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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 Douglas Nicholls

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor John Hindmarsh

Liberal Party

Henry Strangways

John Baker

Sir John William Downer

Mary Lee

Anthony Albanese

Mike Rann

George Strickland Kingston

Susan Benny

Greens Party

Lynn Arnold

Don Dunstan

United Labor Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Queen Adelaide

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Thomas Reynolds

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Sir John Colton

Clyde Cameron

Steele Hall

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Eight Hours Day Committee

Ian Purcell

Thomas Playford II

Aborigines Progress Association

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Shirley Peisley

AIDS Council of South Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Penny Wong

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Jay Weatherill

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Country Party

Barbara Baird

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Bob Hawke

King William IV

John Olsen

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir James Boucaut

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Arthur Blyth

Julia Gillard

Rob Kerin

Sir Thomas Playford

Adam Goodes

Bill Shorten

Jessie Cooper

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Amanda Vanstone

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Augusta Zadow

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Peter Cosgrove

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

Catherine Helen Spence

National Trust of Australia

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

William Boothby

Robin Millhouse

Dean Brown

Women’s Liberation Movement

Charles Cameron Kingston

United Trades and Labor Council

Frank Walsh

Country Women’s Association

Thomas John Napier

Wendy Chapman

Edmund Barton

Des Corcoran

Mary Gaudron

Steven Marshall

Kelly Vincent

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

David Tonkin

John Verran

Sir William Morgan

Quentin Bryce

Lawrence Grayson

Simon Birmingham

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

John Bannon

Conservation Council of South Australia

Queen Elizabeth II

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas Price

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

League of Women Voters

John Hart

Joseph Fisher

Isobel Redmond

Eddie Mabo

Australian Labor Party

Sex Industry Network

Lock the Gate

Susan Kiefel

Muriel Matters

Dame Roma Mitchell

Malcolm Fraser

Women’s Suffrage League

Gough Whitlam

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joyce Steele

George Waterhouse

Charles Richmond Glover

Governor George Gawler

Sir Samuel Way

Benjamin Boothby

Henry John Ayers

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