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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.

Charles Richmond Glover

George Waterhouse

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

United Trades and Labor Council

Adam Goodes

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

William Boothby

National Trust of Australia

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Susan Benny

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lawrence Grayson

League of Women Voters

Malcolm Turnbull

Mary Gaudron

Sir John William Downer

George Strickland Kingston

Muriel Matters

Boyle Travers Finniss

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas John Napier

Joyce Steele

Julia Gillard

Bill Shorten

Aborigines Progress Association

Eddie Mabo

Dean Brown

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Australian Democrats

Henry John Ayers

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Mark Oliphant

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Shirley Peisley

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Baker

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir James Boucaut

United Labor Party

Lock the Gate

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir John Colton

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas Playford II

Edward Stirling

Barbara Baird

Sir Samuel Way

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Malcolm Fraser

Women’s Liberation Movement

Jay Weatherill

Rob Kerin

Country Party

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Quentin Bryce

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Sir John Cox Bray

Wendy Chapman

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir William Morgan

Augusta Zadow

Conservation Council of South Australia

Isobel Redmond

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

King William IV

Edmund Barton

Women’s Suffrage League

AIDS Council of South Australia

Queen Elizabeth II

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Adelaide

Mike Rann

Bob Hawke

Natasha Stott Despoja

Steele Hall

Mary Lee

Liberal Party

Anthony Albanese

John Verran

John Olsen

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Alexander Cockburn

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Thomas Playford

Simon Birmingham

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Gough Whitlam

Joseph Fisher

Ian Purcell

John Bannon

John Hart

Greens Party

Peter Cosgrove

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Labor Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Penny Wong

Thomas Price

Lynn Arnold

Benjamin Boothby

Sex Industry Network

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Clyde Cameron

Governor George Gawler

Charles Cameron Kingston

Frank Walsh

Hieu Van Le

Dame Roma Mitchell

Des Corcoran

Thomas Reynolds

Jessie Cooper

Don Dunstan

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