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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.

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Edward Stirling

Bill Shorten

Francis Stacker Dutton

Gladys Elphick

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mary Lee

John Baker

Australian Democrats

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Liberation Movement

Country Women’s Association

Don Dunstan

Lynn Arnold

Robin Millhouse

Charles Richmond Glover

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John William Downer

Queen Elizabeth II

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Electoral Lobby

David Tonkin

Peter Cosgrove

George Waterhouse

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Malinauskas

Ian Purcell

Augusta Zadow

Malcolm Turnbull

Queen Adelaide

Mike Rann

John Hart

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Bannon

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Colton

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

Henry John Ayers

Bob Hawke

Joyce Steele

Sir Thomas Playford

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

Catherine Helen Spence

John Verran

Jay Weatherill

Sex Industry Network

Amanda Vanstone

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Strickland Kingston

Mary Gaudron

Anthony Albanese

Lock the Gate

King William IV

Charles Cameron Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Sir William Morgan

William Boothby

Steven Marshall

Muriel Matters

Greens Party

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Arthur Blyth

Janine Haines

Simon Birmingham

Steele Hall

Eddie Mabo

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Price

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Henry Strangways

Country Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Conservation Council of South Australia

Barbara Baird

Natasha Stott Despoja

Edmund Barton

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir James Boucaut

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

City of Adelaide Corporation

AIDS Council of South Australia

National Trust of Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Wendy Chapman

Sir John Cox Bray

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Julia Gillard

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Susan Kiefel

Malcolm Fraser

Rob Kerin

Thomas John Napier

John Olsen

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Thomas Reynolds

Hieu Van Le

Des Corcoran

Frank Walsh

Kelly Vincent

Susan Benny

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Liberal Party

Clyde Cameron

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Dean Brown

Jessie Cooper

Quentin Bryce

Governor John Hindmarsh

Joseph Fisher

League of Women Voters

Governor George Gawler

United Labor Party

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