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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.

United Labor Party

Eddie Mabo

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir William Morgan

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Cosgrove

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Thomas Playford

Julia Gillard

Dean Brown

Hieu Van Le

Bob Hawke

John Olsen

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Baker

Robin Millhouse

Australian Labor Party

Penny Wong

Liberal Party

John Hart

Eight Hours Day Committee

Natasha Stott Despoja

Don Dunstan

Women’s Suffrage League

George Strickland Kingston

Governor Richard MacDonnell

National Trust of Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Peter Malinauskas

Steele Hall

Rob Kerin

Malcolm Fraser

Governor George Gawler

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Thomas Reynolds

Henry John Ayers

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Clyde Cameron

Adam Goodes

Susan Kiefel

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Muriel Matters

Jessie Cooper

Mike Rann

Thomas John Napier

Joyce Steele

Greens Party

Bill Shorten

Anthony Albanese

Sir Arthur Blyth

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Janine Haines

Working Women’s Trade Union

Queen Adelaide

John Bannon

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir James Boucaut

Country Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Joseph Fisher

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Aborigines Progress Association

League of Women Voters

Dame Roma Mitchell

Gough Whitlam

Steven Marshall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Queen Elizabeth II

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Australian Democrats

William Boothby

John Verran

Catherine Helen Spence

Edmund Barton

City of Adelaide Corporation

David Tonkin

Jay Weatherill

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lowitja O’Donoghue

George Waterhouse

John Alexander Cockburn

Barbara Baird

Sir John William Downer

Kelly Vincent

Francis Stacker Dutton

Simon Birmingham

Sir John Colton

Gladys Elphick

AIDS Council of South Australia

Isobel Redmond

Ian Purcell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Wendy Chapman

Lock the Gate

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sex Industry Network

Charles Richmond Glover

Benjamin Boothby

Amanda Vanstone

Shirley Peisley

Thomas Price

Augusta Zadow

Edward Stirling

Sir Samuel Way

Quentin Bryce

Sir Mark Oliphant

Susan Benny

Thomas Playford II

Malcolm Turnbull

Frank Walsh

Country Women’s Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Des Corcoran

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