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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.

Sir John Colton

John Verran

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Arthur Blyth

Henry Strangways

King William IV

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

League of Women Voters

Quentin Bryce

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Greens Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Gladys Elphick

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Thomas Playford

Lawrence Grayson

Gough Whitlam

Catherine Helen Spence

Governor George Gawler

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

Janine Haines

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Augusta Zadow

National Trust of Australia

Bill Shorten

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John William Downer

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Wendy Chapman

George Strickland Kingston

Steele Hall

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Baker

George Waterhouse

Charles Richmond Glover

Country Women’s Association

Country Party

Isobel Redmond

Clyde Cameron

Dean Brown

Sex Industry Network

Peter Cosgrove

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Barbara Baird

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

Mike Rann

Susan Benny

Joyce Steele

Queen Adelaide

Peter Malinauskas

John Hart

Hieu Van Le

Liberal Party

Lock the Gate

John Bannon

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Price

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Ian Purcell

Adam Goodes

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Edward Stirling

Henry John Ayers

Anthony Albanese

Lynn Arnold

Kelly Vincent

Mary Lee

Eight Hours Day Committee

Joseph Fisher

John Alexander Cockburn

David Tonkin

Thomas John Napier

John Olsen

Shirley Peisley

Simon Birmingham

Jessie Cooper

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Bob Hawke

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

Susan Kiefel

Don Dunstan

Steven Marshall

Rob Kerin

Julia Gillard

Edmund Barton

Malcolm Turnbull

Women’s Liberation Movement

Frank Walsh

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Samuel Way

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Benjamin Boothby

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir William Morgan

Robin Millhouse

Penny Wong

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Suffrage League

Aborigines Progress Association

Boyle Travers Finniss

United Labor Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

William Boothby

Mary Gaudron

Malcolm Fraser

Australian Democrats

Eddie Mabo

Queen Elizabeth II

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