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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.

Penny Wong

John Olsen

Conservation Council of South Australia

Des Corcoran

Robin Millhouse

Dame Roma Mitchell

Mary Lee

Joseph Fisher

Gough Whitlam

Shirley Peisley

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Edward Stirling

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Thomas Reynolds

Sir John William Downer

John Hart

Bill Shorten

Peter Cosgrove

Mike Rann

AIDS Council of South Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

Frank Walsh

Catherine Helen Spence

Sir James Boucaut

John Alexander Cockburn

Aborigines Progress Association

King William IV

William Boothby

Thomas Playford II

Malcolm Turnbull

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Steven Marshall

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Price

Women’s Liberation Movement

Dean Brown

Benjamin Boothby

Peter Malinauskas

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Samuel Way

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steele Hall

Amanda Vanstone

Isobel Redmond

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Australian Democrats

Queen Adelaide

George Strickland Kingston

Ian Purcell

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Henry Strangways

Anthony Albanese

Queen Elizabeth II

Lynn Arnold

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Quentin Bryce

Augusta Zadow

Joyce Steele

Lawrence Grayson

Women’s Suffrage League

Clyde Cameron

Gladys Elphick

Governor George Gawler

John Bannon

Governor John Hindmarsh

Henry John Ayers

Charles Richmond Glover

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Thomas Playford

John Baker

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lock the Gate

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Kelly Vincent

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas John Napier

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

David Tonkin

John Verran

Sir John Colton

Susan Benny

George Waterhouse

United Labor Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Wendy Chapman

Sex Industry Network

League of Women Voters

Liberal Party

United Trades and Labor Council

Eddie Mabo

Boyle Travers Finniss

Working Women’s Trade Union

Julia Gillard

Eight Hours Day Committee

Hieu Van Le

Muriel Matters

Country Party

Sir William Morgan

Susan Kiefel

City of Adelaide Corporation

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Arthur Blyth

Mary Gaudron

Rob Kerin

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Don Dunstan

Francis Stacker Dutton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir John Cox Bray

Janine Haines

Bob Hawke

Edmund Barton

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Greens Party

Jessie Cooper

Jay Weatherill

Barbara Baird

Australian Labor Party

Simon Birmingham

Country Women’s Association

Adam Goodes

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