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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.

Jay Weatherill

Queen Elizabeth II

Isobel Redmond

John Olsen

Ian Purcell

Catherine Helen Spence

Malcolm Turnbull

Dean Brown

Steele Hall

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Susan Kiefel

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Adam Goodes

Kelly Vincent

George Strickland Kingston

Joyce Steele

Sex Industry Network

Wendy Chapman

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Aborigines Progress Association

Barbara Baird

Lock the Gate

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir James Boucaut

Sir William Morgan

Charles Richmond Glover

Queen Adelaide

Joseph Fisher

Women’s Suffrage League

Bill Shorten

Australian Labor Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Australian Democrats

Benjamin Boothby

William Boothby

Julia Gillard

John Verran

Don Dunstan

Edmund Barton

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Liberation Movement

Greens Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Gladys Elphick

Sir Samuel Way

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Thomas Playford

Charles Cameron Kingston

Mike Rann

National Trust of Australia

Sir John Colton

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Francis Stacker Dutton

Simon Birmingham

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Rob Kerin

Hieu Van Le

Dame Roma Mitchell

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Playford II

Amanda Vanstone

Penny Wong

Eight Hours Day Committee

Henry John Ayers

Steven Marshall

Country Women’s Association

Susan Benny

Malcolm Fraser

AIDS Council of South Australia

Henry Strangways

Sir Arthur Blyth

Quentin Bryce

Sir Mark Oliphant

Thomas Price

Gough Whitlam

Peter Cosgrove

David Tonkin

Jessie Cooper

King William IV

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Bannon

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Anthony Albanese

Des Corcoran

Thomas Reynolds

Governor George Gawler

Sir John William Downer

Liberal Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

George Waterhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lynn Arnold

League of Women Voters

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Hart

Robin Millhouse

Bob Hawke

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John Cox Bray

United Trades and Labor Council

Muriel Matters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Janine Haines

Clyde Cameron

Mary Lee

Mary Gaudron

Shirley Peisley

Augusta Zadow

Edward Stirling

Thomas John Napier

United Labor Party

Frank Walsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

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