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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.

Ian Purcell

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joseph Fisher

Gough Whitlam

Dame Roma Mitchell

Catherine Helen Spence

Mary Lee

Peter Malinauskas

Governor John Hindmarsh

Governor George Gawler

Janine Haines

Adam Goodes

Country Party

Queen Adelaide

Edward Stirling

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Julia Gillard

John Bannon

Boyle Travers Finniss

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Steele Hall

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Verran

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Rob Kerin

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Liberal Party

United Trades and Labor Council

Malcolm Turnbull

Lynn Arnold

Sir Arthur Blyth

Frank Walsh

Henry John Ayers

Lawrence Grayson

Thomas John Napier

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Samuel Way

Bill Shorten

George Strickland Kingston

John Alexander Cockburn

Don Dunstan

League of Women Voters

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Reynolds

Country Women’s Association

Sir Thomas Playford

Women’s Suffrage League

National Trust of Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Anthony Albanese

Aborigines Progress Association

Simon Birmingham

Sir James Boucaut

George Waterhouse

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Bob Hawke

Susan Kiefel

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Susan Benny

Gladys Elphick

United Labor Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Penny Wong

Greens Party

Wendy Chapman

Sir John William Downer

Charles Richmond Glover

Charles Cameron Kingston

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Joyce Steele

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Clyde Cameron

Jessie Cooper

Mary Gaudron

Peter Cosgrove

Australian Democrats

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Shirley Peisley

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir William Morgan

Steven Marshall

Des Corcoran

David Tonkin

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Malcolm Fraser

Lock the Gate

Australian Labor Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Kelly Vincent

Amanda Vanstone

Isobel Redmond

Muriel Matters

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Liberation Movement

Quentin Bryce

Mike Rann

Dean Brown

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Conservation Council of South Australia

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Hart

Sir John Colton

Henry Strangways

William Boothby

Queen Elizabeth II

Sex Industry Network

Robin Millhouse

King William IV

Thomas Price

Eddie Mabo

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Hieu Van Le

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Playford II

Sir John Cox Bray

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Olsen

City of Adelaide Corporation

Edmund Barton

John Baker

Barbara Baird

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