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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.

Greens Party

Sir Mark Oliphant

Joseph Fisher

Lock the Gate

Malcolm Turnbull

Amanda Vanstone

Ian Purcell

Barbara Baird

Eight Hours Day Committee

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

United Trades and Labor Council

Shirley Peisley

City of Adelaide Corporation

Muriel Matters

Susan Benny

Gough Whitlam

Gladys Elphick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir John Colton

Lynn Arnold

Thomas John Napier

National Trust of Australia

Clyde Cameron

Penny Wong

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Francis Stacker Dutton

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Verran

Sir Samuel Way

League of Women Voters

Governor John Hindmarsh

Hieu Van Le

Catherine Helen Spence

Edward Stirling

Steven Marshall

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Australian Democrats

Anthony Albanese

Country Women’s Association

Sir John Cox Bray

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Hart

Quentin Bryce

Simon Birmingham

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Charles Richmond Glover

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Charles Cameron Kingston

Women’s Liberation Movement

William Boothby

King William IV

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Steele Hall

Boyle Travers Finniss

United Labor Party

John Alexander Cockburn

George Strickland Kingston

Eddie Mabo

Thomas Playford II

Queen Elizabeth II

Mary Lee

Country Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Bannon

Frank Walsh

Kelly Vincent

Natasha Stott Despoja

Henry Strangways

Edmund Barton

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Jessie Cooper

Henry John Ayers

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Liberal Party

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas Reynolds

Malcolm Fraser

Peter Malinauskas

John Baker

Augusta Zadow

Julia Gillard

Mary Gaudron

Susan Kiefel

Robin Millhouse

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

John Olsen

Working Women’s Trade Union

Janine Haines

Isobel Redmond

Adam Goodes

Conservation Council of South Australia

Governor Richard MacDonnell

George Waterhouse

Sir John William Downer

Mike Rann

Don Dunstan

Wendy Chapman

Des Corcoran

Australian Labor Party

Dean Brown

Queen Adelaide

Sir Thomas Playford

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Joyce Steele

Bill Shorten

Bob Hawke

Rob Kerin

David Tonkin

Sir James Boucaut

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir William Morgan

Governor George Gawler

Jay Weatherill

Sir Douglas Nicholls

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Women’s Suffrage League

Benjamin Boothby

Thomas Price

Sex Industry Network

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