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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.

Clyde Cameron

Muriel Matters

Sir John William Downer

United Labor Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Adam Goodes

Boyle Travers Finniss

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas Price

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Queen Adelaide

Wendy Chapman

Augusta Zadow

Lock the Gate

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Working Women’s Trade Union

Catherine Helen Spence

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas Reynolds

Greens Party

Thomas Playford II

Mary Lee

Mary Gaudron

Joyce Steele

Peter Cosgrove

Dean Brown

Gough Whitlam

Sir James Boucaut

John Hart

Shirley Peisley

Peter Malinauskas

Governor George Gawler

Governor John Hindmarsh

Susan Kiefel

United Trades and Labor Council

David Tonkin

Frank Walsh

Kelly Vincent

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Susan Benny

Women’s Suffrage League

Ian Purcell

Jessie Cooper

Joseph Fisher

Dame Roma Mitchell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Labor Party

Australian Democrats

Sir Thomas Playford

Janine Haines

Sir Samuel Way

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas John Napier

Des Corcoran

John Olsen

Henry Strangways

John Bannon

Natasha Stott Despoja

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lynn Arnold

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Liberation Movement

Benjamin Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Fraser

Lawrence Grayson

Penny Wong

Barbara Baird

Bill Shorten

Sex Industry Network

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Baker

Country Women’s Association

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Rob Kerin

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Edward Stirling

Charles Richmond Glover

Julia Gillard

Sir John Colton

Eddie Mabo

Robin Millhouse

Gladys Elphick

Conservation Council of South Australia

King William IV

Liberal Party

Jay Weatherill

Mike Rann

Hieu Van Le

Charles Cameron Kingston

City of Adelaide Corporation

Amanda Vanstone

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Alexander Cockburn

Steven Marshall

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Simon Birmingham

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Anthony Albanese

Henry John Ayers

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steele Hall

Aborigines Progress Association

Edmund Barton

George Strickland Kingston

Malcolm Turnbull

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

William Boothby

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Country Party

George Waterhouse

National Trust of Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Bob Hawke

Sir William Morgan

John Verran

League of Women Voters

Sir Arthur Blyth

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

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