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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 Douglas Nicholls

Queen Adelaide

Eddie Mabo

Isobel Redmond

John Hart

Thomas Price

Adam Goodes

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Greens Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Shirley Peisley

John Alexander Cockburn

Sex Industry Network

Peter Cosgrove

Queen Elizabeth II

Jessie Cooper

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Rob Kerin

Sir Arthur Blyth

Robin Millhouse

Don Dunstan

Joseph Fisher

Sir Thomas Playford

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Electoral Lobby

League of Women Voters

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

Joyce Steele

Sir John Colton

Edmund Barton

Aborigines Progress Association

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Sir John Cox Bray

United Labor Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Lawrence Grayson

Mike Rann

Steele Hall

Lock the Gate

Thomas Playford II

John Bannon

John Baker

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Quentin Bryce

Muriel Matters

Boyle Travers Finniss

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Benny

Conservation Council of South Australia

John Verran

United Trades and Labor Council

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

AIDS Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Benjamin Boothby

Amanda Vanstone

Catherine Helen Spence

Bill Shorten

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Charles Cameron Kingston

Frank Walsh

Eight Hours Day Committee

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Penny Wong

Sir Mark Oliphant

Julia Gillard

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Democrats

David Tonkin

Lynn Arnold

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir William Morgan

George Waterhouse

Hieu Van Le

National Trust of Australia

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Reynolds

King William IV

Susan Kiefel

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Henry John Ayers

Janine Haines

Governor John Hindmarsh

Ian Purcell

Malcolm Fraser

John Olsen

Peter Malinauskas

George Strickland Kingston

Anthony Albanese

Bob Hawke

Thomas John Napier

Dean Brown

Wendy Chapman

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Australian Labor Party

Jay Weatherill

Sir James Boucaut

Clyde Cameron

Barbara Baird

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John William Downer

Country Women’s Association

Kelly Vincent

Working Women’s Trade Union

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor George Gawler

Country Party

Des Corcoran

Augusta Zadow

William Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Women’s Suffrage League

Women’s Liberation Movement

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Henry Strangways

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mary Gaudron

Edward Stirling

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