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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.

Women’s Liberation Movement

Steven Marshall

Lynn Arnold

Thomas Playford II

Hieu Van Le

Sir Mark Oliphant

Henry John Ayers

John Baker

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Price

Quentin Bryce

Queen Adelaide

United Labor Party

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Thomas Playford

Barbara Baird

AIDS Council of South Australia

Rob Kerin

Des Corcoran

Lock the Gate

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Australian Labor Party

Adam Goodes

George Waterhouse

Francis Stacker Dutton

Gladys Elphick

Simon Birmingham

Bill Shorten

Joseph Fisher

Sir John Colton

Thomas John Napier

Malcolm Fraser

David Tonkin

Penny Wong

Bob Hawke

Amanda Vanstone

Steele Hall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Mary Gaudron

Boyle Travers Finniss

Dame Roma Mitchell

Muriel Matters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Joyce Steele

Jay Weatherill

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

National Trust of Australia

Sir John Cox Bray

Mike Rann

Sir James Boucaut

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Catherine Helen Spence

Edward Stirling

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

George Strickland Kingston

Wendy Chapman

Dean Brown

Henry Strangways

King William IV

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Aborigines Progress Association

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor George Gawler

Jessie Cooper

Greens Party

Sir John William Downer

Isobel Redmond

John Olsen

Susan Benny

Anthony Albanese

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Queen Elizabeth II

Charles Richmond Glover

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Alexander Cockburn

William Boothby

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Arthur Blyth

Gough Whitlam

Conservation Council of South Australia

John Verran

Sex Industry Network

Susan Kiefel

Liberal Party

Australian Democrats

Peter Malinauskas

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lawrence Grayson

Julia Gillard

Don Dunstan

Edmund Barton

Augusta Zadow

Janine Haines

Ian Purcell

Thomas Reynolds

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Frank Walsh

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Eddie Mabo

Benjamin Boothby

Sir William Morgan

United Trades and Labor Council

Women’s Suffrage League

Country Party

Clyde Cameron

Robin Millhouse

John Bannon

Peter Cosgrove

Kelly Vincent

Country Women’s Association

John Hart

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

League of Women Voters

Mary Lee

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Eight Hours Day Committee

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Samuel Way

Shirley Peisley

Robert Storrie Guthrie

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