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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.

Jessie Cooper

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas John Napier

Penny Wong

Adam Goodes

Susan Kiefel

Henry Strangways

League of Women Voters

Wendy Chapman

Australian Democrats

Working Women’s Trade Union

Bill Shorten

Steven Marshall

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Janine Haines

George Waterhouse

Australian Labor Party

John Bannon

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Liberation Movement

Joseph Fisher

Sir John William Downer

Catherine Helen Spence

Peter Malinauskas

Don Dunstan

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Liberal Party

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Benjamin Boothby

Mary Lee

Country Party

Quentin Bryce

Charles Cameron Kingston

Hieu Van Le

Edward Stirling

Anthony Albanese

Augusta Zadow

Barbara Baird

United Labor Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John Cox Bray

David Tonkin

Muriel Matters

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Elizabeth II

Julia Gillard

Steele Hall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Henry John Ayers

Lynn Arnold

Gladys Elphick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Natasha Stott Despoja

Ian Purcell

Lock the Gate

Gough Whitlam

Peter Cosgrove

Lawrence Grayson

Kelly Vincent

Clyde Cameron

Robin Millhouse

John Hart

Governor George Gawler

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Isobel Redmond

William Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Country Women’s Association

Mike Rann

King William IV

Dean Brown

Francis Stacker Dutton

Rob Kerin

Bob Hawke

Sir John Colton

John Olsen

Des Corcoran

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Greens Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Edmund Barton

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Playford II

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Gaudron

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Verran

Shirley Peisley

Thomas Price

Sex Industry Network

Thomas Reynolds

Joyce Steele

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir William Morgan

Sir Samuel Way

Queen Adelaide

Simon Birmingham

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Amanda Vanstone

Eddie Mabo

Susan Benny

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir James Boucaut

Frank Walsh

Women’s Suffrage League

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

City of Adelaide Corporation

United Trades and Labor Council

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Eight Hours Day Committee

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