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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.

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Malcolm Fraser

Rob Kerin

Amanda Vanstone

Joyce Steele

George Waterhouse

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

League of Women Voters

Susan Kiefel

Henry John Ayers

Janine Haines

Charles Richmond Glover

Aborigines Progress Association

Liberal Party

Mary Gaudron

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jay Weatherill

Bill Shorten

Sir Samuel Way

City of Adelaide Corporation

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Des Corcoran

Peter Cosgrove

David Tonkin

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Quentin Bryce

Adam Goodes

Charles Cameron Kingston

Edmund Barton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Frank Walsh

Australian Democrats

Susan Benny

Kelly Vincent

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Barbara Baird

Working Women’s Trade Union

Henry Strangways

John Baker

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

United Trades and Labor Council

Lynn Arnold

Sir Arthur Blyth

Muriel Matters

Julia Gillard

Malcolm Turnbull

Dean Brown

Steven Marshall

Dame Roma Mitchell

Bob Hawke

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Augusta Zadow

Boyle Travers Finniss

Hieu Van Le

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Queen Elizabeth II

John Bannon

John Verran

Catherine Helen Spence

Mike Rann

Thomas Price

Greens Party

William Boothby

Thomas John Napier

Edward Stirling

Eight Hours Day Committee

Shirley Peisley

Francis Stacker Dutton

Benjamin Boothby

Peter Malinauskas

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Anthony Albanese

Joseph Fisher

Sir John William Downer

Sir Thomas Playford

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Robin Millhouse

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Mark Oliphant

Gough Whitlam

Steele Hall

Jessie Cooper

Eddie Mabo

George Strickland Kingston

Country Party

National Trust of Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Ian Purcell

John Olsen

Wendy Chapman

John Hart

United Labor Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John Colton

Don Dunstan

Conservation Council of South Australia

King William IV

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Australian Labor Party

Sex Industry Network

Penny Wong

Gladys Elphick

Mary Lee

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir James Boucaut

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Queen Adelaide

Isobel Redmond

Clyde Cameron

Country Women’s Association

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