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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.

Australian Democrats

Gough Whitlam

Francis Stacker Dutton

Simon Birmingham

Eddie Mabo

John Baker

Charles Cameron Kingston

Steele Hall

Bill Shorten

Natasha Stott Despoja

Anthony Albanese

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Samuel Way

United Labor Party

Clyde Cameron

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Jessie Cooper

Lynn Arnold

Queen Elizabeth II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Boyle Travers Finniss

Peter Cosgrove

Susan Benny

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Isobel Redmond

John Verran

Penny Wong

Conservation Council of South Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Dame Roma Mitchell

Catherine Helen Spence

National Trust of Australia

Quentin Bryce

Malcolm Turnbull

Ian Purcell

Thomas Playford II

George Waterhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Bannon

Muriel Matters

Peter Malinauskas

United Trades and Labor Council

Wendy Chapman

League of Women Voters

Mary Lee

Edward Stirling

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas John Napier

Dean Brown

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Price

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Colton

Don Dunstan

Sir John William Downer

Country Women’s Association

Malcolm Fraser

Julia Gillard

William Boothby

John Alexander Cockburn

John Hart

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

City of Adelaide Corporation

Queen Adelaide

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir William Morgan

Mary Gaudron

Lawrence Grayson

Greens Party

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir John Cox Bray

Adam Goodes

Sir Mark Oliphant

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Suffrage League

Working Women’s Trade Union

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mike Rann

Augusta Zadow

Susan Kiefel

Joyce Steele

Jay Weatherill

Steven Marshall

Rob Kerin

King William IV

Country Party

Des Corcoran

John Olsen

Edmund Barton

Gladys Elphick

Sir Thomas Playford

David Tonkin

Janine Haines

Henry John Ayers

Sex Industry Network

George Strickland Kingston

Barbara Baird

Liberal Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Amanda Vanstone

Kelly Vincent

Sir Arthur Blyth

Governor George Gawler

Lock the Gate

Shirley Peisley

Bob Hawke

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Hieu Van Le

Frank Walsh

Henry Strangways

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