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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.

Don Dunstan

Working Women’s Trade Union

Edward Stirling

Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir John Cox Bray

Queen Adelaide

Sir Arthur Blyth

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Steven Marshall

Henry John Ayers

Sir John William Downer

Des Corcoran

United Trades and Labor Council

John Alexander Cockburn

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Greens Party

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Colton

Peter Cosgrove

John Olsen

Bob Hawke

Thomas Playford II

Frank Walsh

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Mark Oliphant

Conservation Council of South Australia

Edmund Barton

Joyce Steele

Women’s Liberation Movement

Susan Kiefel

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Country Women’s Association

Sir James Boucaut

Jay Weatherill

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Muriel Matters

Peter Malinauskas

Shirley Peisley

Charles Richmond Glover

Wendy Chapman

Amanda Vanstone

Janine Haines

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Charles Cameron Kingston

King William IV

Barbara Baird

Governor George Gawler

Eddie Mabo

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lock the Gate

John Verran

Isobel Redmond

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Bannon

Governor John Hindmarsh

Benjamin Boothby

Steele Hall

John Hart

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Gough Whitlam

Aborigines Progress Association

George Waterhouse

Robin Millhouse

Sir Samuel Way

Jessie Cooper

William Boothby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Joseph Fisher

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas Reynolds

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Democrats

Liberal Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Hieu Van Le

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor Richard MacDonnell

United Labor Party

Quentin Bryce

Penny Wong

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Rob Kerin

Sir William Morgan

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mary Lee

League of Women Voters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Thomas Price

Thomas John Napier

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Susan Benny

Women’s Electoral Lobby

George Strickland Kingston

Mike Rann

Clyde Cameron

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Dame Roma Mitchell

Dean Brown

Sex Industry Network

Adam Goodes

Simon Birmingham

Lawrence Grayson

Bill Shorten

Ian Purcell

Country Party

Anthony Albanese

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

Lynn Arnold

Kelly Vincent

Augusta Zadow

John Baker

Women’s Suffrage League

Boyle Travers Finniss

Mary Gaudron

Sir Thomas Playford

Henry Strangways

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