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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.

Women’s Liberation Movement

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Queen Adelaide

Lynn Arnold

Peter Cosgrove

Mike Rann

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Dean Brown

Steele Hall

Amanda Vanstone

Malcolm Fraser

Rob Kerin

Eddie Mabo

Augusta Zadow

Quentin Bryce

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas John Napier

Janine Haines

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Kiefel

Charles Cameron Kingston

David Tonkin

Gladys Elphick

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas Reynolds

Henry Strangways

Lawrence Grayson

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Baker

John Olsen

William Boothby

Governor George Gawler

Joyce Steele

Sir Thomas Playford

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

George Strickland Kingston

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Penny Wong

John Hart

Catherine Helen Spence

Clyde Cameron

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Country Party

United Labor Party

Liberal Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Julia Gillard

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Mark Oliphant

Peter Malinauskas

Sir John William Downer

Robin Millhouse

Adam Goodes

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Eight Hours Day Committee

Greens Party

Jessie Cooper

League of Women Voters

Anthony Albanese

Aborigines Progress Association

Kelly Vincent

Francis Stacker Dutton

Simon Birmingham

Edward Stirling

Joseph Fisher

Jay Weatherill

Henry John Ayers

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Sir James Boucaut

Hieu Van Le

Boyle Travers Finniss

United Trades and Labor Council

George Waterhouse

Isobel Redmond

Frank Walsh

Sir William Morgan

Barbara Baird

Des Corcoran

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Alexander Cockburn

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Playford II

John Verran

Dame Roma Mitchell

Working Women’s Trade Union

Shirley Peisley

Conservation Council of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Sir John Colton

Thomas Price

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Susan Benny

Bill Shorten

Gough Whitlam

Muriel Matters

Edmund Barton

Ian Purcell

Mary Lee

Queen Elizabeth II

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Wendy Chapman

Bob Hawke

King William IV

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Women’s Suffrage League

Australian Democrats

Sex Industry Network

John Bannon

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Australian Labor Party

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