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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 James Boucaut

Jessie Cooper

Lawrence Grayson

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Country Women’s Association

Sir Thomas Playford

Peter Cosgrove

Quentin Bryce

Greens Party

Amanda Vanstone

Frank Walsh

Peter Malinauskas

Sir John Colton

Mike Rann

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Barbara Baird

David Tonkin

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Henry John Ayers

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Queen Elizabeth II

Eddie Mabo

Sir Samuel Way

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Henry Strangways

National Trust of Australia

Mary Lee

Australian Democrats

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steven Marshall

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Shirley Peisley

Rob Kerin

Bill Shorten

AIDS Council of South Australia

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

George Strickland Kingston

George Waterhouse

Australian Labor Party

Malcolm Fraser

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Olsen

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Penny Wong

John Verran

William Boothby

John Alexander Cockburn

City of Adelaide Corporation

Mary Gaudron

Don Dunstan

Sex Industry Network

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Queen Adelaide

Lock the Gate

Liberal Party

Women’s Suffrage League

United Trades and Labor Council

Sir John William Downer

King William IV

Women’s Liberation Movement

Muriel Matters

Sir John Cox Bray

Thomas Playford II

Steele Hall

Joyce Steele

Augusta Zadow

Sir Mark Oliphant

Janine Haines

Lynn Arnold

Country Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Hieu Van Le

Francis Stacker Dutton

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Benny

Sir Arthur Blyth

Edward Stirling

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Ian Purcell

Robin Millhouse

Dame Roma Mitchell

Clyde Cameron

Catherine Helen Spence

Aborigines Progress Association

Thomas Reynolds

Charles Cameron Kingston

Gladys Elphick

Susan Kiefel

Julia Gillard

United Labor Party

Edmund Barton

Working Women’s Trade Union

Adam Goodes

Governor John Hindmarsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

League of Women Voters

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas Price

Eight Hours Day Committee

Simon Birmingham

Charles Richmond Glover

Isobel Redmond

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

John Baker

Des Corcoran

Jay Weatherill

Governor George Gawler

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Wendy Chapman

Benjamin Boothby

Joseph Fisher

John Bannon

Anthony Albanese

Dean Brown

John Hart

Malcolm Turnbull

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Kelly Vincent

Thomas John Napier

Sir William Morgan

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