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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.

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Julia Gillard

George Waterhouse

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir James Boucaut

Edmund Barton

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Charles Richmond Glover

King William IV

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Mary Lee

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir William Morgan

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

Kelly Vincent

Hieu Van Le

Queen Elizabeth II

Joyce Steele

Country Party

League of Women Voters

Steele Hall

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Samuel Way

John Bannon

United Labor Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sex Industry Network

Peter Malinauskas

Malcolm Turnbull

Queen Adelaide

Shirley Peisley

Susan Kiefel

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Thomas Playford II

Bob Hawke

Susan Benny

United Trades and Labor Council

Quentin Bryce

Conservation Council of South Australia

Barbara Baird

Augusta Zadow

Anthony Albanese

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mike Rann

Country Women’s Association

Dean Brown

Sir Arthur Blyth

David Tonkin

Eddie Mabo

Sir John Cox Bray

Des Corcoran

John Olsen

Eight Hours Day Committee

Janine Haines

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Alexander Cockburn

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

William Boothby

Clyde Cameron

Greens Party

City of Adelaide Corporation

Jessie Cooper

Benjamin Boothby

Isobel Redmond

Rob Kerin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Aborigines Progress Association

Henry John Ayers

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Malcolm Fraser

Henry Strangways

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jay Weatherill

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas John Napier

Bill Shorten

Joseph Fisher

Edward Stirling

Wendy Chapman

Adam Goodes

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Simon Birmingham

Australian Democrats

Australian Labor Party

Frank Walsh

Muriel Matters

Lock the Gate

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Robin Millhouse

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Dame Roma Mitchell

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Hart

Amanda Vanstone

Natasha Stott Despoja

Ian Purcell

National Trust of Australia

Don Dunstan

Catherine Helen Spence

Governor George Gawler

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir John William Downer

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Thomas Playford

Liberal Party

John Verran

Gladys Elphick

Penny Wong

Gough Whitlam

John Baker

Steven Marshall

Women’s Suffrage League

Lynn Arnold

Sir John Colton

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