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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.

Aborigines Progress Association

Des Corcoran

Sir James Boucaut

Greens Party

John Olsen

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

United Labor Party

Gough Whitlam

Steele Hall

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steven Marshall

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Kelly Vincent

Dean Brown

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Anthony Albanese

George Waterhouse

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

Bill Shorten

Catherine Helen Spence

Simon Birmingham

Sir John Cox Bray

Australian Labor Party

Henry John Ayers

King William IV

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir John William Downer

Muriel Matters

Governor John Hindmarsh

Bob Hawke

Australian Democrats

Frank Walsh

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Liberation Movement

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Mark Oliphant

Quentin Bryce

Country Women’s Association

Jay Weatherill

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Mike Rann

Barbara Baird

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Eddie Mabo

Gladys Elphick

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Joyce Steele

League of Women Voters

Clyde Cameron

John Verran

Jessie Cooper

Julia Gillard

Eight Hours Day Committee

Charles Cameron Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Lee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Isobel Redmond

Penny Wong

George Strickland Kingston

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Don Dunstan

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Suffrage League

United Trades and Labor Council

William Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Peter Cosgrove

Shirley Peisley

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Thomas Reynolds

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Bannon

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lynn Arnold

National Trust of Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Susan Kiefel

Janine Haines

Edward Stirling

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas John Napier

Susan Benny

Augusta Zadow

Lock the Gate

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Hart

Benjamin Boothby

Francis Stacker Dutton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Henry Strangways

Ian Purcell

David Tonkin

Adam Goodes

Mary Gaudron

Country Party

Edmund Barton

Thomas Price

Wendy Chapman

Sir John Colton

Lawrence Grayson

Joseph Fisher

Liberal Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Thomas Playford II

Queen Elizabeth II

John Baker

Rob Kerin

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

Sir Samuel Way

Queen Adelaide

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