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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.

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bob Hawke

Bill Shorten

Aborigines Progress Association

Edward Stirling

Edmund Barton

Simon Birmingham

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

William Boothby

Australian Labor Party

Amanda Vanstone

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

David Tonkin

Benjamin Boothby

City of Adelaide Corporation

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Queen Elizabeth II

Australian Democrats

Thomas John Napier

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Benny

Malcolm Turnbull

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Augusta Zadow

Dame Roma Mitchell

Thomas Playford II

Muriel Matters

George Waterhouse

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Henry Strangways

Rob Kerin

Dean Brown

John Baker

Isobel Redmond

Malcolm Fraser

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Eight Hours Day Committee

Mike Rann

Thomas Reynolds

Sir James Boucaut

Liberal Party

Mary Lee

Frank Walsh

Ian Purcell

Sir William Morgan

National Trust of Australia

Steele Hall

Thomas Price

Don Dunstan

Governor George Gawler

Sir Mark Oliphant

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Mary Gaudron

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir John William Downer

Steven Marshall

John Hart

Lowitja O’Donoghue

King William IV

Peter Malinauskas

Wendy Chapman

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Peter Cosgrove

Queen Adelaide

Joseph Fisher

Robin Millhouse

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Liberation Movement

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Gough Whitlam

Henry John Ayers

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Susan Kiefel

Shirley Peisley

Clyde Cameron

Eddie Mabo

Penny Wong

Des Corcoran

Janine Haines

Hieu Van Le

John Bannon

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Samuel Way

George Strickland Kingston

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Gladys Elphick

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Olsen

Jessie Cooper

Kelly Vincent

United Trades and Labor Council

Country Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Electoral Lobby

United Labor Party

Julia Gillard

Jay Weatherill

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor John Hindmarsh

Charles Richmond Glover

Catherine Helen Spence

Joyce Steele

Quentin Bryce

Sir Thomas Playford

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Women’s Suffrage League

Lynn Arnold

Barbara Baird

Lawrence Grayson

Country Women’s Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Greens Party

Lock the Gate

AIDS Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Verran

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sex Industry Network

Anthony Albanese

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sir John Colton

Adam Goodes

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