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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.

Ian Purcell

Jay Weatherill

Don Dunstan

Catherine Helen Spence

Aborigines Progress Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Liberal Party

Sir John Colton

Quentin Bryce

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

National Trust of Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Queen Elizabeth II

Gough Whitlam

Mary Gaudron

Benjamin Boothby

Rob Kerin

United Trades and Labor Council

Mary Lee

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

Bob Hawke

Eddie Mabo

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sex Industry Network

John Verran

Julia Gillard

Governor John Hindmarsh

Malcolm Fraser

Anthony Albanese

Lynn Arnold

John Bannon

Penny Wong

Robin Millhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

League of Women Voters

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

George Waterhouse

Sir Mark Oliphant

Thomas John Napier

Thomas Reynolds

Working Women’s Trade Union

Augusta Zadow

Australian Democrats

Gladys Elphick

David Tonkin

Des Corcoran

Wendy Chapman

Adam Goodes

Women’s Electoral Lobby

George Strickland Kingston

Susan Kiefel

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor George Gawler

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir John William Downer

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir John Cox Bray

Kelly Vincent

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Hieu Van Le

John Hart

United Labor Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Frank Walsh

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Labor Party

Steele Hall

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Janine Haines

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

Francis Stacker Dutton

Amanda Vanstone

Thomas Price

Queen Adelaide

Women’s Suffrage League

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

William Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir James Boucaut

Mike Rann

Muriel Matters

Clyde Cameron

Edward Stirling

Barbara Baird

Sir William Morgan

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas Playford II

Steven Marshall

Edmund Barton

Peter Cosgrove

Joyce Steele

Isobel Redmond

Lawrence Grayson

Bill Shorten

Henry Strangways

Country Party

Henry John Ayers

Shirley Peisley

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Dean Brown

Simon Birmingham

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

AIDS Council of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Natasha Stott Despoja

King William IV

Charles Richmond Glover

John Baker

Malcolm Turnbull

Greens Party

John Olsen

Jessie Cooper

Lock the Gate

Sir Samuel Way

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