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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.

Julia Gillard

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Amanda Vanstone

Edmund Barton

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Hart

John Bannon

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Liberation Movement

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir James Boucaut

United Labor Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dean Brown

Queen Elizabeth II

Frank Walsh

Des Corcoran

John Verran

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

League of Women Voters

Don Dunstan

Eight Hours Day Committee

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Aborigines Progress Association

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Mark Oliphant

Mary Lee

George Waterhouse

Thomas Playford II

Charles Richmond Glover

National Trust of Australia

Steven Marshall

Sir John Colton

Peter Cosgrove

Country Party

Anthony Albanese

Penny Wong

Henry Strangways

King William IV

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Hieu Van Le

Mike Rann

Sir William Morgan

Benjamin Boothby

Clyde Cameron

Catherine Helen Spence

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Queen Adelaide

John Baker

Susan Benny

City of Adelaide Corporation

George Strickland Kingston

David Tonkin

Barbara Baird

Dame Roma Mitchell

Ian Purcell

Joyce Steele

Lynn Arnold

AIDS Council of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Boyle Travers Finniss

Edward Stirling

Kelly Vincent

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Quentin Bryce

Lock the Gate

Shirley Peisley

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Janine Haines

Susan Kiefel

Wendy Chapman

Governor George Gawler

Conservation Council of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Gough Whitlam

Liberal Party

Malcolm Fraser

Joseph Fisher

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Mary Gaudron

Governor John Hindmarsh

Muriel Matters

United Trades and Labor Council

Robin Millhouse

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Adam Goodes

Jessie Cooper

Steele Hall

Thomas Price

John Olsen

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas John Napier

Malcolm Turnbull

William Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Thomas Reynolds

Gladys Elphick

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Peter Malinauskas

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John William Downer

Simon Birmingham

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Australian Democrats

Women’s Suffrage League

Australian Labor Party

Rob Kerin

Bill Shorten

Sir John Cox Bray

Bob Hawke

Greens Party

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