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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.

Des Corcoran

Australian Democrats

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kelly Vincent

Lawrence Grayson

Australian Labor Party

Sir James Boucaut

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Edmund Barton

Francis Stacker Dutton

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Augusta Zadow

Henry Strangways

Liberal Party

Don Dunstan

Barbara Baird

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Price

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Boyle Travers Finniss

Isobel Redmond

League of Women Voters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Playford II

Thomas Reynolds

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Dame Roma Mitchell

Susan Kiefel

Peter Malinauskas

Janine Haines

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

United Labor Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Henry John Ayers

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

King William IV

Susan Benny

Clyde Cameron

David Tonkin

John Verran

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John Colton

Lynn Arnold

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Frank Walsh

William Boothby

Catherine Helen Spence

Steele Hall

Wendy Chapman

Muriel Matters

George Strickland Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Aborigines Progress Association

George Waterhouse

Peter Cosgrove

National Trust of Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eddie Mabo

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Governor John Hindmarsh

Simon Birmingham

John Bannon

Ian Purcell

Bob Hawke

Governor George Gawler

Adam Goodes

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Samuel Way

Shirley Peisley

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Penny Wong

Gladys Elphick

Sex Industry Network

Benjamin Boothby

John Hart

Hieu Van Le

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Anthony Albanese

John Alexander Cockburn

Joyce Steele

Charles Richmond Glover

Conservation Council of South Australia

Greens Party

John Baker

Charles Cameron Kingston

Dean Brown

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Olsen

Country Women’s Association

Sir William Morgan

Steven Marshall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Joseph Fisher

Sir Arthur Blyth

Mike Rann

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Country Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas John Napier

Sir Thomas Playford

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robin Millhouse

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Suffrage League

Jay Weatherill

Quentin Bryce

Bill Shorten

Julia Gillard

Edward Stirling

Sir John William Downer

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