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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.

Julia Gillard

Henry Strangways

Henry John Ayers

Governor John Hindmarsh

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sex Industry Network

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Wendy Chapman

Edward Stirling

Sir James Boucaut

Shirley Peisley

Country Party

William Boothby

United Trades and Labor Council

George Waterhouse

Bill Shorten

Sir Thomas Playford

Rob Kerin

Penny Wong

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Aborigines Progress Association

Mary Gaudron

National Trust of Australia

Clyde Cameron

Charles Cameron Kingston

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Eddie Mabo

King William IV

Sir John William Downer

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steven Marshall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lock the Gate

Sir John Cox Bray

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas Price

John Baker

Malcolm Fraser

John Alexander Cockburn

John Bannon

Thomas John Napier

George Strickland Kingston

Robin Millhouse

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Jay Weatherill

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

Muriel Matters

Jessie Cooper

Dean Brown

Thomas Playford II

Ian Purcell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Francis Stacker Dutton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Malinauskas

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir William Morgan

Joyce Steele

Eight Hours Day Committee

League of Women Voters

Frank Walsh

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adam Goodes

John Verran

Australian Democrats

Women’s Liberation Movement

Bob Hawke

Mike Rann

Susan Kiefel

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor George Gawler

Kelly Vincent

Steele Hall

Joseph Fisher

Anthony Albanese

Dame Roma Mitchell

Conservation Council of South Australia

Queen Adelaide

United Labor Party

John Olsen

Gough Whitlam

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Colton

Working Women’s Trade Union

Amanda Vanstone

Quentin Bryce

Susan Benny

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Queen Elizabeth II

Don Dunstan

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Greens Party

Sir Samuel Way

David Tonkin

Peter Cosgrove

Isobel Redmond

Simon Birmingham

Gladys Elphick

John Hart

Janine Haines

Barbara Baird

Thomas Reynolds

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Hieu Van Le

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Mark Oliphant

Charles Richmond Glover

Lynn Arnold

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Des Corcoran

Augusta Zadow

Country Women’s Association

Edmund Barton

Liberal Party

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