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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.

Edward Stirling

Anthony Albanese

Susan Benny

David Tonkin

Jay Weatherill

Gladys Elphick

Sir John William Downer

Australian Labor Party

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Liberation Movement

Peter Cosgrove

Queen Elizabeth II

Susan Kiefel

Sir Thomas Playford

Edmund Barton

John Bannon

Lock the Gate

Mary Lee

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

Women’s Suffrage League

John Baker

Francis Stacker Dutton

Boyle Travers Finniss

Malcolm Turnbull

Bob Hawke

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Quentin Bryce

Simon Birmingham

John Hart

Thomas Price

Joyce Steele

City of Adelaide Corporation

Wendy Chapman

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir Samuel Way

Kelly Vincent

Jessie Cooper

Muriel Matters

Queen Adelaide

Charles Cameron Kingston

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Mark Oliphant

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

United Trades and Labor Council

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steven Marshall

Liberal Party

National Trust of Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

King William IV

Eight Hours Day Committee

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Julia Gillard

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir John Colton

Sex Industry Network

Don Dunstan

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas Playford II

Mary Gaudron

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Robin Millhouse

John Olsen

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Charles Richmond Glover

Augusta Zadow

John Verran

Lawrence Grayson

Henry John Ayers

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dame Roma Mitchell

Des Corcoran

Bill Shorten

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Governor John Hindmarsh

Working Women’s Trade Union

Janine Haines

Mike Rann

AIDS Council of South Australia

Joseph Fisher

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Rob Kerin

Malcolm Fraser

Thomas Reynolds

George Waterhouse

Conservation Council of South Australia

League of Women Voters

Hieu Van Le

Barbara Baird

Isobel Redmond

Thomas John Napier

Greens Party

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Dean Brown

Adam Goodes

Amanda Vanstone

Shirley Peisley

Steele Hall

United Labor Party

Country Women’s Association

Governor George Gawler

Henry Strangways

Clyde Cameron

Sir William Morgan

William Boothby

Australian Democrats

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Country Party

Eddie Mabo

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Frank Walsh

Sir James Boucaut

Sir John Cox Bray

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lynn Arnold

Gough Whitlam

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

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