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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.

Mary Lee

Sir John William Downer

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Don Dunstan

Penny Wong

Isobel Redmond

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Country Women’s Association

Peter Cosgrove

City of Adelaide Corporation

Steven Marshall

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor John Hindmarsh

Ian Purcell

Jessie Cooper

Amanda Vanstone

Greens Party

Bob Hawke

Sex Industry Network

Susan Kiefel

Country Party

Joseph Fisher

Des Corcoran

National Trust of Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir William Morgan

Australian Democrats

Mike Rann

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Shirley Peisley

Malcolm Fraser

John Baker

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Queen Adelaide

John Bannon

Lynn Arnold

Joyce Steele

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Suffrage League

Clyde Cameron

George Waterhouse

Sir John Colton

King William IV

Henry John Ayers

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Jay Weatherill

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Augusta Zadow

Susan Benny

Peter Malinauskas

Adam Goodes

Muriel Matters

John Alexander Cockburn

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Australian Labor Party

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Playford II

Thomas Price

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Arthur Blyth

Frank Walsh

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Wendy Chapman

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Liberation Movement

Governor Richard MacDonnell

League of Women Voters

United Trades and Labor Council

Julia Gillard

Aborigines Progress Association

John Hart

John Olsen

Sir James Boucaut

Rob Kerin

Thomas Reynolds

David Tonkin

Bill Shorten

AIDS Council of South Australia

Edward Stirling

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Verran

Gladys Elphick

Sir Thomas Playford

Lock the Gate

Conservation Council of South Australia

Edmund Barton

Governor George Gawler

George Strickland Kingston

Liberal Party

Charles Richmond Glover

Hieu Van Le

Quentin Bryce

Eight Hours Day Committee

Steele Hall

Barbara Baird

Boyle Travers Finniss

Mary Gaudron

Anthony Albanese

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Catherine Helen Spence

Malcolm Turnbull

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Dean Brown

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John Cox Bray

United Labor Party

Kelly Vincent

Natasha Stott Despoja

Francis Stacker Dutton

Eddie Mabo

Charles Cameron Kingston

Simon Birmingham

Robin Millhouse

Queen Elizabeth II

Janine Haines

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

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