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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

John Olsen

Jessie Cooper

Des Corcoran

Lock the Gate

Sex Industry Network

Steele Hall

Clyde Cameron

Thomas Price

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Aborigines Progress Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Gough Whitlam

Wendy Chapman

John Hart

Country Women’s Association

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Playford II

Working Women’s Trade Union

Edmund Barton

Muriel Matters

Dean Brown

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Party

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mike Rann

King William IV

Kelly Vincent

Sir Samuel Way

Peter Cosgrove

Eddie Mabo

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Robin Millhouse

Greens Party

John Bannon

Joseph Fisher

Queen Elizabeth II

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Kiefel

Charles Cameron Kingston

Francis Stacker Dutton

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bill Shorten

Sir James Boucaut

Sir William Morgan

Sir Mark Oliphant

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Sir John William Downer

George Strickland Kingston

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mary Lee

Australian Democrats

Thomas John Napier

Janine Haines

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Turnbull

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Colton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir John Cox Bray

Charles Richmond Glover

Bob Hawke

William Boothby

Lynn Arnold

United Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Julia Gillard

Shirley Peisley

Governor George Gawler

Gladys Elphick

John Alexander Cockburn

George Waterhouse

Frank Walsh

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Quentin Bryce

Sir Thomas Playford

Australian Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

National Trust of Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Peter Malinauskas

Henry Strangways

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Barbara Baird

Ian Purcell

League of Women Voters

Women’s Suffrage League

John Verran

Augusta Zadow

Governor John Hindmarsh

Rob Kerin

Simon Birmingham

Adam Goodes

United Trades and Labor Council

David Tonkin

John Baker

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Natasha Stott Despoja

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Liberation Movement

Joyce Steele

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Jay Weatherill

Penny Wong

Queen Adelaide

Liberal Party

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Mary Gaudron

Thomas Reynolds

Susan Benny

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