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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.

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Barbara Baird

Susan Benny

Mary Gaudron

Gladys Elphick

Kelly Vincent

Lynn Arnold

Susan Kiefel

Julia Gillard

Shirley Peisley

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Malcolm Turnbull

George Waterhouse

William Boothby

Sir Thomas Playford

Penny Wong

Sir Douglas Nicholls

David Tonkin

Aborigines Progress Association

City of Adelaide Corporation

Frank Walsh

John Hart

Sir Samuel Way

Isobel Redmond

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Wendy Chapman

Governor John Hindmarsh

Thomas Price

Henry Strangways

John Baker

Mike Rann

Australian Labor Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Bob Hawke

Sir William Morgan

Catherine Helen Spence

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lock the Gate

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Cox Bray

Clyde Cameron

Benjamin Boothby

Ian Purcell

Thomas John Napier

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Joyce Steele

John Verran

Thomas Reynolds

Gough Whitlam

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Peter Malinauskas

Robin Millhouse

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Australian Democrats

Jessie Cooper

League of Women Voters

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Alexander Cockburn

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

National Trust of Australia

Eddie Mabo

Country Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Arthur Blyth

Charles Richmond Glover

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Rob Kerin

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

United Labor Party

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

Bill Shorten

Sir John William Downer

Des Corcoran

Eight Hours Day Committee

Peter Cosgrove

Sex Industry Network

Steele Hall

Muriel Matters

Hieu Van Le

Lawrence Grayson

Edward Stirling

Working Women’s Trade Union

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dean Brown

John Olsen

Henry John Ayers

Malcolm Fraser

Joseph Fisher

United Trades and Labor Council

Edmund Barton

Conservation Council of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

Liberal Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Amanda Vanstone

John Bannon

Governor George Gawler

Don Dunstan

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

Anthony Albanese

Natasha Stott Despoja

Greens Party

King William IV

Quentin Bryce

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Queen Adelaide

Charles Cameron Kingston

Queen Elizabeth II

Steven Marshall

Sir John Colton

Women’s Suffrage League

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Janine Haines

Sir Mark Oliphant

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