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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.

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Ian Purcell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Lynn Arnold

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Suffrage League

John Bannon

Anthony Albanese

Liberal Party

Boyle Travers Finniss

Country Women’s Association

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Kelly Vincent

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Benny

Adam Goodes

Eight Hours Day Committee

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir John William Downer

Thomas John Napier

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Hieu Van Le

Muriel Matters

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Price

United Trades and Labor Council

Peter Malinauskas

Peter Cosgrove

Gladys Elphick

Lock the Gate

Edmund Barton

Julia Gillard

Penny Wong

AIDS Council of South Australia

Mike Rann

John Baker

Sir John Cox Bray

Steele Hall

Des Corcoran

Catherine Helen Spence

United Labor Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

George Waterhouse

King William IV

Working Women’s Trade Union

Conservation Council of South Australia

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Sir Samuel Way

Governor George Gawler

John Alexander Cockburn

Gough Whitlam

George Strickland Kingston

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Mary Lee

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Malcolm Turnbull

Jessie Cooper

National Trust of Australia

Clyde Cameron

Charles Cameron Kingston

Malcolm Fraser

League of Women Voters

Country Party

Queen Adelaide

Bob Hawke

Sir James Boucaut

Sir Arthur Blyth

Jay Weatherill

Governor John Hindmarsh

Charles Richmond Glover

Amanda Vanstone

Wendy Chapman

Isobel Redmond

Joseph Fisher

Joyce Steele

Australian Labor Party

Dean Brown

City of Adelaide Corporation

Queen Elizabeth II

Edward Stirling

Susan Kiefel

Lowitja O’Donoghue

John Hart

David Tonkin

Quentin Bryce

Bill Shorten

Francis Stacker Dutton

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Don Dunstan

Henry John Ayers

Henry Strangways

Aborigines Progress Association

Steven Marshall

Simon Birmingham

Australian Democrats

Frank Walsh

Sir William Morgan

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Benjamin Boothby

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John Colton

Shirley Peisley

John Olsen

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Robin Millhouse

Thomas Playford II

Barbara Baird

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Mark Oliphant

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Janine Haines

Natasha Stott Despoja

William Boothby

Mary Gaudron

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Thomas Reynolds

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Verran

Greens Party

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sex Industry Network

Rob Kerin

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