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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.

Sir John William Downer

Jessie Cooper

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Australian Democrats

Edmund Barton

Sir James Boucaut

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Janine Haines

Henry Strangways

National Trust of Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Dean Brown

Julia Gillard

Edward Stirling

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Baker

Gladys Elphick

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Thomas Playford

Charles Richmond Glover

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Charles Cameron Kingston

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Alexander Cockburn

Francis Stacker Dutton

George Waterhouse

Malcolm Turnbull

Wendy Chapman

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John Colton

William Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Robin Millhouse

Clyde Cameron

United Labor Party

King William IV

Lynn Arnold

Peter Cosgrove

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sex Industry Network

Ian Purcell

Governor John Hindmarsh

Bill Shorten

Simon Birmingham

Isobel Redmond

Australian Labor Party

Susan Benny

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Jay Weatherill

Rob Kerin

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Amanda Vanstone

Steven Marshall

Catherine Helen Spence

Thomas John Napier

Mary Gaudron

Sir Mark Oliphant

Bob Hawke

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Kelly Vincent

Anthony Albanese

Liberal Party

Thomas Price

Henry John Ayers

Dame Roma Mitchell

Penny Wong

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

City of Adelaide Corporation

Hieu Van Le

Mike Rann

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

AIDS Council of South Australia

Barbara Baird

Thomas Playford II

Working Women’s Trade Union

League of Women Voters

Joyce Steele

Don Dunstan

Des Corcoran

Aborigines Progress Association

Frank Walsh

Greens Party

Country Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

David Tonkin

Thomas Reynolds

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Hart

Natasha Stott Despoja

Malcolm Fraser

Augusta Zadow

Peter Malinauskas

John Verran

Steele Hall

Gough Whitlam

Shirley Peisley

Mary Lee

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Queen Adelaide

Country Women’s Association

Conservation Council of South Australia

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Suffrage League

Eddie Mabo

Benjamin Boothby

John Olsen

Sir Arthur Blyth

Adam Goodes

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Quentin Bryce

George Strickland Kingston

Sir William Morgan

John Bannon

Queen Elizabeth II

Eight Hours Day Committee

Muriel Matters

Sir John Cox Bray

Lawrence Grayson

Lock the Gate

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