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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.

Sex Industry Network

Frank Walsh

George Strickland Kingston

David Tonkin

Women’s Suffrage League

John Hart

Janine Haines

Sir Mark Oliphant

Edmund Barton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

United Trades and Labor Council

Liberal Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Charles Cameron Kingston

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Boyle Travers Finniss

Shirley Peisley

Clyde Cameron

Gough Whitlam

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Gladys Elphick

AIDS Council of South Australia

Lawrence Grayson

Peter Cosgrove

William Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Penny Wong

Rob Kerin

Kelly Vincent

Malcolm Turnbull

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

King William IV

Muriel Matters

Peter Malinauskas

Julia Gillard

Sir Samuel Way

Thomas Price

Steele Hall

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dame Roma Mitchell

National Trust of Australia

Augusta Zadow

Barbara Baird

Wendy Chapman

Lock the Gate

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Governor George Gawler

Country Party

Malcolm Fraser

Natasha Stott Despoja

Des Corcoran

Susan Benny

Women’s Electoral Lobby

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Playford II

Mike Rann

Sir John Colton

Greens Party

John Verran

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir James Boucaut

Eight Hours Day Committee

Bill Shorten

Eddie Mabo

Susan Kiefel

Steven Marshall

Mary Lee

Adam Goodes

Henry Strangways

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

Working Women’s Trade Union

Bob Hawke

Sir William Morgan

Hieu Van Le

Catherine Helen Spence

Quentin Bryce

Joseph Fisher

John Bannon

Sir John Cox Bray

Jessie Cooper

Queen Adelaide

Don Dunstan

Jay Weatherill

Amanda Vanstone

United Labor Party

League of Women Voters

Australian Labor Party

Henry John Ayers

Robin Millhouse

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dean Brown

Conservation Council of South Australia

George Waterhouse

Queen Elizabeth II

John Alexander Cockburn

Ian Purcell

Thomas John Napier

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Baker

Isobel Redmond

Joyce Steele

Mary Gaudron

Simon Birmingham

Aborigines Progress Association

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Olsen

Country Women’s Association

Sir John William Downer

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Richmond Glover

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Anthony Albanese

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lynn Arnold

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