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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.

Muriel Matters

Barbara Baird

Sir Arthur Blyth

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir William Morgan

Mike Rann

Sir James Boucaut

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Verran

Dame Roma Mitchell

United Labor Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Charles Cameron Kingston

Thomas John Napier

Amanda Vanstone

City of Adelaide Corporation

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Elizabeth II

Wendy Chapman

Sex Industry Network

Sir John Cox Bray

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Mark Oliphant

Robin Millhouse

Governor George Gawler

Gough Whitlam

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Joseph Fisher

Augusta Zadow

John Olsen

Charles Richmond Glover

John Bannon

Steven Marshall

Country Women’s Association

Clyde Cameron

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Jessie Cooper

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

AIDS Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Eddie Mabo

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Mary Gaudron

Sir John Colton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Malcolm Fraser

Conservation Council of South Australia

Simon Birmingham

Des Corcoran

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Bob Hawke

Joyce Steele

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

John Alexander Cockburn

United Trades and Labor Council

Rob Kerin

Edward Stirling

Dean Brown

Australian Democrats

David Tonkin

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Peter Cosgrove

Isobel Redmond

Ian Purcell

Bill Shorten

National Trust of Australia

William Boothby

Greens Party

Janine Haines

Thomas Reynolds

Kelly Vincent

Lock the Gate

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lynn Arnold

Steele Hall

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Australian Labor Party

Queen Adelaide

Peter Malinauskas

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Sir John William Downer

Country Party

Penny Wong

George Waterhouse

Anthony Albanese

Hieu Van Le

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Thomas Playford

Malcolm Turnbull

Women’s Suffrage League

Shirley Peisley

King William IV

Edmund Barton

Adam Goodes

John Hart

Sir Samuel Way

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Baker

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Price

League of Women Voters

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Benny

Henry Strangways

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

Quentin Bryce

Mary Lee

Eight Hours Day Committee

Catherine Helen Spence

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