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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.

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir Samuel Way

Sir Thomas Playford

Barbara Baird

Greens Party

Country Women’s Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Lawrence Grayson

Sir John Cox Bray

Malcolm Fraser

Dean Brown

Joyce Steele

Shirley Peisley

Mary Lee

Frank Walsh

Bob Hawke

League of Women Voters

Sir James Boucaut

King William IV

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Olsen

Bill Shorten

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Steven Marshall

Governor George Gawler

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Francis Stacker Dutton

Kelly Vincent

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Isobel Redmond

Susan Benny

Muriel Matters

Governor Richard MacDonnell

AIDS Council of South Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Waterhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

National Trust of Australia

Gladys Elphick

Henry Strangways

Aborigines Progress Association

Henry John Ayers

Dame Roma Mitchell

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Mary Gaudron

Mike Rann

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Suffrage League

John Verran

Sir William Morgan

Thomas Playford II

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir John Colton

Julia Gillard

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Lynn Arnold

Wendy Chapman

John Bannon

Edward Stirling

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Labor Party

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Joseph Fisher

Quentin Bryce

John Baker

Boyle Travers Finniss

Don Dunstan

Peter Cosgrove

Liberal Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas John Napier

Thomas Reynolds

Sex Industry Network

Ian Purcell

Clyde Cameron

George Strickland Kingston

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Des Corcoran

Amanda Vanstone

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Price

Conservation Council of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Anthony Albanese

Charles Richmond Glover

Steele Hall

Eddie Mabo

Natasha Stott Despoja

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Queen Adelaide

Hieu Van Le

Sir Mark Oliphant

Augusta Zadow

United Labor Party

John Hart

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Jessie Cooper

Susan Kiefel

Robin Millhouse

Janine Haines

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Adam Goodes

Country Party

Penny Wong

Edmund Barton

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Peter Malinauskas

Simon Birmingham

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

David Tonkin

Jay Weatherill

Catherine Helen Spence

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

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