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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.

Mike Rann

Anthony Albanese

Clyde Cameron

Aborigines Progress Association

Don Dunstan

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Samuel Way

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Robin Millhouse

Charles Cameron Kingston

Quentin Bryce

Benjamin Boothby

Greens Party

Australian Democrats

Working Women’s Trade Union

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Eight Hours Day Committee

Bob Hawke

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir William Morgan

Gough Whitlam

United Trades and Labor Council

Frank Walsh

Thomas Price

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Mark Oliphant

Australian Labor Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Colton

Bill Shorten

Joyce Steele

Catherine Helen Spence

Julia Gillard

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Arthur Blyth

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

John Olsen

Edward Stirling

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Jessie Cooper

Simon Birmingham

Rob Kerin

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Governor George Gawler

Penny Wong

Thomas Playford II

John Verran

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Jay Weatherill

Eddie Mabo

Dean Brown

Governor John Hindmarsh

League of Women Voters

Susan Kiefel

Adam Goodes

Edmund Barton

John Hart

Hieu Van Le

Isobel Redmond

Gladys Elphick

National Trust of Australia

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Wendy Chapman

Steven Marshall

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Suffrage League

Henry John Ayers

George Waterhouse

Queen Adelaide

David Tonkin

Malcolm Fraser

Mary Lee

Barbara Baird

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lynn Arnold

Shirley Peisley

Augusta Zadow

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Steele Hall

John Bannon

Liberal Party

Sex Industry Network

Muriel Matters

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Susan Benny

Amanda Vanstone

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Alexander Cockburn

King William IV

Country Party

Janine Haines

Francis Stacker Dutton

Ian Purcell

Joseph Fisher

United Labor Party

Des Corcoran

Country Women’s Association

William Boothby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kelly Vincent

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Liberation Movement

Peter Malinauskas

Sir John William Downer

Sir Thomas Playford

George Strickland Kingston

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

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