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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.

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Liberation Movement

Joseph Fisher

Sir Arthur Blyth

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Samuel Way

Queen Adelaide

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Cox Bray

Mike Rann

Hieu Van Le

United Labor Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

King William IV

Mary Gaudron

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Edward Stirling

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Playford II

Joyce Steele

Penny Wong

Sir William Morgan

Des Corcoran

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Shirley Peisley

Barbara Baird

City of Adelaide Corporation

George Waterhouse

Anthony Albanese

Thomas Price

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

John Hart

Sir Thomas Playford

Muriel Matters

Amanda Vanstone

Bob Hawke

Julia Gillard

Clyde Cameron

Lawrence Grayson

Greens Party

Simon Birmingham

Sir Mark Oliphant

Adam Goodes

Henry Strangways

Lock the Gate

John Olsen

Thomas Reynolds

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

Eddie Mabo

Boyle Travers Finniss

John Alexander Cockburn

John Bannon

Queen Elizabeth II

John Baker

Peter Cosgrove

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Suffrage League

Catherine Helen Spence

Malcolm Turnbull

Charles Cameron Kingston

Working Women’s Trade Union

Jay Weatherill

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Benjamin Boothby

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John William Downer

Steele Hall

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Verran

Country Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir John Colton

Eight Hours Day Committee

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Don Dunstan

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Bill Shorten

Lynn Arnold

Gough Whitlam

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Edmund Barton

Wendy Chapman

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Quentin Bryce

Aborigines Progress Association

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

George Strickland Kingston

League of Women Voters

Robin Millhouse

Steven Marshall

Susan Benny

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Kelly Vincent

Sex Industry Network

Dean Brown

National Trust of Australia

Gladys Elphick

Jessie Cooper

Australian Labor Party

Susan Kiefel

Frank Walsh

Isobel Redmond

Janine Haines

Rob Kerin

Australian Democrats

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas John Napier

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