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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.

Simon Birmingham

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Thomas Playford

Adam Goodes

Benjamin Boothby

Jessie Cooper

Mary Lee

Natasha Stott Despoja

Charles Cameron Kingston

Greens Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Sex Industry Network

Malcolm Turnbull

Lawrence Grayson

Penny Wong

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Samuel Way

Dean Brown

Catherine Helen Spence

Steele Hall

Julia Gillard

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Charles Richmond Glover

William Boothby

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Working Women’s Trade Union

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Queen Adelaide

Governor George Gawler

Sir John Cox Bray

Augusta Zadow

City of Adelaide Corporation

National Trust of Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Country Women’s Association

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Muriel Matters

Robin Millhouse

Susan Benny

Anthony Albanese

Australian Democrats

Gladys Elphick

George Strickland Kingston

Liberal Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Price

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steven Marshall

Lynn Arnold

Mary Gaudron

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

Jay Weatherill

Des Corcoran

Don Dunstan

Joyce Steele

David Tonkin

Shirley Peisley

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Peter Cosgrove

Sir John Colton

Peter Malinauskas

John Baker

Susan Kiefel

Ian Purcell

Sir William Morgan

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

John Alexander Cockburn

John Olsen

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

Bill Shorten

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Quentin Bryce

Country Party

Conservation Council of South Australia

Mike Rann

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

United Labor Party

Janine Haines

Thomas John Napier

Women’s Suffrage League

John Bannon

Women’s Liberation Movement

Henry John Ayers

Clyde Cameron

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Dame Roma Mitchell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John William Downer

Edward Stirling

Frank Walsh

Isobel Redmond

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Governor John Hindmarsh

Kelly Vincent

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Verran

Malcolm Fraser

League of Women Voters

Eddie Mabo

George Waterhouse

Barbara Baird

Rob Kerin

Bob Hawke

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Thomas Reynolds

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lock the Gate

Joseph Fisher

United Trades and Labor Council

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Hart

Hieu Van Le

Wendy Chapman

Edmund Barton

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