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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.

Clyde Cameron

Frank Walsh

Thomas John Napier

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Isobel Redmond

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Arthur Blyth

Eddie Mabo

Malcolm Fraser

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lock the Gate

Kelly Vincent

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Electoral Lobby

George Strickland Kingston

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Queen Adelaide

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

Simon Birmingham

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Playford II

Boyle Travers Finniss

Bill Shorten

Bob Hawke

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

National Trust of Australia

Sir John William Downer

League of Women Voters

Eight Hours Day Committee

Julia Gillard

Susan Benny

Sir Mark Oliphant

Penny Wong

Shirley Peisley

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Muriel Matters

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Dame Roma Mitchell

Joseph Fisher

Gough Whitlam

Greens Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

Australian Democrats

Thomas Price

Australian Labor Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Charles Cameron Kingston

Charles Richmond Glover

John Baker

Edward Stirling

Des Corcoran

Don Dunstan

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Verran

David Tonkin

Sir William Morgan

Gladys Elphick

Sir James Boucaut

Catherine Helen Spence

King William IV

Francis Stacker Dutton

Working Women’s Trade Union

Barbara Baird

John Olsen

Sir John Cox Bray

Steven Marshall

Peter Cosgrove

Queen Elizabeth II

John Hart

Sir Samuel Way

Janine Haines

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Quentin Bryce

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lynn Arnold

Dean Brown

Rob Kerin

Edmund Barton

Women’s Suffrage League

Aborigines Progress Association

United Labor Party

Wendy Chapman

John Bannon

Lawrence Grayson

Sex Industry Network

Mary Lee

Henry Strangways

Adam Goodes

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mike Rann

United Trades and Labor Council

AIDS Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Hieu Van Le

City of Adelaide Corporation

Jessie Cooper

Anthony Albanese

Joyce Steele

Steele Hall

Peter Malinauskas

Henry John Ayers

Susan Kiefel

Benjamin Boothby

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor George Gawler

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Liberation Movement

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Reynolds

Liberal Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sir John Colton

Ian Purcell

George Waterhouse

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mary Gaudron

Country Party

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

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