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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.

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

King William IV

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Janine Haines

Natasha Stott Despoja

Julia Gillard

Lynn Arnold

Henry John Ayers

John Baker

Charles Cameron Kingston

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir William Morgan

Mary Lee

Sir Thomas Playford

Quentin Bryce

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mike Rann

Gladys Elphick

Australian Labor Party

Bob Hawke

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John William Downer

Francis Stacker Dutton

Catherine Helen Spence

League of Women Voters

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Verran

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Democrats

Steele Hall

Jessie Cooper

National Trust of Australia

Country Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Bannon

Benjamin Boothby

John Alexander Cockburn

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Don Dunstan

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Joyce Steele

Thomas Playford II

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Des Corcoran

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bill Shorten

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Eddie Mabo

Charles Richmond Glover

Peter Cosgrove

Edward Stirling

John Olsen

Steven Marshall

Hieu Van Le

Governor George Gawler

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lock the Gate

Anthony Albanese

Malcolm Turnbull

Susan Benny

Isobel Redmond

Sir John Cox Bray

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Mark Oliphant

George Waterhouse

Queen Elizabeth II

Aborigines Progress Association

Greens Party

Amanda Vanstone

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Liberal Party

Frank Walsh

Queen Adelaide

Simon Birmingham

Dean Brown

Mary Gaudron

Sir Samuel Way

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Adam Goodes

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir John Colton

Penny Wong

David Tonkin

Working Women’s Trade Union

Muriel Matters

John Hart

Joseph Fisher

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry Strangways

Sex Industry Network

United Labor Party

Thomas Reynolds

Clyde Cameron

Peter Malinauskas

Wendy Chapman

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Barbara Baird

Thomas John Napier

Lawrence Grayson

George Strickland Kingston

Rob Kerin

Shirley Peisley

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Country Women’s Association

Kelly Vincent

Gough Whitlam

Susan Kiefel

Sir James Boucaut

William Boothby

Ian Purcell

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

City of Adelaide Corporation

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Price

Robin Millhouse

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