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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.

Gough Whitlam

Eight Hours Day Committee

John Alexander Cockburn

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Thomas Playford

Hieu Van Le

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Clyde Cameron

Don Dunstan

Wendy Chapman

Isobel Redmond

Charles Cameron Kingston

Steele Hall

Malcolm Fraser

Australian Labor Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Janine Haines

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

Country Women’s Association

David Tonkin

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

George Strickland Kingston

Sir John Cox Bray

Bob Hawke

Des Corcoran

Natasha Stott Despoja

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Liberal Party

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Mary Lee

Sir James Boucaut

Ian Purcell

Country Party

Augusta Zadow

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Samuel Way

Edmund Barton

John Verran

Shirley Peisley

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Simon Birmingham

Amanda Vanstone

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Quentin Bryce

Sir John William Downer

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Jay Weatherill

Malcolm Turnbull

Susan Kiefel

Muriel Matters

Rob Kerin

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Hart

Greens Party

National Trust of Australia

Thomas Playford II

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Steven Marshall

Penny Wong

Adam Goodes

Jessie Cooper

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John Colton

Lock the Gate

Governor George Gawler

Thomas Reynolds

John Baker

Governor John Hindmarsh

Catherine Helen Spence

Joyce Steele

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

Barbara Baird

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Dean Brown

William Boothby

Robin Millhouse

George Waterhouse

Henry John Ayers

John Olsen

Anthony Albanese

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Bannon

United Labor Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Women’s Suffrage League

Conservation Council of South Australia

Robert Storrie Guthrie

League of Women Voters

Queen Elizabeth II

Bill Shorten

Eddie Mabo

Thomas John Napier

Mary Gaudron

Frank Walsh

Julia Gillard

Charles Richmond Glover

King William IV

Henry Strangways

Kelly Vincent

Mike Rann

Working Women’s Trade Union

Thomas Price

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Benny

Joseph Fisher

Queen Adelaide

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Aborigines Progress Association

Benjamin Boothby

Gladys Elphick

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