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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.

Barbara Baird

Eddie Mabo

Henry John Ayers

Mary Lee

Jay Weatherill

Sir Samuel Way

Isobel Redmond

Jessie Cooper

Sir Mark Oliphant

Susan Benny

Queen Adelaide

John Hart

Henry Strangways

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Susan Kiefel

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Working Women’s Trade Union

AIDS Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Sex Industry Network

Conservation Council of South Australia

Mary Gaudron

Women’s Liberation Movement

Ian Purcell

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Lynn Arnold

Don Dunstan

United Labor Party

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir James Boucaut

John Olsen

League of Women Voters

Sir Thomas Playford

Malcolm Turnbull

Des Corcoran

Aborigines Progress Association

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Country Women’s Association

Gladys Elphick

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Liberal Party

Steven Marshall

Australian Democrats

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

King William IV

George Waterhouse

Muriel Matters

Malcolm Fraser

Edmund Barton

Governor George Gawler

Charles Cameron Kingston

William Boothby

Benjamin Boothby

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Verran

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Kelly Vincent

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Governor John Hindmarsh

Wendy Chapman

George Strickland Kingston

Shirley Peisley

Adam Goodes

United Trades and Labor Council

Anthony Albanese

Women’s Suffrage League

Simon Birmingham

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Thomas John Napier

Gough Whitlam

John Baker

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Thomas Playford II

Amanda Vanstone

Bill Shorten

Boyle Travers Finniss

Queen Elizabeth II

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir William Morgan

Charles Richmond Glover

Lawrence Grayson

Country Party

National Trust of Australia

Bob Hawke

Dean Brown

Dame Roma Mitchell

Janine Haines

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir John Cox Bray

Penny Wong

Sir John William Downer

Francis Stacker Dutton

David Tonkin

Augusta Zadow

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir John Colton

Peter Malinauskas

Lock the Gate

Greens Party

Clyde Cameron

Joseph Fisher

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Reynolds

Australian Labor Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Hieu Van Le

Peter Cosgrove

John Alexander Cockburn

Joyce Steele

John Bannon

Mike Rann

Rob Kerin

Catherine Helen Spence

Steele Hall

Edward Stirling

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Price

Robin Millhouse

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