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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.

Julia Gillard

Thomas John Napier

Mary Lee

Bill Shorten

Mary Gaudron

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Catherine Helen Spence

United Trades and Labor Council

Barbara Baird

Amanda Vanstone

Aborigines Progress Association

Sex Industry Network

Augusta Zadow

Adam Goodes

Eight Hours Day Committee

George Waterhouse

Queen Adelaide

Natasha Stott Despoja

Queen Elizabeth II

Wendy Chapman

Sir Arthur Blyth

Charles Cameron Kingston

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Susan Kiefel

Rob Kerin

Sir John William Downer

George Strickland Kingston

William Boothby

John Olsen

Isobel Redmond

Clyde Cameron

United Labor Party

Gough Whitlam

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas Playford II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steven Marshall

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Mike Rann

Ian Purcell

Boyle Travers Finniss

Don Dunstan

Gladys Elphick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Edmund Barton

Sir Samuel Way

Simon Birmingham

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Henry John Ayers

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Hart

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Quentin Bryce

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Bob Hawke

Sir John Colton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Jessie Cooper

Lawrence Grayson

John Baker

David Tonkin

AIDS Council of South Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Hieu Van Le

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Charles Richmond Glover

Anthony Albanese

Janine Haines

Joseph Fisher

Lock the Gate

Sir James Boucaut

Francis Stacker Dutton

Joyce Steele

Australian Labor Party

Steele Hall

Women’s Suffrage League

John Alexander Cockburn

Edward Stirling

Working Women’s Trade Union

Liberal Party

National Trust of Australia

Penny Wong

Sir William Morgan

Kelly Vincent

Shirley Peisley

King William IV

Peter Cosgrove

Robin Millhouse

Peter Malinauskas

Country Women’s Association

Sir Mark Oliphant

League of Women Voters

John Verran

Benjamin Boothby

John Bannon

Henry Strangways

Susan Benny

Malcolm Fraser

Greens Party

Lynn Arnold

Frank Walsh

Thomas Price

Conservation Council of South Australia

Australian Democrats

Dame Roma Mitchell

Des Corcoran

Eddie Mabo

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

Country Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Dean Brown

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