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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.

Joseph Fisher

United Labor Party

Gladys Elphick

Susan Kiefel

Queen Adelaide

Thomas John Napier

National Trust of Australia

William Boothby

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Reynolds

Bill Shorten

Janine Haines

Dame Roma Mitchell

Queen Elizabeth II

John Hart

Women’s Suffrage League

Catherine Helen Spence

Isobel Redmond

Peter Cosgrove

City of Adelaide Corporation

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Playford II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John Colton

Julia Gillard

Ian Purcell

Australian Labor Party

Barbara Baird

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lock the Gate

Governor George Gawler

Country Women’s Association

Lynn Arnold

Wendy Chapman

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Benjamin Boothby

Jay Weatherill

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mary Gaudron

George Strickland Kingston

Peter Malinauskas

Steven Marshall

Edmund Barton

Robin Millhouse

Sir Thomas Playford

Eight Hours Day Committee

Conservation Council of South Australia

Adam Goodes

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

Quentin Bryce

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

King William IV

Steele Hall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Clyde Cameron

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Richmond Glover

Joyce Steele

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

John Baker

Women’s Liberation Movement

Jessie Cooper

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Fraser

Governor John Hindmarsh

Don Dunstan

Charles Cameron Kingston

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Olsen

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

AIDS Council of South Australia

Kelly Vincent

Aborigines Progress Association

Sex Industry Network

Natasha Stott Despoja

Penny Wong

Sir William Morgan

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

Hieu Van Le

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mike Rann

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Arthur Blyth

Liberal Party

League of Women Voters

Sir John William Downer

Bob Hawke

Thomas Price

Gough Whitlam

Rob Kerin

George Waterhouse

Henry John Ayers

United Trades and Labor Council

Shirley Peisley

Boyle Travers Finniss

Henry Strangways

Dean Brown

David Tonkin

Simon Birmingham

Frank Walsh

Muriel Matters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Anthony Albanese

John Verran

Augusta Zadow

Des Corcoran

John Bannon

Greens Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Susan Benny

Eddie Mabo

Country Party

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