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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.

Conservation Council of South Australia

Edward Stirling

Henry John Ayers

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Australian Democrats

Country Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jessie Cooper

Governor George Gawler

Shirley Peisley

Henry Strangways

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Peter Cosgrove

Country Women’s Association

Catherine Helen Spence

Edmund Barton

Hieu Van Le

Dame Roma Mitchell

Malcolm Turnbull

Simon Birmingham

George Waterhouse

Penny Wong

Thomas Reynolds

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

Amanda Vanstone

Thomas John Napier

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Colton

Susan Kiefel

Charles Richmond Glover

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Suffrage League

Gough Whitlam

John Alexander Cockburn

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lynn Arnold

Gladys Elphick

Bob Hawke

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Isobel Redmond

Sir Arthur Blyth

Julia Gillard

National Trust of Australia

Kelly Vincent

John Olsen

Don Dunstan

Sex Industry Network

Des Corcoran

Sir Thomas Playford

Muriel Matters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Benjamin Boothby

Steven Marshall

Dean Brown

Malcolm Fraser

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Price

Eddie Mabo

Augusta Zadow

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John William Downer

Ian Purcell

United Labor Party

King William IV

George Strickland Kingston

City of Adelaide Corporation

David Tonkin

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Women’s Liberation Movement

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Bannon

Mary Lee

Thomas Playford II

Anthony Albanese

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Barbara Baird

Working Women’s Trade Union

Greens Party

Robin Millhouse

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Samuel Way

United Trades and Labor Council

League of Women Voters

Sir William Morgan

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Liberal Party

Joyce Steele

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Charles Cameron Kingston

Adam Goodes

Bill Shorten

Peter Malinauskas

Lock the Gate

William Boothby

Queen Adelaide

John Verran

Sir James Boucaut

Aborigines Progress Association

Mary Gaudron

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Mark Oliphant

Quentin Bryce

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Janine Haines

John Baker

Mike Rann

Wendy Chapman

Sir John Cox Bray

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

John Hart

Steele Hall

Australian Labor Party

Clyde Cameron

Rob Kerin

Frank Walsh

Queen Elizabeth II

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