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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.

John Bannon

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

United Labor Party

Thomas Reynolds

Don Dunstan

United Trades and Labor Council

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Janine Haines

Eddie Mabo

Augusta Zadow

Australian Labor Party

Gough Whitlam

Lynn Arnold

Country Party

Edward Stirling

John Hart

Kelly Vincent

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Penny Wong

Peter Cosgrove

George Waterhouse

Thomas John Napier

Catherine Helen Spence

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir John Colton

Anthony Albanese

Sir William Morgan

Mary Gaudron

Peter Malinauskas

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Benjamin Boothby

Des Corcoran

Adam Goodes

Country Women’s Association

John Olsen

Greens Party

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Isobel Redmond

Liberal Party

Sir James Boucaut

Dame Roma Mitchell

Wendy Chapman

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Gladys Elphick

Mike Rann

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Quentin Bryce

Rob Kerin

Sir Thomas Playford

Joyce Steele

Natasha Stott Despoja

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Muriel Matters

Barbara Baird

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sex Industry Network

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John Cox Bray

Hieu Van Le

Bob Hawke

John Baker

Charles Cameron Kingston

Steele Hall

Women’s Suffrage League

Lock the Gate

John Alexander Cockburn

National Trust of Australia

Susan Benny

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Susan Kiefel

League of Women Voters

Clyde Cameron

Mary Lee

Sir Samuel Way

Malcolm Fraser

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Simon Birmingham

Conservation Council of South Australia

Julia Gillard

Australian Democrats

Sir Arthur Blyth

Thomas Playford II

Steven Marshall

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor Richard MacDonnell

William Boothby

Edmund Barton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

David Tonkin

Francis Stacker Dutton

Malcolm Turnbull

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Price

Queen Elizabeth II

Lawrence Grayson

Henry John Ayers

Joseph Fisher

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Adelaide

John Verran

Jessie Cooper

Charles Richmond Glover

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John William Downer

Amanda Vanstone

Jay Weatherill

Ian Purcell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

AIDS Council of South Australia

Robin Millhouse

Working Women’s Trade Union

City of Adelaide Corporation

Bill Shorten

Eight Hours Day Committee

Governor George Gawler

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Liberation Movement

Governor John Hindmarsh

Frank Walsh

Shirley Peisley

Dean Brown

Sir Mark Oliphant

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