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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.

Dame Roma Mitchell

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Des Corcoran

Australian Labor Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Penny Wong

Eddie Mabo

Women’s Suffrage League

Shirley Peisley

Clyde Cameron

Steele Hall

Lock the Gate

Mike Rann

Australian Democrats

King William IV

John Bannon

Rob Kerin

Bob Hawke

Country Women’s Association

Isobel Redmond

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Baker

Anthony Albanese

Wendy Chapman

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Greens Party

William Boothby

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir William Morgan

Benjamin Boothby

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Elizabeth II

Gladys Elphick

Steven Marshall

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Augusta Zadow

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Electoral Lobby

National Trust of Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir John Colton

Susan Kiefel

Conservation Council of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Liberal Party

Gough Whitlam

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Dean Brown

Charles Cameron Kingston

Aborigines Progress Association

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Peter Malinauskas

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Henry Strangways

Quentin Bryce

John Hart

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Liberation Movement

Ian Purcell

Sex Industry Network

Jessie Cooper

Amanda Vanstone

George Waterhouse

AIDS Council of South Australia

Simon Birmingham

Edward Stirling

Thomas Reynolds

United Trades and Labor Council

City of Adelaide Corporation

Jay Weatherill

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Adam Goodes

Kelly Vincent

Boyle Travers Finniss

Joyce Steele

Lawrence Grayson

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Queen Adelaide

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Catherine Helen Spence

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas Price

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Bill Shorten

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

Joseph Fisher

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas John Napier

Edmund Barton

Janine Haines

Sir Arthur Blyth

Susan Benny

John Verran

United Labor Party

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Gaudron

Don Dunstan

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Samuel Way

Hieu Van Le

John Olsen

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Charles Richmond Glover

Barbara Baird

Henry John Ayers

Working Women’s Trade Union

Jane Lomax-Smith

Sir James Boucaut

Country Party

Mary Lee

Sir Mark Oliphant

George Strickland Kingston

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