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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 Robert Richard Torrens

Bob Hawke

Charles Richmond Glover

Queen Adelaide

Catherine Helen Spence

John Olsen

Muriel Matters

Des Corcoran

Kelly Vincent

Peter Cosgrove

Sir Thomas Playford

Clyde Cameron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

United Trades and Labor Council

Steele Hall

United Labor Party

Anthony Albanese

Rob Kerin

Julia Gillard

Mary Lee

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

Conservation Council of South Australia

Frank Walsh

Gough Whitlam

Australian Democrats

Sir John Cox Bray

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Janine Haines

Boyle Travers Finniss

Augusta Zadow

George Waterhouse

City of Adelaide Corporation

Eddie Mabo

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Australian Labor Party

Shirley Peisley

Dame Roma Mitchell

David Tonkin

Edward Stirling

Sir James Boucaut

Amanda Vanstone

Susan Benny

Edmund Barton

John Bannon

William Boothby

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

National Trust of Australia

Francis Stacker Dutton

AIDS Council of South Australia

Thomas John Napier

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Country Party

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir Samuel Way

Governor John Hindmarsh

Steven Marshall

Greens Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Governor George Gawler

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Malcolm Turnbull

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Thomas Playford II

Gladys Elphick

Quentin Bryce

Peter Malinauskas

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Thomas Reynolds

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Benjamin Boothby

Women’s Liberation Movement

Sir John William Downer

Ian Purcell

League of Women Voters

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lawrence Grayson

Sex Industry Network

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Susan Kiefel

Country Women’s Association

Mike Rann

Sir John Colton

Bill Shorten

Simon Birmingham

Malcolm Fraser

Sir Arthur Blyth

Adam Goodes

Queen Elizabeth II

Joyce Steele

Lock the Gate

Liberal Party

Barbara Baird

Penny Wong

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Natasha Stott Despoja

Jessie Cooper

King William IV

Mary Gaudron

Wendy Chapman

John Baker

Dean Brown

Robin Millhouse

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir William Morgan

John Verran

Henry John Ayers

John Hart

Joseph Fisher

Lynn Arnold

Don Dunstan

Isobel Redmond

Henry Strangways

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Mark Oliphant

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas Price

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