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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.

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

David Tonkin

Peter Cosgrove

United Trades and Labor Council

John Hart

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lawrence Grayson

Sir John Cox Bray

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Sex Industry Network

John Alexander Cockburn

Clyde Cameron

John Verran

Country Women’s Association

Gough Whitlam

Augusta Zadow

Quentin Bryce

Julia Gillard

Queen Adelaide

Australian Labor Party

Thomas John Napier

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Peter Malinauskas

Boyle Travers Finniss

Jessie Cooper

Dean Brown

Greens Party

Liberal Party

Bill Shorten

Mary Lee

Henry John Ayers

John Bannon

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

United Labor Party

National Trust of Australia

Joyce Steele

Benjamin Boothby

Jay Weatherill

Kelly Vincent

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lowitja O’Donoghue

King William IV

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John Colton

Catherine Helen Spence

Charles Cameron Kingston

Isobel Redmond

George Strickland Kingston

Natasha Stott Despoja

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

John Baker

Adam Goodes

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir William Morgan

Working Women’s Trade Union

Edward Stirling

League of Women Voters

Thomas Playford II

Aborigines Progress Association

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

Queen Elizabeth II

Edmund Barton

Gladys Elphick

Thomas Price

Sir Thomas Playford

Wendy Chapman

Rob Kerin

Don Dunstan

Penny Wong

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor John Hindmarsh

Hieu Van Le

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Party

Janine Haines

Frank Walsh

Sir Arthur Blyth

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Suffrage League

Eddie Mabo

Eight Hours Day Committee

Muriel Matters

Simon Birmingham

Sir Samuel Way

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

George Waterhouse

Francis Stacker Dutton

Henry Strangways

Lock the Gate

Governor George Gawler

Ian Purcell

Australian Democrats

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Olsen

Mike Rann

Lynn Arnold

Barbara Baird

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Bob Hawke

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Robin Millhouse

Susan Benny

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Anthony Albanese

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steele Hall

Shirley Peisley

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

AIDS Council of South Australia

William Boothby

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