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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.

Eddie Mabo

Aborigines Progress Association

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

David Tonkin

Thomas Playford II

Sir John Cox Bray

Eight Hours Day Committee

Janine Haines

Malcolm Turnbull

Greens Party

John Olsen

Gladys Elphick

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir William Morgan

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor George Gawler

Julia Gillard

Charles Cameron Kingston

Liberal Party

Queen Elizabeth II

National Trust of Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Verran

Frank Walsh

Edward Stirling

Susan Benny

Quentin Bryce

Don Dunstan

Country Women’s Association

Ian Purcell

Augusta Zadow

Dean Brown

Simon Birmingham

Muriel Matters

Australian Labor Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Des Corcoran

Charles Richmond Glover

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Mary Lee

King William IV

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir Thomas Playford

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Clyde Cameron

Henry Strangways

Sir James Boucaut

United Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Dame Roma Mitchell

Joyce Steele

Thomas Price

Hieu Van Le

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Australian Democrats

Women’s Suffrage League

Jessie Cooper

Conservation Council of South Australia

Adam Goodes

George Strickland Kingston

Bill Shorten

Mike Rann

Lynn Arnold

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Peter Cosgrove

George Waterhouse

Amanda Vanstone

Barbara Baird

Women’s Liberation Movement

Steven Marshall

John Hart

Mary Gaudron

Gough Whitlam

Shirley Peisley

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Douglas Nicholls

William Boothby

League of Women Voters

Thomas Reynolds

Susan Kiefel

Edmund Barton

Peter Malinauskas

Thomas John Napier

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Alexander Cockburn

John Bannon

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steele Hall

Malcolm Fraser

Francis Stacker Dutton

Country Party

Wendy Chapman

Bob Hawke

Henry John Ayers

Sir Samuel Way

Sex Industry Network

Sir Arthur Blyth

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Penny Wong

Robin Millhouse

Joseph Fisher

Sir John Colton

Sir John William Downer

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jay Weatherill

Queen Adelaide

Kelly Vincent

Lock the Gate

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Mark Oliphant

City of Adelaide Corporation

Rob Kerin

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