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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.

Adam Goodes

Women’s Suffrage League

John Bannon

George Waterhouse

Australian Democrats

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

King William IV

John Baker

Sir Mark Oliphant

Australian Labor Party

Kelly Vincent

Dean Brown

Sir William Morgan

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

George Strickland Kingston

Jay Weatherill

Queen Elizabeth II

Liberal Party

Eddie Mabo

Boyle Travers Finniss

Henry Strangways

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir James Boucaut

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

AIDS Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

League of Women Voters

Dame Roma Mitchell

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Conservation Council of South Australia

Peter Cosgrove

Benjamin Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mary Lee

Women’s Electoral Lobby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Gough Whitlam

Robin Millhouse

Sir John Colton

Don Dunstan

Bob Hawke

Joyce Steele

Catherine Helen Spence

Ian Purcell

United Trades and Labor Council

Wendy Chapman

Lawrence Grayson

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Price

Simon Birmingham

Penny Wong

Clyde Cameron

Malcolm Fraser

John Verran

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Isobel Redmond

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Liberation Movement

Steele Hall

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John William Downer

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sex Industry Network

Thomas Playford II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Olsen

Sir John Cox Bray

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Joseph Fisher

Susan Kiefel

Mike Rann

Aborigines Progress Association

Amanda Vanstone

Hieu Van Le

Shirley Peisley

Jessie Cooper

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Working Women’s Trade Union

United Labor Party

David Tonkin

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Samuel Way

Natasha Stott Despoja

Janine Haines

Thomas John Napier

Governor George Gawler

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Queen Adelaide

Country Party

Rob Kerin

Edward Stirling

Quentin Bryce

Susan Benny

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Henry John Ayers

Malcolm Turnbull

Anthony Albanese

Julia Gillard

Muriel Matters

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Des Corcoran

Greens Party

Mary Gaudron

Steven Marshall

Edmund Barton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lock the Gate

Augusta Zadow

Bill Shorten

John Hart

Barbara Baird

National Trust of Australia

John Alexander Cockburn

Country Women’s Association

Francis Stacker Dutton

William Boothby

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