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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.

Country Women’s Association

Mary Gaudron

William Boothby

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir John Cox Bray

Aborigines Progress Association

Adam Goodes

Steven Marshall

Barbara Baird

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Henry John Ayers

Ian Purcell

Quentin Bryce

Lock the Gate

Benjamin Boothby

Simon Birmingham

Jessie Cooper

United Labor Party

Muriel Matters

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Augusta Zadow

Eddie Mabo

John Bannon

Joseph Fisher

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Des Corcoran

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Price

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Liberal Party

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas John Napier

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Malcolm Fraser

Susan Kiefel

Thomas Reynolds

Dean Brown

Sir John Colton

Bill Shorten

Thomas Playford II

Steele Hall

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Greens Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

League of Women Voters

Wendy Chapman

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Frank Walsh

John Baker

Don Dunstan

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Samuel Way

Rob Kerin

Sex Industry Network

Lynn Arnold

Sir James Boucaut

John Hart

King William IV

Queen Adelaide

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Australian Democrats

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Bob Hawke

David Tonkin

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Mike Rann

Anthony Albanese

Sir Thomas Playford

United Trades and Labor Council

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Mark Oliphant

Edward Stirling

Sir Arthur Blyth

City of Adelaide Corporation

Shirley Peisley

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Queen Elizabeth II

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Hieu Van Le

Australian Labor Party

Kelly Vincent

Penny Wong

Dame Roma Mitchell

Janine Haines

Clyde Cameron

Lawrence Grayson

Governor George Gawler

Gough Whitlam

Country Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Governor John Hindmarsh

Joyce Steele

Peter Cosgrove

Sir William Morgan

Isobel Redmond

Mary Lee

Malcolm Turnbull

Francis Stacker Dutton

Eight Hours Day Committee

AIDS Council of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Charles Richmond Glover

National Trust of Australia

George Waterhouse

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir John William Downer

Julia Gillard

Boyle Travers Finniss

Peter Malinauskas

Henry Strangways

Catherine Helen Spence

John Verran

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