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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.

Lock the Gate

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Colton

Susan Kiefel

Thomas Playford II

John Verran

City of Adelaide Corporation

Eight Hours Day Committee

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Alexander Cockburn

Barbara Baird

Joyce Steele

Steele Hall

Francis Stacker Dutton

Shirley Peisley

Country Women’s Association

Isobel Redmond

John Olsen

King William IV

John Baker

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Adam Goodes

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Country Party

Sir John Cox Bray

Henry John Ayers

Kelly Vincent

Thomas Reynolds

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gladys Elphick

Sir Arthur Blyth

Women’s Liberation Movement

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Julia Gillard

David Tonkin

Thomas Price

John Hart

Eddie Mabo

Thomas John Napier

Des Corcoran

National Trust of Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Jessie Cooper

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Penny Wong

Quentin Bryce

Lynn Arnold

William Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Joseph Fisher

Greens Party

Mike Rann

Mary Lee

Augusta Zadow

League of Women Voters

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lawrence Grayson

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry Strangways

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Charles Richmond Glover

Peter Cosgrove

Liberal Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Aborigines Progress Association

Steven Marshall

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Cameron Kingston

Wendy Chapman

Natasha Stott Despoja

John Bannon

Simon Birmingham

Bill Shorten

Sir John William Downer

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

Gough Whitlam

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Peter Malinauskas

Edward Stirling

Muriel Matters

Dean Brown

Frank Walsh

Robin Millhouse

Benjamin Boothby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Bob Hawke

Australian Democrats

Don Dunstan

Malcolm Fraser

Governor Richard MacDonnell

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Working Women’s Trade Union

Australian Labor Party

Rob Kerin

Hieu Van Le

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Thomas Playford

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Adelaide

Anthony Albanese

Sir James Boucaut

United Trades and Labor Council

Janine Haines

Clyde Cameron

Sex Industry Network

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

United Labor Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Malcolm Turnbull

Susan Benny

Catherine Helen Spence

Ian Purcell

Mary Gaudron

Governor George Gawler

George Waterhouse

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