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(above) Those who manage the Eternal Shame File triage interviews take note of dress sense. Out of fashion clothing can ring the warning bell: deviant or "unprogrammed. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) An obvious homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Most are so secretive that even homeless people don't know where each other camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Funerals are a major reason visitors camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) The Wonga granny's funeral is over so the campers have moved on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Deaths by suicide at homeless camps happen. An example is the cleared Port Adelaide camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Homeless man a few minutes before going to bed at Salisbury. You can find the hidden homeless in Salisbury at night by listening for the rasping coughs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Bedding of homeless people outside the Salisbury Council $43 million Citadel. One homeless girl works at night out of the St Augustine Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Power, money and control over others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Free Oz Harvest food from Woodville Gardens Uniting Church Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 noon. They don't require I.D. or registration. Worth the visit. See Free Food Guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Homeless man in northern suburbs sleeps in an arrangement of cardboard boxes resembling a coffin. He has a radio and thermos of hot drink in the morning before packing up and leaving before the stores open.

(above) School children jeered the disciplined and quiet homeless man on this day. An observer said they weren't from a Christian school, but from a Centrelink school.

(above) The homeless man flattens his cardboard box shelter and stores it behind a recycling bin where he picks it up that evening.

Coming Soon:  Diners get angry when man calls Hurtle Square soup van volunteer a "Piece of S***"; Kindly diners at Fred's Van show old man to front of queue; Life Christian Centre bring pizzas to Fred's Van; Lots of Brie at One Life;  Anthony as trailblazer; Towards Home operatives at Glenelg; Mid-October start for Semaphore Uniting Church free Thursday lunches; Toward Home Alliance extend deadline for Functional Zero Homelessness to 2025; Cambodian Jenny arrives late at Good Shepherd; ONE Life healing; Man moves into women's shelter; Frank the Busker at Moore Street; More visits to Mary's Kitchen; Youth With A Mission building transferred to Lutheran Cornerstone Housing (singing replaced with maniacal screaming); Let's watch MP Nat Cook cheat the homeless out of housing (the continuing story).

On the Street

The Chinese-owned Port Plaza shopping centre now instructs a black African woman to enter the men’s toilets without notice and walk behind the men urinating.

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An Emergency Department patient in the waiting room at the Lionel McEwin Hospital observed their treatment of a woman. This patient said the woman had arrived bleeding from a domestic violence incident, but was sent back home untreated and with a paper towel against her wound.

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A man didn’t lock the door on the disability toilet room at the Para Banks Shopping Centre. A cleaner walked in as he was lowering his pants. “Do you mind, I’m trying to have a ****,” he told her.

She called the guard who demanded, “Are you abusing our staff?” The toilet man repeated his statement in a loud voice suggesting the guard and cleaner were a little strange. People outside laugh at the guard who made a quick retreat.

Meanwhile, a 38-year-old guard at the same shopping centre has three girlfriends and appears to be pimping one of them.

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Victory Church (Life Adelaide) has stopped its monthly Saturday free breakfasts as only half a dozen people turned up. Saturday morning wasn’t an effective time or day as N.D.I.S. Carers generally don’t work on weekends, the buses have a reduced schedule and there is little else that can be fitted into the journey to make it worthwhile. It was a good effort, though.

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A soup kitchen woman is leaving her partner for another man who claims to be a woman despite everything about him being a man.

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Janet Hobbs’ husband, Bill, died last week in hospital. He’d been living at the Semaphore Residential Care joint on Lady Gowrie Drive for two years after being kicked out of Rudd’s (Semaphore) Hostel for being too sick. Janet is crushed.

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Staff at the Woodville Gardens Uniting Church made free food clients wear masks as they approached the main doors that were blocked off by two tables. This was despite most inside the church building not wearing masks until the doors opened.

Clients remained about 1.5 metres from volunteer staff inside. Nearly everyone knew this was silly, but we’re used to doing silly things demanded by authority and not questioning them. It’s political and psychological and has little to do with infection control.

The church has a sign in the outdoor waiting area saying, “No sleeping.”

Staff had no meat to give out, the reason being, according to one client, was that “The freezer went fritz and the Old Fart chucked out the meat.”

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Someone smashed a $1200 window in an attempt to break into the Anchor Church’s “Worn Again” Op Shop at Port Adelaide. It’s the fourth attempt so the church has obtained a muscular man who will live on the premises. He’s a former VFL football player.

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A friendly drug addict said the Trolley Man from Fred’s Van in the city was threatening others with a pair of scissors at Fred’s Van Semaphore last week The scissor man is usually ensconced at Baptist WestCare in the city. He’s considered the most dangerous person currently in the homeless scene

25 September 2022

(above) Adelaide Cemeteries Authority knocked down the dignified toilet block used by elderly visitors and homeless alike. The Authority used the land to sell $2 million of grave plots. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) The dignified block was replaced by mini toilets designed to dissuade and humiliate those needing them. This is called hostile architecture and an example of civilisation going backward. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

​A refreshing policy
​from Adelaide Day Centre

A member of the Adelaide Day Centre said they collect very little client data and what they do collect doesn’t go into a computer let alone get sent to the homeless industry’s Eternal Shame File. She said they know some clients only by their first names. She said one of their primary policies is to let people use their place largely anonymously. I’m paraphrasing here.

They give away food and blankets and are the No. 1 supplier of Christmas food hampers. They’re also involved in constructive projects like gardening and art.

Adelaide Day Centre is how the Hutt Street Centre was before it joined the big money crowd.

Adelaide Day Centre 
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects. They don’t advertise or seek acclaim. Run by Sisters of Mercy Catholics.

24 September 2022
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​Good news from Baptist WestCare

A client at the soup van at Whitmore Square said Baptist WestCare has a free doctor, nurse and optometrist available on Wednesdays. The client said they understand homeless issues so are effective at treating the illnesses we experience. The client said his heart is on the blink.

Baptist Westcare Adelaide City
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200. Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Free use of washing machine, line drying (no drier) and three showers for males and one for females. No water timers like at the Hutt Street Centre. Free breakfast 9:00am – 10:30am. Lunch from 11:30am to 1:00pm. $2.50 lunch cooked by a chef or the free meal of soup, garlic bread, dessert and coffee if you haven't any money. Credit available. No I.D. required. Free doctor, nurse and optometrist currently on Wednesdays who understand homeless issues. Open Sundays from 11:30am to 1:00pm for free brunch. No data collection except for free bread, fruit and vegetables in store from 9:00am-12:30pm Mon to Thurs if you buy one-dollar of stale food and have a Centrelink, student or immigration card. Three $45 free vouchers for store available each year if you submit to an interview. Lots of other homeless-style services.

24 September 2022

Worth the journey up the hill

The food gets better and better. The vegetarian meal is difficult to describe, but has a balance of ingredients that makes it filling so the diner doesn’t feel the need to pig out. The soups contain meat with the non-meat version being pumpkin, which is a little boring as nearly every other free food joint supplies pumpkin soup. But this version doesn’t stink. How other joints get the soup to stink may be better to remain ignorant of.

Dessert included cake, ice cream, canned fruit and muffins. The tea and coffee staff were efficient and polite.

The religious message was about two disciples having the courage to call Jesus their Saviour ‒ or something like that ‒ despite threats against their lives. The man telling the story didn’t mention that most of the disciples came to a sticky end. Or whether in the face of unprecedented change, Christians today should take a stand at what could be seen as evil.

The session is somewhat regimented, but otherwise relaxing with no fear of being knifed or mugged like at some free food places.

The compere announced that last Monday’s meal would be an hour earlier at 5:00pm so we could watch the Queen’s funeral. That shocked me as I was thinking he was going to say Hitler’s birthday. What a crazy thing to think.

Lutheran Good Shepherd at Para Vista
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Mondays 6:00pm to 7:00pm, free meal inside church. No I.D. required for meal. Real chef who tells us his soup won a medal at Casablanca. Orange Sky Laundry 5:30pm to 7:30pm Mondays. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Takeaways and supermarket purchase cards might be available from office. Ph 8263 5087 Tues-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly due to requests of the Activist Vegetarian who doesn’t go there anymore.

Second Editor
24 September 2022

(above) Public toilets in Adelaide are filthy, unreliable and humiliating to use. Homeless people are especially vulnerable. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) These disease-ridden public toilets are one of the ugliest inventions ever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Suicide in the homeless scene

“And all the grannies that hung themselves in the trees in the parklands,” a maniacal raging homeless man shouts in the dim laneway back of the Magdalene Church two weeks ago.

Funerals are major events in the indigenous homeless culture. Obituary notices left at homeless camps are quickly removed by government operatives.

Some boys found a man hanging from the railway bridge that crosses the Port River at the homeless camp. They asked a camper to call the police, but he told them to make the call as they’d found the body.

Another hanging victim was discovered where Pigeon and Milat were camping at the same location.

The homeless life can be drab and demoralising from being pushed on ten times a day and even during the night. The key to survival is maintaining an inner sense of existence. This will overcome nearly all external torments and despairs. Dangers to this survival instinct are employees and contractors from helping agencies pushing mind-control drugs. And their databases that project a false reality through which the homeless industry controls us. These are poisons it is wise to avoid.

Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 23 September 2022

(above) Homeless patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are given this slightly outdated leaflet upon discharge. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Big drop in Adelaide CBD homeless 

The Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands dropped from 283 to 234 from July to August 2022.

This included the Sleeping Rough number dropping from 211 to 178. The Temporarily Sheltered figure also reduced from 49 to 32 while the Actively Homeless – Other rose from 23 to 24. This could be a reason to rejoice, but let’s first explore the numbers.

There isn’t evidence the reduction was due to the Adelaide Zero Project program. Their placement rate rose from 15 to 17 from the previous month though this number could be irrelevant. A partial explanation was 37 people were “Moved to Inactive”, that is, no longer considered homeless. The previous statistical month included just 13 put into this category. Another factor is that 14 people were “Newly Identified” as homeless compared to 30 the previous statistical month.

So we have an increased number removed from the books and a lower influx of newly identified homeless people. It is difficult to determine whether these disappeared people were housed as the statistics don’t cover that area. All we know is that they haven’t been turning up at certain homeless joints from which the figures are determined.

What we do know is that the reduction makes it appear the annual influx of government grants are paying off or, at least, the industry is making it appear that way.

https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/ 
Early 22 July 2022

Grill’d should have been better

How can anyone complain about a high-end free hamburger, chips and cold drink? The music was too loud, that’s why. We sat mostly each alone amidst the racket.

Other than the noise, the hamburgers were of such quality that sauce, salt and pepper weren’t required. We just walked in and didn’t even have to say we were Friends of the Salvation Army or St Vincent de Paul. They knew it by looking at us. We have that withdrawn appearance.

Staff denied entry to a few young Asians because they were not Friends. Friends get this free food one Tuesday a month for two hours. Another small miracle.

Ash from the Street didn’t go because she said she felt guilty not being homeless anymore. I was hoping they’d stop me and say, “You don’t look homeless,” but they didn’t.

Grilled/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide offers free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Best to arrive before 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jack.

Second Editor
Early 22 September 2022

(above) Richard's Religious Revival once-a-month last month in Whitmore Square. They're there today, 16th of September at 4:30pm for free BBQ, coffee and witnessing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Adam headbutts Dracula’s sister

Buying a bicycle from Cash Converters at Elizabeth can’t be a smart move in anyone’s language, but the woman who wears corpse-style make-up did just this. More likely her new bicycle would have been stolen or faulty or both.

She discovered the chain rattled against the guard and with a friend of Dr Jefferies’ son tried to fix it outside the Elizabeth shopping centre. That’s when Adam barreled up either on the juice or damaged from it. He offered to help fix the bike then inexplicably gave the chain guard a massive kick.

The make-up lady wasn’t amused and told him so. Adam said if she didn’t shut up, he’d headbutt her. She didn’t so he smacked his head against her face resulting in blood pissing from her nose and over her thick white make-up. She looked more like a zombie than usual.

Two men came to her rescue. They kicked and punched Adam mostly in the body to minimise bleeding and bruising. The African Samaritan complained he’d gotten her blood on his shirt.

Adam was banged up and went into hiding for a week then reappeared at the Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth where he quickly grabbed some free lunch then disappeared.

Meanwhile, Dracula’s sister has more trouble. A man hiding above her ceiling has drilled holes through which he peeks down at her. He sneaks down at night through the fireplace and steals stuff. She assembled a pile of junk in front of the fireplace, but he replaces it as he retreats back into the ceiling. She knows this because he never reassembles the stuff the way she left it.

Adding to her troubles, she was also forced to turn off the electricity in fear that an ex-boyfriend has fiddled the wiring making it a fire risk that could burn her to a crisp. She asked a university academic from a free soup kitchen to check it, but he said he wasn’t any longer licensed as he’d moved into academia.

So what is the moral of this story? The first is don’t buy anything from Cash Converters. The second is to avoid head butters. The third is that if you mix with certain types of people then you have to expect them to behave as they do. The fourth is especially pertinent to Dracula’s sister and that is to fill the holes with plaster to stop the man in the ceiling peaking down at her.

Early 21 September 2022

(above) Camp near West Terrace Cemetery of people visiting from the desert for Mrs. Wonga's funeral. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Unhappy full house at Para Hills​

Victory Church isn’t having trouble attracting clients for its free Thursday evening meal at Para Hills.

But there was dissent last week when a church photographer took images of diners including one man who complained to staff that he hadn’t given legal permission for his image to be taken or used. This was despite the church saying week after week that they aren’t taking photographs.

Another patron responded by photographing church staff, one of which said he wasn’t allowed to do what they were doing. And would he not return the following week. The man who organises the Victory Church Friday morning BBQ asked this diner why he hadn’t been going to the free BBQ. The answer was: “I don’t eat offal.”

Diners at one table complained the chicken was pink inside. A diner at another table said the serving sizes were for children, not adults.

The food came in Cumin Express Indian Pakistani boxes from the restaurant in the shopping centre next to the Para Hills Community Hub. Strangely, church staff denied it came from there so the unpopular diner asked at the restaurant. The answer was, “Yes”.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide)
Pittman Park on Commercial Road at Salisbury. Free breakfast of bacon, eggs, bread and coffee last Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 11:00am. Also, free BBQ lunch every Friday at 12:00 noon. No I.D. or registration required so you can dine with them anonymously. Safe as the drug addicts are still in bed. Life Adelaide also hosts a free 6:00pm meal Thursdays at Para Hills Community Hub, 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills.

Early 20 September 2022

(above) No I.D. or registration required. Free every Sunday at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide.

(above) St Andrew's Church, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Tues, Thurs and Fri :11:30am - 1:30pm. Free fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items once a week. No I.D. required, but they require phone number and name for "contact tracing". Soup, muffin and coffee free during these times. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) RepaySA people working to pay off fines. They're picking up garbage from an Aboriginal homeless camp near the West Terrace Cemetery. The tribal campers can't believe it's happening. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg

Two friendly alcoholics told a man to get away from their huge three-legged dog resting on a mattress back of the church. He moved away angrily saying he wasn’t afraid of the animal. He then regaled others with tales of fighting dogs including knocking one dog unconscious and cracking one of its teeth. He said he made a quick getaway in case the animal was angry when it regained consciousness.

Orange Sky Operatives were engrossed in shop talk about things going wrong with the laundry van and a new app to make reports on their shifts. These are morale problems as well as technical challenges. Three or four people brought their laundry. There didn’t seem to be enough water in the machines to wash the clothing including one machine holding a thin quilt. Why can’t management realise the settings are wrong for homeless people. However, the Orange Sky volunteers were so interesting I was late for the evening meal.

They served sausage stew and tuna mornay, both with a fresh salad, but it was the no-meat minestrone soup that was the hit. The gentlemen around me had three bowls each.

One man pounded the table when I told him the Hutt Street Centre wouldn’t let me use the showers unless I submitted to an intake interview. A former employee nearby said it took only half an hour and would be done to determine if I was in any danger. Yeah, danger from them forming a dossier then using it against me at a later date. This is no joke because the industry is all about power and control.

John Johnson still works in a sheltered workshop at 77 despite talking about retiring seven years ago. He got surgery to fix his eyes and now uses a phone with pride. Catherine the Greedy also graced the room with perfect poise and aloofness while surveying the environment for opportunities. One diner said she could buy the church in flash, she was that rich.

Other diners included the man who lived at the Kingslea Apartments where Steve’s wife slit his throat and then killed herself. Also, Sylvia and Bill from Moose, a woman from Port Church, Ben from Bedford Industries and the foreign man from the Communist Soup Kitchen at Whitmore Square. But not the woman who vomited on the table six years ago or the old man who took 18 loaves of bread then got hit and killed by a Land Cruiser as he walked home. Or Mel who killed herself.

St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.

Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 19 September 2022

(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council purged the riverfront of homeless campers so they moved elsewhere in the Council area. No where else to go despite many good units and houses kept empty by HousingSA and Chinese investors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Pigeon and Milat have left the area under the trees. Pigeon pays rent to Anglicare for a unit. While not totally innocent, he finds their administration so oppressive that he camps outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

On the Street

A police van was parked last week in front of the Sisters of Mercy graves at the West Terrace Cemetery during a training session for a police attack dog.

An officer ordered the dog to savage the padded arm of another police officer. “Good girl,” the police woman said as the animal snarled and ripped at the arm. The other officer didn’t appear as impressed and moved away quickly in case the dog broke loose and tried to finish the job. Who are the government going to attack with this creature?

Still on cemetery news, rumour has it that homeless people have been trapped and died under grave slabs after seeking privacy at night. One man says he prefers lying on top of the grave stones during cool summer nights as they’re still warm after a hot day.

Second Editor

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A tenant at the HousingSA units behind the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth said he saw a man casually climb up the side of the building to the third floor. He smoked a cigarette as his feet dangled from a balcony.

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A senior church member yelled at others inside the Elizabeth Park Seventh-day Adventist church last week. Volunteers had set aside too much Second Bite food for “deliveries”.

They allegedly sheepishly returned much of the deliveries to the tables for distribution to clients outside the hall.

One client said the offerings had declined in recent weeks though generally everyone is happy with both the church members and what is offered.

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A woman and man last week went into a disability toilet room at the Para Banks shopping centre at Salisbury. After a lengthy stay, they came out and were greeted by a man in a wheelchair saying he wished he’d been inside watching them.

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Hutt Street Centre has joined its alleged mortal enemy, the Towards Home Alliance that grabbed some of its government funding earlier this year. The Alliance itself remains uneasy with the Salvation Army partner wondering how it has become subservient to the smaller and lesser involved Lutheran Welfare.

Some Alliance employees don’t even know the real name of the Alliance and have never seen The Great Leader, Rohan Feegrade.

As to the Hutt Street Centre, they’ll do anything to maintain their dominant status in the homeless industry. Their motivations are money and power disguised by concern and compassion. Claims the Hutt Street Centre has anything to do with the Daughters of Charity should be refuted by the Daughters, if any of them still exist.

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A man new to the homeless scene said he held nothing against another client at Cos We Care in the city who threatened to stab him in the neck. The new man said the other was off his head and not in control of himself.

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A homeless man said he phoned the police after his wife drank four bottles of Whisky over a weekend. Instead of taking away his wife, the police arrested him and he spent a year in prison. The court stopped access to his children. He lost his job in the public service. He was eventually released from prison in his jail clothing and told to find a homeless joint. The case has been adjourned repeatedly over the past two years. His lawyer expects it to be dismissed as there aren’t any witnesses. This is the other side of the Domestic Violence industry not revealed by the legacy media.

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Being homeless sparks new sensitivities such as seeing so many others sleeping in their cars at beach carparks. Even quiet cars in suburban streets at night reveal themselves as containers for people sleeping.

And all this with 2000 empty HousingSA houses and many more thousands kept empty by foreign investors. And social workers paid to make homeless car dwellers think it’s their fault and require them to undergo rehabilitation before housing is offered. How does such insanity prevail?

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Mary’s Kitchen is cancelled this Thursday and Friday due to staff being absent. The Good Shepherd Monday meal is an hour earlier at 5:00pm due to church people wanting to watch the Queen’s funeral on T.V. Who actually watches television?

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That pleasant and homeless whore from Port Adelaide remains on the run after allegedly liberating $10,000 from a client on Hanson Road. I’m glad I refused the handful of $100 and $50 bills she offered me.

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Rumour has it the Salvation Army has a coffee truck operating on Hindley Street on Friday evenings. I phoned City Salvos where an Indian woman said she was in a different department and had no idea about it. The building has about six people in it. How many departments can that involve?

She put me through to the furniture pick-up section at another location who said they knew nothing about it. Then a call to Head Office got the Call Centre who gave me a special number. It was the number they refer those with difficult questions: an answering service that never responds.

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Noisy drug addicts in the HousingSA units behind the old Anglicare Food Barn claimed singing from the Lutheran Church across Wishford Road was disturbing them. The public housing units are largely inhabited by the unfortunate combination of victims of crime and those who commit such crimes. These are the blocks of units where ankle tracking devices are a fashion statement. Travel for these people is in and out of prison or fleeing the state due to warrants.

Early 18 September 2022
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(above) Janet Mead, the Sisters of Mercy and the Adelaide Day Centre crowd planted a garden back of empty Adelaide Gaol to provide fruit and vegetables to make lunches for homeless old men and others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) A few old men in the homeless culture remember doing time at Adelaide Gaol as a right of passage into lifelong poverty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

C.H.A.T.S. at the Masonic Hall

The tough man with the whispering voice invited us into the foyer as it had been raining. We declined because a crucial component of the Community Improvement and Togetherness free breakfasts is networking. The government’s minions relentlessly change the rules to keep us disoriented so we network hard to stay informed. Isolated individuals are sitting ducks.

A woman living in her car said she ran out of petrol at Outer Harbour. The Western Adelaide Homeless Service kindly gave her a Woolworths petrol card despite there not being any Woolworths stations in the area. She caught a bus with a Jerry can and returned with it full.

There was dissension in the raffle contest as an ex-security guard who lost her ticket two weeks in a row accused the caller of not shaking the bowl enough. Another diner used Liquid Paper to block out his number and replaced it with the number called.

The woman whose parents told her to get out now rents a shed with a toilet and leaky roof for $120 a week. The old homeless man said he sees no light at the end of the homeless tunnel. Frank the Busker discovered he’d been put on the Aspire housing program at the Hutt Street Centre without knowing it. They’d been soaking up government money under his name for months. I warned Frank they’d classify him as crazy as they did with most homeless people. He said, “I am crazy.”

The oxygen bottle man said he’s got Long Covid and suffering lung infections on top of Asbestosis. I told him dying can be a learning process and smiled then remembered I’m dying as well and stopped smiling.

We sang happy birthday to Diane, a crucial volunteer who is quite old. Her face went red, but it was already red along with her arms from recent sunny and windy days.

The C.H.A.T.S. unpaid workers gave away a piece of chocolate upon entry followed by packets of grain bars, liquid breakfasts, cleaning cloths, little bottles of hand sanitiser, shoe laces and two-minute noodles.

Breakfast included chopped fruit, yoghourt, bacon and eggs in muffins, cooked spinach, roast tomatoes, baked beans, cooked mushrooms, sausages, toast and Vegemite, chocolate and vanilla cakes, coffee and tea.

The other giveaway food included bread not as fresh as other places who get day old or even fresher bread from Semaphore Bakehouse or Bakers’ Delight though it was still good. Vegetables included fresh cabbage, decent tomatoes, grapes and another dozen choices. I took very little of these as cooking out of my car has become difficult since the Salisbury Council stole my tent.

Everything went smoothly despite the Darling sisters and Greg being on holiday in New Zealand. Along with them, the only thing missing was a band playing “Let’s Stick Together.”

One problem was staff packing up early. If the place is listed as open until 10:30am then the services should remain open until that time.

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.

Early17 September 2022

(above) Another tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Negotiating skills are of paramount importance to avoid injury and loss in the city homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) A dream come true: a skip of clean cardboard boxes at a Modbury medical practice to construct a makeshift mattress. Avoid the next bin, it's medical waste. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

The Fraternity at Kilburn Fred’s Van

The mood was tempered by an influx of The Fraternity with their Minders. One guard stood with his feet spread out at the front door as if mimicking the prison screw that he might have been. They watched us non-user diners with suspicion, but ignored the Fred’s Van volunteers. These unpaid workers rarely intervene in any controversy, but simply provide the food, the prayer and clean up after we leave. ​

Another Fraternity member stood in front of the dining room talking seriously into his phone like an executive or police commander.

That’s the nature of the situation where a dollar from southern China costs a thousand here. It’s politics and we’re at war with China as well as our own chemical technology.

Diners at a back table said the meal was the best this year. The non-meat option was excellent. No trace of neuro-toxins such as MSG. The takeaway bags brimmed with rubbishy old fruit and vegetables plus a few grocery items. These are crucial to diners as it allows them to live relatively normal lives despite being from the underclass. It allows them to drive cars or visit better quality doctors. Or to take their grandchildren on short holidays, which is the point: most Fred’s Van clients are over fifty with many of us in our seventies.

Note: The Fraternity will be elsewhere next week as they're continuously on the move.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.

16 September 2022

Pain and gain at Glenelg

Something wasn’t right driving down the coast road. A section of my mind had gone numb as if a stroke was slashing my mental awareness. The blur of the Ozone Reserve with its outdoor shower flashed by the side window. After parking behind St Andrew’s church on Jetty Road, the truth hit like a sledgehammer: a migraine had struck.

I slept in the car for an hour then staggered into the historical hall and somehow found an empty table. As usual when in a migraine, others sense something isn’t right and avoid me. After half an hour I ordered a coffee and muffin then stared unblinking at the wall for another thirty minutes. Others thought I was on drugs or crazy.

A regular client walked up to me and we talked about Mel who killed herself seven years ago. Her self-doubts had been fuelled by a man who’d gas-lighted her for months. After she died, someone found one of his books in her house. It was about controlling people.

What bleakness she felt near the end yet we remember with affection and regret while others are forgotten.

Anyway, that’s what a migraine does. It crushes the mental ego and puts the sufferer into a primal flow of mind. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.

St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
16 September 2022

(above) Seven months after evicting a now 71-year-old into homelessness, his rental unit remains empty. Some units at this Elizabeth complex have been vacant for three years. How would a psychiatrist diagnose the minds of Anglicare executives and Board members? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) Homeless woman on the run. She's accused of taking $10,000 from a Hanson Road client. The money lasted a week, but the legacy of her action will haunt her for decades. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Sunday at the Pilgrim

​That woman who spat at me five years ago was off her head. She yelled at an older man for twenty minutes straight. She repeatedly ran across the room as if to attack then stopped short.

Men might think: well, it’s just a woman, what is the threat? But women in the homeless scene have learned effective offensive tactics. One is to play the threatened female asking a male to help fend off another man. This can lead to injury and even death. Female drug dealers enlist strong young men to neutralise real and perceived threats. Robyn the Junkie uses this tactic. Another is carrying sharp instruments and being willing to use them in eyes, ears or anywhere. A third is infectious disease. All kinds of diseases are rampant in the homeless welfare scene including sexual and drug resistant infections. Golden Staph is a threat difficult to control with drugs. Yes, women are not powerless in the homeless scene.

The older man was white-faced, but looked her in the eye and said, “And?” That shut her up, but the tension remained in the room.

Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
15 September 2022

Unexplained deaths around the world

This video examines how European countries with the highest vaccination rates for Covid have the highest increase in death rates. This includes Spain, Portugal and Estonia. 

Slovenia, Bulgaria and Hungary have the lowest vaccination rates and the lowest increase in in deaths and in some cases a reduced level of deaths. 

The video has not been removed by youtube and comes with a link to the Australian Department of Health. 

 www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=qo4v-K9jdk0&fbclid=IwAR0pT9zkcwuOup6vWgXCyJYBl2JR5oNH11To5SKvL_nTKE259A7fvECcfgs

15 September 2022

St Bede’s at Semaphore

So that’s the angle,” another diner said when googling the name and finding a wedding photographer. She connected this to the Suzanne Elliot Charitable Trust recycling cabinet at the back of the church hall next to the water tap. But perhaps the photographer is a different person that the benefactor of the Trust.

The Semaphore Bakehouse bread was in short supply so I gave it a miss as there is plenty of bread in the homeless scene. The breakfast itself was fine though after living outside it has become difficult to relate to those living inside.

St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tuesdays 8:30am to 10:00pm. Free good breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they do take names ostensibly for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free fruit, vegetables and fresh bread to take away. Free clothing. Water tap outside that requires special handle from Bunnings. Occasional visits from hairdresser and Thread Together free clothing.

15 September 2022

(above) Homeless campers at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Pilgrim expanding service

​“Pilgrim Sunday Night Tea (SNT) news: pasta nights to be held at 5.30pm on the third Sunday of September, October and November - beginning this coming Sunday 18th. There will be beef or roast vegetable lasagnes, salad and fresh Italian bread, plus cake, fruit and drinks as usual. We would greatly appreciate you getting the message out. Many thanks Carol and Peter (SNT coordinators).”

Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.

Early 14 September 2022

St Andrew’s Glenelg

What a joy to see a few of the old crowd at the Tuesday light lunch. One diner implied forgiveness for past misdeeds when he said, “Everyone makes mistakes." I’d been tormented by guilt for years after disclosing personal details of diners told to me in-confidence.

The lunch included cake, coffee and soup with access to the free food room of fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items. I got celery, two large cans of tuna and a box of Salada crackers. They were good quality.

Diners ranged from drug damaged people to a retired golf caddy. One diner said the Tuesday evening meals had improved dramatically and now resembled a $50 restaurant meal. Volunteers were all new from five years ago as were most of the diners. How quickly things change.
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How powerful is forgiveness. I must forgive the feminist who removed the inner door of the men’s toilets.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon.
Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.

Early 14 September 2022

From the anonymous contact page


The Shopping Trolley Man?...Removes His Victim's By Trolley!.
Oz Nomadic
Early 14 September 2022
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(above) Padlock on tent stopped the "funny guys" from doing rude stuff on my bed at The Paddocks park in Para Hills. But it didn't stop the Salisbury Council: they grabbed everything and took off. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

C.H.A.T.S. Port Adelaide

“Seventy-two,” the former roustabout put in a coma for three weeks when younger told us. “Not including volunteers.” This was the first wave; the second wave is smaller and includes those avoiding the mad rush.

Frank the Busker was dressed in flowing scarves, a colourful hat and decorations difficult to describe. He lives outside in the city. Between us sat an AngliPrison day release prisoner wearing a tracking bracelet. He’d been a normal worker until a dispute with his wife landed him in the slammer awaiting trial and being kicked out of his house.

The Darling sisters forgot to buy spinach in their rush to stock up for an extra week while they went to New Zealand for a holiday. No one complained especially the man who insists Rose paid $45k to install the elevator, won an Order of Australia medal last year and put him in a hotel for two weeks at her expense. And that Port Power players serve the breakfasts. He had been homeless, but now lives at Terra Firma on Waymouth Street in the city. It’s hard to get into and administered by Sonder, a privately operated government-funded psychiatric business that dabbles in other welfare programs. Feigning or having a mental illness is a pathway into cheap rental housing. 

The C.H.A.T.S. breakfast includes bacon, eggs, chopped fruit, toast, yoghourt, roast tomatoes, cooked spinach (usually), cooked mushrooms, baked beans and chocolate cake. Clients respond to the kindness of the Darlings and the kindness of volunteers with generally positive responses.

The ninety-minute event resembles a carnival show and without traumatising drama and that is what most diners want. The only aspect lacking is the inclusion of the most isolated homeless people. They sit alone behind fast food joints, rubbish bins or where only a few locals know of their existence. The fear of losing their possessions and contempt from others keeps them in their relatively safe and enclosing sphere. They don’t realise that some of us see them as at the pinnacle of homeless status. Us tent and car dwellers, even squatters have it easy compared to them. But with them it is better to deliver necessities than bring them into the fold.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.

Early 13 September 2022

Port Church strangely normal

What a job to provide a quality meal for seventy diners. Wednesday’s offering included two fresh salads, Cole Slaw, pasta and sauce, lamb, plant based protein (it used to be called fake meat), bread rolls and a small number of pies. The thin Tablet Lady left the building with dignity when asked to move tables for a family group. She returned later to collect food off the tables for her dog. The nervous Canadian from Vancouver wasn’t there, but I did see this person at Unley Salvation Army on Monday.

We talked at our table about an old man who traded a packet of cigarettes for sex with a morbidly obese woman. And how he is the most educated and skilled person in our group. And of the nature of kindness that can be found in the most unlikely people.

A younger man had to stop himself from crying when saying how generous to the homeless the new Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has been. He said Scotties Motel is now used exclusively for homeless people and their animals. I muttered about the tenants also being animals, but held back. 

Nothing much happened and that was fine with me. So many shocks and traumas happen each day when you’re homeless that an unexceptional gathering is both refreshing and exceptional.

The Port Church at Largs North
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church). Meal and takeaway bags of food. 4:30pm every Wednesday during school terms. Everything free. Free new clothing. No I.D. or registration requirements. Healthy food and generous people. Very safe atmosphere. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. Ice Dealers tried to establish a presence, but were defeated. Users still go there, but they’re interesting and worthy. Strange toilets. Open during school terms.

Early 13 September 2022

If you want to destroy the enemy, destroy their mind

​https://www.bitchute.com/video/xy7B5rJF3EKR/
13 September 2022
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(above) Seven million dollars of government money for a lawn bowling club at Elizabeth while homeless people camp in tents metres away. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

(above) A church promoting Hope at a free BBQ at Redwood Park/Ridgehaven. Also, a place to meet notorious felons who changed their ways. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

Fear at Fred’s Van City

The shopping trolley man sat alone watching us then sprung to his feet in a rage. He threw off his shirt and punched wildly into the air. No one reacted except by turning away to avoid being the focus of his anger. “He’s the only one I’m afraid of,” said a retired taxi driver from Broome. The 77-year-old can collector was also afraid of him and has lost his trademark smile. No one has faith the police or Fred’s Van staff would be of any use during an assault.

A third man approached and said the shopping trolley man was crazy. The taxi driver said this fellow was beaten senseless 18-months ago after being knocked to the concrete then repeatedly headbutted in the face.

A black African welcomed us to the Life Christian Centre version of Fred’s Van on Friday evenings. We’re getting used to that: African immigrants to Australia are devout Christians who set examples for the local crowd. The Fred’s Van client base is also representative of the general demographic that includes numerous black African homeless people. We’re normal in that regard and being of the homeless culture puts us in a separate stream of society that overrides racial characteristics.

The church crowd served sandwiches and fruit rather than the hot food those sleeping outside wanted. Even the coffee wasn’t hot enough. The insulated plastic vats had reasonably hot water, but that lost some of its thermal power during transit from their church on Angas Street. They should also let the milk warm at room temperature so it doesn’t cool the coffee. I wanted to say something, but feared they’d refuse service like at Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub where they ban critics, even homeless critics while shooting up at the front door presents little problem.

Goodwill was in abundance on Friday evening. Paul and another Casino gambler escorted the old can collector away from Hemmings Park to safety. Why a single homeless man pushing a shopping trolley creates so much fear is that in an insane rage with superhuman strength, he’s likely to commit fatal injuries without knowing what he’s doing.

Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. It is important not to become involved in others' battles or even to look certain people in the eye. 

12 September 2022

(above) Food dumped at an Elizabeth abandoned homeless camp. Food is plentiful in the homeless scene, but housing units remain empty and locked up. The homeless industry is corrupt and its leaders are frauds. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

On the Street

A friend handed me a flyer for the Aged Rights Advocacy Service in regard to the Salisbury Council stealing my tent and bedding. But an advocacy employee said they exist for those in the aged care system and not for old homeless people.

Second Editor

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Land Cruiser Ralph said he sees people living in their cars for days and weeks and he never see them get out.

This is similar to that car in North Adelaide with bed sheets covering the outside of the windows. Stuff appears and disappears outside the car, but except for one occasion I’ve never seen the occupant. Fear and shame and presenting oneself as a target are reasons for staying in cars without getting out.

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A disabled man was brought in by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth hospital. He doesn’t use drugs yet produced a positive result for methamphetamine. He’d been staying at Port Adelaide Backpackers and is now wary of accepting drinks from strangers, even water or coffee.

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Don Frater’s house in Sturt Street has a sad aura. Don was head of the Covid vaccine program in South Australia and he’ll be in trouble it if turns out the Covid injections killed a few thousand people.

One lucky break was Numan Mohammed pleading guilty to stabbing Kim Chau eighty times in his house. This protected Don and his wife from an open court trial examining what had been going on in their house.

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The LGBTQI white fellas at the Drop-In Care Space thought they’d gotten rid of the tribal Aboriginals from the front of their building at Whitmore Square. They put huge pot plants where the tribal mob sat. The mob relocated in front of their next door neighbour, but last Thursday returned to the Drop-In Care Space where they screamed and yelled with more vehemence than usual. The LGBTQI crowd have a fight that will be difficult to win because the black fellas are incredibly persistent.

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That fat fair-skinned white fella who lays on blankets on Hindley Street appears to be a homeless ring-in cashing in on the positive sentiment toward genuine street dwellers. The ring-ins arrive from home each morning then spread across the Adelaide CBD to beg or busk or pretend to sleep.

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The Freemasons gave C.H.A.T.S. $22,000 to fund their Friday free breakfasts in the Masonic hall then broke the news they now charged rent for use of the building. In the balance, the Port Adelaide Freemasons have done well in hosting C.H.A.T.S. especially during the Plandemic when the big money homeless outfits closed down.

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The Salvation Army published in their monthly magazine the various types of people suffering from the housing shortage. The classifications included nearly everyone except white men who are the majority of rough sleepers and car sleepers in Adelaide.

Why would the Army make an obviously false statement? The clue is to “follow the money trail”. White men are a persecuted group and attract very little government funding. There are also white women in the homeless scene who aren’t drunks or drug addicts. They are just without adequate shelter.

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A homeless man said the slow-cooked roast lamb meal at the Hutt Street Centre two weeks ago was “enough to die for”.

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The Sikh’s free food service at Hurtle Square isn’t much good. The food is cold, some of it straight from the fridge. They offer bottles of cold water on winter evenings, but not coffee. That’s why homeless people go to the Adelaide Day Centre soup van where the soup is hot and rich in flavour and vitality.

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Frankenstein bought another house at Red Hill for $35k. His mother is expected to move there from Elizabeth. What she’ll do there is anyone’s guess as it takes years to be accepted by the farming community surrounding Red Hill.

Meanwhile, Black Gold at Port Pirie got the invalid pension by claiming he suffered from incontinence. Black Gold is reputed to be crazier than Frankenstein.

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I met “the slasher” for the first time in five years. She remembered me, but couldn’t find a reason to pull out her piece of jagged glass and raise it near my throat as we spoke. She has mellowed over the years.

Second Editor

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Puddle Jumpers have instituted a policy of tormenting or outright banning of homeless people who criticise them either at their Western Food Hub or elsewhere.

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West Terrace Cemetery staff waited until closing time when they pulled the stone covers off graves in the Catholic section reserved for Sisters of Mercy nuns. They replaced the stone slabs with sheets of thick plywood, but visitors can still see areas of ruffled dirt. This destroys the illusion created by the polished granite and marble headstones. What happened to the body of Janet Mead who died earlier this year? She was from Adelaide Day Centre and the Sisters of Mercy.

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A health inspector visited the Semaphore Uniting Church in preparation for the opening of a free Thursday lunch service. The inspector listed 35 infringements on the modern kitchen currently used by the Seeds of Infinity prisoner group. Dust on a window sill is an infringement.

The church was forced to pay for the inspection and must make the corrections that are mainly cleanliness issues. But even these excessive rules and regulations haven’t discouraged the plan.

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A Baptist WestCare client said her heart was in knots after Linley May Earl, 62, died in May this year at the Joyce Sneadon Reserve at Port Adelaide. But she is fine now because a shooting star told her Linley had made it to Heaven.

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An employee of the South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance told Adelaide Homeless Journal the new government under Premier Peter Malinauskas claimed they’d made savings in some departments. But the employee said her section had been getting overtime moving invoices to other departments and that there hadn’t been any savings.

11 September 2022
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(above) Tenant of this HousingSA house in Elizabeth South put her furniture in the middle of the street during the night. A friend smashed the windows of her house then she told police the neighbour who helped her clean up had done it. She was sent to prison. Ice addict. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)

​Into the maelstrom

Lutheran Cornerstone Housing nightmare

A disabled man faced homelessness due to disputes with neighbours. He was technically homeless living in someone’s back yard then moved to a medical halfway house, then that drug joint called Port Adelaide Backpackers. He left the Backpackers in an ambulance then was released and did the rounds again this time adding Scotty’s Motel and the Sombrero Motel then returning to the back yard. The government paid for the lot.

During this process he had a dozen welfare workers helping him negotiate the revolving door game from one joint to another. Everyone was a winner except himself especially when his huge National Disability Insurance Scheme financial package ran out. His loyal paid workers abandoned him though he wasn’t in as bad shape as those losers at One Care in Woodville West. They sat in their own faeces when their annual allotment ran out a month before renewal. Nevertheless, our disabled man was left without support in his time of need.

The Western Adelaide Homeless Connect joint in Lipson Street in Port Adelaide was his next call. Their previous name was Homeless Gateway, but that had too many connotations with a locked gate barring entry. They required him to contact a dozen housing associations before offering anything. It was a rite of passage despite numerous government funded associations telling Homeless Connect to stop referring clients as they hadn’t any vacancies. But he still had to perform this circus act. Being a white man made it even harder.

UnitingSA had also fed off the carcass of the man’s N.D.I.S. funding. An employee gave him a list of rooming houses to contact. Wasn’t that kind? Another employee drove to his motel and helped phone them. A problem arose when owners said they hadn’t been in the rooming house business for years. UnitingSA had provided a four-year-old list. The employee who drove to the motel and made the calls charged the man’s N.D.I.S. account $300 for this service. No wonder the cash ran out.

Lutheran Cornerstone Housing came to the rescue. They manage a complex of units in Salisbury. The Housing Manager was an unpaid worker himself trying to get better housing for his family.

The tiny units were designed by idealists with no understanding of the levels of distress, disability and outright insanity of their future tenants.

The disabled man could barely move in this unit. Boxes lined the walls and covered his bed. He’d previously lived in a two-bedroom Housing Trust unit. Now he slept on a recliner chair in front of a screen playing instructive youtube videos all night. He is a high-functioning A.D.H.D. man with an intellect superior to 95% of the population. And he mocked those less clever than himself, which included nearly everyone.

One solid door from his unit led to a common room used by other tenants. Our man would arrive home smelling dope smoke that had seeped underneath the door. His fellow tenants pounded on the door asking for food, tobacco, money and car rides to other places. When the man cooked a meal he had a tenant banging on the door saying he was hungry.

The police were frequent visitors and on one occasion used a battering ram to gain entry to a neighbour’s unit who had threatened to kill himself. On another occasion, a neighbour cut his wrists to the bone. A problem these weak-willed tenants suffered was being predated upon by drug addicts using their units to host three day parties.

The Cornerstone Housing Manager had hoped the disabled man would influence the other tenants to amend their ways such as paying rent. This clearly failed. The man also talked to others about the insane behaviour happening in the complex, which contradicted the propaganda published by Cornerstone Housing. It was time for another revolving door transfer. Now, what would be the worse place he could go? Perhaps a women’s shelter that had adopted the diversity program of introducing men as fellow tenants. This is what happened.

Stay reading for the next instalment in two weeks.

Early 10 September 2022

(above) Campsite of 71-year-old homeless man at The Paddocks, Para Hills, a suburb of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal Aug 2022.)

(above) The Salisbury Council Compliance Unit waited until the man was absent to take everything. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

From the anonymous contact page

much gout about ? got Chilblains whilst living homeless roughshod in Adelaide Hills (7 years).

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chilblains/symptoms-causes/syc-20351097#:~:text=Chilblains%20(CHILL%2Dblayns)%20are,on%20your%20hands%20and%20feet .

feel sorry fer old fella kicked and knocked about even when tent mattress living then rug pulled out from under him by council criminal thugs.

does not spell well for those of us in similar situations. prepare for worse times ahead.

might be good to list some worthy departure schemes i.e. Youth In Asia, Peaceful Pill etc.

Second Editor: Life is too interesting.
Late 9 September 2022

From the anonymous contact page

"P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e
and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$."
i.e. toe$. no$e one end, toe$ other end.
btw those little bloody toe patches are called chilbains.

Late 9 September 2022
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(above) Someone found a use for at least one face mask outside the methadone depot on Langford Drive in Elizabeth. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

The vandals took the handles and the hairdresser went walkabout

My attempt to arrive clean for a haircut was foiled by someone stealing the shower attachments at Ingle Farm Salvation Army. This didn’t matter because the hairdresser at Unley Salvos didn’t turn up on a Monday and hasn’t been seen since.

Brenton with the glass eye welcomed me then told of free food at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea in Glenelg. No I.D. required, he said. An interesting thin woman talked about being stared at, weight stabilisation and acidity. I mumbled a response to her while staring at the table.

A retired nurse was fascinated by talk of the homeless industry in Adelaide. Like most people, she didn’t realise it was a concrete and electronic jungle of predators disguised as helpers. She asked three times where I was camping then added that she’d had a fall and banged her head.

The meal included a vegetarian version of lasagne and salad with coffee and desert of cake and slices of fresh pineapple. The surprise was the gentleness of both clients and staff. So different from Playford Corps and even worse, Elizabeth Fred’s Van.

Salvation Army Unley
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839. Free quality lunch every Monday at 12:30pm. Dining room service or eat in the courtyard. Free quality coffee. No I.D. or registration required. Hairdresser disappeared, but might return. Pleasant guests, employees and volunteers. Well arranged building. Most over 70. The dishwasher is 92. Coffee and cake on Saturdays from 9:30am to 12:30pm.

Early 8 September 2022
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(above) A clever homeless family at this long-abandoned camp used the RAAF base fence as protection on one side and railway fencing for another. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

(above) The family topped their protective fence with barbed wire as this was the most dangerous camp outside the West Terrace Cemetery area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) What happened to this homeless family is not known. Thousands of adults and children live in government-funded motels on Main North and Glen Osmond Roads. This defies logic because 2000 government-owned public houses and flats sit empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

Moore Street on Saturdays in the city

“I like to see fear in their eyes,” the homeless man punching the air with his fists and feet says as he looks me in the eye. Others move away from the inner section of the laneway leaving me in the front line.

A man in his mid-seventies says he’s glad I’m between him and the fists. The angry man says he’s going to obliterate all dogs, mutts, paedophiles and the woman who stole his dole money and I.D.

Before his rage blossomed, he said he’d been homeless all his life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Another homeless man says he wishes he had a warm bed to sleep in tonight instead of twenty feet up a tree. A third man carrying a swag says the benefit of being homeless is that if trouble starts, it’s easy to move away. A fourth homeless man sits away from us, on the ground. He dislikes chairs.

Dennis the Menace lumbers enters the laneway on his walking frame. He complains of not getting the various supplementary Covid and cost-of-living-increase payments. He cracks a dirty joke and talks of Mr Wilson on the Dennis the Menace TV show of the late 1950’s.

Nearly everyone here tonight is a replacement for diners six years ago. The turnover is incredible though a few tough characters stay for decades. For the others disappeared, their only contact with their past life in the homeless scene is via this website. That’s why reader contributions are valuable.

A Chinese man and woman bring prepared food in large aluminium disposable trays. They’re the diplomats of the government’s white replacement policy. They’re not much different from us. I don’t see what they bring, but of the three choices of main course on the menu, I choose veggie bake. Instead of the usual blown-up quiche this was restaurant quality with fetta wrapped in cabbage and other foods hard to identify in the dim light. One diner from the Crony Gang says it’s the best food he’s ever had at Moore Street on Saturdays.

Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.

7 September 2022
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​From the anonymous contact page

Zorry to read about Knot $ea$ Commy$ $tealing campzite and gear from old partially blind crippled fella. welcome to eternal $hame... vile!

P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$.

AVOID Knot $ea$ Commy$. Juzt like 911 Chernobl, Knot $ea$ Commy$ have plenty more Bad Karma on the way.
Never trust New$...
New$ are the real Knot $ea$ Commy$ Terri$ Fa$hu$ Ray$hu$...

NO New$ iz Good Newz.

ZORRO ZALLAM

7 September 2022
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(above) Food for homeless people is plentiful in Adelaide if you know the game. Housing is the area of corruption with enough long-term empty dwellings to give each homeless person two flats or units. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

Fred’s Van Adelaide city

“I’m back,” a plaintive voice near the front of the queue calls in the dim light of early evening. Conversation iss muted in anticipation of the van.

Shane tells The Ghost Who Walks about finding an unoccupied house in Burnside then moving in. The neighbours welcomed him with gifts of furniture and food. The gas was still on. He mowed the lawn and planted flowers. He stayed there for two years until mentioning to the Hutt Street Centre that he didn’t actually know who the owner was. “That’s illegal,” said a social worker and within days moved him into a cheap rental unit. We smiled at that.

“Are you there?” the plaintive voice calls with a hint of desperation. The tennis balls are still stuck in the wall of the Education Department building. We marvel at the strength of the man who threw them, then died of a brain tumour.

A woman chats up a younger man. “I wasn’t talking to you,” he says. She is unperturbed and moves closer. It’s going to be a cold night. “I don’t want to know you,” he says, but clearly does.

Two white women greet Spanish Tony. He’s 77 with a history of strokes and heart attacks. He collects cans from rubbish bins and won’t catch buses to Kent Town even though they’re free. One of the homeless women has eyes like actress Glenda Jackson when she was young. The woman says she’s lucky being homeless as a friend will always put her up if she’s desperate. “For a short time,” a veteran in the homeless scene says. Daniel from Para Hills had a similar viewpoint, “At first, yes,” he said, “but not after awhile.” He got a cheap rental unit via the Aspire Program at the Hutt Street Centre.

Life Christian Centre does Friday Fred’s Van as usual. They give away everything after everyone has been served. This includes of bottle of milk without a cap.“It hasn’t a lid,” Jay calls out when a church volunteer offers it to an old man. The old boy accepts it then fills a water bottle with milk then drinks from what is left over, then drops it into the rubbish bin.
The cold wind chases diners to their homes or camps or spaces in doorways. The screeching of roller doors from the State government parking station triggers my mind to 42 years previously when the building was the Unemployment Workers Union. Life wasn’t good then, but old age has treated me kindly.

Hemmings Park is empty except for the homeless man who lives in his car at a disability parking spot. He owns two generators to power his breathing machine. ​

I amble through outdoor corridors back of the Reserve Bank feeling a sweet melancholy of a life sadly lived then drive back to the beach carpark where I sleep.

Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet.

Early 6 September 2022

(above) Cancer Ray's tents in disarray after he moved to into housing last week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

C.H.A.T.S. Port Adelaide

The joint was hopping from the opening bell. The clowns, the jesters and the solid folk gathered for the breakfast that resembled a fashion slow and a friendly prize fight.

It was also Blokes’ Day rather than Father’s Day because that excluded men who didn’t have children, or wanted to forget they had them. The Darling sisters and staff handed us bags of toilet items and striped multi-coloured scarves and beanies or blankets.

Staff also gave us fruit, vegetables and bread of various quality plus a few grocery items as well as the raffle that I believe is rigged because I never win.

Breakfast included bacon and egg muffins, cooked fresh tomatoes, spinach, baked beans, mushrooms and, I think, sausages. Also, toast with Vegemite or jam, chopped fruit, yoghourt, cereals, lots of cakes, coffee and tea.

Staff target homeless people for extra gifts and offers of stuff that might be useful. This is a key measure of quality of any service for homeless and underclass people.

One of the Darling sisters said the rumour she paid $45k to install the elevator wasn’t true, but she did admit to helping a man stay at a hotel for a short period.

Diners included Maxine from Bronwyn Plate’s Free Food Basket, Ash from the Street, the Assistant Verger from the Semaphore Uniting Church, two former police officers, Jeffery with his oxygen bottle who came close to death from Covid last month and Shane Whelan. The Masonic hall isn’t big enough to seat everyone so a portion of diners arrive half an hour late to get a seat.

C.H.A.T.S. don’t require any form of registration so diners can go there without having their name put on some data base. And diners feel good after being there. Diners don’t fight and argue like at some other joints.

C.H.A.T.S., Our Street Family Matters, COS We Care and Puddle Jumpers are examples of effective services to the underclass and homeless people, and more miraculously, don’t receive government funding. It's ironic that these outfits that don't promote Jesus offer help unconditionally while the big money religious homeless service corporations resemble vipers offering poisoned fruit. 

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff except free toilet paper.

Second Editor
Early 5 September 2022
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Living in the car

Life has changed in the six days since the Salisbury Council stole my tent, mattress, pillow, blanket, stove, chairs, tables and cooking pot. Sleeping in the back of an SUV has its challenges.

One is difficulty getting in and out with so little headroom. Another is getting dressed and undressed for the same reason. And I still haven’t obtained a strip of foam to use as a mattress. My 71-year-old back hurts all the time now. 

Cooking presents another difficulty as everything has to be moved in and out of the car rather than leaving it outside at the camp each day.

The benefit of sleeping in the car is mobility. Depending on where I am that day, I can sleep nearby without having to drive long distances back to the tent. And it feels safer in the car. Those thin sheets of nylon and fly offer no protection at all. If anything, they are an impediment to escape if attacked.

Anyway, this is my new life, sleeping in a car for better or for worse. Life throws some strange curve balls.

Second Editor
Early 5 September 2022

"Funny Guy" returned with pants down

The “Funny Guy” whom I caught wearing girl’s underwear and doing rude stuff on my bed returned just before the Salisbury Council stole my tent.

He kept a distance of 30 metres while playing with himself in a somewhat gross manner. He looked me in the eye and didn’t seem bothered in any way.

After ignoring him for ten minutes, I looked up and he was still there. He left a few minutes later. When you’re homeless, you see all kinds of stuff that previously was invisible.

Early 5 September 2022
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(above) Salisbury Council Compliance Unit with police leaving after telling two elderly campers to remove their tents within 48-hours or Council workers would seize the tents, bedding and chairs. Mayor Gillian Aldridge extended the deadline to Monday 29 August. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

​Oz Nomad on China and drugs

I don't know about you Guys and Gals but I'm finding it harder and harder to sleep. The thought of another War, this time with China!!!. Meth price's would go thru "The Roof" (as most comes from me ol' china,) as well as many young working people drafted into the ADF........So who's going to work to pay my DSP, and what about "My Worker?".

Terrible Times Indeed. Gets so a Bludger with decades of Bludging Skills is getting SERIOUSLY WORRIED!. Time for "Calmer Heads" to Reign. Never have SMACK HEAD'S been more NEEDED. Fact.

Oz Nomad
4 September 2022
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​On the Street

An insider says the Salvation Army is stopping its free food services in Adelaide except at Elizabeth East and in the city.

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A female tenant of a women’s shelter phoned the police after a man moved into one of the units. She didn’t know that management had changed its tenanting policy.

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A woman stopped washing for years after her boyfriend disappeared to the Philippines and returned with another woman he’d married. Her self-esteemed crumbled. Years later, a Lutheran church offered her a free makeover with professional groomers and hairdressers. The woman cried for three days saying she wasn’t worth it.

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The Seventh-day Adventist free monthly evening meal wasn’t any good last week. The food was terrific, but it was cold. Why should the cooks spend their own money and most of a day to prepare such a feast then serve it cold? It’s self-sabotage.

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Puddle Jumpers cancelled its suburban free food truck service. Their call centre receptionist cited the problem of getting volunteers, especially drivers.

They continue their Monday evening truck service at Hurtle Square in Adelaide and the Hindmarsh food hub remains open. See the Free Food Guide for more details.

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The public pervert returned to the Salisbury park where the Compliance Unit stole a homeless man’s tent and bedding. The pervert is one of many who prowl the area day and night. This one dresses in girl’s underwear and plays with himself in public. He and the other perverts are actually helpful to homeless campers as they chase away the thugs. A bit gross to watch, but one develops a selective blindness.

But we know the Salisbury Council doesn’t tolerate deviants such as homeless people not having shelter and camping in parks.

4 September 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

“Yes, what a crazy crash. The crack pipe flamed out, "Down, Down", the Buzz was gone. The Children were still naked and hungry. So many crackheads? Step on them wherever you meet them.”
Oz Nomad
4 September 2022

(above) A homeless camper back of the Para Banks shopping centre at Elizabeth. There are 2000 empty HousingSA homes in South Australia, most of them in Adelaide. It's administrative corruption with Minister of Human Services, Natalie "Call me Nat" Cook, leading the pack. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Adelaide Day Centre soup van

The soup van is too good to shut down during the warmer months. In winter, the soup could be a little hotter, but the legacy of Founder Janet Mead lives on. Her life was a decent life.

Two men in the homeless scene have spent years talking about wanting to die. They have the same conversation every week as if playing a recorded loop. Yet they’re the oldest men in the homeless culture and have outlived most of their peers. One is rich and the other poor.

The soup van got 24 clients while the Krishna Consciousness mob a few minutes earlier got only a dozen. Both are excellent.

But with all the quality food services in the Adelaide CBD, the glaring deficiency is finding a safe place to sleep. We’re all sleep deprived and the homeless industry doesn’t care unless there is money in it for them. And when the cash does emerge, the bureaucrats grab most of it for counselling and data collecting leaving little for actually building and buying accommodation.

Adelaide Day Centre Soup Van
Hurtle Square opposite Carrington Cottages at 6:30pm and Whitmore Square at 7:00pm. Variety of free quality soups and bread every evening except Saturdays. Operates 1st Monday in May to early October. Free. No I.D. required. No questions asked. Sometimes blankets available. Interesting clients from Lazy and Crazy Cottages, but residents of Angry Cottage tend to be bad tempered.

1 September 2022

Fred’s Van in the city

Even Fred’s Van in the city had fewer diners than usual last Friday evening. Frank the busker was his trademark cheerful self despite being unhappy. He said the “fat guy” at the Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury owes him five-dollars. Frank fought with this aged university academic earlier this year over the sale of a guitar case. Diners at the BBQ favoured the academic and also accused Frank of exposing his sausage to a group of elderly woman. Frank denies the allegations and says they were peeking while he was siphoning the python.

Life Christian Centre did the Friday Fred’s Van meal as usual in place of St Vincent de Paul. I was happy they didn’t have sausages and offered takeaway bags instead: one type for meat eaters and the other for vegetarians. They served coffee in the style of Vinnies: not hot enough to be used as a weapon.

The old crowd have dwindled over the past six years. This is where we come to die so few last more than a decade. It’s a culture of old men.

Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by Life Christian Centre, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van.

1 September 2022

ShelterSA boarding house information

https://www.sheltersa.asn.au/site/wp-content/uploads/SSA_BOARDING_INFO_BOOKLET-FINAL.pdf

1 September 2022
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(above) New tents in Elizabeth, a suburb in northern Adelaide. Even renting a room in a bedbug rooming house can take nearly all a person's unemployment payments. Living outside is a sensible option. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) Another view of the tent complex. The South Australian state government keeps 2000 houses and units empty. Anglicare (Believe) Housing has retirement units empty for three years. Those controlling the housing system deserve no respect. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

There was no reprieve

​There was no reprieve. Salisbury Council employees waited until the next day to steal my tent and bedding. They waited until I was elsewhere so there were no hostile witnesses, namely, myself.
Calling the offices of the Minister of Local Government and Minister of Human Services meant nothing. Even the Mayor of Salisbury, Gillian Aldridge, proved useless. Nothing in it for them.  

Council employees guided by the Compliance Unit took everything. Stove, chairs, table, an excellent mattress, blankets, pillow, the tent and a new tarp.

Sleeping in a car you wouldn’t want for your worst enemy. There are no flat services in the metal and plastic box. Nothing beats the earth for a good sleep providing you’re warm and dry and free from mosquitos.

Yes, the mosquitos, they won’t be missed. Nor those Council employees who organised and stole the equipment I need for basic survival. They didn’t have the courage or tendency to refuse to do that job.

Second Editor
31 August 2022

(above) A client at the government-funded Anglicare Magdalene joint in Adelaide said the receptionists take a photograph of each new client and required what appeared to be a voice print. Staff no longer trust free food clients to enter the store, but bring out bags containing their choices. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) The Anglicare Magdalene centre in Gilbert Street, Adelaide has a very low counter that humiliates clients. Receptionist/guards bristling with passive aggression hide behind Plexiglass. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Salisbury Council delay taking
​man's tent and bedding

The Salisbury Council Compliance Unit employees didn’t arrive as threatened at 3:00pm yesterday. The four crew cab Council trucks in the carpark moved out and didn’t return. The front man for the Unit never phoned to say why they hadn’t taken the elderly homeless man’s tent and bedding.

Tomorrow is another day, but it’s just a matter of time before they strike. One Council employee said the old man had brought it on himself and by implication, the employees would be guiltless taking his shelter and bedding.

Early 30 August 2022
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Stolen toilet paper

The preacher said it hurt. He was hopping mad saying the culprit could confess within 24-hours or be banned for life. “You will be found,” he said. He looked at me, the only homeless person in the crowd.

Someone stole the hand sanitiser and paper from all the toilets. We silently guessed the identity of the thief, but that is an unhealthy process. Nevertheless, we assumed the thief was a hoarder rather than actually needing it. Of my suspect, I felt pity rather than anger. But I could be wrong.

Second Editor

ONE Life Church Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Ave, Parafield Gardens, Ph 08 8258 3865. Wednesdays at 1:00pm. Free bread, vegetables, fruit and hot coffee. No I.D. or registration required. Most clients over 60 or refugee-types. Clients allowed into clean friendly Café from about 10:30am for free instant coffee. Hot food for sale, but no obligation. Occasional free child care during free food event. Pleasant church staff. No druggies. Clean toilets. Vegetables vary in quality week to week.

Early 30 August 2022

(above) Ray's camp on the Le Fevre Peninsula. He has terminal cancer and was evicted from Unity Housing. He was removed to another address last week after rough sleeping for one year. He is intelligent and courageous. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Salisbury Council plans to take homeless man’s bedding and tent in one hour

An employee of the Salisbury Council Compliance Unit phoned the homeless camper at The Paddocks reserve in Para Hills at 1:00pm.

There were four Council crew cab trucks parked behind trees next to the homeless man’s tent.

At least one person had put the camp under surveillance. There had been four Council crew cab trucks parked behind trees next to the homeless man’s tent. Someone phoned the Compliance Unit man who then phoned the homeless man saying they were taking his tent, bedding and camping equipment at 3:00pm. This gave the 71-year-old time to move his camp, but to where?

The old man phoned the Salisbury Mayor saying the Minister’s office had ordered HousingSA to locate rental housing for him. He was hoping for another reprieve. She didn’t answer the phone so he left a message.
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The next call was to the office of the Minister of Human Services who passed the buck to the Minister of Local Government from where an employee passed the buck back to the first Minister, but then agreed to look into it.

Editor
2:30pm, 29 August 2022

Moving in silent desperation

This is all secondary to you,” a fellow diner commented as I sat at the back of the Salisbury Institute hall in a daze. For once, I could identify with the homeless drug addicts more than the general underclass diners present in the historic hall.

Desperation is the key to our lives. Frivolity and intellectual discussion becomes secondary to basic carnal survival. The homeless addicts have the dual desperation of drugs and constant threat of instant loss of their bedding and sleep. I’m lucky, my risk is simply my campsite with a slight chance of physical attack during the night.

My fellow camper across the crest of the hill couldn’t take the pressure of uncertainty and with his children arriving to help, he packed up yesterday morning and headed onto the open road, searching for a place of refuge. We are refugees in our own land.

It is unlikely the Salisbury Council Compliance Unit will attack today with the police, but further onward in the week is anyone’s guess. The Minister of Human Services asked HousingSA to explore possible housing options so that is an impediment to quick action by the hated Compliance Unit. Hated by homeless people, anyway. Perhaps loved by others. And for the record, I didn’t ask the Minister for aid. I phoned the department asking if living in a squat qualified to get the cost-of-living-increase supplementary payment promised by the new government. That question, of course, remains unanswered.

But when you’re out of the loop, you’re out. Your philosophy is deemed an illness. Compliance is the only way back in. Our way of life here is little different from that of any other regime.

29 August 2022
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​Inside Job at the museum

From the anonymous contact page

“Was perched in back of SAGOV SAM Museum when young white feller in white street gear came running up and past me with backpack.

He ran straight into the back entrance of SAM.
Soon another feller (oriental) came following and asking for runaway.
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Pointed out SAM [South Australian Museum] to him.
While later the asking feller came out and told me the Wilson Security at the museum (SAM) could not help him with fella just stole his pack.”

29 August 2022
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Oz Nomad speaks about drugs

From the anonymous contact page

WoW!, 1.8 ton of Meth has just been seized entering Australia!......that's 1,800 kilos, 1.8 million grams, 18 million points!
"Terrain Terrain"
"Pull Up, Pull Up"
"Terrain Terrain"
"We're going DOWN!, Crack Pipe Flame Out"!
Yes it's another season of "Meth Crash Investigations"

Oz Nomad
29 August 2022
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Hare Krishna at Hurtle Square

That woman who wears multiple coats haunts my thoughts. She speaks to none. She carries a large backpack. She resembles homeless people everywhere, overcome by circumstances and having lost the art of easy speech.

Only a dozen people were there last Monday in the cold wind despite the official homeless numbers at nearly their highest level ever. Carrots were the main ingredient in the rice and curry dish that was tasty, nevertheless. Carrots were everywhere in the homeless scene last week. You couldn’t get away from them.

The Krishnas also served round Indian doughnuts much sweeter than those with holes in them. Cordial was the drink of choice. No wine list. They never serve wine with meals. They had enough food for thirty people so anyone wanting more could get it to take back to their camps. Even jaded homeless scene members are still astounded at the quality of free meals in Adelaide.

Second Editor

Krishna Consciousness
Hurtle Square, Adelaide. Near the bus shelter on Pulteney Street. Outdoor food van. 6:00 to 6:30pm Monday and Friday. Sentient. They no longer hit troublesome clients with iron bars. Quality free vegetarian food served on plates. Eat standing up in the park or you can take it with you. Free. Nice. Indians go there pretending to be underclass. No strings attached: they don’t require I.D. or registration or payment.

29 August 2022
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(above) Two Salisbury Council employees brought the police then told elderly homeless campers they would be charged with trespassing if they weren't gone by Wednesday 24 August. As to the park perverts who do rude stuff around the children's play area at night: no problems. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Police visit homeless camp during night

I woke up to a bright light shining on the my tent for five minutes. Then car doors quietly closing followed by speech at the other tent over the hill.

The occupant couldn’t sleep so was awake to talk to police who wanted to see his identification. They didn’t bother me, then left.

The other camper left a few hour later after being helped to pack up by his family. The Salisbury Council Compliance Unit will be happy at this outcome.

Second Editor
28 August 2022

Sound Advice

From the anonymous contact page

​"Chased away from the port, now being chased away from Salisbury, what does it feel like being treated like you're indigenous? Maybe you should start identifying as a woman. And contact the media claiming Salisbury council is transphobic? Sarah Hanson Young may organise a protest on your behalf? Maybe fly a Ukrainian flag at your campsite? Ask Salisbury council, do you stand with Ukraine or Russians?

"Have some fun with them old boy?"

Second Editor: Good ideas.
28 August 2022

A helpful thinker

From the anonymous contact page

"Thought you might be interested in this video. The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) have looked into the "Housing First" model (credited to Dr. Sam Tsemberis) which California fully implemented in 2016 and has led to staggering increases in California's population ever since. It highlights a stack of issues with it's implementation, the almost complete destruction and removal of services existing prior and a scary look at the ideological beliefs at the core of the Housing First model.

"This was released in June 2022 and has one on interviews with a number of people. Some of the statements made by Dr. Tsemberis and his supporters around capatalism being responsible for homelessness and that the wealthy should be forced to bear financial responsibility for it are mindblowing to me. There seems to be a complete inability to consider any practical and/or actionable solutions to addressing the issues within reasonable timeframes.

"The Adelaide Zero Project report produced by Mercury Foundation repeats the same "lofty vision" of ideological nonsense while also mentioning how Adelaide is in no position now or in the near future to even implement a Housing First model. The model has failed (and now considered a failure worldwide) where ever it's been implemented.

"For the record, I currently use some of the homeless services in Adelaide, have been through Aspire, currently with a community housing provider and would be homeless right now (for the second time after being moved into homeless by my current housing provider) if I hadn't stood firm and let them take me SACAT. The outcome went my my.

"Anyway, I discovered your blog a couple of months ago and I was completely shocked by what I read. Keep up the good work."

Here's the YouTube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IHEMHc2yfY    

Second Editor: Thankyou. This is helpful and educational information.
28 August 2022

On the Street

Port Adelaide Enfield Council hired a new employee to liaise between homeless people and Homeless Connect.

Yet Homeless Connect was itself formed to liaise between homeless groups and homeless people. This is ridiculous.

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Diners in that lousy Elizabeth shopping centre food court sneered and jeered at a man dressed like a woman and wearing high heels. One woman pulled her children away for fear of being harmed by the cross-dresser.

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A classy homeless person set up a tent outside the front door of Baptist WestCare in Miller’s Court, Adelaide near Whitmore Square. It didn’t last long. The homeless industry quietly applauds such behaviour, but not on their property.

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Anyone phoning a government-funded charity knows the knife-edge nature of getting an appointment or being told to phone back the next day. Staff answer phones at 9:00am then by 9:15am, all positions have been taken for that day.

One gentleman has four phones so he phones four charities at once putting each phone on redial. He said this has guaranteed success and he agreed to share this secret with our readers.

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A man at the St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore said the government spent $280,000 of N.D.I.S. money on him in the previous 12-months. He’s thinking of quitting N.D.I.S. as he gets little of value by the time the cash is filtered through multiple layers of bureaucracy.

His African Carer and her employer got $120 to bring him to the breakfast. She sat in her car fiddling with her phone then came in for the free breakfast and picked up some free groceries. At least she didn’t shove him around like some Carers do with their clients.

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Frank, the Rundle Mall busker, is homeless. He’d rented a place in Salisbury for 17 years, but was kicked out three-months ago. There was an issue with damage caused to the property. And Frank’s bond didn’t cover it because the landlord hadn’t lodged it with the Tenancy Tribunal or whatever it was called in those days.

“You’re going to your warm tent and I’m sleeping in the cold,” Frank said, jokingly as we parted at Fred’s Van in the city.

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A soup kitchen addict said he impersonated a police detective and confiscated other addicts’ drugs.

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Old Nieta stayed home for a Housing Trust house inspection, but the snoop didn’t turn up. This is common with the Housing Trust and the so-called “non-profit” housing corporations.

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UnitingSA hasn’t decided the future of its Moose free fortnightly meal for isolated people. The decision may be made early next year. Their priorities were displayed by cancelling this Wednesday’s meal due to electrical work on the building. In another era, they would have moved to another location for that week. Not now.

UnitingSA has never reeled in so much money, but priorities are profit and loss and maintaining big salaries. The old Port Adelaide Central Mission has become a corporation.

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Semaphore Uniting Church on Semaphore Road at Exeter plans to revive their pre-Covid Thursday lunches, but this new version will be free. Their previous version charged money and was called the Friendship Cafe, but closed down when the Friendship staff turned on each other.

Port Adelaide Semaphore Salvation Army is based 200 metres south of the church. Head office assigned two salaried Majors to spend six months examining free meal services then decided not to provide such a service. No money in it. Exeter Salvos follow the money trail and it led them to childcare and refugee services.

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Adelaide’s revolutionary urinator worries that he’ll be mistaken for a perverted exhibitionist when his aim is to highlight the lack of decent toilets in Adelaide for homeless people.

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A soup kitchen woman said her partner stomped on her false teeth then flushed them down the toilet. She hopes to get another set.

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Another, older soup kitchen woman within a few months of getting the Aged Pension says getting 100 points a month to stay on the dole isn’t too hard. She got 25 points for attending a Job Network interview and 5 points for each job application. Doesn’t this sound a bit like the Chinese Social Credit system?

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Salisbury Council staff and elected officials recommended to a homeless man that he go to a “lovely” place called Tony’s Rooming House. But a man living in one of Tony’s houses said they’re infested with drug addicts who make so much noise at night that he can’t sleep. And bedbugs.

The moral of the story is never trust government officials.

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Three Aboriginal boys robbed a white man aged about fifty outside the Salisbury town centre WestPac bank ATM the Thursday before last at 7:30pm. The man suffered abrasions, cracked teeth and bruised ribs, kidneys and liver.

Police identified the boys, but said they wouldn’t press charges because they were under 16 and they might be criticised for racial abuse. The victim can’t collect compensation from Victims of Crime because police aren’t charging the boys. Nor can the victim get cheap treatment at the Dental Hospital because he works at a $23 an hour job and doesn’t qualify for a concession card. His teeth are extremely painful and he’s up for a $3000 dental bill.

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A very young woman dressed in a gown appeared at Fred’s Van Salisbury last Sunday evening. She walked around in circles then was led off by “Matt”. She pushed his shopping trolley of bedding. They both live in front of the $43 million Salisbury Council Citadel.

She serviced three Somalians in the St Augustine’s cemetery later that night then washed herself out using the drinking tap in front of the Citadel.

Correction: The woman in the gown didn't service the Somalian men. The gown lady is 35. It was a teenager wearing normal clothing who does that. She mutters to herself on the streets, brain damaged by Ice and perhaps and underlying condition. 

28 August 2022

(above) Bedding on a concrete verandah near the $43 million Salisbury Council Citadel. Two people were sleeping at either end yesterday evening at 7:30pm. One had a continuous cough. Meanwhile, Salisbury HousingSA (Housing Trust) has lots of empty houses awaiting repair, demolition or special interest tenants such as deserving refugees who haven't arrived yet. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Yes, Minister

A government employee at the concessions hotline said on Wednesday the cost-of-living-increase payment would not be paid to homeless people. They had to be living in a “household”.

I phoned the Department of Premier on Thursday who passed the buck to the Minister of Human Services, Natalie “Call me Nat” Cook. An employee there said they were bound by the legislation that excluded homeless people. I asked if moving into an empty building as a squatter would qualify as not being homeless and therefore make me eligible for the payment. He said he’d look into it.

A senior employee from the Modbury HousingSA office phoned on Friday saying she’d been told by the Minister’s office to explore ways of finding me rental housing.

That wasn’t why I called the Minister’s office, but played along. We talked and she said she’d get back to me. I expect she’ll recommend Tony’s Rooming House or a caravan park.

Meanwhile, the Minister’s office hasn’t answered the question of whether a homeless person can qualify for the cost-of-living-increase payment by moving into a squat. They are paranoid about us knowing the regulations.

Monday should be a big day as the Salisbury Council told two campers to remove their tents by then. Where can we move? A rooming house full of bedbugs and drug addicts? One camper said he’s seriously thinking of moving into his retirement unit still vacant six months after being evicted by Anglicare and the S.A.C.A.T. Tribunal. How would those demons in the government-funded Anglicare (Believe) Housing react to that?

As to the tents in the park, one Council employee said they’d arrive with the police and we’d be given 10 minutes to leave the area.

There are no innocent parties in this conflict, but homeless people face predators of one sort or another every day of their lives. This is within the context of HousingSA and RenewSA having 2000 empty houses and units. Isn’t this corruption of a third world scale?

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Second Editor
27 August 2022

Richard’s religious BBQ

Richard’s mob is in Whitmore Square once a month at about 4:30pm, but they don’t have a strict schedule. These people really believe in the power of Jesus. One Believer said Adam damaged the human race who are heading for Hell unless they renounce evil and believe in Jesus. One of those at Whitmore Square was the man who tried to revive Linley May Earl, a 62-year-old "white" woman at the Joyce Snadden reserve rotunda in Port Adelaide. She died. He is a true Believer.

They didn’t have a BBQ, but gave out biscuits and prepared food and coffee. They offered brand new top quality blankets and cheapo sleeping bags. This will be useful if the Salisbury Council take my tent and bedding.

Richard was at Baptist WestCare then went on long service leave then got cancer, then recovered and began this effort in Whitmore Square. He’s widely respected by the homeless crowd despite most of them not believing in Jesus or Salvation. Being homeless and seeing so many homeless industry employees driving company cars makes one cynical.

No one in Richard’s group gets paid. Their next appearance will be Friday the 16th of September at about 4:30pm at Whitmore Square. This leaves time to rush over to Hurtle Square for the Hare Krishna vegetarian meal at 6:00pm, the Adelaide Day Centre soup van at 6:30pm then Fred’s Van at Gawler Place at 7:00pm. Or to sneak off to your homeless site before dark and try to get deep sleep before the anxiety takes over.

27 August 2022

(above) Free food on Wednesdays at Ingle Farm Salvation Army. Nothing like the glory days. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)

(above) No questions asked for free food at Ingle Farm Salvation Army on Wednesdays, but if you want better stuff be prepared for a third-degree interrogation. They also have a no questions asked free shower room. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Thursday at the
​Salisbury homeless camp

A man brought leaflets for the Para Hills Thursday free meal done by the Adelaide Life (Victory) Church. He shook his head vigorously, denied it and then walked off when told we weren’t going there because they took video and images of the diners for their own publicity gain.

Another man took video images of us and our tents. He circled the two tents and snuck through the wet grass and bushes where the perverts lurk, but didn’t appear to be one of them.

By early afternoon, there were white vehicles parked across the road with their lights directed towards us despite it being broad daylight.

Four old people who regularly go for early morning walks seem a little hostile towards us, but another man drove in with his family and offered us blankets, hot chocolate and hamburgers. He was almost crying as he spoke. The kindness of strangers has been overwhelming though the Salisbury Council says there have been complaints about us.

Monday is the latest deadline when we’re supposed to be gone, but it isn’t clear if the Council will take our tents, cooking pots and bedding then or give a final 24-hour warning.

The “funny guy” who plays with himself in the bushes hasn’t been seen for three weeks. He must be on some drug when he does it. I haven’t eaten sausages for decades, but when they give away the fat ones at free food venues I feel a little sick.

Second Editor
Early 26 August 2022
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Adelaide airport free showers

A homeless man living this week in a hotel said that airport staff let him use the showers on the ground floor near the escalators for a few months earlier this year. He said the showers open at 5:00am along with the cafes and supermarket. He said the airport is a terrific place to go with parking available at IKEA though it is a long walk around the fences.

He also said that through an arrangement with Unley Salvation Army, homeless people can use the showers at the Woodville and Sturt football club change rooms.

Early 26 August 2022
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(above) A free meal at Fred's Van Kilburn on Thursdays. The diner ate the mashed potatoes before remembering to capture the image. They also served Wine Centre soup and dessert plus large takeaway bags. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Homeless excluded from government payment

The concessions hotline operator took one hour to answer the phone yesterday and the news wasn’t good.

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas announced with fanfare recently that the annual cost-of-living increase payment would double this year. Nice words, but words they were, only, for those living outside.

The concessions hotline operator said those living in tents in public parks would not get the payment. He said it was one payment per household and a tent in a park wasn’t classed as a household. Bad luck.

Further Note: I phoned the Department of Premier at 9:30am who passed me to the Human Services department where an employee in Minister Nat Cook’s office said homeless people won’t get the cost-of-living-increase payment because they don’t have an exclusive home address. When asked if moving into a squat as a single occupant would be good enough, he said he’d get back to me. When this happens, I will put an update on this post.

Second Editor
25 August 2022

Improvement
​at Woodville Gardens Uniting Church

The Oz Harvest truck arrived at 11:30am. Volunteers wearing masks opened the front door at 12:00 noon, blocking entry with two small tables to stop the Covid virus jumping across and infecting us or the other way around.

Those who arrived first were served first, the clients keeping a tally of each person’s position in the queue. Volunteer staff offered us pork chops, ham, milk, bread, SAFCOL tuna, vegetables of which some were edible and others rotten, Cadbury chocolate, chocolate cake, peanut butter fudge, waffles and fruit.

Volunteers were officious and kindly. The clients were friendly to each other and to newcomers. They were normal underclass people with the same family problems everyone has. No one was on drugs or even smoking tobacco. I left with a bag of food feeling fine emotionally. This is a huge improvement from the pre-Covid era when a gang of insiders were hostile to other clients.

Woodville Gardens Uniting Church
66 Ridley Grove, Woodville Gardens. Ph 8345 4079.
Oz Harvest bread, fruit and vegetables are available every Tuesday and Thursday at12:00pm noon. First come, first served. No I.D. or registration required. Friendly clients, half of whom are Vietnamese including Maslin. Much improved.

25 August 2022

Rude staff at Western Food Hub

An elderly woman in Ferryden Park recommended the Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub in memory of Chelsea Ireland, murdered by her father-in-law.

Five minutes later, the elderly woman was saying the staff at the Food Hub were so rude and nasty that she’s not going there again.

You can see the sad druggies waiting outside the locked door on rainy days. But Puddle Jumpers do have some decent free stuff inside, but the scheduled shower truck is a problem. Even the receptionist at Puddle Jumpers headquarters couldn’t say when or where it would appear except Wednesdays 10am to 2pm, despite it rarely being there.

Puddle Jumpers Adelaide CBD
New Food Hub in that small brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, hot coffee, exotic groceries and occasional hot food. Open 7-days a week 10:00am to 2:00pm and 5:00pm to 9:00pm. And at locations listed. Gold coin donation requested. They occasionally change times so it is best to phone first. Ph (08) 7071 5270. No I.D. or registration required. Excellent, but not always reliable. Free female sanitary products at the Hub. Excellent food truck visits Hurtle Square (across from Crazy Cottage) in Adelaide. every Monday from 7:30-8:00pm, but it’s best to be there earlier when you can get a Hare Krishna meal at 6:00pm and hot soup from the Adelaide Day Centre soup van at 6:30pm. You may also meet the Chief Messenger of Infinity if you’re lucky.

25 August 2022

Hutt Street Centre

Do any of these winos at the Hutt Street Centre business lunch realise that the Hutt Street Centre refuses to let homeless people use the showers unless they go through an intake interview and provide I.D.? This includes Aboriginals while C.E.O. Chris Burns wears an Aboriginal motif tie. Isn’t that heartwarming? He respects them so much, that’s why most avoid the place.

Most homeless people avoid the place. It’s a money pit with resources wasted on salaries paid to database managers and counsellors.

https://indaily.com.au/ispy/2022/08/11/hutt-street-centre-annual-business-lunch/

25 August 2022

(above) The South Australian government can't be bothered repairing the window and frame of the methadone clinic opposite St Vincent de Paul in Langford Drive, Elizabeth. A woman not happy with the service drove her car through the front window. Entry is now via a back door. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Salisbury Council extends deadline for homeless campers

Salisbury Council has extended its eviction deadline for two men in two tents in the park in Para Hills. Instead of being evicted today, the deadline has been extended to next Monday giving the campers five days to find alternative accommodation.

If they are not gone, the Council with police in attendance will remove their tents and bedding, but allow them to collect their belongings within a certain time period. Whether Council employees will throw some of the homeless men’s belongings in the garbage and deliberately damage other stuff has not been determined. The Adelaide City Council did this, but the Salisbury Council has not been caught doing it.

Council staff have taken a ruthless approach to these campers saying they don’t want a larger camp to form that might bring trouble. Council is also working on a plan to get rid of Homeless Matt and other homeless campers from outside the $43 million Council Citadel building in John Street.

As to the men who masturbate in public throughout the park during the day and at night next to a children’s playground, well, there are no plans to do anything about that? Getting rid of the homeless men is the Council’s priority.

24 August 2022
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Housing Trust tells Mick to get out

HousingSA gave Mick of Mick and Denise an eviction order. His house is filthy and full of junk.

Mick spent years In-care in a government children’s home in Campbelltown, a northeastern suburb of Adelaide. This was the place where paedophiles based in Veale Gardens placed their orders on Friday morning, picked up the boys on Friday evening and returned them on Sunday evening. Mick said he was never caught by the perverts, but life was a daily fight.

Mick is functionally illiterate and has difficulty dealing with everyday issues. But he is good-natured and easily taken advantage of. And so the government is doing just that: taking advantage of him.

Mick doesn’t understand cleanliness and neatness. That sounds incredible to most people. And the government wants his two-bedroom free-standing rental house in Tregenza Avenue, Elizabeth South for redevelopment. The mess is a pretext for eviction. They’re taking advantage of his disabislity.

But where does someone like Mick go? A rooming house full of bedbugs, thieves and drug addicts? There are lots of them in Salisbury and Elizabeth.

And there are 2000 empty HousingSA units and houses in South Australia. ShelterSA says there are 80,000 empty homes in South Australia, much of them Chinese investments kept empty including the foreign student housing in the city of Adelaide.

But what happens to Mick of Mick of Denise? The homeless industry is too corrupt to be of any use to him.

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24 August 2022
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Westside Housing grifters

Indaily has produced another dose of false journalism this time promoting those connected to a WestSide housing development at Kilburn. Indaily doesn’t say what each person’s connection is with the development.

​Most look as if they’ve never worked a day in their lives, but instead joined the gravy train of welfare housing employment. It’s these grifters who soak up most of the money that should be used for building houses.

https://indaily.com.au/ispy/2022/08/19/westside-housing-opening/
24 August 2022

From the anonymous contact page

Really a site where the actions at :
Homeless versus Police Pervs Poofs etc
Really where the actions at.
Thanks

24 August 2022
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(above) Dealer at Elizabeth provides bed in public park for customers to inject and then have a little rest. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) Garbage left near the bed is nearly exclusively syringe packaging. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Anglicare (Believe) Housing

Indaily has published another advertising photo essay this time of an Anglicare (Believe) Housing project. Lots of bright photographs of smiling bureaucrats and the Minister for Human Services, Natalie “Call me Nat” Cook.

The pictures show a building site in the background, but provide no actual information as to what is happening. This is an advertising technique developed in the early 1950’s that depicts a feeling or lifestyle without going into detail.

Thus no one has to answer questions whether Anglicare broke the conditions of those who originally donated land and housing to the Knox Foundation and Laura and Alfred West Cottage Homes Inc that were subsequently taken over by Anglicare.

Or whether the new development increases the number of units available to the welfare class. And how much higher the rent will rise. And whether the displaced tenants suffered when they were scattered elsewhere. And will the new tenants be those stipulated by the original donors of the land or another class altogether?

The Anglicare (Believe) employees are a pack of grifters, but the Minister for Human Services, Natalie “Call me Nat” Cook is something different. She hasn’t the courage or intellectual rigour to find out what is going on then explain it to the electorate. Nope, she’s another grifter of an elected flavour.

https://indaily.com.au/ispy/2022/07/29/believe-housing-australia/

Late 23 August 2022
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Evil owns the politicians?

A sickening interview about selling children by the producer of the Hunger Games.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/VL3M7GGHEuk7/

Late August 2022
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(above) Well intentioned Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge in a photo opportunity to promote the "revitalisation of Salisbury". Yet they don't have a single shower for homeless people in the $43 million Citadel. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Salisbury Council employees threaten homeless campers

Two Salisbury Council employees went to a homeless campsite and told a man aged about fifty that they’d deliver an eviction letter tomorrow, Tuesday, the 23rd of August.

The eviction notice would order him off the Council parkland by Wednesday and if he wasn’t gone they would call the police. He said, “How can an Aussie not find a place to camp when others from overseas come here and get a place right away?”

The employees returned later in the day and told the other camper to also leave within 24-hours. One said the police were on standby and could order him off the property in ten minutes or be charged with trespassing.

Another homeless camper nearby said he’s moving to the grass in front of the $43 million Salisbury Council Citadel building if Council workers steal his bedding and tent. There are already a number of homeless people sleeping in that area.

Meanwhile, the Salisbury Council has taken no action against the sexual exhibitionist crowd who hang around the children’s playground near the homeless camp. Careful observers have seen these “funny guys” masturbating in the bushes. Sometimes, they walk into the open with their pants down and...you can guess the rest. These “funny guys” aren’t homeless, but have normal homes. There are dozens of them. Maybe even a hundred.

Stayed tuned to Adelaide Homeless Journal for further developments.

The police are here now.

Late 22 August 2022

Tiny rise in Adelaide CBD homeless doesn’t tell the whole story

The tiny rise in the city homeless count from 279 to 283 from the month of June to July 2022 doesn’t tell the whole story. The “Sleeping Rough” count rose from 186 to 211. This was offset by the “Temporarily Sheltered” number dropping from 62 to 49 suggesting those 13 have either gone from living under some form of shelter to sleeping in a tent or in the open.

A curious aspect of this is that the data collectors consider boarding houses transitional housing, which raises the question whether those many hundreds of homeless people in these houses could still be classed as “Actively Homeless”. This would make the Adelaide Zero Project Dashboard somewhat meaningless by its own definitions.

The “Actively Homeless – Other” category also dropped from 31 to 23. They are homeless people who have disappeared from the By-Name data base for unknown reasons that might include not wanting to have their life managed by the Hutt Street Centre controllers.

What appears to be the case is that homeless numbers in the Adelaide CBD are rising slowly despite increased millions of dollars paid to the homeless industry for everything except building houses and units.

https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/

22 August 2022
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(above) Popular man about Salisbury, Brett, sleeping outside the $43 million Salisbury Council Citadel. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) Brett is no fool and has used the Council's "witches hats" to let people know not to walk over him. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Re: The clash of civilisations
From 16/8/2022

From the anonymous contact page

“In response to wine women amd desert drunks..

Racist people like that should get the **** out of this country. Reality is trans people are more often than not drug addicts and prostitutes. Gender dysphonia is classed as severe Mental illness. That person should have empathy for indigenous people. Instead using hate speech. nobody stole trans people's land or children.didnt try destroying.thier culture, destroying thier farms buildings or religious sites.

​Until trans people and thier paid allies have experienced that, they are nothing but nazis, if they're gonna throw hate at the indigenous..
If we were to judge like this person we would say something like this.

“Trans are soft co***, they've never experienced genocide, so whats thier excuse for thier drug abuse and prostitution? Also the highest rates of hiv anywhere, because they so selfish they **** anything that moves without protection. Nothing but a burden on society and no real excuse for it. Hopefully the clot shot works above average on them.

“But we're not like the racist who made that post about desert drunks and wine women.”
Anonymous

Asterisks added by Adelaide Homeless Journal
21 August 2022

Pity the poor Dealer

The Dealer’s meteoric rise was destined for a bad ending. He rose from sleeping in a park and begging outside a fish shop to renting a room at Port Adelaide Packers and operating his own business. His raging entourage followed him from place to place though none raged as much as the Dealer.

Back in 2010, the British Sailors’ Society operated a rooming house and respite centre for international sailors on Nelson Street, Port Adelaide. Terence Forster as manager ran a strict no-drug policy and showed zero tolerance to anyone using drugs. He gave offending tenants as little as two hours to leave the building.

But the British-based society lost it reason to exist as British sailors had themselves virtually ceased to exist. Their replacements were low-paid African and Asian crews too poor to rent rooms or buy alcohol. The ships’ European officers preferred hotels with restaurants and en-suite rooms. The crews used the centre to watch TV and little else and when Terence Forster kicked out the Priest, the Catholics opened their own mission centre further up Le Fevre Peninsula.

A Filipino-Chinese business group exploited this vacancy of purpose by buying control of the building and turned it into a backpackers’ hostel. They got rid of the poverty-stricken sailors and raised the price of the rooms from $100 to $240 a week. They converted the historic lounge and office into more single and dormitory rooms.

Terence Forster’s role as in-house manager was reduced to caretaker with his complementary flat reduced to a room. He was replaced by a glorified cleaner while bookings and payments were made through a disembodied female head appearing on a screen facing the front door. Where she is based is anyone’s guess, but she manages multiple rooming houses from a single location. Maintenance was also reduced by replacing broken windows with plywood. The Asians turned a marginal operation into a nice little money-maker.

Then came Covid and the subsequent restrictions on visitors to Australia. Management found themselves with an empty building still requiring ongoing costs. They were losing money and brainstormed until they discovered a source of replacement tenants?

They brought in their first batch of drug addicts. It was a logical solution. The seaport nature of Port Adelaide has dissolved and was replaced by the prison industry. The AngliPrison and Court House have formed a symbiotic relationship with the Port Drug Syndicate and all three generate tenants for the backpackers’ joint.

Another dozen government departments and “non-profits” couldn’t believe their luck at this development. The backpackers joint had solved their chronic problem of housing difficult junkies. Sure, it was expensive, but it was central to the Port’s lucrative rehabilitation industry.

But the new tenants were trouble from the start. Rare travellers sleeping in the dormitory rooms awoke to see addicts staring unblinking into their eyes. They’d fall asleep then awaken an hour later to see those same unblinking eyes.

After creeping out other guests, these same addicts pestered the travellers for tobacco, food, money, anything. One woman dropped her pants in a public area and asked, “Does anyone want a ****?”

Despite being a good place to score drugs, the addicts chased away potential lodgers and even some government-funded “non-profits” became reluctant to fund their better clients to stay there.

And this is the part of the story where we return to our Dealer. He was so effective at his job that addicts chose the backpackers’ joint over cheaper rooming houses. Management was happy; the tenants were happy; the dealer was happy.

But fighting and bickering was a problem because Ice users bicker for hours to the point of violence then laugh, then return to bickering for the rest of the night. In their rages, they tried to rip the aluminium sun screens off the windows, then they broke widows. That’s when management replaced glass with opaque sheets of plywood. After wild nights, the addicts staggered across St Vincent Street to the Offenders’ Aid meetings in the library. The Council responded by spending $80,000 and turned the library into a surveillance zone similar to a prison.

And the fighting became worse. A disabled tenant was attacked when he videoed two women fighting. One tenant threatened him with a knife and even scraped the disabled man’s forehead in a calculated swing.

The police arrived whereupon the Caretaker on advice from management evicted a number of junkie tenants. He also told the disabled man to leave. “I’ve lost all my tenants because of you,” he told the disabled man and gave him an hour to leave.

The Dealer was allowed to stay so he could attract new tenants.
But even his days were numbered and after another raid and arrests by police he was told to leave. No thanks for his hard work, just “get out”.

The Dealer believed a snippet on this humble website led to his downfall, but authorities had for months known with precision his movements on the Le Fevre peninsula thanks to those addicts around him.

Crystal methamphetamine users suffer semi-permanent damage to the decision making and impulse control functions in their brains. This means they blab immediately on questioning from authorities including the police. They don’t do this necessarily out of malevolence, but from lack of control. The Dealer was a sitting duck.

The Dealer in the month before his eviction was attacked multiple times and likewise had disputes with others including punching an old man in the head. The Dealer himself had suffered damage to the impulse control function of his brain.

As the Dealer crashed, those who supplied his suppliers quietly told their agents to shift focus onto street dealers less visible and less likely to fall apart. But these new rising stars will in turn meet their downfall and similarly be replaced.

But what caused The Dealer’s downfall and return to homelessness? He wasn’t a big player, but of the variety allowed to operate openly in the hope he’d lead authorities to the big suppliers. Was it the Port Adelaide Enfield Council ‒ whose offices lay 80-metres from the backpackers’ joint? They’d had a gutful of anti-social behaviour on the street that was discouraging up-market people from renting the Quest apartments. Or was it simply the end of an era?

Covid restrictions were easing and the Australian government had reopened the borders to international working backpackers. Whereas the addicts wouldn’t work a day if their lives depended on it, the bigger spending, more civilised and harder working backpackers and foreign farm workers were needed for the national economy. The addicts were no longer needed to fill the rooms. They had been pawns in a business model and could now go to hell.

But will they leave and will real backpackers and farm workers return to a building occupied by people with multiple infections common to drug injectors? How long does Golden Staph and other infestations reside in the air, mattress and carpets? And don’t international workers still require a little cannabis and the services of an in-house dealer, or at least a visiting dealer?

It will be hard for Port Adelaide Backpackers to get off their addiction to the flow of clients referred from the rehabilitation industry that doesn’t require advertising or high standards of accommodation.

Perhaps the future of the Dealer remains bright if he can tone down his anger and the nature of his products? And the Syndicate cutting off his supplies might be the favour he needs. There is a future after drugs.

Second Editor
Publish and be damned
21 August 2022

From the anonymous contact page

​Some of us have become very fluent in the effluent of the affluent. Homeless all my life (in reality).
Homie Lessie
21 August 2022

(above) Little piece of paper handed out at Adelaide Freedom Rally two weeks ago. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) New tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Grass hardly flattened in approach. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

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Counting the cups

Lifepoint church members collect names and phone numbers of clients for their free grocery list and their coffee and cake list. One set goes to the government as anonymised data while everything stays on the Lifepoint computers.

Earlier this month they also collected data on how many cups of coffee or tea each person drank including how much sugar and milk was put into each cup. They’ve also switched from Arabica to the lower priced Robusta coffee.

Arabica has a smoother taste while Robusta is more harsh and contains more caffeine. Some drinkers prefer Robusta.

Lifepoint occasionally allows a camera operator to move amongst those at their free morning teas. Permission is not requested and those objecting are treated as if they are the problem.

One might think this is pure contempt, but from their values everything is a marketable product in furthering the interests of Jesus and the church. Cameras are freely used in their well-attended church services and the files posted on the Web. But for some morning tea diners, it is an infringement of their privacy.

It should be noted that the free morning tea can be a wonderful experience with kindly and dedicated church members at our service. That is never forgotten.

Lifepoint Church Modbury
Corner of Milne Road and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Ph Julie on 0403 865 740 to go on the free alert list. Free barista coffee, cake and bag of bread and vegetables. 10:00am to 12:00 noon every second Thursday during school terms. Health Care Card or I.D. required.

Early 19 August 2022


Encounter supporting Uniting Church

​The Uniting Church in Adelaide is largely a defunct organisation holding a huge portfolio of valuable land and buildings.
Claytons Church in Beulah Park and the Pilgrim Church in the Adelaide CBD both rely on immigrant Christians to keep them afloat. Weddings and other ceremonies are valuable money makers.

Exeter Uniting Church relies on government funded activities including one from the Department of Corrections. They have a dealer operating from the carpark to attract clientele.

Sefton Park Uniting Church supports itself as they own the carpark, which they rent to the shopping centre. Encounter (Salt) church also rent the building on Sundays. The actual Uniting Church congregation rarely reaches more than a dozen on Sunday mornings. Two dozen would be tops. Meanwhile, Lifepoint requires multiple services as their 500-seat church cannot hold everyone at one time.

Despite its elderly dwindled congregation, Sefton Park Uniting church hosts a terrific free late morning meal and hampers every Tuesday from 10:00am to 12:00noon. A number of homeless and ex-prisoners find refuge outside the building nearly every day.

The church also leaves its water taps operational that allows me to fill my jerry cans that I take back to my camp across the road from where Emma Hines’ body was found. It’s the small basic things that help and not the flim-flam of publicity stunts like the Hutt Street Centre annual business lunch.

Enfield Uniting Church (Stevo's)
Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837.
10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early. Free. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File. Free excellent brunch, takeaways and games. They dislike gossip as this has started fights that ended badly. Interesting recently released criminals who talk in a filthy way. Emergency food parcels for desperadoes on Tuesdays and a regular small hamper every two weeks for regular diners.

Second Editor
​Early 19 August 2022​

From the anonymous contact page
"mob chased away previous tenants and has no understanding of an inclusive environment being created for LGBTQI and autistic people that implicitly and explicitly excludes them. In their culture, men who act like women are taken bush and knocked around, even speared, to ‒ as one of the wine women described ‒ “get the demons out of them. This makes it hard for the Drop-In Care Space crowd to relate to these desert alcoholics who might easily break their bones."

Tis truly the Australian Way.
However alcohol NEVER part of Australia.

Anonymous
Early 19 August 2022
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(above) A bed on green grass on a sunny day. An illusion in the homeless jungle. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

The Clash of Civilisations

The Drop-In Care Space crowd at Whitmore Square is having a hard time feeling safe with raging indigenous plonk addicts drinking from glass bottles outside their front door.

This mob chased away previous tenants and has no understanding of an inclusive environment being created for LGBTQI and autistic people that implicitly and explicitly excludes them. In their culture, men who act like women are taken bush and knocked around, even speared, to ‒ as one of the wine women described ‒ “get the demons out of them”.

This makes it hard for the Drop-In Care Space crowd to relate to these desert alcoholics who might easily break their bones.

Late 16 August 2022
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Why does Foundation1 exist?

They took over the A.D.R.A. Op Shop space with its Foodbank outlet between Bunnings Hardware and Parafield Airport. It’s a large charity fundraising store with sparsely filled shelves. There wasn’t a single paying customer for the twenty minutes I was there from 12:30pm on a weekday. How do they pay the rent? Is it free rent?

The so-called Community Pantry is a dead zone. The free food includes bread four days past the Best-By date. They give away carrots, onions and potatoes, that’s quite nice, but most of the stuff for sale is similar to what other joints give away for free.

Cruskets with the same Best-By date are $1 while they are free elsewhere. Warm Coke is two-dollars a can while it is one-dollar a can by the slab in supermarkets and often free at free food places. There weren’t any customers present when I was there, just half a dozen volunteers gossiping amongst themselves.

This Foundation1 store has no reason to exist.

FD1 Parafield Op Shop & Community Pantry 
Shop 3, Building 2, 
1a Lawrence Hargrave Way, Parafield, 5106 (Just behind Bunnings, Main North Rd Parafield)
Monday – Friday • 9:30am – 4:00pm
Ph ‭0401 262 829‬
parafield@foundation1.org.au

Late 16 August 2022

More Praise of Orange Sky Laundry

Back in 2002 I collected water from park taps then washed my clothing and bedding by hand before hanging it on rope strung between trees. People stopped and laughed at me.

Later, after getting a source of income, I used a laundromat with faulty washing machines and again dried it between trees where I camped.

But these days, now that I’m too weak to wash by hand, I use the Orange Sky free laundry vans or their laundromat in North Adelaide. I also dry my feather coat and quilt in the driers as they get wet from a leaking tent and the rain in general.

Orange Sky has changed a major aspect of my life, but they should work to being more reliable and put more water in their machines. Otherwise, they’re terrific, especially when two volunteers at Semaphore Orange Sky saved me from a hospital-quality beating at the hands of a failed Ice Dealer from Port Adelaide. (I got only a dentist-quality beating.)

Second Editor
Late 16 August 2022
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(above) Anglicare (Believe) Housing hires gardeners to cut the grass in this block of retirement units at Elizabeth East. Management discovered it is more profitable to keep the 16 units empty rather than renting them to elderly homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) Some units have been empty for three years. The last tenant, aged 70, was evicted 6 months ago and now lives in a tent in a public park. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

(above) The empty units have wooden floors and are dry and safe. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

Grit in salad at Fred’s Van Kilburn

The salad contained grit that crunched under the teeth. “Burnt,” said another diner of The Wine Centre soup. “Students,” I replied. “They reheated it here too quickly,” he corrected.

The vegetarian stew was terrific, but the pasta was a little gluggy. They should have stirred a little olive oil through it after draining off the water. The overall taste of the meal was terrific along with everyone being in a good mood.

Two diners talked about punctuation, the main question being whether the possessive of words ending in z and x should have an apostrophe and s or a simple apostrophe alone. Rails said the answer was the latter.

An elderly diner said God told her to build a swimming pool in her back yard. Another diner reminded her to put up a fence. The swimming pool lady said she was also going to buy a caravan. “Why,” asked an old man not known for having a huge I.Q.

One diner returned from a six-month stint in a nursing home. He’s gone downhill hugely since moving in. What a mistake. There was nothing wrong with him apart from senility.
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling alone is worth the visit. Rare fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.

Early 15 August 2022
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Global Care at Parafield Gardens

It takes years to get used to this one. Bouncing basketballs are a constant background noise along with church music played through a wireless speaker. It’s a wonderful place to learn humility and decency.

A mouse entered the foyer, which made the night employee freak. She wanted a man to kill it, but he said he was a vegetarian. They tried to capture the mouse in a plastic box, but it ran under the sliding doors and miraculously didn’t die. Then it ran outside.

One diner swore and kicked the door and made rude suggestions about the hot dogs. Another tried to subvert the evening to dirty talk, but failed. It was a classic battle between good and bad, subjectively speaking.

Global Care BBQ (GC3)
Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (back of Aldi’s and Salvation Army) Ph (08) 8289 0556. Cnr. of Martins Rd and Kings Rd, Parafield Gardens. 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Free coffee, sausages, patties, bread and sauce. Soft drinks $1.00. Frightening at first. Billiard table. Phone to see if they’ll be there because GC3 is not operational during school holidays, Easter, June and October long weekends.

Early 15 August 2022

(above) This brilliantly placed tent boasts Council land on one side for discrete access and a Covid station on the other side for safety. And a fence to hang the washing. It's also off the beaten track. Some homeless people are simply clever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

On the Street

The kindness of strangers continues at the homeless camp of the now 71-year-old evicted from the Anglicare retirement units at Elizabeth East.

Someone left a huge bag of prepared meals at the camp last night. Earlier in the day another person offered all kinds of camping equipment to make life more comfortable, but this was rejected with thanks.

And no one issues threats or causes harm including the Salisbury Council.

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A surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital sawed the left foot off Stormy Summers' former bodyguard then discovered the gangrene had gone further than they'd thought. He was wheeled back into theatre where the surgeon cut off another chunk up to just below his knee. 

Hopefully they won't discover another miscalculation. 

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A former friend of the Ice dealer who punched the old man at Fred’s Van Semaphore said the dealer now operates outside a church that hosts people being rehabilitated from alcohol and drugs.

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A car hit David (Hackett) Swan near Rudd’s (Semaphore) Hostel last week. David went onto the bonnet then fell off the side injuring his hand, but is otherwise alright.

A Ukrainian friend wants David to sue for damages, but the assistant Verger at the Semaphore Uniting Church said it was David’s fault. “Sue them anyway,” the Ukrainian said.

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Mick of Mick of Denise plans to put rotting furniture out for the hard rubbish collection this week. He hopes this effort will appease HousingSA who threaten to evict him.

But where would a disabled elderly and most illiterate man go?

Early 14 August 2022

Sociopathic employees
​at the Hutt Street Centre

Do Hutt Street Centre employees lead you down the path of self-exposure for the Eternal Shame File for the benefit of themselves? Are they dark empaths who have infiltrated the helping industry similarly to child molesters penetrating children’s organisations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dv8zJiggBs

Early 14 August 2022

Hit man coming in from the cold

Port Adelaide’s elderly retired hitman suffering cancer is moving into a unit next week according to an inside source. He lived in a Unity unit, but they ruthlessly evicted him into homelessness a year ago despite his dire state of health. The question is will he find a sterile unit visited by Eternal Shame File bureaucrats any better than braving the elements.

​13 August 2022
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Jabba jabba Hutt street

From the anonymous contact page

One was a fat English woman, the other late 20s gay overweight guy with blue hair. They told me if i wanted help i would have to go on a mental health plan, my questions revealed i would have to take medication. So i unleashed on them and told them to stop the narcissistic projection, youre sick what youre doing here.

Yes i was in traumatic place having just experienced significant abuse from a landlord, which involved me making report's to police, who told me dont go back. The interview was fine until the attempt at forced medication they were bribed to do. They are Nazis treating us like Jewish folk. I was fitter and healthier and of more sound mind than them, even though my trauma and poverty ten times of both combined.

I pointed out clearly how sick they are. Not abuse or swearing, i factually pointed out what theyre doing in a very articulate and passionate manner. I wasn't projecting, i was standing up for everyone abused by hutt street its something that burnt what soul they had.

A long time later i found out they had contacted a shrink who contacted police to bring me in. The shrink lied to the police. Police couldn't find me as i had no address and were privy to what lead me to hutt street so didn't bother looking. Even though the shrink said i posed a risk to the public, was pyschotic. The shrink never met me and had no right to make such a claim. What rhe shrink and jabba the hurt street was doing as big as crimes against humanity you get. The police the Gestapo called in to shut us up, who wont comply.

This is jabba the hutt street. They are monsters. Predators who work with an organisation named after the leader of a pedofile cult who smuggled thousands of children out of Adelaide. Was running a shopping centre for pedofiles out of his premiers office..

Anonymous

Second Editor: Yes, Enemies wearing the clothing of friendship who deny housing to those who won't follow the psychiatric medication path. 

13 August 2022

From the anonymous contact page

"Globalists"?
Human rights for "National Socialists"?

Thinking maybe some contributors can't find housing because no-one wants psycho bigots living next door to them

Anonymous

Second Editor: Neighbours aren’t consulted in placing welfare housing tenants. Bigots, anti-bigots, same thing to me. Intrinsic qualities are more durable than outward manifestations.

13 August 2022
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 Functional Zero Homelessness

Their convoluted definition of Functional Zero Homelessness is meaningless even if it made sense. Nothing has changed in the past three years except a raft of new bureaucrats have been hired to create psycho-social profiles of those living outside. Oh, and the cost of hiring these dozens of bureaucrats meant less welfare housing was renovated so it stays empty and locked while people live at this very moment outside in the winter rain.

And people like Chris Burns, the well-paid Chief Executive of the Hutt Street Centre, believes he is doing a job that benefits others. What a self-deluded clown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z0ALrHodjQ

13 August 2022

From the anonymous contact page

Aven't been by Wyndham mansion via physical body in about 2 years.

Would not wish this abode on 70+ year old people but admit it to be possibility if absolute desperation for somewhere to live (or die).

Can be awefully quiet at times, away from Big Shitty City.

I know, I ran shack, before shack was ransacked by robbers, for almost 25 years.

Robbers, especially druggers thuggers, are a disgrace to their race.

Anonymous

Second Editor: That bit of land had bad vibes while further up the hill there was powerful positive earth energy.

13 August 2022
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(above) The current Orange Sky Laundry schedule for free washing and drying for homeless and other people. Please note that it doesn't go to ONE Life at Parafield Gardens. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

You can analyse
Hutt Street Centre employees

How to you feel inside after being interviewed by a Hutt Street Centre employee? Were you stripped bare by a psychopath mimicking an empath?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcAdeg0uprs
12 August 2022
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C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide​

They gave away lots of stuff including Iceberg lettuce, Camembert, sports drinks, Coke, vegetables bread and clothing. Breakfast was bacon and egg muffins, spinach, chopped fruit, cereal, yoghourt, tomatoes, sausages, mushrooms, baked beans, four kinds of cake, coffee, tea, orange juice and other stuff.

Shane Whelan said those on N.D.I.S. are supplied with prostitutes so the Ukrainian man at our table said he wants to get on it.

Rose Darling offered a homeless man a brand new plaid woollen coat. The man refused it saying it “looked Gay”. He’s the man who found another man dressed in girl’s underwear masturbating in his bed in his tent. “I hope you don’t get a complex about it,” Rose Darling told him. “I already have,” the homeless man replied.

Someone accidentally took a volunteer’s black feather puffer jacket and left their own behind, a dirty maroon coat.

There were fewer guests today than usual so the chairs could have been placed further apart. Close together makes some people nervous so an extra 30cms can make the world of difference. But not that silly UnitingSA 1.5 metre spacing. Packing up began well before the 10:30am closing bell, which makes people rush the meal to avoid the bum’s rush, which CHATS don’t do.

The raffle appeared to be rigged because the winner was a woman who was on her first visit. 

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:39am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone of overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.

12 August 2022
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(above) Every Thursday and no I.D. requirements. But they have been photographing diners to promote the goodness of their Victory (Life Adelaide) Church. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

There's a fraction too much friction

That gentleman who stormed out of Fred’s Van Elizabeth and Cos We Care three years ago is back angrier than ever. He’s lost weight and his teeth. He threatened a middle-aged man last Sunday evening in the food queue at Salisbury Fred’s Van and followed that by a punch-up outside. His partner had a shouting match with a disabled woman last year at the same venue and the latter has sadly never returned.

Over at Stevo’s at Sefton Park, an old white fella accused a black fella family of stealing his phone. He said he’d left it on their table. He yelled for thirty minutes referring to the family using words a white fella social worker found offensive. The family seemed indifferent to the whole scenario.

Two unsmiling police officers subsequently arrived, one a bald man and the other a young women heavily “made up”. They left then returned at closing time where the man was sitting outside with his social group next to the window that showed a sign saying the area was not a toilet.

Meanwhile, the Ice dealer expelled from the Port Adelaide Backpackers has re-established his business over at Semaphore where he is allegedly targeting people being rehabilitated from drugs. He pulled a knife on a disabled man at the Backpackers’ joint earlier in the year. That resulted in nearly everyone being kicked out, but many of the addicts have returned. However, the disabled man who isn’t an angel, but doesn’t use drugs, is not welcome.

11 August 2022
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Stopping movement to reduce carbon emissions

The new tax on beer hits hardest for those who drink in pubs and hotels, but hardly affects those buying boxes (slabs) to take home. Why is this? One reason might be the government is discouraging movement by citizens to reduce carbon emissions and to create a state of alienation between people.

Mick of Mick and Denise listed nine people he knows who have recently lost their drivers’ licenses due to age-related issues. I was almost one of these as the doctor at Nunku Warrin Yunti wouldn’t sign a Certificate of Fitness to drive for me this year despite last year not being a problem. It came out of the blue and is taking quite some medical expenses to keep driving. Needless to say, the doctor has become my former doctor.

Is the government trying to save lives by getting old people off the roads? Or is it another way of reducing emissions and stopping social interactions at the same time.

11 August 2022
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​Brahma Lodge church calls it quits

The Grove Seventh-day Adventist church on Frost Road at Brahma Lodge has decided not to revive their Thursday evening free vegetarian meals. They’d struggled even before Covid.

That was the problem. Their community gathering was designed to promote vegetarian eating, but ended up being dominated by the usual suspects from Adelaide Homeless Journal. What was the point of that especially with the shouting from diners about someone else getting more than them. And that weirdo kept blowing a whistle, which annoyed the organiser who was already facing difficulties with serious health problems.

But the Adventist community meal at Morphett Vale continues.

Morphett Vale Seventh-day Adventist
130 Pimpala Road, Morphett Vale. Ph 8322 5720 for updates. Free vegetarian meal on Thursdays at 6:00pm during school terms. No Eternal Shame File data collection from meal clients, but they collect data from their food store customers Mon and Fri 12:00noon to 2:00pm. Foodbank food for sale with free bread, fruit and vegetables.

11 August 2022

​From the anonymous contact page

Re:"Lake Windermere B6 government primary school at Salisbury North in Adelaide teaches 6 and 8-year-old children about transsexual and transgender parents. Do they teach this to children at private schools charging $15k annual tuition fees?"

ha ha ha

aye laff so hard aye die laffin

ha ha ha

hee hee hee

shee shee shee

Anonymous
11 August 2022
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Bring on the clowns

From the anonymous contact page
Looking back to last week.
Another big morning for big talk about curing homeless in Adelaide on ABC local radio 891. (Tuesday 2 August 2022)

Big boss man was making analog that current homeless situation is like ambulances gathered at base of cliff, whereas what is needed is a fence at the top of the cliff, to prevent homeless from jumping off cliff to death below.

Problem is, Adelaide has become a city saturated with steel fences over the past few decades, especially for "events" and "development", and every one of those fences is, in reality, an iron curtain, a possible preparation for something much more sinister.

Some of us have travelled "behind" the iron curtain and witnessed plain fact that iron curtain citizens almost always live dull dreary grey hopeless existences smothered in human propaganda and drowned in the human drug alcohol, not unlike the crime and drug ridden slums of large cities elsewhere.

Often only ones in an iron curtain cuntry who show colour and some kind of joy are youngest children, who have not yet begun the brainwash programs (mass abduction of children from families to be specially sculpted into "comrade" worker robots).

And in socialist communal malfunctional utopia, "unemployment" is considered a crime, from which "criminals" and "counter revolutionaries" are taken by force, put in extensive slave labor prison camps and, in the case of socialist China and Korea, used for involuntary organ donation or cannibal meat production, in which escape is almost impossible outside of death...Iron curtain country ? NO THANKS. Better Ded than Red. Bring on the ambos.

Anonymous
11 August 2022

(above) Police were looking for a naked man at this vacated campsite at Salisbury. But a roving alcoholic said the homeless camper had only been washing himself from a bucket of water obtained from the creek. He wasn't an exhibitionist. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

The good, the bad
​and the homeless industry

A challenge upon finding your homeless for the first time is that each so-called “non-profit” business in the homeless industry treats you badly. Once they’ve determined you’re not a grifter, then services begin to flow, but only if you sign onto the Eternal Shame File where your personal data becomes available to hundreds of strangers. The richer outfits such as Service-to-Youth and the Hutt Street Centre do this while those not getting government money treat homeless people with more respect.

The prime aim of the richer homeless organisations is to get homeless people on their books. “I’ll just get a few details,” they say in the field. “Your date of birth?”

This begins a series of interviews and assessments where the homeless person is encouraged to say they’ve been sexually abused, beaten up by parents, hooked on drugs, alcohol and pornography and suffering from mental illness. Anyone not playing this game is seen as “insincere” and should “take a walk”. This is because joints like Service to Youth and the Hutt Street Centre make more money from extended interviews, coffee mornings, wombat walks, art therapy and “support” than actually getting homeless people into housing. And to maintain good relations with allied professionals, they must refer clients for “treatment” and “therapy”. They dislike homeless people who simply need housing.

The reader might think this viewpoint is a tiresome polemic tirade. But things appear different when you’re sleeping in a tent on 3°C nights while homeless industry bureaucrats sleep in homes purchased with money that should have gone to public building projects for homeless people.

Early 9 August 2022

(above) A new tent encampment in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)

On the Street

A man with chronic heart problems went to the Lionel McEwin hospital last week complaining of chest pains. There was an argument about whether he could park in front of the hospital. This debate became more important than his actual ailment. He left without being treated.

*

A homeless man left his towel in the shower room at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army. He returned the following month to use the showers and discovered they’d washed his towel and kept it ready for when he returned.

*

HousingSA put a man from the Gloucester Apartments in the Elizabeth Motel while they renovated his unit due to mould. He’s still there. It must be costing the government a fortune to keep him there. Other units have been left empty for over a year.

*

An elderly woman sold her retirement unit and purchased a three-floor house boat. She lives on the boat, but hasn’t ever left the marina, which isn’t far from Adelaide. It was windy last week. She went to bed wearing a life jacket. She also put a life jacket on her dog.

*

“Why don’t you eat meat?” a Christian asked me at a charity BBQ.
I replied, “I’ve never liked hurting animals. Do you know what is in these sausages?”
“I don’t want to talk about it,” she replied.

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The Lake Windermere B6 government primary school at Salisbury North in Adelaide teaches 6 and 8-year-old children about transsexual and transgender parents. Do they teach this to children at private schools charging $15k annual tuition fees?

Late 7 August 2022

(above) Tents on Phillip Highway in Elizabeth. ShelterSA says there are 80,000 empty "homes" in South Australia. HousingSA keeps 2000 empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

No time to die

The young woman from the soup kitchen scene who tried to get her mother committed stepped in front of a rubbish truck. She was saved, but made two more attempts. She was taken to the Lionel McEwin psychiatric ward, but they couldn’t handle her.

​The hospital system has collapsed. The government wouldn’t listen to the doctors. Too many overpaid bureaucrats calling the shots.

You can imagine the stress her mother is undergoing.

6 August 2022

Crazy Cottage opens new annex

Crazy Cottage has purchased Hostel 109 Flashpackers on Carrington Street to house thirty people medium term. They will also provide a “wrap-around” service that is conditional upon moving in. Anyone not agreeing to a “wrap-around” can stay living outside.

The joint is called “Jordan Place” and will probably raise the homeless rate as the “wrap-around” will divert resources from building and repairing HousingSA houses and units.

For the positive version of this story from a person who has never been homeless or had to deal with the gatekeepers of the homeless industry, see Jemma Chapman’s useful article at
https://indaily.com.au/news/2022/08/04/new-city-shelter-for-rough-sleepers-opens/

Street View of Hostel 109 Flashpackers

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hostel+109+Flashpackers/@-34.9312234,138.6042028,3a,75y,195.19h,92.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sT1oxLy2catKiS1hSj7b9hg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x6ab0cedbdc178173:0x9fc246c89dc6ecbf!2sAware+Properties!8m2!3d-34.9314218!4d138.6041516!3m4!1s0x6ab0cedbdc71ca8b:0x66b6d8bded380160!8m2!3d-34.931525!4d138.6042426

6 August 2022

(above) Seven or eight hundred people attended the Adelaide Freedom Rally gathering in Hindmarsh Square last Saturday, 23 August 2022. This was down 90% from the gathering in Rundle Park earlier this year. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) The theme has fractured from the evils of Covid injections to facial recognition cameras, freedom and the government using microwaves against protesters in Canberra. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) The South Australian police were there to control the crowd. Protesters later marched down Rundle Mall to the general approval of bystanders, but with some derision from others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Professor Graham Lyons at Hindmarsh Square last Saturday talking about AFLW Crows coach Mathew Clark saying he'd kick out a player for not having the Covid injections. When Clark got his fourth shot he subsequently stopped breathing, lost consciousness and with eyes wide open chomped his jaws like a zombie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Sikh weekend Feast

The Sikhs are providing a vegetarian feast this weekend from about 10:00am to 11:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. Everyone is welcome and it is free.

The address is 16 King Street, Prospect. Ph 0452 207 074 for more details.

It is called Gurdwara Sarbat Khalsa Adelaide and was designed to help Sikhs keep in touch with each other and retain their traditions, part of which have morphed into “non-traditional” Sikhs who don’t wear turbans, eat meat and drink beer. But they still support the temples and feast days and give part of their income to the poor.

Late 5 August 2022
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​Promoting their own goodness

Victory (Adelaide Life) Church at Pooraka has opened a free evening meal service on Thursdays at the Para Hills Community Hub. It’s been operating for two weeks.

They had video camera operators on the first Thursday taking footage of elderly clients limping up the ramp. This angered at least one welfare diner who was told by two church members that this had not happened.

A third church member later apologised for taking pictures and that it wouldn’t happen again.

On the second week, church members waited until clients lined up at the food tables then out came a video operator who had been hiding in a back room. He was only taking images of the food, they said. But if that was so, then why did they wait until welfare diners were queued in front of the tables.

One diner stormed off. He was the one who’d complained the previous week and had been assured the practice would stop. After he left, the video man became emboldened and aimed his camera at other diners.

One diner responded by holding up his phone. This rattled church members who crowded his table. One asked another couple if the man who left was always like that implying he was the problem.

Why did they bring out the camera? One person said it was for posterity, but another said it was to compile promotional material capable of being used for an internal church fundraiser and played during Sunday services. The church helping pathetic charity cases. Wasn’t that a good pitch for an increased donation?

But we can’t blame those who provide the Victory Church free BBQ in Pittman Park at Salisbury. They provide a good service. But at the Para Hills Community Hub, they played second fiddle to those higher in the church hierarchy who were using us to promote their own goodness. Yes, we were the useful idiots in their business model.

Late 5 August 2022
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(above) Ah, the serene beauty of a homeless camp near the Adelaide CBD parklands. But danger lurks as the sun goes down. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

That fourth shot

From the anonymous contact page

Immune compromised
Unvaxxinated
Covid recovered here.

3 day flu with abit of bite then pre existing issues flare up. Caught it having dinner with a couple a week into thier 4 th shot. They got sick same time as me. I recovered quicker. They also were face nappies.

Frequently socialise with unvaxxed, they made a point of hugging me while i recovered. Never had so many breasts pressed firmly into my chest in such a short period. Unvaxxed women rock!!!!!

Story same everywhere , the more vaxxed you get the more you get sick over and over.

The official name is called antibody dependant enhancement. Sounds better than AIDS, which is what created b5. People with vaccinne induced aids mutating corona viruses and influenza.

Name not supplied.

Second Editor: I want to believe what you’ve written having avoided the injections and got a mild version of Covid last April. I move about freely without fear amongst those infected with the virus, but suspect their infection has left me with a few 24-hour illnesses. No worries despite being old and somewhat overweight.

What leaves me with a deep unease is the government hiding the illness, death and injury rates of those who have been injected or not. Even the Bureau of Statistics has stopped answering phone calls on this subject.

3 August 2022
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Pretending everything is fine

From the anonymous contact page

Monday 1 August 2022

Big morning for Adelaide radio talk about future increase in housing for homeless on ABC local radio 891.

Seemed more talk than walk.

Pittance of 350 "homes" to be built with perhaps 250 or 150 in Adelaide city area and the remainder outside Adelaide.

Staggering figures on number of people sleeping rough everywhere. Perhaps 160,000 Australia wide.

Also, 5AA radio again trying to pretend to lessen homelessness by "Walk a Mile" in my Undies (Underwear) and commos (commercials) about this topic featuring homeless victim(s).

Name and address supplied.

Second Editor: Thank you. The Hutt Street Centre has become the enemy of homeless people except those that allow their lives to be recorded on the Eternal Shame File. And the media spin the excuses and lies.

The money raised by the Walk a Mile in My Boots fundraising campaign no longer goes to homeless people. It goes only to the minority of homeless people who submit to the Eternal Shame File. The Hutt Street Centre doesn't tell donors this salient fact. 

3 August 2022

​Stealth camping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE5vDFQkGlM

The importance of mattresses

Adelaide welfare agencies take note.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCTERZEsCwM

3 August 2022

(above) The empty Gospel City church on Maltara Road, Munno Para. RenewSA kicked out the congregation when the roof sagged. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Gospel City is a no-money church where members pay the weekly rental of their building. After leaving Munno Para, they rented and renovated another building in Gawler. (Adelaide City Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Gospel City had a powerful free food service via Second Bite. They also preached about Jesus, which annoyed some clients, but was welcomed by others. (Adelaide City Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Gospel City operating out of rented premises was more powerful than many established churches occupying hugely valuable properties. Maybe it still is. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Mummy, are you home?

A beautiful young woman was incarcerated at Glenside Hospital after being taken there from the Royal Adelaide Hospital psychiatric ward. From there she used her charm to convince psychiatric authorities that it was her mother who was mentally ill.

​The young woman was accompanied by hospital staff to her mother’s house to do a mental assessment. Her mother hid inside the house she owned and phoned a friend for advice. It was, “Do not open your door.”

1 August 2022
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Erasing the dead from history

From the anonymous contact page

"WARNING: Abridgenal and Torres Islander readers are advised the following contains name of someone dead: Winston Churchill"

Second Editor: When around the Kukatja and Ngarti people in the northern Great Sandy Desert and East Kimberly, I’ve seen them go white when the names of dead were mentioned. And at Yuendumu, people cut the faces of the dead from photographs.
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1 August 2022

Vaccine blues

The government is secretive about the efficacy of Covid vaccinations. People are falling ill after getting injection No. 4. Most say it would have been worse if they hadn’t had the injection, but a man said his chemist told him 25% of those getting No. 4 get Covid. This man said he got Variant B5 after getting the fourth injection to prevent B4. And when he’d recovered, he got rebound Covid.

Others who haven’t had any injections say they’ve either had Covid with minor symptoms or not at all. Of course we find people who agree with our position so to clarify what is happening the South Australian government should detail injuries from the vaccinations, and publish statistics showing how many died from the virus and how many died with it. They should also clarify whether injection No. 4 gives you variant No. 5 and back up their statements with statistics. Let the government educate us ignorant citizens who have little access to medical statistics.

1 August 2022
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Missing protesters

A few dozen National Socialists were missing from the latest Adelaide Freedom Rally because 14 are in prison for allegedly putting swastikas on a Jewish synagogue in Adelaide. The group has been classed as a terrorist organisation and it is illegal for members to meet with each other.

Most citizens don’t agree with the ideology of neo-Nazis, but it is hard to believe this could happen in South Australia. The complaints of most neo-Nazi members are discrimination for being white by government departments such as HousingSA. Some members are former military personnel who served this country.

The legacy media aren’t telling the story and neither is the government. Maybe the neo-Nazis are dangerous to our way of life, but whether or not, the government and media should tell us the full story. Human rights shouldn’t be removed from groups of people without a full explanation from those taking away these rights.

1 August 2022

Re: "eviction of disabled man"

From the anonymous contact page

Any estimate for how many tenants, at risk of death and homelessness, are experiencing intimidation harassment and buggery in Adelaide by official government bodies ?

I have been in same victim situation in past.

Now I get medical help on a regular basis to relieve high anxiety disorder.

Do SAGOV and associated developers realise that some tenants will quite literally shake themselves to pieces inside when threatened by human interference such as criminal drug injection and coerced enforced eviction by government and real estate criminals ?

Anonymous

Second Editor: An Anglicare (Believe Housing) tenant aged about 50 lives in a Port Adelaide park despite renting a two-bedroom unit and carport from Anglicare. Employees at the Arndale office repeatedly send him threatening voice mails so he sleeps on the ground in the cold. His unit has become an expensive storage facility. Believe Housing destroys lives though drug addicts and meth cooks thrive there.

​Welfare housing is generally unstable with "charity" workers constantly trying to upsell the rental product into an N.D.I.S. or My Aged Care package. 

1 August 2022

(above) Land at Maltara Road, Munno Para still empty three and a half years after HousingSA and RenewSA knocked down over thirty disability and townhouse units. The big-money charities didn't breathe a word of criticism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

HousingSA seeks eviction
of disabled man?

An illiterate disabled elderly man said HousingSA has sought his eviction via the South Australian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (S.A.C.A.T.) To be fair, the man often exaggerates so it might have been a threat to do so though he did say he’d been before the Tribunal.

The man lives in an excellent two-bedroom free-standing Housing Trust house with a generous backyard in the northern Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth. He is the product of a violent upbringing and spent years in a children’s home at Campbelltown where the children were predated upon by Veale Gardens paedophiles. The front and back yards are littered with garbage and rotting furniture. The house is filthy and cluttered inside. Should this man be evicted for these reasons?

I helped him “clean up” last year. He was pleased with the result. We pushed some furniture onto the verge for hard rubbish pick-up. We shuffled useless items back and forth inside the hallway making no difference whatsoever despite the man feeling we had accomplished much.

There are many people receiving N.D.I.S. disability support who are much more able than this man. He needs professional cleaners and garbage removalists to help him meet HousingSA standards. But the N.D.I.S. system is too complex for him to negotiate so he can’t get help. And its winner-take-all policy means he’ll never get help except to shuffle him off to the Supported Residential Facility that will kill him.

And does his messy house and garden harm anyone else? It doesn’t harm the house, which is probably due for demolition once they use the garbage pretext to get rid of him. He uses no herbicides or insecticides and he lets nature grow without check. Who does that harm especially when compared to people who poison their greenery to bare ground and mow their grass down to the roots then revive it with chemical fertilisers?

Why don’t they leave the old man to his life? The reasons are politics and money. Instead of evicting Ice cooks and dealers from public housing, the authorities go for an abstaining man with the messy house. He is an easy target while the Ice cooks are sneaky and wear nice clothing and cut their grass. The Ice cooks also generate business for the rehabilitation industry while the old man simply lives his life. ​

And the house: It’s ripe for redevelopment into two horrible thin “houses” with no front or backyards. Or three nasty units. The old man appears destined to be collateral damage. Ho-hum. And the upper-level bureaucrats in the South Australian Housing Authority, HousingSA and the Housing Trust should themselves go to some worldly hell.

Early 31 July 2022
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(above) While camping in suburbia, people leave all kinds of stuff including blankets, money and food. Others, in churches, add prayer for the vulnerable. Fear is the biggest enemy when homeless. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Homeless week 2022 a real fizzer

They call themselves Marion Doorways, but the Salvation Army there offers free toasties and coffee from 11:30am to 12:30pm Monday to Friday during Homeless Week, which runs from the 1st to the 7th of August. After that they’re planning to have a Monday coffee morning from 9:30am to 11:00am, but that hasn’t started yet.

They’re on the corner of Morphett and Sturt Roads, Seacombe Gardens. Ph 8377 0001. They also do food parcels subject to an interview and supply of I.D. As to rental housing, forget it unless you fit into a rare category of disadvantage and are willing to go through an extensive evaluation and treatment program.

There is also a commemoration in Victoria Square for those who died in Adelaide while homeless or soon after. Not sure of the day.

The theme of Homeless Week is “we need a plan to end homelessness”. They’ve given up on the idea of actually building new dwellings. The Salvation Army’s theme is “Unlocking the door to home”, whatever that means.

Believe Housing (Anglicare) went another route. They’ve paid for a puff piece in indaily.com.au about building new dwellings in Mansfield Park. Lots of images of employees, but no details on what units were knocked down to build the new ones or how much the rent will rise or who will be the new tenants. Natalia “Call me Nat” Cook, the new Housing Minister, is shown wearing a pink hi-vis vest. She is a piece of rubbish. It’s hard not to be cynical after observing the lies and deceptions decade after decade while low-income housing has decreased.

Indaily should be ashamed of themselves. And Anglicare’s homeless week theme should be”we keep houses empty if they don’t make money to pay our salaries”. Ghouls.

Generally, few housing organisations want to participate in any commemoration or celebration because there isn’t any money in it for them. And it’s getting more difficult for them to push the same lies and promises year after year without losing credibility?

We live in a dysfunctional society where welfare employees resemble vampires that siphon all the money destined for housing. This leaves no alternative, but to evict tenants of large welfare dwellings on generous allotments, knock down these houses, then sell the land to fund smaller dwellings crammed together on tiny pieces of land. The popular imagery of the vampire isn’t based on fantasy, but on bureaucrats working in the homeless housing industry.

Meanwhile, ShelterSA has published the Empty Homes report that claims there are over 80,000 empty homes in South Australia. The report is incredibly boring reading, but some readers might want to look at it.

https://www.sheltersa.asn.au/site/wp-content/uploads/Shelter-SA-Empty-Homes-Project-Report-FINAL.pdf

30 July 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

Fer those who believe its bad in Tandanya (Adelaide), take a look at "the Alice" (Alice Springs) and get a glimpse of the horrific situations there with the national / international "unleash the beast policy" (free for all alcohol and probably amphetamine).

Website: pfes.nt.gov.au/newsroom

Alice city council was on local radio Adelaide revealing carnage and destruction similar to streets of Port Augusta but multiplied many times.

Apparently mainstream media is covering up on how bad things get when pro alcohol and full cash for drugs is enforced and the general population is denied any say in the matter.

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/youth-crime-alice-springs-locals-overwhelmed-calls-for-action-over-town-anarchy/3d2668c0-fdfc-4871-9dfe-15905f446844

this was run-of-the-mill a year or two ago.

much worse now.

will mob rule cum to Afrilaide 2 ?

Second Editor: Your observations on the streets of Adelaide would interest readers.
30 July 2022

(above) Free coffee and cakes Monday to Friday 9:30am to 11:00am at City Salvos, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. This is what the above fundraiser enabled. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Women from ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens knitted camping mats from shopping bags and gave them to a homeless man. Placed between two layers of cardboard, they prevent the upper layer from becoming sodden during winter rains. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Oznomad's testament to family values

It breaks my heart, all these young meth head's, alone without family support. Mama was a crack head, cock s*****, and gave up the ass when needed. What a Gal.

Late 29 July 2022
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No trouble at funerals

Mick of Mick and Denise said someone has been spreading rumours that he is trouble at funerals. He said this is completely untrue.

HousingSA is trying to evict Mick from his house. They say it is too dirty and there is too much rubbish lying around. They took him to S.A.T.A.C. who has given him one last chance. But Mick doesn’t understand the concept of cleanliness or that of neat and tidy. And he’s frequently in hospital.

Mick said he was clinically dead last night. His dog howled until someone called an ambulance. He woke up in a closet with machines attached to his body including one that would automatically revive him if he died. Mick said there weren’t any rooms at the Lionel McEwin hospital so they put him in the closet.

He arrived at a free BBQ today with his hands and part of his face smeared with blood after he ripped needles from them.

Late 29 July 2022

​Stormy Summers’ former bodyguard

The government also got Steve Butler’s driving license. They want to reduce the number of cars on the road to meet international emissions targets so they’re starting on those most vulnerable drivers: old people.

Steve had a reputation for being a hard man in his younger days as a professional bodyguard. In later years, he got a reputation for being a cantankerous man. He is a friend of Debra, husband of the man who said he was the older brother of Jesus. Debra became a police officer and she drifted away from Steve, but in later years they regained their close friendship during the illness and death of Jesus’ older brother.

Late 29 July 2022

​Tricky Mick’s woes

Tricky Mick went to the Food Barn at Elizabeth before Anglicare discovered it didn’t earn them money. He stopped after someone targeted him. He has diabetes. The government took away his driver’s license. He lent his car to “G” who previously went to COS We Care on Saturdays. A police patrol stopped “G” for some reason. Maybe a passenger wasn’t wearing a seat belt. Then the police nailed him for using cannabis and “G” lost his license. And they defected Tricky Mick’s car. “Sorry,” said “G” to Tricky Mick.

Tricky Mick’s problems didn’t stop there. His dog chewed his CPAP machine mask. Ruined it. Tricky Mick got a new one. The dog got that, too, but it was saved via a new silicon seal.

Late 29 July 2022

From the anonymous contact page

"think of these people while lying in my tent at night"

think of elder people HOMELESS due to circumstances beyond control and power,
feel POWERLESS, almost HOURLESS, unable to tell time in hours of darkness,
perhaps stumble about in black of night, knock into tree, fall in sinkhole or ditch,
slip and splash about in deep creek, lake or rainy pond.

SHAME SA SHAME

this is the real eternal shame... vile! ​

From the Street
Late 29 July 2022

(above) The latest list of rooming houses offered by Homeless Connect. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Homeless Connect must be the most useless homeless service in Adelaide. They do little more than collect data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Since China took over Australia's manufacturing industry, our new poverty means homeless people can expect to live in rooming houses for the rest of their lives. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Bedbugs, thieves, insane drug addicts, vicious dealers, sex exploiters and the odd decent person are what you will find in most rooming houses. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Wayne aims for gold

Piano Player Wayne reported last night that he’d achieved a Bronze medal for being the third longest staying patient at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Piano Player has been there since February. He says the reason for his residency is that there is nowhere else to send him so he isn’t moving anywhere. Wayne may reach a gold medal.

Late 27 July 2022
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​Does anyone know what this means?

​The South Australian Alliance to End Homelessness say: “Functional Zero street homelessness is achieved when the number of people who are, or were, sleeping rough in the inner city is no greater than the housing available in that month, and this can be consistently proven with data. This dashboard is our way of proving that.”

Does this means if the Housing Trust and the “non-profits” housed 279 homeless people in the Adelaide CBD in June, then Zero Functional Homelessness would have been achieved?

What was their score in June? Fifteen? And then if we add the units kept empty, if their number was 264, then Functional Zero street homelessness would have been achieved?

Late 27 July 2022

Black toes

​The man who’s toes have gone black due to a blood clot in his leg says he cannot any longer take care of himself. He’s keep visiting the Lionel McEwen hospital by ambulance or invalid scooter, but they quickly discharge him.

He can’t any longer clean himself or prepare food and he is too sick to be able to negotiate effectively with the helping agencies that are funded to help ill elderly old people.

Late 27 July 2022
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(above) A person from India agreed that this dish from Puddle Jumpers at Hindmarsh was Third World quality. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

The loneliness of Old Val

Old Val was lonely. She’d had Covid and recently emerged from seven-day quarantine. Her budgie died of cold so she bought another for $60. That didn’t fix the loneliness.

“I don’t want to go home,” she said seven or eight times. “What’s the hurry?” she asked as we walked to my car. She’d spent $13.90 on a taxi to Fred’s Van and if Old Val knows anything, it is not to waste money.

“Go back, go back,” she said as we drove towards her unit. “I want to say, goodbye.” She’d done that three times already, but we returned and she rushed over to the volunteers closing up the building and said another farewell.

“I don’t want to go home,” she said as we drove towards her place. “Stop, I want to get a drink,” she said. “If you get out, I’ll leave you there,” I replied. You have to be hard on Old Val when she becomes obsessive.

I suggested she come to the Friday Victory Church BBQ. She said her Carer arrives then. I said change the time, but Old Val is beyond that form of decision making.

I dropped her off in the dark of her driveway, quietly envying her for having a home. “I don’t want to go home,” she said as a final goodbye and I drove back to my tent.

Second Editor
Early 25 July 2022

(above) Orange Sky Free Laundry service on the job in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Two predator criminals dumped rubbish near Port Adelaide Homeless camp to discredit those living there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Latest Adelaide CBD homeless statistics

The Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands has risen between May and June 2022 from 249 to 279.

The Rough Sleeper component has risen from 174 to 186. The Temporarily Sheltered number has risen from 59 to 62. This type of shelter includes hotel rooms and couch surfing. The number of Homeless – Other has risen from 16 to 31. These are people who have left both temporary and permanent shelter and disappeared from the database

It appears that shipping nearly a hundred indigenous people back to the desert has not had a long-term effect on the statistics.

The July number of Rough Sleepers may drop if the government opens up hotel rooms in response to the latest surge of Covid cases.

The Housed figure may include those who were offered housing, but refused the offers.

The shock drop in April was described as weeding out people who had long-since disappeared from the system, and not to help certain political candidates win the election. Nevertheless, the numbers rose sharply the following month to near their pre-audict level.

The increased number of CBD homeless appears to be mirrored in the northern suburbs.

https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/

Late 23 July 2022

Oznomadic

This overt attempt to settle families from war torn situations when everybody knows that Adeaide junkies need more "Yitameb" M"?. Every junkie has a story but,.... It's usually boring.

Oznomadic
Late 23 July 2022
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​HELL, I AM HERE

From the Housing Trust units at Gilberton

Could have Devil Head (DH) as next floor neighbour.

Ever since DH moved in, DH has terrifying capability to shout and scream LOUD DEAFENING abusive tyrannical demeaning demonic totally inconsiderate rhetoric.

A bit like a wild oinking squealing grunting porky animal.

And to who ? To someone DH is talking to via phone ? Or imaginary conversation recipients ?

Who is this vile violent vicious vulgar vexatious verbal abuse and threats directed towards ?

She or he or thee or me or we ?

Who ?

Devil Head could be black ops Devil Mouth meant to frighten and intimidate others into taking sedative drugs or just leaving homeless housing property so mafia developers could make a mint from purchasing property and then jacking prices up several thousand fold.

Also, Devil Mouth seems to be reading from script, repeating statements of insult and injury, a rehearsed maniacal diabolical dictatorial dictum.

Thanks to Pink Noise mentioned somewhere on this site recently, have been able to nullify Devil Head noise.

Late 23 July 2022

Hunter Gatherer mentality

Gettin stuff for FREE is an inherent part of FREEDOM, a fun part, a worthy part of life.

Always having to work like jerk for the money of the jerk$ is $LAVERY.

Without FREEDOM (without gettin stuff for free) life is less worth living.

Late 23 July 2022
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Super fast rental housing

From the anonymous contact page

"Man gets rental unit
​after 18-months outside"

well i'll be danged

aye only went through 7 years living under a timber and tin lean-to in winter damp summer scorching Adelaide Hills before scoring a hovel in city state housing hell.

some people have all the luck...

a lucky country as they say

Late 23 July 2022

ABC local radio

From the anonymous contact page

Friday 22 July 2022

Busy day for female homeless on ABC local and national radio.
Plenty talk about gal dying in southeast city parkland in tent.

Ian Cox apparently is now SAGOV SAHA (?)

Also, national homeless women due to domestic violence was major topic. Those gals would be going through hell.

Late 23 July 2022

(above) Signs of homeless campers at Port Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Artificial wetlands in Adelaide CBD parklands reduce areas for homeless people to camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Man gets rental unit
​after 18-months outside

A sixty-year-old man at Fred’s Van put his hand to his heart when he told us how the Hutt Street Centre helped get him a thermal sleeping bag and starting next week, a Salvation Army rental unit. He’d been a normal worker who fell ill then ended up homeless.

He'd been in the Port Adelaide backpackers' joint, but left saying it was "a hole". 

He will sleep on the bricks outside a community centre for the next few days until he moves into the unit. He wouldn’t tell us what suburb he is moving into. He sleeps on one sleeping bag and inside another. An emotional woman cried as he spoke.

And, yes, 18-months. That's how long the interview, counselling and placement process can take. 

Late 22 July 2022
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Don Dunstan Foundation hires globalist

“The Don Dunstan Foundation is delighted to announce that Kate Baldock has been appointed as Executive Director for a three-year term,” so it is written on their webpage.

Kate has been working overseas, but has returned to Adelaide. She was quoted as saying,“I’m excited to return to Adelaide with my family…” The article didn’t go into details about the family.

Wasn’t the previous director also excited returning to Adelaide? What was her name? From Finland. And also Ritchie Hollands before her. Whatever happened to him? He spent his last days wandering around the office not having a clue what to do. And before him David Pearson. David tried, but moved onto the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness. I think of these people while lying in my tent at night.

Anyway, Kate Baldock starts work next Wednesday at 9:00am sharp. I wonder what she’ll do? Check the coffee machine? Make phone calls? Attend meetings? Maybe return the homeless statistics to the webpage or explain why they will stay removed. Good luck, Kate.

https://www.dunstan.org.au/leadership/

Second Editor
Late 22 July 2022

Indaily report on dead woman in tent

Stephanie Richards should talk to people on the street as well as getting the usual suspects ‒ salaried welfare employees ‒ to form the narrative. But she wrote the article, which is good.

https://indaily.com.au/news/2022/07/21/lonely-park-lands-death-tragically-avoidable/

Late 22 July 2022

Rude talk in Elizabeth

An older woman using a walking frame said that while sitting at a bus stop in Elizabeth Vale, a gentleman drove up to her and offered her a life and said, “Would you mind if I ****** myself while I drive. She told him to piss off in no uncertain tones. She said he later got caught when he tried this trick with another woman who recorded his car number plate.

Late 22 July 2022
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(above) Another home gone. Homelessness requires constant movement with repeated loss of bedding. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Any nostalgia for the past? Not at Hungry Jacks at Gepps Cross. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Homeless statistics moved
​to new site

The South Australian Alliance to End Homelessness have moved the monthly homeless statistics from the Don Dunstan Foundation page to their own at https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/  

​Late 21 July 2022
Edit: late 22 July 2022
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Salvo Stores go with The Beast

​The Salvation Army’s commercial charity shops are named Salvo Stores as distinct from the Thrift stores operated by individual Corps such as Playford in Elizabeth East.

Anyway, Salvos Stores has decided to enforce their double injected rule for volunteers and paid staff. Anyone not getting two Covid injections gets the boot.

The volunteers ‒ who are work-for-the-dole conscripts rather than real volunteers ‒ are laughing. They want to get kicked out. And the Salvos want to kick them out because with every new batch of "volunteers", the Army gets a few thousand dollars.

Salvos Store head office are also trying to enforce their police clearance requirements that include “fit to work with the elderly, vulnerable and children” clauses. Some workers never bothered getting these police clearances.
Late 21 July 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

"Bedbugs, thieves, insane drug addicts, vicious dealers, sex exploiters and the odd decent person are what you will find in most rooming houses."

Hear Hear
Here Here
HellRiot Lodge GILBERTON
("Elliott Lodge" next to Ramsay Health Clinic for the affluent insane, previously "Adelaide Clinic")

Late 21 July 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

​Women from ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens knitted camping mats from shopping bags and gave them to a homeless man. Placed between two layers of cardboard, they prevent the upper layer from becoming sodden during winter rains.

hope like hell they dont get disposed of too quickly as are those colourful knit blankets
Late 21 July 2022

(above) Lots of Unity, HousingSA and Anglicare units kept empty yet a dying old man finds this the best alternative. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Home sweet home. Living off the land. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

Stealth camping in roundabout

Steve Wallis from Canada has good camping ideas for those sleeping outside in Adelaide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPDvLaXuSHQ

19 September 2022

(above) When you see suitcases containing good stuff, that usually indicates a homeless person has either abandoned or being chased from a camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022.)

(above) Port Adelaide Backpackers' joint had trouble attracting high-rent guests after Covid struck. They reversed the situation by bringing in a drug dealer. And the government-funded rehab services cheered them on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2022,)

Homeless soup kitchen roundup

A woman casually said she made $200 on Friday night operating in the vicinity of the Adelaide Casino. She appears to have a minder when she’s on the job.

Old Val got Covid despite having the injections. A mutual friend said he’d noticed quite a few people who’d had The Jab getting heart problems. A man standing next to us was also diagnosed with a “heart condition” two weeks ago. He said any connection with the Covid injections was spurious.

Japanese-owned CMAX on North Terrace in Adelaide is advertising for people to “volunteer” as test subjects for new pharmaceutical drugs. “Be at the peak of medical research,” is their slogan. Being an expendable test model at the bottom end of the research hierarchy is more like it.

Meanwhile, the man known as the CMAX kid has recovered from his live-in drug trial that earned him $5500. But after the trial ended, he went straight to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and took one year to fully recover.

A soup kitchen woman in her eighties said the government plans to import 1.5 million Chinese over the next five years. She said many will be placed in Darwin to make it more difficult for future Australian governments to take back control of Darwin harbour given to the Chinese on a 99-year lease for practically no payment. And for which former Trade Minister, Andrew Robb, received a $950,000 “consulting fee” that was effectively a bribe.

Another soup kitchen woman said she and her husband had been computer programmers and earned terrific salaries. But when their digital language became obsolete, their positions were terminated. She said her daughter has a mathematical mind similar to her parents, but despite earning two science degrees, works in a pet shop training dogs and also does unpaid work in an animal shelter.

A soup kitchen man who has never been homeless said the key to surviving is maintaining connections. He said losing connections is the shock people experience when becoming homeless. “You lose everything,” he said.

Another soup kitchen person said 14 National Socialists were arrested and put in the slammer after being charged with putting swastikas on a Jewish Synagogue in Adelaide. They were inspired by their youngest member who later turned informer. They didn’t beat him, but kicked him out of the group. Most of those involved are unhappy with the government renting public housing to foreigners rather than Australian citizens.

Jim from Puddle Jumpers is reportedly in prison. He was sleeping in front of the church across Port Road from the Western Food Hub. 

18 July 2022

List of external archival sites for Adelaide Homeless Journal

​Music played by child molesters who hung out at Veale Gardens
​
And whose victims are now the old men and women
who attend Fred's Vans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E

​A weird version, was it unconscious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UXSdFlVOs
8 May 2021
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Paul Boden in the U.S.A. says the homeless industry got bigger while homeless housing got less: a mirror of Adelaide’s homeless services 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3M-GaR84s 
13 December 2020
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https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn
  The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity.

www.predatorsandfriends.weebly.com 
The story of Sherri Robinson
and Tony DeKort

Photograph of Ngongotaha (Mark Nicholas Arstall, 39) given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage.

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

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Remembering PJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c

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