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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

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Conservation Council of South Australia

Mike Rann

John Baker

Quentin Bryce

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Gladys Elphick

Bill Shorten

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kelly Vincent

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Don Dunstan

Henry Strangways

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

William Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

David Tonkin

Greens Party

King William IV

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Reynolds

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Wendy Chapman

Adam Goodes

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lock the Gate

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Olsen

Clyde Cameron

Muriel Matters

Charles Cameron Kingston

Charles Richmond Glover

Malcolm Turnbull

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Australian Democrats

Sir James Boucaut

Australian Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Frank Walsh

Susan Kiefel

Mary Lee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Simon Birmingham

John Alexander Cockburn

Isobel Redmond

Amanda Vanstone

Country Party

Liberal Party

Peter Malinauskas

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sex Industry Network

Eight Hours Day Committee

Joyce Steele

Sir William Morgan

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Bannon

Sir John William Downer

United Labor Party

Des Corcoran

Penny Wong

United Trades and Labor Council

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir John Colton

John Hart

Lynn Arnold

Edmund Barton

Queen Adelaide

Augusta Zadow

Thomas Playford II

Governor George Gawler

Eddie Mabo

Bob Hawke

Aborigines Progress Association

Dean Brown

Lawrence Grayson

Queen Elizabeth II

Steven Marshall

Steele Hall

Gough Whitlam

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mary Gaudron

Hieu Van Le

Thomas John Napier

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Samuel Way

Peter Cosgrove

Robin Millhouse

League of Women Voters

Joseph Fisher

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Edward Stirling

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Cox Bray

City of Adelaide Corporation

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Price

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Arthur Blyth

Ian Purcell

Catherine Helen Spence

Janine Haines

Natasha Stott Despoja

George Waterhouse

Malcolm Fraser

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Henry John Ayers

Rob Kerin

John Verran

Anthony Albanese

Barbara Baird

Country Women’s Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Thomas Playford

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