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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.

Malcolm Fraser

Lynn Arnold

Francis Stacker Dutton

Eight Hours Day Committee

Shirley Peisley

Mike Rann

Don Dunstan

Sir Samuel Way

Clyde Cameron

Thomas Playford II

Edward Stirling

Barbara Baird

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Jay Weatherill

Mary Gaudron

Sir William Morgan

John Alexander Cockburn

Steele Hall

National Trust of Australia

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Jessie Cooper

George Waterhouse

Dean Brown

Catherine Helen Spence

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Gladys Elphick

Hieu Van Le

Thomas Price

Country Women’s Association

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Des Corcoran

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Sir Thomas Playford

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir John Colton

Quentin Bryce

Conservation Council of South Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

David Tonkin

League of Women Voters

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

United Labor Party

Augusta Zadow

Sir Mark Oliphant

William Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Gough Whitlam

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lawrence Grayson

Ian Purcell

Penny Wong

Sex Industry Network

John Hart

Boyle Travers Finniss

King William IV

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Liberation Movement

AIDS Council of South Australia

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Steven Marshall

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Labor Party

John Bannon

Eddie Mabo

Frank Walsh

Queen Adelaide

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

Janine Haines

John Olsen

Sir John Cox Bray

Kelly Vincent

Bob Hawke

Adam Goodes

Thomas John Napier

Country Party

Peter Cosgrove

Australian Democrats

Anthony Albanese

Liberal Party

John Verran

Henry John Ayers

Robin Millhouse

Greens Party

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Rob Kerin

Peter Malinauskas

Henry Strangways

Lock the Gate

City of Adelaide Corporation

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Bill Shorten

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

Working Women’s Trade Union

Joseph Fisher

Wendy Chapman

Sir John William Downer

John Baker

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Susan Benny

Amanda Vanstone

Dame Roma Mitchell

Julia Gillard

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor John Hindmarsh

Thomas Reynolds

Joyce Steele

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Arthur Blyth

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