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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.

Lynn Arnold

Sir Mark Oliphant

Penny Wong

Barbara Baird

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Australian Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Australian Democrats

Mike Rann

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Peter Cosgrove

Don Dunstan

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Quentin Bryce

Thomas John Napier

Liberal Party

Benjamin Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Dame Roma Mitchell

National Trust of Australia

Wendy Chapman

George Strickland Kingston

John Hart

Francis Stacker Dutton

Henry John Ayers

Mary Gaudron

Adam Goodes

John Olsen

John Baker

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Price

Rob Kerin

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John William Downer

Country Party

Kelly Vincent

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Country Women’s Association

Amanda Vanstone

Frank Walsh

Sir Thomas Playford

John Alexander Cockburn

William Boothby

League of Women Voters

Greens Party

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Bannon

Malcolm Turnbull

Jessie Cooper

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Colton

Susan Benny

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lawrence Grayson

Malcolm Fraser

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Jay Weatherill

Queen Adelaide

Eddie Mabo

Sir William Morgan

Queen Elizabeth II

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir John Cox Bray

Robin Millhouse

Sir Samuel Way

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Verran

Muriel Matters

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

United Labor Party

George Waterhouse

Shirley Peisley

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

David Tonkin

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Suffrage League

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir James Boucaut

Isobel Redmond

Steele Hall

Governor George Gawler

Joyce Steele

Augusta Zadow

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

City of Adelaide Corporation

Julia Gillard

Thomas Playford II

Peter Malinauskas

Edmund Barton

Gladys Elphick

Clyde Cameron

Steven Marshall

Joseph Fisher

Working Women’s Trade Union

Janine Haines

Bob Hawke

United Trades and Labor Council

Dean Brown

Catherine Helen Spence

Henry Strangways

Edward Stirling

Bill Shorten

Boyle Travers Finniss

Simon Birmingham

King William IV

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Reynolds

Sex Industry Network

Anthony Albanese

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lock the Gate

Des Corcoran

Natasha Stott Despoja

Ian Purcell

Susan Kiefel

Mary Lee

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