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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.

Eight Hours Day Committee

Aborigines Progress Association

Quentin Bryce

John Alexander Cockburn

Simon Birmingham

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Peter Cosgrove

Governor John Hindmarsh

Edmund Barton

Queen Elizabeth II

Adam Goodes

Susan Kiefel

Susan Benny

Barbara Baird

Thomas Price

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steven Marshall

Liberal Party

Mary Lee

Dame Roma Mitchell

Conservation Council of South Australia

Shirley Peisley

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Baker

Sex Industry Network

William Boothby

Wendy Chapman

George Waterhouse

Edward Stirling

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Reynolds

Ian Purcell

Sir John Colton

Sir James Boucaut

Robin Millhouse

Joseph Fisher

John Olsen

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Catherine Helen Spence

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Julia Gillard

Amanda Vanstone

Country Women’s Association

Isobel Redmond

Bob Hawke

Eddie Mabo

Gough Whitlam

Clyde Cameron

Joyce Steele

Sir John Cox Bray

Penny Wong

Queen Adelaide

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

King William IV

League of Women Voters

John Bannon

Sir Arthur Blyth

Janine Haines

Peter Malinauskas

United Trades and Labor Council

National Trust of Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Henry John Ayers

George Strickland Kingston

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Playford II

John Hart

Augusta Zadow

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Samuel Way

Dean Brown

Country Party

Mike Rann

Gladys Elphick

Australian Labor Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lynn Arnold

Australian Democrats

Bill Shorten

Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Fraser

Jessie Cooper

Thomas John Napier

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Muriel Matters

Charles Richmond Glover

John Verran

Charles Cameron Kingston

Greens Party

Henry Strangways

Sir William Morgan

Rob Kerin

Francis Stacker Dutton

Lock the Gate

Des Corcoran

Women’s Liberation Movement

Lawrence Grayson

Working Women’s Trade Union

Kelly Vincent

Boyle Travers Finniss

Benjamin Boothby

Steele Hall

Sir Mark Oliphant

David Tonkin

Sir Thomas Playford

United Labor Party

Governor George Gawler

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

AIDS Council of South Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

Anthony Albanese

Don Dunstan

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