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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.

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Gaudron

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Aborigines Progress Association

Malcolm Turnbull

Women’s Liberation Movement

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir John Colton

Ian Purcell

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Arthur Blyth

Clyde Cameron

Amanda Vanstone

George Waterhouse

Joyce Steele

Edmund Barton

Boyle Travers Finniss

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Hart

Julia Gillard

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Reynolds

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lock the Gate

Steele Hall

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Conservation Council of South Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Anthony Albanese

Thomas Playford II

John Bannon

William Boothby

Gladys Elphick

John Verran

Charles Cameron Kingston

Natasha Stott Despoja

Australian Labor Party

Quentin Bryce

Bob Hawke

Malcolm Fraser

Queen Adelaide

Thomas John Napier

Mary Lee

Lawrence Grayson

Bill Shorten

Jessie Cooper

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Eddie Mabo

League of Women Voters

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir James Boucaut

Francis Stacker Dutton

Country Women’s Association

Catherine Helen Spence

Gough Whitlam

Barbara Baird

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir William Morgan

Susan Kiefel

Henry John Ayers

Des Corcoran

Adam Goodes

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Muriel Matters

Charles Richmond Glover

United Trades and Labor Council

Dean Brown

Peter Malinauskas

Thomas Price

Sex Industry Network

Frank Walsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Mike Rann

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lynn Arnold

Kelly Vincent

George Strickland Kingston

King William IV

National Trust of Australia

Sir John William Downer

Eight Hours Day Committee

Don Dunstan

Sir Samuel Way

Henry Strangways

Queen Elizabeth II

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Shirley Peisley

Rob Kerin

City of Adelaide Corporation

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

David Tonkin

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Australian Democrats

Augusta Zadow

Wendy Chapman

Benjamin Boothby

Country Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Simon Birmingham

Liberal Party

John Baker

Dame Roma Mitchell

Robin Millhouse

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Mark Oliphant

Steven Marshall

Penny Wong

John Olsen

Janine Haines

Edward Stirling

Hieu Van Le

Peter Cosgrove

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

United Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

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