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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.

Quentin Bryce

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

William Boothby

Steele Hall

George Waterhouse

Catherine Helen Spence

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Barbara Baird

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Clyde Cameron

Australian Democrats

Sir John William Downer

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir Arthur Blyth

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Working Women’s Trade Union

Janine Haines

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Shirley Peisley

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Rob Kerin

Sir William Morgan

Sir John Colton

League of Women Voters

Queen Elizabeth II

Bill Shorten

AIDS Council of South Australia

Greens Party

Thomas Price

Adam Goodes

Malcolm Fraser

Gladys Elphick

National Trust of Australia

Muriel Matters

Henry Strangways

Susan Kiefel

Simon Birmingham

Dean Brown

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John Cox Bray

Women’s Liberation Movement

Isobel Redmond

Julia Gillard

Mary Gaudron

Liberal Party

Sir James Boucaut

Don Dunstan

Sir Thomas Playford

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

John Verran

Joseph Fisher

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

City of Adelaide Corporation

Queen Adelaide

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

United Trades and Labor Council

Jay Weatherill

Sex Industry Network

Charles Cameron Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Mark Oliphant

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Ian Purcell

Lynn Arnold

Des Corcoran

Kelly Vincent

John Hart

Edmund Barton

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Anthony Albanese

Jessie Cooper

Eight Hours Day Committee

United Labor Party

Joyce Steele

Edward Stirling

King William IV

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Amanda Vanstone

David Tonkin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Reynolds

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Bob Hawke

Henry John Ayers

John Baker

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Party

Thomas John Napier

Malcolm Turnbull

Country Women’s Association

Steven Marshall

Peter Malinauskas

Frank Walsh

Mike Rann

Augusta Zadow

Penny Wong

Peter Cosgrove

Lock the Gate

Women’s Suffrage League

George Strickland Kingston

Natasha Stott Despoja

Benjamin Boothby

Susan Benny

Eddie Mabo

Aborigines Progress Association

Mary Lee

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Charles Richmond Glover

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Gough Whitlam

Australian Labor Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Samuel Way

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