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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.

John Olsen

Don Dunstan

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Mark Oliphant

Country Party

Dean Brown

George Waterhouse

Amanda Vanstone

Eddie Mabo

Jessie Cooper

Hieu Van Le

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir James Boucaut

Australian Labor Party

Robin Millhouse

Sir Samuel Way

National Trust of Australia

Julia Gillard

Boyle Travers Finniss

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

United Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Edmund Barton

John Verran

Henry John Ayers

United Trades and Labor Council

Governor George Gawler

Sir John Cox Bray

Lock the Gate

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Malcolm Fraser

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Penny Wong

Sir John Colton

Muriel Matters

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Thomas Price

John Bannon

AIDS Council of South Australia

Edward Stirling

Barbara Baird

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Mike Rann

Kelly Vincent

Thomas Reynolds

Queen Elizabeth II

King William IV

Mary Gaudron

Augusta Zadow

Benjamin Boothby

Rob Kerin

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sex Industry Network

Jay Weatherill

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Wendy Chapman

Bob Hawke

Thomas John Napier

William Boothby

Australian Democrats

Clyde Cameron

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Natasha Stott Despoja

Bill Shorten

John Hart

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Des Corcoran

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Catherine Helen Spence

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Working Women’s Trade Union

Gough Whitlam

Queen Adelaide

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

Quentin Bryce

Frank Walsh

Janine Haines

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Steele Hall

City of Adelaide Corporation

Gladys Elphick

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mary Lee

Liberal Party

Sir John William Downer

Lynn Arnold

Dame Roma Mitchell

Simon Birmingham

Charles Cameron Kingston

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Aborigines Progress Association

Steven Marshall

Sir William Morgan

Anthony Albanese

Peter Cosgrove

Charles Richmond Glover

Susan Kiefel

Joyce Steele

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Arthur Blyth

Henry Strangways

League of Women Voters

Peter Malinauskas

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