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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.

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Natasha Stott Despoja

Eddie Mabo

John Verran

John Bannon

Isobel Redmond

John Hart

Frank Walsh

City of Adelaide Corporation

Wendy Chapman

Susan Kiefel

Boyle Travers Finniss

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

National Trust of Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Australian Democrats

Liberal Party

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Peter Malinauskas

Kelly Vincent

Bob Hawke

Mike Rann

United Labor Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Catherine Helen Spence

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Gladys Elphick

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Mark Oliphant

Quentin Bryce

Working Women’s Trade Union

Dean Brown

Sir John Colton

Lawrence Grayson

Joyce Steele

Steven Marshall

John Alexander Cockburn

Joseph Fisher

Bill Shorten

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Arthur Blyth

Eight Hours Day Committee

Thomas Playford II

Sir Thomas Playford

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Thomas Reynolds

Anthony Albanese

Amanda Vanstone

John Baker

Adam Goodes

Francis Stacker Dutton

Shirley Peisley

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Queen Adelaide

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Cameron Kingston

Clyde Cameron

Thomas Price

Malcolm Fraser

Sir John William Downer

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Henry Strangways

Edmund Barton

Charles Richmond Glover

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Country Women’s Association

Augusta Zadow

Julia Gillard

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Penny Wong

Simon Birmingham

William Boothby

Australian Labor Party

Lynn Arnold

George Strickland Kingston

David Tonkin

United Trades and Labor Council

Janine Haines

Ian Purcell

Governor George Gawler

Barbara Baird

AIDS Council of South Australia

Conservation Council of South Australia

Des Corcoran

King William IV

Edward Stirling

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Gough Whitlam

Peter Cosgrove

Susan Benny

John Olsen

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas John Napier

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Country Party

Steele Hall

Jay Weatherill

Henry John Ayers

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Hieu Van Le

Sir John Cox Bray

Muriel Matters

Women’s Electoral Lobby

League of Women Voters

Jessie Cooper

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Don Dunstan

George Waterhouse

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sex Industry Network

Greens Party

Sir William Morgan

Mary Gaudron

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