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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.

National Trust of Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Rob Kerin

Anthony Albanese

Aborigines Progress Association

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lawrence Grayson

Lock the Gate

AIDS Council of South Australia

Steele Hall

Edmund Barton

Thomas Reynolds

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Peter Cosgrove

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Adelaide

Thomas Playford II

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Malinauskas

Liberal Party

King William IV

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Thomas Playford

Ian Purcell

Governor George Gawler

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry Strangways

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Samuel Way

Joyce Steele

John Olsen

Eddie Mabo

David Tonkin

Kelly Vincent

Greens Party

Susan Benny

Clyde Cameron

Jessie Cooper

Bob Hawke

John Bannon

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Fraser

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

John Baker

Sir John William Downer

Wendy Chapman

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Frank Walsh

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Country Women’s Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Isobel Redmond

Australian Labor Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

Boyle Travers Finniss

Simon Birmingham

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Henry John Ayers

Sir Mark Oliphant

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Sir John Cox Bray

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Verran

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Queen Elizabeth II

Barbara Baird

Des Corcoran

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Catherine Helen Spence

Charles Richmond Glover

Dean Brown

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Don Dunstan

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Hart

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

George Waterhouse

Charles Cameron Kingston

Thomas Price

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Augusta Zadow

Penny Wong

Janine Haines

Bill Shorten

Francis Stacker Dutton

Joseph Fisher

John Alexander Cockburn

Amanda Vanstone

Robin Millhouse

George Strickland Kingston

United Labor Party

Lynn Arnold

Sir John Colton

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Adam Goodes

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steven Marshall

William Boothby

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Muriel Matters

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Hieu Van Le

Mike Rann

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Arthur Blyth

Jay Weatherill

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

Mary Lee

Mary Gaudron

Susan Kiefel

Country Party

Thomas John Napier

League of Women Voters

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