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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.

Robin Millhouse

Wendy Chapman

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Simon Birmingham

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Samuel Way

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Thomas Playford

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Rob Kerin

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Hieu Van Le

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir John Colton

League of Women Voters

Malcolm Fraser

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Ian Purcell

John Alexander Cockburn

Peter Malinauskas

Sir William Morgan

Barbara Baird

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Greens Party

Lawrence Grayson

Mike Rann

John Verran

John Olsen

Jay Weatherill

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry John Ayers

City of Adelaide Corporation

Susan Kiefel

Boyle Travers Finniss

Bob Hawke

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir James Boucaut

Dean Brown

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Playford II

Julia Gillard

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Reynolds

George Waterhouse

Muriel Matters

Country Women’s Association

Des Corcoran

Edward Stirling

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bill Shorten

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

Frank Walsh

Clyde Cameron

Eddie Mabo

Sir John William Downer

Penny Wong

Liberal Party

Governor George Gawler

Anthony Albanese

Janine Haines

Sex Industry Network

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Suffrage League

David Tonkin

Catherine Helen Spence

Australian Democrats

Steele Hall

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Joseph Fisher

Peter Cosgrove

Mary Lee

Sir John Cox Bray

Malcolm Turnbull

Isobel Redmond

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Country Party

Jessie Cooper

Benjamin Boothby

Steven Marshall

Queen Elizabeth II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dame Roma Mitchell

Susan Benny

Quentin Bryce

Thomas John Napier

Adam Goodes

John Bannon

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Shirley Peisley

Thomas Price

Working Women’s Trade Union

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lock the Gate

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gough Whitlam

Lowitja O’Donoghue

United Trades and Labor Council

Henry Strangways

Sir Arthur Blyth

United Labor Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Edmund Barton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Queen Adelaide

Joyce Steele

Amanda Vanstone

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Baker

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Charles Richmond Glover

Augusta Zadow

William Boothby

John Hart

Aborigines Progress Association

Don Dunstan

King William IV

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