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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.

David Tonkin

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Price

John Alexander Cockburn

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

Steven Marshall

Susan Kiefel

Robin Millhouse

League of Women Voters

Country Women’s Association

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Thomas John Napier

Charles Cameron Kingston

Susan Benny

Jessie Cooper

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

King William IV

Women’s Suffrage League

Australian Democrats

Governor George Gawler

Mike Rann

Natasha Stott Despoja

Hieu Van Le

John Verran

Boyle Travers Finniss

Augusta Zadow

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir John Cox Bray

Ian Purcell

Bill Shorten

Mary Gaudron

Steele Hall

Isobel Redmond

Penny Wong

Thomas Playford II

John Baker

Lock the Gate

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir James Boucaut

Julia Gillard

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Waterhouse

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Kelly Vincent

Henry John Ayers

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Conservation Council of South Australia

Muriel Matters

Sir William Morgan

John Bannon

Peter Cosgrove

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lawrence Grayson

Malcolm Fraser

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Mark Oliphant

Shirley Peisley

Benjamin Boothby

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Jay Weatherill

Charles Richmond Glover

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Reynolds

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lynn Arnold

Frank Walsh

Liberal Party

Gladys Elphick

Joyce Steele

Greens Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Barbara Baird

Adam Goodes

John Olsen

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Mary Lee

Anthony Albanese

Edmund Barton

Country Party

William Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Hart

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Aborigines Progress Association

United Labor Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

Queen Adelaide

Des Corcoran

Sir John William Downer

Janine Haines

Queen Elizabeth II

City of Adelaide Corporation

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Wendy Chapman

Henry Strangways

Sex Industry Network

Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Australian Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Simon Birmingham

Dean Brown

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Samuel Way

Clyde Cameron

Edward Stirling

Quentin Bryce

Bob Hawke

Rob Kerin

Sir Thomas Playford

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Don Dunstan

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir John Colton

AIDS Council of South Australia

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