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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.

Queen Adelaide

John Olsen

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

William Boothby

Sir Mark Oliphant

Dean Brown

Hieu Van Le

Henry Strangways

Thomas Reynolds

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Liberal Party

Simon Birmingham

Greens Party

Governor George Gawler

Sir Samuel Way

Joyce Steele

Susan Benny

Des Corcoran

Gough Whitlam

Sir Douglas Nicholls

United Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

Conservation Council of South Australia

Don Dunstan

League of Women Voters

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Kiefel

John Hart

Anthony Albanese

Peter Cosgrove

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Bannon

AIDS Council of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

Bill Shorten

Eddie Mabo

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steele Hall

Australian Democrats

Thomas Playford II

City of Adelaide Corporation

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Frank Walsh

Malcolm Fraser

Muriel Matters

Edmund Barton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

David Tonkin

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Mary Gaudron

King William IV

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lynn Arnold

Clyde Cameron

Lawrence Grayson

National Trust of Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Rob Kerin

Kelly Vincent

Adam Goodes

Isobel Redmond

Lock the Gate

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Australian Labor Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Penny Wong

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Janine Haines

Steven Marshall

Eight Hours Day Committee

Shirley Peisley

George Waterhouse

Jay Weatherill

Thomas John Napier

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Price

John Verran

Ian Purcell

Julia Gillard

Joseph Fisher

Jessie Cooper

Queen Elizabeth II

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Suffrage League

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Quentin Bryce

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir John William Downer

Sir James Boucaut

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Edward Stirling

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Arthur Blyth

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Catherine Helen Spence

Bob Hawke

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir John Cox Bray

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Thomas Playford

Wendy Chapman

Country Women’s Association

Barbara Baird

John Baker

Sir John Colton

Amanda Vanstone

Mike Rann

Aborigines Progress Association

Boyle Travers Finniss

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Gladys Elphick

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