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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.

Mary Lee

Country Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Electoral Lobby

King William IV

Dean Brown

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mary Gaudron

Adam Goodes

Julia Gillard

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Labor Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Turnbull

Working Women’s Trade Union

Australian Democrats

Hieu Van Le

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robert Storrie Guthrie

George Strickland Kingston

Simon Birmingham

Edmund Barton

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

Conservation Council of South Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

National Trust of Australia

Bill Shorten

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Greens Party

Robin Millhouse

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sex Industry Network

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

Shirley Peisley

Kelly Vincent

Sir Thomas Playford

League of Women Voters

Benjamin Boothby

Isobel Redmond

John Verran

Eddie Mabo

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Thomas Price

Governor George Gawler

Quentin Bryce

Don Dunstan

Wendy Chapman

Charles Richmond Glover

Jay Weatherill

Susan Benny

Gladys Elphick

Francis Stacker Dutton

Henry John Ayers

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

United Labor Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

George Waterhouse

Barbara Baird

Sir John Colton

Thomas Reynolds

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Hart

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Aborigines Progress Association

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Catherine Helen Spence

Country Women’s Association

Henry Strangways

Women’s Suffrage League

Ian Purcell

Augusta Zadow

Frank Walsh

Sir John William Downer

William Boothby

Lock the Gate

Women’s Liberation Movement

Anthony Albanese

Steele Hall

Steven Marshall

John Baker

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mike Rann

Queen Adelaide

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Elizabeth II

John Olsen

Rob Kerin

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir William Morgan

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Playford II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

AIDS Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Edward Stirling

Malcolm Fraser

Clyde Cameron

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lynn Arnold

Peter Cosgrove

Muriel Matters

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas John Napier

Sir James Boucaut

Bob Hawke

Joseph Fisher

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Malinauskas

Des Corcoran

John Bannon

David Tonkin

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Joyce Steele

Sir Samuel Way

Jessie Cooper

United Trades and Labor Council

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