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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.

Eight Hours Day Committee

Muriel Matters

John Hart

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Susan Benny

Adam Goodes

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mike Rann

Mary Lee

Frank Walsh

Dame Roma Mitchell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Governor George Gawler

George Strickland Kingston

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Price

Shirley Peisley

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Olsen

Henry Strangways

Gough Whitlam

Country Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Malcolm Fraser

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Julia Gillard

Working Women’s Trade Union

Bob Hawke

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir William Morgan

Isobel Redmond

Penny Wong

Greens Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Simon Birmingham

King William IV

George Waterhouse

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas John Napier

Bill Shorten

Charles Richmond Glover

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Colton

Joyce Steele

National Trust of Australia

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

Steven Marshall

Sir Arthur Blyth

Rob Kerin

Susan Kiefel

Kelly Vincent

John Alexander Cockburn

Henry John Ayers

AIDS Council of South Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

John Baker

John Bannon

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

Barbara Baird

Women’s Liberation Movement

Jay Weatherill

Ian Purcell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Thomas Playford II

Janine Haines

Jessie Cooper

Liberal Party

Steele Hall

Joseph Fisher

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Mark Oliphant

Catherine Helen Spence

Governor John Hindmarsh

Peter Cosgrove

Clyde Cameron

United Labor Party

David Tonkin

Augusta Zadow

City of Adelaide Corporation

Mary Gaudron

Des Corcoran

Lynn Arnold

United Trades and Labor Council

Wendy Chapman

William Boothby

Thomas Reynolds

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Samuel Way

Robin Millhouse

Quentin Bryce

Dean Brown

Australian Labor Party

Sir James Boucaut

Australian Democrats

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir John William Downer

Edward Stirling

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Eddie Mabo

John Verran

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Adelaide

Boyle Travers Finniss

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Peter Malinauskas

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

League of Women Voters

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Sex Industry Network

Natasha Stott Despoja

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