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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.

Susan Kiefel

Greens Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Kelly Vincent

City of Adelaide Corporation

Shirley Peisley

Benjamin Boothby

Country Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Eight Hours Day Committee

National Trust of Australia

Isobel Redmond

King William IV

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Mike Rann

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Bob Hawke

Mary Gaudron

Rob Kerin

Ian Purcell

Sir James Boucaut

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Women’s Liberation Movement

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Reynolds

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Charles Richmond Glover

Barbara Baird

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Dame Roma Mitchell

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Cox Bray

Lawrence Grayson

Eddie Mabo

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor Richard MacDonnell

George Strickland Kingston

John Hart

Working Women’s Trade Union

Peter Malinauskas

Steele Hall

Gladys Elphick

Jay Weatherill

William Boothby

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir John William Downer

Dean Brown

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Boyle Travers Finniss

Henry John Ayers

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Playford II

United Labor Party

Lynn Arnold

League of Women Voters

John Baker

Des Corcoran

Janine Haines

Mary Lee

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Edmund Barton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Samuel Way

Penny Wong

Susan Benny

Don Dunstan

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Australian Labor Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir John Colton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir William Morgan

Augusta Zadow

Thomas John Napier

Country Women’s Association

Robin Millhouse

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Queen Adelaide

Muriel Matters

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Mark Oliphant

Liberal Party

Adam Goodes

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Thomas Price

Anthony Albanese

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Conservation Council of South Australia

Hieu Van Le

Clyde Cameron

Sir Arthur Blyth

Lock the Gate

Quentin Bryce

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry Strangways

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Thomas Playford

Joseph Fisher

Edward Stirling

George Waterhouse

Amanda Vanstone

Frank Walsh

Francis Stacker Dutton

Steven Marshall

John Alexander Cockburn

John Bannon

Sex Industry Network

Joyce Steele

Simon Birmingham

Bill Shorten

John Verran

Aborigines Progress Association

Jessie Cooper

Malcolm Fraser

John Olsen

Gough Whitlam

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