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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.

Eddie Mabo

Sir John Cox Bray

Steven Marshall

Henry John Ayers

Peter Cosgrove

David Tonkin

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Frank Walsh

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Country Women’s Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Anthony Albanese

Sir Mark Oliphant

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas John Napier

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Peter Malinauskas

Sir John Colton

Jessie Cooper

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Suffrage League

Simon Birmingham

Greens Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Country Party

Janine Haines

Barbara Baird

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Wendy Chapman

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Baker

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

National Trust of Australia

Julia Gillard

Joyce Steele

League of Women Voters

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Labor Party

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Francis Stacker Dutton

William Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Queen Elizabeth II

Kelly Vincent

Amanda Vanstone

Mary Lee

George Waterhouse

Bob Hawke

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Lawrence Grayson

Gladys Elphick

Edward Stirling

Thomas Reynolds

Susan Benny

Adam Goodes

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Hart

Edmund Barton

Mike Rann

Sir Arthur Blyth

Working Women’s Trade Union

Dean Brown

Susan Kiefel

Bill Shorten

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir James Boucaut

Henry Strangways

Sex Industry Network

Benjamin Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Mary Gaudron

John Bannon

United Labor Party

Lynn Arnold

Quentin Bryce

Gough Whitlam

Sir Thomas Playford

Don Dunstan

Hieu Van Le

Sir Samuel Way

Australian Democrats

Joseph Fisher

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Natasha Stott Despoja

King William IV

Augusta Zadow

Robin Millhouse

John Olsen

Clyde Cameron

Jay Weatherill

Shirley Peisley

Dame Roma Mitchell

Steele Hall

Des Corcoran

Rob Kerin

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir John William Downer

Queen Adelaide

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Catherine Helen Spence

Lock the Gate

Conservation Council of South Australia

Isobel Redmond

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Verran

Charles Richmond Glover

Penny Wong

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas Price

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Playford II

Liberal Party

Ian Purcell

Muriel Matters

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Alexander Cockburn

Aborigines Progress Association

Malcolm Fraser

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