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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.

Joyce Steele

Malcolm Fraser

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Steele Hall

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Clyde Cameron

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor George Gawler

Adam Goodes

Sir Mark Oliphant

Australian Democrats

Sir James Boucaut

AIDS Council of South Australia

Henry John Ayers

Wendy Chapman

Bill Shorten

Governor John Hindmarsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

Isobel Redmond

John Verran

Francis Stacker Dutton

Simon Birmingham

Muriel Matters

Peter Cosgrove

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Janine Haines

Lock the Gate

Mary Gaudron

Sir Arthur Blyth

Des Corcoran

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Frank Walsh

Ian Purcell

Quentin Bryce

Sir John Cox Bray

Lawrence Grayson

Don Dunstan

Sir John Colton

Australian Labor Party

Anthony Albanese

Queen Adelaide

Boyle Travers Finniss

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Liberation Movement

Susan Benny

Augusta Zadow

Thomas Playford II

Joseph Fisher

Bob Hawke

Rob Kerin

Lynn Arnold

David Tonkin

Eddie Mabo

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Catherine Helen Spence

Sex Industry Network

John Bannon

Sir Thomas Playford

Dame Roma Mitchell

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Country Party

Susan Kiefel

King William IV

National Trust of Australia

Gough Whitlam

Malcolm Turnbull

William Boothby

John Hart

Jessie Cooper

Thomas Price

Sir Samuel Way

Natasha Stott Despoja

Mike Rann

Sir John William Downer

Benjamin Boothby

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Baker

Sir William Morgan

Country Women’s Association

Shirley Peisley

George Strickland Kingston

Julia Gillard

Edmund Barton

Henry Strangways

Charles Richmond Glover

Mary Lee

United Labor Party

Thomas John Napier

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Queen Elizabeth II

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Greens Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Amanda Vanstone

Barbara Baird

Steven Marshall

Edward Stirling

Liberal Party

Dean Brown

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Kelly Vincent

Women’s Suffrage League

Hieu Van Le

Jay Weatherill

Penny Wong

George Waterhouse

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Charles Cameron Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Eight Hours Day Committee

Peter Malinauskas

Gladys Elphick

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Olsen

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