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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.

Australian Labor Party

Lynn Arnold

Lock the Gate

Dame Roma Mitchell

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir Arthur Blyth

Peter Cosgrove

Eight Hours Day Committee

Charles Cameron Kingston

Steven Marshall

Liberal Party

Mary Gaudron

City of Adelaide Corporation

Benjamin Boothby

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Wendy Chapman

Henry Strangways

Quentin Bryce

George Strickland Kingston

Women’s Liberation Movement

Charles Richmond Glover

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Gough Whitlam

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Malcolm Turnbull

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Boyle Travers Finniss

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Henry John Ayers

George Waterhouse

Australian Democrats

Joyce Steele

Governor John Hindmarsh

Dean Brown

Jessie Cooper

Thomas John Napier

Sir Samuel Way

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Catherine Helen Spence

John Hart

Kelly Vincent

Steele Hall

Don Dunstan

Jay Weatherill

Gladys Elphick

Queen Elizabeth II

Bill Shorten

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Thomas Playford

Ian Purcell

Thomas Price

AIDS Council of South Australia

United Trades and Labor Council

Edward Stirling

John Alexander Cockburn

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Country Women’s Association

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Hieu Van Le

Sir John William Downer

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Adam Goodes

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Natasha Stott Despoja

Julia Gillard

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Joseph Fisher

King William IV

Rob Kerin

Shirley Peisley

Governor George Gawler

Women’s Electoral Lobby

National Trust of Australia

Sir James Boucaut

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir William Morgan

League of Women Voters

Augusta Zadow

Frank Walsh

Sex Industry Network

Eddie Mabo

Amanda Vanstone

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Mark Oliphant

Simon Birmingham

John Baker

John Verran

Anthony Albanese

David Tonkin

Thomas Reynolds

Susan Kiefel

United Labor Party

Country Party

Sir John Colton

Muriel Matters

William Boothby

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas Playford II

Bob Hawke

Clyde Cameron

Aborigines Progress Association

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

John Olsen

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Robin Millhouse

Queen Adelaide

Sir John Cox Bray

Greens Party

Women’s Suffrage League

Edmund Barton

Peter Malinauskas

Lawrence Grayson

John Bannon

Susan Benny

Des Corcoran

Mary Lee

Malcolm Fraser

Isobel Redmond

Barbara Baird

Janine Haines

Penny Wong

Mike Rann

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