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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.

Mary Gaudron

Shirley Peisley

Gough Whitlam

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Queen Adelaide

Country Women’s Association

Lawrence Grayson

Edmund Barton

Thomas Playford II

Susan Benny

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Wendy Chapman

Henry Strangways

Janine Haines

John Alexander Cockburn

John Bannon

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Aborigines Progress Association

Lock the Gate

William Boothby

Benjamin Boothby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Malcolm Turnbull

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Price

Sir William Morgan

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Julia Gillard

Women’s Liberation Movement

League of Women Voters

Dean Brown

Mike Rann

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir Mark Oliphant

Amanda Vanstone

Steven Marshall

George Waterhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Penny Wong

Malcolm Fraser

Hieu Van Le

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

King William IV

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Baker

John Verran

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Susan Kiefel

Gladys Elphick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir James Boucaut

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry John Ayers

David Tonkin

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

George Strickland Kingston

Australian Democrats

Sir John William Downer

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Isobel Redmond

Muriel Matters

Sir Arthur Blyth

Joseph Fisher

Sex Industry Network

Frank Walsh

Augusta Zadow

Working Women’s Trade Union

Bill Shorten

Eddie Mabo

Peter Malinauskas

Steele Hall

Don Dunstan

Queen Elizabeth II

Kelly Vincent

Charles Cameron Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Women’s Suffrage League

Joyce Steele

Barbara Baird

Rob Kerin

Governor George Gawler

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Liberal Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Des Corcoran

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Thomas Reynolds

Ian Purcell

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

United Labor Party

National Trust of Australia

Mary Lee

Thomas John Napier

Greens Party

Australian Labor Party

John Hart

Simon Birmingham

Robin Millhouse

Anthony Albanese

Jay Weatherill

Bob Hawke

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John Colton

Edward Stirling

Natasha Stott Despoja

Country Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Clyde Cameron

Sir Samuel Way

Peter Cosgrove

Quentin Bryce

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Olsen

Adam Goodes

Lynn Arnold

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