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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.

Ian Purcell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas Price

Benjamin Boothby

Don Dunstan

Australian Democrats

Sex Industry Network

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

National Trust of Australia

Susan Benny

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Samuel Way

Eight Hours Day Committee

Aborigines Progress Association

Penny Wong

Malcolm Fraser

Quentin Bryce

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Rob Kerin

Francis Stacker Dutton

Jessie Cooper

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Isobel Redmond

Anthony Albanese

George Waterhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Hieu Van Le

Wendy Chapman

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Alexander Cockburn

Thomas Playford II

Catherine Helen Spence

Lock the Gate

Bob Hawke

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Janine Haines

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eddie Mabo

Lawrence Grayson

Sir James Boucaut

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

Muriel Matters

Charles Cameron Kingston

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dame Roma Mitchell

Gladys Elphick

John Hart

Edward Stirling

King William IV

Bill Shorten

John Bannon

Adam Goodes

Lynn Arnold

Edmund Barton

Mary Lee

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Suffrage League

Working Women’s Trade Union

Susan Kiefel

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mike Rann

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Liberal Party

John Verran

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Governor George Gawler

Malcolm Turnbull

David Tonkin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John Colton

Joseph Fisher

Julia Gillard

Greens Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

City of Adelaide Corporation

Country Women’s Association

Jay Weatherill

Steven Marshall

Natasha Stott Despoja

Country Party

Kelly Vincent

Robin Millhouse

Dean Brown

Clyde Cameron

William Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Peter Cosgrove

League of Women Voters

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Augusta Zadow

Queen Elizabeth II

Thomas John Napier

Queen Adelaide

United Labor Party

Gough Whitlam

Mary Gaudron

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Frank Walsh

Sir John Cox Bray

George Strickland Kingston

Simon Birmingham

Joyce Steele

Conservation Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Reynolds

Sir William Morgan

John Baker

AIDS Council of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Barbara Baird

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Olsen

Henry John Ayers

Des Corcoran

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Thomas Playford

Steele Hall

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