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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.

Sir William Morgan

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Rob Kerin

Peter Malinauskas

Amanda Vanstone

Governor George Gawler

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Boyle Travers Finniss

Jessie Cooper

Janine Haines

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Greens Party

Hieu Van Le

Shirley Peisley

National Trust of Australia

Simon Birmingham

Des Corcoran

Susan Kiefel

Edmund Barton

Jay Weatherill

John Verran

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Eight Hours Day Committee

King William IV

Robin Millhouse

Benjamin Boothby

Don Dunstan

Frank Walsh

John Bannon

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Lawrence Grayson

Steven Marshall

Australian Democrats

Queen Elizabeth II

Peter Cosgrove

Charles Richmond Glover

Malcolm Fraser

George Waterhouse

Kelly Vincent

Augusta Zadow

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Julia Gillard

Quentin Bryce

Malcolm Turnbull

Working Women’s Trade Union

AIDS Council of South Australia

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Dame Roma Mitchell

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Francis Stacker Dutton

Women’s Liberation Movement

Henry Strangways

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir James Boucaut

Clyde Cameron

Lynn Arnold

Mary Lee

City of Adelaide Corporation

George Strickland Kingston

Joseph Fisher

Mike Rann

John Alexander Cockburn

Mary Gaudron

Country Party

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lock the Gate

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bob Hawke

Women’s Suffrage League

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

United Trades and Labor Council

Steele Hall

Natasha Stott Despoja

Bill Shorten

Thomas Price

Eddie Mabo

John Hart

Muriel Matters

Gough Whitlam

Gladys Elphick

Adam Goodes

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Ian Purcell

David Tonkin

William Boothby

Conservation Council of South Australia

Wendy Chapman

Charles Cameron Kingston

Queen Adelaide

Henry John Ayers

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Reynolds

Anthony Albanese

League of Women Voters

Sir Samuel Way

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Sex Industry Network

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Edward Stirling

Sir Thomas Playford

Barbara Baird

Dean Brown

Susan Benny

Liberal Party

Australian Labor Party

Isobel Redmond

Sir John Colton

John Olsen

Joyce Steele

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Thomas John Napier

Penny Wong

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John William Downer

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Catherine Helen Spence

United Labor Party

Thomas Playford II

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