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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.

Simon Birmingham

Governor John Hindmarsh

Benjamin Boothby

Thomas John Napier

Boyle Travers Finniss

William Boothby

Bob Hawke

Sir Thomas Playford

Anthony Albanese

Joseph Fisher

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas Playford II

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Jay Weatherill

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Frank Walsh

National Trust of Australia

AIDS Council of South Australia

Francis Stacker Dutton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Augusta Zadow

Working Women’s Trade Union

Muriel Matters

Sir James Boucaut

Lawrence Grayson

Des Corcoran

Dean Brown

Steven Marshall

Queen Adelaide

David Tonkin

Robin Millhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry Strangways

Julia Gillard

Malcolm Fraser

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir William Morgan

Peter Malinauskas

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Clyde Cameron

United Trades and Labor Council

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Catherine Helen Spence

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Rob Kerin

Mary Lee

Country Women’s Association

Steele Hall

Sir John Cox Bray

John Bannon

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Kiefel

Lynn Arnold

League of Women Voters

Edward Stirling

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Don Dunstan

Sir John William Downer

Sir Arthur Blyth

Wendy Chapman

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Turnbull

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Hart

Australian Democrats

Sir Mark Oliphant

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Suffrage League

John Olsen

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Kelly Vincent

Sir John Colton

Governor George Gawler

Sir Samuel Way

John Verran

Ian Purcell

Liberal Party

Sex Industry Network

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

George Waterhouse

Jessie Cooper

Mike Rann

Adam Goodes

Edmund Barton

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Bill Shorten

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Amanda Vanstone

Lowitja O’Donoghue

King William IV

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Isobel Redmond

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Quentin Bryce

Barbara Baird

Thomas Price

Henry John Ayers

Penny Wong

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Baker

Greens Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Susan Benny

Hieu Van Le

Joyce Steele

Country Party

United Labor Party

Thomas Reynolds

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Labor Party

Shirley Peisley

Eddie Mabo

Lock the Gate

George Strickland Kingston

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Gough Whitlam

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Conservation Council of South Australia

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