The Centre of Democracy

Picturing Democracy

An archive of democracy in South Australia

  • Home
  • People
  • Groups
  • Themes
  • Movements
  • About the Centre of Democracy
  • Education Programs

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.

Joyce Steele

John Hart

Mary Lee

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Steele Hall

Governor John Hindmarsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor George Gawler

Eddie Mabo

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Natasha Stott Despoja

Greens Party

Henry John Ayers

Barbara Baird

Janine Haines

Frank Walsh

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Country Women’s Association

Simon Birmingham

Country Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Working Women’s Trade Union

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lawrence Grayson

Aborigines Progress Association

Catherine Helen Spence

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Adam Goodes

League of Women Voters

Thomas John Napier

John Olsen

Lock the Gate

Mike Rann

Joseph Fisher

Liberal Party

Gough Whitlam

Jay Weatherill

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir William Morgan

United Trades and Labor Council

Rob Kerin

Sir Douglas Nicholls

AIDS Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Charles Richmond Glover

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Thomas Reynolds

Eight Hours Day Committee

Anthony Albanese

Julia Gillard

National Trust of Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir James Boucaut

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Edmund Barton

Sex Industry Network

Isobel Redmond

United Labor Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Sir Mark Oliphant

Robin Millhouse

Australian Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Bill Shorten

Kelly Vincent

Sir John William Downer

Des Corcoran

Sir John Colton

Women’s Suffrage League

King William IV

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Boyle Travers Finniss

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Jessie Cooper

Bob Hawke

Charles Cameron Kingston

Augusta Zadow

Malcolm Turnbull

Peter Malinauskas

John Bannon

John Baker

George Waterhouse

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Thomas Playford

Ian Purcell

Benjamin Boothby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Quentin Bryce

Susan Kiefel

Clyde Cameron

Sir Samuel Way

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Queen Adelaide

Susan Benny

John Verran

John Alexander Cockburn

Edward Stirling

Wendy Chapman

Amanda Vanstone

Hieu Van Le

Muriel Matters

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Malcolm Fraser

Don Dunstan

Steven Marshall

Lynn Arnold

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas Price

Shirley Peisley

Australian Democrats

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Dean Brown

Dame Roma Mitchell

David Tonkin

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial 3.0 License. Some contributed content on this site (ie not written or owned by the Centre of Democracy) is licensed differently and indicated accordingly on the relevant pages and within the relevant media.

Site development by Digital Barn