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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.

Queen Elizabeth II

Natasha Stott Despoja

Julia Gillard

Sir Samuel Way

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Joyce Steele

Simon Birmingham

Amanda Vanstone

John Alexander Cockburn

Charles Richmond Glover

Lawrence Grayson

Country Party

Sir James Boucaut

Janine Haines

Peter Cosgrove

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Quentin Bryce

Jay Weatherill

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Bill Shorten

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor George Gawler

Frank Walsh

Eddie Mabo

Don Dunstan

Gough Whitlam

Sir John Colton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Ian Purcell

Susan Kiefel

Edward Stirling

Thomas Price

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Des Corcoran

Rob Kerin

Wendy Chapman

King William IV

Sir Arthur Blyth

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Clyde Cameron

Edmund Barton

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eight Hours Day Committee

Gladys Elphick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Henry John Ayers

National Trust of Australia

Dean Brown

Catherine Helen Spence

Mary Gaudron

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John Cox Bray

Governor John Hindmarsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Mary Lee

Lock the Gate

Boyle Travers Finniss

Francis Stacker Dutton

Hieu Van Le

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Suffrage League

Kelly Vincent

Malcolm Fraser

Steele Hall

John Hart

Australian Democrats

Joseph Fisher

Adam Goodes

Women’s Liberation Movement

George Strickland Kingston

Augusta Zadow

Bob Hawke

Malcolm Turnbull

Sex Industry Network

Queen Adelaide

Thomas John Napier

John Baker

Mike Rann

League of Women Voters

Steven Marshall

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

Greens Party

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Australian Labor Party

Anthony Albanese

Liberal Party

Jessie Cooper

Sir William Morgan

Sir John William Downer

Robin Millhouse

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Thomas Reynolds

John Bannon

Sir Thomas Playford

Penny Wong

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

David Tonkin

Country Women’s Association

John Verran

John Olsen

Working Women’s Trade Union

William Boothby

United Labor Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

George Waterhouse

Muriel Matters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Susan Benny

Barbara Baird

Women’s Electoral Lobby

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