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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.

Edward Stirling

Eight Hours Day Committee

United Labor Party

Sir John William Downer

Frank Walsh

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Greens Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Ian Purcell

Joseph Fisher

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Verran

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir John Cox Bray

George Waterhouse

Bob Hawke

Catherine Helen Spence

Steele Hall

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Muriel Matters

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lawrence Grayson

Queen Adelaide

Steven Marshall

Sex Industry Network

Dean Brown

Gladys Elphick

Governor John Hindmarsh

Susan Kiefel

League of Women Voters

John Olsen

Barbara Baird

United Trades and Labor Council

Robin Millhouse

Liberal Party

Clyde Cameron

Conservation Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Edmund Barton

Thomas Price

Hieu Van Le

Country Women’s Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Sir John Colton

Mike Rann

George Strickland Kingston

Penny Wong

Charles Richmond Glover

Jay Weatherill

Sir Samuel Way

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas John Napier

Des Corcoran

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Suffrage League

Adam Goodes

Jessie Cooper

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Janine Haines

John Hart

Malcolm Turnbull

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Arthur Blyth

Australian Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Bannon

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Playford II

David Tonkin

King William IV

Benjamin Boothby

Australian Democrats

Thomas Reynolds

Gough Whitlam

Mary Gaudron

Simon Birmingham

John Baker

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Susan Benny

Henry Strangways

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Alexander Cockburn

Don Dunstan

Sir Mark Oliphant

Bill Shorten

Augusta Zadow

Working Women’s Trade Union

Amanda Vanstone

Boyle Travers Finniss

Aborigines Progress Association

Isobel Redmond

Lock the Gate

Shirley Peisley

Eddie Mabo

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir William Morgan

Peter Cosgrove

Peter Malinauskas

Henry John Ayers

Dame Roma Mitchell

Wendy Chapman

Country Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Joyce Steele

Mary Lee

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Fraser

City of Adelaide Corporation

Kelly Vincent

Women’s Liberation Movement

William Boothby

Anthony Albanese

Quentin Bryce

Rob Kerin

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