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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.

Lynn Arnold

Isobel Redmond

Julia Gillard

Thomas Playford II

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Steele Hall

Sir John William Downer

Thomas John Napier

Boyle Travers Finniss

Frank Walsh

Charles Richmond Glover

Mary Gaudron

AIDS Council of South Australia

Conservation Council of South Australia

Barbara Baird

George Strickland Kingston

Steven Marshall

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Baker

John Verran

Queen Adelaide

Amanda Vanstone

Sir John Colton

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Alexander Cockburn

Edward Stirling

Hieu Van Le

Lock the Gate

Sir Arthur Blyth

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Bannon

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Joseph Fisher

King William IV

Susan Benny

Bill Shorten

Mike Rann

Catherine Helen Spence

Susan Kiefel

Sir Thomas Playford

Shirley Peisley

Thomas Reynolds

Sir John Cox Bray

Country Women’s Association

Benjamin Boothby

Malcolm Fraser

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Janine Haines

Sir Samuel Way

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Governor John Hindmarsh

Kelly Vincent

George Waterhouse

John Olsen

United Labor Party

Country Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Clyde Cameron

Mary Lee

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

Eight Hours Day Committee

Edmund Barton

Aborigines Progress Association

Anthony Albanese

Jessie Cooper

Eddie Mabo

Ian Purcell

Dean Brown

Liberal Party

City of Adelaide Corporation

Henry Strangways

Australian Democrats

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir James Boucaut

League of Women Voters

Dame Roma Mitchell

Don Dunstan

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adam Goodes

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Gough Whitlam

Gladys Elphick

Henry John Ayers

David Tonkin

Wendy Chapman

Rob Kerin

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Simon Birmingham

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Greens Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Joyce Steele

National Trust of Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Robin Millhouse

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Quentin Bryce

Peter Cosgrove

Jay Weatherill

John Hart

Bob Hawke

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Des Corcoran

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor Richard MacDonnell

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Price

Penny Wong

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir William Morgan

Sex Industry Network

Augusta Zadow

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Peter Malinauskas

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