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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.

Rob Kerin

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Playford II

Sir James Boucaut

Kelly Vincent

Australian Labor Party

John Olsen

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Alexander Cockburn

Susan Benny

Queen Adelaide

Greens Party

Thomas Price

Malcolm Turnbull

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Catherine Helen Spence

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dean Brown

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Conservation Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

Joyce Steele

Shirley Peisley

Lynn Arnold

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir John Cox Bray

John Verran

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Don Dunstan

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Susan Kiefel

Francis Stacker Dutton

Jay Weatherill

Anthony Albanese

Bill Shorten

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Janine Haines

Bob Hawke

Boyle Travers Finniss

Quentin Bryce

Thomas John Napier

Australian Democrats

Joseph Fisher

Hieu Van Le

Des Corcoran

Sir Arthur Blyth

Edward Stirling

Charles Richmond Glover

Peter Malinauskas

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir John Colton

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Edmund Barton

Barbara Baird

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Henry Strangways

Benjamin Boothby

King William IV

Queen Elizabeth II

Wendy Chapman

Clyde Cameron

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Reynolds

Mike Rann

Mary Lee

David Tonkin

John Bannon

Aborigines Progress Association

Liberal Party

Penny Wong

Sir John William Downer

Country Party

League of Women Voters

Sir Samuel Way

Frank Walsh

Women’s Liberation Movement

City of Adelaide Corporation

Lawrence Grayson

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mary Gaudron

Working Women’s Trade Union

Muriel Matters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steele Hall

Dame Roma Mitchell

Adam Goodes

Sir Douglas Nicholls

United Trades and Labor Council

Julia Gillard

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Peter Cosgrove

Ian Purcell

William Boothby

Simon Birmingham

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Baker

George Waterhouse

Jessie Cooper

Governor George Gawler

Steven Marshall

Governor John Hindmarsh

Augusta Zadow

John Hart

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Thomas Playford

Eight Hours Day Committee

Amanda Vanstone

Gladys Elphick

National Trust of Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Robin Millhouse

Sir William Morgan

Lock the Gate

United Labor Party

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