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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.

Edmund Barton

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry John Ayers

Thomas Price

Mike Rann

Jay Weatherill

Sir Samuel Way

Dame Roma Mitchell

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir James Boucaut

John Hart

Henry Strangways

Joyce Steele

Quentin Bryce

Sir Arthur Blyth

Kelly Vincent

George Strickland Kingston

Australian Democrats

United Labor Party

Joseph Fisher

Wendy Chapman

Amanda Vanstone

Susan Benny

Queen Adelaide

Julia Gillard

Women’s Suffrage League

Mary Gaudron

John Verran

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Colton

Governor John Hindmarsh

AIDS Council of South Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Mark Oliphant

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steven Marshall

Gladys Elphick

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Turnbull

Bill Shorten

Natasha Stott Despoja

Malcolm Fraser

Simon Birmingham

Edward Stirling

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Augusta Zadow

Governor George Gawler

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Catherine Helen Spence

Lowitja O’Donoghue

United Trades and Labor Council

Des Corcoran

Australian Labor Party

Lock the Gate

Country Party

Barbara Baird

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Frank Walsh

Eddie Mabo

Janine Haines

City of Adelaide Corporation

Gough Whitlam

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mary Lee

Hieu Van Le

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

George Waterhouse

Bob Hawke

Dean Brown

Anthony Albanese

Muriel Matters

Working Women’s Trade Union

Ian Purcell

John Bannon

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

David Tonkin

Greens Party

John Baker

Aborigines Progress Association

King William IV

William Boothby

Sex Industry Network

Eight Hours Day Committee

Don Dunstan

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Shirley Peisley

Conservation Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Peter Malinauskas

John Olsen

Steele Hall

Thomas John Napier

Lawrence Grayson

Liberal Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Reynolds

Country Women’s Association

Adam Goodes

Rob Kerin

National Trust of Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

Penny Wong

Lynn Arnold

Sir William Morgan

League of Women Voters

Jessie Cooper

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Clyde Cameron

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robin Millhouse

Sir Thomas Playford

Thomas Playford II

Charles Richmond Glover

Sir John William Downer

John Alexander Cockburn

Isobel Redmond

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