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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.

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dean Brown

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Shirley Peisley

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir James Boucaut

Governor John Hindmarsh

Don Dunstan

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lowitja O’Donoghue

William Boothby

Queen Elizabeth II

Amanda Vanstone

Quentin Bryce

Barbara Baird

Greens Party

Mary Lee

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Joseph Fisher

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Samuel Way

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Peter Cosgrove

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Playford II

Lynn Arnold

Penny Wong

John Hart

Liberal Party

Anthony Albanese

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steele Hall

Susan Benny

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Ian Purcell

Malcolm Turnbull

Bill Shorten

Benjamin Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

David Tonkin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Julia Gillard

Edward Stirling

Gough Whitlam

Bob Hawke

Lock the Gate

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor George Gawler

Kelly Vincent

Thomas Price

Rob Kerin

Australian Labor Party

Muriel Matters

Steven Marshall

Queen Adelaide

John Alexander Cockburn

United Labor Party

Country Women’s Association

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Edmund Barton

Sir John William Downer

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

King William IV

Simon Birmingham

City of Adelaide Corporation

Henry Strangways

Henry John Ayers

Isobel Redmond

Clyde Cameron

National Trust of Australia

Sex Industry Network

Wendy Chapman

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Joyce Steele

Sir Thomas Playford

Gladys Elphick

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Bannon

Des Corcoran

Jessie Cooper

Janine Haines

Mary Gaudron

Francis Stacker Dutton

Jay Weatherill

George Strickland Kingston

George Waterhouse

Australian Democrats

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Adam Goodes

Women’s Suffrage League

Mike Rann

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Baker

Catherine Helen Spence

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Olsen

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Colton

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lawrence Grayson

John Verran

Charles Richmond Glover

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Malinauskas

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

League of Women Voters

Frank Walsh

Thomas John Napier

Hieu Van Le

Natasha Stott Despoja

Robin Millhouse

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