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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.

Thomas Playford II

Kelly Vincent

Quentin Bryce

Augusta Zadow

Frank Walsh

Bob Hawke

Dame Roma Mitchell

Rob Kerin

Henry John Ayers

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Simon Birmingham

Women’s Liberation Movement

Anthony Albanese

Eddie Mabo

Eight Hours Day Committee

Susan Benny

Sir John Colton

Dean Brown

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Reynolds

Shirley Peisley

United Trades and Labor Council

Ian Purcell

George Strickland Kingston

Australian Labor Party

Edward Stirling

Greens Party

Sir William Morgan

Australian Democrats

Sir Samuel Way

Liberal Party

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Robin Millhouse

United Labor Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

Susan Kiefel

John Bannon

John Hart

Barbara Baird

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jessie Cooper

Sir James Boucaut

Women’s Suffrage League

Queen Elizabeth II

Lynn Arnold

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Edmund Barton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

King William IV

Sir John William Downer

Gladys Elphick

Sex Industry Network

John Baker

National Trust of Australia

Queen Adelaide

John Olsen

Francis Stacker Dutton

Bill Shorten

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Muriel Matters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Verran

Working Women’s Trade Union

City of Adelaide Corporation

Catherine Helen Spence

Peter Cosgrove

Clyde Cameron

Wendy Chapman

Mike Rann

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Amanda Vanstone

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Aborigines Progress Association

League of Women Voters

Lawrence Grayson

Joseph Fisher

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Steele Hall

Penny Wong

Joyce Steele

AIDS Council of South Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Mary Gaudron

Sir Thomas Playford

Mary Lee

William Boothby

Malcolm Turnbull

Lock the Gate

Governor George Gawler

Sir Arthur Blyth

Steven Marshall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Isobel Redmond

Country Women’s Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John Cox Bray

Don Dunstan

Henry Strangways

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

George Waterhouse

Janine Haines

Adam Goodes

Thomas John Napier

Des Corcoran

Sir Mark Oliphant

Gough Whitlam

Natasha Stott Despoja

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Country Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Peter Malinauskas

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