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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.

John Bannon

David Tonkin

Hieu Van Le

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Mary Lee

Dame Roma Mitchell

Country Women’s Association

Queen Adelaide

Australian Democrats

Thomas Price

Eddie Mabo

Sir Samuel Way

Thomas Reynolds

City of Adelaide Corporation

John Hart

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Ian Purcell

Muriel Matters

Clyde Cameron

Boyle Travers Finniss

Women’s Suffrage League

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Mike Rann

Shirley Peisley

Kelly Vincent

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Bob Hawke

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jay Weatherill

Charles Cameron Kingston

John Verran

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Frank Walsh

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Quentin Bryce

Governor John Hindmarsh

Janine Haines

Lock the Gate

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Adam Goodes

Peter Cosgrove

Wendy Chapman

Lynn Arnold

Jessie Cooper

Charles Richmond Glover

George Waterhouse

Australian Labor Party

Mary Gaudron

Isobel Redmond

Benjamin Boothby

King William IV

Women’s Liberation Movement

Greens Party

Malcolm Turnbull

Susan Benny

United Trades and Labor Council

Joseph Fisher

Henry Strangways

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Edmund Barton

Governor George Gawler

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Dean Brown

Julia Gillard

AIDS Council of South Australia

Gladys Elphick

Anthony Albanese

George Strickland Kingston

William Boothby

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir John Cox Bray

Simon Birmingham

Eight Hours Day Committee

National Trust of Australia

Susan Kiefel

Working Women’s Trade Union

Sir John Colton

Thomas Playford II

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sir Mark Oliphant

Steele Hall

Sir William Morgan

Conservation Council of South Australia

Penny Wong

Edward Stirling

Sir Thomas Playford

John Baker

Des Corcoran

Francis Stacker Dutton

Natasha Stott Despoja

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Don Dunstan

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Amanda Vanstone

Bill Shorten

John Olsen

Peter Malinauskas

Queen Elizabeth II

United Labor Party

Liberal Party

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

League of Women Voters

Gough Whitlam

Sir Arthur Blyth

Catherine Helen Spence

Joyce Steele

Rob Kerin

Sir John William Downer

Sex Industry Network

Robin Millhouse

Country Party

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Thomas John Napier

Augusta Zadow

Henry John Ayers

John Alexander Cockburn

Steven Marshall

Sir James Boucaut

Barbara Baird

Malcolm Fraser

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