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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.

Joyce Steele

Governor John Hindmarsh

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

Muriel Matters

City of Adelaide Corporation

Peter Cosgrove

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

John Baker

Thomas Playford II

Sex Industry Network

Janine Haines

Greens Party

John Bannon

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Gough Whitlam

Penny Wong

Jay Weatherill

John Verran

Charles Richmond Glover

Shirley Peisley

Anthony Albanese

Dean Brown

Susan Kiefel

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Adam Goodes

Jessie Cooper

Sir Thomas Playford

Des Corcoran

Amanda Vanstone

Clyde Cameron

League of Women Voters

Sir John William Downer

John Hart

Country Party

Barbara Baird

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Julia Gillard

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Price

William Boothby

Quentin Bryce

George Waterhouse

Sir John Colton

Henry Strangways

Steven Marshall

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Natasha Stott Despoja

Frank Walsh

Peter Malinauskas

Edmund Barton

Mary Gaudron

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Australian Democrats

Catherine Helen Spence

Eight Hours Day Committee

Kelly Vincent

Lock the Gate

United Labor Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Dame Roma Mitchell

AIDS Council of South Australia

Bill Shorten

Governor George Gawler

National Trust of Australia

Don Dunstan

United Trades and Labor Council

Queen Adelaide

Charles Cameron Kingston

Thomas John Napier

Rob Kerin

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Liberation Movement

Thomas Reynolds

Bob Hawke

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Malcolm Fraser

Lawrence Grayson

Ian Purcell

David Tonkin

Country Women’s Association

Isobel Redmond

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Henry John Ayers

Sir Samuel Way

Joseph Fisher

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Eddie Mabo

Lynn Arnold

King William IV

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Mark Oliphant

Steele Hall

Women’s Suffrage League

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Mike Rann

Francis Stacker Dutton

Australian Labor Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Susan Benny

Benjamin Boothby

Gladys Elphick

John Olsen

Sir Arthur Blyth

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Liberal Party

Robin Millhouse

Wendy Chapman

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Working Women’s Trade Union

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Edward Stirling

George Strickland Kingston

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