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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.

Bob Hawke

United Trades and Labor Council

Lynn Arnold

Greens Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Working Women’s Trade Union

Hieu Van Le

City of Adelaide Corporation

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dame Roma Mitchell

Shirley Peisley

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Thomas Playford II

Peter Malinauskas

Charles Richmond Glover

Muriel Matters

George Strickland Kingston

Benjamin Boothby

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Labor Party

Edward Stirling

George Waterhouse

Natasha Stott Despoja

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Mary Lee

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Samuel Way

Susan Kiefel

Thomas John Napier

John Olsen

John Verran

Women’s Liberation Movement

Country Women’s Association

Lock the Gate

Henry Strangways

Country Party

Wendy Chapman

Quentin Bryce

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Mark Oliphant

Frank Walsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

Mary Gaudron

Des Corcoran

Sir James Boucaut

Susan Benny

Don Dunstan

Sir John Colton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Bannon

Peter Cosgrove

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Malcolm Turnbull

Mike Rann

Catherine Helen Spence

Aborigines Progress Association

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Barbara Baird

John Alexander Cockburn

Joseph Fisher

Liberal Party

Gladys Elphick

Isobel Redmond

William Boothby

Australian Labor Party

John Hart

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

David Tonkin

Sir Thomas Playford

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Henry John Ayers

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

Eight Hours Day Committee

Jessie Cooper

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Adelaide

Australian Democrats

Ian Purcell

Steven Marshall

Gough Whitlam

Sex Industry Network

League of Women Voters

Robin Millhouse

National Trust of Australia

Jay Weatherill

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Governor George Gawler

Francis Stacker Dutton

Malcolm Fraser

Augusta Zadow

Sir John William Downer

Thomas Reynolds

King William IV

Penny Wong

Adam Goodes

Amanda Vanstone

Thomas Price

Queen Elizabeth II

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Edmund Barton

Janine Haines

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Clyde Cameron

Sir John Cox Bray

Steele Hall

Kelly Vincent

Joyce Steele

Simon Birmingham

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dean Brown

Eddie Mabo

Boyle Travers Finniss

Bill Shorten

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