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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 George Gawler

Working Women’s Trade Union

Country Women’s Association

John Verran

Sir Mark Oliphant

Queen Elizabeth II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John Colton

Susan Kiefel

Boyle Travers Finniss

Thomas Reynolds

Mike Rann

Des Corcoran

Julia Gillard

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

National Trust of Australia

Liberal Party

Australian Labor Party

Sex Industry Network

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas John Napier

Sir Douglas Nicholls

King William IV

Shirley Peisley

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Dean Brown

John Bannon

Jessie Cooper

Charles Richmond Glover

Ian Purcell

Augusta Zadow

Sir John William Downer

Lock the Gate

Women’s Liberation Movement

Eddie Mabo

Don Dunstan

Catherine Helen Spence

Muriel Matters

Country Party

Bob Hawke

Steven Marshall

Steele Hall

Barbara Baird

Joyce Steele

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir William Morgan

Edward Stirling

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Gough Whitlam

John Alexander Cockburn

Peter Malinauskas

Hieu Van Le

Aborigines Progress Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Samuel Way

Frank Walsh

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Simon Birmingham

Malcolm Turnbull

Susan Benny

Penny Wong

Rob Kerin

Quentin Bryce

Robin Millhouse

Jay Weatherill

Benjamin Boothby

William Boothby

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Arthur Blyth

Peter Cosgrove

George Strickland Kingston

Edmund Barton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John Cox Bray

John Hart

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Kelly Vincent

Malcolm Fraser

Lynn Arnold

Henry John Ayers

Dame Roma Mitchell

Janine Haines

Bill Shorten

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

Mary Gaudron

Sir Thomas Playford

George Waterhouse

Gladys Elphick

David Tonkin

Joseph Fisher

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Natasha Stott Despoja

Anthony Albanese

Adam Goodes

John Olsen

Thomas Price

John Baker

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Conservation Council of South Australia

United Labor Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

City of Adelaide Corporation

Mary Lee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Clyde Cameron

Wendy Chapman

League of Women Voters

Amanda Vanstone

Isobel Redmond

Henry Strangways

Greens Party

Queen Adelaide

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