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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.

Frank Walsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Hart

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Playford II

Malcolm Turnbull

Charles Richmond Glover

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Women’s Association

Jay Weatherill

Rob Kerin

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Women’s Suffrage League

Anthony Albanese

Shirley Peisley

Gladys Elphick

Jessie Cooper

Susan Benny

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Alexander Cockburn

Robin Millhouse

Des Corcoran

Sir James Boucaut

John Olsen

Lowitja O’Donoghue

George Strickland Kingston

Mike Rann

Queen Adelaide

Dean Brown

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Women’s Liberation Movement

Bob Hawke

Sir John Colton

Quentin Bryce

Dame Roma Mitchell

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Baker

Conservation Council of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Gough Whitlam

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Penny Wong

Ian Purcell

Wendy Chapman

Malcolm Fraser

John Bannon

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor George Gawler

Peter Cosgrove

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Liberal Party

Lynn Arnold

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Democrats

King William IV

League of Women Voters

Francis Stacker Dutton

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sex Industry Network

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Janine Haines

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lock the Gate

National Trust of Australia

Sir William Morgan

Don Dunstan

Greens Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Mary Gaudron

Amanda Vanstone

Henry John Ayers

United Trades and Labor Council

Hieu Van Le

George Waterhouse

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas John Napier

Julia Gillard

Sir John William Downer

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas Reynolds

Aborigines Progress Association

Kelly Vincent

Steven Marshall

Steele Hall

United Labor Party

Thomas Price

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Samuel Way

Edward Stirling

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Verran

Edmund Barton

David Tonkin

Clyde Cameron

Catherine Helen Spence

Muriel Matters

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adam Goodes

Simon Birmingham

Barbara Baird

Eddie Mabo

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Susan Kiefel

Joyce Steele

Australian Labor Party

Mary Lee

Joseph Fisher

Bill Shorten

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Thomas Playford

Isobel Redmond

Sir Arthur Blyth

Benjamin Boothby

Henry Strangways

AIDS Council of South Australia

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