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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.

Lock the Gate

Malcolm Fraser

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steven Marshall

Sir John Colton

Sir William Morgan

Henry Strangways

Rob Kerin

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Thomas Playford

Des Corcoran

AIDS Council of South Australia

David Tonkin

Sex Industry Network

Sir John Cox Bray

Bob Hawke

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Bannon

Edmund Barton

Robin Millhouse

Wendy Chapman

Frank Walsh

Sir Samuel Way

Don Dunstan

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

Muriel Matters

Quentin Bryce

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Gladys Elphick

Queen Elizabeth II

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kelly Vincent

Benjamin Boothby

Susan Benny

Mike Rann

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lawrence Grayson

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Simon Birmingham

Peter Malinauskas

Steele Hall

Country Party

Sir James Boucaut

Henry John Ayers

Hieu Van Le

Dean Brown

Sir John William Downer

Thomas John Napier

Liberal Party

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Aborigines Progress Association

Greens Party

Susan Kiefel

Isobel Redmond

Shirley Peisley

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Olsen

Governor George Gawler

Jay Weatherill

George Strickland Kingston

Eight Hours Day Committee

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Baker

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Mark Oliphant

Julia Gillard

United Labor Party

John Verran

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Suffrage League

John Hart

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lynn Arnold

Charles Cameron Kingston

Edward Stirling

Jessie Cooper

John Alexander Cockburn

Ian Purcell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joyce Steele

National Trust of Australia

Country Women’s Association

Adam Goodes

Bill Shorten

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Democrats

Augusta Zadow

Anthony Albanese

League of Women Voters

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Queen Adelaide

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

George Waterhouse

King William IV

Thomas Price

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Barbara Baird

Thomas Reynolds

Peter Cosgrove

Malcolm Turnbull

Amanda Vanstone

Penny Wong

Catherine Helen Spence

William Boothby

Janine Haines

Eddie Mabo

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Thomas Playford II

Clyde Cameron

United Trades and Labor Council

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Natasha Stott Despoja

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