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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.

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir William Morgan

Wendy Chapman

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

Greens Party

Ian Purcell

Sir John Colton

Natasha Stott Despoja

United Trades and Labor Council

Janine Haines

Charles Cameron Kingston

Des Corcoran

Frank Walsh

Steven Marshall

Dean Brown

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lynn Arnold

Country Women’s Association

Queen Adelaide

Women’s Liberation Movement

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas Playford II

Sir Samuel Way

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

Catherine Helen Spence

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Verran

Eight Hours Day Committee

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Mary Gaudron

Amanda Vanstone

Sir James Boucaut

Edmund Barton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Don Dunstan

Edward Stirling

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Isobel Redmond

City of Adelaide Corporation

Working Women’s Trade Union

Muriel Matters

Mary Lee

Quentin Bryce

Sir John William Downer

Eddie Mabo

Robin Millhouse

Henry John Ayers

Penny Wong

King William IV

Susan Benny

Gladys Elphick

George Strickland Kingston

Queen Elizabeth II

Shirley Peisley

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Clyde Cameron

Barbara Baird

AIDS Council of South Australia

Bill Shorten

Thomas Price

Australian Democrats

Susan Kiefel

Julia Gillard

George Waterhouse

Malcolm Fraser

Adam Goodes

Bob Hawke

Sex Industry Network

John Hart

Conservation Council of South Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

Jessie Cooper

Jay Weatherill

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Peter Cosgrove

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lock the Gate

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Baker

Joseph Fisher

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Thomas Playford

Francis Stacker Dutton

Charles Richmond Glover

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Australian Labor Party

Governor George Gawler

Joyce Steele

Thomas John Napier

Lawrence Grayson

United Labor Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Women’s Suffrage League

Henry Strangways

Benjamin Boothby

League of Women Voters

John Olsen

Hieu Van Le

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

National Trust of Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

David Tonkin

Kelly Vincent

John Bannon

Sir Mark Oliphant

Gough Whitlam

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John Cox Bray

Mike Rann

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Simon Birmingham

Steele Hall

Liberal Party

Peter Malinauskas

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