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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 Bannon

Bob Hawke

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Kelly Vincent

John Baker

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Olsen

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lawrence Grayson

United Trades and Labor Council

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Joyce Steele

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Hart

Governor George Gawler

Joseph Fisher

Mary Lee

Sir Thomas Playford

Henry John Ayers

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Queen Elizabeth II

Penny Wong

Sir William Morgan

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Conservation Council of South Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

George Strickland Kingston

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

League of Women Voters

Henry Strangways

Francis Stacker Dutton

Anthony Albanese

Thomas John Napier

Eddie Mabo

Edward Stirling

Edmund Barton

Simon Birmingham

Eight Hours Day Committee

Muriel Matters

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

William Boothby

National Trust of Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Janine Haines

Governor John Hindmarsh

George Waterhouse

Frank Walsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

Australian Democrats

Peter Cosgrove

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

Des Corcoran

Wendy Chapman

Liberal Party

Quentin Bryce

Queen Adelaide

John Alexander Cockburn

Barbara Baird

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Country Women’s Association

Catherine Helen Spence

Australian Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lock the Gate

Hieu Van Le

Gough Whitlam

Julia Gillard

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steele Hall

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Price

City of Adelaide Corporation

Greens Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Charles Richmond Glover

Jay Weatherill

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Gladys Elphick

Sir Samuel Way

Robin Millhouse

Sir James Boucaut

Isobel Redmond

Rob Kerin

Sex Industry Network

David Tonkin

Clyde Cameron

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John William Downer

Amanda Vanstone

Mike Rann

Mary Gaudron

Thomas Playford II

Dean Brown

Malcolm Fraser

Ian Purcell

John Verran

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Aborigines Progress Association

Peter Malinauskas

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Cox Bray

King William IV

AIDS Council of South Australia

Don Dunstan

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Steven Marshall

United Labor Party

Susan Kiefel

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Suffrage League

Shirley Peisley

Susan Benny

Sir John Colton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Adam Goodes

Bill Shorten

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