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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.

Steele Hall

Francis Stacker Dutton

Edward Stirling

Robin Millhouse

Anthony Albanese

Des Corcoran

Joyce Steele

Benjamin Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

Thomas Reynolds

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Mary Lee

United Trades and Labor Council

Governor George Gawler

Augusta Zadow

Peter Cosgrove

Julia Gillard

Penny Wong

Sir John Colton

Muriel Matters

Gladys Elphick

Women’s Suffrage League

Wendy Chapman

Malcolm Fraser

Working Women’s Trade Union

Greens Party

Simon Birmingham

Ian Purcell

John Olsen

Eddie Mabo

Women’s Liberation Movement

Eight Hours Day Committee

David Tonkin

Sir William Morgan

Sir John William Downer

Queen Elizabeth II

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir Mark Oliphant

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Quentin Bryce

Natasha Stott Despoja

Country Party

Sir Thomas Playford

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Catherine Helen Spence

John Hart

Sex Industry Network

AIDS Council of South Australia

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Verran

Malcolm Turnbull

Bob Hawke

Gough Whitlam

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Country Women’s Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Peter Malinauskas

League of Women Voters

Janine Haines

Steven Marshall

Joseph Fisher

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

George Strickland Kingston

Governor Richard MacDonnell

William Boothby

George Waterhouse

Adam Goodes

Jay Weatherill

Edmund Barton

Liberal Party

Rob Kerin

Sir Arthur Blyth

Australian Labor Party

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Hieu Van Le

King William IV

Bill Shorten

Don Dunstan

Thomas Playford II

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Frank Walsh

Lock the Gate

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Dame Roma Mitchell

National Trust of Australia

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lynn Arnold

United Labor Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Barbara Baird

Sir John Cox Bray

Queen Adelaide

Clyde Cameron

Australian Democrats

Henry Strangways

Shirley Peisley

Thomas John Napier

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Sir Samuel Way

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Amanda Vanstone

Boyle Travers Finniss

John Baker

Dean Brown

Conservation Council of South Australia

City of Adelaide Corporation

Henry John Ayers

Susan Kiefel

Lawrence Grayson

Kelly Vincent

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

John Bannon

Mary Gaudron

Isobel Redmond

Jessie Cooper

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir James Boucaut

Governor John Hindmarsh

Susan Benny

Thomas Price

Mike Rann

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