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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.

Peter Cosgrove

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Penny Wong

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Rob Kerin

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor George Gawler

John Verran

John Baker

Thomas Price

Catherine Helen Spence

Ian Purcell

Jay Weatherill

King William IV

Sir Mark Oliphant

Eight Hours Day Committee

Clyde Cameron

Joyce Steele

Adam Goodes

Australian Democrats

Edward Stirling

George Waterhouse

United Labor Party

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lock the Gate

Sir John Colton

Malcolm Turnbull

Aborigines Progress Association

Sir John William Downer

Peter Malinauskas

Thomas John Napier

Mike Rann

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Liberal Party

John Alexander Cockburn

Women’s Suffrage League

Sex Industry Network

Boyle Travers Finniss

Janine Haines

Steven Marshall

Thomas Reynolds

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steele Hall

Queen Adelaide

Francis Stacker Dutton

Bill Shorten

Henry Strangways

Malcolm Fraser

John Olsen

Simon Birmingham

Barbara Baird

Julia Gillard

Sir Samuel Way

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

George Strickland Kingston

Robin Millhouse

Governor John Hindmarsh

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Joseph Fisher

Susan Kiefel

Wendy Chapman

Country Women’s Association

Eddie Mabo

David Tonkin

Conservation Council of South Australia

Mary Lee

Sir John Cox Bray

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Playford II

Greens Party

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Isobel Redmond

Working Women’s Trade Union

Henry John Ayers

John Hart

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir James Boucaut

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Lawrence Grayson

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

United Trades and Labor Council

Gladys Elphick

Jessie Cooper

Dame Roma Mitchell

Women’s Liberation Movement

Charles Richmond Glover

Gough Whitlam

Augusta Zadow

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Anthony Albanese

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Labor Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Country Party

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Frank Walsh

National Trust of Australia

Edmund Barton

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Arthur Blyth

William Boothby

Sir William Morgan

Susan Benny

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Kelly Vincent

Des Corcoran

Don Dunstan

Lynn Arnold

Dean Brown

John Bannon

Hieu Van Le

Shirley Peisley

Muriel Matters

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Mary Gaudron

Bob Hawke

League of Women Voters

Sir Thomas Playford

Quentin Bryce

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