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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.

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry John Ayers

Charles Cameron Kingston

Natasha Stott Despoja

Bob Hawke

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Colton

Janine Haines

Rob Kerin

Penny Wong

Thomas John Napier

Francis Stacker Dutton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Greens Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir Samuel Way

Hieu Van Le

Catherine Helen Spence

Benjamin Boothby

Lawrence Grayson

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mike Rann

Jay Weatherill

Clyde Cameron

Country Women’s Association

Eight Hours Day Committee

Sir John Cox Bray

Mary Gaudron

Boyle Travers Finniss

Australian Labor Party

David Tonkin

Governor George Gawler

Joseph Fisher

Sir John William Downer

Queen Adelaide

Frank Walsh

Country Party

Don Dunstan

United Trades and Labor Council

National Trust of Australia

John Hart

Steele Hall

Sir Arthur Blyth

Quentin Bryce

Bill Shorten

Lock the Gate

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

United Labor Party

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

League of Women Voters

Gough Whitlam

George Waterhouse

Ian Purcell

Augusta Zadow

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Malcolm Fraser

Edward Stirling

Sir James Boucaut

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Charles Richmond Glover

Muriel Matters

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Henry Strangways

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

John Baker

Liberal Party

John Verran

Kelly Vincent

King William IV

Susan Kiefel

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Jessie Cooper

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Price

Simon Birmingham

Mary Lee

Conservation Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Peter Malinauskas

Shirley Peisley

Edmund Barton

Sir Thomas Playford

Adam Goodes

Thomas Playford II

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dean Brown

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Gladys Elphick

AIDS Council of South Australia

Julia Gillard

Sir Mark Oliphant

Isobel Redmond

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Reynolds

John Alexander Cockburn

Anthony Albanese

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Australian Democrats

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Joyce Steele

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sex Industry Network

Susan Benny

John Bannon

Queen Elizabeth II

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

Barbara Baird

Malcolm Turnbull

Lynn Arnold

Steven Marshall

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Olsen

City of Adelaide Corporation

George Strickland Kingston

Wendy Chapman

Peter Cosgrove

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