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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.

Wendy Chapman

Country Women’s Association

Sir John Colton

Henry John Ayers

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mary Lee

John Verran

Sir John Cox Bray

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lawrence Grayson

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Douglas Nicholls

National Trust of Australia

Shirley Peisley

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Kelly Vincent

King William IV

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lock the Gate

Dean Brown

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Liberation Movement

Robin Millhouse

Sir Samuel Way

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

Thomas Price

Steele Hall

Susan Benny

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Quentin Bryce

Sir James Boucaut

Ian Purcell

Greens Party

Susan Kiefel

Queen Adelaide

Peter Malinauskas

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas John Napier

Australian Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Electoral Lobby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Anthony Albanese

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Bill Shorten

Jay Weatherill

Rob Kerin

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Malcolm Turnbull

John Baker

Steven Marshall

Joyce Steele

Sir Arthur Blyth

Country Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Reynolds

United Trades and Labor Council

Benjamin Boothby

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lynn Arnold

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Edmund Barton

Hieu Van Le

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Adam Goodes

Liberal Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor George Gawler

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Francis Stacker Dutton

Edward Stirling

John Alexander Cockburn

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Julia Gillard

Charles Richmond Glover

Sex Industry Network

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Thomas Playford II

William Boothby

United Labor Party

Des Corcoran

Sir Thomas Playford

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Frank Walsh

Dame Roma Mitchell

Catherine Helen Spence

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Penny Wong

Janine Haines

Jessie Cooper

Henry Strangways

Robert Storrie Guthrie

George Waterhouse

John Olsen

Gough Whitlam

Augusta Zadow

Don Dunstan

Simon Birmingham

Sir William Morgan

Peter Cosgrove

Malcolm Fraser

Barbara Baird

Mike Rann

Sir John William Downer

League of Women Voters

Clyde Cameron

Mary Gaudron

Australian Democrats

David Tonkin

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Hart

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Aborigines Progress Association

John Bannon

Bob Hawke

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