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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.

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir John Colton

Bill Shorten

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Price

Robin Millhouse

Bob Hawke

Augusta Zadow

King William IV

Boyle Travers Finniss

Jessie Cooper

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Thomas Playford

Queen Adelaide

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Benny

Clyde Cameron

Governor George Gawler

Susan Kiefel

Sir William Morgan

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Joseph Fisher

Liberal Party

United Labor Party

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Women’s Association

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Anthony Albanese

Queen Elizabeth II

Steele Hall

Catherine Helen Spence

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Steven Marshall

Francis Stacker Dutton

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Democrats

National Trust of Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Gladys Elphick

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Olsen

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Baker

Wendy Chapman

John Bannon

Isobel Redmond

John Alexander Cockburn

Charles Richmond Glover

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Mark Oliphant

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Penny Wong

David Tonkin

Governor John Hindmarsh

Gough Whitlam

Rob Kerin

William Boothby

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sex Industry Network

Ian Purcell

Sir Arthur Blyth

Dame Roma Mitchell

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Henry John Ayers

Conservation Council of South Australia

Muriel Matters

Joyce Steele

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Governor Richard MacDonnell

George Strickland Kingston

Don Dunstan

Mike Rann

George Waterhouse

Thomas John Napier

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Des Corcoran

Peter Malinauskas

John Hart

United Trades and Labor Council

Quentin Bryce

Hieu Van Le

Sir Samuel Way

Barbara Baird

Simon Birmingham

Eddie Mabo

Greens Party

League of Women Voters

Janine Haines

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Playford II

Benjamin Boothby

Jay Weatherill

Malcolm Fraser

Country Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Dean Brown

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Verran

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Kelly Vincent

Sir John William Downer

Sir James Boucaut

Lock the Gate

Adam Goodes

Amanda Vanstone

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Reynolds

Mary Lee

Edmund Barton

Frank Walsh

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Cosgrove

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