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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.

Liberal Party

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Governor George Gawler

Sir William Morgan

Dean Brown

Gladys Elphick

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Catherine Helen Spence

John Alexander Cockburn

Henry John Ayers

League of Women Voters

John Olsen

Don Dunstan

Robin Millhouse

National Trust of Australia

Frank Walsh

Ian Purcell

United Trades and Labor Council

Bill Shorten

Thomas Price

John Verran

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Amanda Vanstone

Conservation Council of South Australia

Queen Elizabeth II

Lock the Gate

Charles Richmond Glover

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry Strangways

Sir John William Downer

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Thomas John Napier

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lynn Arnold

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Working Women’s Trade Union

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Playford II

Sir Arthur Blyth

United Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Samuel Way

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lawrence Grayson

George Waterhouse

Malcolm Turnbull

Augusta Zadow

Aborigines Progress Association

Jessie Cooper

Benjamin Boothby

John Bannon

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Rob Kerin

Adam Goodes

Sir John Cox Bray

Anthony Albanese

Sir Mark Oliphant

Country Party

Eddie Mabo

Muriel Matters

Julia Gillard

John Hart

King William IV

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Susan Benny

Sex Industry Network

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Clyde Cameron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Susan Kiefel

Sir James Boucaut

Sir John Colton

Edward Stirling

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Mary Gaudron

Australian Labor Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Joyce Steele

AIDS Council of South Australia

Steele Hall

Peter Cosgrove

Country Women’s Association

Mary Lee

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Simon Birmingham

Kelly Vincent

Peter Malinauskas

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Hieu Van Le

Sir Thomas Playford

David Tonkin

John Baker

Mike Rann

Bob Hawke

Malcolm Fraser

William Boothby

Australian Democrats

Steven Marshall

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Janine Haines

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Liberation Movement

Penny Wong

Thomas Reynolds

Des Corcoran

Gough Whitlam

Eight Hours Day Committee

Shirley Peisley

Queen Adelaide

Boyle Travers Finniss

Joseph Fisher

Dame Roma Mitchell

Barbara Baird

Governor John Hindmarsh

Quentin Bryce

Wendy Chapman

Women’s Suffrage League

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Greens Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

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