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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.

Dean Brown

Australian Democrats

Sex Industry Network

United Trades and Labor Council

Quentin Bryce

Lawrence Grayson

William Boothby

Women’s Liberation Movement

Wendy Chapman

Anthony Albanese

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Conservation Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Clyde Cameron

Penny Wong

Sir Samuel Way

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Thomas Playford

Julia Gillard

Bill Shorten

Joseph Fisher

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Malcolm Turnbull

Charles Cameron Kingston

Simon Birmingham

Country Women’s Association

Thomas Reynolds

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John Colton

Shirley Peisley

Lock the Gate

Don Dunstan

Kelly Vincent

Henry Strangways

Sir John Cox Bray

Robin Millhouse

Benjamin Boothby

National Trust of Australia

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adam Goodes

Malcolm Fraser

Sir John William Downer

Janine Haines

John Verran

Charles Richmond Glover

Amanda Vanstone

Sir Mark Oliphant

Jay Weatherill

John Alexander Cockburn

Henry John Ayers

Queen Elizabeth II

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Sir William Morgan

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Hart

Des Corcoran

Liberal Party

Thomas Playford II

Peter Malinauskas

Barbara Baird

Eight Hours Day Committee

Rob Kerin

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Electoral Lobby

John Olsen

Aborigines Progress Association

Jessie Cooper

Australian Labor Party

John Baker

Gladys Elphick

Thomas Price

Natasha Stott Despoja

Women’s Suffrage League

City of Adelaide Corporation

Frank Walsh

Steven Marshall

Peter Cosgrove

Thomas John Napier

Eddie Mabo

Country Party

Muriel Matters

Mary Lee

League of Women Voters

Edmund Barton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Edward Stirling

John Bannon

United Labor Party

Augusta Zadow

Working Women’s Trade Union

Hieu Van Le

George Waterhouse

George Strickland Kingston

Sir Arthur Blyth

David Tonkin

Lynn Arnold

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

AIDS Council of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

King William IV

Isobel Redmond

Gough Whitlam

Joyce Steele

Queen Adelaide

Francis Stacker Dutton

Catherine Helen Spence

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Ian Purcell

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Steele Hall

Mike Rann

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Greens Party

Governor George Gawler

Susan Benny

Susan Kiefel

Governor John Hindmarsh

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dame Roma Mitchell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Mary Gaudron

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