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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.

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Barbara Baird

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John William Downer

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Quentin Bryce

Wendy Chapman

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lawrence Grayson

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Price

National Trust of Australia

Susan Benny

AIDS Council of South Australia

Clyde Cameron

Thomas John Napier

George Waterhouse

Susan Kiefel

Eight Hours Day Committee

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Samuel Way

Steele Hall

Frank Walsh

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir William Morgan

Malcolm Turnbull

Greens Party

Country Party

Edward Stirling

Don Dunstan

John Verran

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Conservation Council of South Australia

Australian Democrats

Australian Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor George Gawler

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Shirley Peisley

John Hart

Muriel Matters

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir James Boucaut

Sex Industry Network

Peter Cosgrove

Women’s Liberation Movement

Malcolm Fraser

Bill Shorten

Aborigines Progress Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lynn Arnold

United Trades and Labor Council

Simon Birmingham

Amanda Vanstone

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Penny Wong

George Strickland Kingston

Des Corcoran

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dean Brown

Ian Purcell

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Anthony Albanese

Queen Elizabeth II

Dame Roma Mitchell

Bob Hawke

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Charles Richmond Glover

United Labor Party

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

Mike Rann

Eddie Mabo

Jay Weatherill

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adam Goodes

City of Adelaide Corporation

William Boothby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

King William IV

David Tonkin

Mary Lee

Lock the Gate

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Hieu Van Le

Country Women’s Association

Peter Malinauskas

Julia Gillard

Joseph Fisher

Joyce Steele

Henry Strangways

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Janine Haines

Rob Kerin

Edmund Barton

Mary Gaudron

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kelly Vincent

Jessie Cooper

Sir Thomas Playford

John Bannon

Thomas Playford II

Gladys Elphick

Robin Millhouse

Augusta Zadow

Sir John Colton

Steven Marshall

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

League of Women Voters

John Baker

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

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