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Older Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019

(above) Northeast Salvos soldiers were so happy having moved into the Oakden building on Fosters Road. The soldier on the left was so decrepit that he needed help standing up after weeding the garden. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Empty government houses at Oakden near the Salvation Army Corps. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) The pollen of nature. Some mornings are in glorious contrast to Anglicare (Believe) housing retirement units with trees chopped down and grass replaced with concrete. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Wednesday, 21 October. That diner with the filthy guinea pig will be there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) No rain for ten days. Ground drying out then one morning I hopped from the car and found my feet wet. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) A bit of water becomes a big deal if your mobile house gets bogged and you have to ask for favours from others. Homeless camps are often in flood prone areas. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) But where did this approaching pool of water originate. Did someone open a sluice gate on higher ground to 'clear out the homeless'? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Coming Soon: Man's relationship with girlfriend much improved after she stabbed him; Spine chilling light entertainment at Encounter Church; The Food Centre at Gepps Cross; Coffee not hot at Elizabeth Fred's Van; Funeral for double suicide brothers. Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours); Quiet as The Family lays low; Troung returns to the homeless scene; Hamper season registration looms;  Clean toilets at Salisbury Institute; Orange Sky now at City Salvos Tues 9am - 11am, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide; Soup kitchen woman with two huge black eyes in relatively good spirits; Bagster Road Monday meal;; Free groceries from Ingle Farm Baptists who don't even own their own church.
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Gardens Church Windsor Gardens

The clients are too fat. Instead of giving them unhealthy carbohydrate and sugary food they should be tied against a post and gently whipped. That would sweat out the fat. Or, more sensibly, introduced to a famine and medium hard labour.

Church volunteers provided barista coffee that two diners said wasn’t even close to being hot. The bacon and egg muffins weren’t toasted except mine that came with nothing as there wasn’t a non-meat alternative. Not eating meat is still seen here as an indulgence or subversive and perhaps against the teachings of the Bible. They should visit an abattoir or chicken factory and see the consequences of their eating habits. How is that the love of Jesus?

Clients also got an optional bag of cheap groceries plus a few extras. Some clients sneaked into the food room later and grabbed their preferred items from other bags. Not good behaviour. “We won’t mention any names,” the coordinator said, adding that she’d speak to them.

Diners at our table said Tania Nokes left her work at the Blair Athol Church of Christ because she got RSV. Others said it was overwork and giving too much to others. One diner said she was “too easy on the Muslims”.

Diners also said Faithworks at Blair Athol wasn’t any good because the first twenty people in the queue grabbed the best stuff including the meat. I tried to add further critical comments, but there were more people shouting than listening. We live in an age where few people bother finishing a sentence before jumping to a new aspect of the conversation. And where talking is considered more important than listening.

More than half the diners were either staying with relatives or vice versa. Others were living in cars or had recently upgraded from homelessness to a roof over their heads. Nearly everyone was poor. A diner in her 90’s said that if she had her time over she would have become ‘educated’ similarly to her descendants.

Gardens Uniting Church (non-Woke)
3 Pitman Road, Windsor Gardens. 9am to 11:00am Saturdays. Percolated coffee, bacon and egg muffins, old vegetables, grocery hampers. For homeless and underclass, not hoarders. Friendly. No I.D. required. No personal data collection. Much improved. Large dining room.

16 October 2026

(above) Crisis Stabilisation Centre on Oldham Road, Elizabeth South offers 72 hour refuge 24/7 for those undergoing a mental crisis. It's designed to be more friendly than a major hospital psychiatric ward. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Crisis Stabilisation Centre might appear attractive to exhausted homeless people on a hard night. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Unley Salvos mobile food

“Well well well I couldn’t believe my eyes! They’ve decided to invest in a food truck to feed the homeless - Colin has driven all the way to the riverland

“I wonder who will cook or donate the ‘unhealthy food’.

“Word has it he bought a second hand car to the two old Italian ladies that worked tirelessly for Reno Elms back in the day - they were unappreciated and used up! Hopefully the gods are looking down upon them as they were the most unselfish hard working volunteers at Unley salvos.”

Second Editor: Very nice. I would have missed this.
​Early 15 October 2026
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An insightful recollection
​of living in a vehicle

“I was homeless for 5 years. I lived in my vehicle. I didn't know i was homeless because I considered myself as having a roof over my head.

“In many ways they were 5 happy years free of constraints and if I didn't like the neighbourhood I just went to a new one.
“All of my pension was mine and of course living with minimal possessions was great. In saying that, at the time I didn't realise how my health was going down. Lack of regular sanitation and getting out of the habit of staying clean and brushing my teeth took a toll. Always being in alert for trouble causes great mental damage.

“Housing brought different struggles. Paying rent and bills is quite a challenge. Getting back into a routine of showers, brushing teeth and cooking proper meals doesn't come straight away. Then there's the mentally unwell and drug addicted neighbourhoods we seem to be placed into. It’s like being a prisoner.

“I know the scene first hand. You would recognise me if you saw me as we frequented the same establishments and spoke at times.

“There's sharks out there. Luckily there's also some genuine people who want to help.”

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Second Editor: Thank you.
Early 15 October 2026
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Corruption, evil and vanity
From the street

“Just when you thought things couldn't get any more spastic. $630 million to address gender pay gap in the care sector lol. All those women at the Jabba the Hutt street centre apparently getting paid less than men. All those NDIS support workers getting 70 bucks and hour to drive their clients around looking for cigarette buts are underpaid because they're female lol.  Those nurses laughing in our faces during COVID with their professionally choreographed dance routines inside empty hospitals while the old sick and disabled suffered at home denied medical treatment ( elective surgery) apparently were underpaid because they were female.

“Tax payer paying $630 million ignoring Australia has the most detailed industrial relations act in the world ensuring fair pay and conditions.  The care sector doesn't need more money to fix the problem, if there is one, the government only needs prosecute the organisations responsible.

“Remember most of the care organisations are either public service or a Christian NGO like Anglicare. Obviously the Christian NGOs don't read the Bible they bash, because it's pretty clear you're going to hell if you're doing what the government claims you're doing. That book "Revelations" is very revealing. Obviously is hasn't been revealed to the Christian NGOs. 

“It's a really strange because Anglican and Catholic leaders like Pell and Hollingworth oversaw networks of men predominately using the care sector to abuse young boys more than girls. Pell’s reward for his hard work overseeing this was to become treasurer of the Vatican. Hollingworth’s reward was Governor General. Today we find out it was straight men to blame all the time. Weird.

“But maybe they have a point. Uniting Care Wesley have significant contracts in the care sector and the CEO based in Sydney is trying to build his brand on social media as if he's an evangelistic nutcase. Typical Gen X white privileged male too busy with his own ego when CEO of Uniting Care Wesley, Obviously an over paid wanker.  

https://www.miragenews.com/landmark-funding-targets-gender-pay-gap-in-care-1758930/

“The article says the care sector is mostly staffed by women. Anyone with any brains knows the care sector is failing and toxic, consumed by predatory capitalism. Logic says it's women's fault . Who was the genius that thought up this plan, Baldrick from black adder was a better tactician than whoever did this?

“Tanya Plibersek claims credit, she married a convicted heroin smuggler who did gaol for supplying and profiting immensely, teenage hookers with heroin. He's since walked into a number of powerful and cushy public service positions and dodgy ones at that.  All those royal commissions and state inquires into the care sector, all those millions, hardly any of the recommendations adopted, full on criminals and sickos protected with suppression orders and some genius decided that because they're predominantly a female workforce, decide say they're victims of men and pay them more money and pay the organisations consistently named in Royal Commissions more money as well and claim the problem is people with a penis paying people with penises properly, but not paying people without penises properly.  

“The vulnerable don't matter in this country if they can't make anyone money and the people doing most of this to them are female. The primary care giver in the home is female, the primary educator in school is female. The primary murderer of children is female. And here we have females blaming men for everything. It's clear who the problem is. 

“Now since you have got this far and yes you've done really well, I commend you. What's really going on is that the care sector attracts the dregs of society and better pay brings better people, no longer can we rely on importing nurses and support workers in the care sector, we have to produce them organically, so we need to pay them better to compete with other sectors producing a Workforce organically. There is something in this, most care sector workers are feral, if we get better workers we get better care, in fact save money by better workers actually helping people not rely on the system, not be bar codes, help them take responsibility for their needs, encourage and support the clients, rather than oppress control predate and profit.

“I bet not one crack dealer being protected by housing authorities in complex's with mostly disabled or sick tenant's, will get moved on. Not one.  The vast majority of large social housing or housing trust complex's for clients of the care sector have a protected hooker and crack dealer, as well as few skilled thieves and wanna be bag men in the pocket of the care sector. The people responsible are getting more money because apparently they're victims lol.

“Baldrick should of been in the movie dumb and dumber with cameo from ted ballpitt and together the 4 of them could of come up with a more Cunning plan than this.”

Anonymous
​Second Editor: Very nice. 
Early 15 October 2026
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Free shower, coffee and laundry
​at Port Adelaide

A man living outside spent an hour sweeping and cleaning the gravel carpark in preparation for the free food service the following day. With another man he continued this process the next day.

These men and others offered sandwiches, coffee, potato chips and pillows from under the pergola. They also offered containers of tuna, milk and a few other items. They have been giving away tents and blankets. But the pillows haven’t been moving as well as hoped.

There were about six workers and one or two clients when I arrived. One worker was going to West Africa. (I’m sure she was going somewhere equally exotic the last time I visited.) Many free food services serve both as benevolent acts and self-rescue missions for affluent older women. It’s a win-win outcome.

A Housing Trust tenant screamed and threw stuff against the fence for an hour before either Pam or Sharon calmed her down.

One diner said he was getting a ‘house’ in two weeks. A few others have also got housing via their involvement with People Helping People who have contacts with Welfare. There are still clients living in a tent complex near Taperoo after homeless people were expelled from the ground now occupied by the $20 million Yitpi Aboriginal disinformation centre. Even tribal black folk were expelled.

Pam and Sharon said they’re havinkg their pre-Christmas special event on Thursday, 10th of December at 9:30am, but will still continue operating closer to Christmas with a two-week closure period over the holidays.

People Helping People Group, Thursdays free food, coffee and shower 9:30am-1:00pm cnr Church & Leadenhall Streets, Port Adelaide. Shower trailer parked on street. Some free clothing. Go to Locked-in laundromat for free laundry 1:30pm-3:30pm. Ph Pam 0413 976 371 or Sharon 0450 686 674. Women operating service visit homeless camps with food and bedding. No I.D. required. Shower trailer at St Bede’s, Semaphore Tuesdays 9:00 – 11:00am.

Early 15 October 2026

(above) Sonia preparing main course for last nights meal for those living outside. One person working in her kitchen has made a difference in the Tea Tree Gully area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Tea Tree Gully social media Influencer Sonia Blackwell made Rocky Road at home for people living outside in Modbury and Salisbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Sonia Blackwell's homemade Parfait for people living outside at Tea Tree Gully. She doesn't collect data or report to government agencies. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Another winner at the Chelsea Ireland

The Sikhs arrived with a bucket of semi-burnt pastry flavoured with curry and ginger. I could have eaten the whole bucket. The Chelsea Ireland meal was gluggy rice with a questionable sauce plus cakes, coffee, prepared rolls and sandwiches from a bakery. The staff were brimming with good attitude.

But a Puddle Jumpers worker using his phone camera following the Sikhs while collecting video of the clients. That is used on Facebook to raise the image of Puddle Jumpers while reducing that of the clients. The camera man did not take video of the rotting vegetables on the tables inside the building.

Entry to the free food room now requires completing a tiny form listing suburb , number in household, number of animals, but not name, street address or homeless status.

The lack of abundant vegetables in the free food room was not a problem because who wants rotten vegetation that isn’t even suitable for chickens. But the bread appeared baked that morning and I also got a litre of celery and spinach juice. There was French mustard two-years past the Use-By date. No thanks.

Diners talked about “John” and his problems with management. They used his real name then quickly reverted to “John”. Volunteers and management said “John” won’t return for fear of retribution from other diners, but one contingent of diners are clearly on the side of “John”.

One of the ‘Brothers Ink’ motorcycle gang handed out sandwiches and rolls from a bakery or maybe a food van. They were in good condition, but the vegan roll contained imitation cheese that was a bit strange.

A female diner tried to enter the toilet, but found it locked. She walked away. A fat man wore a black eye that he received when he slipped on his ‘non-slip’ mat.

The female manager of Chelsea Ireland waved her fingers and three pens in the face of a young Moslem woman with two children. Most diners approve of stern language towards Arabs and Moslems, but life isn’t easy coming from a contrasting civilisation and finding yourself poor and unpopular in a new country.

Jim made a cameo appearance possibly having been released from rehab or prison. He’d slept behind the building four years ago. The drug addicts weren’t there and they’ve also left Kilburn Fred’s Van.

An older woman said she liked trees in the parklands better than some humans. An Orange Sky volunteer jokingly said he wanted all the trees sawed down to get rid of the possums and to play golf. He was the man who saved me from a hospital-quality beating by Meth Head Glenn Bailey from Wangaratta four years ago. I was saved with only a sore face and bleeding mouth. Yes, I owe plenty of favours.

Another diner said there was a house nearby where six women had been kept injected with drugs while used a prostitutes. One escaped, but later killed herself.

An older somewhat cognitively disabled man said he payed $575 a fortnight to sleep on a back verandah of a house. He could use the toilet, but nothing else.

The mood was sweet the whole evening and Orange Sky continued operating in the darkness after Chelsea Ireland staff had closed up and gone home.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub Hindmarsh
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Heroic staff plus the odd lunatic. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, hot coffee and food, eat outside, female sanitary products, incontinence underwear. Tiny clothing rack. Tiny pantry rack. One-dollar donation. Don’t believe their advertised opening hours. They could be anytime. Toilet locked. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required. Orange Sky 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fri. Clients include sex workers, hoarders, junkies, crims, homeless, diabetics and a stock broker.

Early 14 October 2026
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For entertainment purposes only

Rumours at Faithworks

Rumour has it at Faithworks that a legal student doing unpaid volunteer work was sacked after being caught helping other volunteers evade the cameras. She didn’t know that further secret cameras had been installed.

Rumour has it that the unpaid voluntary forklift driver left Faithworks owing hundreds of dollars to organisers Bruce Kurtzer and Dan.

Rumour has it that Dan isn’t the same man as before due to stress of not being able to pay the Faithworks electricity bill, but that he’s still a great man.

Rumour has it that Dan is exhausted from replacing drivers on early morning runs to pick up the free food from the supermarkets and other sources. These drivers have fled the scene after having been discovered not having driving licenses.

Rumour has it that Bruce fiddled with his phone and rolled his eyes while a preacher talked at a funeral. And that he doesn’t believe in God. While preaching from the Bible, Bruce stated that he believes churches can be an impediment to spiritual advancement.

Rumour has it that Bruce told unpaid volunteers that mistakenly placing saleable products on the free table would require them to pay the difference.

Rumour has it that staff discounts have ceased.

Rumour has it that the Health department has threatened to close down Faithworks if they’re caught one more time leaving frozen items out of the freezer for more than an hour.

Rumour has it that Irene is the Faithworks detective with a knack of catching people stealing products.

What isn’t rumour is that Second Bite chose Faithworks as one of the few joints it continues to supply with free food.

Faith Works Blair Athol
5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol. 10:00am to 3:15pm. Mon – Fri. Photo I.D. required. Complicated system of some food free and others charged. Busy place with people waiting hours before doors open. Occasional huge carpark giveaways plus bins of spuds and bread left outside 24/7.

Early 14 October 2026

(above) New pallet of baker's flour for the taking behind Faithworks, Clifton Street, Blair Athol, 24/7. They can't get rid of it. More pallets arriving. Check bags for bird damage. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Medic Van Adelaide City

​Wednesdays 5:30pm – 7:30pm. Back of City Salvos, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. Begins 4 November, 2026.Confidential basic medical treatment and referrals for street people with or without Medicare card. Anonymous if you want. Volunteer doctors and nurses. Free coffee and meal at Salvos from 5pm. 

Early 13 October 2026

Easy-grab psychiatric joint
​in Elizabeth South

This mini short-stay psychiatric joint must have cost twenty or thirty million dollars to build on Oldham Street at Elizabeth Vale. They serve coffee, food and provide a rest for people with mental anxiety or from prescribed pills messing up their brains.

Upstairs are 16 rooms for those deemed worthy of a three day recuperation though this can be renewed ten times making it a thirty day rest. But those presenting with more serious problems may be detained and sent to a locked ward in a major hospital.

Drug dealers operate from the park across the road as addiction to psychiatric drugs is often similar to addiction to illegal drugs. Or an addiction may be from brain or bodily damage caused from the prescribed medications.

Staff park their cars behind a locked fence to stop friends of patients draining their fuel tanks. Or patients unhappy with the service getting revenge.

The joint is operated by psychiatric contractor Sonder who also operate similar places in Salisbury and Edinburgh, the latter accommodating children as well as adults. The manager is Sageran Naidoo with as much understanding of Australian culture as you’d expect. He might be brilliant.

While each day inside may cost thousands of dollars to the taxpayer, it has been deemed cheaper than keeping patients for longer periods in general hospitals.

The moral of the story is not to disclose mental problems to mandatory reporters unless you know where opening this legal door will take you.

See images above.
Early 13 October 2026
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Staff have become kinder

They served hot dogs with cheese, mustard and tomato sauce plus non-soggy dumplings with a pleasant non-meat filling accompanied with barista coffee.
Dessert was canned peaches. One diner looked at the hot dog and said, “I don’t like the look of that.”

I avoided most of the food after accidentally viewing my body in the mirror at the Salvation Army shower earlier that day. Years of self-delusion dashed in an undisciplined glimpse of my reflection.

The staff are much kinder than before possibly because they’ve accepted the anger of clients as not being personally directed towards themselves. Some had been downright cruel to me previously after I’d written that their preacher’s singing resembled a cacophony from Hell.

The free takeaway food didn’t include any surprises and is declining in quality though I asked them not to include meat, eggs or fish so obviously that was lacking.

One diner snarled, “Satan” at another diner. They’ve been antagonistic since our days at ONE Life at Parafield Gardens. As a missionary from Indonesia told us ten years ago. “You people hate each other.” Yes, we are filled with self-loathing that we project onto others.

Salisbury Uniting Church
Cnr Brown and Park Terraces, Salisbury. ph 8258 2675. Clean toilets. Mon to Thurs, 11:00am to 2:00pm. Hampers once a month. One visit weekly for vegetables and bread. Indoor free lunch Weds 11:15am to 1:00pm. Woolworths cards stopped. Staff polite once you’re established. Centrelink card and Salisbury residency required for hampers and cards, but not for lunches. Continues through school holidays, but closed over Christmas and public holidays.

Early 13 October 2026

(above) The Evo Rep gave away shampoo and mirrors at the Orange Sky Laundry free monthly haircut at 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide last month. The next free session is 2-4pm Monday 12 October. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Ungrateful diners
​bring volunteers to tears

“You don’t look well,” the Virus Lady said to me. I didn’t feel well from the stink outside that emerged from either the sewerage system, those weird dogs, the built-up muck on the outdoor tables or from the odd diner.

Through the miasma of distorted light I watched an Orange Sky operative hang clothing on racks from a client who lived a dark life as every article of clothing was black. A junkie laughed his trademark sound of combined whine, pain and ecstasy with a hint of perversion. And those weird dogs licked human faces.

The dining room was strangely just half-full. A diner at our table banged a sausage roll five times on the wooden table until it broke into dozens of shard-like slivers of hardened pastry. The pies and pasties appeared to be re-heated artifacts from the previous Wednesday when the joint didn’t open. Even those items not burnt resembled hard biscuits rather than soft pies and pasties. I am not exaggerating though I still liked the biscuit-like vegetarian pastie. 

The disgruntled diner appeared to have lost his appetite as he grabbed all the pastries he could get his hands on and smashed them against the table.

The veggie slice was next on the menu. Its colours resembled those from a 17th century European painting including a hint of witch burning as its top was an unpleasant brown wisp of crucified pastry. The flavour was pure lemon with a hint of emptied sauce bottles prior to a house move. The disgruntled food critic punched one slice twice to see if it would rise again. It did. He said he’d seen it the previous Wednesday sitting on the counter when volunteers didn’t turn up.

One gentleman shouted the most unpleasant descriptions of the food. Each minute he’d invent another ugly account of the meal. The soup, however, he gave full marks saying it didn’t contain any ‘gunk’. That was more than he said about the main course of gluggy rice with a few vegetables sitting next to gluggy pasta with a few vegetables mixed in that appear boiled in water then mixed with flour or cement. That dish combined with the pastries weren’t exactly a balanced diet, but the clients didn’t seem to care. One mother let her four-year-old daughter eyeball a phone at a volume that filled the dining room. What was that doing to be child’s eardrums? And the kid had lost its appetite.

The four volunteers had a difficult time listening to the ugly barbs from the critical diner. Two had tears in their eyes and appeared ready to cry at the lack of gratitude. One nearly collapsed while grasping a glass of sugary cordial. A volunteer with a walking stick in the kitchen moved clean mugs across the counter by squeezing his sweating fingers on each side of the rims. Had he washed his hands? And had he fiddled with that filthy walking stick?

I can’t remember dessert as my head had slumped forward like a drug addict trying to stay conscious. “You really don’t look well,” the Virus Lady repeated. I felt like puking.

We thanked the staff, one of whom said it would have been nice without our snide comments. As we were leaving, the spiritualist client arrived bringing a bottle of homemade sauce for the diabetes lady still slumped over the table while drinking red cordial.

One diner said you have to be harsh to get the message across because they otherwise ignore you, but we weren’t fair to them.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bread and odd vegetable. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Needle supply across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation. Filthy toilets.

Early 12 October 2026

(above) A diner at Fred's Van Elizabeth couldn't penetrate a sausage roll with his teeth so he banged it on the table five times until it splintered into sharp little artifacts. But the sausage thing inside didn't resemble an item of food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) The pasty was too hard to cut with a knife, but it made a pleasant chewy bone like a hard dog biscuit. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) The diner shouting insults non-stop for forty minutes about the food at Elizabeth Fred's Van said the soup was excellent since it didn't contain any 'gunk'. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

A ******** ******* ******* smelt petrol while having a shower prior to the burning of the Puddle Jumpers charity shop at Hindmarsh. Another ******** rejoiced upon hearing of the arson attack. A number of people in the free food scene know who torched the building and support the attackers.

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The Believe Housing tenant who lost his trailer to his neighbour’s junkie customers recently shouted from his backyard BBQ that, “I’m having steaks while you’re having needles.”

One junkie climbed onto his roof so he sprayed him with a hose then “twenty” stood in front of his unit threatening to kill him.

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Grilled in Rundle Street got less than 200 customers last Tuesday. Their peak has been over 400. The next free hamburger evening will be the Melbourne Cup day on the first Tuesday of November, which means Grill’d will sacrifice a profitable evening to provide homeless people with free food.

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Hands and Feet are expanding. They advertise on their truck for “new partners”, but don’t have enough supplies to justify new distribution points. They’ve moved their operation from Grand Junction Road near Hanson road to closer to Port Adelaide on the corner of Addison and Grand Junction Roads.

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Centrelink phoned twice last week asking if I wanted a social worker to “help you find housing”.

“No thanks,” I replied, not wanting to join the ‘Tag and Release’ program.

Welfare arranges the injection of candidates with “vaccines”, gets them to sign over their privacy rights, allows Welfare to ‘make enquiries and share information’ anywhere then issue a virtual barcode. This is similar to capturing wild animals, tagging them, then tracking their lives until they die. The Hutt Street Centre is largely a ‘Tag and Release’ operation.

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St Bede’s at Semaphore on Tuesdays have stopped giving away free clothing. All other services continue plus the added bonus of the dog washing trailer converted to a human shower trailer. It’s quite nice and superior to the shower truck, but they’re still working out how to operate the toilet.

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A very sick middle-aged man couldn’t use the Chelsea Ireland toilet at Hindmarsh because the volunteer couldn’t get the key to unlock it.

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An Orange Sky worker was looking for a place for the Medic Van to park. He visited Fred’s Van at Gawler Place then made a hasty retreat saying the area was “too tense”.

The Medic Van will now operate on Wednesday evenings outside City Salvos at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide beginning early November. This is a huge bonus.

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Artist Daniel Kean might stop selling Big Issue magazine. No one is buying the rag. But he’s afraid his partner will leave him if he becomes unemployed.

Big Issue contains very little about homeless people or anything written by those living outside. It’s a Woke waste of paper and the public feels the same way. I watched the disinterest on their faces as Daniel spruiked the latest edition on the corner of Pirie and King William Streets in the city.

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People Helping People have cancelled all services this Thursday in Port Adelaide. They’ve been doing this quire frequently in recent months.

However, they’ve posted the first date for a pre-Christmas event. It’s on Thursday, 10th of December on the corner of Church and Leadenhall Streets at Port Adelaide, across from the church and library.

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The South Australian government and police continue suppression of the Nazi movement as adherents organise to form a political party.

They have the numbers, but members fear a formal association may trigger a legal order forbidding them from associated with each other with prison as the punishment. In the least, they’ll be targeted for surveillance and imposition of penalties for minor infringements while the drug dealers and pornographers operate with impunity. And their careers will nosedive.

What has the government to fear from a legitimate Nazi political party? Well, historically speaking, numerous demographic, religious and ethnic groups have plenty to fear. But no one should fear the rise of an elected Nazi government because our democracy is conditional and requires participants first gain approval from those secretly holding the power. Little different from Iran.

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Did anyone notice World Homeless Day yesterday? Some shonky outfit is using our status to operate another fundraising and propaganda event every 10th of October to fund more bureaucrats. Nothing to do with us living outside except we’re their propaganda tool. And we already have Homeless Week. That was a fizzer last August, little more than a fundraiser by the Hutt Street Centre.

Early 11 October 2026

(above) Remnants of homeless camp at colonial Anglican church chapel across street from Salisbury Police Station. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Oct 2026.)

At a free food joint near you?

From an anonymous watcher

"My feedback was brutal sarcastic witty and delving deeply into the absence of any credibility these people have. This is a predatory group of Europeans who've been settled here awhile. They always overload meals with fast carbs and starch, very little protein, exactly what diabetics don't want or those with type 2 or on the cusp. Always been poision to this group. Mostly ageing gen X and boomers in poverty and loneliness. The idea behind purposefully poisoning them is to weaken the body's defence's and thier brainwashing religious extremism stands a better chance and possessing the victims soul.

"This nights meal , first ten minutes of suffering as the Anglicare guy with mic loves listening to his own voice and the power the microphone gave him, but there was a silver lining, he forgot to do the prey thing and had to rush it at the end. The meal was about a cup of rice a cup of frozen veggies reheated and a Bombay special curry that for all we knew was made from monkey or dog. The desert was a rice custard. The rice and sugar the high explosive the curry the detonator. The old c**** who ate the meal will be suffering now. There arses will be sore. Those kidneys playing up and thier mood deteriorating. The curry was extra hot and they knew what they were doing.  Using exceptional manners and charm a " volunteer"" was ambushed.

"Perhaps you should of given a toilet roll with every meal?  Followed by there was enough tumeric in that meal new Dehli could get by for a day with". 

"I'm sure this constructive criticism went down well.  The Germans called the English " angliterrors" and that's exactly what they are."

Anonymous

10 October 2026

From the anonymous contact page

"Thanks for the free food resource and the comprehensive info!! Blessings be upon you."

10 October 2026
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(above) Chased and harassed homeless couple hiding out at Salisbury T.A.F.E., but it won't be long before the guards and police arrive. No asylum. They were soon chased off. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Bang On The Money

“You are bang on the money
Heart and soul is a business disguised as a charity.
Who is on the pay roll?
Thanks for sharing the annual report.”

Via the anonymous contact page

9 October 2026
Posted 10 October 2026
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Fred’s Van Kilburn

Orange Sky moved its laundry van onto the next street due to water covering the entrance area of the dining room. The dents in the washing van have been repaired and the whole thing repainted, but it’s the same beast. Volunteers worked partly in the dark as no one could find the switch for the outdoor light.

Rails’ pallor returned to a healthy light brown from a frightening shade of medium blue the previous week. She is the epitome of determination and self-respect and isn’t afraid to sit by herself in a crowded room.

A rather insightful Chinese man said western people are nervous because they’ve grown up without an extended family. When western parents are angry their children become fearful as they have no one else to turn to whereas in Asia the kids can move amongst multiple cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents until their parents calm down.

A rumour swirled about the room that a woman stabbed another diner in the shoulder, scratched his car then burnt his pension money in the back yard. She was also rumoured to have found another man yet criticised the stabbed man for talking to other women. But the good news is they’re back together and better friends than before.

I can’t remember the meal due to a headache. ​

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday

9 October 2026
Posted 10 October 2026

(above) This was an immaculate homeless camp on the footpath outside Salisbury Aldi. Scavengers began robbing it then a few days later the Council sent it to landfill. Someone's primal dream destroyed once again. The most desperate are the most persecuted. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Fears and projections

A young father wrongly accused another diner of being a paedophile for looking at his 14-year-old sister. His Family – including the would-be-victim – crowded around the man who denied it. Various members of the family made threats of violence, but the accused stood his ground and stared them in the eyes.

Inside the dining room, the family accused everyone near their target as being a paedophile. The would-be-victim of the visual molestation didn’t know her script so instead of shrinking back and shaking in fear she positioned herself at the front of the food queue and performed a victory dance and sang a little ditty.

But the family wanted revenge on the accused diner for his previous comments about them. But in making a false accusation they’d responded to garbage gossip and projected their own fears and experiences onto him. They’d put an innocent man’s life in danger.

This is common in the homeless scene where at the same location six months previously a deranged man used his early teens niece to accuse a man with a deformed face of ‘looking at her’. The unfortunate man did nothing except gaze around in the food queue at the girl crowding close to him. She at least put on a good act of being injured by the glance. His face was terribly deformed, but this wasn’t a crime and wasn’t his fault. It was a cruel act against someone already under pressure.

In regard to the actual dining experience, staff are opening the front door earlier and earlier despite this not being an advertised start time. The Sunday before last they opened the door at 5:30pm then withdrew the coffee urn and cordial at 6pm, which was the advertised start time. Food was served at 6:05pm, which was the usual time. The Salt and Pepper Nazi wasn’t there nor the micro-manager. I can’t remember the meal because of the tension in the room.

After closing time, The Family made a quick removal from the scene perhaps realising they’d antagonised someone who wasn’t going to be a compliant victim. And the fact that the other men in the room were suddenly wary of the potential danger of also being accused.

Toby was there from Noarlunga with his incredibly powerful music box. A woman with two huge black and bruised eyes said she didn’t frighten easily, but someone had frightened her. Another man who I’ve known in the homeless scene for 15 years said he was the richest man in South Australia, but he couldn’t access his wealth as it was in Bitcoin.

Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Inadequate single toilet. Occasional screaming and yelling. Salt and Pepper Nazi. Nice tribal nomads. Beware of the micro-manager volunteer.

Early 8 October 2026
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The showdown that never happened

The man accused of being a paedophile the previous week arrived with his usual cohort of dining companions. They were steeled for the return of The Family who’d made the baseless accusations and who had said their grievance wasn’t finished. The Family’s allies were increasingly uneasy as The Family was late arriving and then didn’t arrive at all. The great confrontation was not happening and those backing The Family realised they were now in the firing line.

The man with the deformed face had been chased away from Fred’s Van Salisbury after similar baseless accusations, but this was not happening in this case.

Such fake accusations of child molesting hit the intended victims like thunderbolts as the homeless culture includes violent men and women wanting a righteous reason to go to prison.

But on this occasion the intended victim retained his ground and the accusers shrank away. They may return, but no one will trust them for using such a low, baseless attack. And those men sensing they could become the next target will take action against The Family, not violence, but movements behind the scenes.

But to give a tiny amount of compassion to The Family, they are 100% insular. When one leaves the dining room, the others follow. They are the butt of cruel jokes and don’t have the intellectual sophistication to defend themselves. Nevertheless, the dining cohort considers them dangerous and they’ll be persuaded to go somewhere else.

Last week’s Fred’s Van serving shift contained some of the best volunteers including Stephen, Jeff, Louisa, the woman with short hair, the woman who made the biscuits and others. They cleared the tables quietly and politely. Jeff didn’t remove the salt and pepper shakers at our table until the last person had finished eating. They were professional as if we were paying customers.

Another good move is staff have stopped supplying imitation meat sausages for the two vegetarians. This simulated meat is expensive, not so healthy and isn’t always liked. Instead, the cooks provide an extra bowl of rice with oil, flavouring and tiny flakes of half-cooked carrot. The dish appears beautiful and tastes beautiful. It’s a win-win result. The other food included chips, fresh salad and crumbed chicken. Even the severest food critic said it tasted like chicken.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Inadequate single toilet. Occasional screaming and yelling. Salt and Pepper Nazi. Nice tribal nomads. Beware of the micro-manager volunteer.

Early 8 October 2026​

(above) Mushrooms and truffle in a jar for fifty-cents at Chelsea Ireland food hub at Hindmarsh. A little past the Use-By date. Challengeable, but not by me. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Heart and Soul Group annual report

I couldn’t understand their Annual Report for the period 30 June 2024 to 1 July 2025 – That’s the last accountable period. They claim a trading income of $555,488.12 from selling goods that cost $95,226.15 leaving a gross profit of $460,261.97. Not bad.

But when other expenses of $671,596.43 are taken into account including $180,382.80 for volunteers and $275,946.10 for wages and salaries then this profit is reduced to an apparent loss of $199,334.46 though it appears under the Net Profit listing.

On another page of this Annual Report they suggest they had a net loss of $354,481 for the financial year 2024/25 despite revenue from the government of $460,261.

I can’t figure it out except that they make an extraordinary profit on selling and giving away old and new food. And that Eman Rahim’s statement years ago that she aimed to gain an income from Heart and Soul appears to have born fruit.

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Second Editor
​Early 7 October 2026
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Kilburn Fred’s Van

The Wine Centre soup didn’t arrive so an elderly volunteer cooked a pot described as “rustic pumpkin” soup. “Rustic” meant it contained soft lumps of cooked pumpkin. She added seasoning “cubes” free of MSG so I didn’t get a migraine. It was a big hit.

The volunteers worked like paid employees in a restaurant. Speaking was only pertinent to the job. The meal included roast chicken from Costco, broccoli (no stench), mashed potatoes, boiled peas and carrots, rustic soup, Nanaimo bars and icecream. The soup lady said she was exhausted.

A dining Anglicare tenant replied to their survey saying everything about them was ‘bad, bad, bad’ . Instead of getting evicted they offered him extra services as appeasement.

Another client said he howls like a stricken animal in his kitchen resulting in neighbours throwing dead birds onto his front lawn.

Three old men operated the Orange Sky van, but the clients weren’t homeless as those living outside rarely go to most indoor free food services. Those that do keep their housing status secret. There are hundreds, even thousands of squatters across Adelaide. They don’t talk to Welfare for fear of mandatory reporting. ​

A diner said quantum tunnelling folds time and space and will allow instant communication across galaxies instead of the 40 minute travelling time of the signal between Earth and Mars.

After the meal we talked outside until 11:30pm about ghosts and the dark arts. Visitors passing by in the darkness included Adam who was sleeping on the banks of the Torrens River in the city and was soaked by the sprinklers during the night.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday.

Early 7 October 2026

(above) Needle addicts hang around the Anglican Church at Salisbury because it's empty most of the time. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

(above) Outdoor water taps are rare in Adelaide so people living outside must be careful with infections. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Cries and Whispers
​in the homeless culture

A diner said her husband hung himself. She found a new man, but he accidently killed her young son. “It was all in the news. I hated people after that.”

Another woman seeks a funeral director after two or her sons committed suicide within a week. The last one was still warm upon being found, but beyond resuscitation.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours)

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A free food diner and volunteer suffers incredibly dry, red and itchy skin. His joints hurt making walking painful and nearly impossible. He said doctors don’t know for what to treat him as they’re forced to rely on A.I. Agents provided by the government and pharmaceutical corporations.

Doctors insert the man’s symptoms into these semi-intelligent algorithm agents, which then spit out drug prescriptions that don’t work. The man said doctors aren’t allowed to make diagnoses based on their expertise, but have become drug distributors for the corporations.

Meanwhile, he’s getting sicker and sicker and increasingly suffering.

Early 6 October 2026
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Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army

There has been conflict between a social worker student and two older men, one a volunteer and the other living in his car. The student accused the older men of being racist then recorded their conversations and gave it to the Corps officer. The older men accuse the student of being pushy, self-entitled, inconsiderate and that he illegally recorded a private conversation without permission.

The Oz Harvest truck didn’t arrive as they couldn’t get a driver. The Corps clients were happy to hear the previous driver was returning as the new driver doesn’t unload all the stuff from Aldi, but takes it somewhere else. The clients hope the previous driver will unload everything as before.

A volunteer named Pam has got a job in the shopping centre so we might not see her as frequently. Luckily we still have three other good volunteers.

The free Friday large breakfast for homeless people at 9am included fried bacon, sausages, eggs, beans, fritters and toast. Army soldier Eleanor and a work experience psychologist named Johnathon prepared and brought the dishes to our tables with grace.

A late diner arrived with new shoes via The Shoe Exchange. A new diner said she was a wild animal protector and homeless. She was well-spoken and exquisitely dressed and bursting with trauma.

Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army
138 Reservoir Road, Modbury. Ph (08) 8360 6444. Mon – Fri 8:30am to 2:00pm. Everything free. Oz Harvest food Wed & Friday 10:30am. Clean showers Mon, Wed Fri 8:45 - 11:45am. Thirty-minute showers. You may ask for extra time. Towel and toiletries supplied. Slow laundry same times or Orange Sky Wednesdays 1:00pm to 3:00pm. No I.D. required except for supermarket cards, parcels, & blankets. Coffee, toast, hot meals from cafe Mon, Wed, Fri 8:30am - 12:00noon. Morning tea 2nd and 4th Weds 10:30am to 12:00 noon. Free breakfast 9am Fridays. Clients occasionally steal furniture or get chased out of Bunnings carrying stolen merchandise.

Early 6 October 2026

(above) They call it the 'Vinnies Men's Crisis Centre', but there is rarely a crisis. We have to pretend and management has to pretend so the government will fund it. It's simply unpleasant housing for us. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2026.)

Salt and Pepper Nazi

The volunteer who grabs the salt and pepper shakers before diners have finished using them has expanded her reach to admonishing those lingering past her deemed time-to-leave.

Last week she told us to scrape our plates and return them to the stage. This was despite other shifts picking them up from the tables. We didn’t know this shift had a different policy and didn’t deserve a somewhat contemptuous command. She added that volunteers weren’t our “servants”, but, yes, they are. That is the service. One quiet diner responded with, “I don’t like your f***ing attitude.”

The meal included a cauliflower and potato soup plus a concentrated tomato soup made from a paste without adequate added water. The main course was fried onions, bread, salad and some sort of meat. Dessert was custard and pastry. The senior staff member said she’d cooked some seasoned rice for me, but forget to bring it to the table until the meal was nearly finished. A diner repeatedly snarled in a loud voice that the meal was “sh**”. A homeless man repeatedly squeezed a squeaky children’s toy. (That wasn’t me.)

Both staff and diners seemed frazzled. One diner curled up in a back corner. Unlucky Lucky lost his keys until a volunteer found them in his car. “I must be losing it,” Lucky said while another diner muttered he’d known that for years. Lucky is the most reasonable diner in the building.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Inadequate single toilet. Occasional screaming and yelling. Salt and Pepper Nazi. Nice tribal nomads. Beware of the micro-manager volunteer.

Review for 20 September 2026
Early 5 October 2026
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More expensive than stores

https://www.heartandsoulinc.com.au/shop

Early 5 October 2026

(above) No I.D. required. They don't collect data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

(above) Free elderly bread and vegetable days at Rostrevor Baptist Church. Friendly outfit with free shower, washing machine and drier. See link to Adelaide Free Food Guide at top of page for more information. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

On the Street

Does anyone remember the old man living in his car whose open-heart surgery appointments at the Royal Adelaide Hospital were repeatedly cancelled hours before surgery. Well, he eventually had it done then went to Sydney to recuperate at his daughter’s house.

Two months later, he’s still in a bad way with multiple complications from the surgery, but he expects to be back in Adelaide in November, hopefully not to resume living in his car as sleeping in the front seat stopped his body from stretching out and thus compressed his heart.

However, his car awaits him in a guarded Salvo Corps carpark.

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A young woman with facial tattoos sleeps in a tiny tent in front of a private school’s sports building (they used to be called sheds). She screams and yells when joggers and others approach her.

She begs money and food on Melbourne Street at North Adelaide then hides in one of the three separate toilet rooms in the park. Last Monday, two Council employees called for her to get out. When I emerged from next door, the female staff member directed her gaze below my belt. I’ve noticed numerous women hanging around public toilets who do this.

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Adelaide Homeless Industry executives should come up with a new slogan when responding to new homeless reports. Simply asking for more resources isn’t fooling anyone in the homeless scene as we know the bureaucrats take the money and use it to collect more data and establish more control mechanisms over us.

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Hutt Street Centre Chief Executive Chris Burns has entered the gambling industry by selling $150,000 worth of raffle tickets with the prize being a $40,000 car. What next, a Roulette wheel at the front door on pension days? We’ll call him Croupier Burns. At least the Hutt Street Centre is equipped with adequate cameras to run a gambling operation. And they’ve got the database to know whose placing the chips, which they could name, ‘Stiff Chips’.

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A homeless man told us he’s the silent business partner of Elon Musk and also the blood-brother of the Angel Gabriel. Another soup kitchen client quietly responded that, “There are quite a few of them.”

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“John” continues preparation for his defence against an assault charge and seeks the elderly volunteer at the Chelsea Ireland food hub who said the victim of the “soup attack” wasn’t burnt and quickly released from hospital. While staff say “John” won’t return for fear of retribution from other clients, an opposing view emerged last week when clients spoke positively saying he wanted to live a quiet life and spends time in hospital for age-related life-threatening physical illnesses.

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A client said last week there were more Muslims than white folk at the Beacon of Hope at Elizabeth and that the quality of free food was dropping.

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A diner said he stopped going to Fred’s Van Elizabeth after a man threatened him with a knife. He complained to the volunteers upon which the largest said it had nothing to do with him.

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A soup kitchen diner said he ate a stew made from human flesh in the Republic of Vanuatu. He said when people were ready to die they offered their bodies to friends and relatives to eat. He said it tasted “oily”.

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A diner at the Salisbury Lutheran Ark said he found hair and slivers of aluminium foil in the food the Saturday evening before last. He said volunteer numbers were lower than usual.

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Friends or customers of a Believe Housing drug dealer at Pennington stole an old trailer from a neighbour’s house. The police couldn’t get a number plate so have given up on the search. Believe Housing wants nothing to do with the matter. But the neighbour says that Believe Housing is consciously harbouring a drug dealer on their property and should be responsible for her customers’ actions.

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A diner said the Dead Sea Scrolls revealed that parts removed from the early Bible described multiple Gods and alien species inhabiting Earth. He says the Israeli government is in custody of the original copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQzl-ukBgk

Early 4 October 2026
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From the anonymous contact page

“The very day you posted the info about foul hampers from heart and soul they put a post up with cheery music and beautiful fresh looking hampers.
Was it a coincidence?
And
The comment count didn't match the displayed comments.
More deleting???
I wonder.”

Anonymous

Editor: Someone sent a screenshot of Eman Rahim saying where she bought these peptides. While I wouldn't touch them myself, it's her business what she does providing they're not being sold at Heart and Soul, which it doesn't appear is happening. 

Second Editor

Late 3 October 2026

(above) James and Linda provide free washing, drying and coffee at 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide. They are reliable. Watch out for the Council lady at the public toilets who eyes men below the belt. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Saturday light breakfast
​Windsor Gardens

They told a homeless man not to park his caravan near the church as there were teenagers using the building on the weekends. Yeah, all men are suspects no matter how blameless. The church is a Uniting Church so they’re Woke to the hilt.

I knew I was in the right place because there was a queue of overweight people avoiding eye contact. That’s our culture.

The two hour breakfast and social occasion was boisterous, but without the underlying threat of violence at other joints. The staff were helpful and polite at the barista machine, the bacon and egg muffin room and the free old vegetables and grocery room. They bring the muffins and coffee to the tables.

Strangely, many clients getting the groceries don’t move to the dining room possibly because it isn’t Halal or vegetarian. Staff encourage clients to examine the bags of groceries and return what they don’t want. Ti offered unwanted items to myself. I put some in Orange Sky laundry for Stiffs coming in from the cold.

A few minutes after opening the doors there were 30 clients inside the building including 92-year-old Miss Betty who stocks up on pies and pasties for her guests on Monday. Another guest living in his car said one of his turtles died. His other turtle has survived 30 years. He takes them – now, just one – to safe ponds around Adelaide where it can eat tadpoles and other stuff. He rescued it from a salty body of water where it was dying.

An older man named Andrew was on the rampage via his noteworthy exuberant personality. He told me there was a shower at church@paravista ten years ago when we both went to Anne Coopers free food service in Fremont Park at Elizabeth. He spreads helpful information in the homeless culture, which is important as most organisations and agencies keep their free services a secret for their own clients.

The barista’s daughter played cards with Jason from Stevo’s and two other diners. Good atmosphere.

Gardens Uniting Church
3 Pitman Road, Windsor Gardens. 9am to 11:00am Saturdays. Percolated coffee, bacon and egg muffins, old vegetables, grocery hampers. For homeless and underclass, not hoarders. Friendly. No I.D. required. No personal data collection. Much improved. Large dining room.

3 October 2026

(above) Zucchini Slice with Rocket & Potato Salad made by Sonia Blackwell for homeless people in Salisbury every Saturday evening. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

(above) Pavlova shell parfaits with cream & berries. Sonia's dessert offering to those living outside last Saturday. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

The Bragster at Salisbury

Astrid the manager grabbed a man not due to deep affection, but to stop him from raiding the children’s food table. Not that the mainly Arab kids were interested in sliced celery, Dutch smoked and local cheeses, dips and Kalamatta olives.

The meal for the adults included roast chicken in a sauce from a bottle. The vegetarian main course was Tofu and rice in the same sauce that wasn’t appropriate. Animal protection workers Gerrie and her son Glenn helped collect the donations and controlled access to the free food room.

One astute diner said the meal was similar to numerous other joints and that it were prepared from a central source. This might have been Fare Trade that produces food from Second Bite that no longer delivers to most free food joints. Or from ‘Food on the Table’ at Hindmarsh.

One diner explained how the old Land Cruisers were superior to the late models where electronics took over and fixing them away from the towns and cities had become increasingly difficult. His has travelled 500,000 kilometres.

The nice aspect of the meal was the equal mix of Stiffs, old people and mothers with children. Nearly everyone was poor and fully deserved the free meal. The vegetables and groceries were so old that even poverty stricken diners ignored them. You absorb a higher load of toxins from decomposition when you eat them.

After the meal, The Virus Lady took as much greens as possible for her 25 chickens. She’s been buying lettuce from the supermarket to feed them despite her house mortgage nearly killing her. I urged her to grab six boxes of kale, spinach and other slightly rotten greens. Astrid put a stop to us getting more saying it could be used later, presumably for distribution at the Chelsea Ireland food room at Hindmarsh the following day. But all of it should have gone to the chickens.

Bagster Community Centre Salisbury
17 Bagster Rd., Salisbury. Ph (08) 8487 1830. Mondays free older vegetables and a few old groceries from 5:00pm. Free decent meal and coffee. Entry through side door. $1 donation. Clean toilets. Horrible lighting & acoustics. Lots of screaming from staff. No data collection. Foreign and local clients with plenty of children and a safe area for them.

2 October 2026

(above) Faithworks at Clifton Street, Blair Athol giving away 12.5kg bags of baking flour. They leave it out in the weather. The stack on the side street is often higher than the fence. Available all night. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub

A volunteer had difficulty unlocking the toilet door. I thought the key would break. No wonder, it hadn’t been opened for months. A toilet client waving brightly coloured scarves. He might have damaged the section of his mind with meth that keeps the body steady. Scarves are an alibi. Anyway, he made his way down the short corridor to the throne.

A Chinese client with an injured back from work helped unload the truck. A Chinese woman showed me the new list where client name are written in order of arrival. Later, someone replaced her name with their own. What a clown!

The Sikhs brought boxes of containers of dahl and rice. One Sikh asked a client if they were too spicy. Not enough, I muttered from the sidelines though many diners like bland food.

The free bread still had three days before the Best-by date. The vegetables were three days or three weeks past their Best-By date. The one-dollar donation pantry items were limited, but interesting, but the fifty pairs of leather children’s dancing shoes weren’t moving. Jelena said Chelsea Ireland clients can’t afford dancing lessons for their children. There was free clothing of which staff search the internet to identify clients reselling it. They caught one person who said it was sold to get money to buy more appropriate clothing from the store. The argument wasn’t accepted and the client was banned from clothing, but could get everything else.

Staff were happy and helpful. The manager and her mother watched carefully. They are superb managers when they exert wise restraint. Clients were reasonable, but there weren’t enough chairs and tables so some diners sat on the defunct artillery gun on the grass or used the Orange Sky chairs. There are less chairs than before despite that ferocious renovation bill for the two room building.

There were plenty of cakes and coffee plus a similar rice dish made by the volunteers. You couldn’t get better workers even if they were paid.

An Asian client in an electric wheelchair lives in a rooming house of crazy people and drug addicts. He said his doctor told him he had “mental health”, which is the euphemism for being crazy. His foot was damaged from a falling fridge or piece of ice – I couldn’t understand which. I advised him to get a new doctor and not take pills, but he already understood the latter. We talked about the English language of which he couldn’t pronounce the Australian dialect sounds. But he could break down sentences into articles, infinitives, prepositions, etc. Better than most university graduates.

I talked with a man about his dark arts family, a theme that has come up with others in the homeless food scene.

Orange Sky Laundry arrived late, but remained on the scene after the food hub staff had turned off the lights, locked the doors and left the building. That’s dedication. The Orange Sky Chelsea Ireland shift are the most reliable in Adelaide. And the food hub staff were also brilliant.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub Hindmarsh
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Heroic staff plus the odd lunatic. Named after Chelsea Ireland whose boyfriend’s father shot her dead. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee and food, eat outside, incontinence underwear when toilet locked. Tiny clothing rack. One-dollar donation. Don’t believe their advertised opening hours. They could be anytime. Shower truck rarely there. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required. Orange Sky 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fri. Clients include sex workers, junkies, criminals, homeless, Mandarins, diabetics, a stock broker, couple of Serbians and a partially naked woman.

1 October 2026

(above) The graffiti crowd respect certain messages near a homeless camping area near Glenelg. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Horrible surprise at Fred’s Van Elizabeth

Diners waited for the doors to open at Fred’s Van in Elizabeth. Food both cooked and some needing only reheating sat on the front serving counter. Orange Sky had been operating in the courtyard for one hour.

At 5:57pm – three minutes before opening time – a phone call came through from head office telling both diners and Orange Sky to get off the property. The serving staff weren’t arriving. Goodbye.

You can imaging the unhappiness. Some diners came by car, others by train or on foot while a few rode their bicycles. The odd diner arrived from a homeless camp in a park or side of road. Fred’s Van is one of Adelaide’s most reliable services, but not this time.

One man suggested to the waiting diners they should be compensated ten-dollars for putting the effort of getting to an advertised event then finding it cancelled.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bread and odd vegetable .Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Needle supply across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation. Filthy toilets.

Late 30 September 2026

(above) Tea Tree Gully media influencer Sonia Blackwell served chicken and sweet potato Korma to homeless people in Salisbury and Modbury two weeks ago. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

(above) Another free meal from Sonia Blackwell to homeless people in the Tea Tree Gully area. The Council two days ago sent a homeless man's tent to landfill. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Rostrevor Baptist Church
​expands service

The church operates differently to other places and instead of cancelling their free food service during school holidays they increase it from fortnightly to weekly. Another positive feature is their relatively short closure period over Christmas, this year from 18 December to 8 January.

They open on Fridays at 11am to provide free old vegetables plus soup or snacks plus coffee. Everyone is welcome regardless of address and they don’t require I.D. of any sort. The free bread and vegetables come from Woolworths across the road so quantity and quality varies hugely.

They also offer pantry food purchased by church members, according to their spokesperson. But I didn’t understand her logic when she said Centrelink I.D. is required for this because a Council member directs “unhoused” people to the church. If nothing else, it seems a record of who gets the best stuff and this is to keep and eye on hoarders. Pantry items are available Monday to Friday 9am to 2:30pm. The free shower, washing machine and drier are also available at this time, but don’t require I.D.

I haven’t been for three years, but hope to lodge a post on Adelaide Homeless Journal in the near future. Or you can do it. That would be welcome.

Second Editor
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Baptist Rostrevor free food
288 Montacute Rd., Rostrevor Ph 8336 1466. Fruit, vegetables, bread, snacks, coffee every second Friday 11:00am. Every Friday during school holidays. No I.D. required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. No residency requirements. One visit a month and Centrelink card required for free pantry items 9am – 2:30pm Mon-Fri. Free shower, washing machine and drier 9am-2:30pm Mon-Fri. Short closure during Christmas holidays.

30 September 2026

(above) Homeless man sleeping in Salisbury. Predators waited for him to leave then raided his possessions. Predators are endemic in the homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Nice Old Man fails to file evidence

The ‘Nice Old Man’ has failed to file his evidence for his October court hearing against ‘The Little Lady’ and her advocate, ‘The Mechanic’.

He was last seen 8 days ago locking a new huge delivery van equipped for camping and was sporting a new haircut where he usually has a shower near Modbury.
The ‘Nice Old Man’ seeks $12k from ‘The Little Lady’ over services rendered and money lent. But he’s fighting an uphill battle having not obtained receipts or promissory notes.

He might have come to his senses and realised his quest is futile due to the difficulty of the case and also of getting money from ‘The Little Lady’. Perhaps he’s taken his flash van and gone for a desert trip. That would be wise. Make the best of one’s latter years.

29 September 2026

“Say No To Rotten Food”

Via The Anonymous Contact Page

“Heart and soul
What a crap joint that is.
Rodents fruit and veg delivered to your door
Don't dare comment trying to advise others who probably cant afford the $20 for "delivery" that it's a waste of time because they delete it.
The woman running this business disguised as a charity openly uses illegal peptides. She even shared on a Facebook group exactly where she buys them. ... yes I have the evidence. She's plastered the info openly.
So the next time you buy their rotten produce stop to think what your hard to come by money is funding. Illegal drugs and cosmetic injections.”

P.S. How can I send you a screenshot to back up my claim about heart and soul founder and peptides?
Obviously this isn't me email address

Anonymous

Second Editor: Link to page.
29 September 2026

Orange Sky Laundromat

The plastic tree finally proved its worth. Two homeless people found refuge in a corner of the laundromat by placing the tree as a visual and physical barrier. Everyone worked around them, no problems at Orange Sky.

One of them bought lunch for the two of them at $47. That’s the problem when you’re exhausted, demoralised, frightened and a long way from a supermarket or free food joint. They managed to get most of the muesli bars and remained in their corner when everyone left.

Alessandro arrived at 2:00pm to cut hair. A homeless woman arrived with her tiny amount of washing. She said when you live outside without a car it’s hard to keep very much clothing. She didn’t appear to use drugs, alcohol or tobacco, but spoke in an anxious manner. She might be mildly autistic. It doesn’t seem right that this 40-year-old should live outside when there are so many vacant apartments in the CBD. We have a crooked government operating on some alien agenda. Anyway, this startling woman told Alessandro that she thought barbers were more skilled than hairdressers.

The reliable volunteer named James was missing for the second week due to an illness he might have contracted on an expensive Ghan train trip to Darwin where a passenger allegedly had pneumonia. An equally reliable volunteer named Sarah helped stalwart Linda deal with the laundry customers. Sarah had a bad knee after taking a shortcut while bush walking. After telling us this, other customers talked about their bad knees.

Igor said his people have asked the S.A. Coroner to reopen the inquest into the death of the pastor who left most of his assets to him. Igor and the new church pastor are fighting a tense and expensive court battle over who should get the dead pastor’s assets. The old pastor left his money to the church in a 2016 Will then changed it to Igor in a 2018 Will. Igor has nerves of steel.

There was drama at the public toilets with two Adelaide City Council employees yelling for someone to exit one of the three separate rooms for each toilet. When I made as dignified exit as possible, the female Council employee looked at me below the waist.

There is at least one person camping in the area including a young woman with facial tatoos and who is apparently a drug addict. She put her tent on the edge of the sports building owned by a private school. She was later seen outside Orange Sky laundromat. She usually comes inside begging for money, but we give her biscuits or buns and invite her for coffee, but she’s too far gone.

The Uvo Hair lady brought a thousand dollars worth of product for Alessandro, but then gave some to clients. I got a bottle of salon hair shampoo with a price tag of $43.

Alessandro’s next visits at Orange Sky laundry are listed on the image below.

Orange Sky Laundry, 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide.
Free washing and drying Mondays 1:30 to 4:00pm and Thursdays 9:30am to 11:30am. Coffee and snacks on Mondays. Better than the laundry truck. Free hairdressing with Alessandro once a month at the laundromat and also at Crazy Cottage with two hairdressers.

29 September 2026

(above) Free hairdressing by a professional. 2-4pm at 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide. (Adelaide homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Review of the South Australian SHS-funded Homeless System

The latest expensive review says the Alliance model overseeing those sleeping on the street was a failure. We living outside and in cars didn’t need a review to tell us that. Even David Pearson of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness said “Blind Freddy could have told you that from the beginning.” But why did David publicly announce this from the beginning?

The Alliance model combined about twenty government funded “non-profit” contractors into five Alliances giving one the lead role in each. The five consisted of the Domestic and Family Violence Alliance, the Metropolitan Alliance (North and West Adelaide known as the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance), the Metropolitan Alliance known as Towards Home (South and East Adelaide), the Country Alliance (North), and the Country Alliance (South). It transferred money from services for those living outside to hiring extra bureaucrats to collect data.

An example of the failure was paying two Alliance outreach employees to drive half an hour to visit a person living under a tree then offering a tube of toothpaste and a few Styrofoam cups of two-minute noodles then getting him or her to say they’re having a hard time, but are thankful to the Alliance. It all looked good on a database, but was of little help to the person living under threat of confiscation of their tent and bedding from the local Council.

Then if the local Council forced the person to move, the Alliance said they could “no longer offer support” because the person has moved into another Alliance’s territory and must begin the registration process all over.

The S.A. government acknowledges it failed, but that isn’t why they commissioned the report. They want a single program under a single bureaucracy with no divergence between individual organisations or between states and the federal government.

So if a person sleeping on the ground dislikes their client profile then goes to another welfare organisation it won’t make any difference. And this is regardless whether the profile was constructed by a social worker or an A. I. Agent. Once the person is barcoded then making any change is nearly impossible. This has already happened with the database dubbed by street people as The Eternal Shame File that follows a homeless person from agency to agency.

The five authors of the report considered 800 submissions, 292 survey responses and 65 interviews. This so-called independent review commissioned by the South Australian government was produced by Amy Rust, described by herself as a proud Kokatha woman and Owner and Managing Director of Jindawayni Consulting. With her was employee Stephanie Ross, a proud Meroni/Gooreng Woman.

The other authors were Jessica Dobrovic, Associate Professor Rhiannon Pilkington and Nadia Di Girolamo from the BetterStart Group none of which described themselves via their ancestral origins.

Looking at the backgrounds of the authors one might guess the costly report is somewhat biased towards certain groups. According to the authors, homelessness is about domestic violence and indigenous culture including children, young people, families and communities (gay, ethnic and Aboriginal). They miss out the main gender and racial group that is homeless men of European background especially elderly men. And there is little mention of the next main group: mixed race Aboriginal men.

The Review of the South Australian SHS-funded Homeless System is largely a review of the beliefs of those working in Adelaide’s Homeless Industry and largely ignores the opinions of those living outside except for a few who mostly have had a few weeks living on someone’s lounge or in a car.

The aim of the report concentrates on the idea of preventing homelessness rather than finding housing for those living outside. This allows the authors to equate the concept of “at risk of homelessness” and “domestic violence” with actual living outside and thus concluding that 40% of homeless people are female despite that obviously being untrue.

But one good idea they float is the concept of “culturally safe” support. That means not refusing housing to indigenous women who refuse to disclose whether they’ve been raped, abused as children, beaten up, worked as prostitutes, mutilated or are victims of incest. And maybe men won’t be required to answer whether they’ve been pregnant. These considerations may not be given to homeless people of European descent.

The Review of the South Australian SHS-funded Homeless System doesn’t address common problems of homeless people getting public housing.

This includes putting crystal meth and heroin junkies amongst tenants for whom their strongest drug is coffee. Or putting compulsive thieves amongst infirm elderly tenants. Or putting convicted child molesters amongst tenants without criminal records and thus tainting their reputations.

Or that welfare public housing managers consider dealing drugs a lesser infringement of tenancy than talking and writing about how the housing is administered despite the former being illegal and the latter legal.

Nor is there any mention that the major cause of homelessness is keeping a thousand government houses and units left empty without security whereupon they are vandalised even while undergoing major renovations.

Or that huge numbers of privately owned units and houses remain empty because local and foreign investors built them as a tax dodge or to launder dirty money.

Or that most homeless people are white men with health problems including those in their seventies and that just 2.9% of homeless people helped by the system are over 65 despite them being a major demographic.

Or that homeless people are forced to sign contracts to obtain simple services, then refused requests for copies of what they signed. And the information obtained is used to upsell the homeless product either voluntarily or involuntarily.

Or the rampant racism of Aboriginal controlled homeless services against white people.

Or the homeless industry demanding more and more intimate personal details then sharing it with more and more other agencies while itself becoming secretive to the point of paranoia.

One of the more disturbing aspects of Adelaide’s Special Housing Service and homeless housing is the bureaucrats’ obsessive interest in clients’ sexual preferences and history.

Well, that is my view on the The Review of the South Australian SHS-funded Homeless System. Most of it I couldn’t understand as it was riddled with jargon in every sentence. In fact, one of the recommendations of the report is that the numerous agencies and departments adopt a common vocabulary.

And how has the report gone down in Adelaide’s Homeless Industry? I get around the homeless scene and speak to numerous employees yet haven’t found a single person who has read it. Most don’t know it exists and don’t care.

But this document should be considered seriously as it is the blueprint for squeezing homeless people to get more and more personal details to barcode them into a product to be enhanced or to be thrown onto the scrapheap.

https://dhs.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/200918/Review-of-the-South-Australian-SHS-Funded-Homelessness-System.pdf  
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Early 28 September 2026

(above) New Food Bank store on Main North Road near Parafield airport. Food Bank bills itself as the dignified way to get cheap food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

On the Street

The non-meat lunch at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Sunday was described as spinach and feta bake, but the feta was actually egg and it was horrible.

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A Douglas Wayne Sansbury was award $2800 in the late 1990’s after being traumatised while robbing a couple in Ingle Farm of their cannabis crop. Sansbury had robbed some of their crop earlier in the evening then returned with six accomplices to get the rest. He threatened to call the police if the couple didn’t let them take the crop.

One of the owners produced a gun and accidentally shot one of the thieves. He was later charged with manslaughter.

Mr Sansbury believed he was entitled to compensation for being traumatised while trying to rob the couple.

Twenty-five years later another Douglas Wayne Sansbury along with Keith William Chomick were charged with murder of Bradley Frost, 62, in the driveway of his Modbury home. The attack was caught on surveillance cameras.

Anecdotal evidence was that Frost was angry the two men were selling drugs in Civic Park at Modbury. They were initially charged with murder, but the prosecution mysteriously reduced it to aggravated assault despite Bradley dying a few days later in hospital. A friend of Bradley said the attackers got suspended sentences, but this hasn’t been confirmed.

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A day in my life

A security guard made silly noises during the night on the other side of the fence. Two men walked by the car at 4:15am in an area where there aren’t pedestrians. They were curious, that’s all.

A dog barked all night that made me fear the owners would call the police, but they kindly took the dog inside. Possibly even applied pain to teach it to shut up.

The mosquitoes were breathtaking as I was near a swamp.

When I got out of the car I was in water up to my ankles and a body of water 600 metres long and forty metres wide was slowly approaching me. It hadn’t rained for a week so someone must have opened a floodgate on higher ground.

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A source within the South Australian court system said that Craig Matthew Woolford’s file of court appearances has been suppressed. This is either because he has pending cases and the Court doesn’t want Jurors’ opinions to be tainted or for a more sensitive matter.

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A man went to C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide on a recent Friday morning at 9am. He said there was a huge queue. He returned at 9:30am and found the queue was still large. When he finally reached the dining room he discovered there were only croissants to eat.

C.H.A.T.S. is the singularly most popular free food session in Adelaide.

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A young woman woke up with a syringe in her arm at the Salisbury railway station on a morning last week. She’ll be a toothless scrawny junkie with brain damage within five years.

The South Australian government wants this to happen to the population. Who pulls their strings?

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“I worked in nursing homes in three states and would never send anyone there.”
A retired nurse at Fred’s Van Elizabeth responding to me saying I was reading for a nursing home.

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I was thinking of Glen Bailey from Wangaratta yesterday. He said he was attacked by 20 men at Semaphore Beach and he fought them to a standstill. But the only time I saw him fighting is when he fortified himself with alcohol and punched me in the head four times.

Looking through crime reports from the homeless scene it is invariably a younger man injuring or killing an older man. Thugs rarely attack anyone younger and stronger than themselves.

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“I fell down the Temu rabbit hole,”
Volunteer at Encounter Church Sefton Park

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“All my employers tried to cheat me of wages except Lindsay Fox.”
Retired truck driver at free food venue.

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“We went to a hypnotist. My husband wanted to stop smoking. He stopped the next day. I wanted to stop drinking Coke, but was too stubborn to be hypnotised. I began drinking more.”
Free food joint client talking about her attempts to stop drinking Coke.

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The government’s Work Cover program is in shambles. A truck drive said his compensation claim took eight years after he fell off a semi-trailer roof. A bouncer is in his ninth year of his compensation claim after suffering brain damage from too many punches in the head.

A third injured man said the insurance company sent a young woman in a mini-skirt asking him to change her car tyre.

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There is a animal protection outfit at Unit 4, 2-4 Marker Avenue, Marleston called Safe Pets, Safe Families or The Paw Patrol. Phone 0490 818 879.

They provide food and veterinarian treatment for dogs and cats owned by homeless people. They say such animals are important in maintaining mental health, but demand is many times more than they can meet.

*

Northeast Salvation Army has moved into their Oakden building near the prison for the criminally insane. The Friday community meal venue is thus moving from the Uniting Church at Campbelltown to this new building. It begins at 6pm and might require a donation. While I was scouting the area a man jumped out of the bushes while making grunting sounds so I made a quick retreat. The address is the corner of Fosters Road and Sir Ross Smith Blvd at Oakden.

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While many joints close down for the school holidays St Andrews Church-at-the-Sea at Glenelg continue their Tuesday free meal at 6pm and every second Thursday at 6pm plus free groceries and a light lunch Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

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Are ants offended at being described on insect spray cans as “crawling insects”? They might say they’re walking insects, not crawling.

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The Haven crowd won’t host this Friday’s free meal because the Salisbury Anglican Church needs the building for another purpose. This isn’t good.

Clients visiting Playford Salvation Army found a notice on the door saying last Thursday’s food events were cancelled due to a “team meeting”.

Sudden cancellations of service with little notice is typical in the free food scene.

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New free food joint:

The Way Church
Free hampers every second Tuesday at the Woodcroft/Morphett Vale Community Centre, 175 Bains Road, Morphett Vale. Ph Hillary 0488 017 114. Go to https://www.thewaychurch.com.au/ then click on Hampers. Registration is allowed about five days before each fortnightly free giveaway. Not sure how good they are. No I.D. or residency requirements.

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A shoplifter said staff calling the police was everyone’s nightmare. He said if confronted just keep walking. ​

Early 27 September 2026

(above) Main course of the free Saturday evening meal Sonia Blackwell delivers to homeless people in Modbury and Salisbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Kilburn Fred’s Van

“I find that offensive,” a diner said while looking at the flags dangling from the ceiling beams from most countries of the world excluding some of the colonising Europeans. Fred’s Van diners generally see new immigrants as stealing their welfare housing and other services and if we complain we get kicked out or even prosecuted. Adding to the offence is a refugee and asylum office in the Kilburn Community Centre building. However, the suffering of new immigrants shouldn’t be diminished. I should know that.

Volunteers didn’t include a vegetarian dish and by the time I reached the front of the queue both the potatoes, salad and bread were finished. However, the Wine Centre provided a quality non-meat soup and included a list of ingredients on the barrel. I also had a packet of stale non-vegetarian gelatin snakes from Chelsea Ireland.

The intrepid Rails was blue in the face and struggled with breathing, but won’t give up. She was the second oldest client in the dining crowd with Dom being the oldest at 89. Lance Armstrong was No. 3 at 80 and me No. 4 at 75. Kilburn Fred’s Van is a retirement village setting rather than a homeless service.

One diner screamed and yelled repulsive and disgusting comments for two hours, but no one raised an eyebrow.

The bags contained old fruit and vegetables from Oz Harvest plus a can of Italian chopped carrots sourced from who knows where.

The volunteers were charming as usual.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday

Early 26 September 2026

(above) Homeless in Glenelg. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

City Reach West Baptist

A friend told me that “two Chinese” had been fighting the previous week. But after seeing both men over the past few years they no longer seem to be “Chinese”. One conscientiously challenges other Chinese about taking too much. In this case, the other man has a reputation for lying, stealing and taking too much. Yeah, not Chinese, but two individuals.

There were about 35 people in the queue despite 52 names on the list left on the gate the previous evening. Clients add their names plus unfairly add others who just might turn up or might not. It’s not an ideal system and those at the end of the queue miss out on the groceries. Everyone got a packet of frozen hamburger or chicken if they wanted it.

Some Ukrainians have a bad attitude because the distribution is done on their church property despite City Reach West being nominally a Baptist church that rents the Ukrainian church building for their services. Hands and Feet of Wingfield supply the old food for which they charge City Reach West despite them getting it for free – and we get it for free leaving City Reach to foot the bill.

Otherwise, the mood was friendly, even jovial.

The popular Chinese exercise lady was present, but has morphed into the singing lady as too many men stared at her doing the splits in leotards. Two orange trees grow near the food distribution tables, but no one touches them and they’re going dry. Other clients included a woman with a new born baby and another with a little kid. Most others were old people, which raises questions. Old people are sly creatures and does our demographic really need free food?

City Reach West Church at Hindmarsh
Distribution from parking area next to Jackson Square at 57 Manton Street, Hindmarsh of free fruit, vegetables, bread, small amount of pantry items. Thursdays 11:00am. No I.D. required. Friendly. Clients put names on notice board upon arrival. First there, first served. Baptist. Piece of paper stuck to gate the previous evening upon which client add name.

25 September 2026
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Criticism of Orange Sky
Anonymous

Gambling is one of the major factors in creating homelessness. Former Federal court judge and Catholic *********** *********** Stuart Lindsey's client deserving Dennis is a classic example. It destroys lives, families and businesses. Here orange sky is promoting gambling, who people say ( gambling industry) is the most corrupt industry there is. 90 grand of unclaimed prize money is all it took for orange sky to sell there soul. Or is it they're promoting one of the major causes of homelessness and domestic violence to guarantee supply, maintain their own industry?

The Lottery Corporation Senior Community Partnerships Manager Liz McPherson said Orange Sky's impact goes far beyond providing practical services and support.

This woman from the gambling industry, which ( gambling industry) has a huge impact on domestic violence also says "While clean clothes and warm showers provide immediate relief, it's often the conversations that create the biggest impact. Orange Sky offers a place where people feel seen, heard and connected, and we're proud that our customers help make those moments possible" 

As documented in this blog what orange sky say they do and what they do, are 2 completely different things. Mostly the volunteers stand in a circle shutting everyone out, as pointed out in this blog, the laundry service is undignified and most avoid it. They ( Orange sky) spend huge amounts of money on uniforms and paint jobs for their vans, have a professional social media manager on a large wage, money needed elsewhere, that serves no purpose but to blow their own trumpet and even promote businesses like meta ( Facebook), whose tax dodging is in the tens of millions every year, corporate criminals. The CEO of orange sky Lucas is on a large wage with entitlements and salary sacrifice, earns his money coming up with what it is easily deduced as propaganda to promote the gambling industry and blow his own trumpet. 

CEO and co founder Lucas Patchett said "the ongoing support would help the charity continue meeting growing demand for its services. Right now, many Australians are finding it harder than ever to get by, with many going without basic necessities like clean laundry and access to a safe, warm shower. Orange Sky has never been busier and it's coming from people from all walks of life; people who never thought they would be in the position of needing support," Lucas said.

"This generous donation helps us continue showing up for our friends in the community and expand our services so more people in need can access what everyone deserves: safety, respect and essential services,” Lucas added.

Lucas must have serious psychological issues to think promoting gambling is going to help.  Handing over a small portion of unclaimed prize money is not " generous". It's other people's money.

All the corrupt and socially destructive Liz has done is give unclaimed prize money. Pretty smart ( others would say evil) marketing, not costing them a cent to promote their socially destructive industry. Some would say we have two vultures scratching each other's back. 

https://www.miragenews.com/orange-sky-support-year-four-of-clean-warm-help-1749201/

This research paper is 14 years old and never been debunked or challenged. 

The link between gambling and homelessness/ domestic violence is clear. 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257691168_Untangling_the_Complex_Needs_of_People_Experiencing_Gambling_Problems_and_Homelessness

Orange sky CEO and co-founder should know better
He's completely failed his duty of care.

Anonymous
25 September 2026

(above) Someone still resents Salvatore Junk Dog at the Elizabeth South shopping centre. (Adelaide homeless Journal, September 2026.)

  War on the homeless

Anonymous

Martin wouldn't take the experimental monkey covid shot. Martin lost his job. Eventually Martin lost his unit. Martin proceeded to live in his van. A few years later council comes along and says you have 24 hours to move because there's a kite festival this weekend. Martin tells them he's lost his license and if he doesn't move they'll take his van and stuff to the dump. Martin asks for help moving it. Council or police wouldn't. Both council and police knew Martin has prostate cancer. So Martin tried taking his own life. Police tasered Martin. Martin woke up in an ambulance, had his wounds treated, talked to a social worker then told on your bike boy. 

This has probably cost well  over ten grand to play out, where one ranger or cop could spend at most 1 hour to drive his van to another camp nearby ( there's numerous).

Rangers and cops were getting off bullying him and at taxpayers expense. Cops didn't want to help Martin, they wanted to catch Martin moving his van himself. If he had found someone to move it, at the very least cops would come along harassing him how it got moved. Martin knew this. 

The first aid equipment police applied would have to be replaced  at tax payers expense. The taser reloaded and checked at taxpayers expense. Qps would have to do a review at taxpayers expense. Cops present probably traumatised and at some point that will be at taxpayers expense.

Ambulance call out and equipment used, replaced and checked at taxpayers expense. Drugs used, tax payers pay for. At hospital more costs to taxpayers for his treatment and short appointment with social worker, paid for by guess who, tax payer. This would of all came into the tens of thousands of dollars. Rangers and cops got their kicks watching Martin unravel.  Australians shamed internationally over this. Social media full of hate from both sides. 

The war on homeless is not just on homeless, it's on taxpayers. Unhinged power tripping cops and council  costing everybody getting their kicks harassing vulnerable people.

Anonymous

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/15/queensland-homeless-man-shot-with-taser-after-being-given-move-on-order-to-make-way-for-kite-festival-ntwnfb

Early 24 September 2026

Revival City Modbury

This gathering is good for frail old people with savage demeanour as competition for tables is ferocious.

The conversation subjects at our table included a diner saying women who slept with her brother felt pain due to his huge elongated penis. And about a normal sized woman below her waist, but so chubby above that she mowed her lawn at 5am then ran inside if anyone walked by. She wore a blanket if anyone knocked on her door as she couldn’t find large enough clothing.

And a diner who said the rumour that an Indian punched her in the face was completely untrue and she wanted to know who began it. No one could remember.

And that the barbers at the Parafield shopping centre use the disability toilet to play games on their phones while invalids wait outside. And a now elderly Ms Maslins sitting at another table. And the diner who wants to see the church spy camera files because someone scraped a tiny bit of paint from her car door. And how Ivermectin treats Covid successfully while the government and pharmaceutical corporations disagree with its use.

Steve and his wife donated some of the free vegetables. They pick up free freshly picked vegetables from the Virginia market gardens and transport them at their own expense to 360 people each week.

Beerenberg dipping sauces have been appearing at numerous free food joints. They contain anchovies and other fish and cost a small fortune in the stores. Another donor supplies homecooked meals in takeaway containers. Last week it was a pork stew, white rice and boiled vegetables in water. The church supplied barista coffee with scones, jam and cream.

Revival City Church Modbury
Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. In building next to church. Free barista coffee, cake, bread, vegetables, odd grocery item. 9:30am to 11:30 noon every second Thursday during school terms. Centrelink Card or I.D. required. Near Pathways so you can knock off both events in the one morning. Friendly atmosphere. Some Jesus talk.

Early 24 September 2926

(above) A sedate free service without the fear of being beaten up, but they do like to see a Centrelink card or I.D. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept. 2026.)

Salisbury Fred’s Van

Why does the micro-manager feel the need to shout at dining clients to “clear the building”. She’s the only one doing it on her fortnightly or monthly shift. None of the other volunteers do this. She is otherwise a good worker and polite to us, but her action has the potential to sow the seeds of negativity.

Tyrone and his young wife brought their new baby to the Institute Hall last Sunday evening. Young people with babies are a rare sight at free food joints. Most clients have one eye on the cremation ovens.

The toilet issue will not been resolved. Just one germ ridden uni-sex toilet is available because volunteers don’t want diners going deeper into the building. A compromise is that a person can ask to use the other toilets, but are then monitored and that is undignified and no one falls for that trick.

There were at least forty diners for the semi-cooked creamed sliced potatoes, chicken schnitzels covered with cheese, salad, bread and margarine, soup, very cheap supermarket biscuits and dessert. The coffee counter stayed open much longer than usual and they let us into the building at 6:35pm, earlier than usual.

One observant diner said the chicken schnitzels covered with cheese were sourced from the same kitchen as those served earlier that at Elizabeth Fred’s Van. And this brings us to Second Bite taking over Fare Trade, the latter preparing food for homeless and poverty joints. Those with power are trying to gain control also of food preparation leaving the charities as distributors and reheaters rather than donors and cooks. Taking away this control gives the powers-that-be the ability to dictate data collection and force the charities to provide real time data of those attending its services.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Inadequate single toilet. Occasional screaming and yelling. Salt and Pepper Nazi; Nice tribal nomads. Beware of the micro-manager volunteer.

Early 23 September 2026
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Elizabeth Fred's Van

Elizabeth Fred’s Van earlier that day had better vibes despite more dangerous diners than Salisbury. The pergola had been repaired with two pine planks set at triangles to stop the structure from falling over.

The volunteers are younger and more excited than at Salisbury Fred’s Van. This is despite one highly intelligent diner shouting that the meal included “rubbery hospital food” and tasted like “Sh**”.

Another diner raucously shouted metaphysical truths in a manic manner where one would expect he’d be locked up by nightfall. But he’s maintained this state for three months and it isn’t clear whether he’s tapped into a giant hive mind or been watching New Age videos. Whatever, he’s popular with everyone.

The meal included the same chicken schnitzels covered in cheese that were served later at Salisbury. Instead of a fresh salad there were little egg pies and sausage rolls “cooked by students” plus a pasta bake for the two vegetarians (the third one died suddenly last month).

There was a small amount of groceries for stragglers and the takeaway bread was fresh. Orange Sky operated in the carpark.

As we left there were two diners pulling donated clothing and other items from a rubbish bin from the attached St Vincent de Paul Op Shop. Such a huge amount of discarded items were an incredible sight. The man in the bin had difficulty reaching everything. The woman on the ground said they should display it for people to take outside rather than send it to landfill. They were right. Don’t we live in a degenerated society.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from occasional Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bags. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation.

Early 23 September 2026

Major Casburn gets transfer

Salvation Army Major Ros Casburn is being transferred next January from Tea Tree Gully Corps to Linsell Lodge, the old people’s joint at Angle Park. Linsell’s tenants include old officers who didn’t accumulate much superannuation due to the low salaries paid by the Salvation Army. I think they also have Stiff residents there.

Ros previously worked as a nurse before paying her way through the Army officer training course. She would have experienced a reduction of income by changing careers.

I had a friend who was a nurse. She made more in a 12-hour shift than I made in a week from a full-time job. The French restaurants were wonderful.

Ros’s husband was previously a plumber. They’re millionaires. He gave it up to also become an officer. Longer hours with lower pay, but more interesting people.

22 September 2026
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Encounter Church Sefton Park

The former St Andrew’s medical centre employee lost part of her memory function. She records names of diners on a piece of paper, but she also lost that and was recording them again. But despite being old she has excellent eyesight using a thinline pen. She arrives with her N.D.I.S. support worker who is also a volunteer at the Tuesday lunch.

Deserving Dennis said he got a $60K insurance settlement after crashing his campervan during a heart attack. He said it was already damaged from banging into curbs and other obstacles to bring the vehicle to a stop as it hadn’t any brakes.

I offered Singapore Allan my Mexican chilli sauce warning him it was “quite hot”. A few minutes later he was coughing and sputtering then threw the meal into the organics bin.

A diner said that small woman with the moustache was at the Magdalene meal on Saturday evening shouting “white dogs” then throwing a chair against the ground. Staff told her to leave. She was also at the Chelsea Ireland food hub with a man. They were both looking for an argument.

Horse Trader Steve said Piano Player Wayne’s claim that he got 13 meals at a Pilgrim Church Christmas meal was not true. He said Wayne was angry at him for not sawing down a tree at his Kent Town Housing Trust unit. Steve said it was nearly a metre thick, but he added that the Piano Player provided him with free meals at the Walkerville Arms hotel. Wayne got free vouchers from a political source.

Diners left early as if still thinking the joint closed at noon rather than its new time of 11am to 1:00pm.

Tuesday lunch Sefton Park
Encounter Church (formerly Uniting) Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 11:00am to 1:00pm. Tuesdays. Free quality hot meal, sandwiches and coffee during school terms. No I.D. or registration required unless you’re getting the six free grocery items every two weeks. Horrible gossip discouraged. Diners include recently released criminals with wild stories. Gentle atmosphere.

22 September 2026

(above) Dessert with Sonia Blackwell's free Saturday evening homemade meals to homeless people in the Modbury area. (Adelaide Homeless Joint, September 2026.)

The Haven
​(not the Sonder ‘Safe Haven’)

The nice thing about Lisa is that she never asks favours. She remains her own agency. Other women see men as treasure troves asking them to fix their cars, their houses, supply cigarettes and invitations to visit. Not Lisa. You can be relaxed with her. She’ll burn your brain out with gossip, but never asks favours.

The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. client gave advice about getting free cleaners and cooks when you’re old and feeble or becoming infirm. He advised us to accumulate medical reports and apply for help long before you actually need it because the process of getting a financial package takes a long time. And they might reject you the first time. Wise advice.

The Academic gave away books as usual. He buys huge lots then removes the film titles and gives away the rest. He’s an accomplished scholar with ten university degrees that few diners appreciate. Too abstract a concept for them similar to his academic language that he tones down to silly talk.

The Virus Lady told us again that she had been charged more than $20,000 from her N.D.I.S. package for an invalid scooter with a price tag of $10,000. No matter how many queries she made with the supplier, the N.D.I.S. contractor or the N.D.I.A., no refund was considered or even an answer for the overcharge. The corruption in the N.D.I.S. and government is breathtaking. Worse than some third world countries.

Geraldine pasted sparkles on a board similar to paint-by-numbers. She and her two sons care for dozens of animals they find straying or injured. Her brother was the Deacon at St Peter’s Cathedral in Adelaide while she sold newspapers in Rundle Mall where she gained an affinity with the street crowd.

The church people providing the evening meal rarely preach about Jesus. Musicians sing religious songs, but I’ve rarely understood a single word they’ve sung. The church volunteers are high quality and we don’t understand why they’d provide food and a pleasant venue for us heathens.

Salisbury Haven Friday evening free meal
Hope Centre, Salisbury Uniting and other churches provide a Friday evening free meal in the Anglican Church on Church Street, Salisbury from 5:30 – 8:30 pm. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Fresh food. No I.D. or registration required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Quality workers. No salt and pepper. Flickering lights during summer. Every Friday right through all the holidays.

Early 21 September 2026

(above) Who torched the Puddle Jumpers charity shop on Port Road at Hindmarsh? Not the first attempt. People are doing it for a reason. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) The TV Pretty Boy dragged rubbish bins onto the road so road users could see him in the flesh. But will he ask Melanie Tate why anyone would burn the store? Puddle Jumpers have offended homeless people plus many of their clients are junkies and nothing good comes from them. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) Melanie Tate's outfit doing yet another appeal for donations after the Hindmarsh Op Shop fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. See post for 16 September 2026 for more of the story. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

An N.D.I.S. worker on $74 an hour plus $1 per kilometre was tasked with taking his client to the KFC junk food joint at Elizabeth to pick up cigarette butts from the ground and bum money from customers.

After that they moved to Hungry Jack’s to also ask money and hamburgers from customers ordering and collecting food.

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Baptist WestCare has extended the opening hours to include Friday at their elderly food store on Wright Street, Adelaide. The prices are a rip-off, but if you maximise getting the free stuff then it sort of works out cheaper.

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The excellent Thursday volunteers at the Chelsea Ireland Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh are looking more stressed every month. They do a terrific job, but have to explain to clients that the toilets are not available then they have to slam the doors shut when deliveries arrive. It isn’t fair to them and that’s why the Food Hub burns out its volunteers.

Last week there were two mixed-race Aboriginal people shouting, “F**k you all,” and making hostile gestures towards other clients. Clients slowly made their away from the hub without collecting any food.

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The Oz Harvest “free supermarket” on Manton Street at Hindmarsh was nearly empty of food an hour before closing time the Thursday before last. No wonder people arrive at sunrise and wait three or four hours so they can be at the front of the queue.

A better way would be to gradually bring the products out as the morning progressed ensuring that those arriving later got the same as those arriving early. The problem is that the “free supermarket” has little quality food at any time.

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“If you raise the sole of your foot to your ear you can hear your hip dislocate.”

Sonia Blackwell reading from a webpage.

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Adam slept on the banks of the Torrens River last week, but the sprinklers came on during the night soaking him and his bedding. He hung his sleeping bag in a tree to dry hoping it would still be there that evening.

Just in case, he brought a blanket bundled up in his arms to the Tea Tree Gully Salvo free breakfast at 9am. He remains in remarkably good spirits.

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Another man at the Salvo breakfast said he never buys good camping equipment because it gets stolen. He didn’t say whether it was scavenging predators that prey on the homeless class or the Tea Tree Gully Council, or both.

Sonia Blackwell was looking for him as she had some Woolworths gift cards to distribute.

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It’s surprising how many people living outside don’t know how to get free prescribed medications. These people are so stressed and frightened that their minds can’t think beyond the basic sleep and eat mode.

I know this from experience from living on the streets of Sydney in the early 1970’s. I walked in a daze all day ignoring traffic lights and got into all sorts of trouble.

But how is this happening in Adelaide in 2026 with hundreds of full-time social workers briefed to help those living outside.

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Tania Nokes has resigned her leading role at the Blair Athol Church of Christ. A friend said she burnt herself out giving energy to the free food crowd and parishioners. She always had energy to pour onto others, but over the last year she appeared ready to collapse. I hope justice prevails and she is rewarded for her efforts.

There is a tribute morning to her at 10am next Sunday, 27 September at the Church of Christ, 379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol.

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Sonia Blackwell said homeless drug addicts treat her better than normal people online.

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An Elizabeth Anglicare tenant is so deranged that when another neighbour cut other tenants’ lawns, she began throwing the grass cuttings into a removalist van on the street.

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A homeless man of over a decade said he pays for membership of a fitness studio because it offers a place to hide if he’s being followed. And showers are available 24/7 at numerous locations in Adelaide.

He’s a stealth camper and rarely stays in the same location two nights in a row.

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Rob Caldwell left rehab in the middle of a stormy night to help a man named Stewart move his camp off flood land next to Dry Creek at Modbury. Staff kicked Rob off the residents’ list.

Stewart has since found a unit to live in via Sonia Blackwell and the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance. Rob crashes wherever he can and perhaps life and death on the streets is his destiny.

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Anglicare Believe Housing is threatening and even attempting eviction against tenants at Pennington for minor infringements, but does nothing to a drug dealing tenant who creates congestion with forty junkies arriving and leaving on delivery days.

Nor are they worried about one tenant who spends his evenings compulsively damaging neighbours’ property and has a friend who does rude things to hot chickens from Woolworths.

Early 20 September 2026

(above) A homeless travelling caravan with an existential life expectancy of 48-hours. Life on the streets is reduced to a day-by-day time frame. No mercy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

No help

I was ejected from my home North West suburbs
Where's the best place to seek support?

Anonymous
Second Editor: I don’t know. That’s why I live in my car.
19 September 2026

Don’t ever believe you’re their equal

No one lasts forever at free food joints. You see yourself outlasting most clients and staff then feel you deserve respect. That’s a mistake.

Even the newest student placement worker not able to speak English has more status than you. The student will be briefed that you’re bad, mad or sad or all three plus a little dangerous.

That’s when you begin to see how they viewed you from day one. This realisation is called, ‘the blooding’ like being in politics and experiencing your first betrayal.

There are exceptions.

19 September 2026

(above) Anti-colonial mural on a new apartment building on Melbourne Street, North Adelaide. Notice the dour expressions, no eye contact, staring at books, mono-culture fruit in basket. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

(above) Who would have financed a building with such a mural? It's a favourite of Asian tourists who pose in front of it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Satanic Anglicare?

Anonymous

An Anglican soup kitchen ( not in radelaide)  ignoring the very bible they preach. In the grainy photo supplied, they're in a tight circle shutting everyone out. It's past the 530 feed time and they've been like this for about 15 minutes. People ( mostly middle aged or boomers) are sitting waiting.

Once the food is served, these same workers then go around being very rude interrupting people eating. Generally people on their own. If there's two people on one table but at other ends they'll shut the other out ( back to them) while they target the vulnerable one. If you're the target and you don't engage them they get real nasty. When they continue the harrassment of you when it's clear you're eating and not interested and you're forced to say nicely multiple times " excuse me I am eating" they just stare at you before saying " so what you're saying is you don't what to talk".

Another example is you have just say down to eat and one will come up asking if you want your rubbish removed, you'll continue eating and they will ask multiple times and then start taking stuff you haven't finished with. When you say " did I say yes" they'll continue leaning over the table in front of you grabbing it and you'll repeat "did I say yes"  and the reply will be " i don't know did you" before they leave. The only bin is where they park all there flash SUVs and if you go to it, you'll be followed. 

The meal is mostly gluten with a little protein serving, the sugar laden desert is the biggest serving of the meal. As one of your readers pointed out this is soft murder. They know what they're doing. Sugar has long been used as away of breaking someone's spirit, it's what the red coats used on indigenous prisoners they kidnapped to break their spirit. 

Reading the book of revelations this sought of behaviour is clearly pointed out as " satanic"

Anonymous
Late 18 September 2026

(above) Infinity Messenger So So's car at Whitmore Square. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

In praise of Rose Darling
Anonymous

The churches tried getting at C.H.A.T.S. but Rose [Darling] was reliably informed of what lay in front of her, plus she has real contacts and the churches are afraid of the freemason child smugglers. Not one of the service's on the le fevre peninsular has tried doing the things rose does that works. Why?

​Walking in there is like stepping into an alternate reality. You're a f****** human. Not like anywhere else on that peninsula. Rose needs to be remembered for her bravery during COVID, set up on the street corner and dared the decadent maladjusted council to challenge her. Every other service rolled over like the dogs they are. 

Anonymous
Early 17 September 2026
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The Arson at Puddle Jumpers
Anonymous

A few things to contemplate about the arson at puddle jumpers. It was a heritage building holding back redevelopment. Arson is standard operating procedure in these circumstances. They were independent of the churches ( Anglicare/ uniting care/ st Vinnie's/ salvoes) and Adelaide has a history of independent charities being targeted by churches.

This would be an extreme case if so. They do hate competition. Normally they spread rumours or hire junkies or horse traders to cause trouble. The churches are grifting and gas lighting, sub contractors for the oppressive cruel system, that's why the sex offenders are protected. You scratch my back I'll scratch yours.

The churches don't want change, too much power and profit in keeping the underclass marginalised. They like the current rent situation as the executives all have investment properties. So many in the underclass have stories of horrific abuse by church figures and protected by sapol. We know that sapol get their kicks picking on the underclass. In fact we know it's a sickness all throughout authority in Australia, security at shopping centres, council, public transport and so on. 

Another avenue is a disgruntled volunteer. Some of the disgruntled are churchies causing trouble, some of it real. 

Anonymous
Early 17 September 2026

(above) One of many men sleeping outside in the Salisbury Town Centre. He faces threats from the renter of the Anglican Church property, from the Council and from a disgusting group of homeless camp raiders. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

The other side of the Puddle Jumpers arson attack

We shouldn’t be surprised two gentlemen with a feed and weed allegedly torched the Puddle Jumpers Hindmarsh charity store. The organisation caters for troubled and disadvantaged backgrounds and unfortunately the parents come with them.

Did a biological parent lose a child via a Puddle Jumpers mandatory reporter? Maybe.

Or a brain damaged crystal methamphetamine user with a real or imagined grievance against the registered charity. The torched Puddle Jumpers shop on Port Road at Hindmarsh had a few of them. I remember one presentable addict in the shop whose family employed a low intellect man to pop my eardrums on two occasions with cupped hand slaps to the ears. I was lucky to escape with a few weeks of pain.

That family has long gone, but the Op Shop has had a series of semi-voluntary workers from similar backgrounds. One young woman of healthy appearance slashed her body with a razor on the weekends then arrived on Monday apparently fit and healthy.

The Chelsea Ireland Puddle Jumpers free food building across Port Road from the charity shop has its own problems. Some volunteers have arrived as if they’re looking for a fight. Their attitudes are enough to arouse a quiet fury in the most avowed pacifists.

Two days before the most recent arson attack, the free food staff in the middle of serving customers suddenly slammed the wooden door shut and locked it. Another staff member slid the glass serving window shut and walked away with a queue of people waiting to be served. There wasn’t a word of explanation and the joint stayed closed for thirty minutes.

The reason was fair enough: a load of new supplies had arrived and they couldn’t both restock the tables and serve customers at the same time. But why wouldn’t they explain the sudden closure or at least put a sign on the door. The volunteers on that day are top quality both in attitude and ability, but they’ve inherited Puddle Jumpers’ hostile attitude to the clients.

Another quiet hostile act is locking the toilet both to volunteers and clients then advising anyone needing one to use the medical centre across the road. And the Puddle Jumpers management at head office including Chief Executive Melanie Tate are too arrogant to even explain why it’s locked.

Then there is “Jack”. He’s the man accused of throwing soup on an 80-year-old volunteer. I didn’t see the incident, but was outside the building in the darkness. Prior to the incident, staff members repeatedly came outside and yelled at the top their voices for those waiting for service to move to one area then five minutes later returned and ordered them back to the initial spot. Not a whisper of respect or logical to their commands.

“Jack” said he didn’t throw hot soup on the volunteer. He said the old girl offered him a bowl of soup then grabbed it back when he equivocated on whether to have that or a sandwich. A volunteer told me in private that the elderly volunteer wasn’t burnt as she was wearing heavy winter clothing on the cold wet evening. However, there is debate whether it was a pot of soup or a bowl. The police are still investigating the incident three months later and “Jack” is worried he will go to prison.

While a group of us were discussing the arson attack, an older man said he’d been the subject of a Puddle Jumpers fundraising appeal. He said they were collecting money to fix his camper van. He said the fundraising was a roaring success, but then the fundraisers said they’d collected far too much money to give to him and in the end didn’t give him a cent. He was previously a school teacher and football coach and given to bouts of anger, but remains a relatively accurate recounter of events.

I could list another eight incidences where staff oozing with aggression have provoked clients to commit last resort acts such as a young couple defecating in the shower truck and smearing the effluent over the surfaces.

What the corporate media missed was that Puddle Jumpers charity stores and service centres have been attacked for years. There is a reason for this. The charity may not be the sweet outfit portrayed by their Chief Executive and the corporate media.

16 September 2026
Posted late 15 September 2026

(above) Salisbury Council claims they removed sick paintings from children's area to make room for a new installation. They lied as the wall will remain vacant for one week. See post of 10 Sept., 2026 for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Puddle Jumpers Bagster Road Monday evening

The foreign children were fascinated by two kittens in the back window of a car. They pounded the window to the indifference of the kittens. The karate master told them to stop, but he retreated not wanting to be defeated by little boys. The poverty-stricken owners of the cats care for unwanted birds and animals. That is their life.

A female diner said the rumour she was punched in the face by an Indian was not true. An actual Indian woman told us about people living here for decades and bringing up their children as Australians then being ordered out of the country. The dilemma then being whether to take their kids to a foreign country or lose them. Or spend $20,000 on new visas and immigration lawyers.

Most Moslem older women won’t acknowledge the presence of men, but the younger ones do respond to a friendly greeting, at least from infidel women. Most wear Hijabs, but it’s rare to see anyone in a Burkha. They are the object of contempt and ridicule despite younger non-Moslems adopting a similar head dress in the form of black medical masks, sunglasses, baseball caps and hoods, all to protect their privacy from facial recognition and flock cameras.

The mutilation paintings done in a children’s painting style have been removed. Wires and tape dangle on the wall. They were done by a person in a ‘mental health’ group and staff didn’t want to offend the painter by initially refusing to hang them.

The meal was mainly boiled vegetables and roast chicken. The nutrients and flavour were lost in the vats of hot water. They should consider roasting the vegetables then keeping it warm until serving time. That’s more work, but it would taste better. To hell with English-style boiled to death food. But they can’t serve fresh salads because clients could easily detect the decomposition. Boiling washes away some of it.

The manager screamed and shouted in a strangely endearing manner. She said we could vote for the best volunteer in Puddle Jumpers. She placed a box on the table without paper or pens. No one voted.

The volunteers are becoming more professional by the month. They’ve toned down their screaming to a somewhat Tarzan-style wail. Hardly anyone knows what they’re saying, but the sounds add to the character of the evening. Far better than Muzak. Some volunteers run home in a haphazard manner to fool client stalkers from discovering where they live. And they serve us heathens despite this.

Bagster Community Centre Salisbury
Puddle Jumpers, 17 Bagster Rd., Salisbury. Ph (08) 8487 1830. Mondays free older vegetables and a few old groceries from 5:00pm. Free decent meal and coffee. Entry through side door. $1 donation. Clean toilets. Horrible lighting & acoustics. Lots of screaming from staff. No data collection. Foreign and local clients with plenty of children and a safe area for them.

Review for 7 September 2026
Posted 15 September 2026

(above) New opening time. Every Tuesday, but not during school holidays. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Soft murder attempt
​on Mick and Eleanor

Most readers will think this an exaggerated title for this post. Do-gooders, malevolent neighbours and social workers have conspired to evict Eleanor from the house she owns and in which Mick also lives.

They were summoned to the South Australian Civil and Administrative Authority (S.A.C.A.T.) last Thursday to answer to the charges of living in squalor.

Mick and Eleanor infrequently wash their bodies and clothing. They live in a house cluttered with used clothing and with sheds filled with old appliances.

Eleanor worked hard all her life to buy the house and those trying to evict her include Housing Trust subsidised renters.

The Salisbury Council has forced them to throw away much of their belongings at their expense, but that wasn’t enough.

A friend advised Mick and Eleanor to throw away nearly everything they own, have a shower, visit a hairdresser and wear clean clothing. And get a sharp lawyer at $800 an hour.

But the couple are intellectually incapable of dealing with the issue so the wolves will move in and possibly kill both of them. The murder won’t be with knives or fists, but in the dehumanisation process of selling Eleanor’s house, disposing of her lifelong possessions and using the house money to put her in a nursing home where they’ll douse her with enough drugs to shorten her life.

Mick may suffer the same fate, but being an elderly disabled white man will probably be thrown into homelessness.

Readers might doubt this extreme prediction, but I’ve seen it before. All the smiling faces avoiding eye contact, but making orders backed by the courts and police. And the reports describing their actions as benevolent and with the best of intentions.

But we’re still in the early stages of the attempted murder. Eleanor went by taxi to the S.A.C.A.T. Tribunal last Thursday in the city while Mick drove in. That might have been the tribunal supplying the taxi, but wanting to divide the couple. Mick said the case was adjourned and this was the end of the matter. A friend said it wasn’t the end and S.A.C.A.T. must have set a date for a future hearing, but Mick was adamant that an adjournment meant it was finished.

This is the situation.

14 September 2026

(above) Fred's Van Elizabeth cancelled a Sunday lunch because the pergola was rickety. Businesses don't close down at the drop of a hat so why should charities? At least they resumed services after four days. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

On the Street

There wasn’t any C.H.A.T.S. breakfast last Friday as clients went by bus to the Royal Adelaide Show. It’s free, which makes C.H.A.T.S. one of the most dynamic outfits in Adelaide. Management is interested in ideas for new excursions and what some of the elderly female volunteers should do on Saturday nights.

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The old man knocked unconscious at the Pooraka OTR fears he may be charged with assault. He protected an Indian employee when four indigenous women attacked the store while filling their trolleys with groceries they intended to steal. They later claimed the old man assaulted them despite video evidence showing otherwise including one of them hitting him in the back of the head with a can of food. But the police aren’t confident of the evidence and want the matter dropped.

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Why are popular and inoffensive people described as dying after a courageous battle with cancer while unpopular people are described as if they died from some well-deserved filthy affliction.

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Either Novita or Oz Harvest have installed a flimsy fence between their properties on Manton Street at Hindmarsh. Novita sells disability equipment and don’t want Oz Harvest clients parking on their property or using their toilets.

Some Oz Harvest clients arrive four or five hours before the doors open.

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Dom’s leg – one of them – went numb at Stevo’s last Tuesday. Jason – the retired bartender – helped the 89-year-old to a table. Jason said he had a bad leg as well – and one good one. I told him my leg is worse than both of their legs put together. It seems that nearly everyone who goes to free food joints has a bad leg.

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Unley Salvation Army has a free evening meal on Friday the 18th of September at 5:30pm. The publicity material doesn’t say whether you have to book a place or not. The food probably won’t be much good. One client says the officer in charge of Unley Corps is very lazy.

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The Para Hills West Salvation Army store on Wilkinson Road announced they were closing down and that everything was priced at fifty-cents. But it closed early than expected after someone smashed the glass in the front doors.

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The Golden Grove Army Thrift shop is closing down to make way for a Salvo Store. The Thrift shops are operated by the local Corps while the Salvo Stores are a separate corporate entity. Customers can expect prices to triple.

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Northeast Salvos have changed their name to Oakden Salvation Army. They previously used the Uniting Church at Campbelltown for their free Friday evening donation meals and didn’t appear to have their own building.

The Corps replaces the Army’s Revolution Church that occupied the Oakden building on Fosters Road. The Revolution crowd have moved to the Parafield Gardens Salvation Army Corp. The Revolution Church is similar to the Uniting Church’s Encounter Church where young people felt stifled with the old ways and started their own church within the larger union.

I phoned Oakden Corps to ask about their free services to homeless people, but got an answering machine from which a reply did not eventuate.

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A church tolerated a homeless camper for years until a youth group began using their hall. A church elder politely told the homeless man to leave. The camper wasn’t a child molester, just a man in his fifties who was considered unsafe around teenagers because he was old, homeless and a man.

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The church@paravista church missed their fortnightly Hands and Feet free food afternoon last Wednesday. I was camping in their parking area and observed 16 people arrive before 3:30pm. These including Trotting Trudy, Hazel and Sharon with the broken foot. Another thirty would have arrived in the next half hour before opening time. A small notice on a side door announced there wouldn’t be any food distribution that day.

They should have had a church member present to explain why their schedule had been broken. They could have had a coffee hour in lieu. The free food originated as a means of spreading the gospel.

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ONE Life church at Bremmen Drive, Salisbury South continues its fortnight free vegetable session on Wednesdays at 1pm. They don’t collect data and offer a small range of quite decent vegetables, bread and a tiny amount of groceries. They got 19 clients last Wednesday and 14 the previous fortnight. The mood is friendly.

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Stewart got a rental unit via Adelaide Northeast Homeless Alliance. He was camping alongside Dry Creek when it flooded three weeks ago. Rob Caldwell helped him move his camping gear to underneath a transportable building back of Tea Tree Gully Salvos. Certain people later threw everything in the Salvos rubbish skip as Stewart had ignored the order to remove it from the property.

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Mark Sullivan played with Central Districts football club. He was also the manager of Zamel’s jewellery store at Modbury. He got into drugs and lost his job. He rented a Housing Trust unit. Someone was murdered in his house so the Trust expelled him into homelessness even though he wasn’t involved. He ended up living back of Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps. Then he got a place to stay in Elizabeth.

Early 13 September 2026

(above) Abandoned homeless camp on Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove where Anglicare previously had an office. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) The campers on Fairfield Road were angry and shouted at anyone approaching their camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) One might be critical of the garbage left behind, but the Playford Council has removed most rubbish bins from the area. And the homeless campers were exhausted, bitter and disillusioned. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

Kilburn Fred’s Van

A diner said she got a mattress off the side of the road. By chance she spoke to the donor who neglected to say that under the nice sheet covering the mattress lay a mess of blood and other substances.

The diner asked the Council rubbish contractor to remove it, but was told it would cost $45. However, she negotiated with the operator who said taking the mattress could qualify as two pick-ups that would constitute her annual allowance. She was happy dodging that bullet, but she still seeks a mattress.

The diner who dresses immaculately in new clothing every week showed us his rings. He preferred his twenty-dollar ring to those on this other fingers costing $600 each. He is the oldest diner and adds class to the joint.

Another diner was at the Magdalene Centre in the city when junkies had a huge brawl. But how many ambulances and police patrols were required is still debatable though everyone says they saw the crying man wearing his blond wig then losing it. His predicament actually made people laugh.

Once again some seats were empty at Kilburn despite an improvement in the food. I was nervous having parked next to a car with multiple dents. The Wine Centre soup contents were indeterminate so I emailed them to ask for content labels to be put on the barrels they deliver to us without charge. One diner told “T” not to give the Crazy Horse client takeaway food as it ends up going rotten in his fridge. The client was angry at his African Carer as usual despite the man being polite and helpful, but probably inexperienced. Few workers remain with the N.D.I.S. for very long.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday

​12 September 2026

(above) Salisbury Council spent a small fortune building two Exeloo toilets across from the $43 million Citadel, but lock them each evening at 9pm to discourage homeless people from sleeping in the area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

Salisbury Council lies
​about sick paintings

The ghoulish paintings below were removed from the dining and play area of Salisbury Council’s Bagster Community Centre last week. A Council public relations consultant said the paintings had been produced by a psychiatric patient as part of their mental health program. She said they were taken down due to another artistic installation being hung.

But as of Thursday the 10th of September, nothing had replaced the ghoulish paintings. A spokesperson for Bagster Community Centre said the wall would remain empty until at least the 14th of September when the Council would hang images of the planned Bagster Road redevelopment project.

It appears the ghoulish paintings were not removed to make way for the redevelopment images as the wall has remained vacant, but because of complaints by parents with three and four-year-old children and publicity via Adelaide Homeless Journal.

In other words, the Council public relations consultant lied. She couldn't admit they'd made a mistake putting such images in a toddler's play area.

10 September 2026

(above) The Salisbury Council hangs large prints of paintings done by adults in children's style in the Bagster Road Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) The Salisbury Council's Bagster Community Centre caters mainly for pre-school children so paintings of mutilation and demonic imagery seem inappropriate. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) Who in the Salisbury Council in South Australia would think a laughing figure holding severed heads was appropriate for pre-school children? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

(above) The Salisbury Council at the Bagster Road Community Centre displays imagery in their pre-school children's dining area of a ghoulish character holding a cup tea with one hand and while the other arm delves into the severed lower portion of its body. What is the Council trying to do to the developing minds of pre-school children? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Sept 2026.)

The Homeless Industry
​getting even more ridiculous

I’ve lost track of the names of the many homeless advocacy syndicates. The Adelaide Zero Project seems to have morphed in various groups all of which are confirmed failures except for their ability to siphon resources from homeless services.

Whoever is operating the Australian Zero Homelessness Summit in Sept 2027 is following the Adelaide Zero Project by announcing action plans even further in the future so most people will have forgotten their fake promises used to obtain funding.

Those announcing the 2027 Summit haven’t got an action plan, but plan to really get going to reduce the number of living outside by holding the Summit in Melbourne next year and the making an action plan.

But what is their action plan about? It appears to be connected with a training program teaching homeless industry employees to better trick destitute people in answering increasingly intrusive questions and to sign contracts releasing details of their lives to anyone and everyone. Nothing to do with actual housing.

Apologists might say this is necessary for people who previously would have been locked up in psychiatric institutions, but they’re forcing it on all homeless people who want reduced rent housing or even a shower at places like the Hutt Street Centre.

Adelaide’s Homeless Industry has collected so much personal data on homeless individuals and has access to many other data bases that they’re unable to use it to prepare a “control package” for their homeless clients.

They now require an A.I. Agent to make sense of it, but the problem is that the Agent cannot differentiate between false, garbage and accurate data collected from people who deliberately deceive social workers – and for good reason.

A quality social worker knows the homeless industry is rife with corruption and ulterior motives and that homeless people are little more than an excuse to achieve non-related agendas. These social workers know each individual personally and know what is subterfuge and what is sincere.

The A.I. Agent treats everything with the same authority including malicious and inaccurate reports on homeless people. It then makes decisions either beneficial or punitive on the homeless subjects.

But the homeless industry churns on with the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness looking for a Chief Operating Officer, whatever that means. The Alliance of crooks is based in Room 302 in the Social Sciences Building at Flinders University. And the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness needs an Executive Director.

Us people living outside should get medals of honour for creating so many jobs and enhancing so many careers.

9 September 2026

(above) Flooding is a rarely discussed topic by the homeless industry, but is a constant threat in winter in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

The Haven (luckily not the ‘Safe Haven’

Hope Central, Salisbury Uniting and the BBQ trailer people from the railway station have toned down the drug junkies. They’re still welcome, but their threats to others have stopped.

That Old Hag still bums cigarettes and invitations to diners’ houses, but she brings nothing to the table so is rejected. She is still welcome on Friday evenings like the rest of us who bring little.

The free clothing and bedding room is bursting with stock that diners don’t want. Where those desperadoes sleeping outside get their bedding is anyone’s guess as the Council steals it at every opportunity and sends it to the dump. They’re slowly being forced away from the $43 million Citadel to streets rarely used by pedestrians.
The mysterious African woman went from wearing indistinct camping clothing to a formal African dress. She says little, but looks anyone in the eye who dares glance toward her. Individuals like this make going to free food joints rewarding.

Salisbury Haven Friday evening free meal
Hope Centre, Salisbury Uniting and other churches provide a Friday evening free meal in the Anglican Church on Church Street, Salisbury from 5:30 – 8:30 pm. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Fresh food. No I.D. or registration required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Quality workers. No salt and pepper. Flickering lights during summer.

Late 8 September 2026

(above) Everything free. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Bagster Road Monday free meal

There were less diners than a year ago. The free vegetables were not worth taking. Even the Moslems and Indians avoided them apart from leafy vegetables that come in packets. The bread and grocery items were better, but the latter in very short supply. There were plenty of tampons and a few nappies.

The coffee has improved after they ran out of that instant frothy latte powdered stuff. The staff seemed more confident and less loud than before. The meal included white rice from a restaurant with optional chicken in a sauce. The chunks were of a size that the chickens must have been fed growth hormones that produces Alpha Gal humans.

Those rectangular tables placed too close together have been replaced by round tables allowing diners to move freely in the room. This simple change is a huge improvement.

There weren’t any salt and pepper shakers. Someone said they’d been stolen. Children have moved from a special room to an area closer to the dining room. There were plenty of children there, but few lone men.

There were large prints of paintings in the dining room. They were done in a children’s style by adults. One depicted a ghoulish person holding severed human heads. Another was of a a smiling adult cut in half at the waist with an army sticking into the lower portion. And these are in a building owned by the Salisbury Council and predominantly used for pre-school children.

One diner wore a shirt with the message “Vote White” on the back. The formerly homeless 77-year-old woman was there, but not Mick of Mick and Eleanor.

The toilets are clean, but if you put your ear to the wall you can clearly hear conversations in the dining room – and vice versa.

Bagster Community Centre Salisbury
17 Bagster Rd., Salisbury. Ph (08) 8487 1830. Mondays free older vegetables and a few old groceries from 5:00pm. Free decent meal and coffee. Entry through side door. One dollar donation. Clean toilets. Horrible lighting & acoustics. Decent staff. No data collection. Bit rough.

Early 7 September 2026

(above) After the tents and bedding dry out, the Adelaide City Council workers arrive to steal them. And not a whisper from the lawyers and technocrats on the Board who control the Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

A Chinese man offered me a packet of unopened adult nappies. No charge. His wife bought them online, but got the wrong size. I thanked him, but said my time for those hadn’t arrived.

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Gregore Schoenberg sells Big Issue in a “paying forward” fashion. He wants advance payments then he’ll buy the magazines. Not everyone is falling for that one. He also said a relative played in the Jethro Tull band. Gregore studied music at university.

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An honourable bin scavenger said she finds toasters, kettles and other appliances in hotel rubbish bins. Whatever patrons leave in their rooms goes straight into the rubbish bin, whatever it is.

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“I’ve opened all my exhaust flanges,” a free diner said at the Younique free monthly BBQ at Hope Central church at Elizabeth South. “I might have to go to Exhaust Plus.”

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“Help me Jesus,” a preacher muttered to himself at a free food venue when he was about to give an inspiring sermon. He needed all the help he could get.

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A diner at Fred’s Van Elizabeth complained the needle machines were empty across the street at 22 Langford Drive.

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A drug addict with a mangey bulldog said his neighbours annoyed him so he cut off their copper water pipes and power cables and sold them for drugs.

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Free food joint customers are openly derisive of foreign-born clients. Conversations revolve around sending them back and even killing them.

The poorest Australians are the first to experience the domination of middle-class foreigners. First go the lowest paid jobs, then the houses and also the free food services, the latter taken up by people who are ‘grab hags’ and not of the homeless culture.

The resentment from the poorest class is described by wealthier and more privileged white Australians as racist behaviour from uneducated people. Laws are enacted to punish even verbal expressions of their loss.

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An N.D.I.S. man said he spends $480 a week on lawn care and outdoor cleaning at his disability unit.

He also said he’s turning one of his support worker into an alcoholic.

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A diner said Tuesday was ‘bad chicken night’ at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place and that diners often vomited. Others say it is the best meal of the week.

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A Salvation Army soldier was reportedly beaten up by an intruder at her disability unit in Elizabeth. A neighbour said she was held against her will inside the unit until police arrived and caught the thug. The neighbour said he was charged then probably released on bail “to do it again”.

The neighbour added that the victim was senile.

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A friend in the court system said there were three court appearances by Mark Nicholas Arstall from Baptist WestCare in 2018. They were on the 24th of May, 13th of July and 12th of October. The charge sheet listed ‘Committ Assault Basic Offence’.

Arstall and accomplices targetted anyone they suspected of providing information to Adelaide Homeless Journal. The targets were mostly over the age of 70. Arstall fled South Australia near the end of 2018.

Some of the victims are waiting for him to return so they can testify of more alleged assaults of elderly and disabled people by Arstall.

6 September 2026

(above) That classy homeless man at Salisbury receiving money that he used thirty minutes later to buy takeaway food. He avoids the free food joints. This man is a cultural artifact. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Wisdom out of the blue

From the anonymous contact page

This is a response to my complaint that charity workers feel they can touch us without permission.

“Why do they touch you?  That depends on who they are and the situation. Sometimes it's an act of kindness, sometimes it's an act of Satan. What was happening? What was being said? What is the person's position?  A few examples.

“I went to check clearance racks at shoes stores for quality shoes at half price or less. I eventually find what I want. One day there was this petite attractive young African girl with an Australian accent and when I stood up trying the 240 dollah shoe for 90 , she adjusted the fitting, she was crouched on her knees below me. I got [what] some would say inappropriate thoughts as I looked down, and she must of felt them because then she wrapped her hand around my shin/ ankle and held it. There was no reason for this.

“Then the good energy come, we had a good a chat and I shared with her some wisdom about life for which she appreciated and acknowledged it's similar to her dads. I went home and felt my tired muscles were pumped and went and did I workout like I haven't for awhile. There was a definite energy transfer/ healing in what she did. In fact our conversation and connection after what she did was similar to after good love making. She was a healer. The wisdom I shared with her was spiritual in nature, learnt the hard way and from the heart, pure elder stuff.

“I also one day met a black white witch at a bus stop and helped her with the bus app, how to use it and she went out of her way to help me. We had some quite heart centred intuitive chats and when we parted she touched me, afterwards I felt the self esteem hit. 

“Another occasion I was at a soup kitchen and this bimbo acting chubby blonde near boomer was delivering bread and cakes. She got her finger in every pie in the community putting on a fake facade about being a good person and doing wonderful things for the disadvantaged.

She invaded a conversation I was having with a female in a walker with a multitude of health problems. She shows us this app with all the services on it, soup kitchens and shit. She's carrying on like the service's really work and are there for you, it was sick shit to those that know.

“I was holding my tongue and my facial expression until finally when she showed an obvious corrupt legal service I asked, what happens when you need justice because of the people whom are supposed to help you get justice?

“Well that brought Satan out. She went into emotional manipulation. She said she was a radiologist and my thoughts said "oh so you made a living poisoning people with cancer for profit while real treatments are withheld, classy".

“She said she was in a car accident and her shoulder was damaged, she couldn't work anymore and didn't have the money for a lawyer. My thoughts said to me" radiologists are on good money, what are you wasting yours on?" She said she used this legal service and they found her a pro bono lawyer. Then she touched me on the shoulder and my thoughts said "don't touch me you filthy rat" and she backed off sensing it. The touch at the end was a clear assault after her con job. She was part of the Catholic mafia. The touch was a coercive control tactic following the emotional manipulation from the gaslighter. 

“So it all depends on the motive of the one touching you. If it's part of gas lighting it's a clear assault. 

“Did you see the story on the news last night? Sister of family murder victim Alan Barnes is calling for the suppression order on the suspect's to be lifted. Peter Israel first Malinauskas  was asked about it and he said it would interfere in the police investigation.

“The evil of this man again in plain sight, like when he killed writers week to protect the holocaust in Palestine. There is no police investigation. They tried ending it by stitching Von Eeimen up for everything and failed, only able to get him on jobs he did as  their bag man. This is of relevance here due to the charity " Don Dunston foundation". 

Anonymous
Via the anonymous contact page

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Second Editor:
Thankyou. You’re way ahead of me on touching.

You’re so right about those charity workers who spend their time telling us what good work they do. They are exhausting and vengeful when told what they’re doing.

I spoke to Alan Barnes’ sister on a number of occasions about ten years ago. She was cooperative until she talked to the South Australian police, but after that she laughed derisively at every question I asked. They got to her.

Same with that fellow who spent years in prison after being convicted of killing that lawyer and putting his body in the freezer. After getting out of prison he didn’t want to talk about who he thought did the killing, but he said that Alan Barnes had visited the lawyer’s house on Greenhill Road.

Both Alan’s sister and the freezer fellow have become de facto protectors of those that did the killing.

Thank you for your post. Please supply more insights into the homeless scene.

5 September 2026

(above) Wet tents during a lull in the rain two weeks ago on Hutt Road, Adelaide. Meanwhile, the Hutt Street Homeless Centre was dry, empty and locked while the executives were comfortable in their homes. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Grill’d in the city

It took 45 minutes to get from the back of the queue to the serving counter. A man in front of me kept saying he’d smash others for looking at him or, in one case, upon seeing a man he claimed tried to steal his girlfriend.

Catherine the Doctor was there eating at the outdoor tables with her eye on the front door. One diner said he’d hated her ever since she grabbed three bags from Fred’s Van and when a homeless man arrived late – after all the other bags had been distributed – wouldn’t give one to him.

The other Catherine who lived in the parklands is now in Scotty’s Motel. Another diner said he’d lived there for three months for free, but nearly everyone was a junkie or humbugger.

The queue remained until nearly 7pm when they stopped cooking. It moved slower due to two people taking orders rather than the three last month. Horse Trader Steve said the service would collapse if so many non-homeless people kept turning up.

The Ghost Who Walks said the cancer had reached most of the major bones in his body so he’ll now qualify for getting a doctor to kill him. He gave his drink to another diner, but ate the hamburger from a bowl with a knife and fork. His voice was almost gone. He’s a shadow of his former self and it’s a shame to see him die although he’s claimed to be on the brink of death for the past 15 years.

Another diner complained to staff that his chips were too small and he wanted a cup of big ones. Despite this being a free service, the waiter brought back another cup whereupon the diner said he’d also eat the small ones.

The Lutheran Missionary's son told us again about being attacked by a man with an axe and twelve dogs in New Guinea.

One diner said he went to the hospital for keyhole bladder cancer treatment and waited five hours when the surgeon came out and said he was too busy and to make another appointment.

The décor inside the restaurant included signs with the messages, “Healthy, Healthy”; “Good Vibes Only,” and “Love” similar to the aphorisms in the books of the Infinity Messenger, So-So.

Every diner that night I spoke to said the hamburgers had improved.

Grill’D in the city
Grill/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Free $40 meal of quality chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of month 4:30pm ‒ 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in. Big names in the homeless scene go here. Normal people not allowed in during this time even with money. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jacks.

4 September 2026

(above) Adelaide City Council locks three separate unisex toilet rooms at the bottom of Dunn Street, North Adelaide at 9pm now because a homeless man slept in one of them for two years. He vacated it every morning and caused no trouble. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

On the Street Wednesday

Why do female homeless industry women frequently touch homeless men? If we do the same to them it’s some sort of offensive behaviour.

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Mini-Mae has left her volunteer position at Encounter Church at Evanston after accusations she was disfavouring certain clients at their Wednesday free food mornings.

Accusations have also come from some people who found their car tyres spiked. No charges were made by police.

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An immigrant couple from Asia said it costs them $4000 a year to send their child to a Lutheran school. It would cost $6000 if they sent him to a government school and for work visa people it costs $22,000 per year for a government school.

The couple come from professional backgrounds, but must work at menial jobs here. The story of foreigners getting everything when they come here certainly isn’t true for them.

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The Salisbury Council spent a small fortune building two Exeloo toilets across from the $43 million Citadel. They lock the toilets at 9pm to discourage homeless people from sleeping in the area. Toilets in restaurants are available for customers, but not for the rough sleepers.

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Police ordered Old Joe to move from his resting spot on Hindley Street. Joe has lived on the streets for thirty years, but is having trouble walking. He says he won’t collect welfare and lives from donations of food, clothing and bedding. He doesn’t use drugs or alcohol and is not violent.

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Two men brought in short pieces of shiny copper water piping to the Phillips Highways recycling joint at Elizabeth. Another customer said to the employee, “You know it’s stolen?”
“Yes,” the employee replied.

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Mad Mel cried like a baby six years ago when her mother went to WestCare telling her to stay away from home as her influence was disturbing the younger ones. A friend said that is when she moved into using unknown drugs, anything on the market.

Mad Mel has lucid kind periods in her life and has quite a few friends.

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A Hutt Street Centre client applied for Housing Trust housing, but was rejected due to having $1.2 million in the bank. It wasn’t me.

Second Editor

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Jesse Gunter is doing ten years in the slammer after being convicted of stabbing a person he found inside his dwelling.

Miles Kemp of the Adelaide Sunday Mail promoted Jesse, Mark Arstall and others in an article that didn’t mention they ambushed me outside the Hutt Street Centre in 2017 along with The Clued-Up Drug Dealer, Robyn the Junkie and others.

Robyn the Junkie slapped me on the side of the head in an attempt to pop an eardrum. Their plan was that I’d slap her back and that would give them a reason for breaking bones. Miles Kemp and a photographer watched the whole thing then reported the drug addicts as somewhat heroic people. ​

Early 3 September 2026

(above) A voice from Salisbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Michelle leaves Fred’s Van Kilburn

Michelle has been preparing and serving meals at Fred’s Van Kilburn for fifteen years. She leads the saying of grace in a quiet authoritative manner not needing to raise her voice when sometimes she is drowned out by conversations.

She was married seven years ago and recently became pregnant with a boy due in October. She is finishing work in September to devote her life to the child.

Her departure was not a sad occasion as she was obviously overjoyed at the prospect of becoming a mother. Her face was flush with love hormones created by her heart to deal with the new life. Our loss, but a gain for new life.

Orange Sky laundry staff helped Oz Harvest bring the old vegetables into the building where they are sorted and apportioned by that secretive and good-natured Asian man in his eighties and others.

One Orange Sky worker turned on the outdoor tap using a 4-way key. It turned easily. It has been previously tightened beyond use to stop homeless people, but has been rectified. That is our gain. The fountain tap is also available for Jerry cans, but less usable since dogs lick it.

The senile man sat alone, very sad through the whole meal. It’s hard to get any sense from him, but he still has feelings and fears.

A Chinese diners described his life in Australia. Much much harder than back in China, but he wants to stay here forever. He and his wife rent a house and both work, but are still poor. These are quality immigrants.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday.

2 September 2026

(above) Living life in a car in Adelaide's northeast suburbs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

ONE Life free food at Salisbury

There were just 14 clients for the free food despite previous numbers being 40. The reasons include the cafe not open, a relatively new address and irregular opening hours.

The Arabs were gone, but the Pakistani’s have remained. There were about 10 volunteers that included an Asian woman, a Pakistani woman and the rest mostly Australian of mixed ancestral nationalities. In other words, it was quite nice though I missed the Arabs.

The mood was friendly and quiet with no ruffians or screamers present. The food included decent potatoes (1 kg each serve), fresh carrots (1 kg each serve), semi-decent mandarins, sliced normal bread, canned tomatoes or corn (1 tin only), cheap pasta, packets of prepared rice meals (small, one only) and one or two other items. It appeared there was enough for clients to do a second run and get the same amount again.

There were three tables of free clothing and nick-knacks. No one was too greedy.

The 77-year-old woman who was homeless last year still lives with the younger man despite rumours to the contrary.

One Life free food Salisbury
12 Bremen Dr, Salisbury South. Ph 08 7081 9879. Free takeaway food via Faith Works once a month on a Wednesday at 1pm. Phone for precise details. No I.D. or registration required. Friendly outfit. Cafe will be reopening in early 2027 once they finish kitchen renovations.

1 September 2026

(above) Military veteran can't access Veteran Affairs benefits so he lives in his car near Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Watching them die

What I heard over the past few months reminded me of stumbling into a room at Flinders University in the 1980’s. I had an appointment with a researcher studying the chemical changes in the brains of schizophrenic patients. What I encountered upon entering the room was three young women in lab coats leaning over an enclosure.

I peeked over the barrier and observed them prodding and shoving young mice against each other. The rodents were in a panic and didn’t know where to run. The cheerful young women tormented the mice in other ways via food and water, but I wasn’t sure what other stress tests they applied.

Their aim was to make the young mice develop the symptoms of schizophrenia. The lead researcher told me that after the mice showed symptoms of schizophrenia she twisted their necks until she heard a snapping sound then cut off their heads under a miniature guillotine. Their brains would be studied for chemical traits different to normal nice.

That brings us to the treatment of homeless people seeking housing. Adelaide’s Homeless Industry could simply check housing histories and allowing those with good tenancy records to go on a priority waiting list. Those with troubled pasts might be put on “support” programs. But this doesn’t happen. Everyone homeless is treated as if they’re bad, mad or sad.

Every homeless person is forced to sign multiple contracts giving the lead welfare housing broker the legal right to collect personal data from multiple sources then share it with as many other agencies, government departments and “non-profits” as they see fit. This continues after the person finds housing or is excluded from housing.

Personal data collected in the initial interviews includes medical, psychiatric, family, educational, legal and financial details. They even require men to answer whether they’re pregnant or not.

Few clients rarely understand what they’ve signed and the housing brokers ensure this ignorance is maintained by not providing copies or even explaining what history has been taken and stored for later distribution.

This data collection and distribution is dubbed by some on the street as the Eternal Shame File.

Further requirements to obtain low-cost rent housing may include psychological and psychiatric assessments delving into the most painful and even degrading aspects of the housing applicants’ lives. Questions such as have you been raped, were you molested as a child or have you sold yourself sexually. These may be used in the case studies including videos that only a select few see.

Another data collection mode is those inspirational videos you can find on YouTube and other platforms showing homeless clients expressing gratitude to the paid employees of these “non-profits” and government agencies.

For example, the Hutt Street Centre hires professional interrogators and video makers to produce inspiring portraits of homeless people who have been through the “support” program and have been provided with low-rent welfare housing. Subjects appear to have been put on anti-depressants or other medications to make them more compliant and positive for the camera.

We don’t know – and most clients can’t remember – what questions they answered and the electronic video files remain the property of the PR company and the Hutt Street Centre. Some are used for educational case studies even when when the client has not obtained housing. This means mean they might be under a continuing data surveillance program to see if they either survive or die while homeless. You can see these people at Fred’s Van and other free food services in the Adelaide CBD.

The connection to the mice at Flinders University is the compliance requirements made of homeless people seeking housing. Rental accommodation may be offered subject to the client agreeing to use medications that affect their sense of well-being or not. Motel rooms may be offered then suddenly withdrawn throwing the client back into the parks within hours. Similar sudden provision or withdrawals of services throw the applicants into confusion and if they react angrily they may even be kicked off the waiting list while their data will continue to be collected and shared. ​

That’s the connection to the mice driven mad by lab students so their reactions can be observed and their brains later examined.

Early 31 August 2026

(above) Free joints give away strange items to the homeless crowd. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Re: Kate Colvin Homelessness Australia

Via the anonymous contact page

Kate has a Bachelor of economics. She also has a degree in women's studies. This is what gets you a job worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, then super, salary sacrifice, meal and travel allowance. Nothing but the best hotels and restaurants, business class air travel.

The vast majority of homeless are males yet to be boss of homelessness Australia, you have a degree in women's studies? What's the go with that? How about we touch on feminists? 27 kids are murdered every year in a family violence situation, 14 of them by the mother. The rest , less than half are by father's, step father's, grand parents, step mothers and siblings. It's got so bad, female violence against children, they're eating their kids. Still feminists are silent about this.

Next time you hear one rant about male violence against women, just tell them to come back and talk when mothers stop eating children. The only other qualification of hers is Bachelor of economics.

You and others say the homeless industry is purely about making money.  There's no interest in changing anything as that negates money making. Kate is a trained money maker, a predatory capitalist.

It gets worse. You and others describe the treatment of homeless as prisoners, captives. Homelessness Australia show a photo of Kate with a shaved head, she looks like a corrupt cop or prison warden, she's even wearing a very expensive Gestapo style coat. for someone with a degree in women's studies, why is she trying to look like a mean old man? For those with eyes to see, the truth is out in the open. 

https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/crime/experts-give-insight-into-potential-future-of-alleged-cannibal-mother/news-story/342926ffa2430ceb74cb26044aeebe4b

Early 30 August 2026

On the Street Sunday

The card reader was still broken at Orange Sky laundromat in North Adelaide as of last Monday. This means paying customers have not been able to pay by card for the past four weeks and if they don’t have a pay system on their phones they must go to another laundromat. The code system still works and the free Monday and Thursday laundry sessions are still happening.

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Someone appears to have defecated on the floor at the Hope Central Haven free Friday evening at the Salisbury Anglican Church. The ambulance driver cleaned it up. One problem in the disability toilet is the lack of paper towels.

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A Haven diner said we are experiencing wild energies and that is why people are confused and chaotic.

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Salisbury Fred’s Van has new young volunteers making the sessions less stressful for the cooking and serving staff. Elizabeth Fred’s Van also has new young volunteers. Through the eyes of us old disabled clients, these young workers are marvels of energy.

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Does anyone think it’s obscene that politicians have little interest in addressing the problem of disabled and sick people living on the streets in the Adelaide CBD while a thousand apartments remain empty within the square mile?

There are some ferocious drug addicts and psychopaths on the street, but most people living outside are simply lost and frightened.

And to complement this insanity, the highest funded homeless joint offers short-timed showers and is closed and empty most of the time despite an annual budget of over $11 million.

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A soup kitchen man told us last week that many years ago that his father’s beach store was robbed. When the police arrived they helped themselves to the store cigars saying his father could claim it on insurance.

The soup kitchen man said the police are still crooked and they broke his ribs in the Sturt police station over a parking ticket a few years ago.

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An employee with the Department of Child Protection went into a panic upon discovering a warning on her home computer that it contained child pornography. She rushed to a technician who said the warning was a scam to extort money from her and her computer was clean.

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A UnitingSA financial adviser said a bank manager in 1990 advised her family to lock in their business mortgage rate at 17.5% for five years saying it would otherwise rise to 22%. But it began dropping and by the time they finished the five-year period at 17.5% it had dropped to 6%.

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Former Family Court judge Stuart Lindsay is representing Deserving Dennis on a police charge.

Early 30 August 2026

(above) Near these two existential survivalist homeless campers there were two-hundred joggers in ridiculous North Korean-style Lycra clothing. What brain-washed stupid groupies. (This is how hard-core homeless people see reality.) (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Renovation fever over

The new bright lights at Kilburn Community Centre transformed the dining room from the feel of a cosy restaurant to an experimental lab rat room. But the linoleum replacing that filthy carpet was an improvement along with three new air conditioners. The ridges at the two back emergency exit doors have been removed at some great expense leaving a more even surface to push wheelchair-ridden clients outside.

But was the expense worth it considering a wheelchair could easily rise three or four centimetres over a graduating ridge during an emergency exit that might occur once every ten years.

Meanwhile, the minimal expense of washing the water fountain or fixing the locked water tap for homeless people has been ignored. The community centre manager said she’d look into it.

The good news is that the free coffee cafe room is open Monday to Friday from 9:30am to 3:00pm for anyone to use. However the comfortable lounges have been removed to stop homeless people sleeping on them.

We talked during the meal about the philosophies of Lao-Tzu, Confucius and soul travel. The milk for the coffee didn’t run out and the staff were excellent as usual, much better than yesteryear.

There wasn’t much clamour for the Oz Harvest bags as their contents have gone downhill over the years. I can’t remember what the meal was.

What I don’t understand is the lack of numbers since the meals and staff quality have improved. Emily stopped coming after a drug addict tried to run off with her rubber baby. And a client did grab a disabled woman’s oxygen machine and shoved it aside roughly. And one client did shout that he wanted to nail some kid to the floor. Maybe that had something to do with it.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. They let you in from 6pm for coffee. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets apart from making your teeth appear yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide. Orange Sky laundry truck has returned and is there 5pm to 7pm. Free coffee room 9:30am – 3:00pm Monday to Friday

Review for 20 August 2026
29 August 2026

(above) Second Bite has stopped delivering old food from Aldi and Coles to most free food joints in Adelaide. But Faithworks on Clifton Street at Blair Athol has remained one its favoured clients. But they require photo I.D. from those buying or receiving free old food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

(above) Faithworks at Blair Athol stopped their Friday fortnightly free meals, but they have occasional unscheduled breathtakingly huge parking lot giveaways on Friday afternoons. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Same old lies and non-specifics

Here are some vague plans from Homelessness Australia based on views of paid employees and not us living outside or in cars. Once again, it will siphon money from building houses and ground level units and instead direct it to mind controllers and the construction of those prison-style high-rise buildings with one entrance in and out and controlled by a single button on a screen.

Here it is from Homelessness Australia, the same old cliches that never helped in the past, but enhanced the continuous progression of turning those living outside into commercial commodities who are mined for every scrap of their remaining dignity:

“Our  Strategic Plan 2026-2030: Leading change together. Stronger Systems. Better Outcomes sets out how we will create real change for people across Australia who are experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. 

“Our strategic ambitions and priorities include:

1. Systems change to end homelessness
   
2. A strong and capable specialist homelessness sector
   
3. Ensuring we are a trusted and influential national peak
   

“The Strategic Plan was launched in Homelessness Week at our national event with Minister Clare O'Neil. The Plan was informed by members via a survey and a deep dive with key stakeholders. Over three quarters of our members agreed that evidence about what works should guide our advocacy, even where this may be challenging for parts of the sector. The Strategic Plan reflects this and other feedback, especially around supporting the specialist homelessness sector.

“Our Homelessness Impact Hub is a flagship initiative to be delivered as part of the Strategic Plan. Working closely with the sector and lived experience, the Hub will be designed to help the sector amplify their impact and support you to use homelessness evidence and research in your service delivery.”

From Kate Colvin of Homelessness Australia
Vampires who have attached themselves to our lives
28 August 2026

(above) They're slowly building their cafe and with luck it will be open by early 2027. Free food is now every fortnight. Getting better. No I.D. required for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Diner loses false teeth at Fred’s Van

A few regulars from yesteryear were there making the meal a reunion more than the usual battleground of desperation. Orange Sky added another layer of humanity that diluted the fear and loathing of the drug crowd.

Volunteers included two young women not yet hardened and wise to the world. The high-as-a-kite legal man added a zest that he toned down by sitting by himself outside.

The vegetarian option was quite nice though I’m finished with eating food of which I don’t know the ingredients, particularly chemicals including ‘flavour enhancers’ that shut down part of the brain making ordinary food taste nicer. Some studies show that these ‘enhancers’ – including MSG – destroy neurons in the brain.

One client was in a panic near the end of the meal after losing her false teeth. The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man shouted, “Did you flush them down the ****hole?” A volunteer went into the ablution room, but found no false teeth.

On a nice note, volunteers handed out extra food to those who stayed back and who weren’t the diners who rushed forward to grab the free groceries.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from occasional Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bags. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation.

Early 27 August 2026
​Thank you. 

(above) Huge damage done to the delivery doors during the Salvatore Junk Dog entourage's back carpark occupancy behind the now empty supermarket at the Elizabeth South shopping centre.

Brawl at Magdalene
​on Saturday evening

A diner inside the building said a man wearing a blond wig was crying so much that staff called the police and an ambulance.

Another diner sitting at the outdoor chairs said someone was stabbed and a junkie was lying in the gutter. He said two female and two male police officers ran to the scene and that five ambulances and four patrol cars were involved.

One officer sought the blond wig man who left his wig on the floor. A diner said the wig man played “hide and seek” until caught by the officer who comforted him rather than arrested him.

Both witnesses are reliable.

Otherwise it was an uneventful evening.

Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore St, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. Saturdays. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in lane way. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Lance Armstrong, Itchy Rachel and the Colostomy Bag Activist. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. Wild crowd with no beatings inside as disputes taken outside. Nasty toilets. Genuine street experience.

Early 26 May 2026
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Worst Luck

From the anonymous contact page

Neighbourhood woman who's mental health and self medication with street drugs has now caused her to be turfed out of housing because she's violent.
Mental health and homelessness
What a terrible combination.
Helps the current Neighbourhood but not her.
How does this even happen???

Early 26 August 2026

(above) Yet another homeless camp at Elizabeth yet the lack of housing is a non-issue with all governments because immigration is a factor. (Adelaide Homeless journal, August 2026.)

Correction on Sharon Christie

Sharon said she wasn’t involved in a car crash, but was involved in a taxi crash. She said the taxi ran over her foot twice or that the driver hadn’t secured her invalid scooter properly so it ran over her foot twice breaking three bones. Or that she’d been to hospital twice.

I couldn’t quite understand what was said so asked another person at the table. He replied, “something like that.”

Sharon also said she’d “gone out” with Jimmy Barnes’ younger brother or was it Alan Barnes, something like that. Probably the former. Or it might have been Linda saying she’d been out with one of the Barnes brothers.

Second Editor
Late 25 August 2025

(above) One clever dude makes a political statement one Sunday while drying his sleeping bag on a parking sign outside the locked and empty Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Poor “Leanne”

Documents from the Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service (E.S.M.H.S.) indicate that Poor “Leanne” has been assaulted and robbed repeatedly by squatters who move into her two-bedroom Housing Trust house near Prospect.

One man punched and kicked holes in her walls, ripped out electrical fixtures including switches and power points then smashed her mirror so that sharp fragments are dangling from the wall. This was the third time he’s done this so he’s now in prison. But the damage has progressed even further with a visiting Housing Trust inspector saying she “wasn’t impressed”.

An Aboriginal woman named “Noelene” is regularly dragged in handcuffs from Leanne’s house while claiming to own it and being Leanne’s mother despite being the same age. Upon release from the police cells, she returns to Poor Leanne’s house, often breaking through security screens then again being hauled away.

An Eastern Suburbs Mental Health Service employee said that Poor Leanne has been locked in psychiatric wards nine times over the past three years. She’s also a dope and crystal meth addict and has been in intense psychiatric treatment for decades with over a hundred admissions to psychiatric wards.

With urging from the Housing Trust, the South Australian Civil and Administrative Authority considered evicting Leanne, but gave her one more chance. They said if her visitors damage her house a fourth time, she’s out. But this has happened with no consequences.

This further damage is difficult to detect as workers haven’t replaced the wall panels and electrical fixtures since spending over $50,000 fixing the initial damage. The Trust is reluctant to make more repairs just to see them smashed up by visiting meth addicts and perhaps Leanne herself.

Leanne replaced her two N.D.I.S. Indian workers with a tough woman not approved by “Noelene” who chased her down the street while wielding a knife. But her new worker stopped and disarmed Noelene then called the police.

Police have responded to over a dozen complaints by neighbours about the sounds of screaming and smashing windows. But the neighbours have misgivings about getting Leanne evicted as the new tenant might be worse.

The Housing Trust rarely houses anyone who leads a responsible life. The Trust prefers drug addicts and criminals fresh out of prison. Neighbours are thus afraid the Trust might replace Leanne with a meth dealer who tells clients to rob the neighbours’ houses to raise money for drugs.

And the Housing Trust won’t attempt to evict Leanne via the South Australian Civil and Administrative Authority unless the neighbours instigate the action.

Just three days ago police pulled Noelene from Leanne’s house. They told her she was banned from the house for 24-hours. Noelene went to a group of five Housing Trust houses on the next street rented by Aboriginal people then returned to Leanne’s house after dark.

Leanne may be a drug addict with brain damage and schizophrenia, but this 35-year-old is in some ways a likeable human being, but she should be in an institution with constant supervision. This is difficult because successive state governments have bulldozed the institutions then put the residents into soft-walled suburban houses supervised by incredibly expensive and inexperienced N.D.I.S. support workers. One of the few alternatives is so-called supervised independent living units with 24/7 Care and costing the government $35,000 every two weeks.

Does the reader sense a dark force operating over the past forty years where the institutions that cared for people like Leanne were destroyed and then the Housing Trust was destroyed by putting such people into their units and houses and this whole mess still costing more than before?

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
Names have been changed to protect certain individuals in the case.

Early 24 August 2026​

(above) The Beast. Still warning vulnerable tenants they're not allowed to speak publicly and critically about Anglicare and Believe Housing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

So many church charities don’t answer their phones and don’t reply to questions from homeless clients. I phoned Gospel City Church in Gawler and Seventh-day Adventist Church in Elizabeth Park about the cessation of Second Bite deliveries. They didn’t reply.

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Lisa was at the Good Shepherd free Monday evening meal at Para Vista last week. Her hands shake violently due to a degenerative nerve illness. She said her new chemist got her prescription pills mixed up.

She takes some after a meal. She asked if there were any children in the room as she didn’t want them exposed to an adult knocking back pills.

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“Disheartening,” said a formerly homeless man of Adelaide Homeless Journal.

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Gateway Baptists offer excellent bacon and eggs BBQ from their new BBQ at Whitmore Square every Saturday from about 8:30am to 10:00pm.

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Horse Trader Steve plans to switch free hairdressers from Bailey’s Backpack to Orange Sky.

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A woman wearing a full-face Burkha screamed and yelled when a volunteer at Big Al’s free food event in Elizabeth told her she was taking too much and that some clients were homeless. She was described as “going apesh**”

The coffee man named Tony has replaced Big Al who retired last week. But Tony hasn’t fine-tuned his response to disruptions. He’s good at coffee so he’ll probably learn Big Al’s skills such as telling people to “get out”.

Another client said the food giveaways are decreasing in volume and quality at the Beacon of Hope and other places as well.

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There was confusion whether an Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance paid employee had phoned the Tea Tree Council to throw a homeless man’s stuff in the rubbish truck or not.

Sonia Blackwell said that hadn’t happened because she saw the man’s stuff behind the Salvation Army Corps on Reservoir Road. But a leader in the Corps thought they had phoned the Council and that only part of the man’s belongings had reached the Salvo property.

I looked under the building where the man’s stuff is stored and it appeared there were tents and tarps.

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The Lutheran church has had trouble giving away silly beanies and scarves at their free Monday meal at Para Vista. Hardly anyone wants to be seen in silly colours that shout, “charity, charity.”

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One of the bagpipe players at Kilburn R.S.L. said they had their best night ever after a Fred’s Van client yelled at them for making too much noise. The following week some clients put their fingers in their ears as protest to the racket played while they were waiting for the meal to be served.

To everyone’s joy, Fred’s Van has returned to the Kilburn Community Centre on Gladstone Avenue at Kilburn. But the lights are too bright making the room feel like a police interrogation centre rather than a fine restaurant.

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A homeless man thought there weren’t many homeless services in Melbourne because he couldn’t find them on the internet. “Non-profits”, charities and other groups providing homeless services keep them secret. There appears many services in Adelaide because of the Adelaide Free Food 36-page leaflet. There isn’t such a publication in Melbourne.

However, veteran street man Chris Adams says Melbourne is much better equipped to helping people on the streets than Adelaide.

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Rumour has it that the tyre spiker at Elizabeth Fred’s Van hasn’t learnt his lesson after being beaten up after he was caught damaging four tyres on a formerly homeless man’s vehicle.

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I’ve been surprised at the high proportion of free food clients who have severely disabled children.

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Two or three meat eaters are thinking of ordering vegetarian meals at the Para Vista Lutheran Church free Monday meal after seeing what Peter the Chef dishes out to myself.

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A soup kitchen man says he’s only brushed his teeth three times since childhood after watching a documentary saying toothpaste sucked the enamel from teeth.

Second Editor
23 August 2026

(above) There one week then gone the next on South Terrace, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Maladministration in the Salvation Army

Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army is closing their doors to homeless people from the 24th to 28th of August. The two officers are going to a seminar in Melbourne for everyone who has served twenty years. Usually the former manager, who is now a volunteer, would open the building including the Oasis free cafe, but he and his wife have gone to Queensland for funeral duties. So who can we blame?

Commissioner Miriam Gluyas leads the Army in Australia. Major Paul Hateley is the South Australia/Northern Territory Divisional Commander. Why couldn’t these deadbeats find a wayward officer to fill in for five days at Tea Tree Gully? Most Corps have multiple officers so supply isn’t an issue. And it’s typical of “non-profits” providing essential services to homeless people to close their doors for reasons that commercial businesses would not.

This is maladministration so Miriam Gluyas and Paul Hateley should be docked a week’s pay for incompetence.

22 August 2026

(above) Picking up old food from Aldi warehouse at Regency Park. Second Bite says they've stopped supplying old food to most free food venues, but won't say where it's now going. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Salisbury Fred’s Van

It was an evening of desperation, in other words, everything was going as planned. The joint had attracted the right people: tribal nomads, Stiffs, drug addicts, elderly roughly dressed depressed homeless old men, psychiatric patients, social outsiders and hardly any normal people.

The man who can barely enunciate words played his usual tricks, but this time he wasn’t carrying bedding, just a shopping trolley of knick-knacks.

The poetic man who laughs wildly hours on end said, “You’re no one until someone loves you.” We are nowhere men and nowhere women.

Elderly Geraldine from the animal shelter shouted “traitor, traitor” to an unknown diner. Kate Douglas’ son wasn’t there due to her death last fortnight. Ti gave the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man a bottle of chilli sauce he’d obtained from a free food joint. Bill’s entourage has largely disbanded since the death of his wife. Three Census people dropped in for five minutes, left some Census brand socks, caps and beanies then left. See you in five years.

The leader of Fred’s Van Salisbury explained that they keep the toilets closed during the meal because a heroin addict used them and the route to the toilets passed the kitchen allowing “moochers” to bother the cooks. Janet served coffee with the micro-manager. Janet served for years at Fred’s Van in the city, arguably the most dangerous free food service in Adelaide. Those serving tonight included Hari, Long, David and others.

The vegetarian fake meat or something else gave me a migraine so I’ve decided to effectively not eat most of the food offered at all free food joints. Exceptions include the Lutheran Church at Para Vista where the cook doesn’t appear to use MSG and other ‘flavour enhancers’.

The micro-manager told three or four of us to leave while they were cleaning up. Other groups let us stay to the bitter end and work around us until we’re at the last table then we leave. She probably doesn’t understand that these little orders and commands are felt by us as micro-aggression. As homeless people we get that everywhere so don’t expect it at the place catering for us.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Inadequate single toilet. Occasional screaming and yelling. Nice tribal nomads. Beware of the micro-manager volunteer.
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21 August 2026

(above) Scarred land from a tent site having been cleared by the Adelaide City Council. A heartless war rages against homeless people in the CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Hindmarsh Food Hub locked toilet

Why does Puddle Jumpers lock the toilet at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub? They serve food and drink to homeless people requiring its use. I phoned their head office, but couldn’t get a response apart from the receptionist saying it’s a ‘health and safety’ issue, which means nothing to anyone on the street.

Charles Sturt Council owns the building so I phoned them. Their receptionist used the same meaningless ‘health and safety’ answer. She said she’d get someone to call me.

After a week without a reply I phoned again and got another employee who said Puddle Jumpers hadn’t responded to her. That in her mind finalised the problem. After a little pressure, she consulted another bureaucrat who said the toilet wasn’t a ‘public toilet’. I asked what that meant and got a meaningless jumble of words.

I asked for a definitive answer so she referred me to a more intelligent employee who leads the social inclusion section of the Council. At first this was like talking to someone on another planet who translated my street English into the Charles Sturt Council dialect. This took ten minutes to convey that I was asking why homeless clients couldn’t use the Puddle Jumpers toilets.

She said she’d make enquiries and get back to me and she did. The in-house answer was that Puddle Jumpers wasn’t a business so didn’t legally have to provide access to the toilet. But Melanie Tate, the Chief Executive of Puddle Jumpers never bothered to reply to the Charles Sturt Council enquiry despite the Council owning the property. So we don’t know why Puddle Jumpers won’t allow access. And to get to this answer required half a dozen phone calls to Puddle Jumpers and the Council over a six week period.

Along with supplying rotting vegetables to homeless people, keeping the toilet closed, refusing to say when the building would be open or closed and mismanaging the shower truck they now consider themselves too important to reply to a query by their token-rent landlord, the Charles Sturt Council.

And Puddle Jumpers is the outfit collecting donations for a new shower truck to “add dignity to people’s lives.”

20 August 2026

(above) William's Wardrobe were giving homeless people quality Thinsulate beanies at Whitmore Square. Better than those silly multi-coloured things dished out at most joints. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

On the Street Wednesday

An official from Revival City church asked an elderly woman if she wanted a man removed from her table after he suggested she might like to have sex with him.
P.S. It wasn’t me.

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“Food charity and lax cleanliness is a poisoning event.”

This was heard in a conversation at a free food event.

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Deserving Dennis (formerly Dennis the Menace) said he won’t eat sandwiches at a certain free food venue because those making it rub their noses and don’t wear gloves. I went to this place to confirm his observations. He was right. One cook was picking her nose as she prepared the food.

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Posters on the walls warning thugs that their behaviour won’t be tolerated has improved the mood at The Haven free food event in Salisbury.

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The Krishnas at Kilburn are looking into providing free food in the Salisbury and Elizabeth area after being kicked out of the city.

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One of the women caught robbing an OTR where one of them knocked an old man unconscious was a former neighbour of Deserving Dennis. Her adult son was jailed for child molestation and she threw a brick at Dennis that caused a gash requiring 30 stitches. She should have been charged with incest, child abuse and, of course, robbing an OTR.

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The former manager and his wife provide a free breakfast for homeless people on Fridays from 9am to 9:45am at the Tea Tree Salvation Army Corps Oasis cafe. But not for the next few weeks as they’ve gone to Queensland for funeral duties.

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Fiona Cooper is inciting community anger on Facebook at the homeless man who was camping in the flooded Dry Creek area. Another person said she was only defending her property [value], but most posters were on the homeless man’s side.

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The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man and another diner tested The Virus Lady who claimed their chilli sauces had no flavour. The N.D.I.S. man provided her with a bottle of Carolina Reaper, almost the hottest sauce on the international market, much hotter than Tabasco.

The Virus Lady used an amount that would have caused harm to a normal person. She was unaffected apart from saying it had a bit of flavour.

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A Housing Trust tenant in Elizabeth noted that a portion of tiles on a nearby empty unit had been removed. The unit was boarded up and under renovation, but it appeared thieves had entered through the roof to steal copper piping and cables.

The tenant phoned the Housing Trust – this was a Friday – but the Trust didn’t send anyone out to replace the tiles despite the heaviest rain of the year forecast for that weekend. And thus more damage was done to the ceiling and walls of the unit.

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A dining client at Baptist WestCare said the Sunday breakfast finishes at 10am sharp. He said staff require a full name and age, but this can be faked. He said a woman at the front gate asked him if he’d do a Covid test. He declined.

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I was at a city welfare joint during heavy rain and wind. Those living in tents on Hutt Road were having trouble keep their tents upright and preventing leaks. Yet the paid staff at the homeless welfare joint laughed and joked in their comfortable offices oblivious to the existential battle 400 metres away.

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A homeless man having lived for decades in a tent in various Adelaide creek beds says he can tell if a bird is sick or dying.

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Rumour has it that Puddle Jumpers are still searching for “John” who allegedly threw a pot of hot soup over a volunteer in her 80’s named Cheryl at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh.

Cheryl was wearing a thick winter coat and was only minimally burned and suffered no physical after-effects. She returned to the food Hub a few weeks after the incident. Puddle Jumpers no longer keep large bowls of hot food near the serving window.

19 August 2026

(above) One of eight notices stuck to the walls including the disability toilet for The Haven Friday free meal at St John's Anglican church at Salisbury. The Meth Heads have taken note. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Comparing Adelaide optometrists

A doctor from the Trinity medical centre at Port Adelaide marched me over to Kate Bosland at Trinity Eyecare when my eyes swelled up from an infection. She spent over an hour looking at them from every perspective then prescribed two types of steroid eye drops, one to treat the surface condition and the other for the back of the eye.

This fixed the problem, but I went for a second visit and again she spent an hour checking my eyes on low Medicare rates while a paying customer sat beyond his appointment time in the waiting room.

I needed glasses so I accessed the GlassesSA program at O.P.S.M. optometrists at Salisbury. Twenty-five dollars for soft plastic lenses in nice frames. A bargain except the plastic scratched within weeks.

I eventually returned to O.P.S.M. for new lens at the government subsidised cost of twenty-five dollars, but the employee said there was a $60 surcharge to put new lens in old frames. However, she said they could say the frames were damaged, which meant Centrelink would pay for new frames. But she couldn’t get the computer to recognise me so that ended in failure of which she showed little interest in fixing.

I returned to Kate Bosland and got a set of reading glasses with hardened lens for $199, a bit pricey, but I was grateful she spent so much time ensuring my eyes were okay. Her glasses were okay for books and phone reading, but I needed another pair that focused further out for laptop use in the car.

Spec Savers at Elizabeth offered two pairs for $199 with hardened lens. They also offered an image of my whole eye for which other places charge $50. These were a real bargain and I had faith in this business. However, the optometrist rushed me through the eye test and wouldn’t give a number for the glaucoma test. He just said I was at risk, which had been determined on a previous appointment some years ago. (I was interested in the number because Dr. Bosland said the glaucoma pressure had dropped substantially.) There was no time for questions with the Spec Savers optometrist and he rushed me out within 20 minutes as Medicare was only paying him $60 for the test plus them doing free eye image. Fair enough.

In retrospect, Kate Bosland at Trinity Eyecare was the best value because she spent so much time ensuring my eyes were as healthy as they could be and at Medicare rates where payments drop substantially when past the initial twenty minute consultation. And at my age this sort of extensive investigation and treatment is more important than saving a few dollars on cheaper glasses.

Note: The Hutt Street Centre and Baptist WestCare also host free optometry examinations and glasses for their clients, and for people generally living outside or in their cars. The former will probably require you to enter the Eternal Shame File database, but I’m not sure about the latter.
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The Salvation Army and Uniting Care may provide a voucher for free glasses with GlassesSA and this may include bi-focals and other extras.

Early 18 August 2026
Update 18 August 2026

(above) The sign of poverty near the Anglicare Corporation offices in Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Strange taxi driver

Sharon Christie’s taxi was ‘T-boned” by an oncoming driver who fled the scene after the smash. The taxi driver asked repeatedly that Sharon not call the police. She did call them.

An ambulance took her to hospital for examination and treatment for bruises. She went back home, but later it was discovered she had three broken bones in one foot. We don’t know when she’ll be back at Para Vista Lutheran Church.

Late 17 August 2026

(above at Elizabeth South) So many conferences for salaried homeless industry employees, but very little for those living outside in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

The next Australian Zero Homelessness Summit will be held in Melbourne in September 2026.

These are the people who told us 15 years ago that homeless numbers would be zero in the Adelaide CBD within two years. When this didn’t eventuate they changed their story to zero within the span of two governments. When this didn’t happen they said they’d halve the number over the terms two governments. When this didn’t happen they changed their name from Adelaide Zero Project to Towards Zero. When nothing changed they stopped publishing the CBD homeless statistics.

Millions of dollars were spent on PR campaigns, importing homeless experts from around the world and long speeches by Adelaide homeless industry grifters at a multitude of conferences. The only change we experienced in the homeless scene was the introduction of humiliating and demeaning interrogations they subjected us to just to get on a waiting list.

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Fred’s Van Kilburn workers said we’re back at the Kilburn Community Centre next Thursday, the 20th of August. One client said, “We’ll see.”

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Did anyone notice ‘homeless week’? There was a Hutt Street Centre fundraiser and a paid day off for employees attending a discussion group. And a memorial in Victoria Square. Anything else?

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One of the seven homeless men from the camp destroyed by Tea Tree Council has returned to the site. He was forced to move from three camps in the previous week. Rob Caldwell helped him move his tent complex from flood ground, but the rain and wind knocked everything flat and he’s moved his bedding and clothing to the camping back of the Salvos who gave him one week to move it.

The man qualified for a motel room during the rain, then some anonymous bureaucrat downgraded Code Blue overnight so he no longer qualified.

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Another man living nearby in a tent avoids other homeless people. He’s survived 32 years in a tent and learnt the ways of nature and self-preservation.

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There was an argument at Grill’d two weeks ago when homeless people objected to a man in a wheelchair pushing his way to the front of the queue.

There were 14 employees behind the counter cooking and serving customers with another three or four taking food to the tables.

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Rob Caldwell was discharged from Rehab after leaving at 1:30am in the morning during a storm to help another homeless man having trouble keeping his tent upright.

Rob is angry with the Tea Tree Council for throwing his solar panel and battery into the rubbish truck. He also says those working for Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance collect salaries yet do nothing for those living outside.

The latest news is that he’s returning to Rehab on Wednesday.

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Police impounded a homeless man’s car ten days ago leaving him standing on the street. Vandals were smashing cars in the area and began hitting his car with a baseball bat. The man drove his car from the area then called the police.

The police discovered his license was suspended and that he’d moved his car so they impounded it for thirty days. They allowed him to remove his clothing, but not bedding so he was left standing on the street until Sonia Blackwell found him a rental room.

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Two Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance employees based at Anglicare Corporation’s offices at Elizabeth visited a homeless man at the flooded Dry Creek at Modbury. Nothing positive arose from their visit except they experienced a pleasant couple of hours away from the office. The whole outfit is little more than a scam siphoning money from house building.

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Homeless industry bureaucrats will discuss the use of Artificial Intelligence at their Darwin national conference in October. A.I. Agents are expected to sift through the Eternal Shame File and other databases then determine what a person living outside must do to apply for rental housing. This may include psycho-social interrogations, allowing bureaucrats to contact people from their past and doing rehabilitation courses to prove they are worthy of shelter.


While the A.I. Agent does its work, it will also evaluate the worth of the applicant to the power elite including whether the applicant should be euthanised and/or their organs be used for transplanting into richer people. It’s part of The Big Cull project.​

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A spiritual adviser in the homeless scene said that forgiving oneself and loving oneself is the best protection from evil forces.

Those who respect themselves will strongly resist the degradation process that homeless industry bureaucrats impose on them.

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No free laundry at Orange Sky laundromat in Melbourne Street, North Adelaide this Thursday morning due to expected power outage. 

16 August 2026

(above) Aren't these spikey grass shrubs nice outside the Hutt Street Centre? They're planted to discourage homeless people sitting against the ledge and building. It's called 'hostile horticulture'. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Quiet Wednesday evening
​at Fred's Van Elizabeth

Kate Douglas is dead. She seemed in good health two weeks ago at Salisbury. She’s the mother of Gordon and friend of Tory who died at the end of a noose a few years ago.

She had a gentle manner of speaking and never sought the limelight and never lost control. She was a client and worker at the Beacon of Hope, Adelaide Congress Hall and Fred’s Vans at Salisbury and Elizabeth. Her age was approaching 70, but her death was so sudden that we’re stunned.

She was described as a follower of Christ and always polite even to people she disliked though for awhile she spat on the ground when she saw me. And for good reason, but then she forgave me.

Clients swarmed the boxes of free grocery items like starving cats around a food bowl. The spectacle was more disgusting than the rush for free food at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army free food mornings.

The vegetarian meal option included a Mexican heavy omelette that, of course, included eggs so I avoided it. There was also sausages, terribly cooked rice and chopped vegetables boiled in water that was drained down the sink with the surviving minerals and vitamins.

The staff were in friendly moods except one lost her smile when I said I previously mocked fat people until I got fat. She was fat, but very good at her job. Ever since I’ve taken up meditation strange words come out of my mouth like someone else is talking. It’s getting dangerous.

A small African woman appeared homeless. She’s discreet, quiet and not a drug addict.

Orange Sky was there with their washing machine van.

Another woman was in acute distress so staff called an ambulance that never arrived. Two Fred’s Van volunteers took her to their car to take her to hospital while the woman’s N.D.I.S. Carer divulged the most personal details of the woman’s medical and psychological history to the Fred’s Van volunteers that was also heard by a fourth party nearby.

At the hospital, a second N.D.I.S. Carer arrived and both of them allegedly grabbed the woman – their employer – by the clothing. Then an incredible four hour tussle emerged between the woman, her N.D.I.S. employees, the Public Trustee, Fred’s Van volunteers and her friend. The woman has a huge annual N.D.I.S. financial package that includes 24/7 Carers on site.

The next morning her friend approached a new N.D.I.S. contractor to prepare the paperwork to transfer the woman to this new contractor that will also provide a special needs free-standing house. The friend also approached lawyers in an attempt to have the previous N.D.I.S. Carers charged with offences.

Otherwise, it was a quieter than average Wednesday evening meal at Fred’s Van Elizabeth.

Note: No Fred’s Van lunch on Sunday due to renovations to the pergola after it was deemed unsafe.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from occasional Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bags. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation.

Early 15 August 2026

(above) Waking at the horse paddocks in Adelaide. One of the bonus' living outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Second Bite isn’t giving anything away

Despite five emails to Second Bite and upon reading their responses, it still isn’t clear what is happening in the “reorganising” of their free food program.

Each enquiry is treated with a response that implies my questions are merely where to find a free hamper for myself, which isn’t true. They won’t provide a list of what places they’re distributing old food from Coles and Aldi. Or which ones are cut off for good and for what reasons.

The best they can do is suggest the following that included the home address of Cos We Care Founders and the head office of Puddle Jumpers, of which neither address is a distribution point.

Heart and Soul in Wingfield -  30 Fourth St Wingfield
The Food Centre in Gepps Cross - Shop 5 - 580 Main North Rd
Faithworks Food Assist  - 5 Clifton St Blair Athol
Puddle Jumpers. 52 Pleasant road Glandore
Cos We Care – [home address supplied].

They previously supplied old food to 900 ‘agencies and charities’ across Australia meaning the number for South Australia would have been over 50.

But they won’t say where the bulk of their old food is going. One probability is to Fare Share where the food is cooked and distributed frozen in plastic containers. Perhaps Food on the Table is one of the recipients.

But the bottom line is that those on the street are the last to know – perhaps never to know what is happening in Second Bite.

Any why? Information is power and whoever controls Second Bite aren’t giving away any of that.

Early 14 August 2026

(above) Secret tents in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Fred’s Van Salisbury

The salt and pepper lady focused her eyes on our table like a character from a horror movie. We were her target.

The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man said the chicken was excellent. The chicken wouldn’t have agreed, but the diner said it was fresh and cooked well, not frozen, then thawed, then boiled in water.

“Brett” has escaped from some form of rest and recreation and is back on the homeless meth scene. He’s visible on street corners fighting with invisible demons from the underworld. During the meal he fought with his coat, kicking it across the hall while defaming it.

The salt and pepper lady interrupted us by picking up the shakers from each table before everyone had finished using them. Our table informed her they were still in use. She backed off then sneaked up from behind and grabbed them. We’ll be ready for her next month.

Another volunteer said they didn’t want to rush us through the meal, but the salt and pepper lady has another agenda.

Just one toilet for thirty or forty diners over a one-hour dining period is inadequate and wrong considering there are two full suites of multiple toilets in the building. This is symptomatic of so many homeless services where they stop or limit this essential service to save a tiny amount of work. This cripples their efforts to serve us with little appreciably gain for anyone.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal nomads. Heroic homeless addicts.

Early 13 August 2026
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 Insider version of Shower Truck story

A more reliable account of the shower truck story emerges from inside Puddle Jumpers head office.

They were paying One Voice $2000 a month rent for the truck including insurance. The story of the steps being damaged wasn’t wholly true as the truck was off the road for five months during which the $2000 rental still applied.

The fundraiser to buy a new shower truck involves spending $80,000 on a used truck then using donor money, expertise and material expenses to build the shower assembly on the back.

Hopefully, they install larger LPG tanks in preference to those silly camping bottles on the One Voice truck. 

Early 13 August 2026

(above) Packed up camping and bedding in the Adelaide CBD either about to be set up or someone making an exit. The parklands are home for people under constant siege and the Salvos, Hutt Street Centre or WestCare won't say a word in their defence. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Shower truck story changes

Puddle Jumpers has been advertising for drivers for its shower truck still not purchased or assembled. They’ve raised $59,000 within a fortnight for the truck, but what is the point?

One Voice lent Puddle Jumpers the shower truck, but they proved so unreliable that few homeless people bothered to use it because they understood the shower truck most likely wouldn’t be there. And the receptionist at head office gave false information without the slightest concern for the truth. Some Puddle Jumpers staff are so bristling with negatively that a simple request for information brings an abusive passive aggressive response.

So with a brand new shower truck how will things change? Same old maladministration by people who understand very little about the desperation of people living outside. And don’t seem to care.

Well, this was the story when the fundraising began, but now Puddle Jumpers is saying they’ve almost reached the $80,000 target to buy the old One Voice truck, and not buy a new truck and build showers on the back.

Won’t this be a scream. Same old truck with the same management. Some things never change.

And will the donors be pleased with the outcome?

Early 12 August 2026

(above) Fred's Van may be back at Kilburn Community Centre on the 20th of August. Maybe. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Mustard Seed free lunch

Our party arrived at the Para Hills Community Club function room after I’d directed everyone to the Parafield Gardens Community Club.

We corrected my mistake and finally arrived in multiple cars at the right venue. Most of us hadn’t booked a spot, but they let us in without questions, but getting a seat was difficult and we had to break into smaller groups.

Most diners were severely disabled and accompanied by their Hola Carers. One N.D.I.S. expert said the clients were paying $160 an hour from their funding package and with other costs including transport, preparation, taking them home plus multiple layers of N.D.I.S. bureaucracy each client was spending $3000 for the outing.

A Carer with DCP accompanied a child who had gone through more horribleness than 99% of adults. The Carer was a veteran volunteer with Cos We Care until recently.

There were just two homeless diners as our class dislike crowded environments. These were myself and the Nice Old Man who drank a syrupy fluid from his stash hidden under the table. He talked to The Virus Lady about Mick of Mick and Eleanor attacking him and his subsequent hospital visit. The Nice Old Man’s voice soon became hoarse from his angry yelling about Mick.

A courageous woman with Terrets sang a Christmas song. She began by saying “I don’t care if you laugh at me, everyone else does.” No one laughed.

Like the Mongolian restaurant last year, there wasn’t enough Coke and lemonade to quench diners’ thirsts, and the budget didn’t allow for any more. But one usually savage critic said the turkey was superbly cooked from fresh poultry that hadn’t been frozen or reheated. My vegetarian version was pecans, beetroot, feta, sauteed carrots in oil on a bed of dark lettuce that smelt fresh. This differed from most free joint salads that are vented before serving to disguise the odour of decomposition. Mustard Seed Founder Georgi Thomas said he wouldn’t serve anything near the Use-By date and nothing that he wouldn’t serve his family.

But we paid a price for this free meal. Georgi shouted through the microphone six times how he’d founded the charity after seeing a Stiff eating food from a rubbish bin on Hindley Street. (He didn’t use the term ‘Stiff’.)

His offsider took hundreds of photographs without permission while Georgi advised that we should say if we didn’t want them published. No one had the nerve considering the generosity of Mustard Seed.

The Salisbury Council partially funded the lunch and wanted their pound of flesh. The payoff was allowing two Councillors to tell us how generous was the Council to people “doing it tough”. Neither mentioned that Council staff are prohibited from telling homeless people where it’s safe to camp, even after stealing their clothing and bedding.

One man shouted that the Council had stolen his tent and bedding, but the Councillor said “we’ll talk about that later,” a lie, of course.

Allowing them to promote the Salisbury Council was the institutional payoff, but the personal payoff came next.

Small businesses had donated services, gift cards and merchandise that were distributed via a raffle. Winners went to the front of the dining room and were photographed with the Councillors as if the latter were the donors.

One winner was a woman who got cancer then was run over by a car. She wore a beatific smile as she posed with the reptilian Councillor as if he’d donated the prize.

The man who shouted that the Council had stolen his tent and bedding was offered a sleeping bag and a free car service. He refused both. None of the homeless crowd in the Salisbury Town Centre were there.

Anyway, the meal continued and the politicians disappeared. More drinks were not forthcoming, but the meal was terrific though dessert was garbage quality consisting of mini-puddings with custard. The puddings were dough and sugar, nasty imitations of the real thing.

There was also a table of food and merchandise that diners could take home. It was cleared within minutes except the silly multi-coloured beanies. Even disabled people loathe those ridiculous acrylic monstrosities.

Early 11 August 2026

(above) Two large tents; two short life expectancies. The Adelaide City Council has intensified its theft of tents and bedding from homeless people in the parklands. Church welfare joints won't whisper a word of criticism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026)

More insights from the street

I thought you would appreciate the food not bombs example, as you've been accosted by junkys many times. Its the go to strategy of mainly Catholic services, sometimes Anglican.

You see many outbursts at soup kitchens, you know what is simply organic, there's a difference when it's organised by the services and they have a target, which you've been. I don't want food not bombs names if you publish it.

I have had a chat with the members who are genuine and naive, about dealing with this one, without touching on it organised. They had a meeting and decided to just ignore him. They're pacifist. They think it's a cry for help. 

From the Street

Early 10 August 2026
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More problems for the Nice Old Man

The Mechanic

The court case between the little lady and the so called nice old man has been postponed to late october due to a pre existing overlooked case, legal advice has shown that at the time of the trip booking the little lady had no rrv so could not legally leave the country so that alone makes his booking at best a hope on his behalf that she may be able to even with messages sent from her to another stating she did not want to go,the booking then falls directly on him and no cost can be claimed onto her as he knew she could not pursue that avenue without a rrv ...

The Mechanic

Early 10 August 2026

Seventh-day free food in the city

Church staff put a sign on the street advertising free food. They require a first name and housing status upon entry. You can use a false name. The member said it was for government funding.

They offered bread, old vegetables that didn’t stink of decomposition, tinned and packaged food including long-life milk and hot coffee or cocoa. Amounts allowed per person were very low. The aim was to provide food “until the next free food service” rather than stock up for the week.

There were four chairs outside for those wanting to linger with a hot drink. It was shady so it will be good in the summer.

The volunteer didn’t invite us to the 1pm meal that was mainly for church people. However three clients went there. I arrived late, but no one invited me to sit in the few empty remaining chairs so I left. A white preacher seemed to wave me away from two chairs near him. ​

Most church people appeared to be from Africa or Papua New Guinea. It’s their church lunch and not really for free food clients.

Seventh-day in the city
82 Angas St., Adelaide. Down laneway. Free old bread, vegetables plus good milk, pantry, hot drink, frozen meals. Homeless get priority. First name and housing status required. No I.D. or registration required. Meal at 1pm is mostly for church people, but you can barge in.

Early 10 August 2026

(above) Ah, a water feature at the Hutt Street Centre. Just water. it was built to stop a homeless person sleeping there when it's raining. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Food not bombs 

From the anonymous contact page

This mob raid the bins at supermarkets the days before there weekly vegan meal advertised by the services like other soup kitchens are. They're a paid left wing protest group, Christian peace lovers apparently. They protest against NDIS cuts, for free Palestine and some protested against the anti lockdown campaigners. They prey on gender dysphoria sufferers and psychiatric patients. They also do work for extinction rebellion and feminists. They're controlled by Catholic services and the Catholic left wing corporate grifters. 

I been going awhile and they can't handle my knowledge, some of them violent psychologically abusive and bullying. They're all jabbed with the monkey DNA and support the Nazis in Ukraine. My DNA is old school left wing. One older one recently decided to chat with me after being friendly for awhile. I talked about my experience and knowledge and just how badly the underclass are treated and the monsters claiming to be helping them.

I told her about your page, have at read, there's real whistle blowing on that blog, told them the national library have archived it. She was impressed. We left on good terms, she said see you next week. I was intrigued about how she would react to bitter truth.

Her reaction would tell how complicit she is in the predation of the underclass. Been 5 meals, and she hasn't shown. She was always there, I been going 90 percent of the time for over a year. That first week she didn't turn up, a junky turned up causing shit, he's turned up every week she hasn't. Twice I've had good conversations with people and twice he's attacked them, not violent but threatening it. Very abusive very personal to the persons I talk to who is not a member of the clique..

I think you've worked out what's going on. 

From the Street

Early 9 August 2026
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On the Street Sunday

“So that’s where they spend the advertising money,” a man said after seeing Hutt Street Centre’s fundraising advertising on North Terrace.

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The Nice Old Man catches buses so those rumours the court took away his license due to traffic fines might be correct.

His court case against the Little Lady begins in September. The Court approved The Mechanic to speak for The Little Lady who has a nervous condition. The Nice Old Man will represent himself, which if based on his previous appearances will be both hilarious and disastrous. He better lay off the liquor for a day or two before the trial and not swear at the judge.

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A homeless man scoffed at the Hutt Street Centre slogan saying the ‘walk a mile in my boots’ fundraiser will help end homelessness. The fundraising marchers“braving the cold so others don’’t have to,” also brought a few chuckles. Going for a walk on a Friday afternoon in Adelaide isn’t braving the cold. Sleeping on concrete night after night is braving the cold. All the fundraising in the world won’t fix this because those most benefiting are the Hutt Street Centre employees, fundraising professionals and consultants.

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“Brett” was fighting his coat at Fred’s Van Salisbury three weeks ago. He’s been somewhat invisible these last two years after the Council’s anti-homeless squad expelled him from the The Citadel.

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Mob behaviour has increased at the Church@ParaVista. Management introduced a system where ten clients enter the free food room every minute rather all together. But the first ten grab the best stuff and the last 10 get very little. Clients arrive earlier and earlier to be in the first ten.

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The old man sleeping in the front seat of his car was due for open-heart surgery 10 days ago at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (R.A.H.) It was cancelled hours before the appointed time so returned to his car. Another surgical appointment was also cancelled. A friend said this happened four times.

He couldn’t walk ten-metres before gasping for breath and then it happened and he went under the knife. Update this week.

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A professional Adelaide man got the Moderna Covid shot then began bleeding from the mouth. The R.A.H. put him on hourly injections of antibiotics because his heart had become infected. Then his heart valves fell apart and he endured a ten-hour surgery and woke up quite well.

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A soup kitchen client at Whitmore Square told me he was getting more and more plates and screws to hold together his crumbling skeleton. The cause isn’t known, but he was a tractor driver and bounced up and down.

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So So said he wasn’t anything from India, but an Adelaide Infinity Messenger. He said everyone is a messenger from Infinity.

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The fancy food van used by Gateway Baptists at Whitmore Square was purchased with 300 thousand kilometres on the clock. It’s a manual for which they had difficulty finding a driver until an elderly gentleman stepped up.

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Bagpipe students walk between the tables at Fred’s Van at the Kilburn RSL. This infuriates the diners. One Fred’s Van diner with a history of heart attacks said, “I went there then they started playing the bagpipes. I got chest pain and I took off. Bloody buncha goons.”

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Fred’s Van may return to the renovated Kilburn Community Centre on Thursday, the 20th of August. No one is totally sure if this is the true date. You might phone the Centre before going there.

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Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps will be closed from the 24th to the 28th while the officers go on a short holiday. So many rules from Head Office prevent reliable volunteers from running the joint.

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Pasta is the curse of the free food scene. However, a church volunteer said pasta was perfect for those chilled from sleeping on the ground. That’s a good point. But for the rest of the crowd with diabesity, pasta isn’t so good.

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A man without a driving license sleeping in his car woke during the dark hours last week at Ingle Farm to hear three men smashing nearby cars with concrete blocks and baseball bats.

He moved his car to avoid it being damaged then phoned the police. The police arrived and confiscated his car for thirty days saying he’d driven it without a license. They allowed him to remove his clothing, but not his bedding and he found himself standing there more destitute than before. He wondered if it would have been a better idea to let the three men continue smashing the cars.

Early 9 August 2026​

(above) Gateway Baptists and William's Wardrobe at Whitmore Square. Vegetation growth is creating privacy for houseless people. Will we see Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith ripping plants from the ground? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2025.)

Truth from the Street

Via the anonymous contact page

“Neat post fellah. 

“What housing trust do to males who've been through the psychiatric system when exiting or transferring tenancy is send them a big bill after vacating for repairs. They be really nice and say you can pay it off in little instalments.

“Problems that they don't list the damages on final inspection, which they are required to do and get your signature. Their sub contractor mates write out the invoices for them, which the government pays and the housing trust staff involved get cuts from the sub contractors.  It happens all over S.A. It's standard operating procedure.

“They're using your confidential medical information and other stuff in your file against you. Picking targets that either won't speak up or easily triggered/ defamed.

“Most people don't say anything, they just have a small amount added to their rent, taken straight out of their pay by Centrelink. The people who do speak  up are blacklisted across all  government departments. Vindictive evil shit.”

From the Street

Editor: Thank you for this. It has become common procedure for welfare joints to require clients sign complex documents before they read them. And in your example, not to detail what is actually been signed – We’ll fill in the details later.” ⎼ It’s pure corruption.

Early 8 August 2026

Australian Homeless Conference

This annual conference is hosted by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (A.H.U.R.I.) which itself is sponsored by a dozen Australian universities and institutes.

Being in the Northern Territory one might suspect it will mostly be about indigenous housing problems and not those of the wider population. One feature of the conference is how A.I. can be used in the homeless industry.

Homeless industry bureaucrats might use an A. I. Agent to search a housing applicant’s name in the Eternal Shame File then use that data to make requirements before rental housing is granted. Case Managers may also be required by the Agent to make enquiries of friends, relatives and institutions frequented by applicants. Human decency will be replaced by the morally indifferent A.I. Agent.

The conference runs on the 7th and 8th of October 2026.
The standard tickets are $1300 with a discounted price of $1050 for employees of “not for profit” businesses. The lowest price is $365 for those holding concession cards, homeless or formerly homeless. (This discounted price including air travel and hotels is funded by Mission Australia.) The networking breakfast costs another $75. ​

Other costs include hotels and air travel. The organisers suggest attendees go for a holiday in the Northern Territory on the same trip. This means a component of the cost of air travel is also for personal use, but paid for by attendees’ employers.

Such conferences are one of the perks that employees in the homeless industry receive.

https://www.ahuri.edu.au/

Early 8 August 2026

(above) A tent on Park Terrace at Salisbury since disappeared. A call-centre worker said homeless people are reporting Councils across Australia stealing tents and bedding. All the talk of helping those living outside are lies. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2026.)

Homelessness SA
​Frontline Workers forum

It was held last Tuesday in the Star Room at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. It was for paid employees in Adelaide’s Homeless Industry. Cost was $190 for the day 8:45am to 3:30pm – short working day – paid for by the corporations and “non-profits”. Homeless people were not invited. Another scam siphoning money from people living outside.

7 August 2026

Interesting legality regarding
the Australian Census

Privacy concerns:

If you notice with census mail, it’s always addressed as “Dear Resident”. This means census staff don’t know who lives at that address. This has been the case for the last two censuses. The reason is privacy laws prevent them from accessing residents’ names from Australia Post as they used to.

However, recent censuses (the last two and the upcoming one) have some insidious questions related to health and other matters. The privacy concern is that even though identities are coded, there’s a link between identity and the encrypted process, which is a vulnerability.

The notification process:

House will receive three letters:

• 1. The first letter will be sent before the census date.
• 2. The second letter will be sent about a week later.
• 3. The third letter will be sent a week after that.

• No date or name will be on any of the correspondence.

For the next two Saturdays, a census office will call and leave notices. With the second visit, a letter will be left with a threat that the resident(s) could be directed in writing to complete the census or fined. However, how can they fine a resident if they don’t know their identity? The process closed on the last day of September.

Note: Thank you to the sender of this legal opinion. The above does not advocate a refusal to fill-out the ‘twenty-minute’ compulsory survey of citizens’ personal details by the Australian government.

7 August 2026​

(above) The Arab Steed Hotel gearing up for another big night on Hutt Street while across Gilles Street the ragged people dwell on the concrete. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) The ragged people will return to their bedding as darkness falls. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

An incredible theory

A business person said the Hutt Street Centre was a money transfer enterprise. The millions spent on consultancies was a means of transferring donation money to favoured business associates.

The ‘walk a mile in my boots’ campaign was a means of allowing a fundraising business to make money from people living on the street.

The millions spent on renovations were a transfer of money to builder friends and not for those living on the street. Erecting a heavy iron fence to stop people from sleeping at the front of the building or even sitting on the garden ledge didn’t help homeless people. And the millions spent didn’t extend the short-timed showers one little bit.

The theorist with a history of being in business said each service offered to homeless people was based on who could benefit by proving these services funded by donations and government grants, and not so much for what it could do for those living outside.

And the most obvious is the involuntary interviews and counselling sessions being ostensibly to help those living outside, but the real reason being to collect personal data for the government’s big database on homeless people.

The business veteran said that’s why the Board of Management are lawyers and technocrats and not people with a history of helping those living on the streets.

Why does such an extreme theory carry a scent of truth?

Early 6 August 2026

(above) Hutt Street Homeless Centre installed an expensive iron fence to stop homeless people sleeping or even sitting at the front of the building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Kindness and cruelty
​at Salisbury Fred's Van

It was a pleasant surprise to see Sharkatax back in action behind the coffee urn. And with her was the worthy veteran of Fred’s Van in the city. A double winner for us. Mr Long called in Sharkatax after four regulars were unavailable. She had tents and noodles she wanted to give away as well as helping with the food.

A good-looking woman of paranoid disposition threw a glass of water at a disabled homeless man, but also splashed a diner at the next table. She didn’t like the way he was looking at her. Her boyfriend stood over the elderly homeless man and told him to leave the table.

The man was aged about 52, had no teeth and pushed a shopping trolley with bits of clothing and bedding. He also moved about in jerky movements as if he had cerebral palsy or a muscle deterioration illness. And he couldn’t speak or at least he might have intellectually been forming sentences, but no one could understand him except when he asked us if we were homeless. I said I was. Another diner mocked him and said in Brazil they shoot people like him.

The disabled man was forlorn as the meal ended and as we made our way to our homes or camps. He pushed his trolley into a corner where the institute hall and the new building met. The veteran Fred’s Van city volunteer quietly gave him $50. No words.

And then he was left alone to face his destiny. We haven’t seen him since.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal nomads. Heroic homeless addicts.

5 August 2026

(above) Ten more tents appear on Hutt Road in full view of commuters after others stolen and destroyed by Adelaide City Council. No mercy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Code Blue shelters in Elizabeth
​not working

Staff were all dressed up with nothing to do at Elizabeth Baptist church during an offering of shelter for homeless people on a recent Tuesday. One volunteer said homeless campers said they’d lose their camp if they left it for one night to stay in the church.

Ken Henderson is the Elizabeth Baptist preacher and worked at Baptist WestCare in the city for many years. But he was quoted in the media as saying that one night of accommodation on a Tuesday was dependent on agreeing to being Case Managed.

This means allowing some indifferent government-funded employee to manage your life like you’re a child with few rights. And what good is sleeping in a room with socially awkward strangers for one night while guards watch you. And with kleptomaniacs and drug addicts breathing down your neck as you try to sleep. Not restful in any aspect.

The concept sounds good, but us living outside know it’s largely a trap. Government is the enemy and anyone funded or enabled by the government for homeless services must be guarded against.

But if they still want to help us, how about advocating with protest against the Council stealing our tents, bedding and persona effects? Oh, no, can’t do that.

Note: Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth offers some Monday night accommodation during cold weather while Elizabeth Baptist church does the same on Tuesdays.

Early 4 August 2026

(above) Showers are on the corner of Leadenhall and Church Streets, Port Adelaide and the laundromat is in the Foodland shopping centre. They don't collect data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Port Wakefield shower
​and Kadina Salvo showers

The Night Talker

There is a free shower in the BP service station (the last one on the right) before you head out of Port Wakefield (heading North towards Port Augusta). It is only a single shower, but you are not charged anything and there is no timer on the shower and the door locks. It is pretty old and dated though. and I would bring whatever you have in a waterproof bag, because there isn't anywhere to hang your items.

The laundromat/shower at Kadina Salvation Army, only operates on Wednesday and Thursday now between 9.30am and 3.00pm. All other days of the week it is locked. You also have to go into the main office and ask them to unlock the laundry/shower door. The op shop staff all appear to be work for the dole and have no access to any kind of keys to unlock anything.

The Night Talker

Editor: Thank you for the updates. I’ve used that BP-OTR shower on the way back from the Nullabor. You’re right, nowhere to hang your clothing. You don’t have to ask to use it. Free. No obligation. A real old-fashioned quality service station. In contrast, the Salvos are tied up in control mechanisms and insurance worries.

Early 3 August 2026

(above) Nomad's camp in the Adelaide CBD. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

Rob Caldwell has gained nearly 20 kilograms since finding a better place to live.

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Another homeless man said he gained 16 kilograms since discovering the Adelaide Free Food guide. He’d been living on one two-dollar biscuit a day.
At first he was surprised to see a fat homeless man. Now he understands.

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An RAA employee at Modbury said 40% of payments in the office are via cash. On-line payments are 100% card. Most clients inside the office are old people.

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I was experiencing another bout of Covid – or whatever – while updating my annual medical report to ServiceSA on the phone, In self-pity I muttered, “I’m dying, I’m dying,” until realising I was telling the operator I was in perfect health.

Anonymous

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Lisa asked two teenage girls helping at a church morning tea whether they shared the same man. Her verbal filter is broken and she is shunned nearly everywhere.

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A woman scraped her 2022 car mirror on her carport wall, It caused no damage, but a voice came over her speaker, “Speak or the authorities will be called.”

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A Housing Trust tenant sawed the back off her hall cabinet because an Indian inspector said it was 2cms too wide and would restrict fire department people during a fire.

Another tenant was told to remove a mattress from her shed. A third tenant was told that incontinence equipment near her bed was a “tripping hazard” and must be removed.

Yet near these residences are Housing Trust drug dealers with a yard covered in stolen items that attract no criticism from the Trust inspectors. There is an insidious movement to destroy our mental well-being.

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Is Grantly Stevens on the way out? Getting involved in football administration doesn’t seem compatible with being a police commissioner.

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An Adelaide homeless hospital patient was disappointed to discover the menu included Chilli con Carne without chillies.

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A man moved into a drug rehab house in Woodville. He didn’t like it so tried to burn the ceiling using a butane cylinder and his lighter. They kicked him out.

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A Chinese soup kitchen man said MSG is banned in Singapore after being recognised as a poison. He said some dried seaweed from China wasn’t seaweed at all. MSG creates headaches in many Australians who use pharmaceuticals to reduce the pain.

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Helen at Steve’s calls a number for the free food room three or four minutes before the previous person has loaded up. This is to get the next client ready to go immediately and not have to search the dining room.

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Clients had nothing but praise for Orange Sky staff who kept the service going under heavy rain at Glenelg Mary’s Kitchen last Tuesday evening. So different to that slacker at Modbury.

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Big Al has left the Beacon of Hope homeless service at Elizabeth. He’s been the stalwart for meal delivery in Elizabeth since Anglican Corporation decided the Food Barn wasn’t making them any money.

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5AA media star, Peter from Madden, has been sick in bed for one week.

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A soup kitchen client said there was a huge increase of people registered of Aboriginal descent in the 2022 Census. The client said there is a movement to claim this heritage so as to attract more government benefits.

Early 2 August 2026

(above) Homeless people sheltering from the rain in front of St Andrew's Medical Centre because the Hutt Street Homeless Centre placed a fence against the footpath to stop homeless people sheltering under the eaves. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Will the Census help us living outside?

The smiling Bureau of Statistics casual employees have flooded homeless joints to alert us living outside to put the personal details of our lives on the 2026 Census forms.

It’s difficult to understand their further role as none can quite say whether they’ll be at these homeless joints the day after the Census. One man said, “My life is mine and not the government’s.”

The promoters who visited the Oasis free cafe at Modbury said homeless people (now officially called ‘houseless people’) can opt to sign the short form that has just 15 questions. She said it’s because ‘houseless people’ might not have the concentration to spend 20 minutes on the long forms. Or, she might have added, the inclination.

As one might expect the Census promoters claimed ignorance of the $349 a day fines for those ignoring the Census or $2000 for false answers. However, other promoters have hinted that it wouldn’t be enforced on homeless people.

One promoter said a larger homeless count will attract more government funding for us, but a resounding chorus of enthusiasm failed to materialise over that claim.

The argument is that homeless people answering questions will prompt the government to improve services for us living outside. If the Hutt Street Centre is any example, then the winners will be the employees, consultants and advertisers.

Who gets access to the Census and other Bureau of Statistics data? Looking at their website there are a hundred data bases that can be accessed for free.

But the custom searches tell another story. Those with money can pick a block of 100 houses anywhere in Australia and get some Census answers from those living there.

Ordinary citizens can’t afford this, but foreign and Australian governments and corporations with money can get access. And in combinations that include other data collection campaigns such as when people are forced to provide a fortnight’s shopping receipts and a comfortable chair to visiting data collectors. Or reasons for medical visits via the government data base most citizens were tricking into signing six or seven years ago. The one where once you sign consent you can’t withdraw it.

There was a Bureau of Statistics campaign years ago demanding householders detail their sexual activities during a fortnight of the survey. This was shut down due to bad publicity, but it shows the mental attitude of the Bureau of Statistics.

The Bureau of Statistics say the names of respondents to the Census are separated from the personal data. This isn’t true. The government changed the rules allowing names and data to be preserved indefinitely, but not sold in this condition – not yet.

A.S.I.O. has unfettered access to Census results with the names still attached to the data. They can use this personal data any way they desire if they deem it’s in the national interest.

Early 1 August 2026

(above) Homeless person's tent of bedding and personal effects destined for landfill. Adelaide City Council has stopped claiming they save confiscated tents for later collection by owners. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Cos We Care free food Elizabeth

​A diner said he was told to get away from the bread table as it wasn’t been served yet. He said he was just looking to see what was available. The diner said the bread man is a tyrant and advised Anne Cooper to get rid of him.

Anne said anyone leaving the queue must return to the back. The diner said some people arrive at 11pm the previous evening to get in front and that he won’t relinquish his position if he must use the toilet. (He used somewhat less eloquent language.)

A long-term volunteer has left Cos We Care in less than happy circumstances, but she’s landed on her feet with a paying job.

Cos We Care Elizabeth
Free. No I.D. or registration required. Hot food, coffee, fruit, vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing. Saturdays in Carpark 1, Fremont Park, Yorktown Road, Elizabeth 7:30 – 8:30am. And barista coffee from Mustard Seed and Indian food from another group. School free lunch program and supply of food to domestic violence victims. Adelaide City Council stopped Sunday distribution in the city because Hutt Street Centre clients were defecting to Cos We Care.

31 July 2026


The Beast does not release its grip

When my tenancy ended with Anglicare Corporation in 2022 I wrote telling them that I was retracting all permissions I’d given upon tenancy allowing them to make enquiries into my financial affairs. The ‘agreements’ had also given them the right to share my financial records to other organisations without asking my permission. I asked them to confirm in writing that my withdrawal of permissions had been noted on their databases.

Anglicare responded saying they were working on it, but never confirmed it had been done. I repeated my legal requirement again in writing, but they wouldn’t confirm that all permissions had been removed from their database. By not acknowledging this they can still pry into clients’ privacy and if caught they can say it was an accident.

The Beast does not let go of its prey.

 31 July 2026

(above) Homeless man in the parklands two weeks ago holds a tarpauline over his in tent as the wind and rain blows it about. Meanwhile, the Hutt Street Centre is locked and empty while the employees are comfortable in their own homes maintained via homeless funding. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Residents in the August apartments watch suffering homeless people camped outside the empty Hutt Street Centre and in the South Parklands as if it's entertainment. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

The Salisbury Haven
​ (not the Sonder Safe Haven)

The Wine Centre provided five pots of stew that included Goat, Lamb, Beef, Chicken and Afghan Chick Pea stew. We couldn’t believe our luck. The Haven crowd also served flat bread, buns, jam buns, cordial, ice-cream and coffee.

The man who bullies disabled people wasn’t there and hasn’t been anywhere recently. No one seemed to notice. We see them come and go as their social position self-destructs. They sometimes return medicated and live out their lives as semi-zombies.

There has been a noticeable decline in intimidation after notices were posted throughout the building including the disability toilet that threats and violence wouldn’t be tolerated.

But the strange thing is that the worker injured said he was pushed into a ladder though multiple diners wittnessed him being physically punched in the face and no ladder present. Maybe there are two Korean church volunteers.

One diner has raised my consciousness to observe what people do to each other psychically. Some drain energy from others consciously while others don’t know they’re doing it.

The singing was very quiet so as to allow conversation. All we need now is for someone to sneak in at night and lasoo the overhead fans before summer arrives.

Presenting the meal is a major operation with fifteen church workers there from 5pm to 9pm plus more hours preparing the food.

Salisbury Haven Friday Evenings
Hope Centre, Salisbury Uniting and other churches provide a free Friday evening meal in the Anglican Church on Church Street, Salisbury from 5:30 – 8:30 pm. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Fresh food. No I.D. or registration required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Quality workers. No salt and pepper. Flickering lights during summer.

Early 30 July 2026

(above) Fire at homeless camp behind Elizabeth South shopping centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Supermarket shopping trolleys destroyed in the homeless camp fire. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Elizabeth South's favourite junk dog has moved to a nearby shed while another camp dweller is reduced to pushing a shopping trolley of bedding around Elizabeth. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

A week on the street

Mio from Bosnia was hopping man as he drove around the grove of trees and confronted me with his problem. Someone had smashed the front gate of his truck yard and stolen a turbocharger off an engine and chopped pieces of copper from a $70K reel.

He wanted me to cross the road to examine the problem then camp inside his fence. “There’s power to charge your laptop and phone,” he said. I was too weak to walk that far.

I also declined the offer on the spot as a vulnerable old man sleeping in his car shouldn’t get between opposing groups. But Mio still acted as if I was his man on the ground against those breaking into his yard.

He returned a few days later saying the thieves had entered at three new breaks in the fence back of the shopping centre. He said they had been robbing copper while we’d been talking a few days earlier. I sensed his belief that I was their lookout man rather than his.

A few days later at the Armageddon BBQ a total stranger shouted sexual insults at me that made one diner gasp. Another diner asked if I was alright and said he feared for my safety. A few days later he was kicked and punched at Fred’s Van in the city.

The following Sunday I parked in the bushes on a busy road at Elizabeth. My car was partially hidden, but multiple passing drivers turned their faces towards me as if looking for something. A few rolled down their windows for a better view and one even stopped to take an image of me.

This had been happening for the previous three weeks. Was I a landmark for some digital game or a scapegoat for another’s need to direct blame away from him or herself? When you’re vulnerable, you’re vulnerable in many ways.

Anyway, a few nights later at 3am there was shouting and banging at the trucking yard. Mio and his Bosnian friends had been waiting for the thieves. There was a banging of sheet metal and yelling then silence. Just before daybreak someone shouted threats from the treeline that seemed directed to myself. Had the thieves been caught then gotten bail and wanted revenge thinking I’d been Mio’s lookout man? Or was Mio’s crowd thinking I’d been part of the gang.

It was time to move camp. I went to Glenelg and parked in my usual spot. A man and woman walked by. The man became agitated and strode back and forth getting different views of my car on this phone. I waved then held a cup of coffee to my lips. No response. The woman seemed keen to having no further contact. They strode off with their legs pumping in angry righteous jerks.

Yes, just another week on the street.

Early 29 July 2026

(above) Mr Rob Caldwell out and about at Modbury Triangle earlier this week. (Sonia Blackwell, July 2026.)

Is Abbie safe?

Hi, I have often spoken and bought a meal for Abbie Faith Taylor she is often camped with her dog Boof in front of Hungry Jacks on corner of Pultney and Rundle Street.Last time I saw her was on saturday afternoon with a man she called Shane.On Sunday afternoon I saw some writings in chalk on the spot where she would normally camp.She posted her full name and phone number with a Goodbye message I am really concerned for Abbie so wanted to reach out to you. Thanks.

[email protected]
Early 28 July 2026

Thursday lunch at Hindmarsh Food Hub

The Thursday lunch workers are nearly the best at the little building on the grass between the lanes of Port Road at Hindmarsh. But you can see their smiles reduce as they deal with outright thieves.

A Mandarin man arriving from the City Reach West free food handout says he doesn’t have the one-dollar donation. An elderly volunteer orders him to leave. Outside he shows us a two-dollar coin so I change it to one-dollar coins. He returns inside, but then openly grabs more than the two items allowed from the pantry shelves. When confronted he says, “No speak English,” a common ploy of the Mandarin crowd. Even Chinese observers despise them.

Today they offer the choice of a few useless pantry items, rotten vegetables, but plenty of good bread. The children’s dancing shoes aren’t moving with a dozen pairs languishing on the shelves. The only takers so far being the City Reach Church No. 1 man and myself. We both gave them to a children’s dance club.

They also offer brand new clothing of a slightly weird nature. Pasta is for lunch at no charge plus homemade banana cake and coffee. The cosmopolitan Chinese couple who exercise constantly have realised it’s culturally unusual in Australia. They’re not part of the Grab Hag gang.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub Hindmarsh
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Heroic staff plus the odd lunatic. Named after Chelsea Ireland whose boyfriend’s father shot her dead. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee and food, eat outside, incontinence underwear when toilet locked. Tiny clothing rack. One-dollar donation. Don’t believe their advertised opening hours. They could be anytime. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required. Orange Sky 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fri. Clients include sex workers, junkies, criminals, homeless, Mandarins, diabetics, a stock broker, couple of Serbians and a partially naked woman.

Early 28 July 2026

(above) Should the Charles Sturt Council replace Puddle Jumpers with another charity in the building on Port Road? They're hardly ever open and won't publish opening times. Service is worse than before the expensive renovations. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Anglicare Corporation’s child molesters

I’ve gone over this previously, but will repeat it more thoroughly as most of the participants have since died or being dispersed.

The Laura and Alfred West Cottage Homes was created for self-employed workers caught in poverty in old age. Anglicare changed the rules – illegally – to include convicted child molesters.

This happened at the retirement units at 5 Atlanta Street, Elizabeth East. The 16 units have since been demolished by Anglicare leaving the land vacant for the past four years.

Anyway, Anglicare brought in convicted child molesters without telling the other tenants.

One of them was convicted while living at the Anglicare units on Blake Road, Elizabeth. When these were knocked down for redevelopment Anglicare moved him to our units. The other tenants were not aware of his status until it was noted that Aboriginal girls in their early teens lay on his porch waiting for him to arrive home.

Another tenant had also been convicted for offences against children then he was charged for another offence when a friend’s grandchildren were visiting our units. He subsequently died from emphysema before the matter was finalised. We saw him brought out in a black body bag.

A third was the most mysterious. He arrived during the night and by himself unloaded his mostly expensive and artistic furnishings. During the days he left and returned quickly keeping his hat low over his eyes. His name was Peter.

We can’t say for sure, but he resembled the appearance of Peter Leath, the paedophile partner of convicted child offender and TV star Ric Marshall. Ric had died a few months earlier whereupon Peter Leath was released from prison on parole and then this Peter arrived at our units.

Peter Leath had collected 13-year-old Ki Meekins from the Glandore children’s centre then taken him to the east coast where he and Ric Marshall did things to the boy that left him bleeding from the anus.

Our problem at the units was that Anglicare didn’t tell us anything. We suspected something from the looks of parents delivering and picking up their children from the primary school entrance 80 metres from our units. One tenant said an adult at the school called him a paedophile when he was walking to the post office. From then on he chose another route. He definitely wasn’t a paedophile, but the anti-paedophile vigilante network knew of our fellow tenants before we did.

So when Anglicare says, “We change lives,” they mean it. And perhaps they should add, "We sully reputations."

Early 27 July 2026

(above) Maybe dry by evening. Maybe not there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

Whatever happened to Georgi Thomas’ plan for a shower truck and what happened to his Mustard Seed shipping container house for a homeless person?

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Belinda Martin has been elected President of the Tea Tree Gully Lions Club. She wants less posts about homelessness on Sonia Blackwell’s Facebook page. That’s one hell of a service club.

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The Orange Sky Laundry driver cancelled washing at Tea Tree Gully Salvos due to rain. He called the Salvos three hours before his arrival time. The Salvos conveyed the news to two clients who were disgusted as the forecast was for a light shower only. This was the second week in a row the laundry truck has been cancelled.

That’s why most of the local homeless people don’t bother with Orange Sky. It’s unreliable and silly.

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Sonia Blackwell purchased five wearable sleeping bags. Local street people can now walk around Salisbury and Modbury and when they feel tired simply collapse where they’re standing.

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Sharkatax said that ten years ago Ali (Bob’s niece and the Equity Queen’s daughter) required minimal paperwork for overnight stays at Adelaide Congress Hall.

Ali required a first name only and that could be a fake name if the person was being sought by the authorities. The Salvo view was that the Corps was a refuge from the world.

In those days, the Adelaide Congress Hall meal was held in the huge foyer that reached from the back door past the front door and around to the coffee shop. The Benson Room was reserved for the overnight sleepers who slept in swags on the floor.

Most volunteers were high quality especially the ex-drug addict later arrested for murdering his girlfriend at Edwardstown. Less pleasant was another murderer who slept on the verandah that had been used as part of the meal service until the dirty nightclub next door complained of offensive behaviour from the diners.

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A man lurched about effeminately at the Armageddon BBQ then accused another of filthy acts as he swiftly walked away from the Christadelphian church. It was a classic performance of projection as he showed the capability of using word combinations which required a long immersion in pornography.

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A client was kicked and punched at Fred’s Van the week before last. Another client accused him of urinating nearby, but the student exacerbated the situation by using his video camera on the accuser.

There was also fighting at Fred’s Van on Thursday then later a murder near the Elephant and Castle hotel where Emma Hines once lived.

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Orange Sky laundromat at 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide does free hairdressing once a month on a Monday from 2-4pm. Not sure which Monday.

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The Seventh-day Adventist Church at 82 Angus Street, Adelaide gives away free bread and vegetables every Saturday at 9:30am then a free meal at 12:30pm. I’m not sure how accurate these times are. The meal might be humiliating as well, not sure. They get a huge crowd so the humiliation would be diluted.

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The Adelaide City Council operates a surveillance car with roof sensors in the CBD and North Adelaide. The sensors identify unregistered and over-parked cars plus cars owned by drivers with suspended licenses. The information goes direct to the government’s huge surveillance centre in Kent Town and thus the police.

The Council calls their program ‘Park Safe’, but it’s the precursor of facial recognition to remove certain people from the city. It might already be equipped with facial recognition capabilities as the Chinese-owned shopping centre in Port Adelaide uses it outside their toilets.

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An old man previously with the Squatters’ Union in 1981 says he has the ‘guilts’ about living in a house while people are sleeping in the rain.

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A soup kitchen man remembers his nickname while working at Plaza Holden long ago. Fellow mechanics called him the ‘Call-back King’ as he had the most customers returning after bad servicing. He remembers forgetting to tighten the sump plug after an oil change and tune-ups that made petrol engines sound like diesel motors.

He said of the customers, “They came in dreaming and went away screaming.”

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I’ve been overwhelmed discovering so many new homeless camps in Adelaide. Each new person I meet knows of a new tent complex. There might even be a thousand homeless people living in tents and cars in Adelaide. Then there are the temporary residents of caravan parks to add to this total. And the hundreds of temporary motel room residents placed there by welfare agencies.

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A Glenelg Anglican Church exercise client asked a homeless man what he thought of the free toasted sandwiches. “Two-out-of-ten,” he told her then said they had little filling apart from margarine and a tiny amount of cheese and ham. And that they were fried in margarine and that the church should buy a vertical toaster.

No one in the room appeared impressed with his honesty. A woman said the preacher (Rector) was a saintly man. The saintly man told the homeless client, “You still come here.”

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5AA radio celebrity, Peter from Marden, tried to sell his 1950’s Sturt Football Club game programs without success. He should advertise on 5AA or Ebay.

While at the Glenelg Anglican Church last Wednesday he said, “How am I going to get back home?” Peter’s health is not the best. This is a common challenge of homeless people walking back to their homeless camps. Most homeless people are disabled, infirm or sick.

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Thomas Stapleton-Westcott received a 14 year sentence for the axe attack on Neil Sieben and Ms McSkimming – reputedly Adelaide’s lowest price hooker – three years ago. Neil is partially blind in one eye and has an indentation on one side of his skull from the attack.

Neil told me that Stapleton-Westcott wanted to photograph his dead father in a caravan in Neil’s yard, but others say he was simply trying to reclaim his dead father’s caravan.

Stapleton-Westcott has served three years to date and with a non-parole period of 11 years, he could be out by 2034 when Neil will be 78-years-old. Neil has suffered permanent brain and vision damage and says he hasn’t received any compensation to date, and is often homeless. We still see him at free food joints.

A critic said he wishes Stapleton-Westcott had killed Neil because Neil doesn’t regularly wash his body and clothes.

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Does the Hutt Street Centre car fleet get Code Blue treatment every night and have shelter from the rain and attackers?

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The St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter has relaxed its policy about getting rid of residents after a few weeks. One man said he stayed there nearly a year and that management is trying to avoid having shared rooms as clients are too volatile. The former client said staff treated him kindly.

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Another client says you need to wash the bed sheets at the St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter a second time with Orange Sky as management doesn’t clean them properly. You can see residents sitting outside the shelter two days a week with the Orange Sky van.

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A man said he’d never been so hungry in his life when discovering cooked potatoes in a rubbish bin near the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. He returned the next day and discovered the people working inside were so kind.

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The St Andrew’s Church at Glenelg has resumed their light lunches three days a week after extensive renovations in the free food room. The preacher says he expects an increased influx of desperate people into the Glenelg area.

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An Orange Sky volunteer is too busy doing unpaid work so she hires a cleaner to clean her house.

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The “pisspots” who earn the money for the Kilburn RSL are relegated to an open shed with lattice sides called the “beer garden”. Smoking regulations have forced them outside.

Meanwhile, the Fred’s Van crowd who spend nothing are given the heated main hall. No wonder the RSL crowd want us gone.

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Port Adelaide library received complaints about their renovations that included removing a door from the men’s toilets and widening the space. This allowed women in the foyer and even those in cars on the road to observe men standing at the urinals.

After three or four years Council staff erected a screen in front of the doors to counter the renovations. But it has viewing holes similar to brothels in Brazil that allow customers to watch other clients in action. ​

Early 26 July 2026

(above) They say all places are taken, but some people book six seats then turn up alone. If you just turn up they might let you in. Or phone them and say they have lots of fake bookings. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

City Reach Church at Hindmarsh

Distribution has moved from the Ukrainian Church to their vacant property next to a place called Jackson Square at 57 Manton Street, Hindmarsh. Few clients mourned the change as the Ukrainians thought the distribution was for them especially.

The crowd the week before last was reduced from the usual 55 to 38. Three-quarters were Mandarins. Supplies from Hands and Feet were reduced and most was gone by the time the last few reached the tables. There were oranges and frozen cat food left from the grocery offerings.

A shy woman whispering like a child was at the end of the queue. We showed her the ropes. The mood was generally positive as the Mandarins are a reasonably friendly group. And one of the church volunteers working without pay was Chinese and she was helping white folk.

City Reach West Church at Hindmarsh
Distribution from parking area next to Jackson Square at 57 Manton Street, Hindmarsh of free fruit, vegetables, bread, small amount of pantry items. Thursdays 11:00am. No I.D. required. Friendly. Clients put names on notice board upon arrival. First there, first served.

25 July 2026


Sikhs temple free food

The Sikhs operate their free food service mainly for their own people arriving in Australia and being too busy or too poor to prepare their own meals. That’s what a white fella told me.

A Sikh N.D.I.S. worker said twice a year he provides all the food for a few hundred people as part of the tithing of his income to helping others.

The white fella said they ask diners to wear a beanie or turban and either have their feet bare or in socks. They are chairs for infirm diners, but nearly everyone including 90-year-olds sit cross-legged on the floor.

He said they’d sit him with anyone whether old women, children or others. There was a screen showing singing and prayers happening in another room.

The white fella said he got more than food from this experience and they wouldn’t let him help wash the dishes or make a donation. He was welcome back any time.

There are five Sikh temples in Adelaide.

25 July 2026

(above) Tribal nomads strive to retain their psychic and cultural knowledge while camping in Adelaide CBD. They should be protected. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday

Deborah Lamb’s meth son hasn’t been here for two years. She was murdered by the Truro serial killers. Her grandson is a police officer. The officer’s father punched me in the head a few years ago.
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Fred's Van cafe and courtyard were nearly empty last Sunday for lunch. Empty tables inside and outside. An Indian woman was caught stealing the mustard from a table. A young woman said her mother suffering cancer wasn’t too concerned with everyday life. The Virus Lady tested my ultra-hot Mexican habanero sauce. She could hardly taste it. I will test Carolina Reaper on her next week. Orange Sky did a good job. They’re reliable at Fred’s Van Elizabeth.

The vegetarian meal was described as tasteless. The Virus Lady said they begin with a bland common denominator flavour so as not to offend anyone’s tastes.

The junkie who spikes diners’ tyres prowled about the cars across the road. He says people with cars are rich and shouldn’t be a Fred’s Van. He said, ‘You have a car. You’re rich. You shouldn’t be here.” He lives in accommodation while some diners live in their cars. He poked nails in four tyres of one car. The owner got someone to beat him up.

B.J. was there. He’s still working on his bus so he can escape suburbia. His dad was a Supreme Court judge.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from occasional Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients resemble desperadoes from a movie, but otherwise fine. Takeaway bags. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across street. Consider body armour & Hep immunisation.

24 July 2026

(above) Shopping trolleys at incongruous locations are indications of homeless camps such as Rob Caldwell's destroyed camp at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2026.)

(above) Rob Caldwell, the leader of the homeless camp on flooded Dry Creek was seen in Modbury this week much healthier than when the Council shoveled his camp into trucks. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Orange Sky Laundromat

Linda and James were concerned they might not get any clients for the free hairdressing with Alessandro at the laundromat in North Adelaide. They had no reason to fear as he was kept busy for the two hours despite little advertising. Next month may be chaotic, he’s that good.

Laundry and hairdressing free clients included a professional musician, a court litigant, a homeless woman from Modbury, a formerly homeless woman recently moved into a studio apartment, a homeless man from Salisbury, a formerly homeless man and an aged homeless Stiff.

One client grabbed too many muesli bars and soup pouches. The homeless woman from Modbury shared her cheese sandwiches with another client’s dog. She pulled off a piece, ate half then gave the other half to the dog. She got them from Sonia Blackwell two days prior. One client is a sound engineer for big acts that come to Adelaide. Another faces his days in court then appears in the media. One homeless man said he has a spiritual guard who protects him from evil entities during dreams.

The laundry was chaotic as James and Linda have created a friendly atmosphere that is attracting more people eveery Monday afternoon.

Free laundry at 80 Melbourne Street, North Adelaide Mondays 1:30-4pm and Thursdays 9:30-11:30am. Free hairdressing one Monday a month 2-4pm. Not sure which Monday. No data collection for the South Australian government’s Eternal Shame File.

Early 23 July 2026

(above) Baptist WestCare cancelled their free BBQ for homeless people in Whitmore Square on Saturday mornings and also cancelled their free Sunday lunches at their dining room at Millers Court, Adelaide. But they're still better than the Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Two weeks ago Baptist Westcare told homeless people they could spend the night in shelter then at 9pm told them to get out into the rain due to a funding issue. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Adelaide loses the shower truck: good riddance

The One Voice organisation did Adelaide homeless people a favour and took the shower truck back east. It was useless due to the renovations and mismanagement by Puddle Jumpers.

Meanwhile, Puddle Jumpers pretends homeless people have lost a great service. No, it was a failure. Puddle Jumpers wouldn’t keep a reliable schedule and wouldn’t inform homeless people where it was scheduled. On one occasion the receptionist said it was on Church Street at Port Adelaide. “Where on Church Street?” I asked. She said she didn’t know, couldn’t ask anyone and that I should “just look for it”. And it wasn’t there anyway.

Now they’re doing a fundraiser to buy a new truck and build showers on the back. So far, donors have forked out $19,500. The cost might be $150,000. And they're collecting money in our name, the people living in parks and in cars. 

Puddle Jumpers could do more service for homeless people by unlocking the toilet at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. It would hardly cost a cent. Something isn’t right and management is caught up in their own hubris from looking on the walls of the room devoted to awards from other shonky outfits.

Late 22 July 2026

(above) Abandoned tribal nomad summer camp near the West Terrace cemetery. They'll be back in December. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Sad Situation
from [email protected]

On the lefevre peninsula neighbourhood watch facebook page there's a picture of a car and someone looking for info
It says the owner was living rough and took his life this morning
Its such a sad state of affairs.
White wagon with WA numberplate.
I was trying to send screenshot to you
Such A Tragedy
Larissa Alsop this guy was 30yrs young, he was a French national, been living up and down the peninsula for a while now .

The bloke that put up the post is called
Marko Dvm

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
Late 21 July 2026
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Port Augusta free meal service

The Stepping Stone Day Centre at Port August has resumed their free meal service after a client torched the previous building after being dissatisfied with the meal.

The new location is 17 Jervois Street, Port Augusta. They provide free breakfasts 8-9am Monday to Friday and free lunch 12:00noon to 1pm Monday to Friday. Their day centre is open from 8am to 3pm for tea and coffee.

They don’t require I.D. or registration and say it is multi-cultural though one client says the indigenous people try to exclude everyone else.

Late 21 July 2026

(above) The useless management of the Kilburn Community Centre should have posted a board showing alternative venues for the activities dislocated during the roof repairs that might be finished in early September. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Port Adelaide Enfield Council erected a boom gate to stop homeless people in cars camping amongst the trees along the railway line. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

Gypsy is getting an experimental form of heart surgery this week. He goes to C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide where he is somewhat popular and respected. He lives in his vehicle and changes address every night to stop people from knocking on the window while he’s sleeping or otherwise.

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“98% of our volunteers say they believe AnglicareSA is a fantastic organisation to work for.”

From a faded Anglicare leaflet. The Corporation is actually reducing its unpaid volunteers in favour of paid employees.

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A homeless couple said the Mayor of Port Adelaide called the police repeatedly when they were camping in the parking area of the Yitpi Yartapuultiku Aboriginal joint in Port Adelaide.

Even tribal people have been kicked off the property where they’d been camping for decades.

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A homeless man said that to stop getting parking tickets a camper should say they reside in that space and are not parking there. Even better, he said, was to remove your car and caravan tyres and mount the vehicles on bricks. He said this prevents a person from getting a parking ticket because the vehicle’s tyres aren’t on the ground.

Someone please try it and let me know if it works.

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Another camper said that police and bureaucrats label a person as violent as preemptive punishment, which then allows police to physically grab that person without warning. And if the person resists in a panic reaction then they are charged with resisting.

Personally, I have no trouble with the police. As a disabled pensioner they are as much protectors as attackers.

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Three homeless people have built a shack on Crown Land using stuff they found on the street. The little building has a locked door and security cameras.

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A homeless man from Port Augusta said a diner was dissatisfied with the food at the town’s only free meal service so he torched the joint. The free meal service was closed for a few months until they found a new venue.

The arsonist was caught and is serving time in prison, but is expected to continue burning buildings upon release.

The free food joint is operated by whites plus an African man. Most diners are indigenous because they threaten and attack white people who attend saying,
“They don’t need it.”

Management allows this for fear of accusations of racism. I’ve experienced this same violent discrimination at the Church of Christ in Kalgoorlie.

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A resident of a Salisbury drug addict house hates the place so much that he walks 25kms each day just to be away from the place.

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A new person in Adelaide’s homeless scene told me that he fears for my wellbeing.

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Hutt Street Centre clients camp in front of buildings on Hutt Street in the rain while the executives and paid employees live in comfortable houses and apartments.

Hutt Street Centre management hired a Public Relations company to produce videos of clients expressing gratitude to the Centre for improving their lives.

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The old man having trouble speaking and moving due to a stroke continues to live in his old caravan on the side of the road at Elizabeth. During the day he parks near the shopping centre to get takeaway food as he needs it.

No change in his status is expected.

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Salvatore Junk Dog has moved into a tin shed back of a small shopping centre in Elizabeth.

Early 19 July 2026

(above) Rob Caldwell's homeless camp on the banks of Dry Creek now a lost footnote in history. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

 Another tidbit from Sepidi Mobedi

According to spokesperson Sepidi Mobedi, Second Bite continues to pick up food from Aldi and Coles, but it isn’t going to the majority of former clients.

Second Bite has stopped deliveries to smaller outfits in favour of Pathways at Clovercrest, Faithworks at Blair Athol and thirdly, Heart and Soul. All three require I.D. and some form of payment.

However, it appears that these three hubs aren’t capable of distributing all of Second Bite’s supplies so I will ask Sepidi more questions via email which is the only way of communicating with Second Bite.

Late 18 July 2026

(above) Some humans finding themselves in a homeless dystopian hell find solace by collecting consumer items. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

One Voice Shower Truck Shonks​

The organisation named One Voice Australia has had a gutful of the mismanagement of the One Voice mobile shower truck in Adelaide.

Puddle Jumpers Incorporated has operated it for at least five years and these have been five bad years. Volunteer staff have been incompetent, unreliable and even cruel.

They rarely turn up as promised and when they do there are problems with the water, heating and anything else that can go wrong. They check the gas supply after arriving rather than before. The expensive renovations a few years ago were a disaster making the layout even more undignified and humiliating than before.

The trucks are positioned at locations so that entering and exiting the showers are a public humiliation. Their positions seem more focused on gaining publicity than providing a dignified shower for people already hurting psychologically and emotionally.

Forcing homeless people to be in and out within fifteen minutes is unrealistic and adds to the stress especially when the time pressure is caused by short shifts on the rare occasions the truck actually arrives as promised.

Perhaps the most insulting aspect of Puddle Jumpers management of the truck is their refusal to even say when and where the truck will be located. They give false times and locations that have been out-of-date for a year. On one occasion the receptionist said it would be on Church Street at Port Adelaide, but wouldn’t say the actually location. She said, “Just look around.”

The truck has been largely out-of-action since late last year, but when asked when it would return to service the answer from Puddle Jumpers was they weren’t saying when it would be back or why it was out-of-action and wouldn’t provide a contact person to provide updates.

Puddle Jumpers recently published a plea for $80,000 to buy the truck from One Voice. Puddle Jumpers propaganda unit said. “Thank you for standing with us. Thank you for caring. Thank you for believing that everyone deserves dignity.” How false.

As a 75-year-old homeless person who needs a shower service, Puddle Jumpers has been worse than useless to myself and others. Donating money to Puddle Jumpers for the shower truck is money down the drain.

They’ve humiliated us, sent us to vacant land and wasted donations on a service that didn’t happen. One Voice should grab the truck back and return it east or allocate it to a more reliable organisation. But the problem is the renovations have made it nearly useless.

We need Orange Sky or anyone else to provide a better shower service with the truck or trailer parked discreetly for a whole day at each location allowing longer periods for showers for disabled homeless people. We don’t want to be a fifteen-minute advertising spectacle for self-promoting charity queens.

Please note: Many volunteers with Puddle Jumpers provide a top quality service for children and those living outside, but the shower truck: send it to the wreckers.

Late 17 July 2026

(above) Port Adelaide Enfield Council demolished the raised rotunda in the Joyce Snadden Reserve that provided shelter and privacy to homeless people. The replacement is described as 'hostile architecture', easily surveilled from the road and nearby houses. And easily floodable from rain and sprinklers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Port Adelaide Enfield Council spent a small fortune removing the raised gardens opposite the Joyce Snadden Reserve. Gone are the private areas amongst flowers used by homeless people and others. They've been replaced at great expense with another easily surveilled mono-culture open space rarely used by anyone. This is our dystopian future. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Armageddon BBQ in the city

The meat eaters grabbed the vegetarian dishes from the serving counter. I asked the cook to make these dishes “less tasty” to dissuade the carnivores. The food included what seemed to be thick veal steaks or maybe pork chops, fried back bacon, fried onions, Mexican vegetarian stew, curried potatoes, bread, sauces, coffee and much more. The coffee was a problem as usual. The machine operates too slowly for starters then it stopped working and then the operators lost track of who ordered what. Then seeing a cup with your name on it sitting in the rubbish bin triggers paranoia: is someone out to get me. By the end of the breakfast, the baristas catch up with cups offered to diners long gone.

Una was missing due to a cold. That’s two weeks in a row, the previous being when the Uber and Taxi drivers both failed to pick her up. The crowd was generally smaller than usual, but they were just as keen with a queue forming before the food was finished on the BBQ. The gazebos protected most diners from the rain.

A few diners were depressed and sick from exposure to the weather or simply chronically sick. Most camping on Rundle and Hindley Streets stayed where they were under cover rather than getting wet walking to Halifax Street. And these desperadoes are utterly defeated and despondent.

The Croatian Genealogist was ecstatic about moving into a better and cheaper house in Croydon. He was moving into a rooming house with access to a lounge and kitchen unlike his present joint in Hurtle Square that is rooms only.

But another diner at the Armageddon BBQ warned him that it’s operated by Jing Lee. “I have a mate,” he said to everyone at our table, “they’re all shooting up” and will “eat him alive”. But the Genealogist could only see the good side.

One man shouted filth indicating he’d been exposed to pornography for a long time. Some of us recognised that his filthy accusations were a projection of his own self-disgust, but not everyone did.

Armageddon Barbecue in the city
105 Halifax Street, Adelaide. In front of Christadelphian church. Free bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, coffee, non-meat stew, fried onions, sauces, bananas, cold water, books, and odd grocery item 8:30am to 10:00am Saturdays. Tables, chairs and canopy in hot or rainy weather. Friendly church people, desperado clients, uncastrated dogs. No data collection. Clean toilets

Early 16 July 2026

(above) Nomadic tribal summer camp near West Terrace Cemetery. The Council destroys anything more elaborate or safe. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Sunday Lunch at Whitmore Square

Sleeping bags were flying from both the Community Kitchen red van and William’s Wardrobe white van. Stiffs, hoarders, homeless and Grab Hags rushed the stack and it appeared there wouldn’t be enough.

But this was not the case as the two groups must have thrown 40 into a pile on the grass. A welcome sight was pale-faced desperadoes and tribal people picking them up, but not the Mandarin man who lives in a house. He grabbed two despite being photographed on four previous occasions at other venues grabbing these same brand new sleeping bags.

William’s Wardrobe supplied new socks and quality Thinsulate beanies with price tags of $25. These weren’t those bright coloured silly hats knitted by criminals and old women using the nastiest and silliest acrylic spools. These were quality and fitting for any self-respecting homeless person.

They also gave away dog and cat food recognising that many homeless people keep animals for company and protection – and to stop falling into despair and depression.

Cathy from William’s Wardrobe also gave away top quality oranges and bananas. None of those rotting things dished out at other joints. Cathy and her friend were at a Grenfell Street pub a few days earlier collecting donations from alcoholics and heretics.

They carry seven or eight meals in her van while visiting homeless camps in the evenings.

The queue for the Community Kitchen lunch was longer and more desperate than usual. But the staff offered at least two small lunches per person on the first run then more later. The Mexican stew was greatly improved. The beans were soft and flavour changed from ‘What is this’? to ‘Uumm’. There were three other varieties with one containing meat sausages. The coffee was hot and free bread and pastries excellent. This crowd are reliable and kind.

Wozza arrived all smiles as if he was the happiest man on the planet until he accused someone of being a hoarder. Wozza is a decent fellow if you can match his energy.

The Chinese are the most active Grab Hags while other Chinese are the most active in documenting their hoarding. And other Chinese are volunteers at other free food places. And after everyone was fed and given clothing and sleeping bags, two Chinese women drove up with bags of food for the Community Kitchen.

Community Kitchen Whitmore Square
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. Ph 0405 286 172. 11:30am – 1:00pm Sundays. Free. No I.D. required. Lunch on the grass includes hot food, takeaway packs, coffee, biscuits, fruit and vegetables. Homeless and underclass welcome. One of the best street services. Dangerous clients, but safe unless provoked. Williams Wardrobe excellent occasional visits.

Early 15 July 2026

(above) St Peter's Anglican Church at Glenelg spent a million dollars on renovations yet disables their water tap that prevents homeless people obtaining two-cents worth of life sustaining fluid. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

The Dharma Kitchen

I parked in the cramped area behind the hall at 11:30am. My car already being dented and scratched meant a few more bangs wouldn’t make much difference.

I was the first in the hall while they were setting up. The Food Co-op was open at the end of the hall with very little business. I thought these outfits from the 1960’s and 70’s had disappeared.

This Hindu outfit produce this meal every month. Most chairs were filled by 12 noon with about a hundred diners. Most were elderly white women, many of whom appeared to be followers of various Hindu sects and movements. My table included Bakti Yoga practitioners.

Three Hare Krishna devotees chanted on the stage with one playing a large bongo drum. It took me back to my younger years.
Sixteen Hindus provided the meal with short speeches about healthy food, but a little disappointing because there was nothing about sentience, cultivating chakra energy, going to hell or anything like that.

The meal came in segmented cardboard plates. Everything was nice. No meat, eggs or MSG. No onions or garlic as they arouse the lower chakras.

I talked about being a Stiff and involved in radical meditation groups, but the Bhakti Yoga crowd at my table thought I was either demented or lying and making up the story as most Stiffs are good at that. The other diners seemed normal.

Next month I’ll engage in conversation with them in normal conversation about arousing demons then trying to get rid of them.

Vegetarian lunch Black Forest
Dharma Kitchen, Clarence Park Community Centre, 72-74 East Ave., Black Forest. Ph 8293 8166. First Saturday of month. Free vegetarian lunch 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Non-Indians welcome. You can enter the building at 11:30am as they’re setting up. A bit rushed.

Late 14 July 2026

(above) The new 'People Helping People' shower trailer on Church Street next to the Greek Orthodox Church at Port Adelaide every Thursday 10am to 1pm providing it isn't too windy, rainy or hot. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) They don't collect personal information for the Eternal Shame File from those wanting to use the free shower. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) The door to the shower locks firmly, but it is somewhat embarrassing to climb into the trailer near the corner of a busy street. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) The shower trailer was funded by the West Lakes Seaton Lions Club, but needs some fine tuning. Who wants to clean the holding tank every Thursday afternoon. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

What is the Hutt Street Centre?

I don't understand fully how to read annual reports, but here is an attempt at the Hutt Street Centre’s latest published Annual Report for the financial year 2024/25

Despite being open just two hours each weekend their annual budget was $11 million. They spent $384,971 on vehicles which prompts the question of where they keep their fleet at night and on weekends, and how do they use it from Monday to Friday.

An interesting entry is $448,363 on ‘Other Expenses’ so we don’t know what these were. Do they include restaurant meals, motels, air fares to conferences or what?

Their ‘Audit, legal and consultancy expense was $847,730 up from $223,799 for the previous financial year of 2023/24. Once again, we haven’t any idea of what this includes and by hiding it we don’t actually know how the Hutt Street Centre operates or – this being a wild idea – what is the purpose of this legal entity.

Fundraising and advertising cost $974,053 up from $780,403 the previous year. This isn’t exceptional for a big charity, but what do the surviving Nuns from the Daughters of Charity think of it? The amount seems obscene considering that people crouch outside the Hutt Street Centre on rainy winter evenings, not able to find shelter from the eaves because management erected an expensive fence as a barrier.

You’d think that food would be the big expense. After all, it’s what appears in nearly every propaganda video and photograph published by their public relations consultants. But it was a mere $47,369 down from $48,704. That’s less than a thousand dollars a week for perhaps a thousand meals. Clearly, much of the food has been donated and the cost of the salaried Chef and Sous Chef are not included. Their salaries would be close to $150,000 combined each year and would be included in the more than $6 million a year salary bill for the Hutt Street Centre employees. They’re the winners.

Another strange feature is the $644,040 profit for the year. The main service area of the building closes at 1pm from Monday to Friday. It opens for two hours on Saturdays and is closed on Sundays. And they have timed showers that are often faulty for people having slept on the ground the previous night. So what are they doing making a profit? Saving for a rainy day?

The Annual Report for 2024/25 says they have ‘Cash at bank of $5,060,483 and from available-for-sale financial assets Shares in listed corporations at fair value: Balance at the beginning of the year was $9,533,712. What this means I don’t understand except that they have a multi-million dollar share portfolio and bank deposits.

The Net value of the Hutt Street Centre organisation is $17,651,424.

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Early 13 July 2026

(above) Police awaken then chase away sleeping homeless people from verandah on corner of Gilles and Hutt Streets, a few metres from the locked and empty Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

A homeless man handed out Coles $50 gift cards to those sleeping in tents, on concrete and in cars around Modbury. They were supplied by Sonia Blackwell who received them as a donation.

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I said to a homeless man who attends a church service with powerful people, “You associate with illustrious people.”
He replied, “No, they associate with me.”

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A homeless man said a charity worker handed him a hot dog while shaking it between his legs.

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A newly homeless man said he didn’t realise how much money he spent until going broke then getting stuff for free. He previously spent $50 at Rundle Street Grill’d, but now is a free diner at 5pm on the first Tuesday of every month.

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Jay denies he’s been made a security guard along with another stout man at The Haven free meal at Salisbury on Fridays. The diner promoting Jay said there was nearly a riot three weeks ago when someone punched the Korean volunteer in the face.

Management has posted seven large notices in the main hall warning that threats and violence would not be tolerated. As a result there have been fewer drug addicts and the dealer has become an angry man.

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We still don’t know who made the final decision to expel the homeless people from Baptist WestCare at 9pm after inviting them to stay the night. Was it a funding issue after the government rescinded a Code Blue alert that had provided payment for WestCare to host the homeless people? Who knows? No one will tell the truth. But we do know they were turfed out into the rain.

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A man who doesn’t use drugs or alcohol has been living in a tent for two years across Beach Road from the Christies Beach electoral office of the Minister for Human Services, Katrine Hildyard. Her presence means little to homeless people in the area.

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Katrine Hildyard has proved no better and no worse than her predecessor, Natalia “Call Me Nat” Cook, but at least Nat looked like a homeless woman who had slept on a park bench. We liked her for that.

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Cathy and Hazel from William’s Wardrobe saw a dog with an eye infection and scars from insect bites. They were about to remonstrate with the owner until he said that he was oozing pus from both ears.

They got the man a shower, took him to a doctor for treatment then the dog to a vet, then got the man and dog a place to live in a quality share house.

While this was done by two non-funded women, the high-powered government-funded executives in Adelaide’s homeless industry sat behind their desks.

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Two homeless people broke into the laundry at the Elizabeth Motel two weeks ago. They sought accommodation during the heavy rain, but the joint was full. Management called the police and there was a bit of yelling.

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Media celebrity Peter Goers said three motels he wants to stay in are Pavlov’s Motel (Child molesters and criminals); Scotty’s Motel (Drug addicts and battered women); and the Elizabeth Motel where predators routinely target guest’s cars and trailers.

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A free food client at Tea Tree Gully Salvos got a packet of frozen hamburger meat containing one-third ‘meat glue’. He ate half of the raw frozen concoction then had better thoughts.

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Despite St Paul’s Lutheran church free lunch at Glenelg cancelled for the private school holidays, the crowd at the Glenelg Anglican free toasted sandwich day last fortnight was smaller than usual. The toasties contain little more than margarine with a hint of ham and cheese. And they’re fried in margarine rather than toasted. But the cooks are cheerful and the dining room pleasant.

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Tea Tree Gully Salvos gave away free nappies for new born babies, but they weren’t moving fast. The free food is getting less and less and thus attracting fewer people, but the grabbing and shoving continues unabated. What we need is someone with a newborn baby. And another person with crowd control skills and a baseball bat.

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A homeless couple opened a business three weeks before the Covid lock-downs then lost everything including their house. The man said the edge of Pelican Point Road isn’t owned by anyone, not even the government so people can camp there without problems from owners, authorities or the Port Adelaide Enfield anti-homeless squad.

His view seems correct as an old man plonked his caravan there for over a year. The problem is the noise of cement and fuel trucks plus 500 ship building workers racing by most days.

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Orange Sky Laundry operated in the rain today (Saturday) outside the St Vincent de Paul night shelter. The shelter’s gates were locked. They’d been burnt and battered then reinforced by what appears cattle yard grating.

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Sonia Blackwell and Teresa handed out homemade chop suey, cakes, water and hot coffee in the rain at Modbury, Ridgehaven and Ingle Farm tonight. The chop suey came in meat and tofu varieties.

Early 12 July 2026

(above) Queue at Cos We Care's free food handout at Fremont Park, Elizabeth every Saturday from 7:30am. (Image from Cos We Care.)

(above) A nice crowd providing quality Indian food at the Cos We Care event at Fremont Park, Elizabeth on Saturdays at 7:30am. (Image from Cos We Care Facebook page.)

Sonia Blackwell
​on swags and cheap tents

Sonia Blackwell asked a pertinent question about swags given to homeless people. Hundreds, perhaps even a thousand expensive swags have been given to us living on the streets in Adelaide over the past few years, but why don’t we see anyone using them?

Sonia says most of these heavy canvas and foam miniature tents go to Cash Converters pawn shops and are purchased by non-homeless people. The problem for those sleeping on the ground or on concrete footpaths is the weight and bulk of these items. They’re too heavy to carry around during the day and if left at campsites, they’re taken by local Councils to the rubbish dump.

Sonia says donated sleeping gear should be light and portable. And of course there should be lockers where bedding can be stored day and night. The lockers at the Hutt Street Centre are conditional to signing up for the Eternal Shame File and they’re too small for large swags, anyway.

While on the subject, Sonia adds that tents and tarps given to homeless people should be weatherproof and not cheap rubbish from Kmart.

Early 11 July 2026
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Cruel award winning Puddle Jumpers

The forlorn figure last Sunday evening of a disabled man wrapped in blankets on his miniature wheel chair was the only sign of life outside the locked and empty Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub building on Port Road at Hindmarsh. He sat in the darkness for an hour then was gone.

Puddle Jumpers management feels no need to work out a reliable schedule or even put a notice on the building to say the joint will be closed. They rarely put messages on Facebook of which the page is a private group, anyway.

This is typical of the cruelty dished out to homeless people in Adelaide.

The Charles Sturt Council should rent the building to a more worthy group.

Early 11 July 2026

(above) The Hutt Street Centre with an annual budget of $11 million is open two hours every weekend even when it's cold, hot or raining. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) In the last financial year, 2024/25, the Hutt Street Centre spent $847,730 on audits, legal and consultancy expenses, up from $223,799 the previous year. Yet homeless people report being refused water. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Angry man at Armageddon BBQ

Wozza verbally abused another man for one hour at the Saturday morning BBQ. He first demanded three cigarettes, then $17, then accused the other man of being a drug dealer, parasite and member of the Hells Angels. He also complained that he’d been waiting one hour for a cup of coffee from the Christadelphians. A client with a walking stick and pig tail calmed him down eventually, but Wozza messed up the pleasant morning with his bitterness and anger.

Una wasn’t there as both an Uber and taxi failed to arrive at her nursing home at Happy Valley. The good news is that a doctor said her health was better than she thought.

Horse Trader Steve said he hasn’t missed living in a tent for a second. He previously camped near the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Road in the city. The Council repeatedly stole his tents and bedding and not a word of protest from the Hutt Street Centre.

Another diner said the Hutt Street Centre gets $11 from the government for every breakfast and lunch they serve. Another diner said they have a secret office just off Halifax Street. You can find it by following the orange dressed workers walking back and forth. How much productivity is lost though this paid-time exercise?

Another diner said he always secure an exclusive area for camping because his snoring chases everyone away.

The breakfast included bacon, mushrooms, onions, eggs, Mexican vegetarian stew, another stew without meat, bread, lots of sauces, barista coffee, bananas, potato fritters and other stuff, I got very little as I was going to the Dharma Kitchen for their free lunch at Black Forest.

Hollow Log eats huge amounts of food, but never gains weight. He lives in a park and doesn’t get welfare, but others say they’ve seen him driving around in a car.

Brick Wall (the Croatian Genealogist) said all landlords are criminals and part of the Mafia. He said most apartment buildings are empty. He wouldn’t hear a word about applying for Aged retirement housing with shorter waiting lists than normal welfare housing. Horse Trader Steve said that’s how he’s been for the past ten years. Brick Wall is unable to hear anything apart from what he believes at that moment. That’s autism on the street. And expecting a peaceful breakfast amongst desperadoes on the street is foolishness 

Armageddon Barbecue in the city
105 Halifax Street, Adelaide. In front of Christadelphian church. Free bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, coffee, non-meat stew, fried onions, sauces, bananas, cold water, books, and odd grocery item 8:30am to 10:00am Saturdays. Tables, chairs and canopy in hot or rainy weather. Friendly church people, desperado clients, uncastrated dogs. No data collection. Clean toilets.

10 July 2026

(above) Free Food room at Gardens Church (Uniting) at 3 Pittman Road, Windsor Gardens. Saturdays 9-11am. No data collection. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

(above) Dining area at Gardens Church, Windsor Gardens every Saturday morning. What's with the noise and visual pollution from the TV screen? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

On the Street Thursday

“I’m a daddy’s girl. I keep secrets. I didn’t tell my mother.” a soup kitchen client told us.

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A veteran homeless man sleeping in the parklands attends a small church service in the city. The few worshippers are powerful people including the head of a security agency. Our man on the street says this person is suspicious of everyone. Our man says he has to watch what he says around this agent.

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A soup kitchen client has been a member of the National Trust since childhood. He was dismayed to hear the executives were caught splurging on interstate conferences. This caused financial problems for the Trust so they confiscated $300,000 from the Wallaroo and Moonta volunteers who raised the money for restorations of old buildings in the area. “I’m thinking of quitting,” the man said.

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A trucking owner has a depot near my homeless camp. He was robbed three times in one week by scrap collectors. The police weren’t interested.

The owner came from Bosnia. He said, “I came here for peace. It’s more peaceful in Bosnia.”

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A disabled Asian man said Australia should spend less on welfare and hospitals and instead use the money to build up the military.

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An engineering tutor from Flinders University was sacked when he asked too many questions about the parents of an Indian Moslem student from Brunei. She said she “felt uncomfortable”.

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The Good Shepherd church at Para Vista collect money at their Monday free meal for the deportation flight of a Filipino diner. Her white partner who also attended the free meal died and they weren’t married.

After the meal two older white men approached her. She said she was sick of men. I asked her if she’d soon be scrounging for food on Smoke Hill? She laughed and said she hadn’t any fears for the future.

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Linda from One Mob said their free food service was finished. It would good while it lasted.

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A homeless man of healthy appearance begins each morning with two-dollars of fresh fruit from Glenelg Coles with green tea made with a stove in his backpack.

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Diners are wary of a verbally aggressive homeless man at Mary’s Kitchen in Glenelg. But another man living outside said this man found a “really retarded boy” wearing only a shirt and sleeping on an open bench.

The aggressive man found provided clothing, food and a sleeping bag for the boy. The observer said the aggressive man was “an angel in disguise”.

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A soup kitchen client said her great, great, great, great grandmother in Africa lived to 125. She ate organic vegetables and fruit and just a little meat. But she was hooked on “lollies” and while eating one was hit by a vehicle and died.

Succeeding generations have been living shorter and shorter lives.

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A woman who lives in a cemetery during the warmer months is spending this winter in a disability establishment. Will she be able to escape welfare’s clutches when the weather warms up.

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The cashier at Chemist Warehouse in Glenelg asked me if I wanted to donate two-dollars for “Men’s mental health”. I shouted, “I’m crazy and want to stay crazy.” She said, “Everyone to their own.”

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A man wearing sunglasses inside the Oasis Cafe at frozen hamburger meat he’d obtained from the Oz Harvest free food giveaway.

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“Properly made spaghetti. You can tell if it’s flop out of a jar,” a diner commented on the Thursday evening free meal provided by Victory Church at the Para Hills West library.

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William’s Wardrobe have been handing out blankets and tarps to homeless people in the Adelaide CBD. Cathy and Hazel cruise the homeless camps in the evenings while the charity executives and employees sit at home.
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Minister of Housing Nick Champion didn’t appear too concerned about homeless people being kicked out of Baptist WestCare at 9pm on a rainy evening after being invited to stay the night. The problem was due to a wrong Code Blue designation that affected funding: something like that. Adelaide’s homeless industry is totally opaque.

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A transport operator collected $650 on a Go Fund Me page then purchased Kmart tents, beanies, tarps and socks for homeless clients of ‘People Helping People’ at Port Adelaide.

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The man living amongst the roots of a huge tree at Glenelg has disappeared. He was reputed to have H.I.V. and cut his finger near the nail then pinched people to give them A.I.D.S.
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Early 9 July 2026

(above) A client's order for a coffee at the Christadelphian Armageddon free BBQ went missing so after the coffee machine had been turned off, a church woman went to Seoul Sisters cafe on Halifax Street and returned with a hot cup. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2026.)

Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg

The meal at Mary’s Kitchen the Tuesday before last – like most Tuesdays – contained roast vegetables, fried mashed potatoes and a fresh salad. The vegetarian cook doesn’t use MSG or other neuro-toxins as flavour enhancers. What good luck we have her in the kitchen.

A homeless man arrived late for the meal and wolfed down his food like a wild animal.

A hoarder grabbed heaps of used clothing from the racks. Her walking frame reached her nose so she just managed to peer over the grabbings. But she hesitated with the slip-proof red socks. They were donations from the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Patients are given these socks to wear in the wards so if they escape they can be identified easily.

For some reason Johnny Johnson took off his belt then couldn’t put it back on. Ben helped him establish the belt in its appropriate place. Johnny has been put in a hostel with meals provided, but they take all his money. He says other residents steal from him and he hates it there. Johnny was a Minda resident, but not now.

The taxi and bus owner’s girlfriend shook her flimsy shirt back and forth for two minutes to cool down her breasts or for some other reason. She’s been doing this for 15 years.

The fisherman who had throat cancer and speaks through a device inserted into his throat said police told him he would have been dead if he’d been wearing gold during a recent robbery.

A diner talked about his diagnosed illnesses. I told him I haven’t any because I avoid doctors.

St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen)
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771. Every Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:15pm. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit and vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at Blooms Glenelg pharmacy weekly (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm; Fri 10:30am – 12:30pm.

Late 8 July 2026

(above) Camping on the footpath to avoid pooling water on the grass. Hutt Street homeless centre open just two hours this Saturday and closed all day Sunday. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

(above) No shortage of empty housing in Adelaide yet homeless joint executives won't breathe a hint of the need for change. It's not in their personal interest. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

Useless One Voice shower truck administered by useless Puddle Jumpers

One Voice has an excellent two-shower truck based in Kalgoorlie with professionally designed steps suitable for disabled people and operated mostly by Aboriginal people.

The One Voice shower truck in Adelaide has rickety steps suitable only for acrobats and since its renovation two or three years ago has become useless.

Not that this matters since Puddle Jumpers matches the useless design with its useless administration. Management is so hostile to volunteers that they rarely last more than two or three weeks.

The truck has been out-of-action since before Christmas except for a brief window of operation during the summer.

Despite the truck originally costing a small fortune and the redesign costing another twenty or thirty thousand dollars, it’s totally unsuited for its purpose.

It should be gutted and reused to collect sanitary napkins and adult nappies from libraries and other public buildings.

What we need is a One Voice shower truck similar to that in Kalgoorlie and administered by anyone except Puddle Jumpers. Or an Orange Sky shower truck similar to those operated interstate. Preferably both.

7 July 2026
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Free hairdressing at Orange Sky's North Adelaide laundromat

Well, can you believe it? We in the homeless scene are habituated to promises that aren’t fulfilled.

A notice on the Orange Sky laundromat window says the Short, Back and Sidewalk free hairdressing service will be there next Monday, 13 July from 1:45pm to about 4pm.

The hairdressing is planned in the front corner of the 12 machine laundromat and everyone is welcome. One reliable Orange Sky worker hopes people will turn up. That might be an understatement. It could resemble a Tsunami is past trends at other joints are repeated.

Short, Back and Sidewalk expect to do these free haircuts once a month.

The laundromat is usually jam packed on the Monday afternoon free laundry service so the free haircuts should turn it into an interesting mayhem. If they turn up. We’ll see.

7 July 2026​

Gateway Baptists at Whitmore Square

Six people laid hands on a woman sitting in a chair. She spat and vomited as the Christians called on Jesus to chase the evil from her body. But after nearly an hour nothing was happening. One observer said, “This is going nowhere.” I suggested she was on drugs.

Fewer people are attending the free food service at Whitmore Square since Elton “John” pulled out his team. Elton is also known as “The Indian” and “Raj”. A source said the volunteers didn’t understand why it had to stop.

Gateway Baptists are attempting to fill the gap. They intend on buying a BBQ to supply grilled sausages and eggs every Saturday morning.

I’d arrived late from the Armageddon BBQ as they had turned off the generator from their impressive food van. About forty tribal people sat on the grass in the square plus others at their camps on the surrounding footpaths.

Whitmore Square Saturdays
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. 8:30am ⎼ 10:30am. Gateway Baptist coffee and light meal truck. WestCare Baptist bacon and eggs service cancelled until further notice. Occasional extra services include free coffee shop vouchers from an Aboriginal woman, William’s Wardrobe used clothing and shoes, Indian Muffin Man and Buddhist lentil soup and free haircuts monthly. BBQ. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. All free.

Review for Saturday 27 June 2026
Posted 7 July 2026

(above) A gentleman arising from slumber and packing up camp on Hutt Street before the dentist arrives. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

The Nice Old Man’s Case

from The Mechanic

“To the nice old man’s claim he paid for the little ladies teeth in your journal she has a document of receipt showing that Anglicare actually paid for her teeth. She also spoke English well before the nice old man ever came to the Salvos.

“On her case, it will be shown that his credibility in court will not hold up due to being a supervising driver who knew the little lady held no licence and was pulled over by police when he was supervising and instructed her to lie.

“Also, the coercive control over the little lady are recorded by police as an incident at the Lutheran church shows. Also, he has claimed for certain costs that require her name or agreement present which were not...his case is not just weak in a court but will be completely dismantled in a very short time.”

The Mechanic
Early 6 July 2026
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Armageddon BBQ on Halifax Street

“I’m going to kill that ***hole,” a female diner quietly noted to herself. For the first week since the ecclesia restarted their free breakfasts, the mood became somewhat aggressive. You could feel threat in the air.

The queue for breakfast formed twenty minutes before opening time despite volunteers asking diners to stop blocking the doorway. The queue moved towards the street, but no one left it.

The coffee lady said she was slightly anxious as she hadn’t had her first coffee that morning. And she served everyone for two hours without that coffee.

Three men with registered dogs stood on the footpath, tension creasing their faces. Someone accidentally tripped near them prompting one to suddenly adopt a fighting stance, then after some tense explanations there was a series of shaking hands.

Rumour had it that new diners were from the Hutt Street Centre Saturday breakfast that didn’t meet their requirements. Hutt Street Centre has a qualified chef and is advertising for a sous chef. They have an annual budget of $11 million dollars and over fifty employees, but spend five times the amount on cars than food.

The Christadelphian food included fried bacon, eggs and onions from the outdoor BBQ, potato fritters, fresh tomatoes, curried potatoes, a non-meat stew, crackers, hommos and other dips, barista coffee, cordial, margarine on raisin bread, serviettes, bamboo and metal cutlery, and other stuff.

One diner sleeping outside said her doctor told her to lose 20kgs. She said she gained weight from the unhealthy food served at free food joints. “With the exception of this place,” I suggested.

An ecclesia member said each of their churches are self-governing. Members share the responsibilities and they don’t have paid preachers. Nor do they have a central body that dictates policies and actions. They’re a surprisingly cheerful group of people with their own nursing home in the southern suburbs.

This Saturday’s breakfast got the largest crowd ever because their food and attitude is superior to anywhere else. We can only hope that Gateway Baptists get their BBQ going at Whitmore Square to release pressure on this fine crowd.

Armageddon Barbecue in the city
105 Halifax Street, Adelaide. In front of Christadelphian church. Free bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, coffee, non-meat stew, fried onions, sauces, bananas, cold water, books, and odd grocery item 8:30am to 10:00am Saturdays. Tables, chairs and canopy in hot or rainy weather. Friendly church people, desperado clients, uncastrated dogs. No data collection. Clean toilets.

Review for Saturday 17 June 2026
Early 6 July 2026​

(above) Huge tent with permanent homeless guard behind shopping centre in Salisbury area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

The construction of despair

​The Code Blue alert for homeless people was issued for Wednesday to Friday of last week due to storms and rain. Baptist WestCare homeless centre at Miller’s Court in the city opened their doors late Wednesday afternoon for homeless people to stay the night.

But after the homeless people had arrived for the night someone discovered that the Code Blue alert was of a lower tier and did not cover overnight accommodation on camp cots at WestCare. Staff told the homeless people at 9pm to get out.

William’s Wardrobe volunteers outside were shocked as the homeless people departed into the rainy weather. They gave what blankets and coats they had in their van, but couldn’t believe what they were seeing.

Sonia Blackwell got hold of the story and published it on her Facebook page. One Baptist worker said they were just volunteers, but wouldn’t common sense say that those already invited could stay overnight?

Early 5 July 2026
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On the Street Sunday

The Orange Sky laundry van didn’t arrive at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps last Wednesday afternoon for their 1pm to 3pm shift. They phoned the Army at 11:30am to cancel. The driver feared getting wet. But not everyone was in communication with the Army that day. You can imagine how such cancellations are another kick in the guts for people living outside.

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Gateway Baptists have reiterated their plan to buy a BBQ to produce hot food at Whitmore Square on Saturday mornings from 8:30am.

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A homeless man works as an occasional construction labourer. He said he never sleeps on his employer’s property.

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Another homeless man said he lost his driver’s license after getting 12 traffic fines with a $4000 fines bill. He was sleeping in his car, but now needs a place to store it.

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A third homeless man was crying. He went to the funeral of his 31-year-old friend who died after open heart surgery. He showed us a photograph. None of us showed any sympathy.

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A fourth homeless man – elderly – said he was told by a hospital technician that he was getting another scan “before your open heart surgery”. He later phoned the hospital and angrily told him he should have been briefed by a doctor. The receptionist told him not to shout.

He’s the man who had a heart attack in his car where he sleeps. After that diagnosis he returned to his car, still sleeping in a contorted way on the front seat pushed back.

He hasn’t a clue where he’ll live after the surgery – if he survives.

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The latest report is that Short, back and Sidewalk are offering free hairdressing this Monday afternoon at Orange Sky Laundry on Melbourne Street at North Adelaide. But this hasn’t been confirmed. I will report back if it happens.

Second Editor

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A bus passenger said he saw someone dressed in a white plastic gown, plastic hat and face mask last week poking through a tent on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace.

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Mandarin Grab Hags living in houses allegedly swamped Fred’s Van in the city taking blankets donated for homeless people.

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“Who wrote this f****** schizo shit,” a woman exclaimed while reading a Salvation Army publication.

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There was meat in the vegetable soup served from the Janet Mead Adelaide Day Centre soup van at Hurtle Square last week. A server said they get the soup as it is and don’t know what exactly it contains. It was a meat eater who alerted me to the meat. I thought, “Hmm, this is nice soup.”

Two weeks prior to this, the soup contained MSG. I drank a little before realising another migraine coming up. “Ugh,” I said, and emptied the contents on the grass.

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“The schnitzel was good. The Kransky was rotten,” a diner noted at the free Oasis Cafe in Modbury. The cook also supplied excellent chips. No cost. No data collection. No Eternal Shame File.

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The RSL Kilburn crowd dislike the Fred’s Van diners using the property until the Community Centre roof is repaired. One RSL man walked amongst the diners playing bagpipes. The RSL were angered at a bully threatening older weaker men. He was the one who bullied a disabled man at Stevo’s then called the police when the bullied man stood up to him. And he tried to victimised a disfigured man at Fred’s Van Salisbury the previous Sunday evening. No wonder the RSL crowd dislike us.

Early 5 July 2026

(above) A man was living in this car for nearly a week back of the Settler's Hotel at Ingle Farm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

Chelsea Ireland at Hindmarsh

Those involved with a recent Sunday evening session at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh could be proud of their efforts. The rotten free vegetables were out of place in the newly renovated building where the stink will soon permeate the walls.

But the attitudes of the serving staff were exemplary, like people wanting to be there. And one volunteer acknowledged the rotting vegetables were an insult to homeless people.

The hot food included an excellent tuna mornay and spaghetti bolognaise with hot coffee in paper cups rather than those prison-style plastic things. Staff didn’t charge the usual $1 entry fee for access to the free food room that included free dancing shoes. I got three pairs while others got five or six pairs as we all need dancing shoes including children’s dancing shoes.

The bread was fresh, possibly baked earlier that day. There were also cans of hommos from the United Arab Emirates, which was horrible. Much better hommos produced in Adelaide.

Very few clients were there possibly because of the rain and cooler evening. The Charles Sturt Council did their bit by removing the concrete picnic bench. Their reason might have been to question whether seating was needed at a venue serving food outdoors – or similar mad reasons.

There were some chairs set out, but fewer since the $100k was spent on renovating the building. Weird. All that money and less seating. The toilets were also locked. Even staff didn’t have the outer door key and in any case the toilet area is being used to store food crates with another entry door via the kitchen.

I couldn’t get any sense out of Puddle Jumpers of why the toilet is locked so I phoned the Charles Sturt Council. Like Puddle Jumpers, the Council employee said it was a health and safety issue, but couldn’t define what issue. She said she’d investigate it with Puddle Jumpers and get back to me. She didn’t.

A woman in pyjamas ran down Port Road pushing a shopping trolley full of children’s clothing. I thought she was a Stiff, but later amended that to someone living in a house and robbing charity bins.

The 24/7 outdoor water tap was fine as usual.

Note: The excellent crew serves ever second Sunday so the following Sunday we sat outside the empty building and no one turned up. Puddle Jumpers hasn’t the slightest consideration that perhaps they should publish a schedule of when they’re open and when they’re not.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub Hindmarsh
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Heroic staff plus the odd lunatic. Named after Chelsea Ireland whose boyfriend’s father shot her dead. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee and food, eat outside, incontinence underwear when toilet locked. Tiny clothing rack. One-dollar donation. Don’t believe their advertised opening hours. It’s actually 10am-1pm and 5pm-7pm Mon-Fri., but may expand. Shower truck scheduled Wed and Fri, but rarely there. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required. Orange Sky 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fri. Clients include sex workers, junkies, criminals, homeless, Mandarins, diabetics, a stock broker, couple of Serbians and a partially naked woman.

Late Saturday 4 July 2026

(above) Rundle Street, Adelaide. Last Saturday morning. At least protected from the rain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

What is happening at Second Bite?

Clients at multiple free food venues in Adelaide have noticed the cessation of free food deliveries from Second Bite. These include Playford Salvation Army at Elizabeth East, Seventh-day Adventist at Elizabeth Park and Gospel City at Gawler plus many others.

Second Bite don’t appear to do phone calls, but in two emails from their “Community Partnerships” Officer, Sepideh Mobedi, it appears that Second Bite are closing their sorting station at Dry Creek and ceasing deliveries of their free food. Those organisations remaining on their free food schedule must now provide their own transport and driver to pick up the old food.

This is largely an adoption of Oz Harvest’s policy of delivering free food directly from the supermarkets to their chosen charities and “non-profits”. Let the recipients do the sorting. The difference is that Second Bite recipients must provide their own transport.

I think this is the case, but can’t be sure because Sepidi Mobedi’s responses resembled A.I. responses. Perfect English, but difficult to ascertain what was being communicated.

Early 3 July 2026
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District Court knocks Nice Old Man’s case back to the Magistrates Court

A source close to The Little Lady says that, “...the nice old man appealed the decision of the magistrates court to the district court trying to either get a decision in his favour for his claim or have the mechanic removed as the little ladies litigation guardian to force the little lady to face him knowing she cant represent herself and trying to either stand over her to win or force her to be with him to drop the case, the district court refused his appeal and returned the matter to the magistrates court agreeing with the decision of the magistrates court to appoint the mechanic as the little ladies litigation guardian.”

Meanwhile, at a church free food venue, the Nice Old Man yelled at full strength for five minutes that he plans to recover $12,000 he claims he spent on The Little Lady. He made it clear this is his life’s mission.

"I taught her to speak; I got her teeth...you know I'm taking court action against her," he said.

Early 3 July 2026

Staving off a predatory
Housing Trust employee

An older woman in the Modbury area says the Housing Trust is trying to kick her out of her rental property where she’s lived for 25 years and spent $20,000 on approved improvements.

She says items dumped at her house by relatives are deemed by a Housing Trust employee as “clutter” and a prelude to eviction.

Some hearing her story believed she was just another hoarder until Sonia Blackwell entered the scene. How the two connected is anyone’s guess.

Anyway, a Member of Parliament visited this tenant’s house and determined she’d met all the requirements of the Housing Trust in regard to “tidiness” and other criteria for a proper tenancy.

This forced the Housing Trust employee to agree that she’d met his requirements, but he was still reluctant to sign the appropriate paperwork and give her copy. He said he’d send it to her later. He’d said this on other occasions, but never met his promise and obligation. But when she threatened him with problems from the M.P. his attitude changed.

The reader might think this elderly woman’s problems with the Housing Trust are over. Maybe, but her problem is that she doesn’t use drugs, drink alcohol, make a noise or annoy her neighbours and retains an active intellect and healthy self-esteem.

But with Sonia Blackwell on her side – and a Member of Parliament in the wings – the zealous bureaucrat will no longer have free reign to exercise his urge for power over others.

Early 3 July 2026

(above) The toasted sandwiches don't have much filling and are fried rather than toasted. Coffee is instant. Relaxing atmosphere. No data collection for Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

(above) They sold the preacher's house to pay for the addition of a 'community centre' glass building. Entry is via side door. Six free pantry items on Wednesdays 10am to 12 noon. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

Community Kitchen Whitmore Square

A grizzled grey-haired man drags himself from a sleeping bag on the squishy muddy grass. The temperature had dropped to 4°C a few hours earlier. “I froze my ass off,” he says then adds that he previously slept in the community garden at the bus station. “I was away for three years and when I came back it was gone,” he says in a somewhat confused voice.

Another man remains in his sodden sleeping bag along with his wet clothing draining his body warmth into the ground. Local house dwellers walk by with amazement, guilt and mocking attitudes.

Tribal people sit on the wet grass using umbrellas tilted sideways as privacy screens. One woman yells at the top of her voice and the others chime in with vitriol over some tribal infringement. They spent the night on the concrete footpaths in front of the Salvation Army store and detox centre, a St Luke’s Church house and a private dwelling.

There are few clients in the queue this morning when the Community Kitchen crew arrive in their clapped-out red van. As the food is served, a Stiff tells the man married to a Thai gambling addict to join the middle of the queue in front of those already served including an especially greedy Mandarin man. I try to speak to him, but he shouts English clichés before he’s heard three words.

The chick peas on the vegetarian food are hard. There isn’t the usual Mexican dish as the cook couldn’t soften the beans no matter how many hours he boiled them. There are another three types of hot food plus pastries, good bread, hot coffee, cordial and some clothing.

The Moslems near West Terrace let the Community Kitchen crew use their kitchen without charge. A man dressed in skin tight gold-coloured clothing and blue hair talks on the outskirts of the serving tables.

It’s a quiet lunch, strangely subdued with little more than half the usual crowd in attendance, but nevertheless a magnificent effort by the crew who don’t receive government funding. And while they’re out in the park, the Hutt Street Centre is locked and empty and its professional employees are comfortably at home.

The Community Kitchen in the City
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. Ph 0405 286 172. 11:30am – 1:00pm Sundays. Free. No I.D. required. Lunch on the grass includes hot food, takeaway packs, coffee, biscuits, fruit and vegetables. Homeless and underclass welcome. One of the best street services. Dangerous clients, but safe unless provoked.

Early 2 July 2026

(above) Well maintained and tidy homeless camp on Le Fevre Road in North Adelaide. It lasted nearly four months. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

(above) But circumstances forced the homeless man on Le Fevre Road to decamp. He left behind a number of sharp rocks possibly to fend off The Predators in the homeless scene or the perverts cavorting in nearby bushes. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2026.)

Morning in the rain

“I’ve got legal documents in my bag,” a tall thin woman breathed into my neck as we crossed South Terrace in the rain. I let her get ahead of me then fifty metres further she stopped to speak to a grizzled Aboriginal tribal man camped on wet blankets in front of St Andrew’s medical centre.

There was laughter from a group of younger men and women outside the bistro across Hutt Street and more laughter across Gilles Street where outdoor diners ate behind footpath glass at the Arab Steed. For them it was porn poverty, eating and drinking with suffering a few metres away.

The owner of the liquor store between them opened his door and peered both ways before beckoning a customer to make a run with his six pack of vodka mixers.

Back across the street a bald man lay in front of the Hutt Street Centre. He stared blank-eyed as I waved in his direction. The Centre itself was closed this Saturday at 10:36am having been open for two hours until 9am. It’s closed all day Sunday, then opens from 7am to 1pm Monday to Friday. And this is the highest funded homeless establishment in Adelaide, nearly always closed, locked and empty.

Observed on 13 June 2026
Posted for early 1 July 2026

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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.

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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

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

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

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The sad world of corporate bullies Verity Kate Edwards
and Frank Pangallo

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