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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.

Governor John Hindmarsh

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Catherine Helen Spence

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lock the Gate

Sir Arthur Blyth

Julia Gillard

Janine Haines

Dame Roma Mitchell

Jay Weatherill

Rob Kerin

Quentin Bryce

Thomas John Napier

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Frank Walsh

Don Dunstan

Edmund Barton

Amanda Vanstone

Anthony Albanese

Boyle Travers Finniss

Thomas Reynolds

Queen Adelaide

Aborigines Progress Association

Queen Elizabeth II

Hieu Van Le

Thomas Playford II

Joseph Fisher

Australian Democrats

Clyde Cameron

Mike Rann

Sir William Morgan

Greens Party

Wendy Chapman

Jessie Cooper

Bill Shorten

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Bannon

Augusta Zadow

Governor George Gawler

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Samuel Way

John Alexander Cockburn

Steele Hall

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Dean Brown

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Liberation Movement

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

League of Women Voters

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Liberal Party

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Penny Wong

John Olsen

Robin Millhouse

George Waterhouse

King William IV

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Henry John Ayers

Eddie Mabo

Sex Industry Network

Joyce Steele

Barbara Baird

Charles Cameron Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir James Boucaut

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Baker

Sir John William Downer

Peter Cosgrove

AIDS Council of South Australia

Women’s Suffrage League

Charles Richmond Glover

Adam Goodes

Sir Thomas Playford

Kelly Vincent

William Boothby

Susan Benny

Malcolm Fraser

United Labor Party

Susan Kiefel

Isobel Redmond

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir John Cox Bray

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Mark Oliphant

David Tonkin

Ian Purcell

Henry Strangways

John Verran

Gladys Elphick

John Hart

Simon Birmingham

Lynn Arnold

Gough Whitlam

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Edward Stirling

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Muriel Matters

Thomas Price

National Trust of Australia

Mary Lee

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Steven Marshall

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Bob Hawke

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Turnbull

Lawrence Grayson

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Colton

Peter Malinauskas

Francis Stacker Dutton

Working Women’s Trade Union

Australian Labor Party

Country Women’s Association

Des Corcoran

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Conservation Council of South Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Mary Gaudron

Country Party

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