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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.

Lawrence Grayson

Anthony Albanese

Liberal Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Baker

Charles Richmond Glover

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Queen Adelaide

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir James Boucaut

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Democrats

Malcolm Turnbull

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Dame Roma Mitchell

Thomas Reynolds

Governor John Hindmarsh

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

George Waterhouse

Julia Gillard

Mary Gaudron

Edward Stirling

Don Dunstan

King William IV

Benjamin Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Eddie Mabo

Sir Samuel Way

John Hart

Women’s Suffrage League

Lynn Arnold

John Alexander Cockburn

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Olsen

Frank Walsh

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Janine Haines

League of Women Voters

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lock the Gate

Barbara Baird

AIDS Council of South Australia

Jay Weatherill

Mary Lee

David Tonkin

United Trades and Labor Council

Mike Rann

Quentin Bryce

Queen Elizabeth II

Robin Millhouse

Henry John Ayers

Sex Industry Network

Australian Labor Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Verran

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steven Marshall

Thomas John Napier

Country Party

Country Women’s Association

Sir John William Downer

National Trust of Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Mark Oliphant

Amanda Vanstone

Hieu Van Le

Steele Hall

Susan Benny

Greens Party

Gough Whitlam

John Bannon

Des Corcoran

Shirley Peisley

Peter Cosgrove

Bill Shorten

Malcolm Fraser

Boyle Travers Finniss

Jessie Cooper

Simon Birmingham

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Edmund Barton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Joseph Fisher

Sir John Colton

Gladys Elphick

Sir Thomas Playford

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Charles Cameron Kingston

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Wendy Chapman

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Henry Strangways

Sir John Cox Bray

Susan Kiefel

Thomas Price

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Ian Purcell

William Boothby

Joyce Steele

Thomas Playford II

Penny Wong

Francis Stacker Dutton

Rob Kerin

Kelly Vincent

Adam Goodes

Muriel Matters

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Bob Hawke

Augusta Zadow

United Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

Dean Brown

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Working Women’s Trade Union

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