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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.

Gough Whitlam

Conservation Council of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Henry Strangways

Catherine Helen Spence

Women’s Liberation Movement

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Peter Malinauskas

Sir Mark Oliphant

Adam Goodes

National Trust of Australia

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir John Colton

Simon Birmingham

Dean Brown

John Hart

Henry John Ayers

Aborigines Progress Association

Lawrence Grayson

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Liberal Party

Joyce Steele

Clyde Cameron

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Des Corcoran

Eddie Mabo

Kelly Vincent

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Dame Roma Mitchell

Amanda Vanstone

Mary Lee

Boyle Travers Finniss

Wendy Chapman

Australian Labor Party

Greens Party

Francis Stacker Dutton

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

United Trades and Labor Council

Australian Democrats

Bob Hawke

Country Party

Susan Kiefel

Bill Shorten

Isobel Redmond

Mary Gaudron

Sir William Morgan

Steele Hall

Lowitja O’Donoghue

David Tonkin

Ian Purcell

George Strickland Kingston

Peter Cosgrove

Rob Kerin

Jessie Cooper

John Alexander Cockburn

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Governor Richard MacDonnell

John Olsen

Thomas Reynolds

Lynn Arnold

John Verran

Governor John Hindmarsh

Women’s Electoral Lobby

Country Women’s Association

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

City of Adelaide Corporation

Thomas John Napier

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Charles Cameron Kingston

Lock the Gate

Thomas Price

Queen Elizabeth II

Hieu Van Le

Queen Adelaide

Steven Marshall

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Sir John William Downer

Mike Rann

Sir James Boucaut

John Baker

Barbara Baird

Sex Industry Network

Augusta Zadow

Jay Weatherill

Malcolm Fraser

Frank Walsh

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

John Bannon

Gladys Elphick

Sir John Cox Bray

Muriel Matters

Women’s Suffrage League

Shirley Peisley

AIDS Council of South Australia

Natasha Stott Despoja

Susan Benny

Julia Gillard

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

League of Women Voters

United Labor Party

Sir Samuel Way

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor George Gawler

King William IV

Edmund Barton

Benjamin Boothby

Quentin Bryce

Penny Wong

George Waterhouse

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Robin Millhouse

Eight Hours Day Committee

Joseph Fisher

Janine Haines

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Thomas Playford II

Edward Stirling

Don Dunstan

Sir Thomas Playford

Sir Arthur Blyth

William Boothby

Charles Richmond Glover

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Malcolm Turnbull

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