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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.

Aborigines Progress Association

Bob Hawke

David Tonkin

Sir John William Downer

Malcolm Fraser

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Amanda Vanstone

Des Corcoran

Clyde Cameron

Benjamin Boothby

Sir John Cox Bray

Quentin Bryce

Sir John Colton

King William IV

Gladys Elphick

Mary Gaudron

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Ian Purcell

Working Women’s Trade Union

Boyle Travers Finniss

United Labor Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Arthur Blyth

Bill Shorten

Wendy Chapman

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Francis Stacker Dutton

Mike Rann

Peter Cosgrove

AIDS Council of South Australia

Susan Kiefel

Malcolm Turnbull

Thomas Reynolds

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas John Napier

Thomas Price

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Playford II

Janine Haines

Susan Benny

Queen Elizabeth II

Liberal Party

Country Women’s Association

Adam Goodes

Sex Industry Network

Steele Hall

Charles Cameron Kingston

Rob Kerin

George Waterhouse

Sir James Boucaut

Muriel Matters

Country Party

Lynn Arnold

Peter Malinauskas

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Eight Hours Day Committee

Dean Brown

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir William Morgan

Hieu Van Le

Joseph Fisher

Mary Lee

Shirley Peisley

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Eddie Mabo

Greens Party

Australian Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Edmund Barton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Lawrence Grayson

Australian Democrats

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Alexander Cockburn

John Baker

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Verran

Henry Strangways

John Bannon

Charles Richmond Glover

George Strickland Kingston

Robert Storrie Guthrie

John Olsen

Steven Marshall

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Samuel Way

Gough Whitlam

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Edward Stirling

Catherine Helen Spence

Frank Walsh

National Trust of Australia

Penny Wong

Queen Adelaide

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

United Trades and Labor Council

John Hart

Julia Gillard

Jessie Cooper

Joyce Steele

Natasha Stott Despoja

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Barbara Baird

Anthony Albanese

Kelly Vincent

City of Adelaide Corporation

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Conservation Council of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Henry John Ayers

Governor John Hindmarsh

William Boothby

Robin Millhouse

Sir Thomas Playford

League of Women Voters

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Isobel Redmond

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Simon Birmingham

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Augusta Zadow

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