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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.

Ian Purcell

Penny Wong

Thomas John Napier

Steele Hall

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mike Rann

Natasha Stott Despoja

Augusta Zadow

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steven Marshall

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Henry Strangways

Barbara Baird

John Alexander Cockburn

Don Dunstan

Peter Cosgrove

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Fraser

Robin Millhouse

John Hart

Jessie Cooper

United Labor Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

King William IV

Australian Labor Party

William Boothby

Gough Whitlam

Amanda Vanstone

Mary Lee

Des Corcoran

Joseph Fisher

Adam Goodes

Clyde Cameron

Hieu Van Le

Muriel Matters

John Baker

Benjamin Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Verran

Women’s Suffrage League

Rob Kerin

Liberal Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

George Waterhouse

Country Party

Mary Gaudron

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor George Gawler

Charles Cameron Kingston

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Thomas Playford

Henry John Ayers

Eddie Mabo

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Bob Hawke

Sir James Boucaut

Bill Shorten

Sir William Morgan

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Queen Adelaide

Working Women’s Trade Union

Peter Malinauskas

Anthony Albanese

Sir Samuel Way

Janine Haines

Julia Gillard

Queen Elizabeth II

Edward Stirling

Kelly Vincent

Joyce Steele

John Bannon

Eight Hours Day Committee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Gladys Elphick

Sir John Cox Bray

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas Playford II

Aborigines Progress Association

Quentin Bryce

Dean Brown

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sex Industry Network

Edmund Barton

Sir John William Downer

Susan Kiefel

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

George Strickland Kingston

Lock the Gate

League of Women Voters

Lawrence Grayson

National Trust of Australia

David Tonkin

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dame Roma Mitchell

Australian Democrats

Charles Richmond Glover

Lynn Arnold

Simon Birmingham

Wendy Chapman

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Reynolds

Sir John Colton

Country Women’s Association

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Jay Weatherill

Greens Party

Frank Walsh

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

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