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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.

Edward Stirling

Steven Marshall

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Fraser

Quentin Bryce

Governor George Gawler

Dame Roma Mitchell

Muriel Matters

Hieu Van Le

Shirley Peisley

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

Isobel Redmond

Sir John Colton

Julia Gillard

City of Adelaide Corporation

Mike Rann

Kelly Vincent

Clyde Cameron

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir John Cox Bray

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Edmund Barton

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adam Goodes

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Eddie Mabo

Frank Walsh

Australian Democrats

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Robin Millhouse

Mary Gaudron

Steele Hall

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Liberation Movement

Peter Cosgrove

Charles Cameron Kingston

George Strickland Kingston

Country Women’s Association

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir William Morgan

John Hart

Dean Brown

Thomas Price

Barbara Baird

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Australian Labor Party

National Trust of Australia

John Bannon

Greens Party

Liberal Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Queen Adelaide

Lock the Gate

Lawrence Grayson

Catherine Helen Spence

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Women’s Suffrage League

Eight Hours Day Committee

Bill Shorten

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Bob Hawke

Joseph Fisher

Sex Industry Network

Queen Elizabeth II

Janine Haines

John Baker

United Labor Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Don Dunstan

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

United Trades and Labor Council

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Working Women’s Trade Union

Joyce Steele

Thomas Playford II

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Verran

Country Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Augusta Zadow

Simon Birmingham

Ian Purcell

Natasha Stott Despoja

George Waterhouse

Susan Kiefel

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Conservation Council of South Australia

Des Corcoran

William Boothby

Mary Lee

Anthony Albanese

Sir Thomas Playford

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Sir Samuel Way

Sir Mark Oliphant

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Wendy Chapman

Henry John Ayers

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

Jay Weatherill

Benjamin Boothby

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Arthur Blyth

Aborigines Progress Association

Penny Wong

David Tonkin

Jessie Cooper

League of Women Voters

Sir James Boucaut

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lynn Arnold

Susan Benny

Sir John William Downer

Malcolm Turnbull

Rob Kerin

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