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Welcome to
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.

Shirley Peisley

Gladys Elphick

Sir Samuel Way

John Hart

Country Party

Thomas Price

City of Adelaide Corporation

Boyle Travers Finniss

Queen Adelaide

John Olsen

Francis Stacker Dutton

Greens Party

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Playford II

Augusta Zadow

Susan Benny

Sir Arthur Blyth

Gough Whitlam

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Conservation Council of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lock the Gate

Mary Gaudron

Peter Cosgrove

Governor George Gawler

Aborigines Progress Association

Anthony Albanese

Australian Democrats

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Liberal Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sex Industry Network

Wendy Chapman

Simon Birmingham

Kelly Vincent

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

National Trust of Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Sir William Morgan

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Bob Hawke

Peter Malinauskas

Charles Richmond Glover

John Verran

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

David Tonkin

AIDS Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Adam Goodes

Steele Hall

Thomas John Napier

King William IV

Isobel Redmond

Country Women’s Association

Penny Wong

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bill Shorten

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Barbara Baird

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Muriel Matters

Henry Strangways

Don Dunstan

Clyde Cameron

Jessie Cooper

John Bannon

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

George Waterhouse

Sir John Colton

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Baker

Steven Marshall

Frank Walsh

Malcolm Fraser

Catherine Helen Spence

Quentin Bryce

Australian Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir James Boucaut

Julia Gillard

Edward Stirling

Eddie Mabo

United Labor Party

Des Corcoran

Queen Elizabeth II

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lynn Arnold

Malcolm Turnbull

Ian Purcell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Henry John Ayers

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John William Downer

Hieu Van Le

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

Rob Kerin

Amanda Vanstone

Robin Millhouse

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mike Rann

Thomas Reynolds

Janine Haines

Dean Brown

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Liberation Movement

Joyce Steele

Charles Cameron Kingston

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John Cox Bray

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