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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 Robert Richard Torrens

Bob Hawke

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir Mark Oliphant

Francis Stacker Dutton

King William IV

Thomas John Napier

Jay Weatherill

Dame Roma Mitchell

Charles Cameron Kingston

Amanda Vanstone

Jessie Cooper

Sir Thomas Playford

Henry John Ayers

Quentin Bryce

Lock the Gate

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Colton

Charles Richmond Glover

Susan Kiefel

Joseph Fisher

Gladys Elphick

Malcolm Turnbull

Clyde Cameron

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Peter Malinauskas

Sir John Cox Bray

Anthony Albanese

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Women’s Suffrage League

Henry Strangways

Penny Wong

Thomas Playford II

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir John William Downer

Isobel Redmond

Lawrence Grayson

Queen Elizabeth II

Eddie Mabo

National Trust of Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Julia Gillard

AIDS Council of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Bill Shorten

George Strickland Kingston

John Hart

Australian Democrats

Mary Lee

John Verran

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Greens Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Mary Gaudron

Sir Arthur Blyth

Edward Stirling

Queen Adelaide

Robin Millhouse

David Tonkin

Eight Hours Day Committee

Wendy Chapman

Rob Kerin

Thomas Price

Sir Samuel Way

William Boothby

Joyce Steele

Thomas Reynolds

Des Corcoran

Benjamin Boothby

Country Women’s Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Boyle Travers Finniss

George Waterhouse

Barbara Baird

John Bannon

Kelly Vincent

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir James Boucaut

Catherine Helen Spence

Ian Purcell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Edmund Barton

Conservation Council of South Australia

Simon Birmingham

Augusta Zadow

Adam Goodes

Dean Brown

Sir Douglas Nicholls

United Labor Party

Muriel Matters

Working Women’s Trade Union

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Natasha Stott Despoja

Peter Cosgrove

Frank Walsh

Janine Haines

Steven Marshall

Country Party

Liberal Party

John Baker

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sex Industry Network

John Alexander Cockburn

Susan Benny

Aborigines Progress Association

Don Dunstan

Steele Hall

Sir William Morgan

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Malcolm Fraser

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Shirley Peisley

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

League of Women Voters

Gough Whitlam

Mike Rann

Australian Labor Party

John Olsen

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