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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.

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir John Cox Bray

Jay Weatherill

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Bill Shorten

Frank Walsh

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Bannon

Sex Industry Network

Augusta Zadow

Ian Purcell

Isobel Redmond

Sir Thomas Playford

John Alexander Cockburn

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir William Morgan

Working Women’s Trade Union

George Waterhouse

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Queen Elizabeth II

Eight Hours Day Committee

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steven Marshall

Women’s Suffrage League

Julia Gillard

Charles Cameron Kingston

Queen Adelaide

Lawrence Grayson

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas Price

John Verran

Rob Kerin

Dame Roma Mitchell

Governor George Gawler

Greens Party

Barbara Baird

Susan Kiefel

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Liberation Movement

George Strickland Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Mary Lee

Kelly Vincent

David Tonkin

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Mary Gaudron

Bob Hawke

Country Party

Edward Stirling

Joyce Steele

Gladys Elphick

Mike Rann

Francis Stacker Dutton

Australian Labor Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lynn Arnold

Country Women’s Association

Peter Malinauskas

Lock the Gate

Quentin Bryce

Sir John Colton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir James Boucaut

Thomas Playford II

King William IV

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

League of Women Voters

Des Corcoran

John Baker

United Labor Party

John Hart

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jessie Cooper

Steele Hall

Aborigines Progress Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Joseph Fisher

Benjamin Boothby

Don Dunstan

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir John William Downer

Muriel Matters

Natasha Stott Despoja

Charles Richmond Glover

Wendy Chapman

Malcolm Fraser

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas John Napier

Anthony Albanese

Shirley Peisley

Edmund Barton

Amanda Vanstone

Simon Birmingham

Henry Strangways

Catherine Helen Spence

Clyde Cameron

Hieu Van Le

Sir Arthur Blyth

National Trust of Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Democrats

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

John Olsen

Robin Millhouse

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Dean Brown

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Women’s Electoral Lobby

William Boothby

Liberal Party

Sir Samuel Way

Adam Goodes

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Conservation Council of South Australia

Penny Wong

Susan Benny

Sir Douglas Nicholls

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