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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.

Gough Whitlam

United Labor Party

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Edmund Barton

Gladys Elphick

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Quentin Bryce

Mike Rann

Augusta Zadow

Queen Elizabeth II

Kelly Vincent

Hieu Van Le

Julia Gillard

Wendy Chapman

Greens Party

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Price

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Colton

Penny Wong

Thomas John Napier

Governor George Gawler

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Cosgrove

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jessie Cooper

Rob Kerin

Sex Industry Network

George Waterhouse

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John Cox Bray

Francis Stacker Dutton

Bill Shorten

Thomas Reynolds

John Alexander Cockburn

David Tonkin

Bob Hawke

John Verran

John Olsen

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Arthur Blyth

Steele Hall

John Baker

Thomas Playford II

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir Samuel Way

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Edward Stirling

Sir William Morgan

Simon Birmingham

Don Dunstan

Anthony Albanese

Working Women’s Trade Union

Peter Malinauskas

Mary Gaudron

Sir James Boucaut

Governor John Hindmarsh

Aborigines Progress Association

Frank Walsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Clyde Cameron

Lynn Arnold

Lawrence Grayson

Australian Democrats

League of Women Voters

Henry Strangways

Joyce Steele

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Susan Kiefel

National Trust of Australia

Country Women’s Association

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Charles Cameron Kingston

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Dame Roma Mitchell

Catherine Helen Spence

Liberal Party

Susan Benny

William Boothby

Shirley Peisley

Henry John Ayers

Benjamin Boothby

Isobel Redmond

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

King William IV

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Suffrage League

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Mary Lee

Jay Weatherill

Steven Marshall

Ian Purcell

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Amanda Vanstone

Joseph Fisher

Charles Richmond Glover

Queen Adelaide

Natasha Stott Despoja

Janine Haines

Barbara Baird

Country Party

Eddie Mabo

Adam Goodes

Lock the Gate

George Strickland Kingston

John Hart

AIDS Council of South Australia

Conservation Council of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Robin Millhouse

Malcolm Turnbull

Des Corcoran

John Bannon

Australian Labor Party

Dean Brown

Muriel Matters

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