Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
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All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Join an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tour around parts of the city of Adelaide. The focus of this tour is on Social Justice and its importance in the history of Adelaide and South Australia, and the stories about Adelaide's social development from colonial times to today. Most of the sites visited are public institutions, statues and monuments and tour participants, whether locals, interstate or from overseas get to experience the essence of what Adelaide is all about.
Learn about groundbreaking social justice legislation and its effect on the fabric of our society over the course of our history. These include the introduction of the Secret Ballot, Women's Franchise, Aboriginal rig...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional Guiding Services, suggestions for attractions, transport, food and beverage.
Private transportation
Food and Drink
Meeting Points
Departure
Parliament Of South Australia
We meet on the main steps of Parliament House, near the corner of North Terrace and King William Road in Adelaide's CBD.
Return
The Austral
The tour finishes opposite the Austral Hotel in Rundle Street in Adelaide's CBD.
Social Justice Tour of Adelaide
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Join an easy-paced 2 hour small-group walking tour around parts of the city of Adelaide. The focus of this tour is on Social Justice and its importance in the history of Adelaide and South Australia, and the stories about Adelaide's social development from colonial times to today. Most of the sites visited are public institutions, statues and monuments and tour participants, whether locals, interstate or from overseas get to experience the essence of what Adelaide is all about.
Learn about groundbreaking social justice legislation and its effect on the fabric of our society over the course of our history. These include the introduction of the Secret Ballot, Women's Franchise, Aboriginal rig...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Professional Guiding Services, suggestions for attractions, transport, food and beverage.
Private transportation
Food and Drink
Meeting Points
Departure
Parliament Of South Australia
We meet on the main steps of Parliament House, near the corner of North Terrace and King William Road in Adelaide's CBD.
Return
The Austral
The tour finishes opposite the Austral Hotel in Rundle Street in Adelaide's CBD.
Introduction to Wakefield's systematic colonisation scheme. What is Social Justice? Historic Parliamentary reforms as well as the Secret Ballot. Outline of tour.
15 minutes
2
Government House
Discuss the oldest continuously used Government House in Australia. The appointment of Australia's first Indigenous Governor as well as the appointment of Australia's first Female Governor.
10 minutes
3
Dame Roma Mitchell
Discuss Dame Roma Mitchell's life, her many firsts for a Female within the Judicial system, including First Female QC in Australia, First Female High Court/Supreme Court Judge, First Female Vice-Chancellor of a University in Australia and Australia's First Female Governor.
10 minutes
4
Mary Lee
Discuss the contribution of Mary Lee to Women's Suffrage movement in South Australia as well as Muriel Matters.
10 minutes
5
Centre of Democracy
Discuss South Australia's progressive Premier, Don Dunstan and his impact on Social Justice and its many reforms during his leadership. Enter the Centre of Democracy to view the exhibits.
10 minutes
6
State Library of South Australia
Enter the State Library of South Australia and discuss the legacy of Catherine Helen Spence, the first Female Journalist in Australia, the first Female Politician in Australia and her tireless work with Women's Suffrage movement.
5 minutes
7
Migration Museum
The site of the former Destitute Asylum, allowing those with very little financial or social support to enter. Discuss social reforms during the 19th and into the 20th century re homeless, destitute, and unmarried mothers.
15 minutes
8
South Australian Police Historical Society Museum
Enter the site of the Old Mounted Police Barracks dating from 1850s and discuss the significance of the 3rd oldest, organised, centrally controlled police forces in the world. Also tell the stories regarding the first place in the British Empire to have Women Police in 1915. The abolition of capital punishment is also discussed.
15 minutes
9
The University of Adelaide
Discuss Education and the University's status as one of the oldest universities in Australia dating from 1874. Of significance is the university's ground-breaking admission of women to degrees - the first in Australia and one of the first places in the world.
10 minutes
10
Scots Church Adelaide
Religious freedom was an early feature of South Australia's foundations for settlement and an early separation of State and Religion.
5 minutes
11
The Austral
Discuss Laws relating to liquor and alcohol trading hours. Relay our advanced Environmental Policies, our Renewable Energy quotas, our Recycling Policies. Also our adoption of Voice to Parliament for indigenous. Tour ends here.
