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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.

Sir John William Downer

Frank Walsh

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir James Boucaut

Queen Elizabeth II

Bill Shorten

Quentin Bryce

John Olsen

National Trust of Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

Benjamin Boothby

Des Corcoran

John Baker

Eddie Mabo

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

John Hart

Mary Lee

Rob Kerin

Jay Weatherill

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

AIDS Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Hieu Van Le

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas Playford II

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Suffrage League

Julia Gillard

Greens Party

Queen Adelaide

Sir John Colton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lawrence Grayson

Edward Stirling

Shirley Peisley

Simon Birmingham

Sir William Morgan

Bob Hawke

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Thomas Playford

John Verran

Barbara Baird

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Liberation Movement

Henry John Ayers

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Amanda Vanstone

David Tonkin

Sex Industry Network

Charles Richmond Glover

George Waterhouse

Charles Cameron Kingston

Gladys Elphick

Dean Brown

Adam Goodes

Mike Rann

Governor George Gawler

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Australian Labor Party

Muriel Matters

United Labor Party

Dame Roma Mitchell

Conservation Council of South Australia

George Strickland Kingston

Janine Haines

Robin Millhouse

John Bannon

Steven Marshall

Steele Hall

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Wendy Chapman

Peter Cosgrove

Kelly Vincent

Susan Benny

Joyce Steele

Peter Malinauskas

Henry Strangways

John Alexander Cockburn

Liberal Party

League of Women Voters

Aborigines Progress Association

Country Party

Joseph Fisher

Sir Samuel Way

Malcolm Turnbull

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Catherine Helen Spence

Eight Hours Day Committee

Don Dunstan

Penny Wong

Country Women’s Association

Governor John Hindmarsh

Thomas Reynolds

Sir John Cox Bray

Isobel Redmond

Thomas Price

Augusta Zadow

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas John Napier

Jessie Cooper

Edmund Barton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Clyde Cameron

Mary Gaudron

Anthony Albanese

Sir Arthur Blyth

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Malcolm Fraser

King William IV

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lock the Gate

Ian Purcell

Lynn Arnold

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