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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.

Joyce Steele

Don Dunstan

William Boothby

Country Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Lawrence Grayson

Malcolm Turnbull

Catherine Helen Spence

George Strickland Kingston

John Baker

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Hart

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Country Women’s Association

Peter Cosgrove

Bill Shorten

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adam Goodes

Gladys Elphick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John William Downer

Thomas Price

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Ian Purcell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steele Hall

Sir John Cox Bray

Jessie Cooper

Edmund Barton

Benjamin Boothby

George Waterhouse

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Mary Lee

Anthony Albanese

David Tonkin

Sir William Morgan

National Trust of Australia

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joseph Fisher

Sir Arthur Blyth

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

Greens Party

Sir James Boucaut

United Labor Party

Wendy Chapman

Isobel Redmond

Working Women’s Trade Union

Robin Millhouse

Frank Walsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Governor George Gawler

Julia Gillard

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Adelaide

Penny Wong

Women’s Suffrage League

Eddie Mabo

Bob Hawke

Sex Industry Network

Kelly Vincent

Lock the Gate

Charles Cameron Kingston

King William IV

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir John Colton

Rob Kerin

Aborigines Progress Association

Dean Brown

Janine Haines

Thomas John Napier

Sir Samuel Way

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steven Marshall

Jay Weatherill

Lynn Arnold

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Peter Malinauskas

Simon Birmingham

Australian Democrats

Amanda Vanstone

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Liberation Movement

AIDS Council of South Australia

Augusta Zadow

Thomas Reynolds

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Susan Kiefel

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

Edward Stirling

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Alexander Cockburn

League of Women Voters

Natasha Stott Despoja

Liberal Party

Des Corcoran

Charles Richmond Glover

United Trades and Labor Council

Muriel Matters

City of Adelaide Corporation

Henry John Ayers

John Olsen

Gough Whitlam

Sir Thomas Playford

John Bannon

Quentin Bryce

Clyde Cameron

Mike Rann

Hieu Van Le

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Barbara Baird

John Verran

Susan Benny

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