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(above) Playford Community Fund staff at Elizabeth are polite to people applying for Christmas hampers. But they don't give clients time to read the data collecting consent forms or provide copies.

(above) The Playford Community Fund gave the above food to a man who didn't even ask for it. They granted the man a Christmas Hamper to be picked up in December while the above items were placed next to him in three bags.

(above) This clean Anglicare retirement unit with a split-system air conditioner at Elizabeth remained empty for nearly 20 months. When an Australian-born man inquired about it last year for his elderly mother, Anglicare told him there was no point going on the waiting list because it was so huge. And now, after nearly 20 months sitting empty, the unit has been reclassified as "refugee-ready".

Coming Soon: Latest silly Adelaide CBD homeless statistics; Hutt Street Centre up to its old tricks; Victory Church BBQ ran out of hot water again; New photos of Adelaide CBD homeless camps;  Raeline off the rails at Brahma Lodge; Is Grant Stevens a deep state operative?; Lawyers involved in dispute between Anti-poverty Network and expelled member; Vishva Hindu Parishad plan new soup kitchen in the Adelaide CBD; Employee at Adelaide Magdalene Centre mocks fat lady asking for food. 
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Peterswool Road no hampers
​this Christmas

They aren’t giving away hampers this year to the free food clients at the Seventh-day Adventist church at Elizabeth Park. That’s what a church woman said last Monday.
 
Rumour has it they’re switching the hampers to clients of the Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church at Brahma Lodge. It isn’t clear whether this will be for the patrons of the free Thursday meals or via an interview with a church social worker, or both.
 
The Adventist woman also said the free food service at Elizabeth Park will shut over the holiday period from the 19th of December. This is because those slackards at Second Bite are shutting down for the holidays. Where the food usually donated will end up is anyone’s guess.
 
The free food last Monday was mostly bread and pastries from Coles, excellent cherry tomatoes and mushrooms, soft edible mangoes and one apple and one banana for each client. Another table held Coke, sports drinks and eskies of chilled chicken meals.
 
There were 37 clients including an elderly woman who said she wasn’t taking a frozen meal because her electricity had been cut off the previous Saturday.
 
No homeless people were present.
 
One client said his mother had studied psychology and anthropology at university.
 
A few people said they weren’t applying for Christmas hampers at Anglicare and the Playford Community Fund because others needed them more.
 
The woman who usually talks about sex talked instead about car smashes and a friend losing a phone in the hospital.
 
Seventh-day Adventist Church
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays.
Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp, even earlier. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some groceries. Health Care Card required. Four visits each month allowed. Happy atmosphere.
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21 November 2019
 

(above) Inside a refugee-ready unit in an Anglicare retirement complex in Elizabeth. Anglicare kept it empty for one-year, refusing to rent it to elderly homeless Australian citizens, then decided to allocate it to refugees.

Applying for a Christmas hamper at the Playford Community Fund

​The man sleeping outside the Windsor building at the Elizabeth shopping centre had left. He’d placed himself across the footpath to attract the attention of pedestrians.
 
I staggered up the stairs toward the second floor. There was a crooked job search joint on the first floor. It didn’t need a sign. The job applicants said everything. They were overweight and immobile like in the split second of a photograph except this one lasted thirty seconds. One slept in a chair; his head slung back as if he were recently deceased.
 
From the stairs below the second floor, I spotted Cambodian Jenny through the railing. She was arguing with a Playford Fund worker. She wanted an interview appointment, but the worker refused. The procedure involves phoning at 9:00 am to make an appointment. Turning up in person was all wrong, the worker told Jenny. “All government departments do it this way,” she said, somewhat illogically.
 
The reception desk was barricaded with Plexiglass smeared with grease. A man and his daughter let me sit in their place. A woman also moved as if she thought I needed a bench for a quick nap. Another man wore a tracking device on his right ankle. Other clients included a few from the Food Barn. It was embarrassing.
 
A worker named Jackie took me to a small room. She asked for my Aged Pension card and my phone number and nothing else. I had expected an interrogation.
 
I signed three forms letting them share my depersonalised personal data with some government department. One A4-sized form was written in legal jargon that put me into a trance. The final sentence was me agreeing that I couldn’t pay my bills or expected not to be able to pay them. All part of the big lie. They know it; we know it.
 
Au Jung brought in three bags of packaged food. I hadn’t asked for them. I only wanted a Christmas hamper. Jackie asked how we knew each other. I said, “Buddhism”.
 
She gave me a slip of paper advising me to pick up the hamper on 18 December. “Bring a shopping trolley,” Jackie advised.
 
Early 20 November 2019
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(above) A woman and a child removing items from the Elizabeth East Salvation Army donation bin in broad daylight. They filled bags with the most valuable items. The woman gently pushed larger items of lesser value over the fence into the yard so if they were caught they could say they were preventing the donations from being stolen. After this, they slowly walked to a nearby house with the most valuable donations. Image blurred to protect child's identity. Photograph taken in early November 2019.

Anglicare Elizabeth pre-Christmas and Christmas Day free lunches

The Anglicare Food Barn pre-Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 18 December 2019 with the usual three shifts. Registration in person is required at the reception desk. Concession cards usually required, but not always.
 
The Christmas Day lunch is also held in the Food Barn at noon on 25 December 2019. It is important to register in person during the next few days because all spaces are taken well before Christmas Day.
 
Diners are theoretically required to live in the Elizabeth and Salisbury Council areas, but outsiders can get in if they say they have friends who go to the Food Barn.
 
Phone (08) 8209 5400
 
Anglicare Food Barn Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth.  (near the shopping centre and police station).
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am. Ph (08) 8209 5400.
 Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm. No dessert, No takeaways. Faulty salt and pepper shakers at front counter only.
Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

Late 19 November 2019
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Pilgrim Church pre-Christmas lunch
 
The free coffee lounge at the back of the church offers a free pre-Christmas lunch at 12 noon on Tuesday 10 December in the hall next to the café. The café usually opens at 10:00am.
 
A Pilgrim Church woman said there won’t be any data collecting. Everyone is welcome.
 
The bad news is that the coffee lounge closes at 2:00pm on 20 December and doesn’t reopen until 20 January 2020. This is bad planning as lots of church people have little to do over the holiday period and would like to serve coffee.
 
This closure won’t affect the Christmas Day afternoon meal provided by the Adelaide Angels, which starts about 4:30pm. It usually includes haircuts and requires no I.D. or registration. It includes big names from the derelict culture.
 
 
Pilgrim Church Lounge
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (near King William St and Victoria Square)
10:00am - 2:00pm Monday to Friday (back of church). Really nice street clients plus a few ferocious derelicts on good behaviour.
Free coffee, tea and biscuits. Relaxing atmosphere. No I.D. required.

19 November 2019
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Chat and Chew at Port Adelaide
 
The toilets were locked when we arrived. Ross the Social Worker apologised and told us to feel free to call him if he forgets to unlock them before our arrival next fortnight.
 
One client aged 22 appeared very young and Collette warily asked her age as anyone under 18 is not allowed at Chat and Chew.
 
We talked about Faraday Cages to protect ourselves from 4G and 5G EMF. One suggestion was to stand barefoot on grass 20 minutes a day and walk along the beach barefoot and absorb the negative ions.
 
One client instigated cruel talk that infected others. I badmouthed a woman who has never done anything nasty to me over the past 15 years. Cruelty is an infectious disease.  
 
The dining room was filled to capacity with quality table service from Michael and Gavin. The meal included roast vegetables, white sauce and silverside meat. It sounds simple, but the manner in which it was cooked and presented increased its value in a way that is hard to describe. Ross trains the volunteers in the fine art of food presentation.
 
Another nice aspect of Chat and Chew is that staff don’t exploit the clients with data collecting or promotion of their institutional viewpoints.
 
None of these good qualities will be evident in statistical reports. It is an intrinsic and nearly invisible quality that some organisations have and others don’t.
 
Chat and Chew (UnitingSA)
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2220 (entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area).
2:30 pm entry to outer area; 4:00 pm coffee; 5:00pm meal; 6:30pm closing time.
(Every second Wednesday). Free. Stephen the Cook in residence. Fancy like a restaurant.
Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways. No children. Horrible nasty toilets. Ride home for invalids in the Port Adelaide area. It is for isolated people, which is why families are not encouraged to visit.

19 November 2019
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Drunk knocks out tooth of army veteran at free BBQ at Salisbury

​Kingsley was drunk. He punched an army veteran in the face. He knocked out a tooth. The elderly veteran was about to fight back, but Steve the Preacher from Victory Church stood between them. This is a common response at soup kitchens: the aggressor is protected from a response.
 
A gumtree nut falling into the veteran’s coffee started it. It fell from an overhead branch. The aging army veteran pulled it out and threw it on the ground.
 
Kingsley, being drunk, took this as an offense from a white fella and punched him in the face.
 
The veteran could have made a police report and applied for a tooth implant via Victims of Crime but, like most people on the street, he has no faith in the police or any government department.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury.
They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitoes. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

18 November 2019
 

Good Shepherd at Para Vista
 
Jagamarra appeared a typical black fella. He wanted to see the Lutheran preacher at the Good Shepherd church at Para Vista. We sat with the Orange Sky Laundry workers who were doing a brisk trade.
 
Jagamarra was amazed at a free laundry operating in Para Vista. Where were the homeless people in this area? None at the Good Shepherd church.
 
He told us he came from Port Victoria on the Yorke Peninsula, but had spent 25 years in Los Angles, Baton Rouge and the state of Connecticut working as a missionary. And this became apparent when the subject of the Bible was raised. He wasn’t typical at all.
 
Inside the church were mostly German-descended white fella and white fella women along with a few Asians, the latter who maintained the stern demeanor of Germans better than the Australian Germans.
 
Most of the free meal diners were connected with the church while the Dominic’s rooming house crowd were missing. It was an icy twenty-minutes while I sat at a table with an elderly white fella man and woman who were sponsoring a young woman from Japan. Later, a semi-retired school teacher sat at our table with a middle-aged male care worker. Soon we were relaxed with each other.
 
The free meal included two types of meat, three types of soup (with no added MSG), an excellent fresh salad made from ingredients including packaged leaves six days past the Best-By date, plus another salad made with carrots and canned vegetables. I can’t remember dessert due to the intense conversation. There wasn’t any takeaway Bakers’ Delight fresh bread.
 
There was a bit too much talking through a microphone by an old man. He is a professional speaker, but interrupted the meal six times and this was too much. And he was talking to church people, not a bunch of powerless derelicts. However, it was an inspiring and relaxing evening and well worth the trip.
 
Invitations were offered to the pre-Christmas meal for regular diners and not to those who arrive out of nowhere in late November.  
 
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
388 Montague Road, Para Vista.
Ph 8263 5087. Mondays at 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm.
Free evening meal. No registration or I.D. required. Fresh takeaway bread. Closed at Christmas, but continues through public holidays. Up to 80 people each Monday.

18 November 2019
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St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore
 
The two greatest St Bede’s ping-pong players lasted five-minutes each before retiring with injuries. They both have aged considerably over the past five years and suffer severe arthritis.
 
A younger man arrived drunk and crying. Life had become too much. In his distressed state he discovered he had many friends at St Bede’s drop-in-centre.
 
Sharon drove Trish down from Murray Bridge to give free haircuts to everyone. Sharon and Pauline scoured the storeroom for clothing to put on the stage, but found nothing.
 
Meanwhile, the Bede’s Bazaar Op Shop operates in the same building to raise money to fund the Tuesday and Wednesday free breakfasts.
 
Damian from Semaphore Hostel is skin and bones due to a chronic illness. He is one of the most liked people at St Bede’s.
 
A question was asked, “Who killed Bobby?” He had a brain tumour and that killed him.
 
The sliced fruit platter was beautiful with Kiwi fruit, blue berries, pineapple, rock melon and bananas. It looked too nice to eat.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road)
8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free.
Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

18 November 2019 
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(above) Broken glass and missing fire extinguisher in the $8.1 million Playford Council Windsor carpark at Elizabeth, empty except for four Council vehicles parked permanently for appearances. Meanwhile, non-drug users sleep under trees or in their cars.

On the Street
 
Mr Rock Solid of the Elizabeth Food Barn went to St Paul’s Cathedral in the city to confess his sins. An Asian priest told him, “No confessions today.” Mr Solid said if he didn’t confess he was going to, “hurt someone or himself”. The priest amazed Mr Solid by calling the St Paul’s security guard who kicked him out.
 
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Baptist WestCare has introduced a surveillance app that tracks where clients go for free food. The extent of its scope is not known and readers’ help is sought. Please use the anonymous contact page.
 
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A person lit the clothing donation bin on fire at Goodwill in Salisbury. The bin sits on the porch making the building vulnerable.  The area around the bin is often cluttered with clothing and flammable toys and furniture. The fire was extinguished before the building caught fire. A phone was also burnt near the library.
 
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A man visiting his autistic son taken into custody by the Department of Child Protection was told by staff he wasn’t allowed to show any emotion, especially crying.
 
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A homeless man was arrested after jumping over the back fence of the Salisbury Institute complex that houses PBA-FM radio. This is where Fred’s Van operates every Sunday at 7:00pm. It isn’t known if the man was breaking in or seeking a place to sleep. The inside of the building contains police and private surveillance cameras
 
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A disabled man living in a Housing Trust flat in Kent Town has a loud Aboriginal female Ice dealer upstairs. The disabled man says no one in authority will do anything about it because Aboriginality trumps Ice dealing.
 
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There is a rumour going around that St Vincent de Paul will cancel the Fred’s Van Sunday lunch at Elizabeth due to reduced funding. The rumour comes from a leading volunteer with connections to the Liberal party.

17 November 2019
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Clients not wanted as volunteers
 
Protocols for taking on volunteers might have been formulated with good motives, but they are discouraging and even preventing the underclass from helping others.
 
Charities such as the Salvation Army and others have devised draconian rules for volunteers. They include agreeing never to have contact with clients apart from volunteering duties. They must disclose their total police and court records. They must agree not to disclose to others what they see and hear while being volunteers. This includes corrupt practices of the charities.
 
So, when salaried charity employees say in the media, they’re having trouble attracting volunteers, there are valid reasons.
 
17 November 2019

(above) The Uniting Church at Munno Para lets Gospel City Church use its building without charge on Sundays. Gospel City still hasn't located a building for its social activities including free food distribution. They might end up in Gawler for that.

Faith Works free haircuts
 
“Would you like a free haircut by a professional hair dresser on December 2 – jump the queue by applying now. Application forms are only available at Faith Works Centre, 5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol.”
 Bruce Kurtzer, Faithworks
 
Presumably you can turn up on the day at Blair Athol.
 
Faith Works 
5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol. Sundays at 5:00pm. Free coffee, biscuits, raffles, fruit, vegetables and bread. No I.D. or registration needed. Best to arrive at 4:30pm. 
Also, free food 9:30 to 10:30am Monday to Friday. No I.D. or registration required. Faith Works operate a pop-up free food trailer that appears in Mitcham, Elizabeth Church of Christ, Carisbrooke Park in Salisbury and Parafield Gardens. They pop up across Adelaide so it is helpful to get on their SMS alert list. https://www.facebook.com/Faithworks.events.
 
16 November 2019
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Victory Church free BBQ
​at Salisbury

A Victory Church man passed around a chunk of bread for the Jesus breaking-bread ritual. There was a hold-up when a derelict grabbed the whole hunk and began eating it.
 
The older man with the high-pitched voice and who rides a bicycle said he’d sold his car because he needed the money. He said he can’t get the dole because the investments he’d made while working for the railways preclude him. And he can’t get access to that money for some reason. His parents left their house to him so he manages to survive from odd jobs and collecting cans.
 
Another man, 76, says he is a professional second-hand dealer. He says in his younger days he’d been arranging a deal to sell stolen tyres in Melbourne supplied by a group of police detectives. The plan had fallen through when he’d smashed some windows in the hotel where they’d been drinking. The police deemed him unreliable. He later lost his house via poker machines.
 
Old Val gave me a back massage. She likes touching people, but doesn’t like being touched by men.
 
Shuffles returned from a military tattoo in Sydney. That and paying for cemetery plot rentals for dead relatives is why she is broke. But she goes to the Victory Church BBQ more as a social occasion as she consumes and takes home very little.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury.
They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitoes. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

​16 November 2019
 

The Lutheran Ark at Salisbury
 
“I’m a smoking, talking and coffee person,” the woman with her thyroid removed tells us. A man names the dope dealer who smashed the window of a Salisbury shop then stole its donation tin. He’s a Victory Church BBQ customer. Mick of Mick and Denise gets up from his chair then falls onto the floor. He says he hurt his toe moving furniture. A woman says he’d trying to attract attention. Mick said he won’t use walking sticks because if he falls the sticks will fly about and injure others. No one contradicts his logic: we’re used to it.
 
We sing “Happy Birthday” to Barkuma Peter. A woman comments that it’s his fourth birthday this year. Peter says he’s 70, an age he’s kept for at least three years. Old Val says Peter spat at her.
 
A man said he’d tried to give up smoking, but after one-week he was ready to kill for nicotine. He said what got him off smoking was two-months in a coma.
 
Another diner said everyone was so friendly to each other at Kilburn Fred’s Van until the bags were handed out, then friends became nasty competitors.
 
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark)
cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Clean toilets.
Free meal once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2019 are October 26, November 30, December 21 (Free Christmas party by pre-registration).

​16 November 2019

(above) Hope Chapel Christian group in Gawler don't own their own church building, but purchased a BBQ van to serve free food in a park.

(above) Corner of Britton and Myall Streets in Gawler West where Hope Chapel present a free BBQ on 1st Friday of each month from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Yiros rolls, coffee, sweet buns. Good food, not from Food Bank. Tables and chairs and a generator on the grass. Child friendly. No I.D. or registration required. Free. No I.D. or registration required.

Dodo tries to cheat Kevin
 
Kevin was walking through a Salisbury shopping centre. A Dodo spruiker asked him if he wanted a 20% reduction in his electricity bill. Kevin signed up.
 
A few days later, he received a $350 “transfer fee” bill from Dodo. He phoned them to cancel the contract as it was within the “cooling off” period. Dodo cancelled the contract, but the next day sent a new bill of $50 for “wasting their time”.
 
Kevin said Dodo had approached him and that his time had been wasted.
 
Early 15 November 2019
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Pam and friends
 
Pam, 63, has been falling over. Last week, she tripped over her walking frame. The ambulance officers treated Pam in her unit and told her Carer, Dean the Dresser, to keep an eye on her. Ten minutes after they’d left, so had Dean.
 
Dean has come under more criticism for reducing Pam’s food intake to one meal a day, according to an enemy of Dean. He has also refused to go shopping for her or change the litter tray for her 12 cats.
 
Meanwhile, the housing managers of the ex-Housing Trust units have accused one of the Kill Box Lady’s daughter’s ex-husbands that he has to pay for cracks in the wall of the unit he recently vacated. The ex-husband asked how anyone could crack a wall. His ex-wife said the movement of the earth cracked the walls and not her favourite 76-year-old ex-husband.
 
The man who lit Ken Little’s lawn on fire allegedly recently tried to run down the Kill Box Lady’s daughter after saying he’d kill her. Whether this claim is an exaggeration or not has not been verified. The Kill Box Lady’s daughter hopes Vikki, the Anglicare tenancy officer, will kick him out. But when Vikki saw the Kill Box Lady’s daughter and her ex-husband drinking Coke, she accused them of drinking floor cleaner. Vikki and the couple get on well. Vikki adopts a similar exaggerated speech.
 
Jenny Roberts complained to the referee at disability basketball that a female Crows player had deliberately released wind into her face. But by the time she made the complaint, the other player was at the far end of the court and the referee didn’t believe her. Jenny plays for the Bulldogs. Donald plays for the Crows. Donald is married to Gloria, but has been accused of being a two-timer.
 
A doctor has recommended the 90-year-old Kill Box Lady have physiotherapy on her bad knees. If that doesn’t work, then she will have surgery. She’s been losing weight and her clothing is now too large. This is a shame because the Kill Box Lady is a fine woman, but age is taking its toll.
 
Donald and Gloria have had trouble with Centrelink as they’d been getting separate pensions, but living in the same house. They got dobbed in. They don’t have the intellects to argue their way out of the problem. This is the dilemma facing disabled people who are penalised by Centrelink. Clever people get out of trouble while those most disabled are penalised. Clever people can talk their way out of nearly everything, even paying their electricity bills.
 
The Kill Box Lady’s daughter was in shock after seeing a man have repeated epileptic seizures on King William Street in the city. “He got out of one then went back into another,” she said. She suffers epilepsy herself.
 
Life is hard, but the daughter and her entourage keep in good spirits.
 
Early 15 November 2019
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(above) David Pearson, left, and Jake McQuire on each side of a homeless-style man. David has left the Don Dunstan Foundation. Jake flew from the U.S. for a one-day homeless conference in Adelaide in August. He was jet-lagged and didn't make much sense. Whatever happened the the man in the middle? He was the bread-winner.

​Rival dealers at the Adelaide
​soup kitchen

Various crime organisations have formed a Crime Syndicate in a corner of metropolitan Adelaide. Each group has an area where they operate without getting into confrontation with another.
 
It’s not a motorcycle brotherhood alone, but includes Mum and Dad gun-running outfits doing big business bringing product down from the Riverland, or from China and Mexico. Even the police are involved, according to gossip: both as business partners and as an enforcement body that doesn’t want blood on the streets.
 
There was a small problem at Fred’s Van that got this conversation going. Lunatic Len was in a dirty mood. Something about drugs and money. He was having trouble with a former associate of a motorcycle gang, an older man long past his prime and now collecting butts off the street, but still a brother to be looked after.
 
Len is at the bottom of the chain of people trying to make money. He’s a user who gets destroyed. He pretended to call the police, but actually called a group of junkie traffickers working for a rival gang. There were four of them. They arrived full of bluster and threat. They weren’t full patch members or even prospects or associates, but street dealers.
 
One pushed his way through the queue to the serving table and threatened the older man. They stayed for the meal and sat cross-legged on the brickwork. There weren’t any problems. They actually solved the problem.
 
One evening in the past, the Crime Syndicate boss came to the soup kitchen to ensure business was running smoothly. Just one person knew who he was.
 
That’s how the drug business operates. The leading operatives are disciplined business people, not out-of-control junkies. They form allegiances with key players within the government and bureaucracies. The drug industry resembles an octopus with multiple tentacles.
 
Anyone complaining about meths cooks operating next door or dealers making deliveries in their Housing Trust complex discovers this octopus. Nothing changes except their cars are damaged, the police suggest they move and the Housing Trust leaks the complaint to the drug dealers. The result is the non-drug using complainer becomes the problem. Then totally unrelated problems arise that make the victim ask whether it is coincidence or does it all go back to the complaint about the drug dealers.
 
Maybe that’s why the South Australian Police Commissioner and his Inspectors downplay the violence in Hutt Street or at Elizabeth or Christies Beach. These honourable people know the tentacles can emerge from nowhere and they could be set up on some false charge.
 
Anonymous
Written with help from Adelaide Homeless Journal
Name of soup kitchen not given for fear of reprisals
Early 14 November 2019
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Hope Chapel monthly free BBQ
​at Gawler West

A young woman sitting in the park carried on a conversation to herself. At first, it seemed she was using her phone via blue tooth, but that wasn’t the case. She spoke clearly and rationally. Those in passing cars heard her.
 
She joined the Hope Chapel crowd who arrived with the BBQ trailer one hour before their official 6:30pm start time. (That’s how keen they were).
 
The young woman who was talking alone is a fully functioning human being with an additional self-created reality. We can be half as lucky. Seeing people like this is one reason it is so rewarding going to free food venues. It gives an insight into the human condition rather than being confronted by the facile masks worn by normal people.
 
Others among clients and church people talked about EMF and 5G. A Hope Chapel man said his phone irritated one of his ears, but not the other. He didn’t want to discuss the dangers of 5G and used the term “conspiracy theory”. He said it is more important to live harmoniously and positively than being negative. He places hope in God and not in humans trying to fix things.  
 
Though few Hope Chapel people trusted God with the weather that evening. A storm was brewing and some kept hinting they should pack up while others said to stay and wait for late visitors. The weather held out.
 
A man and his disabled wife said they lived in a Housing Trust house until the mould made them sick and they left. They moved into a more expensive private rental semi-attached house despite being poor.
 
The free meal included wraps filled with hamburger and kidney beans, chopped lettuce, tomatoes and grated cheese. It was fresh food and not rubbish from Food Bank that reduces health.
 
Dessert was brownies, but the elderly male chef removed them from the oven too soon and the middles were soggy. However, the edges were terrific. Tea and coffee was served in nice paper cups like in a real coffee shop.  
 
Gawler Hope Chapel Food Truck
 Corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West
1st Friday of each month at 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Sausages, bread, coffee, sweet buns. Tables and chairs and a generator on the grass. Child friendly.   
Free. No I.D. or registration required.

13 November 2019
 

Steve Davids keeps on giving
 
Steve offered quality free hairdressing to clients at St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre at Semaphore. He died of leukemia two years ago.
 
He left in his will money that will be used to install tables and chairs outside the St Bede’s church hall.
 
The drop-in-centre dining room is too small to serve the amount of breakfast diners each Tuesday and Wednesday.
 
Steve’s tables outside the hall will cater for the overflow, including those too agoraphobic to sit inside the crowded dining room.  
 
13 November 2019

(above) Desert Aborigine blanket left near a camp at Port Adelaide. (November 2019).

Anglicare’s free day in Salisbury
 
Forty of us queued against the wall with its one-metre wide strip of shade on this sweltering morning. Half were foreigners, one-quarter were white women with babies and the last quarter old hoarders. There were no highly visible drug addicts.
 
There was a complaint when an Asian mother and daughter pushed their way to the middle of the queue. When two white folk complained, the Asians said they didn’t speak English. Maybe they didn’t, but one of them drove a car. No one got too upset. First generation immigrants never understand a new culture. Even white folk don’t understand the underclass culture.
 
Anglicare let us in ten-minutes later than the advertised time, perhaps because the clock in the church was running ten-minutes slow. They asked us for a first name and our post code. That’s enough to link us to our full identity on the deep state’s eternal shame file.  
 
The free stuff had been placed inside the new church on twenty tables. It was mostly clean clothing along with books, DVD’s, suitcases, prams and a baby capsule, bric-a-brac, jewelry, candles, cookware and paintings.
 
Anglicare does this twice a year at the Salisbury Anglican Church. Anglicare used to rent a building on the property, but left a year ago and the building has been vacant since then. The Peppertree Op Shop shed is also empty. It had brought in a tidy profit, but was also inexplicably closed down. The only occupant of the property is a homeless man who sneaks behind the building each evening.
 
Anglicare had offered a similar free day at the church next to the Food Barn in Elizabeth, but had been swamped by “rude, abusive clients”, drug addicts looking for stuff to take to Cash Converters. “Never again,” said an Anglicare employee. They’re sticking to the Salisbury church.
 
Deidre tried to give away a lounge, but aroused little interest. Yet so many poor people live without furniture because they don’t know that you can get it for free. It’s only us professionals who know where the free stuff is that have access to it. This is a fault in the freebee distribution system.
 
An Indian woman with a Prussian-descended husband whose ancestors had come to South Australia in 1855 said she was visiting India to see her sad father whose wife had been killed after being hit by a car.
 
Anglicare staff provided coffee, cold water and biscuits so we sat around a table and talked about our lives.
 
The men’s toilet wasn’t designed well. When a man walked through both doors, those in the hallway had a clear view of the urinals.
 
12 November 2019
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St Bede’s Fred’s Van at Semaphore on Sundays

Orange Sky was parked on the gravel in front of the side door. Old Graham and his son were the first customers. It was strange so few customers were there because at least a dozen homeless people sleep at the beach carpark. Six were with us at Fred’s Van this evening. Most prefer to use laundromats despite being stone broke.
 
It is embarrassing to have a stranger go through your underwear next to a footpath along busy Military Road. Many drivers and pedestrians wonder what the bright orange truck is doing next to the church. And the orange seats with positive messages on the backs are placed next to the footpath.
 
A Fred’s Van client asked for an Orange Sky laundry schedule. He later said the volunteer reluctantly gave him a copy. They keep their other locations secret.
 
A once beautiful addict went from person to person outside the hall doors. She stopped when Lester opened a case. It contained what appeared to be pills. She turned away when she saw the button batteries. I’d taken her to a sex job in Port Adelaide three years previously. I thought we were going to Coles. She had spoken frankly about the dirty old man she was visiting.
 
The forty clients couldn’t fit into the dining room so the Fred’s Van volunteers set up two tables in the dancing hall. The food included lasagna, a fresh salad and garlic bread.
 
Apart from being rushed and the coffee served in horrible vinyl mugs, we had a nice evening. The Fred’s Van volunteers have become less grim. Some even acted happy.
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road), 200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. required. Much improved, but rushed. 6:00 pm Sunday. Healthy meal eaten inside. Coffee served in horrible blue vinyl mugs. Free. Toilets. Free Laundry from 4:30 – 6:30pm
​.
12 November 2019

(above) A witness said the tenant moved into the Housing Trust unit in Pelican Place, Semaphore Park, three days previously. He quickly set up a methamphetamine lab. His mistake was talking about it. When the police arrived, he wouldn’t come out. They called the Star Group. They’re experts in grabbing suspects, or shooting them. That’s their job.

(above) “Please don’t laugh,” a police officer told a neighbour taking photographs. The laughing neighbour later reported the drug suspect was taken into custody after sustaining an injury to his leg. The police brought out a section of table with the assembled meths lab equipment intact.

Elizabeth Relationships Australia closing its free food service
​at end of year

An employee said today they were closing their fortnightly free food giveaway at the end of 2019 due to lack of staff to supervise the distribution.
 
Their next free giveaway is tomorrow at 2:00 pm then every fortnight until early December, then it is finished unless something extraordinary happens.
 
Relationships Australia at Elizabeth
13 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth. (between the swimming pool and junk food joints).
Free fruit, vegetables and bread. Every second Tuesday at 2:00pm via back door.
No I.D. or registration needed. Phone (08) 8255 3323.
Best to put your number on their SMS list as the Food Bank truck occasionally misses deliveries, especially on Tuesdays after Monday public holidays.
​
11 November 2019
​

Applying for a Christmas hamper at the Adelaide Magdalene Centre

From the anonymous contact page

“***my recent experience at the Magdalene centre to register for a Xmas hamper**😩😤😡

-Shocking intimidation interview by a male volunteer
- signing a document in case I’m sapinad to attend court
- proving my elegibility as I’m on Newstart
- asking me about my previous work history

Since when did these punitive measures from the Anglican charities become so brutal & punishing

*** I’m no meth or crack head but others make it HARD for the GENUINE ones that need help***”
 
Gypsy Soul

Magdalene Centre Adelaide CBD
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. Cantankerous employees. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday. Small free supermarket. Health Care Card required.
Two visits a year then after that a person must undergo financial counselling.

11 November 2019

Strange customers at Savers
​at Modbury

A man walking into Savers at Modbury wondered if he’d walked into the Twilight Zone. Two customers in the next aisle talked about the police. One said he would try to bash the next officer who arrested him. He said they always bashed him when he got arrested so next time he’d get them. He’d try to hurt the officer as much as he could.
 
The customer took a paining in a frame to the checkout. It was selling for $5.00. He said,
 
“A woman and her half-wit adult daughter were ahead of me. The half-wit daughter said she wanted the paining. I said it’s mine. The woman offered me twice the price I was paying. I said you could offer four times that and I wouldn’t sell it.
 
“After I paid for it and was walking away, the half-wit began bawling her eyes out. She wanted the painting. I kept walking. I didn’t know what would come of it.”
 
11 November 2019
​

Is the government making it hard for the underclass to volunteer their services? 

Malcolm the Mormon said the most challenging decision at St Bede’s is choosing a cup for coffee. The cups had previously been dirty or the enamel had worn out. They have been replaced, but the coffee cup P.T.S.D. has lingered in Malcolm’s mind.
 
The Baby-Faced Drug Dealer was there, a graduate of the Adelaide Zero Project. There were also ex-police amongst the diners. It appears that being either a police officer or a taxi driver is a sign that a person may end up at a charity soup kitchen.
 
Another St Bede’s client has entered the syndrome of Alzheimer’s and is unable to deal with everyday living.
 
Jill Rivers spent most of the morning talking to clients needing help with welfare bureaucracies. She has graduated from flipping hamburgers to social work.
 
The man formerly known as “The Most Active Volunteer” may be returning to service after being a client for the past few months. The problem is that applicants cannot become volunteers where they have previously been clients. However, he has previously been a work-for-the-dole “volunteer” at St Bede’s and left due to bad health. He also works without pay at another church.
 
Another problem is that volunteers are forbidden from associating with clients out-of-hours. This creates a new level of alienation between people.
 
It has now become difficult for the underclass to offer their services without pay. Anglicare, who run the St Bede’s free breakfasts, have reasons including ensuring that volunteers provide professional service comparable to salaried employees. But one could easily wonder if this isn’t another tentacle of the deep state exerting its control.
 
There was plenty of horrible carrots, decent potatoes, good bread and 2-minute noodles. Breakfast was terrific and the staff polite.
 
The men’s single toilet was filthy.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road)
8: 30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free.
Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway crackers, noodles, limited fruit and vegetables.
Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate, but clean toilets, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

11 November 2019
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On the Street
 
Residents of three South Australian Housing Authority (Housing Trust) units at Semaphore Park knocked holes in the walls to make one unit. They turned the space into a dope growing indoor garden, but the operation was too obvious and the police raided the joint.
 
*
 
A 70-year-old woman lived as a child in Port Adelaide opposite St Paul’s Church. She remembers as an 8-year-old when a man on Dale Street asking her to come into his house and play games with him. She declined his offer.
 
*
 
A woman nearly blind at Chat and Chew had problems with her medication pack. It was a blister pack filled by a computer with each day’s pills mixed together in a single bubble. Each bubble included her heart and diabetes pills. The problem was that the chemist had given her the wrong pack. They’d also given another female patient her pack.
 
She returned to the chemist and got the packs exchanged, but discovered the other woman had eaten some her pills.  
 
*
 
An injecting drug addict lives under tarpaulins connected to an overturned shopping trolley in Elizabeth. His hobby is talking to people on his CB radio.
 
*
 
A surveyor of the underworld said he’d seen drug addicts fighting over a bag of scabs.
 
*
 
Savers at Kilburn have replaced their Metal Halide overhead lights with LED lights. They are selling the old lights for six-dollars each. An enterprising homeless man bought them up and is selling them as artistic lights.
 
*
 
A man returned a packet of bread rolls to Coles. He wanted his money back. He said the bread had too many holes in it. He had cut one in half and showed it to her. The employee asked if he wanted to speak to the manager. “No,” the customer said, “He’s probably out back smoking a cigarette. Just give me my money back.”
 
*
 
At an Adelaide soup kitchen, there was a beautiful young woman whose arms and legs were covered in old scars and fresh cuts. Some were fresh while others were done seven years ago.
 
*
 
A soup kitchen man said the Public Trustee stole $19,000 from his bank account. This is a common complaint. Those placed under the Public Trustee use the word “stole”, not overcharged.
 
Similarly, the Guardianship Board (South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal) is also accused of facilitating thefts. A woman’s son was beaten so badly by a hotel security guard that he is now permanently and fully disabled. He got a Victims of Crime payout but, according to his mother, this was stolen by an accountant whose surname has three letters.
 
She complained to the Guardianship Board and got nowhere. She said a key player on the Board was friends with the accountant.
She is an example of how people talk about the disability and homeless welfare industries.  
 
*
 
Anglicare delivered more furniture to two Elizabeth retirement units re-designated as refugee accommodation. Bureaucrats have been visiting one unit nearly every day.
 
The other tenants, including an infirm 92-year-old and an 89-year-old blind woman, both white, are increasingly anxious about these new tenants. Will they be docile victims or torturers and killers from a defeated guerilla group? An Anglicare employee said the refugees would be arriving “straight from the airport”. That is all Anglicare told the tenants.
 
There are 7 remaining elderly tenants in the 16-unit complex that has been destined for “redevelopment”. The tenants will be transferred to other properties. But the transfer process has stalled and the elderly people are in limbo and quite concerned about being able to adapt to a new environment, especially the blind woman. And the 92-year-old tenant fell out of bed and spent the night on the floor because she is too weak to pull herself to her feet.
 
*
 
Salisbury Fred’s Van has begun wrapping cutlery in serviettes so patrons with bleeding sores on their hands don’t infect others via blood on the cutlery.
 
10 November 2019
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Thirty-five free hairdressers at the Junction Community Centre

Torrey cut my hair. No charge. She is a technician. It takes four-years to become a hairdresser, then another four to qualify as a technician. She works for De Lorenzo. Most of the other hairdressers were from salons across Adelaide. They do this every year.
 
Two women served free falafel rolls or hot dogs in a bun. A white derelict from a squat on Grand Junction Road went for the hot dog. He was the only homeless-style person on the property. And almost the only white-fella.
 
There were five or six stalls at the Community Centre and most people at the community centre were recent immigrants. Being a nominally white man, I felt hostile glances from the moment I stepped onto the property.
 
Thread Together had brought a van, but their supplies have been dwindling over the past few months. Another stall offered free bric-a-brac.
 
I left, appreciative of the free haircut and falafel.  
 
Anonymous
10 November 2019

(above) Aboriginal person's shelter in Port Adelaide. (November 2019)

Another homelessness expert soaking up the juice

The Don Dunstan Foundation has promoted their latest celebrity homeless expert as having drastically reduced homelessness in Chicago. This is Noni Brennan, the former C.E.O. of a homeless organisation named All Chicago.
 
But where is the proof that she reduced homelessness. The All Chicago group has a homeless dashboard, but it doesn’t show that homeless numbers have reduced. It shows very little of anything.
 
Perhaps Noni is an agent promoting another agenda while using the homeless issue as a cover. Anyway, she’s in Adelaide to give three 90-minute lectures over a period of 18 days. One lecture is named: Masterclass: The Art and Science of Fundraising with Dr Nonie Brennan.What she’s doing the rest of the time in Adelaide is a secret of the Don Dunstan Foundation.

​Who is paying for her trip is also being kept secret? Perhaps the $40-$55 ticket price of each of her three lectures will fund her presence. Whatever, we know that the ticket prices will be paid by Adelaide homeless organisations, government departments and donations to charities that might otherwise have gone to people living outside.
 
https://allchicago.org/dashboard-to-end-homelessness
 
9 November 2019

Centrelink wants $3000 from former Anti-poverty Network boss

The story is that Centrelink withdrew $3000 from Pas Forgione’s bank account saying they’d overpaid him.
 
Pas is reported as saying Centrelink has made a mistake. Centrelink often makes mistakes. It’s guilty until proved innocent in welfare land.
 
9 November 2019 
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Offenders’ Aid wants spy cameras
 
Offenders’ Aid (O.A.R.S. Community Transitions) wants spy cameras installed at the ex-offenders’ joint on Anne Close at Christies Downs, a southern suburb of Adelaide.
 
The place is plagued by squatters, house breakers and serious fights so surveillance cameras seem reasonable.
 
Yet this desired series of spy cameras will reduce our society further into a surveillance state where unknown authorities watch and record our lives.
 
These Deep State operatives begin with the most vulnerable and then work their way up the society until everything will be observed and recorded, even our brain waves.
 
9 November 2019

(above) Playford Council fenced off two carparks used by the Elizabeth library and Grenville Centre patrons. This left the option of using the new $8.1 million multi-story carpark, but drivers preferred to park in other increasingly crammed carparks.

(above) The 343-space Playford Council carpark remains empty except for four government vehicles. This is despite the first three-hours parking being free. The problem is that drivers and their infirm passengers discover the pedestrian entry doors are locked and the card readers faulty so they are forced to sneak around the boom gates.

(above) A view from the empty $8.1 million dollar four-floor Playford Council carpark in Elizabeth. So much money wasted on showpiece infrastructure while homeless people sleep outside.

Free food at Gilberton tonight
 
Bruce Kurtzer just sent an alert saying Faith Works offer free takeaway food at the Hope Chapel at 11 Park Terrace, Gilberton, which is a few metres from the notorious Park Terrace Housing Trust units.
 
The time is from 6:00pm to 7:00pm tonight. They don’t require your name or Centrelink card though you can sign up for their phone alerts that show you what’s coming up in the Faith
Works free food game.
 
Faith Works also give away free food at Parafield Gardens according to German Marten who will provide more information next week.
 
8 November 2019

From the anonymous contact page

Hah !
Remember time Hope Chapel brought food galore to Helliott Lodge: Hope Chapel offered box full of food for all to partake of. Dimwit neighbour took ENTIRE box and walked off with it for their own selfish self.
This is typical of some tenants at Helliott Lodge, Housing SA Hostile Hostel for Homeless.

From Me We
9 November 2019

Tragedy at Nanna’s Free Food Basket
 
Regular and new patrons of the free food service at Semaphore Park might have been unaware of the turmoil within.
 
This has resulted in graffiti on an ex-volunteer’s fence, a broken car window and a beating, (the latter of which might not have been connected).
 
Amid allegations of child neglect and drug dealing, a second family has been thrown into turmoil, unnecessarily.
 
Bakery supplies have reduced to the free service as the ex-volunteer told suppliers they were donating to “drug addicts”.
 
It isn’t clear who triggered the fear and loathing, but the trigger was a phone call to the police that resulted in a female volunteer being taken to jail on a matter that has been suppressed. Before that, there was concern that a teenage female adult was being dragged into “bad company”. The woman and her partner were summarily kicked out of Nanna’s Free Food Basket as volunteers.
 
Being put in jail meant she lost her rented flat along with much of her furniture. The pendulum swung the other way last Wednesday when a South Australian court judge determined she shouldn’t be in the women’s’ prison. She gets out next Wednesday.
 
As someone with friends on both sides, seeing these people smash each other up is a tragedy in motion. Bronwyn Plate, as leader and founder of Nanna’s Free Food Basket, should use her managerial and diplomatic skills to defuse the situation.
 
This is a mighty task as most volunteers and clients have had ferocious lives of violence and government oppression that has left them with a torment wanting expression.

Anonymous
Written with the help of Adelaide Homeless Journal
 
Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages)
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Men’s toilets designed with strange door giving women visual access to men inside. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets with normal doors.
 
8 November 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

“Is Spence Denny (ABC 891) deep state agent ?

examples:
former military
extreme two-face personality (similar to Murrie Niccles)”

Anonymous
8 November 2019

(above) Fresh vegetables have distinctive smells: corn is corn and cabbage smells like cabbage. But the free vegetables given away from Food Bank via charities all have a singular odour: rotting vegetable.

Theft of shower heads
 
A volunteer at the Gawler Visitor Centre and a paid employee at the Gawler Council both say the public showers at Pioneer Park have been closed permanently due to thefts of the shower heads and floor grills. This has happened repeatedly.
 
The Gawler Council employee said, “This is the way society is going.”
 
But a social worker suggests there might be another reason for the closure.
 
Early 7 November 2019
​

Fred’s Van no-show at Semaphore
 
The Fred’s Van team didn’t show up at the St Bede’s church hall in Semaphore last Sunday evening. Thirty people arrived to discover a notice on the board outside the building stating they wouldn’t be there.
 
Continuity of service is important in the homeless soup kitchen culture as going to Fred’s Van at Semaphore for some patrons is the social event of their week.
 
Early 7 November 2019
 

Fake Mr Fix-it
 
Anyone listening to Leon Byner on radio station 5AA in Adelaide will have heard him referring callers with Housing Trust complaints to the Minister of Housing, Michelle Lensink.
 
Many problems are with drug dealers and meth cooks operating in welfare houses and making life miserable for their neighbours.
 
Byner sends the complainers’ contact details to Minister Lensink. He tells radio listeners she will fix the problem. Byner gives himself credit for fixing things.
 
But on most occasions, there is no positive result from contacting the Minister. The drug dealers continue their operation with little interference from the police or the Housing Trust (South Australian Housing Authority).
 
If anything, word is leaked to the drug dealers about who complained and there are reprisals.
 
Leon Byner’s Mr Fix-it routine is for entertainment purposes only and, if anything, is a cover-up of the fact that drug dealers operate from Housing Trust units with apparent government approval.
 
Early 7 November 2019
 

Second Bite
 
A Gospel City Church volunteer went to Second Bite for a regular pick-up of rotting fruit and vegetables. Second Bite was closed. They’d moved. They hadn’t told Gospel City or every donor.
 
Luckily, a donor arrived with a truck and the produce was transferred to the Gospel City van.
 
Early 7 November 2019

Cameras in nursing homes
 
Stewart Johnston continues to encourage the government and private companies to install spy cameras in nursing homes to record and prevent abuse of patients.
 
But unknown strangers observing through cameras and recording staff performing intimate care procedures on senile and not-senile residents is abuse in itself.
 
Secretly observing and recording the private lives of residents ― including sharing beds ― is also abuse.
 
Secret surveillance began with prisoners and homeless people and will work its way up the social ladder until nearly every is surveilled 24-hours a day.
 
Stewart Johnson is a champion for the rights of nursing home residents, but his backing of spy cameras is leading to a degraded society.
 
Early 7 November 2019

(above) Desert Pitjantjatjara camp at Port Adelaide. Notice the poisoned ground. (Adelaide Homeless Journal late October 2019).

Wild days at The Stables
 
The workers at The Stables were distinctly uneasy last month after Pastor Sonny aimed a punch at a work-for-the-dole woman. Luckily, he missed and smacked his wife instead.
 
Later, he allegedly killed a duck with a shovel then buried it where it lay until the R.S.P.C.A. dug it up.
 
But none of this was Sonny’s fault, but due to his suffering a stroke six-months earlier.
 
The Stables is a Christian Centre at Lot 52, Piece 12, Brodie Road, Huntfield Heights. They raise money to send to Papua New Guinea. They also offer short-term housing for homeless men.
 
Late 6 November 2019

Christmas hamper season arrives
 
Some charities are already taking orders for Christmas hampers. It is important to sign up early as most hampers are allocated before the end of November.
 
Late 6 November 2019

(above) Food for the Community has closed its Hindmarsh Food Bank store (above) and has reopened at the old location of 135 Port Road, Queenstown. The Queenstown store is open from 11:00am to 2:00pm Monday to Friday and from 10:00am to 2:00pm on Saturdays.

​Bagster Road stabbing at Salisbury
 
Last week, the ex-railway worker rode his bicycle along Bagster Road in Salisbury. He saw three men fighting on the street. One man stabbed another in the neck. Blood poured onto the ground. The third man tried to hit the stabbed man with a bottle.
 
The ex-railway worker shouted at onlookers to call the police. They watched. The ex-railway worker called the police. They arrived in seven cars. The victim was taken away by ambulance.
The two attackers had fled the scene. The police spent three hours trying to find the knife.
 
They told the ex-railway worker he might have to testify in court. “That’s why no one wanted to call the police,” a friend told him.
 
And being a soup kitchen client, where the attackers may be clients, the ex-railway man faces a dangerous future.
 
5 November 2019
​

Mr Rock Solid
​kicked out of Food Barn

Mr Solid told an older man not to “touch” a 15-year-old girl elsewhere. The man did “touch” the girl. Mr Solid confronted the man last week at one of the druggies tables at the Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn. He told him to follow him outside, away from the security guard and spy cameras.
 
The other man jumped up and tried to hit Mr Solid. The guard and Anglicare staff told Mr Solid to get out and not return.
 
Mr Solid meets with the “state manager” on Thursday for reconciliation talks.
 
5 November 2019

(above) Two workers with the fibroscan unit that visits the Anglicare Food Barn once a month. A nurse holds a gadget against your stomach area. If the machine says you have liver fibrosis or cirrhosis, they urge you to have a blood test with a GP. These two workers say that Hepatitis C caught in the early stages can be cured with a course of pills. The fibroscan can be done anonymously.

Is Playford Council actively discouraging drivers from using its new parking station?

Even closing the parking areas on two sides of the library and interim Grenville Centre failed to attract new customers to the Playford Council’s $8.1 million four-floor carpark. There were just 4 vehicles in the 343-space building.
 
This is despite the first three-hours being free on weekdays and four-hours on Sundays.
 
I drove through the entrance boom gate after picking up a ticket from the machine then parked near the elevators. I walked down the stairs and through the pedestrian door that locked behind me.
There were two doors side by side: the solid door from the stairs that self-locked and a glass door that allowed entry with the insertion of the driver’s parking machine card. But the card reader wouldn’t unlock the glass door so for anyone returning to their car, entry through this door would be impossible. I pressed the “Help” button and a man with a foreign accent said, “I can open it,” but after five-minutes the door remained locked.
 
The only other way to return to the parking floors was by sneaking around the boom gates, which would have been unsafe if the carpark was busy ― and impossible for an invalid or an infirm elderly customer of the Grenville Centre.
 
This raises the question whether the Playford Council is actively discouraging customers from using the carpark. And it might explain why the building remains empty day and night apart from four Playford Council vehicles.
 
4 November 2019

Gospel City’s last stand
​at Munno Para

A big crowd of church people arrived, but instead of engaging in church activities, most were packing up. The roof was collapsing and RenewalSA told them to buy the property or get out. Moving the portable buildings at the back was going to be expensive.
 
Richard the Baker told a church woman that Gospel City should apply for government grants. But the woman, who had home-schooled her children, said they didn’t want money from the government.
 
Rock Solid told us about going into a house and seeing a 7-year-old Aboriginal boy smoking a bong. He complained, but was told the kid’s parents didn’t care.
 
The ultra-thin Ice woman walked through the back gates. She was thinner than ever and not smiling. Another woman pushed a huge yellow pill from a blister pack that she gave her fiancé to combat his Hepatitis C infection.
 
Another man said he’d seen six surgeons when he’d broken his lower right leg bone into dozens of pieces. Five doctors wanted to cut off his leg while the sixth tried an experiment. This surgeon fitted the bones together like a jigsaw puzzle and after one-year convalescing, the man has returned to normal.
 
However, Mick and Tania weren’t there. Mick had an even worse car smash and underwent another bout of surgery on his foot, leg and thighs. His leg was in a cast and he didn’t know if the surgeon had removed any of his toes or not. What he did know was that the leg had begun to stink. That’s why his absence was especially poignant.
 
There weren’t any free fruit or vegetables as Second Bite had been closed for a week due to moving locations. Instead, there was a BBQ with bacon, hamburgers, chicken, tomatoes, onions and sauces.
 
A generator powered the coffee urn as thieves had stolen the copper leading to the metre box. This was the second time and was done by professionals as the wires were live.
 
There won’t be any more free food days at the Munno Para address, but readers of Adelaide Homeless Journal will be notified when Gospel City finds a new distribution location.
 
4 November 2019
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(above) Free stuff given away by Faith Works every second Saturday at the Beacon of Hope Church of Christ on Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. They don't require I.D. or entry into the Eternal Shame File.

On the street
 
Members of the Hope Chapel at Gawler cannot praise Tony Piccolo, MP, enough. They say he helps advertise their free food service and wants to get all homeless service providers in the Gawler area to have a standard service product.
 
Some church-based groups see conversions and blessings the main function of their free food service while St Vincent de Paul avoids any religious talk.
 
From observations over the years, it seems that a much higher percentage of the underclass are religious compared to the rest of the population.
 
 
*
 
Rumour has it that a member of the Anti-poverty Network was booked to speak in a secondary role at the Don Dunstan Foundation homeless conference last August in the Adelaide Conference Centre.
 
This person’s subject was privacy rights of homeless people, but that the Don Dunstan crowd changed the topic to more money for those on NewStart.
 
*
 
Sophie Thompson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation thinks the rotting vegetables and other food handed out by the so-called “not-profits” such as Food Bank are causing health problems. She says people should grow their own produce in small plots.
 
*
 
“I get lunch outa the bin. Got a jar of olives and some gourmet cheeze plus a paper bag fulla still warm buns.”
 
From a woman who gets food from supermarket rubbish bins.
 
*
 
Farrel and O’Neill funerals in Adelaide have advertised on Seek for workers to pick up dead bodies and take them to the corpse fridge at Edwardstown.
 
*
 
The South Australian Medical and Health Research Institute has 800 researchers and support staff. They use backpackers and Australian citizens to research medical procedures and drug treatments for local and international drug companies. We are Third World guinea pigs.
 
*
 
Whatever happened to those eight Priority Clinics the government planned to build to treat people clogging hospital emergency departments?
 
Rumour has it that not one was built and that patients rejected by emergency departments are being sent to Elizabeth East and Marion Salvation Army Corps for help from volunteer social workers. Others are sent to that cheapo medical and dental clinic on Phillip Highway opposite OTR at Elizabeth. But no one is referred to the excellent GP Plus clinic because they not accepting new patients.
 
*
 
A Job Network (Job Active) joint was offering free tickets to West Side Story to clients who get jobs then provide their pay slips to the employment contractor. These contractors are paid extra by the government if they can prove they helped someone find employment.
 
But clients avoid the job search contractors once they’ve found employment and this forces the contractors to go through an exhausting process to document their clients successes in getting work.  
 
*
 
An old woman was looking through a supermarket rubbish bin in Wallaroo to get meat for her dog.
 
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Homeless Lil was at St Bede’s in Semaphore. She used to live in the laneway that leads from Sturt Street to St Luke’s church at Whitmore Square. She also slept on the verandah of the Magdalene Centre at Whitmore Square.
 
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A woman was talking and laughing at St Paul’s drop-in-centre at Port Adelaide. When the subject of poverty was introduced, she began crying, saying that since she lost her job she can’t afford essentials.
 
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Volunteers at Nanna’s Free Food Basket in Semaphore have been accused to spraying graffiti on the fence of an out-of-favour ex-volunteer. The ex-volunteer phoned the Housing Trust and within an hour a contractor repainted the fence. Someone also smashed a window of the ex-volunteer’s car.
 
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The man who slept on the floor of the Semaphore laundromat and then moved to the bushes on the sand dunes recently got a haircut that makes him appear a different person.
 
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The man dressing in a termite costume and spruiking the services of an exterminator in Edwardstown lived in his car near the old Mitsubishi factory.
 
Others doing Work-for-the-dole are sleeping behind churches. Others do courses, but are so poor the Job Network employees buy them lunch.
 
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Orange Sky Laundry parks their truck outside St Bede’s Anglican Church to catch the Fred’s Van crowd on Sundays. The truck is there from 4:30 – 6:30pm.
 
It’s strange that many people living in their cars in the beach parking area and on limited incomes still prefer laundromats that cost five-dollars a wash. There is something about Orange Sky that puts them off. Possible reasons are: 1) Orange Sky volunteers examine each item of clothing 2) the van is bright orange and parked near a busy road. 3) the service can be unreliable 4) volunteers might say the homeless person has brought too much laundry and can do just one load. 5) clients feel subservient.  
 
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​Grant said he isn’t going to Heart and Soul on Phillip Highway anymore because last time he waited, “two hours for four bananas”.
 
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The Salisbury Senior Citizens choral choir at the Jack Young centre is closing down at Christmas. Members are dropping like flies, going blind or cannot stand up long enough to sing a song.
 
They visit nursing homes, but these places have thrown out their pianos. The choir used a portable keyboard, but the members have become too weak to lift it. One member is so weak that when she falls to the floor at night, she hasn’t the strength to get up.
 
The choir has attracted younger members, but they haven’t the skills to singe choral tunes. They prefer songs like “Roll out the Barrel” and other pub songs.
 
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Damian from St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre caught a taxi to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He hadn’t been eating for a number of days. He spent three-months in hospital in late 2017.
 
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As a lad, Bruce Kurtzer of Faith Works collected bottles from a supermarket back door, then took them through the front door to collect the deposit.
 
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An ex-Army man was incensed when three Arabs dressed in traditional costume walked by the Victory Church BBQ area. He also said that police avoided the Aboriginal drug dealers for fear of being hit with a discrimination complaint.
 
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A man who volunteered at Baptist WestCare on Wright Street, Adelaide said his blood sugar levels “went through the roof” when he ate the free pies and other pastries. When he retired and returned to healthier food, his health improved.
 
3 November 2019

Snakes in ACOSS $$$$

From the anonymous contact page

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Rainbow 🌈 folk devils trying to speak for those who can’t ARTICULATE raising Newstart - all smoke & mirrors - Scomo laughing 😂 whilst they try to say activism is toxic apocalyptic brain washing 😆

Tr
 
3 November 2019

(above) A homeless man spent an afternoon sleeping on this mattress next to the Salvation Army store in Salisbury. Since the Salisbury Council began using Titanium Security to expel homeless people from the Salsibury Football Club oval, there has been an influx of rough sleepers elsewhere in the Salisbury business area. The police have been kicking sleepers out of the railway station area.

Happy Hour at the Elizabeth
​Food Barn 

It was the day after the Anti-poverty week celebration in the secret garden back of the Food Barn. Everyone seemed happy. Even a druggie walked in singing a Buddy Holly song. Maybe a dealer had brought in a load of juice.
 
A 28-year-old man at our table was too sick to eat lunch. He gave the leftovers from his plate to the man next to him who had arrived with a tall-stemmed wine glass that he filled with Coke from the serving counter. The wine glass man ate the sick man’s leftovers without a second thought.
 
George the Elder couldn’t eat the roast beef and sausages on his plate so he gave it to Tricky Mick. This contrasts with the client at Fred’s Van Salisbury who brings her own cutlery to avoid infections. Both Fred’s Van Salisbury and the Food Barn put their cutlery in trays where a druggie with bleeding sores on his or her hand might touch ten pieces before removing a knife, fork and spoon.
 
The meal included leftovers from yesterday including vegie-burgers. (But they were from the freezer, not re-heated from food grilled the previous day). The Food Barn has 44 chairs for diners plus three high chairs for infants. The room was never more than 90% full, but went through three waves of diners.
 
Kirsty the non-Cook brought her son and monster husband. The usual Friday meat and vegetable raffle was held. It was a good lunch.  
 
Anglicare Food Barn Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth.  (near the shopping centre and police station).
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.
 Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm. No dessert, No takeaways. Faulty salt and pepper shakers at front counter only. Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

2 November 2019

Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury railway station

A joyous 23-year-old woman held a doll designed to mimic a real baby. She was pregnant herself, but showed no discomfort holding a pretending baby. She has happily vacant, but not a drug user.
 
Eleven black Africans, Aborigines and two white fella women raged outside the doors of the Stockade Tavern. They were either drunk or on Ice, or both. The manager came out and yelled at them. Then she yelled at Steve the Preacher from Victory Church. They both went over to the drunks and got them to move.
 
A white fella had a fight with a stockier black fella until it was broken up by a white-haired black fella who threatened to hit both of them. He appeared 55, but others said he was 70. He’s won the Golden Gloves award three times, but is also respected as an elder.
 
Later, the schizophrenic white fella on Ice sat with the black fellas. One threatened to bash him, but the white fella was too far gone to take notice. The Horse Trainer Lady went over and appeased everyone and got the white fella to leave the black fella territory at the railway station.
 
One man said he was sick either from a Hep B vaccine booster or from contaminated parsley he’d gotten from Second Bite.
 
Steve the Preacher said he wasn’t worried about the atmosphere of violence as he’d work for Jesus anywhere.
 
A man talked about mixing chop-chop with tobacco. He said his wife does it so he’ll start using chop-chop as it is cheaper than legal tobacco. Another man said it is legally safer to grow and sell cannabis than tobacco.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury.
They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

2 November 2019
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(above) A police officer gave away kids' police hats at the Anglicare poverty week celebration earlier this month at Elizabeth. Druggies grabbed the hats saying they were for their children and grandchildren. But talk afterward was about becoming police impersonators and writing lots of tickets.

Kat Lee closes Hindmarsh and reopens Queenstown store

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Kat Lee has closed the Food for the Community store in the old Hindmarsh Mission building on the grass at Hindmarsh.
 
She has reopened the old store at 135 Port Road, Queenstown.
The Queenstown store is open from 11:00am to 2:00pm Monday to Friday and from 10:00am to 2:00pm on Saturdays. She’s back with her people.
 
It is now an Op Shop with a small grocery section. More details next week.
 
1 November 2019
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Orange Sky misses another date
​at Salisbury

It’s a scam raising money for a $100,000 laundry truck then repeatedly cancelling a scheduled service for fear that it might rain. Orange Sky Laundry issues so many self-praising media releases that we might expect the service to be regular.
 
Salisbury’s leading shoplifter was at the Salisbury Institute. He steals only the best quality products. He is a professional in his chosen career. His skill lies in his casual approach when placing items inside the front of his trousers. There are no nervous gestures, no looking around to see if the way is clear for this professional.
 
An admirer of the professional said that Bunnings had been losing $100,000 a week from heroin-addicted shoplifters. Shoplifters bought an item, took it to their car, returned and took an identical item from the shelf and walked out the front door holding the receipt for the first one. They did this repeatedly without problems from Bunnings until the hardware store brought in undercover security guards.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise spent six-hours fixing his car then discovered he hadn’t enough petrol to drive to Fred’s Van.
 
An older diner said he felt sick from a Hep B vaccine and locked himself in the disability toilets then shouted through the grate at other patrons leaving the dining room. His state of mind is deteriorating.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
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1 November 2019

Victory Church BBQ
 
The Street Reach Team spoiled the evening by taking photographs of us without our permission and, in some cases, our knowledge. Jen, who wasn’t using her phone camera, asked if we minded our pictures being put on Facebook. At least one client strongly objected.
 
Other diners were surprised to learn that someone from Victory Church had previously put their images onto Facebook without asking permission.
 
Such self-promotion by the Street Reach Team as do-gooders leave us in the narrative as “sad cases”.
 
One diner from an Asian country was unhappy about other things. He said he hadn’t come to Australia to get a pension. He said he could do more “boom-boom”, but “what’s the future for them” in Australia. He said he spends 14 days a fortnight at home then goes out once, to the Victory Church BBQ. He’d gone to Gawler, but said it was “racial”.
 
A Salisbury business was broken into by thieves who stole the donation tin. Suspicions have fallen upon one of the Victory Church clients. It was a similar raid to the Sunrise Bakery in Gawler South though the suspects there were Fred’s Van clients.
 
A man in his seventies worked all his life until falling victim to the pokies scourge. He was distraught at the BBQ because he can’t get his driver’s license back after having a stroke.
 
The tea bags and milk ran out by 7:45pm.
 
The thin-faced man who carries his stuff in a baby pram appeared to be on Ice. Another druggie walked by carrying a baby-blue blanket. He is Salisbury’s most successful shoplifter, but spends his money on drugs. He got kicked out of home for not paying the rent and has since moved into a city homeless joint. He’s filling one of the vacancies left by drug addicts shipped to suburbia by the Adelaide Zero Project.
 
The preacher talked about uniting all the churches of Adelaide so they could become a united force that the government would have to listen to.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury.
They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitoes. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

1 November 2019

(above) Hope Chapel offers a free BBQ from about 6:00pm on the first Friday of each month. It's on the corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West. No I.D. or registration required. Anyone can go.

Beacon of Hope Church at Elizabeth
 
Faith Works combines with this Church of Christ every few weeks to provide old bread, fruit and vegetables, and one or two grocery items without charge. They don’t require a Health Care Card or entry into the Eternal Shame File.
 
On a recent Saturday morning they offered to each person four 400-gram pouches of Dole pineapple and mixed fruit, and two one-litre bottles of Coke along with unlimited old fruit and vegetables.
 
After 42 people were served, Bruce Kurtzer said everyone could grab whatever was left over because they didn’t want to take anything back.
 
Hope Church also served coffee with sausages, onions and sauce on bread. Everything was free.
 
However, every free venue is giving away less and less, but those who go to multiple venues can still get adequate supplies. This environment disadvantages disabled people who don’t have the mobility.
 
The bad part at the Church of Christ is the stench. Their drains are faulty and every two-minutes a terrible stench washes through the building and over the grounds.
 
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ, Elizabeth
cnr Short and Ashfield Rds., Elizabeth on select Saturday mornings.
Regular Saturday food giveaways from 10:00 to 10:45 am. They don’t require a Centrelink card or collect personal data. For more details get on the Faith Works SMS list.  https://www.facebook.com/Faithworks.events
 
31 October 2019
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Cos We Care at Elizabeth

Cos We Care continues its move towards snacks and a hot breakfast due to a shortage of fruit and vegetables. They also give away plenty of used clothing.
 
A man and woman from Kerala in India regularly donate bags of cleaned used clothing. Their children are the best behaved of any at Fremont Park.
 
Cos We Care served fried chicken, salmon rolls, hot doughnuts, and chocolate crackles made by Ros’s kids. Bryony was yelling. Samantha was crying. The sub-genius man was missing. Judith Durham had the calm of someone recovering from a cold. The new volunteer from the Gloucester units has proved a natural. Anne and John Cooper were missing. Junice was normal. A druggie in the queue said he expected to be in jail by the weekend. He said he wants to collect bad debts before he goes inside.
 
Cos We Care gave away good tins of food and free fruit drinks and bags of rice. The woman who gave a donation the previous week, then wanted it back after inspecting the free food, wasn’t there. She is known as The Beast.
 
Cos We Care
​Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
Also, on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing.

31 October 2019

(above) Clients were allowed one potato each at the Salisbury Fred's Van free takeaway room on a recent Sunday evening. Staff also divided loaves of five-day old bread into repackaged half-loaves along with fermented iced buns cut in half. "We can give only what we get," a senior volunteer said.

​The Robert Simms fallacy
 
As an Adelaide City Councilor and former Green’s M.P., Robert has been forced to promote the myth that anyone could become homeless, particularly those who live from pay cheque to pay cheque. Well, he is sort of right but, generally, he is wrong.
 
Most people have other options in life they can rely on to prevent becoming homeless. The fact is that people living outside come from particular social classes such as generational unemployed families, or being Aboriginal, or being victims of pedophiles working in children’s’ homes. Others ― and this group is the major component of the homeless population ― simply cannot adapt to social conventions and spend their lives on the edge of exclusion.
 
There are exceptions, but very few people in the general population are two weeks from becoming homeless.
 
Robert Simms’s problem or, rather, our problem, are his political affiliations that lock him into a position regardless of its rightness. For example, Robert is trapped in the “help the homeless” doctrine of the Don Dunstan Foundation where the so-called “help” further erodes the dignity and privacy of people living outside.
 
It puts every homeless person into the drug addiction and mental illness category. This locks most homeless people out of homeless services because they prefer physical suffering to the destruction of their internal self-esteem that comes with joining the Adelaide Zero Project life management program.
 
Early 30 October 2019

The Horse Trainer Lady
​goes for a tumble

There was commotion at the back of the hall. The Horse Trainer Lady had fallen to the floor. Friends helped her to a dining table. Tim and Kate got her coffee and a meal from the serving tables. She had fallen earlier in the day and sprained her ankle and it had given way a second time. This happened while she was standing in the queue that stretched from the stage to the other end of the Salisbury Institute Hall.
 
Orange Sky Laundry left early before the meal was served. Very unusual, but at least this Sunday they had actually turned up.
 
The free takeaway food room was terrible. I came out with an empty bag perfect for lining the garbage bin. The Cambodian woman grabbed more than her share, oblivious to our silent condemnation. Long, from Vietnam, scolded her, but apart from returning one leek, she ignored him.
 
Marten and Shuffles weren’t there. Shuffles has serious heart problems and has purchased her coffin and a plot. That’s why she is poor.
 
A volunteer came for the meal because he’d run low on money. He has a university degree and does occasional paid work as well as unpaid work at Fred’s Van.
 
The crowd was huge. You could feel the desperation. There weren’t enough chairs so some diners sat in the foyer. The fresh salad ran out before everyone was served as did the ice cream and even the hot water for coffee. The meal is such a flash event that the idea of getting more hot water from the kitchen was impractical.
 
An old man sitting at our table said he and his wife were fined $350 each by Centrelink for living in the same house and collecting separate pensions.
 
Two Ice addicts arrived after the meal was finished. They got some food from the kitchen. Later, when the doors had closed, another addict arrived, but got nothing.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
 
Early 30 October 2019
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(above) The Anglican church are a clever mob. To avoid dumping costs, they're giving away their "surplus stock". Expect wild behaviour next Thursday when the hoarders arrive at the crack of dawn.

Let’s go surfing,
​but only three times a year

The church-based Southern Urgency Relief Fund (S.U.R.F.) is a collaboration of seven churches down Noarlunga way. They’ve joined together to share data and thus limit residents to visiting any seven of their venues for a total of just three visits a year.
 
Some within the group sense this is Mickey Mouse welfare, but rationalise it by saying it will more fairly distribute whatever they offer.
 
The Chair of the Southern Urgency Relief Fund (ABN 5487606242) is property developer Gary Hennessy.
 
29 October 2019
 

The New Guy badmouths
​regular patrons

They let The New Guy through despite him not bringing a pensioner card. Then he spent the next 15 minutes bad-mouthing patrons for not deserving to be there. He doesn’t know their background stories and that most fit the client criteria perfectly. Sadly, there weren’t many homeless people at the church, apart from a couple of Ice addicts, because those who are homeless generally avoid free food venues.
 
The entry system has gone from animal cards to numbers after many clients couldn’t differentiate between animals and birds. I couldn’t. They all appeared the same.
 
Staff now leave the toilets unlocked. They had previously locked them after numerous visits by the toilet paper thief.
 
The Seventh-day Adventist crowd gave away large cold hams and when the vegetarian said he didn’t eat meat, they offered him two 100-gram packets of Huon smoked salmon. He grabbed them like a starving man. Strange vegetarian.  
 
A white fella from the church said they are starting a new free food venue. The woman who says she likes sex and talks about it frequently said it is at 240 Peachey Road, Smithfield. It starts in December.
 
The unpaid workers at Peterswool Road get what is left over unlike that place in Semaphore Park where volunteers take what they want before the clients arrive.
 
Seventh-day Adventist Church
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays.
Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp, even earlier. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some groceries. Health Care Card required. Four visits each month allowed. Happy atmosphere.

29 October 2019
 

Gawler Fred’s Van late
 
The St Vincent de Paul volunteers were late. They parked the van under the tree, but on the wrong side of the park bench. The volunteers didn’t understand whether the coffee was self-serve or served by staff. There wasn’t any salt or pepper.
 
A volunteer took photographs without our permission. They might be used to promote Fred’s Van as wonderful people helping the “needy”, but where does that leave us in the narrative? Are we the pathetic “needy” people, the bad, the mad or the sad? Or self-respecting sentient human beings?
 
The Gawler South Bakery pastries were terrific. The Tuna Mornay was fine, made with tuna donated by Diane the previous week. There was also pasta in a meat sauce plus sandwiches with inadequate filling.  
 
I ate very little as the two packets of semi-cooked spaghetti from Gospel City Church sat like a lump of concrete in my stomach.  What seemed to be Chinese noodles was half-cooked spaghetti in sealed plastic bags. No wonder it didn’t sell and ended up at Fred’s Van. Who would buy such a product?
 
One diner said he’d gone to the U Care Monday morning tea. He said the staff were pushy and insulting. He said he was talking with someone then turned around and found his coffee and meal gone, taken into the kitchen and thrown into the rubbish. He got kicked out when he complained. We agreed the food was diabetes-inducing and did us more harm than good. U Care are unwitting poisoners.
 
Another diner showed us an x-ray of his finger broken in a fight.
 
The New Guy was there and as he does at other soup kitchens, he bad-mouthed the clients non-stop, saying they didn’t deserve to be there.
 
No one talked about the robbery in Pioneer Park the previously Thursday, just after the Fred’s Van had left. Most of us knew who did it and looked around nervously as we spoke. We didn’t want to become victims.
 
Then the volunteers packed up the van and left, far too early as they’d arrived late. Nevertheless, it was a nice event.
 
Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van
Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thurs 6:00pm.
Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread and Cheesecake shop cakes. Under or near the Lions Rotunda. Wonderful free showers nearby until 5pm.

29 October 2019
 

(above) The back of the Salisbury Football Club oval where ten homeless people were camping including a couple with a child. Meanwhile, highly paid Housing Trust executives administer a policy of keeping welfare rental units empty for long periods.

(above) After being pushed out of the Salisbury Football Club oval complex, homeless people have started sleeping in business doorways. Police have warned homeless folk on the streets at night to be wary of a Sudanese gang that targets homeless people.

(above) Along with the Titanium guard who rouses the homeless from their sleep, the Salisbury Council has erected fencing around the usually locked toilets to stop people sleeping under the eaves.

Hope Chapel monthly free BBQ
​at Gawler West

The chapel food van arrived long before their official opening time. At least 24 aluminium chairs were set around five or six outdoor tables. A large quiet generator lit the van and table area with a blinding light. The mosquitoes were alive and hungry.
 
There were initially forty people present including ten church volunteers. Another 15 or 20 diners arrived over the next two hours.
 
Dale was there from the Victory Church BBQ at Salisbury. He lives the next street over and his dad lives across from the park and is part of Hope Chapel.
 
A diner named Melissa said people shouldn’t have to pay for water in Australia because water just is. A young man said the BBQ was an attempt to restore a lost sense of community. An old man said, “It won’t happen.” He believes in Armageddon.
 
Two diners talked about their biopsies for throat cancer while the heart and lung man sat with two enraptured girls for two hours.
 
Yiros were served from the van along with coffee in paper cups. The Yiros were made from fresh ingredients, not rotting Food Bank rubbish.
 
An old man from the church saw a two-year-old girl walking down the road. He called a woman to retrieve the kid. He wouldn’t take a chance bringing the girl back, not being a man. “Not these days,” he said, and we men muttered in agreement. Too dangerous in this era of mass hysteria.
 
Gawler Hope Chapel Food Truck
 
Corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West
1st Friday of each month at 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Sausages, bread, coffee, sweet buns. Tables and chairs and a generator on the grass. Child friendly.   
Free. No I.D. or registration required.
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28 October 2019
 

Cos We Care at Elizabeth
 
Allan Junior (A.J.) had another car crash. He wrote off a $7000 vehicle. He’s had at least three other crashes. A friend said that A.J. was now “in a pickle”.
 
A client asked me if the Housing Trust still existed.
 
Another said that when he was the manager of a dishwashing machine, Chinese patrons put 15 spoons of sugar in their coffee then didn’t stir it. The dishwashing machine couldn’t handle it so the machine manager had to wash their cups by hand. Some Cos We Care clients in the city want only eight spoonfuls of coffee and eight of sugar in each cup. What marvelous restraint.
 
Trevor the Volunteer was in hospital with high blood pressure. He works 90 hours a week and can’t stop.
 
The pure black Sudanese woman was alone. She is self-assured, but most are wary or afraid of her. She crams heaps of other Sudanese into her small apartment while the Housing Trust keeps other units empty.
 
Two volunteers have moved north from the city and will help Cos We Care at Elizabeth. Another new woman starts next week.
 
A volunteer asked the woman with purple hair and on a mobility scooter why she didn’t wave to him as he drove past her last week. She said she doesn’t wave to strangers. He said he wasn’t a stranger as they’d worked together for years. She repeated, “I don’t wave to strangers.”
 
A client who volunteered at the Playford Community Fund in the Elizabeth shopping centre said that staff were negative towards clients. He said criticism may be useful for people with a positive self-image, but broken people need praise and encouragement.
 
There were 50 clients and about 8 volunteers at Cos We Care in Elizabeth, a larger number than usual.
 
Cos We Care
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
Also, on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing.

28 October 2019
 

Another big drop in the Adelaide Zero Project homeless count

The Don Dunstan Foundation was even later than usual reporting its monthly Adelaide CBD homeless count. Nevertheless, it’s another victory for the Adelaide Zero Project. The number has dropped from 163 to 141.
 
This follows the incredible drop the previous month from 208 to 163. That reduction so astounded the bureaucrats that they pledged to investigate it further. Well, they haven’t published any details on their investigation, but instead have removed the footnote from the statistics saying they would. Isn’t propaganda beautiful?
 
The current number of 141 is two less than 17 months ago when the money rushed into the Adelaide Zero Project amidst their claim that they would reduce Adelaide CBD homelessness to “functional zero” in two years. Eight months to go.
 
The reduction of two has cost approximately six-million dollars. That’s three million per person. What a bargain. Plus it has created at least two-dozen jobs for social work certificate and degree graduates.
 
With the number reducing slower than expected, the new talk is they’ve extended their deadline to the end of 2020, which will be nearly three years after the project was announced. And instead of “functional zero homelessness”, the target will be to halve the rate. Oh, and they want more money. It’s like Premier Mike Rann and Monsignor David Cappo doing a repeat performance.
 
By reading the Adelaide Zero Project dashboard one might observe a volatility in the statistics that might be explained last month by 44 people being temporarily sheltered and thus removed from the “rough sleeper” count. Word on the street is that some of these are homeless prostitutes the government put into hotels to more safely continue their profession? Others have been moved into bedbug-infested backpacker joints.
 
Another 29 have been put on the inactive list. Does this mean they’ve found housing or simply gone incognito to evade the “multi-disciplinary teams” formed to track them down and “offer help”?
 
Perhaps the Don Dunstan Foundation should add a disclaimer to their homeless count dashboard. “For entertainment purposes only.”
 
https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/
 
27 October 2019
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(above) Free haircuts with 35 hairdressers at Junction Community Centre at 2a May Terrace, Ottoway this Sunday, 27 October 2019. Phone to make appointment on 8341 1334 or 0404 232 110.They don't require Centrelink cards or I.D., or ask where you come from.

Sad days in the City of Salisbury 

The plain clothes police officer saw me watching from behind a hedge a patrol car departing the Salisbury police compound. He wanted to know what I was doing there. I was glad I hadn’t worn my SA Police hat given to kids at Anglicare the previous week. This officer and the real police were looking for a Para Banks shopping centre Ice dealer.
 
The dealer had two scuffles with a security guard during the previous hour. The guard stole the dealer’s coat while the dealer got the guard’s phone. The dealer later returned for his coat. Not the smartest move, but he’d been sampling his product. He’d been selling inside the shopping centre for weeks.
 
The Lion’s Club BBQ van was parked between the PBA-FM and Salisbury Institute buildings. A woman named Baby stood near the locked front door. Her nose was pierced with metal rings. She talked about the woman who broke her huge boyfriend’s arm. Baby had been there when the woman tried to kill her 4-day-old baby. Later, the mother and the boyfriend stole Baby’s clothing, jewelry and her phone. That’s what Baby said, anyway.
 
I remember when the mother came to Fred’s Van after welfare confiscated her baby. She was depressed, but glowing with love hormones from her pregnancy. Within two weeks, she’d recovered her equilibrium as if the recent past had never occurred.
 
The Cambodian woman sat at our table in the dining room with her 4-year-old son. She wore a plastic glove on her left hand. She ate with that hand. She ate so greedily and messily that a can collector next to her left the building in disgust. He missed dessert. The Cambodian woman said to her son, “Here, eat, my little doggy, my little puppy.” The kid ate in a more civilised manner.
 
The former Australian SAS man sat at the opposite end of the table. He cried each time he got up. He said he had diabetes and would lose both legs. And multiple organ failure, he said. He explained the burn marks on his arms as cigarette burns. He burned his arms to take attention from the torment in his head. But the scars appeared more from petrol or napalm than smokes. He had red sores all over his arms. He scraped at one on his hand. His body was stick thin as if he’d been an extra in a movie about concentration camps. He talked about his SAS Commander, about something not being right.
 
Was this 47-year-old who appeared to be 65 a real ex-SAS soldier? Another former soldier said, “Yes, he has the steel, but he’s burnt out. He’s exhausted.”
 
The SAS fellow had earlier been sitting in an armchair outside the Salvation Army Op Shop telling drivers parking their cars that he was going to kill himself. Two passing dealers making deliveries offered to sell him some “crack”.
 
Back in the dining room, he told me that he was thinking of “doing away with myself”. He left the building crying. A Fred’s Van worker walked down the street and around the corner, looking for him.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

27 October 2019
 

(above) Savers pretends to be the Red Nose babies charity, but it is a private business owned by two American equity firms. Red Nose gets a tiny share of the profits for helping Savers commit what appears to be a scam. See the 21 October 2019 post for the fuller story.

Child Protection talk at Fred’s Van
 
We saw him at a distance. He carried a section of room divider on his head. He approached us from the area near the Child Protection agency. He came into the St Vincent de Paul complex. Someone punched the room divider and he nearly fell over. Others shouted at the attacker to stop. The room divider man put the padded board near the Conference Centre where people go for Coles cards and food packages.
 
With that incident over, we talked about charity food giving us diabetes. One of the kindest diners said he’d live a long life because he ate the right food. “And a half bottle of Gin each day,” he added. “And all the beer I can get.”
 
Another man tried to engage us in a protest outside the Child Protection joint. He said they put his confiscated autistic son alone in a room of one-way mirrors.
 
Another diner was stick-thin and said the scars on his arms were from burns he’d inflicted to take his mind off itself. He explained his sores as well. He talked about being in the military.
 
Rock Solid and Rosie were in good moods. Mr Solid talked philosophy while banging his hand on the kitchen window. It was a pleasant evening.
 
The meal was chips, salad, lasagna, focaccia, ice-cream and canned fruit. Nicely prepared. The staff were also pleasant.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat café plus outdoor seating. Hot dogs, main meal, sandwiches, dessert, coffee, takeaways. Limited free bread and fruit in Op Shop most days.
Also, every Sunday at 12:00noon. Food used for meals is fresh and not from Food Bank. Supermarket purchase vouchers available during the week from the Conference Centre back of the café.
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26 October 2019

George the Elder’s strange dentist
 
George the Elder couldn’t understand the dental surgery at Marion. He said the government sent him to it after his failed attempt to get treatment at the Adelaide Dental Hospital.
 
The Marion surgery was too neat. That made George suspicious for starters. He’d arrived 30-minutes early yet there’d been no phone calls and no other patients. When he was called into the treatment room, there wasn’t a patient coming out.
 
George said three “teenage girls” worked there, but they stayed out back. There was no talking. Everything was quiet. The dentist extracted two of George’s teeth and repaired two others along with his partial plate. Yet George doubted he was a real dentist.
 
A friend supported George’s doubts. He said he needed to book a truck to transport a race horse in Perth. He went to the address and discovered it was a dental surgery. He said to the receptionist, “This may sound silly, but do you do horse transport here?” The receptions pulled out a booking ledger and arranged transport for the race horse.
 
The friend’s horse transport experience only reinforced George the Elder’s belief that something strange is going on at Marion. He will investigate further.
 
26 October 2019

Seniors’ Information Service

From the anonymous contact page
 
Comment

“whose the fart always complainin ? reminds us of fat ass obnoxious fella with cane at seniors information service, always findin fault with everyone except himself. p.s. still attending this place at "cota catalyst" last time we went. a real spoiler. please stay away jose / uncle big butt bastard.”
 
From “Knock Out”
26 October 2019

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Comment

Thanks for valuable URL:

miragenews.com

and

Night Talker old reunion trick

some real killers here.
 
Anony Mouse
26 October 2019

Free food at Gilberton Chapel tonight
 
Faith Works offers free fruit and vegetables at the Gilberton Chapel this evening from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
 
The address is 11 Park Terrace, Gilberton and is quite close to the notorious Park Terrace Housing Trust units and the Adelaide Clinic, a private psychiatric hospital.
 
The free stuff might not be any good, but at least Faith Works don’t put clients’ names into the government’s Eternal Shame File.
 
25 October 2019

Full steam ahead at Nanna’s
​Free Food Basket

A volunteer told me not to speak to the other volunteers. She said the situation was tense. She said I’d already spoken to one who had complained. It was an accusation of wrong, speaking to a volunteer. I’d already had to jump sideways on the footpath to avoid being hit by a third unpaid worker swinging a bucket and staring at me accusingly. Yet, for once, I was non-guilty of everything. I didn’t want to get involved.
 
There had been allegations of child neglect and drug dealing. As a result, some volunteers have disappeared while others have stayed. One volunteer showed me an application for a police clearance. This is the new regime being put into place.  
The air was thick with aggression in expectation of attack, but Bronwyn held the place together without drama. And if any of the customers knew what was going on, they didn’t show it. The free food queue reached the back gate and stayed that way for the first twenty minutes with people going around the free tables then into the Food Bank store, the dining room or leaving via the carpark. Whatever the drama within the organisation, it hadn’t affected customer numbers. Business is booming. They’re doing something right and this includes not requiring I.D. or putting clients’ personal details into the Eternal Shame File.
 
The Coles bread was old, but the Baker’s Delight was fine, probably baked the day before. The bakery selection was reduced as dissidents have told suppliers that Nanna’s Free Food Basket is operated by crooks. There were unlimited oranges.
 
A pleasant woman sat at the front table. She handed out raffle tickets. She replaced that bad-tempered elderly lady who had the diplomacy skills of a King Brown snake startled by an unwary bush walker. She didn’t empathise with the underclass, to say the least.
 
Bronwyn said they’re planning to bring in free hairdressers at both the Bower Cottages and the Masonic Centre.
 
I didn’t stay for the meal due to the huge crowd and the thick atmosphere. Such an atmosphere discourages homeless people from accessing the free food because they are already under huge stress and don't want more. 
 
Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages)
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Men’s toilets designed with strange door giving women visual access to men inside. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets with normal doors.
 
Adelaide Homeless Journal Second Editor
​25 October 2019
​

George the Elder visits a doctor
 
George the Elder told a doctor he had restless legs and moved about when he went to bed. The doctor gave George some pills. George said the pills made him feel better, but there were side-effects. “I was having dreams. The problem was I was wide awake,”  George said.
 
He stopped using the pills. He went through withdrawal symptoms. He said it was as if he was getting the flu and one day he had trouble walking home. He said, “I was walking home and didn’t think I was going to make it.”  
 
The pills were for those suffering manic-depression or epilepsy. George hasn’t the symptoms of these conditions. George is simply very old. George said he won’t take the pills again.
 
25 October 2019

From the anonymous contact page

"​Good old anti-poverty week celebration..."

Should bear warning

DO NOT READ WITH BROKEN RIBS
Nagging Cough
Manic Psychotic
etc

lest yer own laughter kill ya or risk trip to doctor hospital etc...

Ha ha ha ha ha...

Stop! Yer Killin us...

BEST WAY TO DIE

laughing...”

Tenant Creak
25 October 2019
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The old reunion trick
From the Night Talker

“A way of surviving that is actually quite neat (and not illegal for a change!)

“I have two friends around my age (just gone past the big 5-0 point) and we got together a few weeks back, to chat and check out, what had been happening since we last met.
 
“My two (male) friends are in a similar predicament to myself. Single, struggling to survive on the crap payment that is known as Newstart, juggling their Job network requirements and occasionally getting a bit of work, here and there. (Like me)
 
“When we started discussing what we were doing (they know of my bin-diving and curb side collecting, as they do much the same) they said, they have taken this one step further. Whilst going from place to place, curbside collecting (which they do reasonably well out of) one of the pair (they are not gay by the way, just older single guys, who find it easier to survive cohabitating together, rather than struggling on their own) they told me they started noticing that their was always a reunion happening somewhere. (There is actually a reunion page on the third to last page of the Sunday Mail, that you can read each week.)
 
“So after this revelation and watching a video called the Wedding Crashers (where the two lead characters, go from Wedding to Wedding for free booze and food) They decided to do something similar, except they don't go to weddings (this requires expensive suits and a hardcopy invitation) they go to reunions or centenary celebrations (The ones in the smaller country towns are more lucrative than in the posher suburbs)
 
“So far they have been to around 19 and the count keeps going up. One of my friends told me, that because they both have bright red hair, it is very easy to pass yourself off as a distant cousin of distant Irish relative. So they become Donnelley's or O Malley's or Flaherty's etc etc. Or they just turn up and say a relative lived in the town that is having the re-union. (Nobody remembers and nobody cares, they are always welcomed)
 
“Its a nice day out, plenty of free food, sometimes they get a copy of the odd book that has been printed as part of the re-union or centenary celebration, meet the locals and drive home happy.
 
“Whilst they are there, they of course are scrounging for any curbside treasures (they managed to get a very nice depression era packing case shelf a while ago, that someone left out for the council refuse man)
 
“They tell me there is something nice about just talking, (no mobile phones in sight) most reunions are in old church or town halls, which are lovely reminders of the past and so long as their 63 Valiant doesn't overheat or blow a tyre, life is good. Perhaps the simpler things in life, are better after all.

“The Night Talker.”
 
24 October 2019

The Lutheran Ark at Salisbury
 
Shuffles hit Mick of Mick and Denise with a loaf of bread. Mick acted as if he’d been struck down with a pick axe handle. A Lutheran ran over to Mick to see if he was alright while the 72-year-old Shuffles walked off laughing. We grabbed Shuffles bag of oranges from under her table and hid it at another table, but she found it.
 
An old man blew a whistle for no apparent reason. He said he’s doing a dementia test at the clinic in three weeks. The Activist Vegetarian talked about transitioning from being a vegetarian to a vegan. He’d previously said he was a vegan. “He’s not true-blue,” a woman with arthritis said. The Activist annoys some people, but we Aspberger’s spectrum people understand him perfectly.
 
The arthritis woman said she had arthritis in the throat and went through three bouts of surgery. Her fingers were covered in “nodules”. She is a good teacher in non-self pity.
 
The former Adelaide Metro bus driver was recovering from an alcohol binge while the pleasant woman who rarely washes kept going to the toilet. “She has an infection,” another woman said.
 
An old Lutheran fella read from a religious book that we should see people with our hearts rather than through our minds.
 
The Anglicare Food Barn crowd are slowly taking over the Ark’s monthly free meal.
 
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark)
cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Clean toilets.
Free meal once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2019 are October 26,  November 30, December 21 (Free Christmas party by pre-registration.

24 October 2019
 

Government minister praises
​ex-Hutt Street Centre boss

Michelle Lensink appears a pleasant stoner who says pleasant words that appear to be written by a media advisor. She cannot praise Ian Cox enough after his transfer from the Hutt Street Centre to the government.
​
“This is massive coup for the Government, as Ian’s broad skills and wealth of experience working in the housing and homelessness sector mean he will be able to make a real difference towards Adelaide’s goal of functional zero homelessness in South Australia.

“It is absolutely critical that South Australia has an effective homelessness system that provides the best services possible to those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

“In his role, Ian will set up and lead our new Office for Homelessness Sector Integration, while playing a integral role in driving the homelessness reforms that arise from our new Housing and Homelessness Strategy to be launched later this year.

“He will work with government agencies and services across the state to transform the current service model, including how we assist people to transition to affordable housing, how we provide emergency accommodation and how we help rough sleepers.”

https://www.miragenews.com/leading-expert-appointed-to-drive-homelessness-reform/

24 October 2019
​

​Good old anti-poverty week celebration

You got to love these special occasions. This anti-poverty week celebration was at the Anglicare complex in Elizabeth that houses the Food Barn.
 
The festivities were held in the secret garden behind the Food Barn. A police officer brought two-dozen plastic hats bearing the police coat of arms.
 
Both volunteers and druggies rushed the police table to grab the hats saying they were for children at home. The truth is that many want to be police impersonators and levy fines. I will put it at the back of my car to warn off tailgaters.
 
Joe the Cook wore one of the hats. He said it was for his grandchildren, but it looked like it wasn’t leaving his head.
 
The police officer let kids sit on her motorcycle, but not adults. She was tall and powerful and could have beaten up six of me without using mace or a taser. Where did women like this work before women’s liberation?
 
The St John’s First Aid woman demonstrated CPR heart massage and said you press down so hard that bones will break. She said to keep going even if you hear crunching sounds otherwise the patient will die.
 
George the Elder got a red, white and blue hoody from the Thread Together van, then decided it was too bright and might draw attention to himself. He said he almost got beat up for wearing a Port Power jacket he’d got from a charity.
 
I got a Fribroscan, which brought no good news. They gave away gift packs, which were just pamphlets. I wanted a Swiss Army knife with scissors and a saw.
 
Food Bank offered tiny bags of onions and potatoes, less than 1kg in weight. They also offered paper cups full of chopped slightly rotten apples with some sort of cream on top. Visitors avoided the table like the plague. I felt sorry for them.
 
The Lions Club had a free junk table that was pure junk except for some children’s books. Darryl got two that he’ll give to his nephews. The rest was junk. Stuff you wouldn’t even put in a donation bin.
 
Lunch was a fresh salad, potato salad, very good sliced beef, vegie-burgers, sausages, bread, sauce and coffee. It was terrific. That Kirsty who coordinates the Food Barn is doing a good job. She’s a tough fit woman, but next to her two-metre tall husband with monster arms, she seems small. He should be chained up.
 
That Anglicare photographer was there, but no TV cameras and thus no Peter Sandeman. Orange Sky was there, but it wasn’t clear if they were doing any washing. Centrelink had a table and the employees were actually informative. Grant won the best raffle prize, a huge basket of nuts and raisins and nothing from Food Bank. When he went to collect it, someone shouted, “So deserving, couldn’t go to a better person.” This was sarcasm based on envy.
 
It was an excellent morning helped in no small part by the absence of television cameras.  
 
Anglicare Food Barn Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth.  (near the shopping centre and police station).
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.
 Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm. No dessert, No takeaways. Faulty salt and pepper shakers at front counter only. Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
 
23 October 2019

Contract on Eskimo Lady
 
Word on the street is that there is a contract out of the Eskimo Lady from the Hutt Street Centre for allegedly stealing a phone from an old man. The old man said he isn’t worried about the consequences because he’s old, anyway. He said the Eskimo Lady was a “mutt”. The Lady has made herself noticeably absent.
 
23 October 2019
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Noodles, dope and housebreaking
 
A man asked for and received a bag of food from a Port Adelaide church. The church buys the groceries with profits earned from their Op Shop. He asked for the cup of noodles to be put into a bowl with hot water. Volunteers obliged.
 
While eating the noodles he said he had to buy a quarter ounce of weed that afternoon. He also showed us a 9ct gold black diamond ring he’d “found on the street”. He kept it in a felt-lined box with other jewelry that he was taking to Cash Converters.
 
He was living in a Unity House after being homeless for a long period. He said he took his dog and they lived outside two days a week.
 
23 October 2019

Hutt Street Centre
 
A friend of Trent Jefferis with large fists at the Hutt Street Centre said he told Ian Cox he was “a sh**kicker like the rest of us” and that he liked the Sister who ran the place better.
 
Ian had told him to get out of the place.
 
23 October 2019
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(above) Playford Council closed down the Munno Para Bowling Club then trucked away the heritage building after a convenient arson attack. They planned to sell the land to Kaufland to fund the unused multi-story carpark they built in Elizabeth using foreign money. Kaufland has since backed out of the deal. As to paying back the foreign bank for the carpark? No worries, let future generations pay for it.

Why don’t Adelaide government-funded charities say exactly how they trade personal data of clients seeking Christmas Hampers?
from an anonymous reader

From the anonymous contact page

“Christmas time is here so here comes my rant.
 
“Time to call the charities to register for baskets. I am a bit annoyed to know that Anglicare are now sharing our information with other charities.
 
“Can I ask if this information has been certified? Does this mean bigger baskets? Unlikely! I always enjoyed that different places had different offerings. Not to sound ungrateful but it is all the talk at lunch and it causes stress that people will miss out.
 
“One I will not be registering for this year is The Salvation Army who make you attend a presentation on Christmas. Save myself the stress and humiliation.
 
“First off, roger, it is a bit late in November to start saving people and just another hoop to jump through for a small voucher.
 
“Last year I attended the presentation of things we already know and was told at the end I was not guaranteed Christmas help because I did not have children and had to return another day to register. I was given a voucher in the end but might bypass the Salvos this year.
 
“The talk is this is all Salvos have the same process for Christmas and I give this a 3/10. If they insist at least run it at the same time as a BBQ or free lunch so we feel less annoyed.
 
“I get the sentiment but as a person living below the poverty line this makes me feel worse about myself. Now I am reading on here about charities sharing information to reduce people betting assistance from different places. I was never aware this was against the rules?
 
“So it looks like I will be getting one basket this year so it better be good. I was sitting with Deb at the Soup kitchen last week and she told me she gets lots of presents from charities for her 4 children and still spends $1,000 on toys. Last year Deb said that some were ever delivered as she does not drive. I won’t share by who as I would imagine that would cause a new run of requests.
 
“Christmas the time of joy and stress and loneliness for many others. I will see you all in January when I am still poor and don’t have to be told why I am not eligible for Christmas. I am sure there will be plenty of mince pies still doing the rounds ho ho ho and to all a good night. If I was at all religious I would leave a parting message about the true meaning of Christmas but I am not.”
 
Anonymous
 
Editor: There is no official announcement that the so-called charities will be sharing data on who applies for hampers. This is news from street people who talk to bureaucrats. It would pay to read the fine print on their application forms.
 
It is what the bureaucrats call “service integration”. It is what Ian Cox will do in his new government job and what Tony Piccolo, MP, is doing in Gawler and follows the Finland homeless model where every loaf of bread given away goes onto a data base under that person’s name.
 
This is why some charities get the big government grants: they are complying with data sharing while those like Cos We Care who don’t collect data, get nothing.
 
Late 22 October 2019
​

Is Stephanie Richards on the game?
 
Stephanie Richards should go into advertising. Her latest promotion of the Hutt Street Centre in Indaily has her saying that “…the centre’s work helping more than 200 people experiencing homelessness each day.”
 
Is Stephanie Richards joking? Two-hundred a day? Where are these two hundred souls and why doesn’t Richards give more detail?
 
Plenty of people go to the Hutt Street Centre for lunch, but these include clients who own their own homes, rent from the Housing Trust or Unity, or live in various “supported housing” operated by Common Ground, Catherine House and other rooming houses.
 
But where are the “200 people experiencing homelessness each day”? Inside Richards’s head? That’s why she should enter the advertising industry. She’d be great.
 
https://indaily.com.au/news/local/2019/10/21/hutt-street-centre-appoints-new-chair/
 
Late 22 October 2019
​

A.D.R.A. Pantry at Parafield
​bites the dust

Seventh Day Adventist A.D.R.A. Pantry at Parafield next to the airport has closed down. It will re-open at 240 Peachey Road, Smithfield in early December. Free fruit, vegetables, bread with other stuff from Food Bank for sale. Health Care or Concession Card required.
 
Late 22 October 2019
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Homeless Health Day event at Adelaide Town Hall
From the Rundle Spy

“Attended

Homeless Buskers Bash
Homeless Halloween Ball

at Adelaide City Town Hall
Monday 21 October 2019
10 am to 2 pm

Held in giant pipe organ music auditorium

Plenty food (esp. compared to previous years Whitmore Square events)

Inside venue had less hay fever problems than outside venue

About 40 different organisations present

Low number of recipients (about 25% capacity or less)

Hard to hear and conduct conversations with Pipe Bomb Busker band beating on drums

For fuzz buzz fans this was still acceptable

Surveys for basic non-intrusive information were offered and taken

All in all a good / great event EXCEPT...

the next day even more homeless lying around city streets...

same as usual

Hoping change for the better someday / year / decade / century / millenium.”
 
The Rundle Spy
Late 22 October 2019
 

In response to “anonymous” asking for an Adelaide Homeless Journal manifesto

From the Night Talker

“Hey anonymous, this website is NOT about writing out big (useless in my opinion) manifesto's. It is about providing straight down the line, up to date and relevant information, to people who need it. Any information from getting yourself out of a Centrelink or job network bind, to the finer arts of bin-diving or soup kitchen cruising, you can find on this website.
 
“You want to read manifesto's then your better off going to the AUWU or Ant-poverty network's website. There you will get endless blather about what needs to be done to change whatever, but you WON'T get any practical advice.
 
“When someone is hungry or the shoes are falling off of their feet, they need to know how to fix this, not be directed towards twenty pages of (useless) blather.
 
“Yes we get angry, yes we are critical, but there is also support and practical advice available. (see the free food guide and guide to other services, that other sites, have ... [reproduced our guides] ).

“Hope this clears things up for you.”

The Night Talker.
​Late 22 October 2019

From the Anonymous Contact Page

“Was hoping to attend

Homeless Disabled Aged Care Lifestyle Expo

last Thursday

but

Freakin Shriekin
Quirkin Jerkin
Rantin Ravin
Rompin Stompin
Eskimo Ho

(Ice Head)

gave us another

Upset Offset deadend zone.

Terrible how a speed freak or monster crim twin can spoil a whole day or night...

"Let God sort em out..."
 
Late 22 October 2019

From the anonymous contact page

"Homeless people have BEGUN sleeping at the back of charity Op Shops where they can drag clothing from the rubbish bins to use as mattresses."

Has this BEGUN in 1890 or 1790 in Adelaide ?
 
Anonymous
 
Editor: Good point. It has been happening for a long time.
 
Late 22 October 2019
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(above) Despite proclaiming themselves as the ultimate recyclers, Savers at Kilburn won't allow homeless people such as Horse Trader Steve access to their rubbish bins containing stuff the private multi-national can't sell.

(above) Shipping container at the back of Savers on Churchill Road at Kilburn. Clothing donated via the Red Nose plastic bags left in mailboxes is sent by Savers, owned by American investment firms, to Africa and India for ten-cents a kilo. See our post of 21 October 2019 for the fuller story.

(above) Red Nose put their logo on Savers stores to fool donors into thinking Savers is part of the Red Nose babies charity. But Savers is a private chain spanning Australia, Canada and the Uniting States and owned by private investment firms Ares Management and Crescent Capital Group, which definitely aren't charities.

(above) The Tea Tree Plaza Savers store at Modbury, a suburb of Adelaide. Items surplus to needs and not suitable for export to Africa for ten-cents a kilo are sent to landfill. This truck loaded four bins of such material that Savers and Red Nose refuse to give to anyone else for recycling.

(above) Red Nose (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) want us to believe our donations go to them. Actually, they go directly to Savers, a chain of Op Shops owned by American private investment firms, Ares Management and Crescent Capital Group. See 21 October 2019 article below for more details.

What happens when you donate clothing to Red Nose?

Have you ever wondered what happens to the clothing you donate in those red bags left in your mailbox?
 
The plastic Red Nose worn by charity fundraisers was first used in the United Kingdom in 1988 as a marketable logo that was soon adopted by Australia’s Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (S.I.D.S.). It was such a successful fundraising tool that S.I.D.S. changed its name to its marketing device, Red Nose.
 
Red Nose Australia funds a counselling service to parents whose babies have died suddenly. It also funds research into the sudden deaths of babies.
 
With multiple bags going to each mail box each year, we could assume that Red Nose raises huge amounts of money to help babies. My efforts to contact Red Nose and ask them how much money they did receive were not successful.
 
They put their phone number 1300 473 366 in large letters on each bag, but callers get an answering service. If Red Nose rings you back and you miss it, then you have to call their answering service again. After two failed attempts I asked them by email how much money they raised. Red Nose did not reply.
 
They have three huge stores in Adelaide and seven in Melbourne, or that is what we are led to believe. Each store has the a huge red nose and the words, “Red Nose” and a donation landing bay. The stores are called “Savers”. but these are not part of the Red Nose organisation.
 
Red Nose states on its plastic collection bags that, “Your donation will make a difference and support Red Nose to Save Babies Lives. 100% charity owned and operated in support of Red Nose.”
 
But Savers is an American private corporation owned by the private American equity and investment firms Ares Management and Crescent Capital Group, which definitely aren’t charities.
 
The collection arm of the Red Nose/Savers partnership uses Australian work-for-the-dole conscripts to collect the loaded red bags.
 
Savers has over 300 stores in the United States, Canada and Australia. Savers Australia say they raise money for Red Nose Australia and Diabetes Victoria.
 
The Kilburn store in Adelaide sells shoes for at least ten-dollars a pair and trousers from $11-$16.
 
Maureen Seing of Diabetes Victoria was vague when asked about Savers, then didn’t reply when asked a second time how much they received from Savers. Red Nose Australia also wouldn’t reply.
 
I went behind the Savers store at Kilburn, an inner suburb of Adelaide. There were industrial bins and three new shipping containers near the back door. Then I went to the Modbury Savers store where four bins of what appeared to be clothing were dumped into a rubbish truck and destined for landfill.
 
This brings us to a man in the Adelaide homeless culture known as Horse Trader Steve. He earns part of his income selling knick-knacks from his van at Sunday markets. He also visits Savers.
 
As someone who ate food from rubbish bins for ten years, the idea crossed my mind that Horse Trader Steve might find useful items in the Savers rubbish bins.
 
I contacted the Savers National office, via their submission page, that advised, “…please understand that with all the good things coming in and good deeds going out, it may take us a bit to get back to you.” I asked if they would allow people to remove items from their rubbish bins because, after all, they advertise themselves as the great recyclers.
 
Their terse reply, from someone who identified herself only as Amy, was to phone the local stores.
 
I phoned Kilburn Savers where a friendly man said, “Because of safety issue we won’t be able to let you do that, sorry”. Could be anything in there, broken glasses…live animals like snake in the bag.” He added that what they didn’t sell in the stores was sold in “South Asia, Africa, even America,” where the going rate for wearable clothing is ten-cents a kilo. That’s why the shipping containers are parked at the back door.
 
Liam at the Modbury Savers store had a similar response. He said “Unfortunately, we don’t do that, sorry. Safety risk, there’s all sorts of broken glass in the bin…enjoy your day.”
 
Horse Trader Steve, who lives in his van, says that Savers hide their industrial bins inside the stores at night to stop people removing items they’re sending to landfill. He said it was certain collectors who caused the problem by emptying the bins on the ground at night, taking what they wanted, then leaving the rest on the ground. Steve said that made Savers hide the bins. This was unfortunate as people like Horse Trader Steve are the ultimate recyclers.
 
It isn’t only Red Nose that offer their names as fronts for private companies in return for part of the profits. Other non-profits, previously known as charities, such as the Salvation Army, have similar partnerships where their Op Shops have been contracted out to private businesses. It is difficult to determine which Salvation Army shops are operated by contractors and which by the Army itself. The staff turn very quiet if you ask them their shop’s status.
 
Donated clothing raises very little money. Many shops are therapeutic and work-for-the-dole centres that serve a social function rather than raise money. An African buyer visits Anglican Op Shops and buys bulk wearable clothing for ten-cents a kilo. Another African group don’t bother with Op Shops. They place collection bins at shopping centres that are filled by unthinking people, and the lot is sent to Africa.  
 
It’s worth investigating who gets the proceeds from your donated items, especially from deceased estates that might include antiques and valuables worth thousands of dollars.
 
21 October 2019
 

(above) Coles continues its deception with these two-minute noodles. Coles says "No added MSG", but doesn't add that the substitute neuro-toxin flavour enhancer is almost identical to MSG. These noodles are given to SRF residents and homeless people who wonder why they suffer headaches.

On the Street
 
A diner said he found a slug in the salad at the Unley Salvation Army semi-free lunch on Mondays.
 
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The Vitamin Derelict is rumoured to have changed his name to “Phil”.
 
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One of the Kill Box Lady’s daughter’s ex-husbands got a free table, TV, bed and washing machine via a Home Care package. The daughter gets along very well with her ex-husbands, better than when they were married.
 
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The remaining inmates of the Anglicare retirement complex due for demolition wonder what happened to Anglicare’s plan to move refugees into the empty units.
 
The plan was to house them with the old people until more permanent accommodation was found. The old people haven’t seen any refugees, but plenty of bureaucrats milling around the front doors of the two units including the one previously occupied by the sex offender.
 
Meanwhile, the 89-year-old blind woman and the 92-year-old tenant knocked back Anglicare’s offer of units at Elizabeth Grove. The reason was lack of garden space though another tenant advised them the units were in the middle of the stabbing area where people are injured or stabbed, or beaten up, or robbed on a regular basis. The units are near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last month. What a horrible area to send two nearly infirm old women.
 
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Registrations begin for the Anglicare hampers on 1 November 2019. They are usually gone within a fortnight so it is important to get in early.
 
A Food Barn diner said that Anglicare and the Playford Community Fund are data sharing to stop people from getting two hampers.
 
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The RAAF pilot who operated in Iraq then suffered life-threatening PTSD has recovered 95%, according to a friend.
 
Thanks to his mother, friends and his inner strength the pilot is living a normal life with a wife and baby. He remains realistic and realises PTSD will always be with him and he must remain vigilant.
 
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The clients at Salisbury Fred’s Van expressed their gratitude of the free meal by helping volunteers stack the chairs and tables after the diners had left.
 
Fred’s Van people now tell them they aren’t allowed to help due to insurance reasons. The volunteers aren’t happy about this.
 
There is the invisible hand of the deep state manipulating and trying to destroy our society.
 
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Readers can read Adelaide Homeless Journal anonymously by installing the Tor browser from https://www.torproject.org .
 
Readers might also link to Adelaide Homeless Journal https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/ from their page or feed.
 
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An ex-Army veteran uses the free Wi-Fi at night in Salisbury. He sits at bus stops in the city centre. Police have warned him that a Sudanese gang has targeted homeless people and that he should be watchful.
 
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A decent woman who recently went two-weeks without a bowel movement has another concern. A doctor prescribed her with a new heart medication that has one particular contra-indication: loose bowels.
 
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Homeless people have begun sleeping at the back of charity Op Shops where they can drag clothing from the rubbish bins to use as mattresses.
 
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When clients criticise charities publicly, the response is that the criticism might reduce donations and thus reduce services to the poor. The charity executives never say that reduced donations might require a reduction in their salaries. Or that they are, in effect, holding their clients hostage and that the critics better shut up.
 
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Piano Player Wayne has finished his stay at the Hampstead Rehabilitation Station and moved into a ground floor unit in the Norwood area.
 
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Orange Sky Laundry at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Wednesday had plenty of customers. They neatly folded the clothing as it came out of the driers.
 
The young homeless couple brought some clothing. “G” and the Horse Trainer Lady also brought a few bags to wash.
 
There is a limit as to how much Orange Sky will clean for each person. This limit should be waived for people living outside or in their cars because they may be in the area only briefly and might wanted their bedding and clothing washed and dried in one episode. Volunteers would have to make a decision on the spot rather than have a fixed rule.
 
Frenchy used to take his bed sheets to Wright Court Day Centre nearly every day in 1987 until Paul Nicholas, the Manager, questioned whether he was operating a Chinese laundry.
 
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The man with Swine Flu at the Lionel McEwin Hospital has lost 40 kilograms.
 
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“I warned ***** at a soup kitchen that his wife would try to kill him. ***** heard us talking and said he feared his girlfriend would kill him.”
 
Anonymous
 
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“Forget Oakden, Hampstead is the real mess. None of the departments talk to each other.”
 
Piano Player Wayne after being discharged from Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre.
 
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There was a huge black African woman in Anglicare. She appeared to be acting on behalf of a wrinkled thin elderly white woman. The African had the arrogant mannerisms of Angolans. Nothing subservient about that crowd.
 
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The Anti-poverty Network has a soup kitchen once a month at Clayton’s Uniting Church. They also have a video on You Tube asking for more funding from the government so they can “help more people”.
 
As soon as they become effective, the government will cut off the money and they will collapse. Government funding is a way of controlling activist organisations. The funding usually goes to a single employee who then switches loyalty to the government.
 
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George the Elder opened the back door of a bus to get off as it moved forward. He held on to avoid falling to the ground from the moving bus. The driver said he’d never seen the door open when the bus was moving. He didn’t apologise to George the Elder.
 
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Waiters have methods of insulting customers they dislike. Do benevolent welfare charities have methods of insulting their clients en masse?
 
The frequent withdrawal or denial of salt, pepper and vinegar at welfare lunches is a poignant insult.
 
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The OTR petrol station near the defunct Holden’s car factory has locked its toilets due to Barkuma “boys” going in and “fiddling” with themselves. This is according to a derelict who discovered the locked doors.
 
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A man hid behind an air conditioner at Fred’s Van. He was swinging a thin bamboo rod. He didn’t hit anyone and no one commented on anything strange. This was normal behaviour.
 
20 October 2019

Elderly dying white man and his conniving Chinese "girl-friend."

From the Night Talker
 
“My advice. Contact the Office of the Public Trustee and get a mobile, "wills" officer to meet you in a location of your choice (without your girlfriend present- even better, don't tell her anything about this!)

“Get the will changed (this can be done there and then through the mobile wills and estates officer, and you don't need anyone else to witness the signing of the new will) effectively removing your ‘girlfriend’ from your will (Leave her nothing).
 
“Then give it a few weeks and casually mention that you have changed your will and she is getting NIX and wait for the reaction. (I am pretty certain that it won't be nice or printable on this page?)
 
“You may think you love her, but this love definitely won't be reciprocated. If she even stays with you longer than five minutes, after you have supplied her with this information.
 
“…JUST DON'T LEAVE YOUR MONEY AND YOUR ESTATE TO THAT SHIKSA YOU CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND. THERE IS NOTHING UGLIER IN THIS WORLD, THAN A GREEDY WHORE!”
 
“P.S. Contact the editor [Adelaide Homeless Journal] and he will contact me if you want my assistance.”

The Night Talker.
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20 October 2019

(above) People need a quiet unregulated, unsurveilled natural retreat where they can reflect on their lives. Governments and corporations hate citizens going offline because it represents a period of loss of control.

Getting help to pay for prescriptions
From the Night Talker

“Paying for prescription meds. If you have a health care card or blue pension card, then your meds prescriptions are capped at $7.90 per script.
 
“If you have private health insurance, this will supply you with a rebate (you will get some of the full amount you pay rebated back into your bank-account, usually a couple of weeks later) and if you (for whatever reason) can't pay up at all, then you can go to a number of charities for assistance. (These charities include Anglicare, St. Vinnies, the Salvo's and Uniting Care Wesley SA.)
 
“The only meds they will not pay for is DDA's/schedule fours, which are opiate based pain-killers) Contact the editor [Adelaide Homeless Journal] and he will contact me if you want my assistance.

“Good luck.”

The Night Talker.
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20 October 2019

(above) RenewalSA has ordered Gospel City Church (formerly Life Church) to leave their building on Karri Street, Munno Para by early November. The roof is sagging due to concrete tiles on the wooden structure. Gospel City isn't a "money church". Church services are now held at the Uniting Church on Curtis Road, Munno Para West, but it hasn't been finalised where the free food service will take place.

An alternative
to the rotten vegetables
​at Fred’s Van Salisbury
From the Night Talker

Re: do we have to pay for this?

“Why on earth is anyone (poor or otherwise) accepting food products, that are clearly not edible (old, rotten or dubious?) Honestly, there is better products to be found in the average supermarket bin.
 
“It’s also less demeaning "bin-diving" than to be told by some (thieving) volunteer, that you should be grateful for the handful of detritus, that you have just been handed?
 
“Admittedly "bin-diving" is not for everyone, but then again, it’s a viable alternative to the garbage, that seems to be doing the rounds from the various charities and the larger Foodbank.
 
“On a recent Sunday morning in the early hours, I managed to ‘liberate’ for myself a bag full of gourmet cheeses, a couple of bottles of still in date and cold, ice coffee, a perfectly good jar of Kalamata olives (the label on the jar was damaged, otherwise the product was sealed and in date) and a handful of still warm, dinner rolls.
 
“Oh, and I also got a copy of that days Sunday Mail (I left $3.20 on the newspaper pile- I don't steal newspapers) and headed back to my car, which was parked just across the street from the supermarket bin.
 
“There I turned on my favourite radio show on 88.9 Coast FM (the Chocolate Box midnight to dawn) locked myself in my car, washed my hands with the hand sanitiser I keep in my glove box and hankered down for an early morning snack! And yes, it was delicious.
 
“Besides these items, I got a nice meaty ham bone (for the dog) two still very hot roast chickens, a couple of ketchup stained tea towels, and a bag full of good quality fruit and vegetables (kiffler potatoes, some cherry tomato punnets, some lemons, three bananas and a rockmelon) all in excellent condition. No rubbish for me thank you very much!

“All in all, a VERY GOOD HAUL!”

The Night Talker.
19 October 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

“Hey bro. I like your site, I check it couple times a week. But it struck me the other day, you complain a lot about the system. You complain about what the government and charities are doing wrong and what they isn't doing right. Fair enough, it's a shitshow out there, no doubt.

But me old boss used to say to me "don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions." It was good advice.

Following that logic, I'd love to see posts from you talking about what should be done. What would you do if you were in charge? How would you fix this mess? Write your manifesto mate. Don't make it short, go into detail. I for one would like to see it. It would be a good thing.”
 
Anonymous
 
Editor: Nope, no manifesto, but consider that government minister who said that importing skilled migrants to South Australia showed the economy was ticking over well. How qualified were these skilled migrants? Butchers and other trades-qualified people.
 
Simple solution here. Revitalise T.A.F.E. and the apprenticeship system. Easy and relatively inexpensive. As cheap as policing and treating in hospital generationally unemployed people who have no reason to exercise self-discipline.  
 
The mystery is why the South Australian government won’t do this.
 
19 October 2019

​Pam's friends
 
Pam still has a broken shoulder, a broken leg, 12 cats and relies on a walking frame.
 
A friend of Pam’s went to the Royal Adelaide Show with her boyfriend and his wife, Gloria. Gloria said Pam’s friend could have her husband. Pam’s friend responded with, “Thank you, Gloria. If you punch him out, I’ll punch you out.”
 
The husband has recently had his Public Trustee money increased to $45 each Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
 
Meanwhile, Pam’s friend’s nephew went up to the police and said, “If you want me c***ts, chase me you c***ts.” The police took away some of his children so he was unhappy. Welfare workers arrived last week and took the remaining children. The parents have now lost all eight of their children.
 
Eric no longer plays disability basketball at the Adelaide showgrounds after telling the organisers they could “shove the stadium up their ***.”
 
Dean the Dresser is restricting Pam’s diet to one egg and a slice of bacon per day, according to a friend.
 
19 October 2019
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(above) The usually empty and expensive-to-use $10 million government-funded tennis courts at Elizabeth East.

(above) Even the two free-to-use tennis courts are usually unused at the Elizabeth East complex. This is the area where residents avoid pleasant strolls at sunset for fear of Ice addicts.

Dying white man writes new will in favour of younger Chinese female gambling addict 

​The terminally ill Adelaide white man told a group of friends at the soup kitchen last week that he’d made out a new will. His younger Chinese girlfriend urged him to do it. He said it meant his surviving sisters would get nothing and everything goes to the Chinese girlfriend.
 
While they were discussing the will, she said she’d take him to China on a world cruise. Not that she had any money. She has $7300 in bills that need to be paid including rent on her townhouse in an exclusive suburb. Not that he’s seen it. She won’t allow him to visit her. Nor will she allow him to sleep with her in the same bed at his house. She wants to get married. She wants it to be legal.
 
He had intended on selling his heritage home that has been in the family for generations. The Chinese girlfriend had pressured him to buy a new home in her name, somewhere far away from his friends, family and other influences. But with the will in her name, the pressure to sell the house has lessened.
 
Meanwhile, the dying man has approached charities for help to pay his medication bill as his Chinese girlfriend has gained access to his bank account. He says going to charities and soup kitchens is depressing.
 
“I love her,” he says.
 
18 October 2019

Not hungry outside Adelaide Hungry Jacks

A man sat in the Pilgrim Church free coffee shop in the Adelaide CBD. He is thin and jittery and swings his huge fists in the air as he speaks. He talks about living on the concrete footpath outside Hungry Jacks on Pulteney Street.
 
He says people gave him “heaps of money”. He didn’t have to ask. They gave him food. He said he got so much food that he gained weight. “The only problem,” he adds, “was sleep. I never slept.’
 
18 October 2019
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The Kill Box Lady
 
The 90-year-old Kill Box lady lives comfortably in an Anglicare unit without steps. However, she’s getting her knees looked at by a doctor, but surgery is out of question due to her diabolical health. If she goes under anaesthetic, most likely she will end up senile or dead.
 
Her daughter says that her doctor near the Elizabeth East tennis courts is acting “funny” because he accused the Kill Box Lady of going senile. The Lady went to another doctor who said she isn’t senile.
 
The Kill Box Lady has little to do with her neighbours. One kept asking her to visit him for his excellent stir-fry. That was the tenant who burnt petrol on Kenny Little’s lawn. Not that the arsonist doesn’t have a sense of horticultural morality. He allegedly told the Kill Box Lady’s daughter that he’d “break your neck” when she pulled flowers out of her mother’s garden.
 
Even worse, Kenny Little and the grass burner are friends and united against the Kill Box Lady’s daughter.
 
18 October 2019
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(above) The Avondale Housing Trust apartment at Elizabeth Grove where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last month. Nothing changes at these drug dealer infested units across Main North Road from the little-used government funded $10 million tennis courts.

(above) Nathan Clarke's empty Housing Trust unit on the corner of Judd and Ashfield Roads at Elizabeth Grove. His unit isn't being kept empty out of respect for him, or because the Housing Trust can't get anyone to move in. It is government policy to keep units empty whether they need renovation or not. And Michael Buchan is the stooge hired to distract the media from addressing this dysfunction in the government of South Australia .

“Do we have to pay for this?”
 
“Order, Order,” shouted a Methadone Men with his shoe laces undone as he walked into the group of subdued diners waiting for the free takeaway food room to open. None of us responded except another Methadone Man who understood the humour.
 
A third Methadone Man with a square bandage covering an artery on the left side of his neck tried to sleep on the foam benches behind the billiard table.
 
The food queue began moving and Old Shuffles with a bad heart was the first to leave the room with a skimpy bag of rotten fruit and stale bread. “I’m finished,” she said. “I thought you had at least another five years left,” a friend responded, but few understood that humour either.
 
The mood in the takeaway room was glum. There were overripe tomatoes, shriveled oranges, green potatoes, elderly lettuce and loaves of sliced bread re-bagged into half-loaves. Even four and five-day old pastries had been chopped into two so each person could get something. I came out with one green potato while others abandoned the queue in disgust. A disheveled white woman with a disheveled Islander boyfriend asked, “Do we have to pay for this?”
 
One-eyed Steve was irritable talking about Mick of Mick and Denise. He said he “had to be held back” from attacking Mick for being greedy at another soup kitchen. Mick was absent this afternoon. He hadn’t enough money to buy petrol for his car and couldn’t walk due to his bad leg not having healed after he’d been hit by a car. Denise is waiting for stomach surgery. Nearly everyone at Fred’s Van is either sick or old or both, or a drug addict.
 
The man with the broken hand had appeared an alien walking down John Street an hour earlier, but when he reached the PBA-FM building he let the energy flow through his face because he was with his own kind and had relaxed.
 
The ex-soldier who went to a military meeting in the city on Thursday didn’t have a good time. He’d lost his wallet and got punched in the teeth afterward by street thugs. We were talking about Sharka’s job as a bookkeeper when he said volunteers could use their volunteering as a tax deduction.
 
Kate and her son said they went to Fred’s Van at Elizabeth earlier in the day and when they saw the menu they’d left and ate at Hungry Jack’s. Another diner said the main course had been “sausage-bake” and it was horrible.
 
But the meal at Salisbury Fred’s Van was quite good with nice pasta, a fresh salad made with non-rotten vegetables, hot nibbles resembling Dim Sims, heated old bread with margarine, roast chicken and other stuff.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
17 October 2019
 

For whom the bells toll
 
You have to hand it to the Uniting Church in Munno Para West. They are generous. They’ve let Gospel City Church use their Church indefinitely and without charge.
 
RenewalSA told Gospel City to get out of their building by early November due to the roof caving in. The Cry Room and Children’s Room can still be used, but the rest of the building stays vacant due to a sagging roof. Gospel City can’t afford to buy the building so RenewalSA will knock it down, then probably leave the land vacant for a number of years. The free food events are currently held outside at the Karri Street end of the building.
 
Mick of Mick and Tania went through five-hours of surgery to repair the smashed bones in his right foot, leg and hips. He doesn’t know if they removed toes or not because he can’t feel anything, but the plaster cast has begun to stink. He exhibits not a trace of self-pity. He and Tania deserve respect for their stoicism.
 
Meanwhile, Richard the Baker’s masseur wife plans to study acupuncture and wants to practice on him. “No way,” said Richard, recounting vomiting after getting needles stuck in his neck in China.
 
An Ice woman came for the free food. Her gestures were exaggerated and her brown body ultra-thin like someone from a concentration camp.
 
Sandy brought her dead husband’s hats to give away. They were too small for most men so somewhat illogically the men with large heads took them and pranced around with tiny hats perched on their heads.
 
A woman said her mother died with dementia recently and they didn’t tell her that a close relative named Bob had died two weeks previously. As she was dying and slipping into another reality, the dementia woman said, “Bob is here.”
 
Dora said she and others at Gospel City Church aren’t judgemental in their offerings so rich folk are still served the free vegetables, bread and sausages. Another church person said that drug dealers had once intimidated people in the church, but had left.  
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (change of address in early November. Phone 08) 8284 3861)
Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am - 11:00am
Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake.
Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time.
17 October 2019
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(above) Business as usual at the Salvation Army Elizabeth East donation bin. Bagged donations left during the previous evening were ransacked for valuables. That's why many Op Shops sell junk: the best items are stolen and go to Cash Converters.

Staff thefts at the Marion Salvation Army store

A customer entered the Marion Salvation Army charity shop on the corner of Morphett Road and Sturt Road across from the Marion Shopping Centre. This was in late September.
 
He was browsing the shelves near the back when he heard an interesting conversation. He recounts,
 
“I was looking around and I could hear them talking out the back because they got their store room at the back and they’re talking amongst themselves and they’re sorting out all the stuff and I heard one of them say, ‘Oh, that’s beautiful. That’s not going out front. That’s going in the back of my car. I’m taking that home.’
 
“And I thought, what goes on in here. And the bloke says, ‘Take that out now before anyone sees and it goes out front and has a price tag on it. Go and put it in the car.’
 
“Anyway, so I go up to the counter and I said, could you tell me if it’s true that all the good stuff, when it comes in, disappears and is taken home by the volunteers here before it gets out here on the floor for sale?”  They said, ‘No, it doesn’t’.
 
“And I said, are you sure? I just heard someone out back it was too good to go out on the floor and he was going to put in in the boot of his car. And they said, ‘No that’s not possible’.
 
“I said, I heard it. I’m not going deaf or anything. People are pinching it.
 
The reply was, ‘No that’s not, would like to leave because you’re accusing us being thieves.’
 
I said, no, I’m not accusing you here standing behind the counter. I said, maybe the people out the back are.
 
“’Look, sorry, you’ll have to leave.’
 
“I said, no, I haven’t finished looking around the store.”
 
“’No, you have to leave now or we’ll ring the police and get them to remove you.’
 
“So, they picked up the phone and I said, Okay, don’t worry about it and I said by the time the police get here I’ll be gone anyway, and I left the store.
 
Name and address supplied
16 October 2019

​Cringeworthy Anti-poverty week
 
Apart from Michelle Lensink pretending everything is fine with keeping more Housing Trust units empty than there are homeless people in the city, the next worst aspect of Anti-poverty week is the charities and media hauling out an older person to perform the “sad case routine”.  
 
These victims put on an optimistic smile, then tell their sad story of how they’re doing well now, and how grateful they are to some government-funded “charity”.
 
Some of these so-called charities even persuade their clients to display this gratefulness in a YouTube video and their “gratefulness” becomes their historical legacy.
 
It is hard to find any veteran in the Adelaide city homeless scene who hasn’t been approached to play such a role.
 
16 October 2019

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Aye've been watchin the Outbacks
come and go in their Cadillacs
flash sports cars
Street-to-Home
Walk-a-Mile-in-My-Boots mobiles...

What about us poor white trash ?

A Boot for a Pillow...

Sleep a Night on a Boot
and still expect us to
give a hoot ?
 
The Rundle Spy
16 October 2019
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(above) The dirty needle bins outside the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth are so big that people think they are clothing donation bins. These bins are designed to stop addicts reaching in and grabbing the syringes then trying to inject the tiniest drop that might have been left inside each tube.

Does Ian Cox’s promotion indicate less privacy rights for homeless people?  

Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox has been promoted to head of the Office for Homelessness Sector Integration. It’s part of the South Australian government.
 
His new job is to merge the personal databases of clients into one big file. This means that what a homeless person said to a welfare worker in a pleasant chit-chat interview may now be made available to dozens of other agencies and private companies. It may include the sensitive personal details that a homeless person divulged in what they thought was a relatively private conversation at the Hutt Street Centre, or at a city café where some “getting to know you” interviews are conducted.
 
Ian Cox hasn’t agreed this will happen, but was quoted as saying, “Every organisation collects data, but…how can we get that data out more quickly so people can see what are the trends happening.”
 
What data was Ian Cox talking about? That’s the problem. The so-called helping agencies won’t be specific. In an interview for “support” a client will be asked the official questions followed by what he or she thinks is friendly chit-chat. The “helping agencies” won’t say what details are restricted to within their department or organisation, and what will be spread elsewhere. Or even the type of information collected.
 
Another problem is the integration of the “homeless sector”. What does this mean? Does it mean that different charities, government departments and agencies won’t duplicate the services of others? If so, then if a homeless person has an issue with one agency, then going to another will mean instant rejection as there won’t be any duplication of services. Similarly, if a homeless person is under threat from a drug dealer or a psychotic Ice addict who hangs around one service centre, then there would be no alternative place to seek help.
 
A feature of this “integration” has already begun. Government funded homeless agencies have begun interlocking their management boards so they become like an octopus. A critic grabs one tentacle and finds other tentacles emerging from other organisations and departments.
 
Ian Cox says he wants to create a panel of people who have been homeless to share their experience with policy makers. Sounds good, but those who were on the Hutt Street Centre client advisory panel said they complained for years about violence from Ice dealers and addicts inside the Centre. The instigators included Robyn the Junkie, Mark Arstall and the Clued-up Drug Dealer. The advisory panel said they were ignored by Ian Cox and the Board, and that the violence issue was addressed only when the media became involved.
 
Ian Cox’s first duty in his new job might be to create a map showing how personal information of homeless people is spread within the “homeless sector” and elsewhere. He could ensure the map showed the fine categories of personal details captured and who had access to it. He could make this map available to anyone who wanted it, especially people living outside or desperate for housing. A paper version could be taped to the wall of the entrance room at the Hutt Street Centre.
 
This would be career martyrdom for Ian. He could end his working life a case manager at Junction Housing or some such outfit. But he would be remembered for a century as a martyr against the tide of enslavement.
 
15 October 2019
 

Fallout from Rudi's slashed car tyres at Fred's Van Kilburn

There was anger outside the busted front doors when the subject of Rudi’s slashed car tyres was introduced. Some blamed Horse Trader Steve. Others said it had also happened to Rudi on another occasion, three years ago.
 
The woman who can’t sleep at night and gets up to use the toilet every hour said it wasn’t just Horse Trader Steve, but others as well. She said, “If you don’t like it here, you shouldn’t come.”
 
Another person said Rudi was planning to sue Horse Trader Steve and though he couldn’t collect anything, he’d nail Steve on court costs.
 
Orange Sky Laundry operated near the busted front doors next to the Oz Harvest truck unloading fruit and vegetables. Really rotten produce. It was depressing.
 
Since the front door locks were broken and locked shut, we went in through the side doors where Rudi previously handed out frozen confectionary to kids from the little playground. But there were few children there this night and none arrived with adults for the meal. Even the teenagers had stopping coming. “Where is everyone,” I asked.
 
Two drunks arrived after we’d sat down. They were huge and one kept yelling, “Retard”. The other was on a walking frame. He said he’d been hit by a car. While drinking bourbon from a Coke bottle he shouted repeatedly, “Good Boy”.
 
They yelled so much that a Fred’s Van woman told them they’d be kicked out if they didn’t stop. Evelyn talked to the “Good Boy” fellow who called her a bitch. She replied, “How can you call me a bitch when I don’t know you?”
 
An old woman at our table said she once asked her mother why she listened to that “sh**” on 5AA radio at night. “Now,” she says, “I listen to it.”
 
The meal was Kranski in buns, then lasagna and soup from the Wine Centre with a decent salad, garlic bread and cream buns for dessert.
 
It was a pleasant evening until the two drunks went from being entertaining to threatening.
 
An old man was dismayed returning to our table. He said he’d tried to ask the volunteers how he could get $50 to help pay for Rudi’s new tyres, but staff kept turning away when he spoke.

It was one of those evenings where you say you won’t go there again and, obviously, others had already come to that conclusion. 
 
Each person got two or three takeaway bags as only 42 guests turned up instead of the usual 70, before the troubles began. The bags contained old fruit and vegetables, old bread and some gourmet meals from sandwich vans or Coles.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre. 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm Thursday. Rowdy.
Meal prepared by Adelaide Wine Centre followed by a big bag of takeaway food. Free.
As with all Fred’s Vans, no registration or I.D. required.
Orange Sky Laundry in carpark. Horrible plastic coffee cups, but interesting and informed clients. Staff a little thick upstairs.

15 October 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

From Anony Mouse

“At 5AA Radio they often slap themselves on their backs for all sorts of achievements...to include blasting of "dole bludgers" out-of-work lazeabouts layabouts who violate fascist communist work ethic.

"I Hate Work..."
 
15 October 2019

(above) Gawler Visitors' Centre showers closed until further notice. This is a disaster. These showers are used by Anglicare Elizabeth homeless people because there aren't any showers in Elizabeth, not even at Anglicare. There is still one shower available in Gawler at U Care in Tod Street. Gawler Salvation Army has some, but they're funny about letting homeless people use them. So much money poured into the homeless industry yet so few showers for the homeless.

​Has Michelle Lensink flipped out?
 
Stephanie Richards announced in her Indaily online article (10 October 2019) that “the number of homeless people sleeping rough in the city” has dropped from 227 to 163 since May 2019.
 
She referred to the Adelaide Zero Project homeless count, but didn’t tell her readers that the number dropped just one homeless person in the two months from May to July, then 45 in the month up to 18 September. Stephanie also downplayed the fact that the Adelaide Zero Project cannot explain the drop in the September homeless count with any meaningful supporting statistics. They doubt their own statistics.
 
And to apply an intellectual balm to this anomaly, Stephanie added that, “The project’s co-chair Louise Miller Frost said more resources were needed to address the fluctuating number of rough sleepers.” Does this mean Frost wants more money to count the number of people living outside? Or what?
 
Stephanie quotes Frost from the Adelaide Zero Project as saying, “The last 18 months of the Adelaide Zero Project has shown that this type of community collaboration can have a meaningful effect on the number of people sleeping rough in our city,” 
 
Is this a joke? What meaningful effect? The number of people living outside has increased since the Adelaide Zero Project began over 18 months ago. And neither Frost nor Stephanie Richards can show any meaningful statistics that show an actual improvement in the Adelaide homeless scene. Movements of people becoming homeless and movements of those finding housing show no significant change. The demand for St Vincent de Paul and Salvation Army services hasn’t declined.
 
As for Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink claiming a victory in finding accommodation for homeless people, well, what sort of weed is she on?
 
14 October 2019
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From the anonymous contact page
 
Anony Mouse

“According to Jeremy Goldeaux ("Jeremy Cordeaux") of 5AA Radio last night (10/10/2019) there has been a sharp drop of "homeless" in Adelaide from several hundred to somewhere just above 100.

How could this be ?

Many of the homeless around the city centre are about the same as ever.

Of course any of the bush mob coming to Adelaide from Northern Territory and APY lands etc are given IMMEDIATE housing, even chauffeured in Street to Home and Walk A Mile in My Boots emergency vehicles to public housing hostels...

P.S. 5AA is also highly praiseworthy of CrimeStoppers crime telephone reporting service that we usually find rude arrogant improper intrusive... the complete opposite of a real law enforcement public engagement. There is NO such thing as "anonymous" crime reporting via CrimeStoppers for victims of crime.”
 
Anony Mouse
14 October 2019
 

Hopes Café at Norwood

From Gypsy Soul
 
"****Hopes cafe - where the gentile poor meet the bourgeoise of Norwood & take & take without putting silver in the collection tins - the regulars take with little consciousness of giving back - community of hard knocks & toothless punks who harass old women & survivors of DV****"

Clayton’s Uniting Church (not free anymore)
cnr Portrush Road and The Parade, Norwood (Beulah Park). Ph 8331 3529. Wednesday and Friday. 10:00am – 3:00pm. Upper class diners with a liberal sprinkling of genuine derelicts. Barista coffee. Decent toilets. Costs are one-dollar for good coffee; two-dollars for “snacks”. No residency or I.D. requirements. Anyone can go there.
Free Orange Sky Laundry on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
UnitingSA does the Free bread and vegetables from 11:00am to 12:00noon on Wednesdays for people in surrounding suburbs and this requires a Centrelink card.
Phone because free takeaway food details constantly change. Expect vagueness.
 
14 October 2019

​Whatever happened to…
 
The Ghost Who Walks is gravely ill, Blythe Spirit has left the homeless scene; The Man from Peterborough has disappeared; the Vitamin Derelict is out of jail,;The Cousin chases Flybuy points, the Viking Can Collector still collects cans in the city and won’t accept welfare; Father Christmas is still in hiding after photos of his house appeared in the Advertiser newspaper showing stashes of food on his verandah up to 20-years past the Best-Buy date; Graham from Salisbury does occasional construction work and also refuses to go on welfare; Mumbles has declined further; the Equity Queen is alive and well and works at Baptist WestCare; the Clued-up Drug Dealer’s empire collapsed, but he remains in the drug scene; the Eskimo Lady lives in the northern suburbs; Steve from Afton Guest House lives in one of Dominic Polena’s doss houses near Salisbury, Dominic Renaro had cancer surgery and goes to the Arkaba pokies joint as he is unable to catch buses to the Casino; Sparkles has lost weight from Ice since Peter Glazebrook’s death in the Onkaparinga National Park; Phil Ilee, Donny and Bluey, who were child victims at Glandore Boys’ Home are all dead, Terri broke up with John and lives near Semaphore; that young friend of Sparkles has stopped using Ice and has become a Christian; Bruno’s whereabouts are unknown; Margot Casey, who kissed Bill Shorten, is still alive, Anthrax is up to his usual tricks after being praised in Parliament by the Minister of Police; Lauren Vita returned to Djakarta; Trent Jefferis is declining yet his friends see this as normal because early deaths in the homeless scene is natural to them.
 
Robyn the Junkie lives in Mawson Lakes, but continues her “lifestyle”. She has for years claimed to be dying, but the day has not arrived; Mark Arstall hides interstate; Krusher Karl is reputed to have been released from jail in Perth while ex-wife Jayne still works at WestCare; Ice Man Dan and Intel Dave have disappeared; the Ancient Old Lady is 76 and still alive; Old Bill from WestCare is alive, but can’t walk anymore.
 
Little has changed in Adelaide’s homeless scene except that those living outside are avoiding government-funded services that require I.D. and interrogations. Homeless people have moved from the parklands to city streets due to government harassment and lack of begging opportunities.
 
14 October 2019

(above) A person sleeping on bare concrete in front of a church in the Salisbury-Elizabeth area after a cold night. Others sleep behind the church and catch the train to Port Adelaide to do work-for-the-dole or Job Network training courses.

Jesus of Dublin alive and well
The Night Talker

“Jesus of Dublin, Paul the Apostle and Mary of Naracoorte of the Salt Flats and Commie Kev are in trouble with the Regional Council of (B H)

“It is alleged that Jesus of Dublin, is now residing somewhere between Lochiel and Hoyleton (overlooking the Hill, where all the Wind Turbines are) though I believe he does travel backwards and forwards to Dublin (usually on foot) at different times of the year. Jesus of Dublin states that the hill overlooking his campsite reminds him of Calvary, where Jesus Christ was crucified between two thieves by the Roman soldiers.

“He is allegedly spending time with Paul the Apostle and Mary of Naracoorte, both longtime residents of the salt flats. They are selling Pink Rock Salt to passing tourists and also visiting locals.
 
“It is believed that Jesus of Dublin visited the home of a local individual who has been diagnosed with some kind of cancer. He laid his hands on her said a prayer and her pain levels have allegedly dropped. The local said she felt heat coming out the hands of Jesus of Dublin and an aura appeared all around the both of them.
 
“The cancer sufferer is elderly and she stated she is not afraid of dying as she has lived, a long and useful life. She believes that Jesus of Dublin is genuine and is more at peace now, than she has ever been. Jesus of Dublin accepted nothing for his services, other than a cup of homemade herbal tea. He blessed the home of the elderly lady and her only companion her pet cat, before he left. Paul the Apostle was also allegedly there at the same time.
 
“They walked a fair distance to the elderly lady’s home and walked back to their own residence. I was told the distance was several miles. Neither have a motor vehicle and other than in extreme weather conditions, both prefer to walk.
 
“Jesus of Dublin is still recovering from being hit by a car, whilst crossing the main highway into Dublin, earlier in the year. The driver did not stop. He was helped by passersby. He called them his good Samaritans. Paul the Apostle and Mary of Naracoorte, keep an eye out on him.
 
Jesus of Dublin does not use a mobile phone. He states that he does not need one. He communes with God and Nature as it was intended. Others know he is present when he arrives. Nobody is quite sure why? Could it be the aura that surrounds him?
 
“I gave him a lift a few months ago into Balaklava. He gave me a blessing and told me that my life would improve. I am now working for an excellent employer and my personal situation is much better. Could Jesus of Dublin be responsible?

“Commie Kev, although an atheist, is a close friend of Jesus of Dublin. Lately, he has been harassed by the District Council of (B............H) who are trying to remove his free book stand from the main street. Jesus of Dublin went to the council and became angry. He told the council staff they are worse than the moneylenders in the temple and that bad karma would follow them. The council staff had him removed. Later that week, the CEO of B.............H) council tripped over and broke his leg.

“You be the judge? Was Jesus of Dublin responsible?”

The Night Talker.
12 October 2019
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The New Clayton’s Uniting Church
 
Attitudes have changed since the renovation of the Hopes Café kitchen. Management has begun a process of kicking out the riff-raff clients and replacing them with upmarket customers.
 
Volunteers and paid staff have been alerted to this new policy. One client reading the notice board in the hallway outside Hopes Café said,
 
“…this old guy came out of the Op Shop. This is before they opened and he says, ‘Can I help you?’ and I said, ‘No, mate, I’m just reading the board,’ and he says, “What are you here for?’ and I say, “Why, what’s it to you?’.
 
“He spoke in a real bad attitude so I thought, it’s on, I’ll bounce back at him. He said, ‘I’m in charge of the Op Shop’ and I said, ‘Yeah, so what, get back in there and look after it. It’s not opened yet.’
 
“‘No,’ he said, ‘it’s going to open in a couple of minutes.’ I said, ‘Good, gt back in there and I’ll be in there in a minute and if there’s any problems we can sort it out. I’m going to continue reading this board and if there’s a problem, tell me right now.’
 
“And he said, ‘No, no problem.’ I said, ‘Right, good, get back in the Op Shop,’ so he went back in there.’
 
“I went outside and went around and came in the main entrance and he’s sitting in there talking to all the old woman and I just gave him the death stare. He didn’t say nothing and then he went outside and hid in the shed and I never seen him any more.”
 
Name and address supplied
12 October 2019

(above) A HousingSA (Housing Trust) maintenance contractor in Elizabeth couldn't be bothered doing the job he was paid to do. Instead of removing a discarded chair on the common ground of a group of units, he threw it onto the verge where it sat for a month.

Michelle Lensink’s footprint
 
Michelle looks nice, like some stoner you’d meet at a party and remember for the rest of your life. She’s also the Minister of Human Services in the South Australian government.
 
When the Hopes Café upgraded their kitchen at Clayton’s Uniting Church, some veterans in the homeless scene predicted disaster. When Michelle turned up at the official reopening of the kitchen, we knew things would turn out bad.
 
Once Michelle had left, staff suddenly discovered they weren’t breaking even with relying on donations for their excellent two lunches a week.
 
They logically cancelled the donation system, reduced the lunches to snacks and charged like any other café. Prices are still an absolute bargain, but the underclass stayed away. They have been replaced by a wealthier class of client.
 
Michelle has been equally disastrous with “social housing”. That’s what they now call the Housing Trust. A thousand houses remain empty while people sleep outside. Money has been diverted from building houses into failed “homeless rehabilitation” programs such as the failed Adelaide Zero Project. Builders have been replaced by data collectors and counsellors.
 
Michelle should find some inner grit and redirect wasted resources into building houses, not knocking them down and leaving the sites vacant for years.
 
Or perhaps she could become an advocate for legalising medical marijuana as a safer treatment for some forms of epilepsy. That would be a more useful vocation for Michelle.
 
Clayton’s Uniting Church (not free anymore)
cnr Portrush Road and The Parade, Norwood. Ph 8331 3529. Wednesday and Friday. 10:00am – 3:00pm. Upper class diners with a liberal sprinkling of genuine derelicts. Barista coffee. Decent toilets. Costs are one-dollar for good coffee; two-dollars for “snacks”. No residency or I.D. requirements. Anyone can go there.
Free Orange Sky Laundry on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm.
Free bread and vegetables from 11:00am to 12:00noon on Wednesdays for people in surrounding suburbs and this requires a Centrelink card.
Phone because free takeaway food details constantly change. Expect vagueness.

11 October 2019
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St Bede’s free breakfast
 
Staff set up a table in the hall for a couple that found the crowded dining room too boisterous. An Aboriginal woman cried while talking to an Anglicare employee. The homeless people ranged from complacent to desperate. Janet was unhappy. Lurch was told not to bully others and then he left. A client said that St Bede’s gets $25 to pay for the breakfast and everything else comes from donations, including donations from volunteers. There were a few new people there as the SRF people fade away and Joylene’s tribe have ceasing coming. The Big Breakfast was very small, but was supplemented with toasted sandwiches, cut fruit and cereals. There weren’t any drug dealers on the premises.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road)
8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free.
Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

11 October 2019
 

From the anonymous contact page
A white fella laments services for Aborigines, but not for white fellas

“…But what about us mob ?

Wa about da homewess ?

An me...

da headwess (headless) ?

Boozer Bobs body
lies a rottin in the grave...
rottin in the grave...
rottin in the grave...

da twuth goes mahchin on...

(Da Truth Goes Marchin On)

Walk a Kilometre in My Boots...

Yer Ole Boozer Buddy Bobbo (Abo) Frances
5AA Five Alcoholic Arseholes Radio Show

P.S. Homeless gather in stuffy ole Adelaide Town Hall on Monday 21 October 2019 10am - 2pm to rub shoulders with Axe Murderers... Grand Ole Tree Murderers.”
 
Anonymous
11 October 2019

Salisbury Fred’s Van
 
A Maori woman said she wasn’t hungry, but had to get out of her flat.
 
Another diner had his right hand and arm in a cast. He’d been shoving someone around when the pain hit him. He said he had a script for Panadeine forte, but no money to fill it. He’d go to Anglicare the next day.
 
He said it was difficult urinating. He had to use his other hand that had also been injured in the past and was partly numb. He said that using that hand made him feel like someone else was holding his penis when he urinated.
 
The Methadone Men were absent. They move in a block depending on heroin supply and its location. Damian wasn’t there. He is still trying to do a $7000 CMAX drug experiment for a pharmaceutical corporation. Being experimental subjects is a growth industry for soup kitchen clients. His friends warn him not to do it.
 
Shuffles offered to remove her clothing. Our table began shouting, “No” while her table shouted “Yes”.
 
The food included Maranello pizzas, sausages, quiche, salad, chips, ice cream, custard and canned fruit. A pure black Aborigine man claimed he was a vegetarian. No one believed him as the desert people prefer meat, meat and more meat.
 
Two clients helped stack the chairs after the meal.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
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11 October 2019

Travellers’ Aid at Adelaide railway station

Every day a “scruffy old guy” came in and got a free ticket to go to the Royal Show. When a woman did the same thing, the Travellers’ Aid worker said, “You don’t look like you need one.”
 
Another woman came in for a ticket to Wagga Wagga. She said she wanted to take her children there. She said she’d never had any help from Travellers’ Aid previously, but it turned out she’d been there the previously month for a ticket. Then she said she’d just come from the hospital. She then did her ‘poor me’ routine. I don’t know what happened after that.
 
Full name supplied.
Editor: Travellers’ Aid is nearly always either closed or hasn’t any customers. How does it manage to rent commercial space while being a charity?

11 October 2019
 

(above) The May to August free soup kitchen is all over for another winter at St Mark’s Anglican Church at Wynn Vale, a northeastern hills suburb of Adelaide. They should open all year.

(above) Could the St Mark's Anglican Church be persuaded to run their free soup kitchen all year rather than in the winter months only? Such churches are excruciating to visit when you find yourself the only street person in a crowd of normal church folk. But once we get our own crowd sitting at one table, everything changes.

Dennis the Menace at Hurtle Square
 
Dennis (PD) wasn’t happy at the Hare Krishna’s free vegetarian meal on the Monday Labor Day weekend. A 7-year-old child handed him cutlery for the meal.
 
Dennis worried that the child wasn’t using gloves and might not have washed his hands after using the toilet.
 
Another diner wondered how Dennis could be so particular when he lives in a campervan with two dogs.
 
Dennis recently wrote to the Adelaide City Council health department saying that volunteers at free food venues should wear plastic gloves to prevent transmission of diseases.
 
His complaints range from valid to excessive. Certainly, there are people with Hepatitis working in homeless joint kitchens. I remember seeing at a homeless health day in Whitmore Square a Baptist WestCare volunteer with long dirty fingernails mixing a salad with her bare hands and mayonnaise up to her wrists.
 
Dennis works for carnivals, fairs and Shows like the Royal Adelaide Show. Other times, he lives in his campervan in Adelaide.

Krishna Consciousness
Hurtle Square, Adelaide. Outdoor food van.
6pm Monday and Wednesday
Vegetarian food served on plates. Eat standing up in the park or you can take it with you. Free. Nice. Even Indians go there pretending to be from our crowd. 
10 October 2019

Ham served at Seventh-day Adventist Church

They served quiche with ham inside. That contradicted the Seventh-day Adventist doctrine of avoiding meat especially pork. Other than that, the vegetarian meal was its usual excellence. The caramel onions, creamed potatoes and fresh salad were particularly good. The dessert included a pudding containing egg, but that is allowable in the Adventist religion. A church member later said they'd bought the Quiche without realising it might contain ham.
 
A church elder gave a religious talk, I can’t remember a single word he said apart from implying that we were an unresponsive crowd. An old man blew a whistle.
 
An unemployed older man said he’d delivered 20 resumes to job agencies in Adelaide. He said some were reluctant to accept them. He got windburn and by evening could hardly walk from a bad knee.
 
An Adventist asked me if I went to church and believed in God. The group preparing the meal were from the Adventist church in Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park that give away free food every Monday and Thursday.
 
Margaret had a bad back after moving furniture for a woman whose house was foreclosed after she lost her job.
 
Brahma Lodge Seventh Day Adventist
144 Frost Road, Brahma Lodge (near Main North Road)
1st and 3rd Thurs each month. 6:30pm to 7:30pm during school terms. Vegetarian meal occasionally with eggs. Nice tablecloths and cutlery. Free. No I.D. required. Takeaway bread and leftover food. No coffee or tea. Gentle atmosphere. Slightly decrepit toilets.

10 October 2019
Second Edit: Late 10 October: The ham was suspected of being fake ham, but it appears it was real ham. 

An American guide to homelessness
 
https://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/

• Introduction to the Project
• Controlling Desperation
• Get Comfortable Lying
• I'm not a bum!
• Advantages of Homelessness
• The Car Cover
• Parking
• Hygiene on the Road
• Truck Stops
• Shelters are for Someone Else 1
• Shelters are for Someone Else 2
• Employment
• Staying Warm
• Keeping Cool
• A Word About Violence
• Addictions
• A Message to Homeless Teens
• Running Away
• Interactive List of the Best
• Current Status of the Blog
• How to Solve Homelessness

10 October 2019
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(above) This Housing Trust unit in Adelaide's northeast has sat empty for six-months. It required no renovation nor was it due for demolition. It could have been rented within days of being vacated from the pool of 20,000 people on the Housing Trust waiting list. This is happening across Adelaide. Why don't those collecting salaries from the Hutt Street Centre and the Adelaide Zero Project speak out against this bad practice?

Another Deep State operative hired as Thinker-in-Residence

The Don Dunstan Foundation is blowing another stack of money bringing yet another Thinker-in-Residence contractor to Adelaide. This is Dr Nonie Brennan from Chicago.
 
The Foundation says, “Impressively, Dr Brennan has led an overall reduction in the number of people experiencing homelessness in Chicago by over 20%. We're excited to welcome Nonie back to Adelaide…”
 
They must be kidding. Didn’t New York real estate agent, Rosanne Haggerty and Dame Louise Casey from the Institute of Global Homelessness in Chicago fix the problem in Adelaide?
 
Dame Louise came cheap, but Haggerty extracted the cost of two or three houses while Nonie will do the same.
 
As to Nonie reducing homelessness by 20% in Chicago, wasn’t that due to giving them one-way Greyhound tickets to San Francisco and Los Angeles?
 
Nonie’s real role in Adelaide is to formulate a plan to merge Adelaide’s homeless joints, especially their data bases, so each client’s movement can be tracked through the system. And if the client doesn’t comply with a directive at one joint, then other joints will shut down on that person simultaneously.
 
Part of the program to date is to infiltrate Boards of Directors so that many organisations will be controlled by a small group of Directors operating as a quasi-Deep State within the homeless industry.
 
We’re moving into an Orwellian society and those homeless joints resisting data collections are the heroes of the resistance.
 
9 October 2019
 

Lucas North on the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre

Lucas North, not his real name, wasn’t happy with his stay at the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre. He was annoyed, in particular, with a kitchen worker named “Kimberley”.
 
The Centre provided menus to patients who could choose from a limited number of dishes, but Kimberley would ignore patients’ choices and substitute, for example, Tuna Mornay, with a hot dog and chips because it was easier to make and was the standard lunch for that day. This was even if Tuna Mornay had been listed as a choice for that lunch. This is what Lucas said.
 
Lucas also said that Kimberley had done a stint at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, but after doing her substitution trick there, was shunted back to the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre.
 
Lucas says the food appeared nutritious at Hampstead, but was over cooked and over processed and thus without vitamins and minerals.
 
Lucas says most kitchen staff were excellent, but that certain Hampstead staff tried to silence him.  He said there were some “bad apples” that resembled “pustules waiting to explode”.
 
He said Kimberley was more than a bad apple and her boss who wore glasses was no better. Lucas said this boss became enraged when Lucas answered her repeatedly with the word “really”. She couldn’t stand Lucas’s condescending manner. Lucas says that twenty years in politics meant they were out of their depth with him.
 
As for Kimberley, she stepped on a pine cone and went on sick leave. Later, she went on stress leave because of Lucas.
 
9 October 2019
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Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury railway station

It rained heavily for three-hours during the BBQ. Volunteers arrived 18-minutes late then set up two strong gazebos next to the fence.
 
Old Cecilia had been doing the rounds during the day and got two church people to drive her to Aldersgate retirement village near Klemzig, a long drive from Salisbury.  
 
The Brazilian taxi driver stopped for a sausage on bread. He said his back hurt from sitting in the taxi.
 
Before the sausages were cooked, volunteers handed out pastries, buns and bread from High Times bakery at Modbury. It had been baked that morning.
 
Church volunteers concentrated on the homeless men already wet from the rain. They were grim and unhappy. Two suitcases were tied together behind a tree. The Salisbury Council has increased pressure on those camping at the football club oval and is erecting permanent fences around the toilet blocks to prevent men from sleeping there. Most of them are on the HousingSA waiting list, but expect nothing despite numerous empty welfare houses around Salisbury.
 
One man said that refugees get a house, $75,000 and a new car when they arrive in Australia. He said some go back to their home country for a holiday, showing themselves as the new rich folk from the village. He asked, “How can they go for a holiday when they came as refugees?”
 
The stooped-over small man pushing the shopping trolley came for a coffee and sausage. He was seen during the night screaming at pictures of people in shop windows. The police didn’t intervene as there was no one about to be troubled by his torment.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter.
Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.
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9 October 2019

(above) The 340 space $8.1 million Playford Council carpark gives free parking for the first three-hours, but rarely gets more than four vehicles, all from the Council. The Grenville Hub, Library, Council customers and employees avoid it like the plague. Even Mayor Glen Glenn Docherty parks elsewhere.

Pioneer Park robbery at Gawler
 
A client at a soup kitchen named the man and woman who robbed another couple at knifepoint at Pioneer Park 90-minutes after the Fred’s Van had departed last Thursday.
 
The client said the same couple had broken into a relative’s house. They used a screwdriver to get through the security screen then smashed the glass in a way not to make a noise. They checked the rooms for anyone home or a dog. They found $10,000 worth of jewelry.
 
One of the homeowners arrived during the robbery and chased the couple to the Gawler railway station where the thieves jeered the chaser. The person robbed asked for file footage from the government security cameras and was told they hadn’t been turned on.
 
8 October 2019
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University graduate gets termite impersonator job
The Night Talker

“Unemployed, Bachelor of Arts graduate, happy to accept job wearing a Green Termite suit.

“I was advised on another website (That starts with an A and ends with WU) by a person who is also a regular blogger to this particular site for people with unemployment/job network issues, he was happy that he had found a job, advertising Pest Control products, dressed as a BIG GREEN TERMITE.

“It is alleged that the said person (Whose pseudonym rhymes with BIG FRE-NEDDY) told me in confidence, that he is required to wear a termite suit and walk up and down a certain large stretch of well-known road (it rhymes with Couch) road, advertising a certain company, pest control products.

“He stated that many people drove past him and shouted obscenities, and a few times he had had things thrown at him, like a half full carton of Farmer's union ice coffee, a thong and the odd stubby and once a car load of gay men tried to entice him into their vehicle, saying that he looked sexy in his suit. (He declined the offer). 
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“But in a similar vein, he has also been approached by persons wanting to know more about his reasons for accepting the job. He stated that after completing his Arts Degree at a certain well-known university, he found himself unable to get employment and thus ended up on Heroin, spending his days listening to obscure 1970's punk bands and dreaming of ways, to commit suicide.

“His complete fall from grace came after he was required to attend a Work for the Dole Program. His days were no longer spent at home, but at an OP shop, being told what to do by 70-year-old ladies, or alternatively being sexually interfered with by these same 70’s-year-old ladies.
“He became so disenfranchised and angry he considered making a home-made explosives vest and going back into his JSA providers office and pushing the detonator.

“Then he said he saw it, an advert asking for a person to wear a BRIGHT GREEN TERMITE SUIT, for up to 12 hours a day, for the princely sum of $19.00 an hour.
“He knew then, he had been saved and went for the interview the very next day. The rest is history, as they say. Yes, the suit smells like someone simultaneously vomited and shat in it, and no his employer does not pay him any superannuation, holiday pay or loading, as he is technically a sub-contractor, but hey it’s a job and this is one PROUD MOTHER PLUCKING, ARTS GRADUATE. We salute you.

“With any luck, you will graduate up the next level........wearing the prestigious cockroach suit! (MORON!)”

The Night Talker.
8 October 2019

Who stole the Sunrise Bakery soup kitchen donation tin?

Sunrise Bakery is on the main road at Evanston, south of Gawler. They had a donation tin to fund their new free soup kitchen. They’d only done it once before and were due for another one very soon. Then someone smashed the glass of their shop and stole the tin containing $200.

Sunrise Bakery on Google maps
8 October 2019
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News from the Gilberton HousingSA apartments
From “Hell, I am here”

“Saturday morning 8:20 a.m. watched unmoved as tribal black fella slugged a blond bush gal to the ground and then gave her a kicking.

Ambulance and SAPOL showed up about an hour later.

Hard to tell what is "normal" savage society behaviour and what is extraordinary.

Whatever the case, SAGOV is intent on turning Helliott Lodge into the Redfern of Adelaide.

Large numbers of bushies showing up to conduct mass tribal gatherings, plenty bushwalkers and bushtalkers coming and going.

But so far not too much bushwacking similar to what happened the other night as bushbanger loudly hit our glass windows and broke our bikie neighbour's window (give him a taste of his own loud-ass medicine).”

HELL I AM HERE

Helliott Lodge
Hostile Homeless Housing SA (HSA)
SAHA (South Australia Housing Authority)

8 October 2019

Gawler South Bakery donations
​to Fred’s Van

The Gawler South Bakery at 30 Adelaide Road, Gawler South has been donating their end-of-day pies and pasties to Fred’s Van every Thursday at Pioneer Park at 6:00pm for years. They also have a branch on the corner of Tod Street and Adelaide Road.
 
Gawler South Bakery on Adelaide Road on Google maps

8 October 2019
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(above) HousingSA won't remove rubbish from its own property in Elizabeth. Yet it spends a small fortune sending inspectors to tenants' homes for no productive reason. The Playford Council ignores ratepayers' complaints about the rubble and garbage. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

​Jake Maguire: Adelaide homeless conference used car salesman?

Jake McGuire was jet lagged. He’d flown into Adelaide for the August 2019 homeless conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre. He didn’t say who paid for the air fare or his hotel room.
 
Jake is with Community Solutions who developed that drip-feed questionnaire that the Hutt Street Centre force homeless people to answer when they apply for housing.
 
The interrogation of the homeless person starts easily then progresses to more intrusive questions such as whether the applicant for housing has ever prostituted him or herself. Each answer slips into that person’s digital Eternal Shame File that is shared between welfare agencies and government departments.
 
This interrogation process has been championed by Ian Cox at the Hutt Street Centre from where, coincidently, John Andrew Green operated ten years ago. Green was a homeless gambling addict who borrowed small amounts of money from a targeted person then increased the amounts until a large sum was owed. Then he’d threaten violence or refusal to pay back the money until an even larger amount was lent. The final result for each lender was shame and loss of money.
 
Similarly, Jake McGuire’s Community Solutions questionnaire proceeds the same way. The initial soft questions become more intrusive as the interrogator’s smile morphs into a sneer. With this comes the threat that if the subject doesn’t provide even more intimate information, then the housing application will be cancelled. And as if to parallel John Green’s threat or actual violence, the Hutt Street Centre interrogator implies that the intimate answers already given may be used for hostile purposes against the failed applicant.  
 
Of course, there is more subtly to the Hutt Street Centre’s technique than John Green’s smack in the teeth.
 
Speaking at the Adelaide 2019 homeless conference, Jake McGuire presented himself as a nice fellow, similar to that Toyota salesman in West Terrace who said he wanted to help me when I walked into the showroom. I’d almost begun crying with relief then realised this was one deceptive car seller.
 
Meanwhile, Jake provided his credentials to the Adelaide “sell out” homeless conference audience by condemning “gun violence” and “white supremacy” and Donald Trump. He talked about “domestic violence” as he spoke behind a podium corflute that said, “Raise the Rate”.
 
He also told the Adelaide audience of social workers who’d gotten a day off work to attend, “Don’t expect quick results.” He didn’t need to tell that to some of the audience. They knew that increased money poured into the Adelaide Zero Project had resulted in higher homeless statistics. That’s why Jake didn’t talk about the Adelaide Zero Project. It has been a failure and was essentially a program developed by himself and Rosanne Haggerty, a former South Australian “Thinker-in-Residence” who single-handedly siphoned off enough money to build three or four houses for the homeless.
 
But Jake talked about “their” great success in reducing homeless numbers in Oklahoma City. He didn’t say whether or not social workers had achieved this by giving homeless people one-way Greyhound tickets to Los Angeles and Seattle, or San Francisco where homelessness has risen 1000% in ten years.
 
At the end of the day, the Adelaide audience filed from the expensive conference rooms. Some went for “drinks” while others picked up their cars from the parking stations and went home or rushed to the airport to catch an evening flight interstate.
 
The conference became part of an instantly forgotten history and no one even bothered watching the subsequently published YouTube videos of the guest speakers. And nothing changed for those living on Adelaide streets or in the parks or in their cars on South Terrace, and life continued on as before.
 
7 October 2019

Brian Burdekin Clinic loses some of its drug dealers

A rubbish bin near the Brian Burdekin clinic in Selby Street near Whitmore Square was guarded by drug dealers as if it was a bank vault with the door left open. It was.
 
Not much garbage went into the bin because it was a drug pick-up spot. After being paid, a dealer deposited the product in the bin whereupon the buyer retrieved it.
 
The clinic’s rubbish bin lost its popularity as an exchange venue not because of a police raid with their drug dog, but because Burdekin Clinic staff stopped giving away free coffee. That was the final straw for the druggies, no coffee. They left.
 
7 October 2019
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Rat shack space race

​From the anonymous contact page

“Some of us live in rat-infested spaces while human elites spend TRILLIONS on the race to space, perhaps to send a few dozen specialist space nazies/commies (astronuts or cosmonuts) to far-off uninhabitable places such as the dark side of the moon, mars or asteroids.

“What a waste. some of us have already proven to ourselves and others, via emotion-thought-soul-action consequences, that we can be in more than one place at the same time with measurable results.

“and there is a big risk : by having us hundreds of millions living in poverty and squalor amidst rats, there is a chance we could be inadvertently killing off plenty city-folk.

example: in a nearby hills rat shack recently picked up and cleaned off a rat-rest, a cushion that some rat had turded on several dozen times. then went into city cafe and somewhere else, only to discover a few rat turds in a coat pocket. now if those few turds carry some of the many rat diseases such as

leptospirosis

theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/10/rare-disease-spread-via-rat-urine-kills-seven-dogs-and-leaves-dozens-of-australians-ill

lassa fever

who.int/emergencies/diseases/lassa-fever/en

or other many rat-carried nasties

fedpest.com.au/pests/rodent-treatments/diseases-spread-by-rodents-in-australia

it is quite possible there could be some very ill or dying people to include ourselves in the immediate vicinity.

so there is a lesson to be learned:

instead of spending those TRILLIONS on the race to space, wars for oil and other evil endeavours,

easily and simply give us hundreds of millions a modicum of hygenic sealed housing that we are proven to live in cleanly, with no rats or swine fever nearby, and just possibly we can avoid another epidemic of rat plague or black plague such as lassa fever.”
 
Anonymous
7 October 2019
​

From The Anonymous Contact Page

The UGLY DRUGLY brothers (Frankein$tein twins) called out to me standing at a bus stop across Grenfell Street :

"... C?**t ..."

So strange... are they (or one) demonically possessed ?

Really they (or one) is really a disgrace to their race.

Imagine how UGLY their mother could be...

HORRIFIC.

DOA
DRUG
THUGS
 
Anonymous
​7 October 2019

(above) Another morning, another mess outside the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. What is strange is that the lights near the bin are turned off during the dark hours. However, rumour has it that the Army is planning to monitor the bin during the night.

Food for the Community raises price
 
It now costs three-dollars to gain access to the free food section at the Food for the Community building in Hindmarsh. Processed food from Food Bank is also available at reduced prices due to its age.
 
Food for the Community (only at Hindmarsh)
Mission Building at 137 Port Road, Hindmarsh (corner of Anne St and Port Road).
Mon 11:00am to 1:00pm, Tues 11:00am to 1:00pm, Wed 1:00 to 3:00 pm, Thurs:11am to 1:00pm, Fri 1:00 to 3:00pm.  Free tea and coffee. Three-dollar entry fee gets you free fruit, vegetables, good bread plus other free items. Rest of shop is elderly food at cheaper prices. No I.D. or registration required.

Google Maps showing Food for the Community store

6 October 2019

On the Street
 
A Sergeant at the Elizabeth police station has had a gutful of officer complaints. It’s hard enough dealing with victims and criminals without the added burden of solving officers’ personal crises. They refuse to work with each other or arrive from home in tears from some domestic crisis. He can’t take much more and might give the policing game away.
 
*
 
A client arrived for lunch at Baptist Westcare near Whitmore Square covered in tattoos including the word, “Murder” inked under his bottom lip. His head slammed back so violently when he ate that even WestCare’s tough men were anxious.
 
*
 
“I’d forgotten about this, overwhelmed by decades of Salvation Army propaganda. When I was homeless, there were predators everywhere. They tried to harm me physically, take my money or damage me psychologically. One was the Salvation Army. They ran a Job Network that kicked people off the dole. They were predators to be avoided. They never got me, but I lived in fear of them. They weren’t nice.”
 
Anonymous
 
*
 
The Victory Church crowd put on the free BBQ every Friday at 6:00pm at the Salisbury railway station. They pay for most of their supplies from their own money.
 
They forgot the tomato sauce recently so Jen went to Coles and bought some. When this happened at Gawler Fred’s Van, the volunteers said, “bad luck.”
 
But the Victory Church crowd never bring enough hot water so it runs out half-way through the evening. Hot water is cheap. Why don’t they bring enough?
 
*
 
The Horse Trainer Lady’s car broke down just after she spent $450 on a new key. The Lady collects cans from rubbish bins, but also gives away much of the free food she collects. Many people at free food venues who are perceived as greedy are actually collecting for others.
 
*
 
Someone jumped a neighbour’s fence then into German Marten’s carport and slashed his bicycle tyre.
 
*
 
A soup kitchen man with contacts inside the Australian Navy said that leave had been cancelled due to a higher level of alert. The man said it was in “expectation of war”.
 
*
 
“G” brought a dog given to him. He tied it on the back of his ute as do farmers. The dog escaped in the carpark at a free soup kitchen, but was too frightened to know where to run.
 
*
 
George the Elder doesn’t like to admit error. It’s an expression of his survival instinct to respond with an effective rejoinder.
 
When he thought it was Friday and was told it was Thursday, George asked, “How do you know that?” None of us could answer his question. We felt stupid.
 
*
 
A man hunting pigs in Dubbo managed to drive back to Adelaide and admit himself to the Lionel McEwin Hospital. He says he’s never felt as sick as now. He has swine flu.
 
*
 
George the Elder was outraged when he heard a woman tell others she was happy not many had turned up at a free food event. She said, “More for us.” George says we should tell everyone about free food venues.
 
 
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Readers please consider putting a link to Adelaide Homeless Journal on your sites and feeds. https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/
 
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Free showers at Adelaide Airport
 
Showers on upper and lower levels. It might be helpful to carry a bag bearing tourist stickers such as Kuta Beach, Phnom Penh or Paris, but not anything from the Gary Glitter fan club.
 
You can sleep on the floor or seats while pretending to be awaiting a flight and not have to worry about being woken with the words, “Are you alright?”.  Then, after a good rest, you can catch the bus back to Whitmore Square.
 
6 October 2019
​

A hidden agenda?
The Night Talker

“Are we being encouraged to become perennially helpless? Is this some kind of hidden agenda?

“I was in my local Woolies the other day, and as per usual, the supermarket has got some kind of giveaway going? (Last month it was some crappy plastic toy thingo) but this month, the promo is to collect seeds to plant.
 
“Apparently, the uptake (according to one of the checkout chicks I talk with quite regularly) is not that great?) Why? I mean the giveaways are technically free?
 
“Because apparently, half the people who get asked if they want the bags of seeds, say they have no idea what to do with them (aka you plant them and they grow and then you eat whatever is produced?)
“So this left me wondering, if learned helplessness is actually being encouraged by the wider powers that be? Now do not get me wrong, I am not expecting you all to start banging together weaving looms and or start digging up your front lawn (if you are lucky enough to still have one) but let me put it into perspective; the last major power blackout that we had back at in 2016, resulted in some communities being without power for (wait for it a whole four/maybe five days) and the back kick from that, you would have thought there was a famine or bubonic plague heading our way!
 
“Radio stations were besieged with angry callers, screaming for the blood of everyone from the state premier to CEO's of Electricity companies. Such as it was, it got me thinking, what are these people going to do, if we went off the grid for a couple of weeks or even months?
 
“Would they decide to find the nearest bridge and throw themselves off? Would life cease to exist as we know it (it would certainly be different but it wouldn't just end) Less than fifty years ago, (in my life time at least) pretty much everyone from outright home owners to people living in state or company owned housing, (e.g. the railways or electricity trust or mining company etc etc) had a few fruit trees, some other shrubs, possibly some chickens, grape and passion fruit vines were also popular at the time. Unless very elderly, or alcoholics, lazy or slovenly, there a vegetable patch (of some kind) in everyone's backyards.
 
“For most working class people, it consisted of the basics (carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, spring onions, spinach, silver beet, Kale and Kohlrabi were staples. For those a bit more adventurous or better at gardening, aubergines (eggplant) pumpkin/squash, climber beans, and chilli's as well as various herbs were also grown. I remember that we also grew Chocó's near the old water tank out the back. There was certainly nothing exotic about any of these fruit or vegetables, but they were cheap to grow, nutritious and tasty and everyone from Grandpa, down to the smallest child, would be out there on most weekends, either harvesting, ripping out weeds, spraying the fruit trees, turning the earth and or replanting, when the time came.
 
“We used the manure from the chickens to enrich the soil and the chickens were also good at eating up the bugs that would otherwise decimate our seedings. People talked about what they grew across each others fences, and swapped or bartered produce.
 
“It did not mean that times were not difficult (there were issues then, just as there is now) but people were much less reliant on the supermarket and if you wanted something nice, (e.g. a piece of fruit or some herbs or some vegies for tonight's) meal, you just went out in the backyard and helped yourself.
 
“Obesity was certainly around, but not in anyway near as bad, as we have it now. Diabetes was only a disease of the elderly (or alcoholics and nobody sat on their phone, tablet or in front of the tv for hours on end. Kids skateboarded, or rode bikes (if they had them) or walked. Fishing and crabbing was very popular. People talked and visited each other. How much of this happens now, or would we even be safe doing this?

“Your thoughts?”

The Night Talker.
6 October 2019

Penny Wong non-fan club
From the anonymous contact page

Comment
Hey !

Hoo Homewess ?

Hoo ?

Hoo Hoo
 
6 October 2019
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(above) Business as usual each morning outside the Playford Corps of the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. Shrinkage is a problem at every level of the donation and sales chain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

Adelaide Zero Project’s
​homeless count anomaly

The number of homeless people counted in the Adelaide CBD for the month up to the 18th of September dropped from 208 to 163.
 
This might have been cause for celebration except that no one knew where most of the 45 homeless had gone. Nor those replaced by new homeless people, which had jumped from 19 the previous month to 44 in September, which alone, theoretically, would have raised homeless numbers.
 
The statistics also show that the “Number of people seeking housing again after not engaging with the system for 90 days or more” had gone from 19 to 0, which seemed impossible.
 
And the drop in the homeless count certainly wasn’t through the success of the Adelaide Zero Project. Those housed via this program changed from 11 to 12, which had no effect on the homeless count.
 
Nor was there a significant change in the number temporarily housed from sleeping rough. It rose slightly from 33 to 37.
 
Could it be that the homeless people in Adelaide are actively avoiding agencies that track their movements and housing status? Or have certain “partners” in the project rejected the Tavistock Institute nature of the Adelaide Zero Project and no longer divulge their clieint data?
 
5 October 2019
​

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
 
We talked about refugees moving into government-owned houses while Australian citizens remained homeless. “We’re all refugees,” said one of the roughest men.
 
A woman said I must have dropsy or be on the verge of a stroke because one side of my face had collapsed.
 
Lisa has returned after being hit by a metal decanter two months ago. The young man who shoved an old lady against the wall wasn’t there. Nor was she.
 
Before the doors were opened, Mr Rock Solid asked that a pitcher of water and cups be brought outside, as usual. He was refused as there was a staff shortage inside. Mr Solid was not happy, but this is the nature of free food joints.
 
The place was overcrowded with both the café and gazebo tables full occupied. The fresh salad ran out before everyone was served.
 
No one did anything crazy, which made me uneasy. Like a calm before the storm. These places are like being in a war zone: 95% quiet, 5% terror.
 
Second Editor
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview.
 
5 October 2019
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(above) The view of Adelaide from the oval behind the King's Baptist Church at Wynn Vale that offers a free underclass evening meal every Monday at 5:45pm. See the Adelaide Free Food guide at Adelaide Homeless Journal for more details.

John Falzon at the 2019 Adelaide homeless conference

John Falzon showed us the problem we face in the underclass. It’s John Falzon and others like him.
 
He presented his ideological credentials at the Adelaide Convention Centre homeless conference last August.
 
He read the obligatory ‘we’re on Kaurna land’ script then praised Hillary Clinton and condemned Trump. Then he chose a beggar lady in Melbourne asking for money for coffee and food as his icon of homelessness.
 
John Falzon continued listing his ideological credentials by criticising a Liberal federal government assistant Minister.
 
Switching to art and philosophy, he quoted a poet who wrote “…unity and diversity is the greatest weapon of the oppressed…”
 
Falzon was mouthing all the right sounds, but if you’re homeless, “diversity” means the government keeps welfare housing empty for “refugees” and people already living in houses, but “at risk of homelessness” while you remain sleeping outside or in your car.
 
Following the correct script, he didn’t mention the thousand empty government houses in Adelaide. Nor that heroin and crystal methamphetamine dealers operate freely at venues frequented by those living outside. Or that critics of the drug business have more to fear from management than the dealers.
 
Nor did John Falzon mention the dismal failure of the Adelaide Zero Project. While sucking in millions of dollars collecting data and hosting conferences, homelessness in the Adelaide CBD has actually risen.
 
Money has been removed from building houses and transferred to programs to help homeless people with their “issues”. Most of those living outside want a safe house, not help with their “issues”.
 
And what does Falzon believe causes homelessness? His demons are the “patriarchy” (men), “colonisation” (white men, mostly), and “neo-liberalism” (mostly white men).  
 
The most dangerous utterance of Falzon was his quote from a poet who wrote, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle.” And therein lies the ideology of John Falzon and the Adelaide Zero Project.
 
They are part of a political struggle that uses homelessness as a weapon against the other side. The homeless are part of their tool kit to infiltrate and increase their control of the welfare industry. That’s why they remove money from housing and divert it into expensive “programs” to apply to a select few from those living outside. It is crucial for political operatives like Falzon to keep homeless numbers up or their means of manipulation would decrease.
 
But for the homeless, these programs mean increased surveillance, less privacy and less control over their lives. These programs are directed at the wider underclass in the guise of control over a few wild drug addicts.
 
Listening to Falzon, it became clear that the Adelaide Zero Project is designed to make things worse for the homeless because if it solved the homeless problem it would no longer be a useful tool for their side of politics.
 
As for John Falzon, he’s finished as National C.E.O. of St Vincent de Paul and is running for political office.
 
4 October 2019
​

Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury railway station

The two vacuum flasks of hot water for coffee ran out in the first hour. This happens nearly every week. They should bring four flasks.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise said he allowed a friend to store furniture at his house for one week, but it’s been there for 18 months and the Housing Trust inspector arrives this week.
 
Old Val said an ambulance took her to hospital twice in the past two weeks. She said she wasn’t going to talk to people about her illnesses any more. They make too many jokes.
 
One-legged Adam arrived pushing an MS man in a wheelchair. The Eskimo Lady was laughing strangely at nothing in particular. Another woman was carrying her Eskimo-inspired handbag.
 
Jamie got a new bicycle. It turns out his full-face helmet isn’t a motorcycle helmet, but is the weight and thickness of a bicycle helmet. He didn’t lock his bicycle to a tree. He said he trusts everyone at the BBQ.
 
A dozen black-dressed homeless people were there. Their presence was depressing considering so many Housing Trust flats and houses are deliberately kept empty and the Adelaide Zero Project soaks up money that should have gone to building houses.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter.
Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

4 October 2019
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(above) Owners are living on their boats at Taperoo on Adelaide's Le Fevre peninsula in response to the housing shortage caused in part by the South Australian government keeping welfare houses empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2019).

All bite and no bark
Gawler U Care morning tea

The 74-year-old man in the food queue outside the early pioneer church building on Tod Street talked about his surgery. Surgeons had removed his spleen, lymph nodes and part of his pancreas then given him chemo-therapy. None of it worked and the tumour in his pancreas was growing, hence the rockmelon-sized bulge in his mid-section. Yet he was in good spirits and said his illness “goes with the territory” of getting old.
 
Inside the building, U Care offered half a dozen varieties of fruit and vegetables including good cabbages plus goat’s milk cheese and a few shelves of elderly bread. Monday is not a good day for free bread as most is baked early Friday.
 
One doorway from the room led into a chilly dining room with four tables covered in cakes, biscuits, soup and burgers. A volunteer served barista coffee and I placed a piece of cake next to it. A few minutes later, I left and inspected their excellent shower room. I returned 90-seconds later and discovered my coffee and cake had disappeared, thrown into the rubbish, and my chair pushed against the table. Staff kindly brought out another coffee.
 
A problem with the soup and bacon and egg burgers was that they’d been placed on the tables prior to the 9:30am opening time and were slightly cold.
 
And within 35-minutes of the first wave of guests entering the room, the table cloths were removed from half the tables leaving the remaining guests huddled around the remaining two tables. This sent a message to arriving guests they were late. My bag of vegetables put into a corner appeared on top of a cleared table then another employee put it to another part of the room. They wanted us out.
 
Meanwhile, the cold burgers were taken into the kitchen. When a male guest arrived, he was perfunctorily told he was too late. Then a social worker arrived with three clients. They were served. The other man returned with goat’s milk cheese that he added to the cold pumpkin coup. When asked if the bacon and egg burgers could be returned to the table for the late guests, the answer was they’d been thrown away because they’d been on display for two hours. That wasn’t true.
 
Sean wasn’t there. He’d been kicked out for expressing anger. He now exercises hard to lose weight so he can parachute from a plane though friends say it is to either attract women or defend himself from a soup kitchen intimidator. An early outcome of his workouts is that he requires less insulin.
 
The tea was supposed to run from 9:30am to 11:00am, but due to the expected arrival of the Oz Harvest truck, guests were being hustled off early.
 
By 10:45am, I was the only patron left. A volunteer asked, “Are you alright?” I said I was waiting for a church elder who had stepped out of the room. The volunteer replied, “That’s fine,” but her tone resembled that of the receptionist at the government dental service at Port Adelaide, sort of sarcastic. She also banged her hand on the table twice as she walked away.
 
What was disappointing was that the church volunteers spent so much time and money producing a pleasant morning tea, then ran it like a 1970’s Sydney Salvation Army doss house. Their efforts should be better recognised and appreciated by allowing them to conduct the morning tea in a more relaxed manner.
 
The Oz Harvest truck didn’t arrive until we’d been long gone.
 
UCare Gawler (Uniting Church of Gawler)
10 Tod St., Gawler. ph 08 8522 4522.  Everything free.
Open 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday. Good shower and washing machine
Free bread, pastries, fruit and vegetables. Best stuff gone within an hour of opening. Every day visit okay. No I.D. or registration required, but for better stuff you must live in Gawler area and supply Health Care Card. Also, free prescription vouchers.
New: Free coffee, cake, egg and bacon burgers on Mondays 9:30am to 10:30am excluding school holidays.
 
3 October 2019
​

Gilberton Housing Trust Blues
from the Rundle Spy
 
There's an older druggie / drunkie biker-crim looking fellow (50-60) who backpacks to the State Library every day and sneers and jeers at me... giving hateful comments in low volume so that others might not hear.

EVEN THOUGH AYE DONT KNOW HEM AND DONT HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH HEM (or HER if a Bitch incarnate as reincarnational trans-gender, sometimes a HEM is a HER).

Medium height and build, greyish medium length hair, stash and beard.

Sits around the War Memorial too sucking out of those bottles of hard licker.

"Familiarity Breeds Contempt"

Am one of those most familiar with State Library and environs here and this cursing creep seems to have me as a target for contempt.

If it turns out to be an assignment given by $yndicate Organi$sed Crime to bother / harass one of the straight non-crim people (me) esp. because of my potential links to Natural Law and Order, aye shall not be surprised...

Similar thing exists with Screaming Banshee witch bitch at housing hell hostile hostel.

Could be an evil epidemic driven by demon-agenda... demonoids too.”
 
The Rundle Spy
3 October 2019
​

Shiva the Destroyer

“Shivas Sakrit Seekrits for Homeless:

NO Eat Meat (PORK)
NO Drink Drug (BOOZE)
NO Sick Sex (AIDs)
NO Poke Pokie (GAMBO)

NO Atak Irak (WAR)

P.S. Above has been ripped down many-a-time esp. at Clearlight Whole Foods in past. Must be something(s) good to it.

When the time comes, Shiva will certainly "do it to it"...

extreme high body counts of disincarnated beings freed from human entrapment.”
 
The Rundle Spy
3 October 2019
 ​

(above) We hear the Brazilian government allow farmers to burn the Amazon, but in Adelaide we have our own chemical Amazons. Government councils including Playford poison land between fences and footpaths with herbicide to stop weeds and grass. This vanity-based desertification is worse than Brazil where those destroyers at least use the land for agriculture.

The Tavistock Institute and experiments on
​Adelaide homeless people

​You won’t find a building in Adelaide that advertises experiments on homeless people. You won’t find the Tavistock Institute. You won’t find anyone who can give an overview of homeless women and men being used as subjects in mind control experiments.
 
Similarly, you won’t find a central building with “Adelaide Zero Project” on the front door. It doesn’t exist. The Don Dunstan Foundation may think it is the leading proponent of the program, but that isn’t true. They’re the advertising agents.
 
The Adelaide Zero Project has dozens of “partners” including the psychiatric corporation named Neami National, the Hutt Street Centre, Housing ChoicesSA and Anglicare. Each plays a role in “supporting” homeless people, but none know the full application of such “support”.
 
Like the Tavistock Institute, the Adelaide Zero Project is decentralised, but someone knows its full program.
 
Yet most people in Adelaide consider it absurd to think the welfare and medical establishments would perform experiments on homeless people? Have we forgotten the Australian government’s mustard gas experiments on Australian soldiers in Queensland during World War 2?
 
If experiments are being conducted on homeless people in Adelaide, what are they? Do they harm the subjects? Are those wounded during the process diagnosed as drug addicts, then shunted off to support homes in suburbia. Will anyone talk? The Hutt Street Centre would be the port of first call for a researcher with enough courage to begin such a task.
 
One thing we do know is that the Adelaide Zero Project has little to do with housing.
 
2 October 2019
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Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury railway station

“M” shouted that Terry S**** tried to stab him on Tuesday in the city. He said the police didn’t believe him, but that a former Sergeant now at the Hutt Street Centre did.
 
“M” and an Egyptian physiotherapist talked about the best way to kill animals used for food. The physiotherapist said he used to kill animals as a career until switching to physiotherapy. He said that twisting chickens’ necks brought a quick death, but not to ducks whose arteries were so wide that twisting didn’t kill them quickly. They talked about rabbits. “M” mentioned using a hook. The physiotherapist laughed and said that sounded like torture. He added that rabbits’ stomachs and pigs’ skin harboured salmonella and that any contact with the flesh rendered the carcass useless.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, fresh bread, onions, sauce, coffee, fresh sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter.
Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station.
Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

2 October 2019
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From the Anonymous Contact Page
 
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2 October 2019

(above) Poisoned ground topped with sterilised plantation pine chips replace grass and soil-enriching weeds for Housing Trust tenants in the poorer suburbs of Adelaide.

Why is the Deep State after Charlie Teo?

​Charlie Teo is arguably Australia’s leading brain surgeon, but some secret cabal within the ruling class is after him. They accuse him of sexual misconduct and charging too much for surgery.
 
But is this the reason they are trying to destroy him? “Sexual misconduct” accusations are so commonplace they have become meaningless. Is there another reason?
 
Compare Charlie to the Adelaide Zero Project, a homeless bureaucracy who have siphoned off money that should have been used for building houses. The Project, which is a secret Adelaide cabal within the halls of power, claimed they’d reduce functional homelessness in the Adelaide CBD to zero within two years. That was nearly two years ago, but homelessness has risen 50%. Yet this has attracted no criticism from those in power or their servants in Adelaide’s homeless industry. The Adelaide Zero Project can do no wrong. Why is this? Is it because they are doing the bidding of the Deep State? What is this bidding? Is it mind control, cultural destruction, mass programming, experimenting on the homeless?
 
Meanwhile, let’s hope Charlie sees his accusers as pawns of the Deep State and their accusations not to be taken to heart.
 
1 October 2019
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China
from The Rundle Spy

 “In Red China ($ociali$t Communi$t (Fa$ci$t) China) there are few if any homeless.

“It is a situation similar to Red Ru$$ia ($ociali$t Communi$t (Fa$ci$t) Ru$$ia) where there were almost no unemployed : unemployment was a crime and the idle were given full employment in $oviet $tate $lave Labor Prison$ that provided 24 hour 365 day/night per year accommodation and work for the dole.

“In Red China the homeless are gladly accepted (forced) into the $tate $pon$ored organ donation program in which their organ are given a free home in a paid $ub$criber, perhaps a kidney or liver or heart transplant.

“The organ thereby has a "home" and the person is no longer considered "homeless".”

Source: Falun Gong / Falun Dafa
The Rundle Spy
1 October 2019

(above) Your typical South Australian library has gone from being an information resource to a surveillance centre. This is not via customers' internet usage exclusively, but through the surveillance cameras. They are not simply recording to an SSD in the library, but to a government surveillance building connected to the prison and police departments, and ankle bracelets worn by sex offenders. They are linked to an evolving facial recognition algorithm, which has effectively criminalised the whole population or, at least, those who use libraries. (Photo: Friend of the Night Talker).

New free food service at Gawler
 
Hope Chapel has operated from the Gawler Recreation Centre since about 1987, but recently got access to an old church building on Cowan Street, Gawler, near Coles.
 
They’re another church without money or other physical assets. Perhaps they’re arisen in response to the gap left by disillusionment with billion-dollar churches infiltrated by child molesters and preachers who contradict Biblical teachings.
 
On the first Friday of each month at 6:30pm, they pull a trailer onto the grass near the corner of Myall and Britton Streets at Gawler West. They set up tables and a generator. Next Friday will be their fourth episode.
 
Last month, they decided to bring bags of sausages in rolls rather than set up the BBQ, due to rain. This was a mistake. Guests don’t turn up to grab food; they use these services as social venues. A church old boy quickly realised this. Hope Chapel are fast learners. Nevertheless, the mood was wonderful.
 
This Friday they should have the BBQ operating and serve hot coffee.
 
A 23-year-old man in the church said he is studying to become a pastor. He said it is a murky career path as there isn’t a guarantee of a position. His manner was of humility.
 
https://preview.tinyurl.com/hopechapelgawler
 
Gawler Hope Chapel Food Truck
 
Corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West
1st Friday of each month at 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Sausages, bread, coffee, sweet buns. Tables and chairs and a generator on the grass. Child friendly.   
Free. No I.D. or registration required.
 
30 September 2019

Colonel Klink goes Adventist
 
The preacher of the week gave a short sermon before the food was served. This week’s preacher looked and talked like Colonel Klink in the 1960’s TV show, “Hogan’s Heroes”.
 
Other church members began rubbing their faces and twisting their necks when Klink began his tiresome Biblical message. I cannot remember a single word, but a woman who studies the Bible challenged him afterward. She asked why he’d left off the last parts of the sections of the Bible he’d quoted. Klink was not amused at this challenge. The woman said the Adventists have a different Bible.
 
The food was exquisite as usual, but the staff collected plates eight minutes after the last table had been served. They asked to take plates upon which food was still being eaten. They go to such effort to produce a nice setting, then smash it with their eat’n’run attitude as if we’re animals and nothing more.  
Brahma Lodge Seventh Day Adventist
144 Frost Road, Brahma Lodge (near Main North Road)
1st and 3rd Thurs each month. 6:30pm to 7:30pm during school terms. Vegetarian meal occasionally with eggs. Nice tablecloths and cutlery. Free. No I.D. required. Takeaway bread and leftover food. No coffee or tea. Gentle atmosphere. Slightly decrepit toilets.

30 September 2019
 

Cos We Care on Saturdays
​at Elizabeth

Three men asked each other for cigarettes. None had any except one who produced three butts he’d found on the ground. Another man gave him some papers and he rolled an ultra-thin smoke.
 
One smoker said that the local Foodland store taxes its tobacco pouches meaning they open the plastic wrappers with a steam machine, removed tobacco then reseal it. Another said a packet of smokes cost $98 for 50. “Almost as cheap as dope leaves,” I said. “Cheaper,” a cannabis smoker corrected me.  
 
Two clients praised Major-in-the-making Fiona Allan at Playford Salvation Army. One said, “We don’t call her Fiona, it’s Fi.”
 
Kerrie from Finland brought a Sudanese friend with strange teeth that stuck out of her mouth at an angle, but her emotional reactions were more normal than ours. She isn’t as damaged. Her apartment is crammed with people who have nowhere else to go. The Housing Trust won’t rent them empty apartments in the complex. Same old corruption of state.
 
The man with the Office Works chair attached to his mobility scooter let me go for a ride. “Safer than a car,” I said, but Junice contradicted me. She said she’s been hit three times, twice by the same driver who didn’t stop.
 
Cos We Care
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
 
Also, on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, clothing, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk. Up to a hundred people on Sundays.

30 September 2019

(above) The chute openings are so narrow that donors leave boxes and bags outside the donation bin. Scavengers rummage through them and leave a mess for the grumpy Salvation Army soldier each morning at Elizabeth East. Somewhat miraculously, the Op Shop behind the bin brings in a small profit each day.

Whatever happened to Piano Player Wayne?
from Reader of Adelaide Homeless Journal 

“I have been a reader of this journal for many years and have followed through the journal stories, the Homeless community of Adelaide and outer suburbs. I was wondering what has happened to Wayne the Piano Teacher? The last we heard about this homeless community member was when he was in the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre around the time of the last federal election. Is he ok or has something happened to him It would be nice for readers to be kept informed of long team members of the community, as they are part of Adelaide's story?”
 
Editor: Piano Player Wayne is recovering well in the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre after his leg amputation where he appears to have decided to live permanently and undergo perpetual rehabilitation.
 
29 September 2019

On the Street
 
A safe injecting room has begun operating from a government-funded welfare joint in the Adelaide CBD. This further normalises self-destruction and ignores the lack of government legislation allowing it.
 
*
 
One of Dominic Polena’s tenants said that Dominic tricked his wife by putting some of their 19 houses in their sons’ names. His wife wanted a divorce earlier, but waited until their sons had grown up. “She should have moved faster,” the tenant said.
 
*
 
The needle van is parked on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace near the Hutt Street Centre most days.
 
This is to encourage injecting drug addicts to adopt HIV and Hep C infection prevention strategies while they either destroy themselves or recover.
 
*
 
Intel Dave hasn’t been seen on the streets for months. Perhaps he fled to Perth with Ice Man Dan.
 
*
 
Free soup kitchen clients are rolling cigarettes hardly thicker than a match stick. With the legislation allowing dope growing at home in the Australian Capital Territory, cannabis will become cheaper to smoke than tobacco.
 
*
 
Old Graham’s son said the reason he nearly hit the student dentist at the Light Square Common Ground apartments was that after pulling out four teeth the anaesthetic wore off and the pain on the fifth tooth was too much.
 
He said he also began to choke from blood in his mouth because the student dentist hadn’t noticed the suction machine wasn’t working properly.
 
*
 
That Bible-reading foreign homeless gentleman excels in camouflage skills.  He entered a property near Whitmore Square through a break in a fence and placed a blue tent against a wall that he covered with blue graffiti.
 
It was only when other homeless people moved in with their bicycles that their presence became obvious and police threw them out.
 
The site is used as a carpark for Chinese residents of a nearby apartment building.
 
*
 
Tenants believe Dominic Poleno is going bi-polar from the stress of his wife seeking a divorce and investigations of his 19 doss houses by the tax office, Housing Trust and Salisbury Council.
 
*
 
“Helping end homelessness for every person who walks through our doors. Since 1954.”
 
https://www.huttstcentre.org.au/
 
*
 
Druggies at Baptist Westcare can be saying they’re going to the Brian Burdekin clinic to get free bus tickets.
 
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Trog from the Mary Magdalene Hall Saturday free meal on Moore Street is still angry with The Ghost Who Walks. They worked together removing large limbs from trees. But when they had a particularly difficult job, The Ghost laughed and told their employer that Trog hadn’t a clue what he was doing.
 
Trog took up drugs and alcohol. “It’s a shame really. He’s ruined his life,” a friend said last week. Trog is a decent fellow and helped the Vitamin Derelict catch his twenty cats and take them to the free immunisation Pop-up clinic in the parklands.
 
*
 
Father Christmas was in the Advertiser some months back. The Council were forcing him to get rid of his junk including free food stored on his verandah that he’d gotten from the Do Unto Others program at City Salvos, Fred’s Van and other free joints over the past twenty years.  
 
*
 
The rumour that “A” at the Food Barn was pregnant is untrue. The fact that she was pushing a pram with a new born baby didn’t clarify anything. “It isn’t mine,” she said hastily when I peeked inside the pram.  
 
*
 
A Freemason at the Port Adelaide Masonic hall told Bronwyn Plate not to let anyone use the new elevator.
 
At least one disabled person and another with a shopping trolley has stopped going to the breakfast due to difficulty climbing the stairs. A visitor recently said there were more volunteers at the free breakfast than clients.
 
This comes from an unbiased source.
 
*
 
“Food places just let druggies save money on food so they have more for drugs.”
 
The Night Stalker
 
*
 
Both Train Wreck and The Ghost Who Walks are seriously ill. And the Celebrity Can Collector is dead.
 
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The elderly Ghost Who Walks is still banned from Baptist WestCare after eleven years. It has never been explained why they expelled him, but the dominant theory remains that he wore shorts without underwear and spread his legs so the cook had to look at his private parts while she was serving food.
 
*
 
The Commercial Derelict is still on the scene. He sits outside cinemas in the city looking for money to buy junk food at McDonalds.
 
He was accused of stealing the nurse’s medical bag at City Salvos years ago, but that didn’t seem to bother him.
 
*
 
The Ghost Who Walks lives in a heritage house in a slightly upmarket suburb. His grandfather built the house before it became a rich suburb.
 
The Ghost is the longest resident in his street. He arrived there as a baby straight from the Queen Victoria hospital.
 
His intolerant neighbours were not amused when The Ghost parked a burnt-out car on his front lawn. They called the Unley Council. The Ghost spends a small fortune on fines, lawyers and court fees fighting the Council.
 
Couldn’t the Unley Council could find something more productive to do.
 
29 September 2019
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From the Anonymous Contact Page

Re: ‘Typical South Australian library’

“Eee Gad.. What a Cad !
Keep those CRIM$ away...
Let CRIM$ lie someplace else than our library...
Fer sum uv em perhaps a grave yard... prison yard.”
 
A Verse (Adverse)
29 September 2019


From the anonymous contact page

“Thanks for REAL LIFE CRIME adventure stories and coverage.”
 
Gypsy Soul
29 September 2019
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From the Anonymous Contact Page
 
Thanks for another issue of True Crime. Frank Pain Gallo
KaPeacha?

Anonymous
29 September 2019

(above) The Playford Council kicked the Munno Para Bowling Club out of its premises then an arsonist conveniently torched the clubhouse. The Council then spent $7.1 million dollars rebuilding the Elizabeth Bowling Club and erecting this huge canopy. The result is the Munno Para crowd have lost their club and the Elizabeth rinks are little used.

Unable to leave a comment on the Homelessness conference, youtube site
The Night Talker

“I tried leaving a comment after watching a few minutes of David Pearson blathering on about Homelessness in Adelaide and it's relationship to the Don Dunstan Foundation, but I could not.
 
“The comments section is either disabled or someone has put something into the program, that means whatever you are writing is word limited (e.g. you cannot go beyond so many lines) I wrote three and half lines and the comments section, froze on me. I tried to log in again and all that did was increase the number of views to the site (so if it has jumped, then that is my fault and I am to blame!)
 
“Mind you i think the views are sitting at nine at the movement, which is hardly earth shattering!
 
“I did try and watch the video through but it is so boring and it such a lot of crap! Oh my God David Pearson, are you in love with yourself? That is the drift I got (excessive amounts of narcissism) Other than that, there was nothing positive that I can say about this video or whole set up. What a waste of time, money and resources!”

The Night Talker.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ22KRUsHAE
 
28 September 2019

Ellen Lee Zhou’s plan if she becomes Mayor of San Francisco

​Ellen is Chinese. She can’t speak decent English despite living in San Francisco since 1986. And she has capitalist ideas, landlord ideas.
 
Ellen Lee Zhou is a Republican running for Mayor on the San Francisco local council dominated by the Democratic party. San Francisco is of similar size to Adelaide. It has nearly the highest homeless rate in the United States. Ellen says homeless numbers have increased 1000 per cent in ten years.  
 
Her plan doesn’t involve opening homeless joints or building new houses. She says the working poor who are homeless should move into some of the 50,000 vacant properties in San Francisco.
 
Ellen Lee Zhou says the reason these properties are kept vacant is that owners fear trouble from tenants. She says government-funded “non-profit” organisations get grants to represent tenants badly treated by landlords. But these “non-profits” cannot get enough clients to justify their funding so they encourage tenants to make major complaints for minor problems. She says the “non-profits” are so desperate for business that they set up tables in front of court houses and offer free legal services.
 
Landlords have reacted by keeping their properties empty for fear of extended litigation. Ellen says this, along with Rent Control, is why there are 50,000 empty dwellings in the city.
 
Ellen Lee Zhou’s plan is to become the Mayor of the San Francisco city council, then change the laws. She might even reduce funding for the “non-profits” to make it more attractive for landlords to rent their houses to the working poor, but not necessarily to the other homeless.
 
Could San Francisco’s empty house phenomena be relevant to Adelaide? Here, we have 1000 empty Housing Trust houses kept empty due to maintenance requirements or planned demolition years in the future. The bureaucrats say that regulations prevent them from letting homeless people live in houses unfit for habitation. Yet if we had an Ellen Lee Zhou in Adelaide, she might recommend changing the regulations. Even a faulty house is better than living outside and under constant threat.
 
In Adelaide, the homeless agencies are too corrupted to be able to respond to this issue. And many operate to another agenda.  
 
And it isn’t all sweet sailing for the homeless in San Francisco if Ellen Lee Zhou becomes Mayor. She wants to make it illegal to camp on city streets. She said, "When I am elected, I will declare no homeless people are allowed in any of the San Francisco streets." She also says that most homeless people are sick and that she will help them. What would this mean in practical terms?
 
In Adelaide, being homeless and living on the streets isn’t purely illegal, but we still have bureaucrats paid to harass and steal homeless people’s blankets and tents. Imagine if it was illegal.
 
And what does this mean in racial terms in San Franciso? Most homeless people there are African-American or white? Ellen Lee Zhou’s constituency includes Chinese landlords living in San Francisco and China. But she still has ideas worth considering such as tracing who actually gets the money at “non-profit” homeless joints that are funded to help the homeless. Do we need an Ellen Lee Zhou in Adelaide?
 
https://hoodline.com/2018/06/2018-mayoral-candidate-questionnaire-ellen-lee-zhou
 
28 September 2019
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(above) The lights are on, but no one is home. While people sleep outside or in their cars at Elizabeth, the Playford Council spent $8.1 million building this car park that remains empty day and night.

(above) This new Playford Council carpark holds 343 vehicles, but rarely holds more than four even during peak shopping periods. And those four are from the Playford Council. The rest of the Council fleet are kept elsewhere at night, probably driven home by employees. Even during the day, Council employees clog the outdoor carpark with local government vehicles rather than use the multi-story carpark.

(above) An always empty level in the $8.1 million Playford Council carpark. This is despite parking being free for the first three hours. Even the Mayor avoids it.

Adelaide Zero Project doubt their own homeless statistics

What would normally be a month of celebration has become a month of doubt. The official Adelaide Zero Project statistics show that the homeless number in the Adelaide Central Business District and parklands has dropped from 208 to 163.
 
The Project ― which should be called a Program ― adds the disclaimer that, “An audit of the By-Name List was conducted during September and further analysis is being undertaken to understand the significant shifts in this data.”  This means they don’t know what the hell is going on.
 
However, according to a number of soup kitchen clients, the answer may be the police sniffer dog. The animal has reportedly been seen in the laneway at Baptist Westcare where they got eight druggies in one visit and during which a woman jumped over a fence and ran away.
 
Another homeless person said the police go to the Hutt Street Centre a few times a day with four officers present at each visit. The drug animal also got half a dozen druggies at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place on a single evening.
 
And if they’d gone to the Burdekin Clinic, half the patients would be in the slammer and Dr Damian Mead could spend his days sleeping on his desk rather than sitting on a chair during consultations.
 
It is common for those addicted to drugs to leave Adelaide for South Australian country towns or go interstate when in trouble with the police. This could be in part an explanation for the reduction in homeless numbers. Another factor could be that a mob of tribal Aboriginals have left for a funeral.
 
27 September 2019

Methadone men
​at Salisbury Fred’s Van

One of the druggies across the table was amused. He could see my fear. A dangerous fellow sat next to me, unhappy that his dealer had disappeared after taking payment. Another druggie sitting next to the amused druggie complained that a certain bank account had been cleaned out. He kept saying, “I’m gonna kill him,” though he didn’t appear to be the violent type. A fifth druggie, from one of Dominic’s doss houses, repeatedly said, “You live and learn; you live and learn.”
 
The alcoholic at the end of the table, and with one-year to live if he continues drinking, muttered against another group of druggies at the next table. They included a woman getting most of her back teeth pulled out and the man who lost his children to the childless women employed at the Child Protection department.
 
One druggie slept on the couch in the foyer while another urinated against a tree. Blankets lay in the doorway of that crooked Job Network joint that operates in the TAFE complex.
 
One of the druggies said the soup was superb, but few finished their meals.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

27 September 2019
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(above) A miracle. Two vehicles being driven into the Playford Council's new 343 capacity carpark, but they weren't parking. The drivers were honing their rally driving skills then stopped for a consultation on the top floor before racing down.

Adelaide’s homeless conference racket

Former Don Dunstan Foundation executive director David Pearson said at the August 2019 homeless conference that the gathering gets bigger every year. He said they’d sold out three times.
 
So, we’d expect those attending the Adelaide Convention Centre conference and others working in the homeless sector to enthusiastically watch his introductory address a second time.
 
After 17 days on YouTube, the video had six views and no comments. Was anyone who went to the conference really interested in it except as a paid break from their usual job?
 
Doesn’t nearly everyone who attended the conference realise the Adelaide Zero Project to date has been a dismal failure. Little has changed except money for building homes has been diverted to counselling and data collecting while the Adelaide CBD homeless rate has increased.  
 
Instead of the homeless conference, the one-day salaries of those attending and the cost of travel and hotels for interstate and American guests could have been used to help build a rooming house of the type favoured by fringe-dwelling homeless people.
 
But then, none of this is about housing. It’s about developing a prototype of social control that later will be applied to the society at large.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ22KRUsHAE
 
26 September 2019
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Bed bugs in one of Dominic’s
​doss houses

Bed bugs are taking over one of Dominic Polena’s doss houses. A tenant lifted his mattress to expose the bugs underneath. Another tenant is afraid the bugs will migrate to his room.
 
Steam cleaning helps as bed bugs hate hot temperatures. Tenants at one of Dominic’s doss houses turned up the heat to kill the bugs, or maybe to annoy Dominic. The bugs survived, but Dominic raged when he discovered a $2800 power bill.
 
Some tenants are backing Dominic’s wife in the divorce proceedings and might have turned up the heat to annoy him. 

26 September 2019​
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Faith Works at the Elizabeth Beacon of Hope church

Bruce Kurtzer wasn’t there. I missed his yelling into the microphone. It didn’t seem right without that.
 
The free offering included coconut water, 2-minute noodles, oranges, onions, potatoes, bad carrots, sugar-free Coke, bread and a couple of other items. Not much.
 
Like most free food venues, variety and amounts are decreasing as venues increase in number for the same amount of free stuff available. That’s why statistics for people accessing “emergency” food has increased: amounts given are smaller so clients go to multiple venues each week. Nearly everyone is faking it in the homeless scene from the top executives down to the desperadoes. We’re holding each other hostage in a web of lies.
 
 
Faith Works doesn’t require I.D. or registration or a sad story. You just turn up, that’s all they want.
 
There might have been forty-five people present at the Beacon of Hope. Katie from St Bede’s was there along with friends of Jenny Hallam. Nearly everyone arrived early and were eating sausages on white bread with coffee. The distribution began at 10:00am, but by 10:32 everyone had gone except the volunteers and myself.
 
A preacher named Brent from Mississippi said a prayer. He said the Beacon of Hope church had taken bags of “goodies” and a free lunch voucher to the tenants at the Avondale apartments after Nathan Cooke was stabbed to death.  
 
26 September 2019
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Anti-poverty Network SA

From Adelaide Homeless Journal
 
“A breakaway faction of the Anti-poverty Network SA has registered the name much to the annoyance of the original group. Meanwhile, former Anti-poverty Network boss, Pas Forgione, is moving towards ACOSS while another ex-boss, Sam Shetler, has resigned and is running for the Gawler Council.”

****That breakaway faction is doing justice to all those who have had the voices oppressed & suppressed by the previous APN Gulags in power****
 
Gypsy Soul
26 September 2019

(above) A view of the $10 million tennis complex at Elizabeth East from across the road near the rundown Avondale Housing Trust units. The 16 courts remained mostly unused month and after month.

(above) Australian governments spent $10 million on this little-used tennis court complex in Adelaide's northern suburb of Elizabeth East. They've spent even more on equally unproductive venues in other parts of Adelaide. Meanwhile, crucial industrial infrastructure was moved to China in exchange in part for Fentanyl and crystal methamphetamine which are destroying the lives of unemployed Australian-born tenants across the intersection at the Avondale Housing Trust units.

Secrets, graft and the Deep State in the Playford Council

Playford Council forced the Munno Para Bowling Club to close down. The club wanted to stay open, but had no choice. They were on 2.74 hectares of prime Council land on the corner of Curtis and Main North Roads. Mayor Glenn Docherty was against them.
 
German retailer Kaufland had contracted to buy the land for $8.2 million. Docherty, backed by Playford Council C.E.O. Mal Hemmerling, quickly spent $7.1 million of the money renovating the Elizabeth lawn bowling club on Goodman Road, next to the SANFL Central District football grounds.
 
The canopy covering the three astro-turf lawn bowling rinks is reputedly one of the largest in the world and filters out ultra-violet rays while letting the rest of the light spectrum through. The hollow tubing holding it up came direct from China.
 
Not that its usage warranted such expense. Even with the so-called amalgamation of the Munno Para Bowling Club, the facility remains little used day after day.
 
Residents who walked to the Munno Para club and played bingo and bowls are reluctant to drive or catch a bus to the Elizabeth rinks. It changes the experience. Despite the huge expenditure on the showcase canopy, bowling opportunities have effectively declined for those at Munno Para.
 
The Playford Council also sold the Grove Tennis Club at Elizabeth Grove. It was initially valued at $6.2 million, but was sold to ACH, the pensioner housing corporation, for $3.4 million. This didn’t cover the $10 million price tag for the new Playford City Tennis Centre on the corner of Midway and Main North Roads at Elizabeth East. And the ten-million didn’t even buy a grandstand or tunnel.
 
This showcase facility is across the road from the government’s decrepit Avondale Apartments where ice-addict Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last month.
 
As with the Elizabeth Bowling Club, it is rare to see anyone playing on the usually locked sixteen floodlit courts. It’s managed by TennisGear Management who don’t come cheap. Even the two free courts are usually vacant. The only people hanging around the area at night are heroin addicts either flaked out on the side streets or doing deals. And they don’t require the floodlights.
 
Meanwhile, the Munno Para Bowling Club’s heritage building was conveniently torched last May by unknown arsonists. In contrast to the usual prevarications of the Playford Council, the rubble was quickly trucked out as if the club and the building had never existed.
 
Kaufland haven’t helped the situation. They decided not to buy the Munno Para Bowling Club site after all. They said they have too much on their plate building three other stores.
 
Then there is the Playford Council’s $8.1 million multi-level vehicle parking station on the corner of Main North Road and Phillip Highway. It can hold 343 vehicles yet rarely contains more than four, even during peak shopping hours, and those four are from the Playford Council. It was built in part to hold cars from the ice-skating area that wasn’t built.
 
Not that this bothered the Playford Council or any of its executives. Their latest panacea is to place giant glittering advertising screens on the sides of the parking station. This will not only bring in advertising revenue, but also distract motorists driving through the speed cameras infesting the intersection next to it.
 
We might assume that those involved in these little used sports and parking infrastructure projects are fools, but are they?
 
Money for these projects was sourced from government grants on the condition that the Playford Council sell off the citizens’ public land and borrow from foreign lenders. In fact, rather than being embarrassed by it all, the Playford Council plans to borrow another $20 million dollars this year to add to its $148 million debt.
 
Who wins from this unnecessary construction activity? The foreign lenders gain leverage on local government. A corporation, probably foreign, will eventually get the Curtis Road land. Construction companies from Adelaide and elsewhere doing the building have had a good time. And the creation of temporary building jobs hasn’t harmed Mayor Glenn “Teflon” Docherty.
 
But it still makes some observers wonder? Has there been bribes at every level of politics and business to grease this depletion of public land assets?
 
And why, after the flurry of economic activity and the resulting fiasco did Playford C.E.O. Dr Mal Hemmerling resign? Officially, sexual harassment and bullying charges were made against him. Such charges are frequently used against old white males near the end of their careers. They’re easier to prosecute than more serious charges such as those stated by publicity seeker and former Mayor, Marylyn Baker. She’s cited mismanagement, but what was she doing in her current position of an elected Playford Councilor during this series of wasted money and land loss?
 
Dr Hemmerling may be an old man, but he’s not going down. He’s smart and tough. He ran Adelaide’s Grand Prix for ten years and also held the position of Adelaide City Council C.E.O. He began defamation proceedings that have been settled out of court. How much did that cost the Playford Council?  And did he receive any help from Mayor Glenn “Teflon” Docherty who has conveniently dived for cover.
 
24 September 2019

(above) Police tape blocking the hallway entrance leading to Nathan Clarke's unit in the Avondale Housing Trust complex at Elizabeth Grove. Nathan kept losing his keys so he left his front door unlocked.

(above) A police officer talking to two tenants at the Avondale Housing Trust complex where earlier this month a man fatally stabbed tenant Nathan Clarke.

(above) Journalists waiting for action a day after Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death at the Housing Trust complex near the corner of Fairfield and Main North Roads at Elizabeth Grove.

(above) Nathan Clarke, 45, had suffered cuts to the face in a previous attack before being fatally stabbed in September 2019 at Elizabeth Grove. He frequently told people, "Jesus loves you." Mick of Mick and Denise said Nathan was a good fellow and always gave him a lift in his car.

(above) A rundown laundry room in the Housing Trust Avondale complex across Main North Road from the usually unused $10 million tennis complex at Elizabeth East. Australian governments pour money into non-productive sports and entertainment projects instead of housing or industrial projects. Who is determining this suicidal national agenda?

(above) The South Australian government stopped fixing broken windows at the Avondale complex. The Australian federal gov't hasn't the courage to tell the Chinese government to stop sneaking crystal methamphetamine and fentanyl into Australia. No wonder the underclass victims go crazy and smash their windows.

(above) Media crews waiting outside the units where Nathan Clarke was killed. They know lots about powerful Australian politicians and government employees who facilitate the importation of Ice and fentanyl, but if they breathe a word, they get the sack or could even end up in jail. No wonder most of them go insane before retirement age.

Bluey one year gone
 
Bluey as a child was at Glandore Boys’ Home with the paedophiles. He was there before Donny and Phil Ilee, both deceased, arrived as children.
 
Bluey went to Perth last year to see his brother dying of lung cancer. A few weeks after returning to Adelaide, Bluey also died of lung cancer.
 
Bluey lived at various rooming houses including The Terraces on East Terrace. He collected cans then hid them behind other people’s houses. Once he lost $900 worth of cans he’d hidden.
 
Bluey could be ferocious around the Adelaide CBD industrial rubbish bins. Once, when encountering Aborigines, he broke a glass bottle on the side of a bin and threatened them with the jagged glass. Bluey was tough; he had to be as a child when the government-employed paedophiles came for him in the boys’ home. They’d find a boy sleeping, suffocate him into semi-consciousness, then rape the boy and hold him in the bed until morning.
 
One associate said Bluey was “a nasty piece of s**t”, yet he was charming to others and few believed he was violent. He was tough.
 
“He was quite mean, actually,” another colleague said. “He died, he died, recently. They’re all dying; they’re all dying,” she said as that generation of soup kitchen/children’s home people fade away.
 
Few of us end up at charity soup kitchens unless we’ve gone through a life-changing trauma.
 
23 September 2019
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The Vitamin Derelict talks
​about bed bugs

The Vitamin Derelict is no stranger to bed bugs. He recommends using Diatomaceous Earth. You form a barrier around the base of your bed and in all crevices and cracks in your house. Diatomaceous Earth is made from the fossilized remains of silicon dioxide-based water creatures called diatoms, which must have been plentiful because it costs ten dollars for a one-kilogram bag or eighty dollars for twenty kilograms. It’s mined from ancient fresh water lakes in North Queensland. Some people even eat it.
 
Bed bugs dry up and die when they cross a Diatomaceous Earth barrier, but it doesn’t kill the eggs. You have to get the babies as they hatch and before they reproduce.
 
23 September 2019
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Geanne from the ​Australian Tax Office gains weight

“She likes to walk, she’s as fit as a fiddle, but she’s all locked away. She’s in bed all day. It will kill her. She was skinny, skinny as a rake, but last week she said, ‘I can’t put my skirt on anymore.’”
 
It cost $500,000 to move into the nursing home and she still doesn’t know her house in Adelaide has been sold along with her furniture and clothing.
 
Geanne was a leading gambler at the Adelaide Casino and tax office employee.
 
23 September 2019
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Cos We Care forget donation tin
 
A stranger brought three bags of clean clothing and blankets. Bryony gave a blanket to the man who stayed outside the previous night. He was dressed in orange garbage bags over his clothing including bags around his shoes. He said he didn’t sleep during the night because of the rain and cold.
 
He arrived at Fremont Park with his personal possessions strapped over an electric lawn mower. He said he wasn’t homeless, but couldn’t stay at home because of the “mood”. He said he’d “wanted to be a volunteer, but couldn’t.”
 
The woman from Bhutan asked why he didn’t stay at one of the empty Housing Trust houses. “Trespassing,” the garbage bag man said. “I don’t want to end up on the wrong side of the fence.”
 
Bryony thanked everyone for not blocking her parking space at the end of the tables then said she didn’t bring any clothing in expectation that it would rain. Next week.
 
Her son has become a boxer, but she doesn’t want to go and see someone hitting him. Bryony was a leading Karate fighter so he takes after her. Don said he also fought using Karate and in a tournament his opponent was deaf so Don didn’t want to push him around, at first.
 
There were 20 clients initially, then another 10 arrived in the next half hour. There were very few fruit and vegetables as the pickup man, Roy the Boy, had got a job so and no one else was available to collect from the markets. Samantha made Taco dishes while Junice handed out Costco cake and Samantha’s doughnuts.
 
Everything went smoothly apart from forgetting the donation tin.
 
As we left, a Cos We Care volunteer from the Gloucester apartments took the garbage bag man with his electric lawn mower over to his place.
 
23 September 2019
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(above) Every month there is a new wave of products at free food venues that didn't sell well in stores. Last month it was Vicks VapoDrops and Cucumber infused carbonated water. The Seventh-day Adventist church at Elizabeth Park gave away the water by the carton. See the Free Food guide on the Adelaide Homeless Journal website for more details.

People’s Pantry at O’Halloran Hill
 
Similar to Nanna’s Free Food Basket in Semaphore except you have to give a gold coin donation (one-dollar) for the free fruit, vegetables and bread. That’s one-dollar for all of it. They sell other stuff from Food Bank for reduced prices.
 
They’re open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00am to 2:00pm including during school holidays. Their address is 1708 Main South Road, O'Halloran Hill.
Phone 0451 742 014.
 
22 September 2019
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On the Street
 
A breakaway faction of the Anti-poverty Network SA has registered the name much to the annoyance of the original group. Meanwhile, former Anti-poverty Network boss, Pas Forgione, is moving towards ACOSS while another ex-boss, Sam Shetler, has resigned and is running for the Gawler Council.
 
*
 
An elderly man has discovered a way to get quicker service at Salisbury Centrelink. Instead of waiting two hours, he gives the Nazi salute to clients entering the front door. Staff panic and usher him to a cubicle. “Please don’t do that,” they ask and quickly deal with his problem then hustle him from the building.
 
*
 
A volunteer was kicked out of a free food joint said, “They didn’t sack me, they employed me as an enemy,” he said, somewhat happily.
 
*
 
A married couple at the Food Barn are separating. Marriage is too expensive. He’s older than her. She works so he can’t get the Aged Pension. When they separate, she’ll continue working and he’ll get the pension. They have two kids, no problems.
 
*
 
The Don Dunstan Foundation told the truth when they proclaimed: “Homelessness Conference 2019 – Preventing Homelessness – A sell out success!”  Was this a Freudian slip or were they referring to tickets sold?
 
But of course, tickets would sell. Homeless industry bureaucrats wanted a day off work while still collecting their salary. They’d love ten homeless conferences a year providing the homeless didn’t turn up.
 
*
 
An insider in the legal industry said that it cost $50 to get someone’s address from AGL and $500 from the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure (DPTI).  Debra Buckskin used to supply classified information to outsiders when she was a South Australia police officer. She said other officers passed on secret police information on a regular basis. Debra got 12-months in the slammer non-parole.
 
*
 
Mick of Mick and Denise dashed into the Salisbury shopping centre to buy lunch.  Instead of returning with an expensive hamburger, he carried two 65 cent cans of the cheapest sardines. He said he’d eat one and give the other to his cats.
 
*
 
A number of volunteers have departed from Gawler U Care after being caught stealing. Rumours had continuously circulated about insiders stealing food donated for clients.
 
The thieves were caught after church management installed surveillance cameras.
 
*
 
A former military man says 58 bodies of fishermen were found in a net by Navy divers in the northern waters of Australia. The divers also found the ocean bottom covered with dead and dying sharks with their fins cut off for the shark fin soup market.
 
“You don’t hear that in the news,” the military added.
 
*
 
A volunteer at Nanna’s Free Food Basket said he became exhausted not because of the work, but because of the bickering amongst volunteers about who got what before the clients arrived.
 
*
 
Port Church (Baptist) get their free food from Copenhagen, Food Bank, Second Bite, Oz Harvest, Baker’s Delight, Murphy’s Bakery and Mighty Joe’s (corner of Grand Junction and Hanson Roads)
 
*
 
George the Elder said that the Mug’s Breakfast on Mondays at the Marion Life Church of Christ is considered the 4th best offering in Adelaide.
 
*
 
Frank Pangallo, MLC, is doing the rounds talking about bullying at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.
 
What a hypocrite, Frank was Today/Tonight’s leading bully whom management set upon powerless people. But Frank behaved like a castrated dog when it came to investigating the elite and powerful.
Frank always had smaller fish to fry.
 
*
 
Rosemary Anne "Rosie" Batty has made another bad life choice. She is doing the media rounds saying she doesn’t want Senator Pauline Hanson on the Australian Parliamentary inquiry into the fairness of the Family Court System.
 
Senator Pauline Hanson has been appointed as Deputy Chair of the inquiry by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Hanson says the Family Court is biased against men.
 
The well-meaning, but easily manipulated Batty is again being used as a pawn by one side in the battle.
 
*
 
Customers at the Unley Salvation Army have begun jogging after their lunch. They have been seen running towards the nearby betting agency after leaving the Salvo dining room. They think they’re alright leaving the Salvo building, but minutes later they’re rushing to the betting agency toilets. One diner blames it on the bad hygiene practices of kitchen volunteers.
 
*
 
Seventy-five-year-old Beverly Brooks was spat in the face at the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth last year so she went into hiding. Two thugs later went to her house and tried to break down her door. That’s why she began sleeping on a park bench.
 
*
 
The elderly woman suffering from constipation for two-weeks is now okay. She got some pills from Chemist Warehouse. She didn’t go into details.
 
*
 
The Salvation Army has inserted expensive ads in Messenger newspapers asking people to leave them money in their wills.
 
*
 
There is turmoil at Nanna’s Free Food Basket after Bronwyn Plate ordered volunteers to submit to police checks. This was prompted by an explosion of accusations, an arrest and an exodus of workers.
 
*
 
A Victory Church member began a conversation with me. He kept saying, “Yes, yes, that’s good,” to everything I said whether it was good or bad. I thought it was me, but have since noticed that is how he responds to others as well.  
 
*
 
An aging man at the Victory Church free BBQ at the Salisbury railway station lives on NewStart. Nearly all his pay is absorbed by room rent at one of Dominic Polena’s doss houses and deductions for an overpayment by Centrelink.
 
He lost his assets after two marriage break-ups and finds he is unable to hold down a full-time job. He spends part of each night searching for ten-cent cans and food left behind fruit shops.
 
He remains highly disciplined and has a fine mind.
 
*
 
Wayne the junk collector got his Learner’s driving license.  To get a Probationary license, he must drive a certain number of hours under instruction from another driver. A soup kitchen friend suggested he put a blow-up doll in the passenger seat and pretend that is his instructor. Wayne considered the suggestion.
 
*
 
The partially bald quiet man in his thirties was on Bolivar road last Sunday. He’s the one who slept with a needle in his arm at the Salisbury Football Club. Last Sunday, he was near the site of Robert Skewes’s house. Robert lived next door to John Bunting, leader of the “Bodies in the Barrels” gang who stored their victims’ partially eaten bodies in drums at Snowtown.
 
The Snowtown killers weren’t an isolated gang, but have relatives and associates that continue to frequent free food venues.
 
The man was shouting at the top of his voice.
 
22 September 2019

(above) These free carrots from the Encounter (Salt) Church weren't much good and the chocolate on the liquorice bullets had begun to putrify. But visitors could have grabbed five times the amount shown above at the church free food event every Thursday at 3:00pm in Gawler. No I.D. or registration required.

Cutting Edge, the benevolent hairdressers at Tanunda

The Tanunda Lutheran nursing home bus was parked outside the Food Barn at Elizabeth. The driver drove us to the Cutting Edge salon at Tanunda. There were platters of food near the cash register that wasn’t ticking over.
 
The hairdressers came as far as Reynella and Noarlunga in southern Adelaide to style our hair. One hairdresser was a Persian man studying social work. His specialty would be children, he said. Roxy is the owner of Cutting Edge.
 
Junice and other women got their hair dyed purple and other colours. It took hours and would have cost $160 each, but they weren’t charged by Roxy and her volunteer hairdressers. The men got lesser quality haircuts, perhaps because we were dressed shabbily and a fancy haircut would have clashed with our apparel.
 
One customer arrived from a respite hostel. She was recovering from being in hospital. She said a “dark male nurse” had given her the wrong medication and left her feeling like a drug addict. After two hours in the chair, she emerged a relatively normal person. Being treated kindly made the world of difference.
 
It had been frightening as welfare recipients to get on a charity bus with strangers to go to a country town for free hairdressing, but this crowd didn’t humiliate us.
 
Roxy and her friends do free hairdressing every few months. Information sheets appear at the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth a fortnight prior to each free day. Other than that, the service is kept secret.
 
And Roxy isn’t a fool. She said, “My sore point is people who can work, but choose not to then complain the government isn’t giving them enough.” I slunk into my chair upon hearing the words that have followed me my adult life. The hairdresser from Noarlunga said, “My sister is one of them. She hasn’t worked a day in her life, but knows how to work the system.”  
 
After getting the haircut, a female hairdresser approached me and asked if I’d had a haircut yet. In the bus back to Elizabeth, the driver asked if I’d gotten a haircut. Whatever, Roxy and her eccentric hairdressing friends are one small miracle.
 
21 September 2019
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(above) If you're homeless, don't let the Hutt Street Centre or Service to Youth send you to an expensive rooming house full of bed bugs.

The Night Stalker to the rescue
 
The Night Stalker came to the rescue. He hates bed bugs. He bought the best poison money can buy and sprayed the old man’s cheapo unit at Semaphore.  After that, the old man said the bugs had gone and he was no longer getting bitten. We’ll see.
 
Not that the Night Stalker had much success himself. A South Australian retired magistrate’s son visited him some years ago with bugs in his clothing. They crawled into the Night Stalker’s furniture and into the attic then into adjoining residences. They multiplied into a pestilence and everything the Night Stalker threw against them was unsuccessful. The magistrate’s son was no help.
 
The extermination experts said it would cost $3500 to treat the unit and they might have to return. So, the Night Stalker moved house leaving his soft furnishings behind. It is not clear how the next tenants fared, or those in the adjoining units.
 
One method of fighting bed bugs is with homemade pyrethrin bombs made from weed killer. They are so toxic that the occupant must leave the premises for two weeks and if living in a group of adjoining units, the poison might move next door and kill their bed bugs or the budgie, or granny.
 
Meanwhile, a man who let Ice addicts move into his house had bleeding sores on his face three weeks ago at Salisbury Fred’s Van. He couldn’t stop scratching. One of his resident Ice addicts advised they were flea bites. That is a common misconception, blaming fleas. The scratching man is having trouble getting rid of his bed bugs because he can’t get rid of the Ice addicts who brought them.
 
21 September 2019

(above) Fremont Park at Elizabeth where Cos We Care provides free used clothing, fruit, vegetables, canned and hot food each Saturday at 7:30am. No I.D. or registration required. Cos We Care doesn't receive government funding and everyone involved works without pay.

Celebrity Can Collector dead
 
​Phil Ilee is dead. The doctor told him he had two years to live, but he died in two weeks. 
 
Phil was the busker in front of the Adelaide Railway Station. He began with a piece of Styrofoam then graduated to a bucket then peaked with a single bongo drum on which he couldn't produce a single note. But the money poured in because Phil had charisma and made the dreary site more tolerable for commuters and Casino patrons. Phil collected so much money that he reduced his can collecting. He chain-smoked cigarettes and ate at Hungry Jacks. He was aged about 60. 
 
Phil’s grandfather changed their name from Lee to Ilee to disguise their Chinese heritage, but Phil was Australian through and through. 
 
Phil spent many years as a child at the Glandore Boys Home. He refused to say what happened to him there, but he got a redress payout after the “Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry” report of 2008. 
 
Phil was incensed when the government sealed the report testimonies for 80 years, allowing most of the perpetrators to remain anonymous. 
 
Like Donny and Bluey and others that were put into Glandore and Wyndana children’s homes, Phil never again trusted another human being. 
 
I once suggested to Phil that we unscrew the handrail outside the Otherway Centre in Pirie Street, but Phil declined, saying, “You don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” 
 
Phil had no such sentiment with parking metres. We once stood on a busy Pirie Street opposite the Council office where you pay fines while Phil poked a wire into a parking machine and got handful after handful of coins. When he emptied it, we moved to the next machine and emptied that. People walking by didn’t say a word as everyone hates parking inspectors. 
 
Another time when Phil was removing cans from a street rubbish bin, a stranger yelled abuse, but Phil responded like a tolerant Buddha though inside he was fuming. 
 
Phil wasn’t so friendly when the Academic Can Collector and he argued over who should have access to the rubbish bins in Rundle Mall. Phil had moved into the Academic’s territory when the Academic was usually sleeping in the James Place laneway opposite the public toilets. The Academic was no pushover and sold Big Issue magazine for years in Rundle Mall. 
 
Phil showered at Byron Place Community Centre before it closed down. He rarely washed his clothing, especially his underwear that he would leave in the shower cubicle while he put on new stuff straight from the packets.  
 
From a terrible childhood, Phil made a decent life for himself and his death is a sad surprise as he wasn’t one to complain about himself. 
 
R.I.P. 
Phil Ilee
 
Late 20 September 2019
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ShelterSA finds shelter for its housing expo

ShelterSA has wisely removed the word “homeless” from its annual expo of welfare services. The only assistance to those living outside by the various stallholders was “counselling”. And most homeless people avoided the expo like the plague.
 
This year the expo will be held inside a building where visitors may get a free massage, haircut, lunch and a dodgy pair of sunglasses.
 
The venue is the Adelaide Town Hall from 10:00am to 2:00pm on Monday of the 21st of October, 2019 at 128 King William Street, Adelaide. The town hall is near the back of the Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge.
 
This space is smaller than Whitmore Square where the expo is usually held and will allow authorities more effective surveillance and crowd control.
 
20 September 2019

Gospel City Church gets the boot
 
RenewalSA gave the church its marching orders. The roof of the abandoned shopping centre is collapsing. The rafters cannot hold the concrete roofing tiles.
 
Nor can the church pay $60,000 for repairs or buy the building and land for half-a-million. And Renewal SA’s main activity is knocking down welfare buildings and then selling it to private developers and, secondly, in a limited way, building new Housing Trust units.  
 
A church elder named Gerry said Gospel City is not a money church and that their income is from “offerings”. He said this pays for the pastor, Council rates and electricity, and that whatever is left goes “to the community”. So, the church searches for a new building.
 
Mick and Tania are both due for surgery. Mick said he had 1500 stiches and has bones and wires sticking out of his body. That was from a car smash near Nairne. Mick’s bones were crushed from his thighs to his feet.
 
The other driver complained of a bleeding nose and is suing Mick for $45,000 including $400 for trousers, $700 for shoes and a damaged shirt.
 
Mick said he’s been deemed 98% at fault for the crash so will collect little accident victim money. He hopes Tania will sue him and collect on his insurance.
 
He remains optimistic and says he will be a “fully ordained Chaplin” as soon as he pays $35 for a certificate. His training was 15 lessons on his phone. He couldn’t remember the name of the church.
 
Harry the Dogger talked about his career in the aircraft industry and said he’d been a passenger in two fighter aircraft. His earlier career had been shooting wild dogs on pastoral stations.
 
Church members were dismantling improvements made to the church during the free food handout outside the building last Saturday. They gave away frozen chicken and good avocadoes.
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (change of address pending. Phone 08) 8284 3861)
Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am -11:00am
Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time.
They talk religion, but it’s a well thought out intelligent religion.

20 September 2019

Cos We Care forgets to bring frozen food

Bryony got mad when the small queue wouldn’t move for her to park her car at the end of the tables. She wasn’t going to put the used clothing on the tables then relented and within minutes was back to her charming self. She gave away strange wool coats, nice acrylic jumpers and kids clothing. I got some Versace shoes.
 
Volunteers forgot to bring the frozen food. Jason said someone torched his car so he’s back on his midget bicycle. Dominic talked for an hour without saying anything crazy. That’s a miracle. He’s getting a new bed and TV from the Salvos on Kinkaid Road. A new bed without bed bugs. His depot injections have been changed from every two weeks to every three weeks, but the quack has upped the dose. A man at the Gloucester units said he hadn’t slept for 28 hours. Jason said he once went four days. I said I go crazy after six hours without sleep. Don said he was an orphan. Sonja was back from Vietnam. Samantha was yelling her head off. Ros had a cold that made her voice sexy. Junice wore her newly dyed purple hair. Julie-Anne was her usual efficient self on the coffee urn.
 
The free food included decent avocadoes, mushrooms, carrots, jars of pasta sauce, Costco cake and homemade hot food. Staff were efficient apart from forgetting the donation tin and the frozen food.
 
Cos We Care
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
 
Also on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, boiled eggs, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk. Up to a hundred people on Sundays.

20 September 2019

(above) Don't let the bed bugs bite. A mattress left outside the donation bin at the Salvation Army on Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East.

Bed bugs can make you go insane
 
Bed Bugs are spread by travelers in their suitcases and clothing, along with nits. Each Adelaide back packer bed is used by dozens of travelers and homeless people each year. They’re excellent places to be bitten by bed bugs, if you’re interested in that sort of thing.
 
One man at the Fred’s Van outdoor free food van was bitten over every square centimetre of his torso. I saw the horrible red sores when in a  tormented state he was provoked into a fight with another diner during which his shirt was pulled up to his neck and his trousers pulled down slightly showing his buttocks.  Everything visible was covered bed bug bites. Being punched and scratched probably took his mind off the bites.
 
Bed bugs cause delusional parasitosis where you itch all over and think the bugs are biting you when they haven’t yet started; they’re hiding under your bed waiting until you fall asleep.
 
I suffered delusional parasitosis at St Bede’s free breakfast joint ten-minutes after the old man at Semaphore talked about being bitten by bed bugs. He’s the good Samaritan who let the homeless woman put her bed bug-infested mattress in his spare room.
 
People with delusional parasitosis hate visitors who scratch themselves.
 
The Plaza Hotel in Hindley Street, Adelaide has bed bugs and that might be why most of the residents verge on insanity.
 
Part 3 on Saturday
19 September 2019

(above) A Port Adelaide retreat for the dispossessed disguised as a pile of junk.

Elderly Horse Trainer Lady still fears young druggie at Salisbury

As with Fred’s Van Elizabeth, there was an influx of a dozen new clients at the Twelve-25 Club building hosting Fred’s Van Salisbury. These were a different crowd from the new group at Elizabeth Fred’s Van. One slept on the lounge.
 
Despite this influx, the number of diners was down on the previous three months. And there weren’t any children. The building had previously been overcrowded and this might have discouraged twenty or thirty diners who stopped attending. It seems the size of the building determines the number of clients.
 
The free takeaway food incited derision though German Marten somehow discovered a box of Vicks VapoDrops in a back room. He gave me a few rolls.
 
The coffee table was operated by a young woman with good teeth. She took the place of the Argumentative Sisters and the Three Vietnamese Amigos.
 
The meal was superb with a homemade quiche-style casserole made by a volunteer, a meat stew, white rice, fresh salad, a lentil dish, Maranello pizza from John Street, crusty bread, pumpkin soup, custard and doughnuts.
 
The elderly Horse Trainer Lady is avoided certain venues including Salisbury Fred’s Van for fear of that 25-year-old druggie who shoved her against the wall at Fred’s Van Elizabeth three weeks previously. She instead bought a pizza at Maranello’s pizza restaurant. She put a positive light on a negative siutation.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

18 September 2019
 

(above) In what appears to be an attempt by the Australian government to normalise national self-destruction, addicts' needles are now described as "Medical Waste". The Taliban and China export heroin and crystal methamphetamine respectively to Australia as acts of war. The Taliban uses heroin to raise money while China is destroying Australian culture and health from within. Australian politicians take bribes from the Chinese government yet none go to jail.

Horse Trader Steve at Kilburn Fred’s Van
From Big Hugs
​ On the Scene

“This a Story about named Steve. Slasher Steve aka stinky Steve aka horse trader Steve. And the three protagonists that have disrupted his life living in a car.

“All 3 could not be more different.

“The main player is rude Rudy the Catholic whose religious prejudice lead to this story about a man called Steve. Who, by the way, is getting very fat and more stinky.

“Player Number 2 is an ice freak who thinks the world is flat. He bangs up most of his pay then haunts soup kitchens.

“The third player is a transvestite just trying to survive after born in a country town when black fellas were classed as flora and fauna, to religious parents and has a hormone imbalance from probably the chemicals in the sheep dip her old man used.

“One Thursday the ice freak hit on the transvestite and when rejected threatened to kill her. There were witnesses. Not patrons but vital service providers. The transvestite reported it to rude Rudy the Catholic who doesn't believe transvestites are human. He is not allowed to, God said so he can't question God. So, Rudy ignored the transvestite and let the threat stand unchallenged. The transvestite hasn't been back. Rudi likes this. Probably why he told the transvestite he didn't care her life was threatened by an ice freak.

“Slasher stinky horse trader Steve stood up for the transvestite and the ice freak attacked him with a deadly weapon. Threw a large heavy solid object at stinky slasher horse trader Steve. It missed and hit two other people, bruising one

“When rude Rudi the Catholic was shown the weapon by the bruised one, he walked away and said what do you want me to do about it. Then ignored the bruised one, in fact hid. The next few times the bruised one went, rude Rudi the Catholic was always banging into him from behind. Always interfering with conversations and stalling when serving him, even serving people behind him first. the bruised. Rudi the rude Catholic used violence against an innocent victim wounded by the ice freak Rudi used to chase away the transvestite he thinks isn't human.

“The ice freak is still there, nothing ever happened to the ice freak but vigilante Steve, slasher Steve, horse trader stinky Steve also got pushed out by Rudi and subjected to a massive slander attack.

“So Steve ain't allowed to stink but ice freaks are allowed to do what they want to transvestites, to anyone, as long as serve a purpose to rude Rudi the Catholic

Vigilante stinky slasher horsetrader Steve had his buttons pushed because he asked why is the ice freak allowed there after threatening to kill a transvestite and then nearly killing stinky slasher vigilante horsetrader Steve and two others.”
 
From Big Hugs
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre. 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm Thursday. Rowdy.
Meal prepared by Adelaide Wine Centre followed by a big bag of takeaway food. Free.
As with all Fred’s Vans, no registration or I.D. required.
Orange Sky Laundry in carpark. Horrible plastic coffee cups, but interesting and informed clients. Staff a little thick upstairs.
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17 September 2019

Homeless woman and the bed bugs
 
Part 1
 
The old man works at a free soup kitchen in Adelaide. He’s near pension age, but currently lives on the dole. A homeless woman was part of a group of 17 living in their cars at the beach carpark near West Lakes.
 
The old man let her use a spare bedroom in his rundown unit in a block of four. She brought her own mattress. It was loaded with bed bugs. She stayed three weeks then found her own accommodation. She took her mattress, but the bed bugs remained or, at least, their relatives stayed over. They migrated to the old man’s room.
 
The old man came to the soup kitchen with itchy insect bites over his body. He’d found bugs crawling along its edges of his mattress.
 
Bed bugs are from 1mm to 7mms in length. They drink three times their body weight in blood. They inject an irritant through their victim’s skin before drinking their blood. They defecate on the victim after feeding. They become so bloated that they burst. They hide in mattresses and furniture cracks then sneak out at night when people are sleeping. Killing them is difficult as they can live months without eating.
 
The old man can’t afford to hire exterminators and spends his days itching the increasing number of sores on his body and limbs. He considered getting a new mattress until discovering that the bugs would already be throughout his bedroom and would colonise his new mattress.
 
Part 2 on Thursday.
 
17 September 2019
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(above) Dawn outside the Elizabeth East Salvation Army donation bin. The desecraters have been active. (Adelaide Homeless Journal 2019).

Kings Baptist Church at Wynn Vale

They call it, “Come to the Table”. The problem is finding a seat at one of the five tables. It’s too crowded. Two-thirds are children. Normal kids, not deprived children.
 
Maybe it isn’t for derelicts, but they said it was open to anyone. The oval behind the Baptist church and school overlooks the city. Before the café doors opened, there were normal girls and women walking their dogs or playing sport on the grass. I snuck around like a feral from Whitmore Square.
 
They served soup sprinkled with bacon and a dob of cream followed by meat pies bought from a store rather than escapees from supermarket rubbish bins via Food Bank.
 
A blond older woman next to me explained to a 7-year-old opposite us that when she was a child they’d play in the bush without fear, but now things had changed and it wasn’t so safe.
 
The girl picked up her mother’s wallet and phone next her and passed it to her mother then snuck a glance at me. The mother, to her credit, pushed the phone back on the table. The older blond woman turned in her seat, away from me.
 
It was horrible, but a good learning experience. I should have been more communicative and worn decent clothing and perhaps had a shower.
 
Wynn Vale Baptist Church
93 Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn Vale. Phone (08) 8289 1866
Free meal with coffee at 6:00pm on Mondays excepting public holidays.
No I.D. or registration required. Nice oval behind church overlooks the city.
​It pays to arrive early as there aren't enough chairs. 
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16 September 2019

Elizabeth Fred’s Van on Sunday
 
A dozen new clients arrived to displace others that were missing. This new crowd knew the procedures, but showed no sense of humour. In an environment where every new face represents a potential threat, this influx created a mood of unease.
 
Most new diners are angry and tormented either from homelessness, drugs, psychiatry, prison, relationship breakdowns and other disappointments, or simply finding themselves in such an unsavoury atmosphere. Adapting to soup kitchens is also difficult.
 
Mr Rock Solid knocked off the 35-year-old Greek man’s hat. He’s the one who eats healthy food, but has lost weight and become sallow.  He and Mr Solid went outside for an incident described by one veteran client as “violence”.  
 
The wonderful meal was chicken, egg salad, fresh salad, canned salmon, brownies, ice cream, jam and canned fruit. Cutlery was supplied in paper bags to reduce the possibility of spread of Staphylococcus aureus (Golden Staph).
 
It pays to get maximum vaccinations before going to free food venues. Hepatitis B, tetanus, cholera, typhoid and TB are good ones to start with. And boosters for these if you got them decades previously. Whatever is on the free list.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat café plus outdoor seating. Hot dogs, main meal, sandwiches, dessert, coffee, takeaways. Limited free bread and fruit in Op Shop most days.
Also every Sunday at 12:00noon. Food used for meals is fresh and not from Food Bank. Supermarket purchase vouchers available during the week from the Conference Centre back of the café.
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16 September 2019

Fred’s Van Gawler
 
Rosie chases Rock Solid around the Lion’s Club Rotunda. Mr Solid is a veteran fighter who puts fear into the lives of soup kitchen clients. Rosie is young, thin, agile and laughs as Mr Solid flees and we laugh.
 
Grant is there with his girlfriend. She’s in a good mood and hasn’t clocked him in the jaw even once within the past seven days.  
 
There are only twenty of us here as the St Vincent de Paul unpaid workers serve an array of quality homemade food plus sandwiches with inadequate filling.
 
The coffee is neither hot nor cold. It comes from an urn not plugged in. The server says regulations stop them from serving it too hot. I tell him hot coffee is useful for throwing at enemies. He doesn’t see the humour.
 
The box of old fiction novels is snapped up leaving only three women’s and one crossword magazine.
 
There are rumours of a nasty fight the previous week.
 
Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van
Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thurs 6:00pm.
Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread and Cheesecake shop cakes. Under or near the Lions Rotunda. Wonderful free showers nearby until 5pm.
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16 September 2019

Salisbury Fred’s Van
 
An older woman talks about haemorrhoids. She says her doctor told her to sit in a bathtub of warm water. She told him she didn’t have one. “Sit in a bowl of warm water,” he then said.
 
A woman next to her said, “I haven’t had a sh** for two weeks.” “Oh,” I replied politely.
 
Mick told of the time when he shook Neville to wake him up, but discovered he was dead. He went next door and asked a neighbour to call the police. The neighbour told the police that Mick killed Neville. The police arrested Mick and put him in jail. After the autopsy results came through showing that Neville drank methylated spirits, Mick heard a jailer shout, “Let him out.” Mick said it was two-minutes until lunch. Mick said, “I’ve been framed by police all my life.”
 
I can’t remember the food.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

16 September 2019
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(above) Oz Harvest delivering old fruit and vegetables to the Port Adelaide 'Homeless in the West' expo that had been cancelled due to UnitingSA management's fear of wind and rain.

Behaviours that help you get more at free soup kitchens

One charity client gets extra food from our benefactors by pushing his head forward at a 45-degree angle to his neck. It damages his vertebrae and tendons, but makes him appear more deserving.
 
Others predict the end of the world or shout that demons have entered their heads while they were urinating. This gets them anything they want because who wants to annoy such a person.
 
Elderly women compress their upper spines until their necks disappear and their heads appear directly attached to their shoulders. This tactic isn’t overly successful because they are either hiding their necks, which is strange enough, or that they have huge bank accounts they’re subconsciously trying to keep secret.
 
One ploy never helpful is to be dying of cancer. If you are, don’t mention it. Cancer has been used to death and impresses no one. Food benefactors ask why a dying person needs much food and give you less.
 
Motor neuron disease is a real winner. Nothing like a nasty bout of choking to gain sympathy. That’s because nearly everyone fears this terrible affliction and seeing someone else with it rather than themselves fills them with joy.
 
You can also enhance your appearance by dangling a straw from your mouth and claiming you can no longer swallow food. Charity workers will throw bags of potatoes, carrots, toffees and nuts at you. Anything to make you choke more.
 
However, a word of warning. Don’t overdo your terrible affliction by coughing over the food. That so aggravates the volunteers that they may order you from the premises.
 
An old winner is wearing bright coloured clothing while peering through sad bloodshot eyes. Before entering the building, throw a little salt in your eyes to appear even more screwy. And laugh while appearing to cry. Everyone feels sorry for a sad loser pretending to be happy.
 
Dangling toilet paper from the back of your trousers may backfire. Both clients and volunteers will pretend you aren’t there and reason that someone not there doesn’t need free food. Crawling on your hands and knees while blowing a whistle also accomplishes very little. Kids may laugh but adults want to crush your fingers with their boots.
 
Claiming to have seven children, all deaf in their left ears may bring extra rewards for nothing other than it being unique. However, ask around if anyone else has tried this trick as two people in such an unlikely scenario may arouse suspicion that you are less than genuine.
 
Don’t bother turning up with your arm in a sling and with a black eye. This is counter-productive. Rather than charity workers feeling sorry for you, it will arouse their blood lust and they’ll want to finish off the job or at least starve you out.
 
Making snorting sounds while wheezing is always a winner. Pretend to spray an inhaler into your mouth and shout “orf, orf, orf” and you’ll get whatever you want. They’ll want you out of the building in case you go crazy or die. They hate dead bodies with the attendant paperwork.
 
Dressing in a worn-out suit and a dirty white shirt is good for elderly women charity workers. It reminds them of the 1930’s depression. Put 24 pens in the outer top pocket of your suit and you’ll do even better. But this works only for men. Why, no one knows.
 
Flannelette shirts are good, but not flannelette trousers such as pajama bottoms. It makes you appear lazy and not deserving of help.
 
Unleashing mice or bottled mosquitoes does no one any good. Nor is hitting yourself in the head with a metal serving spoon each time you speak.
 
Men putting toilet rolls in their shirt and claiming to have had a botched sex change operation will be disastrous at most churches. But go to any Uniting Church and you will be proclaimed a hero attempting to discover your true spiritual self, and they’ll give you whatever you want.
 
15 September 2019

(above) An electricity bill from Alinta for over $7400. The customer decided he wouldn’t pay it. Never. No problems.

(above) After a customer refused to pay his accumulated $7447 debt for electricity, Alinta wiped the amount from their books. They forgave him of the debt. He didn’t need to pay it. See “Free electricity for life,” dated 22 August 2019 for more details.

Rosanne Haggerty’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool at the Hutt Street Centre
(permanent post)

The Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) is being introduced at Adelaide’s Hutt Street Centre during what they call “Connections Week” from 14 to 18 May 2018.
 
Those seeking most services from the Hutt Street Centre will be required to answer intimate questions, the answers to which will be entered into an international data base.
 
The rational of applying this algorithm is that by identifying people requiring huge amounts of medical and police interventions, then by taking control of their lives, the government can save money.
 
This solid argument belies the injustice that occurs in its broad application where bureaucrats will put every person living outside, or in their cars, through this intimate interrogation, then share the details with all and sundry. 
 
The manner of questioning will be through an electronic drip-feed with the client not seeing the complete list prior to agreeing to answer the questions. The mysterious owner of the algorithm says the sequence of asking the questions is vitally important. This is because the questions become increasingly intrusive and offensive as the client progresses through the list. Clients will not be given a copy of the completed answer list or be told who will have access to their most personal details.
 
While the clients will provide excruciating personal details of their lives, those collecting it will identify themselves in the diminutive form of their first names such as Ben, Liz or Trish. Any further enquiries will be met with a stern rebuke citing privacy issues.
 
The initial questions include a homeless person’s nickname, hospital attendances, instances of cooperation with or incarceration by the police, suicide or self-harm attempts, sexual prostitution, difficulty locating toilets, incidents of being kicked out of housing and why, and where doctors have refused medication.
 
The interrogator will also smell the clients, look for rotting flesh or puncture wounds, note whether their clothing is fashionable or mismatched, ask if the person drinks mouthwash, has been to a psychiatrist, considered suicide, was a slow learner at school or suffered “abuse”. All of which will be added to the secret file kept on the client.  
 
These questions are reasonable in certain circumstances where a person has consciously approached a professional for treatment. However, the plan is to subject every homeless person to them, that is, treat every person living outside as if they have been sexually abused, use Ice and sell themselves as prostitutes.
 
Answering such questions may subjectively feel like emotional vivisection for those already wounded and fearful. For the interrogator, it will be a pornographic experience where the wound will be tweaked at dozens of subsequent interviews, like a knife twisted in a wound. For the homeless person, the tightening of the interviewer’s smile, a hardening of the voice, even a wink will feel like a punch in the solar plexus.
 
The reader may agree that the test is for the greater good and that this increased suffering by the homeless class is a small price to pay. While there won’t be any pain for those conducting the interrogation, those undergoing it will come out feeling disgusted with themselves and fearful of the consequences of providing such personal details to total strangers. And fearful they should be, as the concept of privacy and dignity has gone from our society.
 
The interrogators will also be mandatory reporters legally required to pass on to the police or psychiatric authorities certain answers given by the homeless person.
 
For housing purposes, each positive answer to a question gets 1 point. Anyone scoring 3 or less is told to leave; 4-7 progresses the client to another series of questions to assess them for “rapid re-housing”. However, scoring over 8 points wins the dubious prize of “supported housing”, which means having their personal life monitored and controlled and may include compulsory medication.
 
The drip-feed method of asking questions is designed to immerse the homeless person in the interrogation process, making it harder to withdraw for fear of incurring the displeasure of the interviewer and the sickening feeling of having given sensitive information to a stranger who has suddenly adopted a hostile countenance.
 
Aggressive street beggars use a similar technique with their initial ultra-friendly approach while asking for a dollar, which upon receipt of the coin progress to a threatening demeanour while subsequently demanding a larger amount.
 
The last question asked by the VI-SPDAT interrogator at a homeless joint such as the Hutt Street Centre is, “OK, now I’d like to take your picture so that it is easier to find you and confirm your identify in the future. May I do so?”
 
This artificial intelligence algorithm tool is a progression from the Social Inclusion Adelaide CBD homeless count initiated by Monsignor David Cappo and administered by bureaucrat David Waterford in 2007.
 
We in the homeless scene laughed at the absurdity of that inaccurate count, which continues to this day, but it was Cappo, Waterford and the government bureaucrats who had the last laugh. The count was camouflage to disguise personal data collection on those living outside. The pledge of anonymity was deceit as the provision of initials and partial birthdate were enough to identify the responder across multiple private and government data bases. In this exercise, Baptist and Catholic homeless charities ran with the wolves.
 
The Don Dunstan Foundation is the current sponsor of the VI-SPDAT algorithm tool. In a media release offering a briefing on the results of their data collection onslaught, they advertised that, “During Connections Week, dedicated workers and volunteers across Adelaide will get to know every person sleeping rough by name…”
 
This newer and more powerful personal data list created using this algorithm, along with photographs, will be handed over to a psychiatric services provider called Neami National, a Melbourne-based corporation posing as a non-profit organisation with 900 employees.
 
Neami is contracted to replace Adelaide’s Street-to-Home psychiatric service that conducted interviews with homeless people in busy cafes. Armed with the data base and photographs in their tablets, Neami employees will be able to search out and identify homeless people in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands.
 
Where the Hutt Street Centre’s C.E.O., Ian Cox, comes into this is not clear. Ian has for decades championed the right of self-determination for his clients.
 
Yet David Pearson, the executive director of the Don Dunstan Foundation, said, “The Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide are going to help us run Connections Week where we go out and make a connection with every single person sleeping rough.”
 
Pearson added, “It starts with knowing every person sleeping rough in the city by name and creating what we call a ‘by name list’.”
 
This means that the Hutt Street Centre will deliver its clients to Neami, a private psychiatric corporation, which must give Ian Cox sleepless nights.
 
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  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

Work-for-the-dole crowd outside the Elizabeth Food Barn buildings
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Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

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

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Remembering PJ

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The Decent Man

The Decent Man formerly from Kilburn breaks up a fight in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Room where he lived for two weeks. (see also 18 May 2016 post)
Video 1 https://youtu.be/79zVvg3HfWs
Video 2 https://youtu.be/VmCSZk13aBc

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The sad world of corporate bullies Verity Kate Edwards
and Frank Pangallo

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