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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.

Thomas Reynolds

Julia Gillard

John Olsen

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Susan Benny

Henry Strangways

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dean Brown

Lock the Gate

Anthony Albanese

United Labor Party

Frank Walsh

Robin Millhouse

Ian Purcell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Working Women’s Trade Union

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

Mary Lee

Governor George Gawler

Queen Adelaide

Eight Hours Day Committee

Natasha Stott Despoja

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Steele Hall

Eddie Mabo

Sir William Morgan

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Muriel Matters

Shirley Peisley

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

Bill Shorten

Sex Industry Network

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Amanda Vanstone

Gough Whitlam

Susan Kiefel

Conservation Council of South Australia

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Hart

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kelly Vincent

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Mark Oliphant

Rob Kerin

Malcolm Fraser

Janine Haines

Isobel Redmond

Sir James Boucaut

Steven Marshall

Des Corcoran

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

United Trades and Labor Council

Simon Birmingham

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Australian Democrats

Sir Arthur Blyth

Benjamin Boothby

John Baker

Liberal Party

Don Dunstan

Penny Wong

William Boothby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Country Women’s Association

National Trust of Australia

Thomas John Napier

John Verran

Sir Samuel Way

King William IV

Women’s Suffrage League

George Strickland Kingston

Edward Stirling

Catherine Helen Spence

Edmund Barton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Wendy Chapman

Peter Malinauskas

David Tonkin

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lawrence Grayson

Sir John Cox Bray

George Waterhouse

Henry John Ayers

Sir John William Downer

Jessie Cooper

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Alexander Cockburn

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

League of Women Voters

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Queen Elizabeth II

Quentin Bryce

Joyce Steele

City of Adelaide Corporation

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

Governor John Hindmarsh

Barbara Baird

Sir John Colton

Mike Rann

Thomas Price

Bob Hawke

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Country Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Peter Cosgrove

Mary Gaudron

Gladys Elphick

Australian Labor Party

Greens Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor Richard MacDonnell

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