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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.

Dame Roma Mitchell

Peter Cosgrove

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

United Trades and Labor Council

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir James Boucaut

Thomas Price

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Natasha Stott Despoja

Governor George Gawler

David Tonkin

League of Women Voters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Eight Hours Day Committee

Australian Democrats

Liberal Party

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Jay Weatherill

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Lynn Arnold

Edward Stirling

Don Dunstan

Des Corcoran

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Baker

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Country Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Henry John Ayers

John Hart

Joyce Steele

Edmund Barton

Clyde Cameron

Mary Lee

Mike Rann

Sir John William Downer

Mary Gaudron

Lock the Gate

Thomas John Napier

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Simon Birmingham

Susan Benny

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Catherine Helen Spence

Augusta Zadow

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Reynolds

King William IV

John Olsen

Penny Wong

Ian Purcell

Sir John Colton

Muriel Matters

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Janine Haines

Queen Adelaide

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Henry Strangways

Bob Hawke

Peter Malinauskas

Queen Elizabeth II

Country Women’s Association

John Verran

Steele Hall

Bill Shorten

Boyle Travers Finniss

Adam Goodes

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Jessie Cooper

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Alexander Cockburn

George Waterhouse

Quentin Bryce

Sir Samuel Way

Gladys Elphick

Robin Millhouse

Wendy Chapman

Dean Brown

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Mark Oliphant

William Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Amanda Vanstone

Lawrence Grayson

Rob Kerin

National Trust of Australia

Joseph Fisher

Isobel Redmond

Kelly Vincent

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor John Hindmarsh

Julia Gillard

Charles Cameron Kingston

Charles Richmond Glover

Conservation Council of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Francis Stacker Dutton

Steven Marshall

City of Adelaide Corporation

Shirley Peisley

United Labor Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Australian Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Eddie Mabo

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Working Women’s Trade Union

Barbara Baird

Sex Industry Network

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