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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.

Gough Whitlam

Dean Brown

Barbara Baird

Eight Hours Day Committee

Women’s Suffrage League

Liberal Party

Robin Millhouse

Edmund Barton

Wendy Chapman

Adam Goodes

Jane Lomax-Smith

Bob Hawke

Women’s Liberation Movement

Kelly Vincent

Country Women’s Association

King William IV

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Rob Kerin

Country Party

Australian Democrats

Natasha Stott Despoja

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Penny Wong

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Thomas Playford

Bill Shorten

Catherine Helen Spence

Peter Malinauskas

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Gladys Elphick

Charles Richmond Glover

Steven Marshall

Susan Benny

Peter Cosgrove

Lynn Arnold

Isobel Redmond

Quentin Bryce

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Verran

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Olsen

Governor George Gawler

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Douglas Nicholls

William Boothby

David Tonkin

Sir Samuel Way

Jay Weatherill

John Bannon

Julia Gillard

Jessie Cooper

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Price

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Joyce Steele

Queen Adelaide

League of Women Voters

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Mary Lee

Aborigines Progress Association

Hieu Van Le

George Strickland Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Edward Stirling

Thomas John Napier

Amanda Vanstone

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

Clyde Cameron

Governor John Hindmarsh

United Labor Party

Sex Industry Network

Muriel Matters

Simon Birmingham

Ian Purcell

Mike Rann

Janine Haines

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Shirley Peisley

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Des Corcoran

Malcolm Turnbull

Boyle Travers Finniss

Greens Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Benjamin Boothby

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Alexander Cockburn

Lock the Gate

Sir Mark Oliphant

National Trust of Australia

Steele Hall

Dame Roma Mitchell

Susan Kiefel

Mary Gaudron

Augusta Zadow

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Eddie Mabo

Henry John Ayers

Joseph Fisher

Don Dunstan

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

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