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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.

Henry Strangways

Peter Malinauskas

Augusta Zadow

National Trust of Australia

Greens Party

Thomas Price

Sir Samuel Way

Sex Industry Network

Sir John Colton

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Arthur Blyth

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John Cox Bray

Clyde Cameron

Anthony Albanese

Jay Weatherill

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Hieu Van Le

Thomas John Napier

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lock the Gate

Eddie Mabo

John Bannon

Benjamin Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Janine Haines

Edward Stirling

Mary Gaudron

Lowitja O’Donoghue

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir John William Downer

Henry John Ayers

Peter Cosgrove

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Amanda Vanstone

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Lynn Arnold

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Baker

Country Women’s Association

Charles Richmond Glover

John Hart

Dean Brown

AIDS Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Barbara Baird

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Frank Walsh

Malcolm Fraser

Australian Labor Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Robin Millhouse

Sir William Morgan

Shirley Peisley

Queen Elizabeth II

George Strickland Kingston

Liberal Party

Julia Gillard

United Labor Party

Mike Rann

Penny Wong

Adam Goodes

Boyle Travers Finniss

Natasha Stott Despoja

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Rob Kerin

Aborigines Progress Association

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Steele Hall

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Joseph Fisher

Catherine Helen Spence

League of Women Voters

Australian Democrats

Simon Birmingham

Isobel Redmond

Country Party

Steven Marshall

Sir Thomas Playford

Edmund Barton

Joyce Steele

Bill Shorten

Women’s Suffrage League

George Waterhouse

Don Dunstan

Francis Stacker Dutton

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas Playford II

Kelly Vincent

Queen Adelaide

King William IV

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Alexander Cockburn

Susan Kiefel

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

William Boothby

David Tonkin

Gladys Elphick

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor John Hindmarsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Verran

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Mary Lee

Ian Purcell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Des Corcoran

Lawrence Grayson

Jessie Cooper

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