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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.

Amanda Vanstone

Natasha Stott Despoja

Thomas Playford II

John Alexander Cockburn

Steven Marshall

Dame Roma Mitchell

King William IV

Henry John Ayers

Sir John Colton

Country Women’s Association

Clyde Cameron

United Trades and Labor Council

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor George Gawler

Rob Kerin

Benjamin Boothby

John Hart

Greens Party

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Arthur Blyth

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Jessie Cooper

Peter Malinauskas

Des Corcoran

Women’s Liberation Movement

Eight Hours Day Committee

Adam Goodes

John Olsen

Dean Brown

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

David Tonkin

Kelly Vincent

Shirley Peisley

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Cox Bray

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Verran

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Jay Weatherill

Henry Strangways

Joyce Steele

Queen Adelaide

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Charles Richmond Glover

Edmund Barton

Gough Whitlam

John Baker

Liberal Party

Thomas Reynolds

Lock the Gate

Frank Walsh

Barbara Baird

Country Party

Lawrence Grayson

League of Women Voters

Sex Industry Network

Boyle Travers Finniss

Gladys Elphick

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

Sir Thomas Playford

Malcolm Turnbull

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir William Morgan

Edward Stirling

Mary Gaudron

Bill Shorten

Lynn Arnold

Sir Mark Oliphant

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Queen Elizabeth II

William Boothby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Ian Purcell

Thomas Price

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Muriel Matters

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John William Downer

Janine Haines

Isobel Redmond

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mike Rann

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steele Hall

Wendy Chapman

Quentin Bryce

United Labor Party

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Sir Samuel Way

Augusta Zadow

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Charles Cameron Kingston

Susan Kiefel

Penny Wong

Julia Gillard

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Australian Democrats

Thomas John Napier

Catherine Helen Spence

National Trust of Australia

Joseph Fisher

Working Women’s Trade Union

George Waterhouse

Aborigines Progress Association

Peter Cosgrove

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Eddie Mabo

Francis Stacker Dutton

Don Dunstan

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

AIDS Council of South Australia

Susan Benny

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

George Strickland Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

Robin Millhouse

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

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