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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.

John Hart

John Verran

Don Dunstan

Sir Arthur Blyth

United Labor Party

John Olsen

Catherine Helen Spence

John Baker

Mary Lee

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Natasha Stott Despoja

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Barbara Baird

Charles Richmond Glover

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Price

Queen Elizabeth II

Rob Kerin

Henry John Ayers

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Shirley Peisley

Aborigines Progress Association

Jessie Cooper

David Tonkin

Sir Samuel Way

Dean Brown

Peter Malinauskas

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Susan Kiefel

Governor George Gawler

Lynn Arnold

League of Women Voters

Women’s Liberation Movement

Hieu Van Le

Bill Shorten

Mike Rann

Jay Weatherill

John Bannon

Lawrence Grayson

Muriel Matters

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir William Morgan

Country Women’s Association

Australian Labor Party

Ian Purcell

William Boothby

Australian Democrats

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Sex Industry Network

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Eight Hours Day Committee

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Gladys Elphick

Sir John Colton

George Strickland Kingston

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Alexander Cockburn

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

City of Adelaide Corporation

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir John William Downer

Amanda Vanstone

Simon Birmingham

National Trust of Australia

Edward Stirling

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas John Napier

Henry Strangways

Janine Haines

Frank Walsh

Mary Gaudron

Kelly Vincent

Malcolm Turnbull

Dame Roma Mitchell

Eddie Mabo

Steven Marshall

George Waterhouse

Thomas Playford II

Peter Cosgrove

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Mark Oliphant

Des Corcoran

Penny Wong

Edmund Barton

Julia Gillard

Quentin Bryce

Malcolm Fraser

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Robin Millhouse

Queen Adelaide

Adam Goodes

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Augusta Zadow

Wendy Chapman

Benjamin Boothby

Greens Party

Lock the Gate

King William IV

Thomas Reynolds

Country Party

Joyce Steele

Bob Hawke

Isobel Redmond

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Boyle Travers Finniss

Joseph Fisher

Sir James Boucaut

Working Women’s Trade Union

Liberal Party

Susan Benny

Francis Stacker Dutton

Steele Hall

Women’s Suffrage League

Anthony Albanese

Clyde Cameron

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

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