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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 Bannon

Australian Democrats

Thomas Playford II

Sex Industry Network

Women’s Suffrage League

Barbara Baird

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Governor George Gawler

Adam Goodes

William Boothby

Gough Whitlam

Country Party

Benjamin Boothby

Jessie Cooper

Sir James Boucaut

George Waterhouse

Ian Purcell

Charles Cameron Kingston

Frank Walsh

Edmund Barton

Eddie Mabo

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Julia Gillard

League of Women Voters

Shirley Peisley

Robin Millhouse

Sir John William Downer

United Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Eight Hours Day Committee

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Working Women’s Trade Union

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Joseph Fisher

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Anthony Albanese

AIDS Council of South Australia

Peter Cosgrove

Edward Stirling

Sir Thomas Playford

John Baker

George Strickland Kingston

Greens Party

Susan Benny

Susan Kiefel

Wendy Chapman

Natasha Stott Despoja

Rob Kerin

Mary Lee

Don Dunstan

David Tonkin

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lock the Gate

Aborigines Progress Association

John Olsen

Peter Malinauskas

Governor John Hindmarsh

Bill Shorten

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Boyle Travers Finniss

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Price

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steven Marshall

Isobel Redmond

Kelly Vincent

United Trades and Labor Council

Country Women’s Association

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Lynn Arnold

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Samuel Way

Sir John Cox Bray

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Amanda Vanstone

John Verran

Bob Hawke

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Janine Haines

Augusta Zadow

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Queen Elizabeth II

Dean Brown

Australian Labor Party

Steele Hall

Henry Strangways

Joyce Steele

King William IV

Sir Arthur Blyth

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Hieu Van Le

Sir William Morgan

Sir John Colton

Gladys Elphick

Quentin Bryce

National Trust of Australia

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Clyde Cameron

Simon Birmingham

Malcolm Turnbull

John Hart

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Malcolm Fraser

John Alexander Cockburn

Mike Rann

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Des Corcoran

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