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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.

Lawrence Grayson

Joyce Steele

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

Clyde Cameron

John Olsen

Barbara Baird

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John William Downer

United Labor Party

Mary Gaudron

Governor George Gawler

City of Adelaide Corporation

Australian Labor Party

Sir Samuel Way

Catherine Helen Spence

Greens Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dean Brown

Anthony Albanese

League of Women Voters

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Shirley Peisley

Sir William Morgan

Sex Industry Network

Australian Democrats

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Alexander Cockburn

Country Women’s Association

Governor John Hindmarsh

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Simon Birmingham

Conservation Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Price

Charles Cameron Kingston

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lynn Arnold

Hieu Van Le

Kelly Vincent

Benjamin Boothby

Mary Lee

George Strickland Kingston

Bill Shorten

Steele Hall

Jay Weatherill

Malcolm Turnbull

Gough Whitlam

Robin Millhouse

William Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir James Boucaut

Bob Hawke

John Verran

Janine Haines

Susan Kiefel

Queen Elizabeth II

Amanda Vanstone

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Baker

Eddie Mabo

Wendy Chapman

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Rob Kerin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Peter Cosgrove

Jessie Cooper

Gladys Elphick

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Arthur Blyth

Des Corcoran

King William IV

Lock the Gate

Edmund Barton

Thomas Reynolds

Natasha Stott Despoja

Adam Goodes

Sir John Cox Bray

George Waterhouse

Women’s Electoral Lobby

AIDS Council of South Australia

Augusta Zadow

Sir John Colton

Eight Hours Day Committee

United Trades and Labor Council

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Muriel Matters

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Isobel Redmond

Frank Walsh

David Tonkin

National Trust of Australia

Country Party

Henry John Ayers

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mike Rann

Steven Marshall

Henry Strangways

Ian Purcell

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas John Napier

John Hart

Queen Adelaide

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Benny

Dame Roma Mitchell

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Malcolm Fraser

Working Women’s Trade Union

Penny Wong

Thomas Playford II

John Bannon

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