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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.

Hieu Van Le

Jay Weatherill

Susan Benny

Boyle Travers Finniss

Charles Richmond Glover

Dame Roma Mitchell

Muriel Matters

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Aborigines Progress Association

Australian Democrats

Lawrence Grayson

Susan Kiefel

Henry John Ayers

Adam Goodes

Australian Labor Party

Edward Stirling

Thomas Price

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas Reynolds

John Olsen

Jessie Cooper

George Strickland Kingston

Thomas John Napier

Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Turnbull

Governor George Gawler

Sex Industry Network

Sir William Morgan

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Joseph Fisher

Shirley Peisley

Isobel Redmond

Catherine Helen Spence

King William IV

Charles Cameron Kingston

Country Women’s Association

John Alexander Cockburn

Penny Wong

Rob Kerin

Henry Strangways

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Peter Cosgrove

John Bannon

Mary Gaudron

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

William Boothby

Bill Shorten

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir John Colton

Steven Marshall

Quentin Bryce

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Sir John Cox Bray

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Lynn Arnold

Steele Hall

United Trades and Labor Council

David Tonkin

Dean Brown

Joyce Steele

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

League of Women Voters

Eight Hours Day Committee

Des Corcoran

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Lock the Gate

Kelly Vincent

Ian Purcell

Thomas Playford II

Edmund Barton

Don Dunstan

AIDS Council of South Australia

Gladys Elphick

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Queen Elizabeth II

National Trust of Australia

John Verran

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Bob Hawke

Anthony Albanese

Eddie Mabo

Governor John Hindmarsh

United Labor Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Simon Birmingham

Sir Mark Oliphant

Wendy Chapman

Mike Rann

Conservation Council of South Australia

Benjamin Boothby

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Frank Walsh

Country Party

Gough Whitlam

Greens Party

Liberal Party

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Amanda Vanstone

Clyde Cameron

Sir James Boucaut

Queen Adelaide

Robin Millhouse

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Natasha Stott Despoja

Julia Gillard

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

George Waterhouse

Augusta Zadow

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Thomas Playford

Barbara Baird

Mary Lee

Sir Arthur Blyth

John Hart

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir John William Downer

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Sir Samuel Way

John Baker

Janine Haines

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