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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.

Liberal Party

Don Dunstan

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

Susan Benny

Malcolm Turnbull

Hieu Van Le

Edward Stirling

Shirley Peisley

Governor George Gawler

Benjamin Boothby

Sir John William Downer

Eddie Mabo

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Isobel Redmond

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Labor Party

Country Party

United Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

David Tonkin

Lock the Gate

Sir Mark Oliphant

Catherine Helen Spence

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Thomas Price

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Wendy Chapman

Lawrence Grayson

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Playford II

Aborigines Progress Association

Charles Cameron Kingston

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Susan Kiefel

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Olsen

Queen Adelaide

Gladys Elphick

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Lee

Working Women’s Trade Union

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Bannon

King William IV

Adam Goodes

Gough Whitlam

Sex Industry Network

City of Adelaide Corporation

Quentin Bryce

Steven Marshall

Jay Weatherill

Frank Walsh

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Greens Party

Edmund Barton

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Simon Birmingham

Sir Samuel Way

Peter Cosgrove

Augusta Zadow

Barbara Baird

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Francis Stacker Dutton

Peter Malinauskas

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bob Hawke

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas John Napier

Julia Gillard

William Boothby

League of Women Voters

Mary Gaudron

Bill Shorten

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Anthony Albanese

Muriel Matters

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Reynolds

Conservation Council of South Australia

Malcolm Fraser

Joyce Steele

George Strickland Kingston

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

John Hart

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steele Hall

Mike Rann

Australian Democrats

Dean Brown

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Waterhouse

Boyle Travers Finniss

Natasha Stott Despoja

Ian Purcell

Kelly Vincent

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Arthur Blyth

Joseph Fisher

Governor John Hindmarsh

Country Women’s Association

John Verran

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Alexander Cockburn

Clyde Cameron

Sir William Morgan

United Trades and Labor Council

Jessie Cooper

Penny Wong

Sir Douglas Nicholls

National Trust of Australia

Charles Richmond Glover

Janine Haines

Sir John Colton

Dame Roma Mitchell

Rob Kerin

Lynn Arnold

Robin Millhouse

John Baker

Henry Strangways

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir James Boucaut

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