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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.

Greens Party

Peter Malinauskas

Frank Walsh

AIDS Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Kelly Vincent

Lock the Gate

Liberal Party

Country Women’s Association

Augusta Zadow

Adam Goodes

Edmund Barton

Anthony Albanese

Isobel Redmond

Queen Elizabeth II

Francis Stacker Dutton

Malcolm Turnbull

City of Adelaide Corporation

David Tonkin

Sir Mark Oliphant

Rob Kerin

Ian Purcell

Susan Kiefel

Thomas Price

National Trust of Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Sir William Morgan

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir James Boucaut

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Catherine Helen Spence

Conservation Council of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor John Hindmarsh

Mike Rann

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas John Napier

United Labor Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Baker

Shirley Peisley

Penny Wong

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lynn Arnold

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Gladys Elphick

Mary Lee

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dean Brown

Janine Haines

Des Corcoran

Aborigines Progress Association

Hieu Van Le

Clyde Cameron

League of Women Voters

Women’s Suffrage League

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir John Cox Bray

Muriel Matters

Sex Industry Network

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Reynolds

John Verran

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Sir John Colton

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Wendy Chapman

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

King William IV

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Samuel Way

Bill Shorten

Charles Richmond Glover

Peter Cosgrove

William Boothby

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Liberation Movement

Steele Hall

Country Party

Sir John William Downer

Mary Gaudron

John Olsen

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Jessie Cooper

Edward Stirling

Julia Gillard

Governor George Gawler

Jay Weatherill

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Australian Democrats

United Trades and Labor Council

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Hart

Australian Labor Party

Barbara Baird

Susan Benny

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Henry John Ayers

Eddie Mabo

Robin Millhouse

Steven Marshall

Henry Strangways

Queen Adelaide

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Simon Birmingham

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

George Waterhouse

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Bannon

Quentin Bryce

Malcolm Fraser

Joyce Steele

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Joseph Fisher

Don Dunstan

Benjamin Boothby

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