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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.

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Suffrage League

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Ian Purcell

Australian Democrats

United Trades and Labor Council

William Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steele Hall

Queen Adelaide

Eddie Mabo

Joyce Steele

Sir Arthur Blyth

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Reynolds

Benjamin Boothby

David Tonkin

Thomas Price

Peter Malinauskas

John Verran

Susan Benny

Working Women’s Trade Union

League of Women Voters

Peter Cosgrove

Julia Gillard

Don Dunstan

Mike Rann

Queen Elizabeth II

Edward Stirling

Greens Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

Robin Millhouse

Thomas Playford II

Muriel Matters

Barbara Baird

Australian Labor Party

Lawrence Grayson

George Strickland Kingston

Kelly Vincent

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Malcolm Fraser

Lock the Gate

Penny Wong

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steven Marshall

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Liberation Movement

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Dame Roma Mitchell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Liberal Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Susan Kiefel

John Olsen

John Bannon

John Hart

Sir John Colton

Wendy Chapman

Bill Shorten

Sir Mark Oliphant

Natasha Stott Despoja

Dean Brown

Janine Haines

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor George Gawler

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Country Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Shirley Peisley

Henry John Ayers

Gladys Elphick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Frank Walsh

Sir Samuel Way

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Augusta Zadow

Sex Industry Network

George Waterhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Simon Birmingham

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Des Corcoran

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Thomas Playford

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Baker

Malcolm Turnbull

Mary Lee

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Henry Strangways

Thomas John Napier

King William IV

Gough Whitlam

Edmund Barton

Charles Richmond Glover

Adam Goodes

Jay Weatherill

Sir James Boucaut

City of Adelaide Corporation

Joseph Fisher

Sir William Morgan

Isobel Redmond

United Labor Party

National Trust of Australia

Country Women’s Association

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jessie Cooper

Anthony Albanese

Sir John Cox Bray

Bob Hawke

Sir John William Downer

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Conservation Council of South Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Rob Kerin

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