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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.

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Jessie Cooper

Queen Elizabeth II

Mike Rann

Women’s Suffrage League

Hieu Van Le

Rob Kerin

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John Colton

Augusta Zadow

Adam Goodes

Eddie Mabo

Mary Lee

National Trust of Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Women’s Liberation Movement

Henry John Ayers

Barbara Baird

George Waterhouse

Isobel Redmond

Australian Labor Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Dame Roma Mitchell

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Olsen

Peter Cosgrove

Des Corcoran

Thomas Playford II

Charles Cameron Kingston

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lock the Gate

Ian Purcell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Governor George Gawler

Thomas John Napier

Joseph Fisher

John Bannon

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Benny

Wendy Chapman

Henry Strangways

Bob Hawke

Sir John William Downer

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

United Labor Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Sir John Cox Bray

Australian Democrats

Thomas Price

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sex Industry Network

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Liberal Party

John Alexander Cockburn

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

AIDS Council of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

Clyde Cameron

Conservation Council of South Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Joyce Steele

Country Party

Greens Party

Benjamin Boothby

Queen Adelaide

Sir William Morgan

King William IV

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Anthony Albanese

John Verran

Steele Hall

Julia Gillard

League of Women Voters

Robin Millhouse

Dean Brown

David Tonkin

Muriel Matters

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Aborigines Progress Association

Governor John Hindmarsh

Quentin Bryce

United Trades and Labor Council

Catherine Helen Spence

Edward Stirling

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mary Gaudron

Edmund Barton

Penny Wong

Malcolm Fraser

Sir James Boucaut

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Samuel Way

Frank Walsh

Gough Whitlam

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

Malcolm Turnbull

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Arthur Blyth

Steven Marshall

Amanda Vanstone

John Hart

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Baker

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Simon Birmingham

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

Susan Kiefel

William Boothby

Lynn Arnold

Gladys Elphick

Don Dunstan

Bill Shorten

Lowitja O’Donoghue

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