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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.

John Hart

Women’s Suffrage League

Rob Kerin

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Julia Gillard

Thomas Playford II

Mike Rann

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Country Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lawrence Grayson

Jay Weatherill

Jessie Cooper

Gladys Elphick

Quentin Bryce

Joyce Steele

Liberal Party

Mary Lee

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Samuel Way

Edward Stirling

Catherine Helen Spence

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Lock the Gate

Augusta Zadow

Steven Marshall

George Waterhouse

Malcolm Fraser

Working Women’s Trade Union

Bob Hawke

Adam Goodes

Thomas Reynolds

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

George Strickland Kingston

Janine Haines

Aborigines Progress Association

Robin Millhouse

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Susan Kiefel

Queen Adelaide

Greens Party

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir John Cox Bray

Don Dunstan

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Benjamin Boothby

Mary Gaudron

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Price

Malcolm Turnbull

King William IV

Anthony Albanese

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Verran

United Trades and Labor Council

League of Women Voters

Kelly Vincent

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Bill Shorten

Susan Benny

William Boothby

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Mark Oliphant

Queen Elizabeth II

National Trust of Australia

John Bannon

Muriel Matters

Francis Stacker Dutton

Eight Hours Day Committee

Steele Hall

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Thomas Playford

John Baker

Thomas John Napier

Hieu Van Le

Edmund Barton

Simon Birmingham

Governor George Gawler

Peter Cosgrove

Barbara Baird

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John Colton

Country Women’s Association

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

Wendy Chapman

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Frank Walsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Penny Wong

Gough Whitlam

United Labor Party

Clyde Cameron

Dean Brown

Eddie Mabo

Australian Labor Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Isobel Redmond

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir William Morgan

Women’s Liberation Movement

Australian Democrats

Amanda Vanstone

David Tonkin

Natasha Stott Despoja

Henry Strangways

Sir John William Downer

Ian Purcell

Henry John Ayers

Des Corcoran

Sex Industry Network

Sir James Boucaut

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