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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.

Joyce Steele

Lawrence Grayson

Catherine Helen Spence

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir William Morgan

Greens Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir James Boucaut

Peter Cosgrove

Country Party

Steele Hall

Bob Hawke

John Bannon

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Australian Democrats

William Boothby

Edward Stirling

Gladys Elphick

Liberal Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Quentin Bryce

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bill Shorten

United Trades and Labor Council

John Hart

Governor John Hindmarsh

Queen Adelaide

Hieu Van Le

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Clyde Cameron

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Jessie Cooper

Sir John William Downer

Thomas John Napier

Muriel Matters

Eddie Mabo

George Waterhouse

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Olsen

Penny Wong

Joseph Fisher

Julia Gillard

Robin Millhouse

Edmund Barton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Anthony Albanese

Thomas Playford II

Sir Samuel Way

Sex Industry Network

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Mary Gaudron

Sir John Cox Bray

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Susan Kiefel

John Baker

Henry John Ayers

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Ian Purcell

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Suffrage League

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Simon Birmingham

Don Dunstan

League of Women Voters

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Augusta Zadow

King William IV

Boyle Travers Finniss

Kelly Vincent

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Verran

Wendy Chapman

United Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Mike Rann

Shirley Peisley

Steven Marshall

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Turnbull

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Thomas Price

David Tonkin

AIDS Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Susan Benny

Charles Richmond Glover

Janine Haines

Gough Whitlam

Country Women’s Association

Mary Lee

Henry Strangways

National Trust of Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

Des Corcoran

Dean Brown

Isobel Redmond

Lynn Arnold

George Strickland Kingston

Frank Walsh

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir John Colton

Sir Thomas Playford

Amanda Vanstone

Barbara Baird

Natasha Stott Despoja

Dame Roma Mitchell

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Adam Goodes

Peter Malinauskas

Governor George Gawler

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