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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.

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Eddie Mabo

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Country Women’s Association

Anthony Albanese

Thomas John Napier

Sir Thomas Playford

Susan Benny

Steele Hall

John Baker

Sir Samuel Way

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Alexander Cockburn

Eight Hours Day Committee

Wendy Chapman

Don Dunstan

John Olsen

Governor John Hindmarsh

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Shirley Peisley

Aborigines Progress Association

Queen Elizabeth II

Charles Richmond Glover

Peter Cosgrove

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Henry John Ayers

Adam Goodes

Mike Rann

Des Corcoran

George Waterhouse

Sir Mark Oliphant

Rob Kerin

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

National Trust of Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Lock the Gate

Barbara Baird

Hieu Van Le

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Suffrage League

Boyle Travers Finniss

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

David Tonkin

John Verran

Kelly Vincent

William Boothby

United Labor Party

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Julia Gillard

Sex Industry Network

AIDS Council of South Australia

Dean Brown

League of Women Voters

Bob Hawke

Robin Millhouse

Lawrence Grayson

Augusta Zadow

Charles Cameron Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

George Strickland Kingston

Mary Lee

Sir John Cox Bray

Malcolm Turnbull

Greens Party

Malcolm Fraser

Sir James Boucaut

Governor George Gawler

Jessie Cooper

Bill Shorten

Sir John Colton

Gough Whitlam

Country Party

Australian Democrats

Isobel Redmond

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir William Morgan

Susan Kiefel

Conservation Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Sir John William Downer

John Hart

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Quentin Bryce

Simon Birmingham

Ian Purcell

Gladys Elphick

Queen Adelaide

Jay Weatherill

Amanda Vanstone

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Gaudron

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Liberal Party

Muriel Matters

Women’s Liberation Movement

Australian Labor Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas Reynolds

Catherine Helen Spence

Joyce Steele

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Edward Stirling

Edmund Barton

Henry Strangways

Joseph Fisher

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Steven Marshall

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Bannon

King William IV

Peter Malinauskas

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Francis Stacker Dutton

Janine Haines

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