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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.

Lawrence Grayson

Amanda Vanstone

Governor George Gawler

John Bannon

John Verran

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Suffrage League

John Alexander Cockburn

United Labor Party

United Trades and Labor Council

Jane Lomax-Smith

Women’s Liberation Movement

Shirley Peisley

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Gough Whitlam

Hieu Van Le

Mike Rann

Adam Goodes

Isobel Redmond

Gladys Elphick

Australian Labor Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Penny Wong

Susan Kiefel

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Samuel Way

Julia Gillard

Country Women’s Association

Bill Shorten

Australian Democrats

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Jay Weatherill

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sex Industry Network

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lynn Arnold

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Augusta Zadow

Charles Richmond Glover

John Baker

Kelly Vincent

City of Adelaide Corporation

Liberal Party

Barbara Baird

Greens Party

Edmund Barton

Peter Malinauskas

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Ian Purcell

Aborigines Progress Association

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry John Ayers

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Simon Birmingham

Country Party

George Strickland Kingston

Robin Millhouse

Bob Hawke

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Joyce Steele

Susan Benny

Eddie Mabo

Jessie Cooper

Francis Stacker Dutton

Catherine Helen Spence

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Charles Cameron Kingston

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas John Napier

Peter Cosgrove

Joseph Fisher

Steven Marshall

Muriel Matters

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas Price

Don Dunstan

Steele Hall

Janine Haines

John Olsen

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Wendy Chapman

David Tonkin

League of Women Voters

Mary Lee

Queen Adelaide

National Trust of Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

King William IV

Rob Kerin

Dean Brown

Governor John Hindmarsh

Quentin Bryce

Dame Roma Mitchell

Clyde Cameron

Mary Gaudron

Lock the Gate

Des Corcoran

Edward Stirling

William Boothby

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

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