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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.

National Trust of Australia

Kelly Vincent

Sir Mark Oliphant

Muriel Matters

Sir John Colton

Edmund Barton

Queen Adelaide

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Women’s Suffrage League

Hieu Van Le

Sex Industry Network

Henry John Ayers

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Augusta Zadow

Charles Cameron Kingston

Janine Haines

Amanda Vanstone

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Samuel Way

Country Party

Country Women’s Association

John Verran

David Tonkin

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Australian Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Clyde Cameron

Sir John Cox Bray

Des Corcoran

Susan Benny

Eddie Mabo

John Hart

Bob Hawke

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor George Gawler

Gladys Elphick

Gough Whitlam

AIDS Council of South Australia

George Strickland Kingston

United Labor Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

Simon Birmingham

Lawrence Grayson

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Edward Stirling

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Liberation Movement

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Thomas Playford

Barbara Baird

Jay Weatherill

Lynn Arnold

Penny Wong

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Malcolm Turnbull

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adam Goodes

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Julia Gillard

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Bill Shorten

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Price

Natasha Stott Despoja

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Liberal Party

Joyce Steele

City of Adelaide Corporation

Rob Kerin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Ian Purcell

John Baker

George Waterhouse

Mary Gaudron

Lock the Gate

Susan Kiefel

Sir John William Downer

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Jessie Cooper

Australian Democrats

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Greens Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor John Hindmarsh

Mary Lee

Henry Strangways

Steven Marshall

United Trades and Labor Council

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Wendy Chapman

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Benjamin Boothby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Queen Elizabeth II

Robin Millhouse

Mike Rann

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir William Morgan

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dean Brown

Sir Arthur Blyth

Anthony Albanese

Working Women’s Trade Union

Peter Cosgrove

William Boothby

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Shirley Peisley

John Bannon

Sir James Boucaut

Steele Hall

King William IV

League of Women Voters

Thomas Playford II

Quentin Bryce

Thomas John Napier

Isobel Redmond

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