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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.

Peter Malinauskas

Frank Walsh

Jessie Cooper

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Douglas Nicholls

City of Adelaide Corporation

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Reynolds

Lynn Arnold

Edward Stirling

Catherine Helen Spence

Steven Marshall

Wendy Chapman

United Labor Party

Henry John Ayers

Sir James Boucaut

Simon Birmingham

Boyle Travers Finniss

Penny Wong

Joseph Fisher

Bill Shorten

Hieu Van Le

Steele Hall

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Mike Rann

John Verran

Henry Strangways

Sir Mark Oliphant

Barbara Baird

William Boothby

Benjamin Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Mary Gaudron

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Democrats

Malcolm Fraser

Sir John Cox Bray

Susan Benny

Greens Party

Joyce Steele

George Waterhouse

Country Women’s Association

John Olsen

Peter Cosgrove

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Muriel Matters

Sex Industry Network

Quentin Bryce

Julia Gillard

Isobel Redmond

Bob Hawke

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir William Morgan

Francis Stacker Dutton

Mary Lee

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Hart

Ian Purcell

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Janine Haines

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Samuel Way

Rob Kerin

Sir John William Downer

League of Women Voters

King William IV

Liberal Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Price

Clyde Cameron

Charles Cameron Kingston

George Strickland Kingston

Gough Whitlam

Lock the Gate

Des Corcoran

Anthony Albanese

Sir John Colton

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Thomas Playford

Natasha Stott Despoja

Queen Elizabeth II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Australian Labor Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Alexander Cockburn

Robin Millhouse

Adam Goodes

Governor George Gawler

National Trust of Australia

Edmund Barton

Eddie Mabo

Susan Kiefel

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas John Napier

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Augusta Zadow

Lawrence Grayson

Dean Brown

Queen Adelaide

United Trades and Labor Council

Gladys Elphick

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

David Tonkin

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Playford II

Kelly Vincent

Don Dunstan

John Bannon

Conservation Council of South Australia

Country Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Jay Weatherill

Aborigines Progress Association

AIDS Council of South Australia

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