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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.

Sir Thomas Playford

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Suffrage League

Country Women’s Association

Working Women’s Trade Union

Steele Hall

Jay Weatherill

Robin Millhouse

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Jessie Cooper

John Baker

Country Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Don Dunstan

Lock the Gate

Steven Marshall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

United Labor Party

Thomas Price

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Mike Rann

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Quentin Bryce

AIDS Council of South Australia

Greens Party

Anthony Albanese

William Boothby

Aborigines Progress Association

Joseph Fisher

John Alexander Cockburn

Edward Stirling

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

Frank Walsh

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir James Boucaut

Sir John William Downer

Queen Elizabeth II

Sex Industry Network

Susan Benny

Simon Birmingham

Edmund Barton

Shirley Peisley

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Charles Richmond Glover

Governor George Gawler

United Trades and Labor Council

City of Adelaide Corporation

Amanda Vanstone

Clyde Cameron

Dean Brown

Liberal Party

Henry John Ayers

Janine Haines

Muriel Matters

Julia Gillard

Natasha Stott Despoja

Penny Wong

Australian Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Barbara Baird

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Boyle Travers Finniss

Eddie Mabo

Gladys Elphick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Bill Shorten

Australian Democrats

Francis Stacker Dutton

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Peter Malinauskas

Mary Gaudron

Lynn Arnold

John Verran

Augusta Zadow

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Cosgrove

John Hart

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Liberation Movement

Rob Kerin

Susan Kiefel

John Olsen

David Tonkin

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Benjamin Boothby

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Governor John Hindmarsh

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Bob Hawke

Catherine Helen Spence

Ian Purcell

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Adam Goodes

Des Corcoran

Dame Roma Mitchell

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Cox Bray

King William IV

League of Women Voters

Lawrence Grayson

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Samuel Way

Mary Lee

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Bannon

Queen Adelaide

Gough Whitlam

Wendy Chapman

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Douglas Nicholls

George Waterhouse

Sir William Morgan

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir John Colton

Isobel Redmond

Thomas John Napier

National Trust of Australia

Joyce Steele

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

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