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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.

Natasha Stott Despoja

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

John Olsen

Quentin Bryce

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mary Gaudron

Bill Shorten

Rob Kerin

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Henry Strangways

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir William Morgan

Clyde Cameron

Greens Party

John Bannon

United Trades and Labor Council

Susan Benny

Edmund Barton

Eddie Mabo

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Arthur Blyth

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

John Hart

Wendy Chapman

Don Dunstan

Susan Kiefel

Charles Richmond Glover

Jessie Cooper

John Verran

George Waterhouse

Gough Whitlam

Jay Weatherill

Queen Adelaide

Australian Democrats

Sir Mark Oliphant

Robert Storrie Guthrie

United Labor Party

Sir Samuel Way

Governor Richard MacDonnell

City of Adelaide Corporation

Adam Goodes

Australian Labor Party

Catherine Helen Spence

Julia Gillard

Muriel Matters

Mary Lee

Thomas Price

Lawrence Grayson

Working Women’s Trade Union

Shirley Peisley

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steven Marshall

Aborigines Progress Association

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

David Tonkin

Sir James Boucaut

Malcolm Fraser

King William IV

Lynn Arnold

Conservation Council of South Australia

Liberal Party

Dean Brown

AIDS Council of South Australia

Bob Hawke

Sir John Cox Bray

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Baker

Kelly Vincent

Sir John Colton

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Simon Birmingham

Des Corcoran

League of Women Voters

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Jane Lomax-Smith

Hieu Van Le

John Alexander Cockburn

National Trust of Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Gladys Elphick

Country Women’s Association

Henry John Ayers

George Strickland Kingston

Barbara Baird

Lock the Gate

Penny Wong

Mike Rann

William Boothby

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Liberation Movement

Anthony Albanese

Thomas Reynolds

Steele Hall

Thomas John Napier

Janine Haines

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Turnbull

Amanda Vanstone

Joseph Fisher

Joyce Steele

Sir Thomas Playford

Robin Millhouse

Sir John William Downer

Isobel Redmond

Ian Purcell

Eight Hours Day Committee

Boyle Travers Finniss

Peter Malinauskas

Country Party

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Edward Stirling

Women’s Suffrage League

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sex Industry Network

Governor George Gawler

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