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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.

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Joyce Steele

Susan Kiefel

Eddie Mabo

Ian Purcell

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Jay Weatherill

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mary Lee

Jessie Cooper

Steven Marshall

National Trust of Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Hieu Van Le

Gladys Elphick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Julia Gillard

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Price

Muriel Matters

Dame Roma Mitchell

Des Corcoran

Peter Malinauskas

Susan Benny

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Mary Gaudron

Sir John Colton

George Strickland Kingston

Lock the Gate

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Peter Cosgrove

Don Dunstan

David Tonkin

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Playford II

Mike Rann

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John Cox Bray

Australian Democrats

William Boothby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Country Women’s Association

Malcolm Fraser

Joseph Fisher

AIDS Council of South Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir William Morgan

Sex Industry Network

Liberal Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Alexander Cockburn

Dean Brown

Amanda Vanstone

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir John William Downer

Henry John Ayers

Edward Stirling

Queen Elizabeth II

Frank Walsh

Governor George Gawler

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Bill Shorten

Penny Wong

Isobel Redmond

John Olsen

Rob Kerin

United Labor Party

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Thomas Playford

Bob Hawke

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Barbara Baird

Quentin Bryce

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Lynn Arnold

Clyde Cameron

George Waterhouse

Francis Stacker Dutton

League of Women Voters

Gough Whitlam

Queen Adelaide

John Hart

Augusta Zadow

Simon Birmingham

Thomas Reynolds

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Malcolm Turnbull

Charles Richmond Glover

Lawrence Grayson

Wendy Chapman

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Bannon

Robin Millhouse

Edmund Barton

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

King William IV

United Trades and Labor Council

Aborigines Progress Association

Country Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Greens Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steele Hall

Adam Goodes

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Janine Haines

Sir James Boucaut

Catherine Helen Spence

Anthony Albanese

Shirley Peisley

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas John Napier

John Verran

Women’s Liberation Movement

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

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