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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.

Sir John William Downer

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Reynolds

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Elizabeth II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Peter Cosgrove

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

AIDS Council of South Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Charles Cameron Kingston

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Sex Industry Network

David Tonkin

Frank Walsh

Des Corcoran

Sir John Cox Bray

Steele Hall

Boyle Travers Finniss

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Julia Gillard

Joseph Fisher

King William IV

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Greens Party

Mary Gaudron

Hieu Van Le

Edmund Barton

John Alexander Cockburn

Malcolm Turnbull

League of Women Voters

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

Joyce Steele

Shirley Peisley

Quentin Bryce

Lawrence Grayson

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Barbara Baird

Eight Hours Day Committee

Penny Wong

Australian Democrats

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Henry Strangways

National Trust of Australia

Mike Rann

Simon Birmingham

Benjamin Boothby

Edward Stirling

Malcolm Fraser

City of Adelaide Corporation

Susan Kiefel

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Anthony Albanese

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Working Women’s Trade Union

Natasha Stott Despoja

Conservation Council of South Australia

Women’s Liberation Movement

Women’s Electoral Lobby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gladys Elphick

Bob Hawke

Jessie Cooper

William Boothby

Lock the Gate

Liberal Party

Sir Douglas Nicholls

George Waterhouse

Muriel Matters

John Bannon

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Price

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lynn Arnold

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Don Dunstan

Jay Weatherill

Catherine Helen Spence

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Labor Party

John Verran

Henry John Ayers

Ian Purcell

Gough Whitlam

Country Party

Janine Haines

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Playford II

Charles Richmond Glover

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Rob Kerin

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John Colton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Isobel Redmond

Adam Goodes

United Labor Party

John Baker

Thomas John Napier

United Trades and Labor Council

Steven Marshall

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Bill Shorten

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir William Morgan

Dean Brown

Sir Thomas Playford

Kelly Vincent

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir Samuel Way

Sir Mark Oliphant

Amanda Vanstone

John Hart

Aborigines Progress Association

Peter Malinauskas

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