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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.

Steven Marshall

Isobel Redmond

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Liberation Movement

Conservation Council of South Australia

Joyce Steele

Quentin Bryce

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Frank Walsh

William Boothby

Sex Industry Network

Julia Gillard

John Bannon

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Alexander Cockburn

Charles Cameron Kingston

Henry John Ayers

Steele Hall

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Gladys Elphick

Mary Lee

Queen Adelaide

Sir Samuel Way

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Clyde Cameron

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Janine Haines

Thomas Price

Catherine Helen Spence

Greens Party

Natasha Stott Despoja

Rob Kerin

Peter Malinauskas

National Trust of Australia

Dean Brown

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Malcolm Turnbull

Gough Whitlam

Sir John William Downer

Joseph Fisher

Kelly Vincent

King William IV

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Shirley Peisley

Sir Thomas Playford

Malcolm Fraser

Edmund Barton

Henry Strangways

Sir John Colton

Queen Elizabeth II

Governor George Gawler

Dame Roma Mitchell

John Verran

David Tonkin

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Susan Benny

Lock the Gate

Mike Rann

Governor John Hindmarsh

Peter Cosgrove

Eddie Mabo

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Edward Stirling

Boyle Travers Finniss

United Labor Party

John Baker

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Suffrage League

Bill Shorten

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Olsen

Francis Stacker Dutton

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Don Dunstan

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Lowitja O’Donoghue

George Strickland Kingston

Jay Weatherill

City of Adelaide Corporation

Australian Democrats

Muriel Matters

Adam Goodes

Anthony Albanese

Country Party

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lynn Arnold

John Hart

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eight Hours Day Committee

Barbara Baird

Country Women’s Association

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas John Napier

Augusta Zadow

Lawrence Grayson

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Ian Purcell

League of Women Voters

Simon Birmingham

Wendy Chapman

Sir William Morgan

Hieu Van Le

Sir Arthur Blyth

Des Corcoran

Sir James Boucaut

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Playford II

Amanda Vanstone

Jessie Cooper

AIDS Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Charles Richmond Glover

George Waterhouse

Thomas Reynolds

Penny Wong

Bob Hawke

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