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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.

Conservation Council of South Australia

Don Dunstan

Steele Hall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Henry Strangways

David Tonkin

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Australian Democrats

City of Adelaide Corporation

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steven Marshall

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Hart

Mary Gaudron

Sex Industry Network

National Trust of Australia

Edmund Barton

Francis Stacker Dutton

Janine Haines

John Verran

Mike Rann

Sir John William Downer

Gough Whitlam

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Suffrage League

Lowitja O’Donoghue

League of Women Voters

Ian Purcell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Thomas John Napier

Sir John Cox Bray

Susan Benny

Charles Cameron Kingston

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir James Boucaut

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Natasha Stott Despoja

Frank Walsh

Country Party

Amanda Vanstone

Charles Richmond Glover

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Penny Wong

Sir John Colton

Thomas Playford II

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Joyce Steele

United Labor Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Gladys Elphick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Barbara Baird

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jay Weatherill

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Augusta Zadow

Malcolm Fraser

Lynn Arnold

Des Corcoran

George Waterhouse

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas Price

Sir Samuel Way

Governor George Gawler

Eddie Mabo

Adam Goodes

Lawrence Grayson

John Bannon

Julia Gillard

Shirley Peisley

Bob Hawke

Malcolm Turnbull

AIDS Council of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

Benjamin Boothby

Queen Adelaide

Sir William Morgan

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Peter Malinauskas

Anthony Albanese

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Queen Elizabeth II

Joseph Fisher

Liberal Party

Henry John Ayers

Mary Lee

Sir Arthur Blyth

Dean Brown

Greens Party

King William IV

Simon Birmingham

Susan Kiefel

Muriel Matters

Robin Millhouse

John Baker

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Bill Shorten

Aborigines Progress Association

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Australian Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

Catherine Helen Spence

John Alexander Cockburn

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Hieu Van Le

William Boothby

Thomas Reynolds

Lock the Gate

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Jessie Cooper

Quentin Bryce

Wendy Chapman

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Cosgrove

Rob Kerin

John Olsen

Country Women’s Association

Kelly Vincent

George Strickland Kingston

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