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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

Gough Whitlam

Sir James Boucaut

Kelly Vincent

Thomas John Napier

Gladys Elphick

Peter Cosgrove

Rob Kerin

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Benny

Barbara Baird

Augusta Zadow

Thomas Reynolds

Joseph Fisher

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Conservation Council of South Australia

William Boothby

Dame Roma Mitchell

Henry John Ayers

Country Women’s Association

Steele Hall

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir William Morgan

Jay Weatherill

Mary Lee

Clyde Cameron

Edward Stirling

Mary Gaudron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Quentin Bryce

National Trust of Australia

Sir Mark Oliphant

John Verran

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Queen Adelaide

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Party

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Turnbull

John Baker

Australian Labor Party

Benjamin Boothby

Des Corcoran

Bob Hawke

Hieu Van Le

Isobel Redmond

United Labor Party

Liberal Party

Governor John Hindmarsh

Bill Shorten

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir John William Downer

Edmund Barton

Sir John Colton

John Hart

Sir Thomas Playford

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Sir Samuel Way

Working Women’s Trade Union

Jessie Cooper

John Bannon

Catherine Helen Spence

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

AIDS Council of South Australia

Joyce Steele

Ian Purcell

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

George Strickland Kingston

Sex Industry Network

Governor George Gawler

Wendy Chapman

Eddie Mabo

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

King William IV

Robin Millhouse

Aborigines Progress Association

Shirley Peisley

Sir John Cox Bray

Malcolm Fraser

United Trades and Labor Council

Anthony Albanese

Adam Goodes

Dean Brown

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Henry Strangways

Steven Marshall

Lynn Arnold

Greens Party

Charles Cameron Kingston

Simon Birmingham

John Olsen

John Alexander Cockburn

Charles Richmond Glover

Women’s Electoral Lobby

David Tonkin

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir Arthur Blyth

Eight Hours Day Committee

Women’s Liberation Movement

George Waterhouse

Don Dunstan

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Janine Haines

Julia Gillard

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Thomas Playford II

Francis Stacker Dutton

Susan Kiefel

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Penny Wong

League of Women Voters

Frank Walsh

Lock the Gate

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Mike Rann

Muriel Matters

Thomas Price

Amanda Vanstone

Australian Democrats

Women’s Suffrage League

Boyle Travers Finniss

Peter Malinauskas

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