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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.

Henry John Ayers

Peter Malinauskas

Joseph Fisher

Gough Whitlam

Charles Richmond Glover

Barbara Baird

Susan Benny

Country Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Rob Kerin

Sir William Morgan

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John Cox Bray

John Baker

William Boothby

Malcolm Turnbull

Janine Haines

Susan Kiefel

John Hart

Jay Weatherill

United Labor Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Julia Gillard

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Thomas Reynolds

Don Dunstan

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Bob Hawke

Mary Gaudron

Clyde Cameron

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

King William IV

Greens Party

Benjamin Boothby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Quentin Bryce

Isobel Redmond

Lock the Gate

League of Women Voters

Australian Democrats

Sir Samuel Way

Francis Stacker Dutton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Edmund Barton

Steven Marshall

Des Corcoran

Sir John William Downer

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Wendy Chapman

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dean Brown

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Augusta Zadow

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor John Hindmarsh

George Waterhouse

John Verran

Natasha Stott Despoja

Thomas John Napier

Thomas Price

David Tonkin

Edward Stirling

Mary Lee

Gladys Elphick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Liberation Movement

AIDS Council of South Australia

Muriel Matters

Jessie Cooper

Peter Cosgrove

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lawrence Grayson

Anthony Albanese

Amanda Vanstone

Governor George Gawler

Henry Strangways

Hieu Van Le

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Bill Shorten

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Olsen

Frank Walsh

Simon Birmingham

Conservation Council of South Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir Arthur Blyth

Joyce Steele

Lynn Arnold

Mike Rann

John Bannon

Sex Industry Network

Boyle Travers Finniss

Eddie Mabo

Robin Millhouse

Country Women’s Association

Malcolm Fraser

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Colton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Liberal Party

Sir James Boucaut

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Queen Adelaide

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Playford II

Women’s Suffrage League

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Labor Party

Ian Purcell

Kelly Vincent

Steele Hall

United Trades and Labor Council

Queen Elizabeth II

Adam Goodes

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