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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.

Australian Democrats

George Waterhouse

Queen Elizabeth II

Thomas Playford II

George Strickland Kingston

Ian Purcell

Governor George Gawler

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Price

Janine Haines

Joyce Steele

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lock the Gate

Governor John Hindmarsh

Conservation Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

Clyde Cameron

Eight Hours Day Committee

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adam Goodes

Penny Wong

Sir Thomas Playford

Mike Rann

John Verran

Muriel Matters

Jay Weatherill

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Catherine Helen Spence

United Trades and Labor Council

Aborigines Progress Association

Simon Birmingham

Liberal Party

Sir William Morgan

Sir Samuel Way

Lawrence Grayson

Shirley Peisley

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Henry Strangways

Mary Gaudron

John Olsen

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Mark Oliphant

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John William Downer

Gladys Elphick

Country Women’s Association

Steven Marshall

Sir John Colton

Charles Cameron Kingston

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Bannon

United Labor Party

Queen Adelaide

Robert Storrie Guthrie

League of Women Voters

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Susan Benny

City of Adelaide Corporation

Edmund Barton

Des Corcoran

Joseph Fisher

David Tonkin

Lynn Arnold

John Alexander Cockburn

Augusta Zadow

Malcolm Turnbull

Hieu Van Le

Julia Gillard

Francis Stacker Dutton

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Frank Walsh

Isobel Redmond

Edward Stirling

William Boothby

Henry John Ayers

Thomas John Napier

Bob Hawke

Quentin Bryce

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir James Boucaut

Benjamin Boothby

John Hart

Australian Labor Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

King William IV

National Trust of Australia

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Dean Brown

Jessie Cooper

Steele Hall

AIDS Council of South Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Working Women’s Trade Union

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Don Dunstan

Robin Millhouse

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Bill Shorten

Eddie Mabo

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Mary Lee

John Baker

Greens Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Rob Kerin

Sir Arthur Blyth

Country Party

Kelly Vincent

Wendy Chapman

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Barbara Baird

Sex Industry Network

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