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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.

George Waterhouse

Susan Benny

Eddie Mabo

Governor John Hindmarsh

Country Women’s Association

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Australian Labor Party

Bill Shorten

Steven Marshall

League of Women Voters

Sir Arthur Blyth

Gladys Elphick

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Olsen

Augusta Zadow

Barbara Baird

Muriel Matters

Hieu Van Le

King William IV

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Samuel Way

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dean Brown

George Strickland Kingston

Quentin Bryce

Working Women’s Trade Union

Australian Democrats

Janine Haines

Thomas Playford II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir William Morgan

Joseph Fisher

Lock the Gate

Sex Industry Network

Julia Gillard

Thomas Price

Governor George Gawler

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir John Colton

City of Adelaide Corporation

Queen Elizabeth II

John Verran

Rob Kerin

Sir Mark Oliphant

United Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Anthony Albanese

Queen Adelaide

Adam Goodes

National Trust of Australia

Robin Millhouse

Henry Strangways

John Baker

John Hart

Frank Walsh

Gough Whitlam

Henry John Ayers

Shirley Peisley

Women’s Suffrage League

Lowitja O’Donoghue

David Tonkin

Charles Richmond Glover

Clyde Cameron

Wendy Chapman

Ian Purcell

Mike Rann

Edward Stirling

Conservation Council of South Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Boyle Travers Finniss

Don Dunstan

Mary Gaudron

Peter Cosgrove

Liberal Party

John Bannon

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Fraser

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas John Napier

AIDS Council of South Australia

Joyce Steele

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Liberation Movement

Edmund Barton

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir John William Downer

William Boothby

Peter Malinauskas

Jessie Cooper

Dame Roma Mitchell

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Simon Birmingham

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Kiefel

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Steele Hall

Benjamin Boothby

Greens Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Penny Wong

Sir James Boucaut

Mary Lee

Bob Hawke

Country Party

Aborigines Progress Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

Kelly Vincent

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