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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.

Muriel Matters

Thomas Price

Bill Shorten

Clyde Cameron

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dean Brown

Joseph Fisher

Susan Benny

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Shirley Peisley

Working Women’s Trade Union

John Hart

Conservation Council of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Natasha Stott Despoja

Boyle Travers Finniss

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir William Morgan

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

Edmund Barton

Henry Strangways

Mike Rann

Thomas John Napier

Steele Hall

Penny Wong

Liberal Party

Bob Hawke

Wendy Chapman

Barbara Baird

Charles Cameron Kingston

David Tonkin

Susan Kiefel

Adam Goodes

Julia Gillard

Sir John William Downer

Anthony Albanese

Eight Hours Day Committee

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Thomas Playford

Joyce Steele

Peter Malinauskas

Malcolm Turnbull

Australian Labor Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Simon Birmingham

Robert Storrie Guthrie

George Waterhouse

League of Women Voters

John Baker

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Benjamin Boothby

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Jessie Cooper

Amanda Vanstone

Eddie Mabo

Steven Marshall

George Strickland Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Queen Elizabeth II

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir James Boucaut

Country Party

Lynn Arnold

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Lawrence Grayson

Ian Purcell

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir John Colton

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Des Corcoran

Robin Millhouse

Mary Lee

Isobel Redmond

Janine Haines

Augusta Zadow

John Verran

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

City of Adelaide Corporation

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Charles Richmond Glover

Australian Democrats

Peter Cosgrove

Gladys Elphick

Thomas Playford II

National Trust of Australia

Governor George Gawler

Kelly Vincent

Malcolm Fraser

Francis Stacker Dutton

United Labor Party

Henry John Ayers

Queen Adelaide

Sir Samuel Way

John Olsen

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Reynolds

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Rob Kerin

Hieu Van Le

John Alexander Cockburn

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Suffrage League

John Bannon

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

King William IV

Jay Weatherill

Sex Industry Network

Greens Party

Mary Gaudron

AIDS Council of South Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Aborigines Progress Association

Lock the Gate

Country Women’s Association

Dame Roma Mitchell

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