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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.

Barbara Baird

National Trust of Australia

Sir William Morgan

Charles Richmond Glover

Women’s Suffrage League

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Dean Brown

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Steele Hall

John Hart

League of Women Voters

Amanda Vanstone

Lock the Gate

Sir John Cox Bray

Governor John Hindmarsh

Eddie Mabo

Sir Samuel Way

Queen Adelaide

Adam Goodes

George Waterhouse

Susan Benny

AIDS Council of South Australia

Benjamin Boothby

John Baker

Mary Lee

Jessie Cooper

United Trades and Labor Council

Frank Walsh

Governor George Gawler

Edward Stirling

Peter Malinauskas

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Boyle Travers Finniss

Malcolm Fraser

Simon Birmingham

Australian Democrats

Thomas Playford II

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Henry John Ayers

Conservation Council of South Australia

Janine Haines

Sir Arthur Blyth

Henry Strangways

Ian Purcell

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Anthony Albanese

Dame Roma Mitchell

Muriel Matters

Lawrence Grayson

Shirley Peisley

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Joseph Fisher

Lynn Arnold

Mike Rann

John Bannon

Mary Gaudron

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Malcolm Turnbull

Jay Weatherill

Working Women’s Trade Union

Country Women’s Association

Julia Gillard

Bob Hawke

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Governor Richard MacDonnell

City of Adelaide Corporation

Queen Elizabeth II

Augusta Zadow

Thomas John Napier

Sir James Boucaut

Sir John William Downer

John Verran

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Greens Party

Eight Hours Day Committee

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Joyce Steele

Australian Labor Party

Peter Cosgrove

Aborigines Progress Association

Rob Kerin

Wendy Chapman

John Olsen

Penny Wong

George Strickland Kingston

United Labor Party

Edmund Barton

Charles Cameron Kingston

Natasha Stott Despoja

Sex Industry Network

William Boothby

Don Dunstan

Francis Stacker Dutton

John Alexander Cockburn

Hieu Van Le

Des Corcoran

Quentin Bryce

Thomas Reynolds

Catherine Helen Spence

Clyde Cameron

Kelly Vincent

David Tonkin

Sir Mark Oliphant

Sir Thomas Playford

Isobel Redmond

Robin Millhouse

Country Party

Women’s Liberation Movement

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Bill Shorten

King William IV

Susan Kiefel

Gough Whitlam

Thomas Price

Gladys Elphick

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Steven Marshall

Liberal Party

Sir John Colton

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