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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.

Hieu Van Le

Peter Cosgrove

Charles Cameron Kingston

Aborigines Progress Association

Country Women’s Association

Edmund Barton

Wendy Chapman

Dean Brown

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir Mark Oliphant

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Suffrage League

Dame Roma Mitchell

Janine Haines

Country Party

Steele Hall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Mary Lee

John Verran

National Trust of Australia

Ian Purcell

Benjamin Boothby

John Baker

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Frank Walsh

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir John Colton

United Labor Party

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Price

Lock the Gate

City of Adelaide Corporation

Simon Birmingham

League of Women Voters

John Olsen

Governor George Gawler

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Samuel Way

Sir James Boucaut

Bob Hawke

Peter Malinauskas

Barbara Baird

Joseph Fisher

AIDS Council of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Greens Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

David Tonkin

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

Shirley Peisley

Eddie Mabo

Governor John Hindmarsh

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Liberal Party

Thomas Reynolds

Muriel Matters

Edward Stirling

Thomas John Napier

Clyde Cameron

William Boothby

Sir John Cox Bray

Joyce Steele

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Hart

Amanda Vanstone

Augusta Zadow

King William IV

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Governor Richard MacDonnell

United Trades and Labor Council

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Isobel Redmond

Rob Kerin

Catherine Helen Spence

George Waterhouse

Susan Kiefel

Sir Thomas Playford

Queen Adelaide

Don Dunstan

Kelly Vincent

Sir John William Downer

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Quentin Bryce

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Des Corcoran

Susan Benny

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Henry John Ayers

Jessie Cooper

Adam Goodes

Lynn Arnold

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Fraser

Australian Labor Party

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

John Alexander Cockburn

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Eight Hours Day Committee

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Charles Richmond Glover

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Steven Marshall

Mike Rann

Australian Democrats

Gough Whitlam

Julia Gillard

Thomas Playford II

Robin Millhouse

Bill Shorten

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Arthur Blyth

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Turnbull

John Bannon

Mary Gaudron

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lawrence Grayson

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