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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.

AIDS Council of South Australia

Wendy Chapman

George Strickland Kingston

John Olsen

Thomas Playford II

Janine Haines

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

Lynn Arnold

Eddie Mabo

Barbara Baird

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Hart

Country Party

Quentin Bryce

Clyde Cameron

Rob Kerin

League of Women Voters

John Bannon

Natasha Stott Despoja

Dean Brown

Anthony Albanese

Mary Gaudron

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir James Boucaut

Adam Goodes

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Robin Millhouse

Simon Birmingham

Malcolm Turnbull

Conservation Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Mike Rann

Susan Benny

Des Corcoran

Henry John Ayers

City of Adelaide Corporation

Ian Purcell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Gladys Elphick

John Baker

William Boothby

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Dame Roma Mitchell

Aborigines Progress Association

Charles Cameron Kingston

Julia Gillard

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas Price

Bill Shorten

Don Dunstan

Thomas Reynolds

Peter Malinauskas

Governor John Hindmarsh

Susan Kiefel

George Waterhouse

King William IV

Catherine Helen Spence

Governor George Gawler

Isobel Redmond

United Trades and Labor Council

United Labor Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Frank Walsh

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Steele Hall

Queen Elizabeth II

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Verran

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Muriel Matters

Joseph Fisher

Mary Lee

Lawrence Grayson

Steven Marshall

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir John Cox Bray

Joyce Steele

Country Women’s Association

Sir Thomas Playford

Malcolm Fraser

Queen Adelaide

Kelly Vincent

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Australian Labor Party

Shirley Peisley

Greens Party

Lock the Gate

Amanda Vanstone

Gough Whitlam

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Suffrage League

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Bob Hawke

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

Sir Samuel Way

Jessie Cooper

Sir William Morgan

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

Henry Strangways

Sir John Colton

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sex Industry Network

Sir John William Downer

Edmund Barton

Governor Richard MacDonnell

National Trust of Australia

David Tonkin

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

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