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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.

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Ian Purcell

William Boothby

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Colton

Boyle Travers Finniss

Catherine Helen Spence

John Baker

Gladys Elphick

John Olsen

Augusta Zadow

Henry Strangways

United Labor Party

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Hieu Van Le

Country Party

Barbara Baird

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

League of Women Voters

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir James Boucaut

Muriel Matters

Mike Rann

Wendy Chapman

Aborigines Progress Association

Queen Elizabeth II

Lawrence Grayson

Sir John William Downer

Sex Industry Network

United Trades and Labor Council

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Rob Kerin

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Penny Wong

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

David Tonkin

Working Women’s Trade Union

Peter Malinauskas

Australian Democrats

Don Dunstan

Governor George Gawler

Steven Marshall

Women’s Suffrage League

Janine Haines

Simon Birmingham

Dean Brown

Charles Cameron Kingston

Adam Goodes

George Waterhouse

Liberal Party

Frank Walsh

Quentin Bryce

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas John Napier

Country Women’s Association

Jay Weatherill

Benjamin Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Henry John Ayers

Susan Kiefel

Des Corcoran

Bob Hawke

Jessie Cooper

AIDS Council of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

King William IV

Peter Cosgrove

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Samuel Way

John Hart

Lock the Gate

Sir John Cox Bray

Queen Adelaide

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Gough Whitlam

Joseph Fisher

Bill Shorten

Thomas Playford II

Isobel Redmond

Edward Stirling

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas Reynolds

John Verran

Kelly Vincent

Dame Roma Mitchell

Steele Hall

Shirley Peisley

National Trust of Australia

Mary Gaudron

Joyce Steele

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Mark Oliphant

George Strickland Kingston

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Charles Richmond Glover

Lynn Arnold

Edmund Barton

Anthony Albanese

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Thomas Playford

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Liberation Movement

Julia Gillard

Thomas Price

John Bannon

Susan Benny

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mary Lee

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Malcolm Fraser

Clyde Cameron

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Greens Party

Sir William Morgan

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Eddie Mabo

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Francis Stacker Dutton

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