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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.

Julia Gillard

Governor George Gawler

Australian Democrats

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Gladys Elphick

Bill Shorten

John Alexander Cockburn

Rob Kerin

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Susan Benny

Queen Elizabeth II

Gough Whitlam

Simon Birmingham

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Eddie Mabo

Steele Hall

Lock the Gate

Catherine Helen Spence

Steven Marshall

Charles Cameron Kingston

Jane Lomax-Smith

Country Women’s Association

Women’s Suffrage League

Augusta Zadow

Peter Cosgrove

Mike Rann

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eight Hours Day Committee

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas John Napier

City of Adelaide Corporation

Hieu Van Le

Australian Labor Party

John Verran

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Working Women’s Trade Union

George Strickland Kingston

Conservation Council of South Australia

Shirley Peisley

United Trades and Labor Council

Dean Brown

Wendy Chapman

Lynn Arnold

Queen Adelaide

King William IV

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Don Dunstan

William Boothby

Bob Hawke

John Bannon

Janine Haines

John Baker

Isobel Redmond

Malcolm Fraser

Francis Stacker Dutton

Susan Kiefel

Joyce Steele

Robin Millhouse

Liberal Party

John Olsen

Mary Lee

Malcolm Turnbull

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Benjamin Boothby

Henry John Ayers

Des Corcoran

Country Party

Sex Industry Network

Kelly Vincent

Muriel Matters

Penny Wong

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dame Roma Mitchell

Clyde Cameron

League of Women Voters

Barbara Baird

Edmund Barton

Adam Goodes

Sir Samuel Way

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Thomas Playford

Charles Richmond Glover

Ian Purcell

Mary Gaudron

Governor Richard MacDonnell

United Labor Party

Thomas Price

Sir Douglas Nicholls

AIDS Council of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lawrence Grayson

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Edward Stirling

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jessie Cooper

Quentin Bryce

National Trust of Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Greens Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

David Tonkin

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