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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 Robert Richard Torrens

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Joseph Fisher

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Simon Birmingham

Quentin Bryce

Mary Lee

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Liberation Movement

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Edward Stirling

Peter Malinauskas

Country Party

Susan Benny

City of Adelaide Corporation

Janine Haines

Jay Weatherill

Benjamin Boothby

Peter Cosgrove

Kelly Vincent

United Trades and Labor Council

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Malcolm Turnbull

United Labor Party

William Boothby

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Verran

George Waterhouse

Sex Industry Network

Steven Marshall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Amanda Vanstone

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Muriel Matters

Des Corcoran

Adam Goodes

Henry John Ayers

Sir James Boucaut

George Strickland Kingston

Hieu Van Le

John Bannon

Shirley Peisley

Eddie Mabo

Clyde Cameron

Frank Walsh

Isobel Redmond

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John William Downer

Thomas Price

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Mary Gaudron

Ian Purcell

Sir John Colton

John Hart

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

Julia Gillard

John Olsen

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Samuel Way

Australian Democrats

Boyle Travers Finniss

Edmund Barton

AIDS Council of South Australia

Greens Party

John Baker

Don Dunstan

Charles Richmond Glover

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Women’s Suffrage League

Lock the Gate

Governor George Gawler

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Augusta Zadow

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steele Hall

Liberal Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jessie Cooper

Gough Whitlam

Natasha Stott Despoja

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Sir Thomas Playford

Mike Rann

Lawrence Grayson

Queen Adelaide

King William IV

League of Women Voters

Susan Kiefel

Thomas John Napier

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Wendy Chapman

Queen Elizabeth II

Barbara Baird

Joyce Steele

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Arthur Blyth

Gladys Elphick

Bill Shorten

Dean Brown

Sir William Morgan

Malcolm Fraser

Lynn Arnold

Francis Stacker Dutton

Charles Cameron Kingston

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Thomas Playford II

Australian Labor Party

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