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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

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Baker

Edmund Barton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir William Morgan

Kelly Vincent

Susan Kiefel

Clyde Cameron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Ian Purcell

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Penny Wong

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Mary Lee

Sir John William Downer

Lynn Arnold

United Trades and Labor Council

Queen Adelaide

Eight Hours Day Committee

Greens Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Peter Cosgrove

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

George Waterhouse

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Alexander Cockburn

Mary Gaudron

Susan Benny

Don Dunstan

Janine Haines

Steele Hall

Isobel Redmond

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Thomas Playford

King William IV

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Wendy Chapman

Adam Goodes

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Price

Dean Brown

Sir James Boucaut

John Olsen

Sir Arthur Blyth

Mike Rann

Quentin Bryce

Joyce Steele

Aborigines Progress Association

League of Women Voters

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Women’s Suffrage League

Simon Birmingham

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Queen Elizabeth II

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Samuel Way

William Boothby

Frank Walsh

John Hart

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Gladys Elphick

Benjamin Boothby

Steven Marshall

Australian Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Australian Democrats

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Joseph Fisher

Henry Strangways

Edward Stirling

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lock the Gate

Sir Mark Oliphant

Augusta Zadow

Working Women’s Trade Union

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Rob Kerin

Lawrence Grayson

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas John Napier

Bill Shorten

Governor John Hindmarsh

United Labor Party

Sir John Colton

John Verran

Hieu Van Le

Country Women’s Association

Muriel Matters

David Tonkin

Liberal Party

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Cox Bray

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Bannon

Sex Industry Network

Thomas Playford II

Des Corcoran

Anthony Albanese

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Henry John Ayers

Country Party

Shirley Peisley

Julia Gillard

Eddie Mabo

George Strickland Kingston

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Barbara Baird

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Liberation Movement

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