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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.

Susan Kiefel

Gladys Elphick

Eddie Mabo

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

King William IV

League of Women Voters

Mary Lee

Sir John William Downer

Jay Weatherill

Edward Stirling

Benjamin Boothby

Edmund Barton

Barbara Baird

Dame Roma Mitchell

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Price

Sir William Morgan

Charles Richmond Glover

Amanda Vanstone

Henry John Ayers

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Adelaide

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Arthur Blyth

Hieu Van Le

Quentin Bryce

Gough Whitlam

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Working Women’s Trade Union

Frank Walsh

Liberal Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John Colton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Thomas Playford

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Eight Hours Day Committee

United Trades and Labor Council

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Adam Goodes

Muriel Matters

Lock the Gate

Joyce Steele

Australian Labor Party

Bob Hawke

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Thomas John Napier

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Elizabeth II

Ian Purcell

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Baker

George Strickland Kingston

Mike Rann

Peter Malinauskas

Greens Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor George Gawler

Sir Samuel Way

Thomas Reynolds

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Dean Brown

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steele Hall

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Aborigines Progress Association

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Des Corcoran

Wendy Chapman

Women’s Electoral Lobby

David Tonkin

Joseph Fisher

Australian Democrats

National Trust of Australia

Clyde Cameron

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Suffrage League

John Alexander Cockburn

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Penny Wong

Country Women’s Association

Sir Douglas Nicholls

United Labor Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Country Party

Rob Kerin

Janine Haines

Julia Gillard

Catherine Helen Spence

George Waterhouse

Jessie Cooper

Steven Marshall

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Boyle Travers Finniss

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Fraser

Augusta Zadow

Henry Strangways

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Don Dunstan

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Sir Mark Oliphant

William Boothby

Bill Shorten

John Verran

Mary Gaudron

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Malcolm Turnbull

John Hart

Sir John Cox Bray

Lynn Arnold

Anthony Albanese

Kelly Vincent

Sex Industry Network

John Bannon

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