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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.

Clyde Cameron

Dame Roma Mitchell

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Barbara Baird

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Reynolds

Lock the Gate

Isobel Redmond

Susan Benny

Sex Industry Network

Benjamin Boothby

Bob Hawke

Shirley Peisley

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Conservation Council of South Australia

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Australian Labor Party

Don Dunstan

John Verran

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir John Colton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Malcolm Turnbull

Jessie Cooper

Gladys Elphick

National Trust of Australia

Hieu Van Le

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Susan Kiefel

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Edmund Barton

Francis Stacker Dutton

Amanda Vanstone

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Sir John William Downer

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Greens Party

Joyce Steele

Thomas Playford II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Samuel Way

John Baker

Anthony Albanese

David Tonkin

Gough Whitlam

Henry John Ayers

Sir William Morgan

Rob Kerin

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mary Lee

Bill Shorten

Sir James Boucaut

Muriel Matters

Natasha Stott Despoja

Augusta Zadow

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Liberation Movement

Edward Stirling

Kelly Vincent

Henry Strangways

United Trades and Labor Council

Steven Marshall

Sir John Cox Bray

City of Adelaide Corporation

George Strickland Kingston

Frank Walsh

Country Women’s Association

Governor John Hindmarsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Dean Brown

Queen Adelaide

Mike Rann

Australian Democrats

Thomas John Napier

Joseph Fisher

Robin Millhouse

Steele Hall

Adam Goodes

Governor George Gawler

Women’s Suffrage League

Country Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

King William IV

Mary Gaudron

Janine Haines

Catherine Helen Spence

AIDS Council of South Australia

Des Corcoran

Boyle Travers Finniss

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Bannon

Quentin Bryce

Charles Cameron Kingston

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Price

Eddie Mabo

League of Women Voters

Jay Weatherill

John Hart

Ian Purcell

John Alexander Cockburn

Lynn Arnold

Julia Gillard

United Labor Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Charles Richmond Glover

George Waterhouse

Liberal Party

Malcolm Fraser

John Olsen

Simon Birmingham

Penny Wong

Aborigines Progress Association

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