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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.

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Suffrage League

John Alexander Cockburn

Steele Hall

Augusta Zadow

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

National Trust of Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Mary Lee

Thomas John Napier

George Strickland Kingston

Joseph Fisher

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Aborigines Progress Association

Rob Kerin

Country Party

Susan Kiefel

Governor George Gawler

Benjamin Boothby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Clyde Cameron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Australian Democrats

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Muriel Matters

John Bannon

Anthony Albanese

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Jay Weatherill

Lawrence Grayson

Quentin Bryce

Queen Adelaide

Simon Birmingham

John Olsen

Lynn Arnold

United Labor Party

Joyce Steele

Charles Richmond Glover

John Baker

Greens Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Playford II

Malcolm Turnbull

Henry Strangways

Thomas Reynolds

Peter Cosgrove

King William IV

Susan Benny

Isobel Redmond

Boyle Travers Finniss

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lock the Gate

Sir James Boucaut

United Trades and Labor Council

AIDS Council of South Australia

Wendy Chapman

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Verran

Conservation Council of South Australia

Barbara Baird

Sir John Colton

George Waterhouse

Adam Goodes

Queen Elizabeth II

Catherine Helen Spence

Bill Shorten

Charles Cameron Kingston

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

William Boothby

Don Dunstan

Gladys Elphick

Henry John Ayers

Steven Marshall

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Arthur Blyth

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir William Morgan

Dean Brown

Eddie Mabo

John Hart

Sex Industry Network

Penny Wong

Eight Hours Day Committee

Frank Walsh

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Liberal Party

Edmund Barton

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Kelly Vincent

Sir John Cox Bray

Country Women’s Association

Edward Stirling

Hieu Van Le

Sir John William Downer

City of Adelaide Corporation

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Robin Millhouse

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Des Corcoran

League of Women Voters

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Price

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Malcolm Fraser

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

Mike Rann

Mary Gaudron

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Ian Purcell

Shirley Peisley

Bob Hawke

Sir Samuel Way

Francis Stacker Dutton

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