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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.

Francis Stacker Dutton

Jay Weatherill

Janine Haines

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

George Waterhouse

Mike Rann

Sir John Colton

Women’s Suffrage League

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Hart

Edmund Barton

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Queen Adelaide

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Reynolds

Bill Shorten

Amanda Vanstone

Steele Hall

Isobel Redmond

Governor George Gawler

Malcolm Fraser

Simon Birmingham

Muriel Matters

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Joseph Fisher

Gough Whitlam

John Verran

Robin Millhouse

Country Party

Des Corcoran

Thomas Price

League of Women Voters

Mary Gaudron

Shirley Peisley

Sir John Cox Bray

Adam Goodes

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Thomas Playford

Susan Kiefel

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

King William IV

Sir James Boucaut

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Hieu Van Le

Lawrence Grayson

Augusta Zadow

Liberal Party

Wendy Chapman

Jessie Cooper

Sex Industry Network

Peter Malinauskas

Thomas John Napier

Queen Elizabeth II

United Labor Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir John William Downer

Lock the Gate

Eddie Mabo

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Samuel Way

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry John Ayers

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Arthur Blyth

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Playford II

Joyce Steele

Dean Brown

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir William Morgan

John Baker

Clyde Cameron

Rob Kerin

Lynn Arnold

Edward Stirling

John Bannon

Quentin Bryce

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Susan Benny

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Kelly Vincent

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Mark Oliphant

Country Women’s Association

John Olsen

David Tonkin

Women’s Liberation Movement

City of Adelaide Corporation

Gladys Elphick

Catherine Helen Spence

Mary Lee

Working Women’s Trade Union

Natasha Stott Despoja

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Julia Gillard

Barbara Baird

Malcolm Turnbull

Benjamin Boothby

George Strickland Kingston

Anthony Albanese

Australian Democrats

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Alexander Cockburn

Bob Hawke

Peter Cosgrove

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Steven Marshall

Charles Cameron Kingston

Greens Party

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