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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.

Joseph Fisher

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Queen Adelaide

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Catherine Helen Spence

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir John William Downer

Lock the Gate

Sir William Morgan

Edmund Barton

Malcolm Turnbull

Bob Hawke

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Peter Cosgrove

Sir John Colton

Edward Stirling

Susan Benny

Sir Thomas Playford

Joyce Steele

Charles Richmond Glover

Ian Purcell

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Samuel Way

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Des Corcoran

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Malcolm Fraser

David Tonkin

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Mary Lee

Mike Rann

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Francis Stacker Dutton

League of Women Voters

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Aborigines Progress Association

John Bannon

Augusta Zadow

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

John Alexander Cockburn

Julia Gillard

Lawrence Grayson

Benjamin Boothby

Don Dunstan

Governor John Hindmarsh

Thomas Price

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Baker

Thomas Reynolds

Frank Walsh

Kelly Vincent

Sex Industry Network

Isobel Redmond

Governor George Gawler

Gough Whitlam

King William IV

Sir James Boucaut

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Hart

Robin Millhouse

Mary Gaudron

Muriel Matters

Dean Brown

United Labor Party

Shirley Peisley

Wendy Chapman

Susan Kiefel

Queen Elizabeth II

John Olsen

William Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry John Ayers

Quentin Bryce

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Greens Party

George Strickland Kingston

Australian Democrats

Sir Mark Oliphant

Steven Marshall

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Charles Cameron Kingston

Amanda Vanstone

Barbara Baird

Steele Hall

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Bill Shorten

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Playford II

John Verran

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Jessie Cooper

Adam Goodes

Conservation Council of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Penny Wong

Clyde Cameron

Peter Malinauskas

Liberal Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

Hieu Van Le

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

City of Adelaide Corporation

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Gladys Elphick

Henry Strangways

Anthony Albanese

Thomas John Napier

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Country Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Rob Kerin

Dame Roma Mitchell

George Waterhouse

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