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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.

Ian Purcell

Jessie Cooper

Lynn Arnold

City of Adelaide Corporation

Joseph Fisher

Des Corcoran

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Price

David Tonkin

Susan Benny

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Aborigines Progress Association

John Bannon

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor Richard MacDonnell

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Frank Walsh

Francis Stacker Dutton

Catherine Helen Spence

Simon Birmingham

John Verran

Muriel Matters

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

William Boothby

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Mary Gaudron

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Eight Hours Day Committee

Jay Weatherill

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Liberal Party

Edmund Barton

Steven Marshall

United Labor Party

Sir John Cox Bray

Women’s Liberation Movement

National Trust of Australia

George Waterhouse

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

United Trades and Labor Council

Country Women’s Association

Shirley Peisley

Dean Brown

Australian Labor Party

Thomas John Napier

Queen Adelaide

Conservation Council of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Peter Malinauskas

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Boyle Travers Finniss

Augusta Zadow

Susan Kiefel

Gladys Elphick

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

AIDS Council of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Bob Hawke

Steele Hall

Hieu Van Le

Penny Wong

John Olsen

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Baker

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir James Boucaut

Joyce Steele

Australian Democrats

Isobel Redmond

Quentin Bryce

Don Dunstan

Greens Party

Julia Gillard

Janine Haines

John Hart

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Gough Whitlam

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Barbara Baird

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir John Colton

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mary Lee

King William IV

Benjamin Boothby

Lawrence Grayson

Sex Industry Network

Sir John William Downer

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry John Ayers

Mike Rann

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Country Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Bill Shorten

Robin Millhouse

John Alexander Cockburn

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Samuel Way

Edward Stirling

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Reynolds

Sir William Morgan

Henry Strangways

Wendy Chapman

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adam Goodes

Sir Arthur Blyth

Kelly Vincent

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor George Gawler

Clyde Cameron

Queen Elizabeth II

Eddie Mabo

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