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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.

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Bannon

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas John Napier

Joyce Steele

John Hart

Sir William Morgan

Ian Purcell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Samuel Way

Henry Strangways

Quentin Bryce

Malcolm Fraser

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Dean Brown

Sex Industry Network

Governor John Hindmarsh

Eddie Mabo

Augusta Zadow

Mary Lee

Frank Walsh

Clyde Cameron

Hieu Van Le

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Isobel Redmond

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Peter Malinauskas

Robin Millhouse

William Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Reynolds

John Alexander Cockburn

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir John Colton

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Charles Cameron Kingston

Mary Gaudron

Don Dunstan

Bill Shorten

Susan Benny

Lawrence Grayson

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Baker

Sir Thomas Playford

United Labor Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Queen Adelaide

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Cox Bray

Malcolm Turnbull

Mike Rann

John Olsen

Adam Goodes

George Waterhouse

Sir James Boucaut

Barbara Baird

Australian Democrats

Lock the Gate

Thomas Price

George Strickland Kingston

Julia Gillard

Gough Whitlam

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Playford II

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Verran

Greens Party

Henry John Ayers

Charles Richmond Glover

Des Corcoran

Janine Haines

National Trust of Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Labor Party

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

City of Adelaide Corporation

Bob Hawke

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Country Women’s Association

Anthony Albanese

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Steele Hall

Gladys Elphick

Francis Stacker Dutton

Governor George Gawler

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Liberal Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lynn Arnold

Joseph Fisher

United Trades and Labor Council

Kelly Vincent

Country Party

Simon Birmingham

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

King William IV

Sir John William Downer

Dame Roma Mitchell

Boyle Travers Finniss

Muriel Matters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Rob Kerin

League of Women Voters

Benjamin Boothby

David Tonkin

Shirley Peisley

Edward Stirling

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Liberation Movement

Penny Wong

Aborigines Progress Association

Steven Marshall

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Catherine Helen Spence

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Conservation Council of South Australia

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