudron

Sir James Boucaut

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lock the Gate

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Malcolm Turnbull

Penny Wong

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Country Party

Australian Democrats

Isobel Redmond

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir William Morgan

Gough Whitlam

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Price

George Strickland Kingston

John Hart

Bob Hawke

David Tonkin

Natasha Stott Despoja

Edmund Barton

National Trust of Australia

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lawrence Grayson

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Steele Hall

Frank Walsh

Thomas Playford II

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Queen Adelaide

Catherine Helen Spence

Boyle Travers Finniss

Edward Stirling

Thomas Reynolds

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Charles Cameron Kingston

Aborigines Progress Association

George Waterhouse

Charles Richmond Glover

Simon Birmingham

Gladys Elphick

Benjamin Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Mary Lee

John Verran

Steven Marshall

Clyde Cameron

Augusta Zadow

League of Women Voters

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

United Labor Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Samuel Way

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Country Women’s Association

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Joyce Steele

Eight Hours Day Committee

King William IV

Muriel Matters

Bill Shorten

Sir John Colton

Sex Industry Network

Shirley Peisley

John Bannon

Susan Kiefel

Lowitja O’Donoghue

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Cosgrove

Barbara Baird

Ian Purcell

William Boothby

Queen Elizabeth II

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Mike Rann

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Liberal Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

Don Dunstan

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

John Olsen

Sir John William Downer

Hieu Van Le

Malcolm Fraser

AIDS Council of South Australia

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Conservation Council of South Australia

Des Corcoran

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