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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

Edmund Barton

Gough Whitlam

Governor George Gawler

Edward Stirling

Greens Party

Henry Strangways

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir Arthur Blyth

Country Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

John Hart

Catherine Helen Spence

Country Women’s Association

National Trust of Australia

Augusta Zadow

John Verran

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Wendy Chapman

Penny Wong

John Bannon

Mary Gaudron

Thomas John Napier

Thomas Price

David Tonkin

United Labor Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Dame Roma Mitchell

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lowitja O’Donoghue

King William IV

Henry John Ayers

Don Dunstan

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir James Boucaut

Lynn Arnold

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Elizabeth II

United Trades and Labor Council

Julia Gillard

Eight Hours Day Committee

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Queen Adelaide

Charles Richmond Glover

Aborigines Progress Association

Robin Millhouse

Sir John Colton

Australian Labor Party

Gladys Elphick

Isobel Redmond

George Waterhouse

George Strickland Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Frank Walsh

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Shirley Peisley

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

John Olsen

Women’s Suffrage League

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dean Brown

Sir Thomas Playford

Governor John Hindmarsh

Jessie Cooper

Peter Malinauskas

Bill Shorten

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Mike Rann

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Peter Cosgrove

Muriel Matters

Hieu Van Le

Janine Haines

Susan Kiefel

Sir John William Downer

Simon Birmingham

Barbara Baird

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Liberal Party

Rob Kerin

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Francis Stacker Dutton

Australian Democrats

William Boothby

John Alexander Cockburn

Adam Goodes

Sex Industry Network

AIDS Council of South Australia

Steele Hall

Joyce Steele

John Baker

Anthony Albanese

Des Corcoran

Sir Mark Oliphant

Malcolm Fraser

City of Adelaide Corporation

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir William Morgan

Sir John Cox Bray

Steven Marshall

Thomas Playford II

Joseph Fisher

Benjamin Boothby

League of Women Voters

Lawrence Grayson

Quentin Bryce

Clyde Cameron

Kelly Vincent

Susan Benny

Sir Samuel Way

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Amanda Vanstone

Bob Hawke

Malcolm Turnbull

Jay Weatherill

Mary Lee

Lock the Gate

Ian Purcell

Sir Douglas Nicholls

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