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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.

Edmund Barton

Robin Millhouse

Amanda Vanstone

Eddie Mabo

Gladys Elphick

Thomas Playford II

Joyce Steele

Conservation Council of South Australia

Steven Marshall

Jessie Cooper

Augusta Zadow

Women’s Electoral Lobby

United Trades and Labor Council

Hieu Van Le

Isobel Redmond

Sir John Cox Bray

John Olsen

Clyde Cameron

Francis Stacker Dutton

Sir Mark Oliphant

Peter Malinauskas

John Verran

Thomas Price

Mary Lee

Australian Labor Party

Henry John Ayers

Sir James Boucaut

City of Adelaide Corporation

Sir John Colton

Sir Robert Richard Torrens

Frank Walsh

Sir Thomas Playford

Liberal Party

Simon Birmingham

League of Women Voters

Eight Hours Day Committee

Waterside Workers Federation (SA)

Benjamin Boothby

Lawrence Grayson

The Honourable Jennifer Cashmore AM

Sex Industry Network

Lowitja O’Donoghue

Council of Aboriginal Women of South Australia

Sir William Morgan

Sir Douglas Nicholls

Sir Samuel Way

Elizabeth Webb Nicholls

Governor George Gawler

Des Corcoran

Wendy Chapman

Quentin Bryce

Steele Hall

Sir Richard Davies Hanson

Kelly Vincent

John Alexander Cockburn

Barbara Baird

Natasha Stott Despoja

Bill Shorten

Charles Cameron Kingston

Dame Roma Mitchell

Aborigines Progress Association

Joseph Fisher

Mike Rann

Malcolm Fraser

David Tonkin

Governor Richard MacDonnell

Women’s Societies for Equal Citizenship

Sir John William Downer

Lesbian and Gay Community Action

Country Women’s Association

National Trust of Australia

Thomas John Napier

Peter Cosgrove

Adam Goodes

Gough Whitlam

Don Dunstan

Henry Strangways

Robert Storrie Guthrie

Ian Purcell

George Strickland Kingston

Edward Stirling

William Boothby

Bob Hawke

Boyle Travers Finniss

Mary Gaudron

Kadlitpinna (Captain Jack)

Jay Weatherill

Dean Brown

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

George Waterhouse

Greens Party

United Labor Party

John Baker

AIDS Council of South Australia

Anthony Albanese

Andrew Alexander Kirkpatrick

Thomas Reynolds

John Hart

Janine Haines

Country Party

Susan Kiefel

Lynn Arnold

Muriel Matters

Queen Elizabeth II

Malcolm Turnbull

Shirley Peisley

King William IV

John Bannon

Catherine Helen Spence

Dr Jane Lomax-Smith AM

Working Women’s Trade Union

Governor John Hindmarsh

Australian Democrats

Lock the Gate

Adelaide Homosexual Alliance 1977-79

Sir Arthur Blyth

Queen Adelaide

Women’s Suffrage League

Rob Kerin

Charles Richmond Glover

Women’s Liberation Movement

Susan Benny

Julia Gillard

Penny Wong

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