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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.

Thomas John Napier

Lawrence Grayson

Frank Walsh

Steele Hall

Mike Rann

Gladys Elphick

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Price

Susan Benny

Bob Hawke

Women’s Suffrage League

Hieu Van Le

Natasha Stott Despoja

National Trust of Australia

Henry Strangways

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Charles Cameron Kingston

William Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Peter Cosgrove

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Simon Birmingham

Governor John Hindmarsh

Robin Millhouse

Joyce Steele

Des Corcoran

Julia Gillard

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Playford II

Isobel Redmond

Charles Richmond Glover

George Strickland Kingston

King William IV

Don Dunstan

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Malcolm Turnbull

Catherine Helen Spence

John Olsen

John Baker

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

Dame Roma Mitchell

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Boyle Travers Finniss

Amanda Vanstone

AIDS Council of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Quentin Bryce

Janine Haines

Malcolm Fraser

Barbara Baird

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

David Tonkin

Greens Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Mary Gaudron

Eight Hours Day Committee

Rob Kerin

John Hart

Country Women’s Association

Bill Shorten

John Alexander Cockburn

George Waterhouse

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Samuel Way

Augusta Zadow

Jessie Cooper

Lock the Gate

Sir Thomas Playford

Ian Purcell

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Adam Goodes

Country Party

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Lynn Arnold

Queen Adelaide

Sir John Cox Bray

League of Women Voters

Conservation Council of South Australia

Gough Whitlam

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir John Colton

Sir John William Downer

Peter Malinauskas

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

United Labor Party

Shirley Peisley

Penny Wong

Henry John Ayers

Liberal Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sex Industry Network

Edmund Barton

Francis Stacker Dutton

Thomas Reynolds

Anthony Albanese

Wendy Chapman

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Clyde Cameron

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joseph Fisher

Susan Kiefel

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Democrats

Eddie Mabo

Sir Douglas Nicholls

John Bannon

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steven Marshall

Edward Stirling

Australian Labor Party

Dean Brown

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Verran

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

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