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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.

Charles Richmond Glover

National Trust of Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

Catherine Helen Spence

John Olsen

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Reynolds

Augusta Zadow

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Suffrage League

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Wendy Chapman

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Peter Malinauskas

Susan Benny

Simon Birmingham

Steven Marshall

Steele Hall

Jay Weatherill

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Mark Oliphant

Joyce Steele

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Dean Brown

Peter Cosgrove

Queen Adelaide

John Verran

Country Party

Henry Strangways

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Amanda Vanstone

Barbara Baird

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Julia Gillard

Adam Goodes

Charles Cameron Kingston

Edward Stirling

Gough Whitlam

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Edmund Barton

Governor John Hindmarsh

United Labor Party

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas John Napier

Isobel Redmond

Governor George Gawler

Francis Stacker Dutton

Kelly Vincent

Sir John William Downer

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Australian Democrats

Frank Walsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir William Morgan

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Samuel Way

John Hart

John Baker

Lynn Arnold

Sir James Boucaut

Country Women’s Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Liberal Party

Eddie Mabo

Lock the Gate

Janine Haines

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Elizabeth II

Gladys Elphick

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Anthony Albanese

Sir John Colton

Rob Kerin

Susan Kiefel

League of Women Voters

Shirley Peisley

Greens Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Benjamin Boothby

Sex Industry Network

Ian Purcell

George Strickland Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

Mike Rann

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Penny Wong

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Thomas Playford

Bill Shorten

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

United Trades and Labor Council

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

George Waterhouse

David Tonkin

John Bannon

City of Adelaide Corporation

Australian Labor Party

William Boothby

Mary Gaudron

Aborigines Progress Association

Joseph Fisher

Muriel Matters

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dame Roma Mitchell

Quentin Bryce

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

King William IV

Clyde Cameron

Boyle Travers Finniss

Des Corcoran

Bob Hawke

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

Jessie Cooper

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Arthur Blyth

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