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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.

Frank Walsh

Clyde Cameron

Janine Haines

Gladys Elphick

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Henry Strangways

Thomas Playford II

Sir John William Downer

King William IV

Gough Whitlam

AIDS Council of South Australia

Bill Shorten

Sir James Boucaut

Hieu Van Le

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Liberal Party

John Bannon

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Susan Kiefel

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Hart

Edward Stirling

Joseph Fisher

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas John Napier

Working Women’s Trade Union

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jessie Cooper

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Isobel Redmond

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robin Millhouse

Lynn Arnold

Kelly Vincent

Francis Stacker Dutton

Greens Party

Amanda Vanstone

Mike Rann

Don Dunstan

Shirley Peisley

Dame Roma Mitchell

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Aborigines Progress Association

Charles Cameron Kingston

Peter Cosgrove

Anthony Albanese

John Baker

John Verran

Mary Gaudron

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Joyce Steele

Governor John Hindmarsh

Australian Democrats

Penny Wong

City of Adelaide Corporation

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Queen Elizabeth II

Julia Gillard

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dean Brown

Mary Lee

Barbara Baird

Rob Kerin

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

William Boothby

Queen Adelaide

Sir Arthur Blyth

Henry John Ayers

Peter Malinauskas

George Strickland Kingston

Governor George Gawler

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

Sir John Cox Bray

Muriel Matters

Women’s Liberation Movement

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Steven Marshall

Thomas Reynolds

Boyle Travers Finniss

Malcolm Turnbull

Adam Goodes

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

David Tonkin

Quentin Bryce

Sir William Morgan

Sex Industry Network

United Labor Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Richmond Glover

Simon Birmingham

Sir Samuel Way

Catherine Helen Spence

John Alexander Cockburn

Wendy Chapman

Australian Labor Party

League of Women Voters

Malcolm Fraser

Country Party

Bob Hawke

Des Corcoran

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

Ian Purcell

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Augusta Zadow

Lock the Gate

George Waterhouse

United Trades and Labor Council

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Natasha Stott Despoja

Benjamin Boothby

Sir John Colton

Steele Hall

Thomas Price

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