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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.

Rob Kerin

John Bannon

Sir Samuel Way

Des Corcoran

Sir John William Downer

David Tonkin

Steven Marshall

Edmund Barton

Australian Labor Party

Sir James Boucaut

Peter Malinauskas

Benjamin Boothby

Catherine Helen Spence

Bill Shorten

Jay Weatherill

City of Adelaide Corporation

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

Eddie Mabo

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Mark Oliphant

Shirley Peisley

Queen Adelaide

Henry John Ayers

Gladys Elphick

Hieu Van Le

Simon Birmingham

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

John Verran

John Alexander Cockburn

Australian Democrats

Working Women’s Trade Union

George Waterhouse

Greens Party

Anthony Albanese

John Hart

Conservation Council of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

Joyce Steele

Lowitja O’Donoghue

National Trust of Australia

Liberal Party

Henry Strangways

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

United Labor Party

Adam Goodes

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Amanda Vanstone

Isobel Redmond

Frank Walsh

Don Dunstan

King William IV

Lynn Arnold

Thomas John Napier

Lawrence Grayson

Joseph Fisher

Natasha Stott Despoja

Augusta Zadow

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lock the Gate

Robin Millhouse

Susan Kiefel

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John Colton

Penny Wong

Boyle Travers Finniss

AIDS Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

John Baker

Dean Brown

Sir John Cox Bray

Governor George Gawler

Susan Benny

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Mary Gaudron

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir William Morgan

Malcolm Turnbull

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Queen Elizabeth II

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bob Hawke

Edward Stirling

Quentin Bryce

Charles Cameron Kingston

William Boothby

Steele Hall

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Peter Cosgrove

Wendy Chapman

Barbara Baird

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Price

Jessie Cooper

Dame Roma Mitchell

Aborigines Progress Association

League of Women Voters

Ian Purcell

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Clyde Cameron

Sir Arthur Blyth

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Olsen

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Reynolds

George Strickland Kingston

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Party

Thomas Playford II

Muriel Matters

Mike Rann

Women’s Suffrage League

Kelly Vincent

Janine Haines

Sex Industry Network

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Julia Gillard

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