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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.

League of Women Voters

Country Women’s Association

Catherine Helen Spence

Gough Whitlam

Susan Kiefel

Aborigines Progress Association

Eddie Mabo

Charles Richmond Glover

Lynn Arnold

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Wendy Chapman

Sex Industry Network

Mary Gaudron

Edmund Barton

Jay Weatherill

Mary Lee

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Fraser

Susan Benny

Kelly Vincent

Ian Purcell

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Suffrage League

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

George Strickland Kingston

Gladys Elphick

Frank Walsh

Queen Adelaide

Joseph Fisher

Jessie Cooper

Australian Labor Party

Penny Wong

Augusta Zadow

Bill Shorten

Sir Arthur Blyth

Rob Kerin

Hieu Van Le

Janine Haines

Sir Thomas Playford

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir James Boucaut

Adam Goodes

City of Adelaide Corporation

Benjamin Boothby

Country Party

Sir William Morgan

Clyde Cameron

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Barbara Baird

Thomas Playford II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Olsen

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Thomas Reynolds

Des Corcoran

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Steele Hall

Bob Hawke

Thomas Price

Edward Stirling

Lock the Gate

Peter Cosgrove

United Labor Party

William Boothby

National Trust of Australia

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir John William Downer

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Dean Brown

AIDS Council of South Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Hart

John Bannon

Robin Millhouse

Governor George Gawler

Henry John Ayers

Women’s Liberation Movement

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Mark Oliphant

Queen Elizabeth II

Liberal Party

Anthony Albanese

Sir John Colton

Steven Marshall

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John Cox Bray

Henry Strangways

Natasha Stott Despoja

Simon Birmingham

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

United Trades and Labor Council

Lowitja O’Donoghue

King William IV

Amanda Vanstone

Julia Gillard

John Alexander Cockburn

Australian Democrats

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Malinauskas

Working Women’s Trade Union

Quentin Bryce

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Isobel Redmond

Sir Samuel Way

Greens Party

John Baker

John Verran

Don Dunstan

Francis Stacker Dutton

Mike Rann

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Eight Hours Day Committee

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

George Waterhouse

Joyce Steele

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

David Tonkin

Governor John Hindmarsh

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