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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.

George Waterhouse

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Julia Gillard

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Reynolds

Steele Hall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Price

William Boothby

Kelly Vincent

Charles Cameron Kingston

Edward Stirling

Amanda Vanstone

Susan Kiefel

Greens Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John William Downer

Hieu Van Le

Australian Labor Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Malcolm Turnbull

Simon Birmingham

Sir James Boucaut

Bill Shorten

Clyde Cameron

Joseph Fisher

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Working Women’s Trade Union

United Labor Party

Mike Rann

Ian Purcell

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Suffrage League

Penny Wong

Dean Brown

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

Lock the Gate

Jessie Cooper

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Adam Goodes

John Alexander Cockburn

George Strickland Kingston

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Bannon

Women’s Liberation Movement

Eight Hours Day Committee

Gough Whitlam

Sir William Morgan

Australian Democrats

Sir John Colton

Muriel Matters

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Fraser

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Henry John Ayers

Peter Malinauskas

Peter Cosgrove

King William IV

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Samuel Way

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Augusta Zadow

Francis Stacker Dutton

Joyce Steele

Benjamin Boothby

David Tonkin

Frank Walsh

Des Corcoran

League of Women Voters

Barbara Baird

Conservation Council of South Australia

Henry Strangways

Lynn Arnold

Sex Industry Network

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Don Dunstan

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bob Hawke

Steven Marshall

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Mark Oliphant

National Trust of Australia

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Playford II

Charles Richmond Glover

Eddie Mabo

Shirley Peisley

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Governor George Gawler

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas John Napier

Catherine Helen Spence

Liberal Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Country Party

John Hart

Janine Haines

Quentin Bryce

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Anthony Albanese

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Thomas Playford

John Verran

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Olsen

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Mary Lee

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Rob Kerin

Sir Arthur Blyth

Susan Benny

Country Women’s Association

Wendy Chapman

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