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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.

Joyce Steele

Shirley Peisley

Governor George Gawler

Ian Purcell

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Working Women’s Trade Union

Catherine Helen Spence

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Charles Richmond Glover

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

George Waterhouse

Sir Samuel Way

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Peter Malinauskas

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dean Brown

Eight Hours Day Committee

AIDS Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Sex Industry Network

John Bannon

Mike Rann

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Cosgrove

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Frank Walsh

Aborigines Progress Association

Muriel Matters

Anthony Albanese

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Jessie Cooper

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Hart

Australian Democrats

Sir William Morgan

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Kelly Vincent

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Julia Gillard

Don Dunstan

Liberal Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Wendy Chapman

Eddie Mabo

Quentin Bryce

Rob Kerin

William Boothby

Edmund Barton

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Reynolds

City of Adelaide Corporation

Bob Hawke

United Labor Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Hieu Van Le

Adam Goodes

King William IV

Dame Roma Mitchell

Malcolm Turnbull

Steven Marshall

Sir James Boucaut

Gough Whitlam

John Alexander Cockburn

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Colton

Clyde Cameron

Charles Cameron Kingston

Augusta Zadow

Susan Benny

Simon Birmingham

Amanda Vanstone

Thomas Playford II

Janine Haines

Steele Hall

John Verran

Lawrence Grayson

Women’s Suffrage League

Natasha Stott Despoja

Joseph Fisher

Des Corcoran

Sir Mark Oliphant

Mary Lee

John Olsen

Sir John William Downer

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

George Strickland Kingston

Lynn Arnold

Queen Elizabeth II

Henry John Ayers

Benjamin Boothby

Country Party

Henry Strangways

Women’s Liberation Movement

Bill Shorten

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Penny Wong

Robin Millhouse

Thomas John Napier

Queen Adelaide

Lock the Gate

Barbara Baird

Gladys Elphick

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Cox Bray

Edward Stirling

Greens Party

Isobel Redmond

League of Women Voters

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

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