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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.

Queen Adelaide

Frank Walsh

Charles Richmond Glover

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Adam Goodes

Peter Malinauskas

Dean Brown

Francis Stacker Dutton

Joseph Fisher

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Australian Labor Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor George Gawler

William Boothby

Country Party

Susan Benny

Liberal Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Thomas John Napier

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Ian Purcell

Barbara Baird

Jessie Cooper

Muriel Matters

Henry John Ayers

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Quentin Bryce

Country Women’s Association

Catherine Helen Spence

John Verran

National Trust of Australia

Julia Gillard

Isobel Redmond

Conservation Council of South Australia

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir William Morgan

Thomas Reynolds

John Baker

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lynn Arnold

John Hart

Mary Gaudron

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Mark Oliphant

Penny Wong

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gough Whitlam

Greens Party

Don Dunstan

Sir John William Downer

Benjamin Boothby

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Alexander Cockburn

Lock the Gate

Bob Hawke

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sex Industry Network

George Strickland Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

Susan Kiefel

John Olsen

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John Colton

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor Richard MacDonnell

League of Women Voters

Malcolm Turnbull

Edmund Barton

United Trades and Labor Council

Bill Shorten

Edward Stirling

Wendy Chapman

Des Corcoran

Peter Cosgrove

Jay Weatherill

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

Simon Birmingham

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas Playford II

Australian Democrats

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Boyle Travers Finniss

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Eight Hours Day Committee

Anthony Albanese

Mike Rann

Sir James Boucaut

Robin Millhouse

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Steven Marshall

Joyce Steele

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Augusta Zadow

Shirley Peisley

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir John Cox Bray

Clyde Cameron

Kelly Vincent

Gladys Elphick

George Waterhouse

Women’s Electoral Lobby

United Labor Party

Thomas Price

Women’s Suffrage League

Mary Lee

Rob Kerin

Steele Hall

Aborigines Progress Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Samuel Way

David Tonkin

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