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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.

John Verran

Sir John William Downer

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Barbara Baird

Joyce Steele

Penny Wong

Ian Purcell

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mary Lee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Amanda Vanstone

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Women’s Suffrage League

Des Corcoran

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Hieu Van Le

Thomas Reynolds

Mary Gaudron

Sir William Morgan

King William IV

George Strickland Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Olsen

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Alexander Cockburn

Henry Strangways

Peter Cosgrove

Steven Marshall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Dame Roma Mitchell

Janine Haines

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Democrats

Lynn Arnold

Francis Stacker Dutton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Susan Benny

Steele Hall

Malcolm Fraser

Lawrence Grayson

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Shirley Peisley

Rob Kerin

Benjamin Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Susan Kiefel

Anthony Albanese

Augusta Zadow

Mike Rann

Joseph Fisher

Robin Millhouse

Sir Thomas Playford

Edmund Barton

Queen Adelaide

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

Eddie Mabo

Charles Richmond Glover

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

League of Women Voters

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Arthur Blyth

Frank Walsh

Gladys Elphick

United Trades and Labor Council

George Waterhouse

Boyle Travers Finniss

Natasha Stott Despoja

Don Dunstan

William Boothby

Bill Shorten

Muriel Matters

Eight Hours Day Committee

Peter Malinauskas

Jay Weatherill

Adam Goodes

Aborigines Progress Association

Dean Brown

Wendy Chapman

Julia Gillard

Sex Industry Network

United Labor Party

Simon Birmingham

Sir James Boucaut

Edward Stirling

Liberal Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Gough Whitlam

Sir Samuel Way

Greens Party

National Trust of Australia

Henry John Ayers

Women’s Liberation Movement

Isobel Redmond

Catherine Helen Spence

Country Women’s Association

Thomas John Napier

Country Party

John Bannon

Clyde Cameron

John Hart

Bob Hawke

Lock the Gate

City of Adelaide Corporation

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Cox Bray

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

David Tonkin

Thomas Price

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Baker

Malcolm Turnbull

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Mark Oliphant

Governor George Gawler

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir John Colton

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