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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.

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Suffrage League

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Reynolds

Malcolm Turnbull

Queen Adelaide

Sir William Morgan

William Boothby

Greens Party

Isobel Redmond

Sir Mark Oliphant

Augusta Zadow

Mike Rann

Sir Samuel Way

Sex Industry Network

Liberal Party

Rob Kerin

Country Women’s Association

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John Colton

King William IV

Francis Stacker Dutton

Peter Malinauskas

Mary Lee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Joseph Fisher

Adam Goodes

Peter Cosgrove

Eddie Mabo

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bill Shorten

Jessie Cooper

Working Women’s Trade Union

Kelly Vincent

Wendy Chapman

Dean Brown

Edward Stirling

Quentin Bryce

Charles Cameron Kingston

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Don Dunstan

John Bannon

Susan Kiefel

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Gladys Elphick

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Playford II

Lock the Gate

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Thomas Playford

Conservation Council of South Australia

Shirley Peisley

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John William Downer

Benjamin Boothby

George Waterhouse

Mary Gaudron

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Anthony Albanese

Joyce Steele

Sir James Boucaut

Hieu Van Le

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

League of Women Voters

Sir Douglas Nicholls

AIDS Council of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Australian Labor Party

John Verran

Catherine Helen Spence

United Trades and Labor Council

John Alexander Cockburn

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Steven Marshall

Country Party

George Strickland Kingston

Frank Walsh

Susan Benny

Governor George Gawler

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

David Tonkin

United Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Cox Bray

Bob Hawke

Muriel Matters

Boyle Travers Finniss

Barbara Baird

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Charles Richmond Glover

Julia Gillard

Des Corcoran

Queen Elizabeth II

Clyde Cameron

National Trust of Australia

John Baker

Amanda Vanstone

Natasha Stott Despoja

Australian Democrats

Eight Hours Day Committee

Edmund Barton

John Olsen

Robin Millhouse

John Hart

Lawrence Grayson

Ian Purcell

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Price

Steele Hall

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Liberation Movement

Janine Haines

Governor John Hindmarsh

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Henry John Ayers

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Jay Weatherill

Aborigines Progress Association

Simon Birmingham

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