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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.

Thomas Playford II

Lock the Gate

George Strickland Kingston

City of Adelaide Corporation

Peter Malinauskas

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Hieu Van Le

Sir William Morgan

AIDS Council of South Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Penny Wong

Greens Party

John Baker

Isobel Redmond

Lynn Arnold

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Sir John William Downer

Augusta Zadow

Peter Cosgrove

Country Party

John Olsen

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Malcolm Fraser

Rob Kerin

Australian Labor Party

Liberal Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Frank Walsh

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Bannon

Dame Roma Mitchell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Working Women’s Trade Union

Francis Stacker Dutton

Jay Weatherill

Henry Strangways

Quentin Bryce

Charles Richmond Glover

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steele Hall

John Hart

John Alexander Cockburn

Dean Brown

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Clyde Cameron

Mary Lee

Catherine Helen Spence

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Suffrage League

Kelly Vincent

Australian Democrats

Bill Shorten

National Trust of Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Muriel Matters

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas John Napier

Malcolm Turnbull

Adam Goodes

Robin Millhouse

Governor Richard MacDonnell

David Tonkin

Don Dunstan

Simon Birmingham

Joseph Fisher

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Joyce Steele

King William IV

Janine Haines

Mary Gaudron

Steven Marshall

Edmund Barton

Julia Gillard

United Trades and Labor Council

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

League of Women Voters

Shirley Peisley

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Samuel Way

Amanda Vanstone

Gladys Elphick

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Kiefel

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jessie Cooper

Queen Elizabeth II

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Price

United Labor Party

Barbara Baird

Benjamin Boothby

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Susan Benny

William Boothby

Bob Hawke

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sex Industry Network

Mike Rann

George Waterhouse

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Anthony Albanese

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

John Verran

Des Corcoran

Ian Purcell

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Reynolds

Sir John Colton

Edward Stirling

Queen Adelaide

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

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