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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.

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Charles Richmond Glover

Working Women’s Trade Union

Julia Gillard

Jessie Cooper

Joseph Fisher

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Mark Oliphant

United Labor Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Hart

Aborigines Progress Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Bill Shorten

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Barbara Baird

Francis Stacker Dutton

Augusta Zadow

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Wendy Chapman

City of Adelaide Corporation

Anthony Albanese

Frank Walsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Alexander Cockburn

Clyde Cameron

David Tonkin

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Samuel Way

Amanda Vanstone

Eight Hours Day Committee

Simon Birmingham

Catherine Helen Spence

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Malinauskas

Rob Kerin

Kelly Vincent

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Don Dunstan

Edmund Barton

Ian Purcell

Sir John William Downer

Benjamin Boothby

George Waterhouse

League of Women Voters

Penny Wong

Mary Lee

Thomas John Napier

Steven Marshall

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Suffrage League

Malcolm Fraser

Shirley Peisley

Sir John Colton

Peter Cosgrove

Steele Hall

Susan Benny

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Susan Kiefel

Gladys Elphick

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John Cox Bray

Greens Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Baker

Thomas Price

Adam Goodes

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Boyle Travers Finniss

John Verran

Hieu Van Le

Liberal Party

Muriel Matters

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Arthur Blyth

Gough Whitlam

Edward Stirling

John Olsen

Des Corcoran

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

Country Women’s Association

Queen Adelaide

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir William Morgan

John Bannon

Conservation Council of South Australia

Quentin Bryce

Mike Rann

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Janine Haines

Country Party

Jay Weatherill

Henry Strangways

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Gaudron

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Bob Hawke

William Boothby

George Strickland Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Sir Thomas Playford

AIDS Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Joyce Steele

Robin Millhouse

Lynn Arnold

Isobel Redmond

Dame Roma Mitchell

Dean Brown

King William IV

Lock the Gate

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