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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.

Adam Goodes

Jay Weatherill

Country Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir William Morgan

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Ian Purcell

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir John Colton

Wendy Chapman

George Waterhouse

John Alexander Cockburn

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Suffrage League

Henry Strangways

Mary Gaudron

Lynn Arnold

United Trades and Labor Council

Don Dunstan

Dame Roma Mitchell

Isobel Redmond

Malcolm Fraser

Mike Rann

Julia Gillard

Joseph Fisher

Lawrence Grayson

Amanda Vanstone

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Penny Wong

Sir Arthur Blyth

Des Corcoran

Robin Millhouse

Edward Stirling

Australian Democrats

Liberal Party

Barbara Baird

AIDS Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

John Bannon

Sir John William Downer

Thomas Price

Francis Stacker Dutton

Aborigines Progress Association

United Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Susan Benny

Charles Richmond Glover

Shirley Peisley

Dean Brown

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Janine Haines

Governor George Gawler

Australian Labor Party

Steven Marshall

Queen Adelaide

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jessie Cooper

Augusta Zadow

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Hieu Van Le

Gladys Elphick

Peter Cosgrove

Charles Cameron Kingston

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sex Industry Network

Sir Samuel Way

Eddie Mabo

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Susan Kiefel

Sir James Boucaut

Edmund Barton

Peter Malinauskas

Bob Hawke

John Baker

Kelly Vincent

Gough Whitlam

Thomas John Napier

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Olsen

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

George Strickland Kingston

Muriel Matters

Queen Elizabeth II

Clyde Cameron

Anthony Albanese

Quentin Bryce

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lock the Gate

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Simon Birmingham

National Trust of Australia

League of Women Voters

Thomas Playford II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

King William IV

Henry John Ayers

David Tonkin

Mary Lee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Hart

Greens Party

Sir John Cox Bray

William Boothby

Women’s Liberation Movement

Bill Shorten

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Country Women’s Association

Working Women’s Trade Union

Steele Hall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Mark Oliphant

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Joyce Steele

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

John Verran

Rob Kerin

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