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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.

Frank Walsh

Bill Shorten

Governor John Hindmarsh

Governor Richard MacDonnell

William Boothby

Clyde Cameron

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Bob Hawke

Thomas John Napier

Steele Hall

Queen Elizabeth II

AIDS Council of South Australia

John Verran

Edmund Barton

Quentin Bryce

Natasha Stott Despoja

Eight Hours Day Committee

Catherine Helen Spence

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Bannon

Lynn Arnold

Women’s Suffrage League

Thomas Price

John Baker

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Anthony Albanese

Malcolm Turnbull

Mary Gaudron

Aborigines Progress Association

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Edward Stirling

Benjamin Boothby

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Queen Adelaide

Sir John William Downer

Robin Millhouse

Isobel Redmond

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Mary Lee

Lock the Gate

Sir John Colton

John Hart

Julia Gillard

Governor George Gawler

Janine Haines

Muriel Matters

Joseph Fisher

John Olsen

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Cosgrove

Lawrence Grayson

Charles Cameron Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

David Tonkin

League of Women Voters

Joyce Steele

Jessie Cooper

Country Party

Wendy Chapman

Susan Benny

Jay Weatherill

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Alexander Cockburn

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mike Rann

United Trades and Labor Council

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dame Roma Mitchell

Hieu Van Le

City of Adelaide Corporation

Rob Kerin

Greens Party

Henry Strangways

Augusta Zadow

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Gough Whitlam

Don Dunstan

Gladys Elphick

Dean Brown

United Labor Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Henry John Ayers

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

National Trust of Australia

Australian Democrats

Sir Arthur Blyth

Des Corcoran

Barbara Baird

Boyle Travers Finniss

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Samuel Way

Steven Marshall

Amanda Vanstone

Liberal Party

Simon Birmingham

Penny Wong

Susan Kiefel

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Mark Oliphant

Peter Malinauskas

Country Women’s Association

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Kelly Vincent

Australian Labor Party

Sir John Cox Bray

George Waterhouse

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Thomas Playford

King William IV

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Reynolds

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