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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.

Natasha Stott Despoja

Jessie Cooper

Julia Gillard

Kelly Vincent

Edward Stirling

Malcolm Turnbull

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Ian Purcell

Women’s Suffrage League

John Baker

Joyce Steele

Queen Elizabeth II

Hieu Van Le

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Francis Stacker Dutton

Mary Lee

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Peter Cosgrove

League of Women Voters

Liberal Party

Amanda Vanstone

Charles Richmond Glover

Australian Democrats

Janine Haines

Governor John Hindmarsh

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Quentin Bryce

Greens Party

Robin Millhouse

George Waterhouse

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steele Hall

Sir James Boucaut

Queen Adelaide

Henry John Ayers

United Labor Party

Mike Rann

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Hart

Sir Mark Oliphant

Augusta Zadow

AIDS Council of South Australia

Sir John William Downer

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Working Women’s Trade Union

Eddie Mabo

Henry Strangways

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Rob Kerin

Lynn Arnold

Eight Hours Day Committee

Country Party

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir William Morgan

George Strickland Kingston

Peter Malinauskas

Frank Walsh

Susan Kiefel

City of Adelaide Corporation

Boyle Travers Finniss

Penny Wong

Catherine Helen Spence

Country Women’s Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Don Dunstan

Malcolm Fraser

John Olsen

Sir John Cox Bray

Dame Roma Mitchell

Des Corcoran

Sex Industry Network

Thomas John Napier

Sir Thomas Playford

Bob Hawke

Shirley Peisley

National Trust of Australia

Clyde Cameron

United Trades and Labor Council

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas Playford II

Lock the Gate

Gough Whitlam

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Liberation Movement

David Tonkin

Jay Weatherill

John Alexander Cockburn

Dean Brown

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bill Shorten

Edmund Barton

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Governor George Gawler

Joseph Fisher

Gladys Elphick

Muriel Matters

Australian Labor Party

Mary Gaudron

John Verran

Simon Birmingham

King William IV

Lawrence Grayson

Wendy Chapman

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

Benjamin Boothby

Adam Goodes

Thomas Price

Sir John Colton

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Steven Marshall

Anthony Albanese

Sir Samuel Way

John Bannon

Barbara Baird

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Benny

William Boothby

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