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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.

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Augusta Zadow

George Waterhouse

Queen Adelaide

Sir John Colton

Malcolm Turnbull

Des Corcoran

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Suffrage League

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

Thomas Reynolds

Janine Haines

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Joseph Fisher

David Tonkin

Penny Wong

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Olsen

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Samuel Way

Mary Gaudron

Charles Richmond Glover

John Alexander Cockburn

John Baker

Sir Thomas Playford

Greens Party

Thomas Price

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gladys Elphick

King William IV

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Bill Shorten

Frank Walsh

Mary Lee

Country Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Amanda Vanstone

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

George Strickland Kingston

Dean Brown

Hieu Van Le

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Working Women’s Trade Union

League of Women Voters

AIDS Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Liberal Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Country Women’s Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Shirley Peisley

National Trust of Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Susan Benny

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Sir John Cox Bray

Robin Millhouse

United Labor Party

John Verran

Steven Marshall

Quentin Bryce

Jessie Cooper

Peter Cosgrove

John Bannon

Lowitja O’Donoghue

United Trades and Labor Council

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lawrence Grayson

Eddie Mabo

Steele Hall

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Rob Kerin

Lynn Arnold

Sir James Boucaut

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Barbara Baird

Susan Kiefel

Ian Purcell

Women’s Liberation Movement

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Malinauskas

Clyde Cameron

Sir John William Downer

Bob Hawke

Mike Rann

Sir Arthur Blyth

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Playford II

John Hart

Henry Strangways

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Edward Stirling

Francis Stacker Dutton

Wendy Chapman

Queen Elizabeth II

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Julia Gillard

Catherine Helen Spence

Simon Birmingham

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Australian Democrats

Gough Whitlam

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir William Morgan

Dame Roma Mitchell

Boyle Travers Finniss

Joyce Steele

Adam Goodes

Australian Labor Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Anthony Albanese

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