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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.

Gough Whitlam

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joseph Fisher

Des Corcoran

Sir John Colton

Isobel Redmond

John Verran

Bob Hawke

Mary Lee

League of Women Voters

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Janine Haines

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Queen Adelaide

Jay Weatherill

John Baker

John Alexander Cockburn

Boyle Travers Finniss

George Strickland Kingston

Jessie Cooper

Barbara Baird

Malcolm Turnbull

Eddie Mabo

Rob Kerin

Lock the Gate

Natasha Stott Despoja

Benjamin Boothby

Australian Democrats

Greens Party

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Mary Gaudron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Susan Kiefel

Peter Cosgrove

John Hart

National Trust of Australia

Steele Hall

Henry John Ayers

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Olsen

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Australian Labor Party

Joyce Steele

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lynn Arnold

Country Party

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir William Morgan

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

AIDS Council of South Australia

Hieu Van Le

George Waterhouse

Thomas John Napier

Peter Malinauskas

John Bannon

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Catherine Helen Spence

William Boothby

Francis Stacker Dutton

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir James Boucaut

Gladys Elphick

Anthony Albanese

Shirley Peisley

Penny Wong

Sir Samuel Way

Charles Richmond Glover

David Tonkin

Robin Millhouse

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Thomas Price

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Thomas Playford

Queen Elizabeth II

Sex Industry Network

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Simon Birmingham

Malcolm Fraser

Steven Marshall

Augusta Zadow

Conservation Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Muriel Matters

Governor George Gawler

United Trades and Labor Council

Thomas Reynolds

Susan Benny

Bill Shorten

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

United Labor Party

Ian Purcell

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Edward Stirling

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

Wendy Chapman

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

King William IV

Country Women’s Association

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir John Cox Bray

Dean Brown

Sir Arthur Blyth

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry Strangways

Mike Rann

Quentin Bryce

City of Adelaide Corporation

Clyde Cameron

Working Women’s Trade Union

Julia Gillard

Governor Richard MacDonnell

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