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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.

John Alexander Cockburn

League of Women Voters

Kelly Vincent

Janine Haines

Natasha Stott Despoja

Penny Wong

Thomas John Napier

AIDS Council of South Australia

Isobel Redmond

Adam Goodes

Joseph Fisher

Rob Kerin

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Sir John Colton

Aborigines Progress Association

Mary Lee

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Julia Gillard

Mary Gaudron

Benjamin Boothby

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir William Morgan

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Suffrage League

Gough Whitlam

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Mark Oliphant

Augusta Zadow

George Waterhouse

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Reynolds

Peter Malinauskas

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Clyde Cameron

John Baker

Sir Thomas Playford

Charles Richmond Glover

Muriel Matters

Greens Party

Queen Adelaide

Simon Birmingham

Australian Labor Party

John Olsen

Malcolm Fraser

John Hart

John Bannon

Peter Cosgrove

Women’s Liberation Movement

Steven Marshall

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas Price

Sir Arthur Blyth

Frank Walsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Malcolm Turnbull

Robin Millhouse

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Cameron Kingston

Boyle Travers Finniss

Edward Stirling

John Verran

Sir John Cox Bray

Edmund Barton

David Tonkin

Mike Rann

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lynn Arnold

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir James Boucaut

Henry Strangways

William Boothby

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Bill Shorten

United Labor Party

Governor George Gawler

Gladys Elphick

Des Corcoran

Francis Stacker Dutton

George Strickland Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Ian Purcell

Governor John Hindmarsh

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Shirley Peisley

Joyce Steele

Wendy Chapman

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

King William IV

Anthony Albanese

Barbara Baird

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sex Industry Network

Sir John William Downer

Bob Hawke

Henry John Ayers

Susan Benny

Queen Elizabeth II

National Trust of Australia

Susan Kiefel

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Liberal Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Party

Jay Weatherill

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Amanda Vanstone

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

Working Women’s Trade Union

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Dean Brown

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steele Hall

Conservation Council of South Australia

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