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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.

Susan Kiefel

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Don Dunstan

Dame Roma Mitchell

Quentin Bryce

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas Playford II

John Bannon

Rob Kerin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Labor Party

Steven Marshall

Wendy Chapman

Augusta Zadow

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Henry Strangways

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Des Corcoran

Sex Industry Network

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Thomas Playford

Lawrence Grayson

Isobel Redmond

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mike Rann

Charles Cameron Kingston

United Labor Party

Barbara Baird

King William IV

Kelly Vincent

Bob Hawke

Catherine Helen Spence

Benjamin Boothby

Adam Goodes

Joyce Steele

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Price

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steele Hall

John Baker

Edmund Barton

Muriel Matters

Sir James Boucaut

Penny Wong

Jessie Cooper

Governor John Hindmarsh

George Waterhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Suffrage League

Clyde Cameron

Jay Weatherill

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Country Women’s Association

Anthony Albanese

Bill Shorten

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Olsen

Lock the Gate

Robert Storrie Guthrie

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Mary Gaudron

Eight Hours Day Committee

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas John Napier

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dean Brown

League of Women Voters

AIDS Council of South Australia

Julia Gillard

John Hart

Sir John Colton

Governor George Gawler

Joseph Fisher

Robin Millhouse

Lynn Arnold

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Amanda Vanstone

Henry John Ayers

Sir William Morgan

Greens Party

Gough Whitlam

Susan Benny

Simon Birmingham

William Boothby

Malcolm Turnbull

John Verran

Liberal Party

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Natasha Stott Despoja

National Trust of Australia

Ian Purcell

Sir Samuel Way

Australian Democrats

Governor Richard MacDonnell

David Tonkin

Queen Elizabeth II

Gladys Elphick

Queen Adelaide

Frank Walsh

Sir John William Downer

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas Reynolds

Janine Haines

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Lee

Peter Malinauskas

Hieu Van Le

Francis Stacker Dutton

Country Party

Eddie Mabo

John Alexander Cockburn

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