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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.

Australian Democrats

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Bob Hawke

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Playford II

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dean Brown

Sir William Morgan

Sir Thomas Playford

United Trades and Labor Council

Don Dunstan

Kelly Vincent

Sex Industry Network

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

United Labor Party

King William IV

National Trust of Australia

John Olsen

Australian Labor Party

Lock the Gate

Quentin Bryce

Frank Walsh

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Bannon

John Alexander Cockburn

Edmund Barton

Susan Benny

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Mary Gaudron

Natasha Stott Despoja

Queen Adelaide

Muriel Matters

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Lynn Arnold

Liberal Party

Sir James Boucaut

George Strickland Kingston

Catherine Helen Spence

Henry John Ayers

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

Ian Purcell

Aborigines Progress Association

Malcolm Turnbull

Benjamin Boothby

John Baker

Janine Haines

Adam Goodes

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

AIDS Council of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

League of Women Voters

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John William Downer

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Des Corcoran

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Arthur Blyth

Edward Stirling

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Verran

Isobel Redmond

Sir Mark Oliphant

Thomas Reynolds

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Simon Birmingham

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Joyce Steele

Hieu Van Le

Wendy Chapman

George Waterhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mike Rann

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Jessie Cooper

Steven Marshall

Governor George Gawler

Augusta Zadow

Country Party

Thomas John Napier

Greens Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lawrence Grayson

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Jay Weatherill

David Tonkin

John Hart

Susan Kiefel

Clyde Cameron

Sir John Colton

Steele Hall

Peter Cosgrove

Gladys Elphick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Charles Richmond Glover

Barbara Baird

Bill Shorten

Thomas Price

Joseph Fisher

Julia Gillard

Malcolm Fraser

William Boothby

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Amanda Vanstone

Rob Kerin

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Samuel Way

Anthony Albanese

City of Adelaide Corporation

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