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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.

Janine Haines

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Mark Oliphant

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Isobel Redmond

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Country Party

Wendy Chapman

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Australian Labor Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Shirley Peisley

Natasha Stott Despoja

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor John Hindmarsh

Barbara Baird

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lawrence Grayson

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Aborigines Progress Association

Clyde Cameron

Robin Millhouse

John Bannon

Benjamin Boothby

John Baker

Rob Kerin

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Jessie Cooper

Joyce Steele

Edward Stirling

Penny Wong

Governor George Gawler

Amanda Vanstone

Country Women’s Association

Steven Marshall

Henry Strangways

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir John Colton

Mary Lee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Quentin Bryce

Bill Shorten

Susan Kiefel

Joseph Fisher

Muriel Matters

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Samuel Way

Kelly Vincent

Australian Democrats

John Alexander Cockburn

United Trades and Labor Council

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

AIDS Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Hart

Lock the Gate

Peter Cosgrove

John Verran

Mary Gaudron

Simon Birmingham

John Olsen

Queen Elizabeth II

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Liberation Movement

Conservation Council of South Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Liberal Party

Thomas Reynolds

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir John Cox Bray

Dean Brown

United Labor Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Eddie Mabo

Augusta Zadow

Mike Rann

Adam Goodes

Greens Party

King William IV

Sir William Morgan

Lynn Arnold

Jay Weatherill

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Frank Walsh

Henry John Ayers

Sir James Boucaut

Bob Hawke

Catherine Helen Spence

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Thomas John Napier

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Price

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sex Industry Network

League of Women Voters

Gough Whitlam

Des Corcoran

Don Dunstan

Edmund Barton

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Anthony Albanese

Ian Purcell

Susan Benny

George Waterhouse

Robert Storrie Guthrie

David Tonkin

Queen Adelaide

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Thomas Playford II

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Steele Hall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John William Downer

William Boothby

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