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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.

Lawrence Grayson

Rob Kerin

Sir Samuel Way

Jay Weatherill

Thomas Reynolds

Mike Rann

Gladys Elphick

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Joyce Steele

Natasha Stott Despoja

Catherine Helen Spence

Mary Gaudron

Sir John Cox Bray

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Charles Richmond Glover

Quentin Bryce

Anthony Albanese

Henry Strangways

Don Dunstan

Sex Industry Network

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

John Verran

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Sir John William Downer

Bob Hawke

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Edmund Barton

Sir Thomas Playford

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Gough Whitlam

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Mary Lee

Thomas John Napier

United Trades and Labor Council

Boyle Travers Finniss

Malcolm Turnbull

John Hart

Muriel Matters

Queen Adelaide

Eight Hours Day Committee

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

John Baker

Lock the Gate

AIDS Council of South Australia

Governor John Hindmarsh

Isobel Redmond

Augusta Zadow

Governor George Gawler

Conservation Council of South Australia

Thomas Playford II

Henry John Ayers

Sir William Morgan

Country Women’s Association

Peter Cosgrove

Susan Benny

Queen Elizabeth II

Liberal Party

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Joseph Fisher

Julia Gillard

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Aborigines Progress Association

Women’s Suffrage League

Malcolm Fraser

League of Women Voters

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

John Alexander Cockburn

Australian Labor Party

United Labor Party

Frank Walsh

Steven Marshall

Country Party

William Boothby

Wendy Chapman

Francis Stacker Dutton

Australian Democrats

Charles Cameron Kingston

Sir James Boucaut

Greens Party

Jessie Cooper

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Arthur Blyth

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Clyde Cameron

Amanda Vanstone

Adam Goodes

George Strickland Kingston

King William IV

Dean Brown

Simon Birmingham

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Kelly Vincent

Benjamin Boothby

Janine Haines

Working Women’s Trade Union

Lynn Arnold

Eddie Mabo

Des Corcoran

Shirley Peisley

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Susan Kiefel

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Bannon

Ian Purcell

Sir Douglas Nicholls

David Tonkin

Barbara Baird

Peter Malinauskas

Thomas Price

Bill Shorten

Steele Hall

Edward Stirling

Women’s Liberation Movement

John Olsen

Penny Wong

National Trust of Australia

George Waterhouse

Dame Roma Mitchell

Sir John Colton

Robin Millhouse

Hieu Van Le

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