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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.

David Tonkin

Quentin Bryce

Adam Goodes

Sex Industry Network

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Joseph Fisher

Thomas Price

Gough Whitlam

Sir Mark Oliphant

Jessie Cooper

Lock the Gate

Mary Lee

Eight Hours Day Committee

Rob Kerin

National Trust of Australia

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Dean Brown

George Strickland Kingston

Boyle Travers Finniss

Julia Gillard

Eddie Mabo

Thomas John Napier

John Hart

John Bannon

John Baker

Sir William Morgan

Bill Shorten

Queen Elizabeth II

Country Women’s Association

Susan Benny

Governor John Hindmarsh

Catherine Helen Spence

King William IV

Kelly Vincent

Isobel Redmond

Shirley Peisley

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Verran

Anthony Albanese

George Waterhouse

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Robin Millhouse

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Country Party

Steven Marshall

Working Women’s Trade Union

Susan Kiefel

Aborigines Progress Association

Queen Adelaide

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lawrence Grayson

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir John Colton

Natasha Stott Despoja

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Steele Hall

Jay Weatherill

Gladys Elphick

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Janine Haines

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Peter Malinauskas

John Olsen

Amanda Vanstone

Clyde Cameron

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Thomas Playford

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Australian Labor Party

Barbara Baird

William Boothby

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Henry John Ayers

Benjamin Boothby

Liberal Party

Penny Wong

Charles Richmond Glover

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John William Downer

Sir Samuel Way

Edward Stirling

Sir James Boucaut

Joyce Steele

Thomas Playford II

Henry Strangways

Des Corcoran

Muriel Matters

Edmund Barton

Dame Roma Mitchell

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Thomas Reynolds

Malcolm Fraser

Lynn Arnold

Malcolm Turnbull

Ian Purcell

Australian Democrats

Mike Rann

Frank Walsh

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mary Gaudron

Augusta Zadow

Peter Cosgrove

John Alexander Cockburn

League of Women Voters

Sir John Cox Bray

Wendy Chapman

United Labor Party

Governor George Gawler

Don Dunstan

City of Adelaide Corporation

Bob Hawke

Simon Birmingham

Conservation Council of South Australia

Hieu Van Le

Women’s Liberation Movement

Francis Stacker Dutton

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

United Trades and Labor Council

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