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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.

John Alexander Cockburn

Working Women’s Trade Union

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

David Tonkin

King William IV

Governor George Gawler

Amanda Vanstone

John Baker

Julia Gillard

Wendy Chapman

Country Party

John Verran

Frank Walsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Quentin Bryce

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Shirley Peisley

John Olsen

Bob Hawke

Simon Birmingham

Joseph Fisher

Catherine Helen Spence

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Queen Adelaide

Mike Rann

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Liberation Movement

Edmund Barton

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Australian Labor Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Greens Party

Robin Millhouse

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Colton

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lynn Arnold

Augusta Zadow

National Trust of Australia

Henry Strangways

United Labor Party

Liberal Party

Clyde Cameron

Country Women’s Association

Australian Democrats

Sir Samuel Way

Gladys Elphick

George Waterhouse

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Dean Brown

Thomas Price

Sir Thomas Playford

Hieu Van Le

Des Corcoran

Kelly Vincent

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Malcolm Turnbull

Anthony Albanese

Joyce Steele

Sir John Cox Bray

George Strickland Kingston

Sir James Boucaut

Sir William Morgan

Eight Hours Day Committee

Don Dunstan

Susan Kiefel

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dame Roma Mitchell

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

Peter Malinauskas

Steven Marshall

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Ian Purcell

Jessie Cooper

Aborigines Progress Association

Boyle Travers Finniss

Eddie Mabo

Mary Lee

Natasha Stott Despoja

Peter Cosgrove

Gough Whitlam

Penny Wong

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Bannon

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Rob Kerin

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Charles Richmond Glover

Jay Weatherill

Barbara Baird

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir John William Downer

Bill Shorten

City of Adelaide Corporation

Adam Goodes

Lowitja O’Donoghue

William Boothby

Susan Benny

Sir Arthur Blyth

Governor John Hindmarsh

Malcolm Fraser

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Edward Stirling

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Janine Haines

Sex Industry Network

League of Women Voters

Henry John Ayers

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Suffrage League

Steele Hall

Benjamin Boothby

Lock the Gate

Mary Gaudron

John Hart

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