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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.

Susan Benny

Ian Purcell

Benjamin Boothby

United Trades and Labor Council

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Country Women’s Association

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas John Napier

Sir John Colton

David Tonkin

Women’s Suffrage League

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joyce Steele

William Boothby

Joseph Fisher

Sir James Boucaut

Malcolm Fraser

Amanda Vanstone

Mike Rann

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Lee

United Labor Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Henry John Ayers

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Janine Haines

Australian Democrats

Sex Industry Network

Julia Gillard

Gladys Elphick

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor John Hindmarsh

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Aborigines Progress Association

Queen Adelaide

City of Adelaide Corporation

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Cox Bray

Lawrence Grayson

Steele Hall

Thomas Playford II

Sir William Morgan

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

AIDS Council of South Australia

Charles Richmond Glover

Muriel Matters

John Alexander Cockburn

Anthony Albanese

Robin Millhouse

Quentin Bryce

Isobel Redmond

Mary Gaudron

Steven Marshall

John Olsen

Sir John William Downer

Kelly Vincent

Edmund Barton

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Simon Birmingham

Peter Cosgrove

Gough Whitlam

Conservation Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Eddie Mabo

George Waterhouse

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Edward Stirling

Jessie Cooper

Adam Goodes

Governor Richard MacDonnell

King William IV

Augusta Zadow

Barbara Baird

Don Dunstan

John Hart

Eight Hours Day Committee

Malcolm Turnbull

Dean Brown

Sir Samuel Way

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Shirley Peisley

Wendy Chapman

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Des Corcoran

Rob Kerin

National Trust of Australia

Governor George Gawler

Sir Mark Oliphant

Clyde Cameron

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Susan Kiefel

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Verran

League of Women Voters

Jay Weatherill

Queen Elizabeth II

Bob Hawke

Natasha Stott Despoja

Charles Cameron Kingston

Dame Roma Mitchell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Bill Shorten

Thomas Price

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Baker

Country Party

Greens Party

Liberal Party

Peter Malinauskas

John Bannon

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Reynolds

Catherine Helen Spence

Working Women’s Trade Union

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Lynn Arnold

Australian Labor Party

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