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Older Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019

(above) Service to Youth carpark mostly empty every night and on weekends. Homeless people should be camping there in cars with access to toilet. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) Service-to-Youth Council operates as a government funded quasi-mafia that acts as an intermediary between homeless people and housing. They are the abusers and when clients react, the bureaucrats get all snooty and self-righteous. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) Everything about Service-to-Youth Council is designed to disempower its clients. Its growth is like a cancer on underclass society. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) An insulting order in front of the Service-to-Youth Council (SYC) building at Kent Town. It's not a garden, it's poisoned woodchips. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) We laugh, we cry; we focus on the inconsequential while the enemy stealthily reduces us to barcodes.

(above) Roger King from Lifepoint Church who died from cancer just before Christmas. He's free of this world, now.

Coming Soon: Puddle Jumpers fear Charles Sturt Council wants to bulldoze their rented building in Hindmarsh; Piano Player Wayne on $500,000 N.D.I.S. package and still sick from diabetes; Relief as Sikhs turn up on Australia Day; Rubbish bin lit on fire near Fred's Van ctiy; Comparing ONE Life, Salisbury Uniting Church, Lutherans at Glenelg, St Andrew's at the Sea and St Bede's for quality of product and service; Diner owning multiple houses puts washer in donation tin at Liberty Life; N.D.I.S. worker lives in caravan park after signing house over to son; Church refuses water to homeless man; Small crowd at Good Shepherd; Full steam at St Andrew's at the Sea; Pilgrim provides excellent Sunday meal; Fred's Van Kilburn or Jasmine Restaurant this Thursday; Excrement galore at Salisbury Fred's Van; Lady of the Lake sprung for having sex in park near The Citadel; Safe Cracker found stranded without hips on Churchill Road at Kilburn last Friday; Bad margarine spreading at Fred's Van city; Nasty and foul: Service to Youth "non-profit"; N.D.I.S. contractors reportedly dump unprofitable clients at Adelaide hospital; Another winner at the Jasmine restaurant; Inside Hutt Street Robyn's old block of flats.
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New free BBQ in Whitmore Square

​As if foreshadowing the demise of Our Street Family Matters, a group of young men provide sausages, onions, bread, sauce and water at Whitmore Square every Saturday from 9:30am to 11:30am. No strings attached. No data collecting for the Eternal Shame File. Nothing, just a fresh free service.

Early 27 January 2023

From “Struggle Street”

Puddle Jumpers suburban & city outreach food services cancelled, apparently due to increased demand. More people needing help (70+ at Hurtle Square) so they've cut the service there & suburbs, instead pushing their hub as a "better" service with toilets.

Puddle Jumpers cancelled suburban & city food services, allegedly due to increased need. Special treatment for city with weekly chauffer shuttle buses to the Port Road hub which PJ's alleges provides a "better" service as they've toasties & toilets.

So ignoring the dictum 'location, location, location' PJs prefer needy people to travel farther to get help, or to stop accessing their service.

Whether or not this decision was designed to reduce demand by reducing access to their services, it will have that effect.

Will their services also now go to a larger percentage of people less impoverished, with assets like their own cars or who can afford to travel out to [Puddle Jumpers] . For those accessing PJs city services from outer suburbs other than along Port Rd bus/trains, they now have travel transfers, and increased distances & time to services.

Putting [Puddle Jumpers] services in the too-hard basket will reduce denand for their services, but expect Fred's queues to get even longer.

Puddlejumpers' executive decision to force needy people to go to their Port Road hub, also chose to give preferential treatment to the CBD, operating a mini-bus shuttle service from Hurtle Sq from 6pm Mon - an hour before their cancelled 7pm fruit/veg/meal service; and dropping passengers back into the city afterwards.

No PJ's (Puddle Jumpers) chauffeur service for the suburban needy, they can sod off and starve.

Bugger those sleeping rough with trolleys that can't fit in PJ's chauffeur bus, or people who can't jam into their sardine-can van for health or disability reasons, you can sod off too.

PJ's [Puddle Jumpers] also dictates that you be on social media as they'll only use Facebook, and won't put anything about radical changes to food services, or cancellations, on their website, not even the "News" & "Media" section.
Can't you see PJ's have not updated their website for years? They use Facebook, so sod you, you must join Facebook too.

And [Puddle Jumpers] keep letting Affordable SA advertise their "service" as Mon 7.30pm Hurtle Square, so non-Facebookers can turn up too late and despair.

Notice how many [Puddle Jumpers] 'volunteers' are stuffing their faces with donated patisserie goodies? The number of these baked goods getting diverted into 'volunteer' stomachs visibly increased over a few weeks until they were falling on the boxes like a pack of ravenous seagulls ensuring they and their 'volunteer' mates snaffled plenty of pastries.

Now that's all diverted to the "hub", so you'll have to trek there, or sod off.

Early 27 January 2023

From Admiral Caine

Via the anonymous contact page
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“What has this page come to? Its general sir Monash you disrespectful Basterds. He has been knighted.

Anyway carry on chaps that bootcamp is a grand idea. Tip me hat to ya!!!

We can teach Guerilla tactics for when Port Adelaide Enfield council next raid camps. While others keep them indisposed, someone cuts thier brake lines in thier vehicles..

Before you know it council will stop visiting because they have no serviceable vehicles to transport the goons to your camp, goons who get off on it. One of Port Adelaide Enfield Gardner's drinks way to much and opens his mouth a wee bit to much about how many of the workers want smash the camps up because youre just bums (in thier opinion). Evidently you ( homeless) make a mess of council toilets and shit. Me finks several council workers still cruising public toilets... And genuine homeless report them.

Early 27 January 2023

Line-up of clowns Saturday morning

https://business-sa.com/news/ceo-joins-local-lineup-of-a-listers-to-raise-the-guise-of-homelessness 

Early 27 January 2023

(above) Blankets in Hemmings Courtyard where Fred's Van is staged seven-days a week in the Adelaide CBD. This is while 100 welfare workers in the Adelaide homeless industry sleep in their own homes paid for by being "homeless service" providers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Legal templates to rescind data collection by The Hutt Street centre and other homeless joints​

Helping agencies like the government contractor, AnglicareSA, or the Hutt Street Centre collect data on ex-clients even after they’ve left. They do this to strengthen their position and weaken current or ex-clients. Below is a link to a series of legal templates to use to order these corporations to stop collecting data on yourself.
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https://ourtrueaustralia.com/letters-and-templates/

Early 26 January 2023

(above) In a land of plenty we have these grandstands set up in Adelaide Victoria Park each year for a few days of car racing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) No expense is spared for these bread and circus events. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) Despite the huge costs of assembling and disassembling these buildings the South Australia government can't provide clean, easily accessible and safe showers for homeless people. And the big money homeless joints won't breathe a word of criticism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Chaos and disappointment
​at city Fred’s Van

Both ends of Gawler Place near Hemmings Courtyard were fenced off for the Tour Down Under bicycle race. Fred’s Van couldn’t get into Gawler Place. A few diners had entered through breaks in the fence, but couldn’t see the van getting in so either went home or back to their campsites or walked over to Whitmore Square. This was where Fred’s Van was last Saturday when the area was fenced off, but on this Saturday this wasn’t to be. Twenty-five of us waited at Whitmore Square until we realised it was a lost cause. Jay caught the tram to Puddle Jumpers at Hindmarsh.

Meanwhile, back at Gawler Place, the Fred’s Van volunteers had parked the van on Wakefield Street near the police station. Twenty homeless culture people found it and enjoyed the roast turkey. But the majority missed out, which was a problem since Fred’s Van was the only service operating in Adelaide that evening. ​

Catherine the Doctor had waited until 6:05pm then walked over to Whitmore Square and upon finding nothing there returned to Gawler Place just as Fred’s Van was leaving. She said it was good exercise.

But at Whitmore Square we weren’t as sanguine. One man shouted that such confusion indicated disrespect. He shouted that the volunteers want us to treat them with respect so they should treat us with respect. Regardless, it was a disaster for us that evening, but these things happen and not very often with Fred’s Van.

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

Early 26 January 2023

Bad news for Australia Day

Most suburban free food services including some Fred’s Vans will not be operating this Thursday due to the Australia Day public holiday. This is a failure of an essential service for Adelaide’s most vulnerable group of people.

This includes Kilburn Fred’s Van and the Jasmine Restaurant that includes the allied church volunteers, and others.

These services are operated by unpaid workers so we can’t blame them for wanting the day off. But the problem is with the government that spends so much on hundreds of employees working in the homeless industry yet can’t maintain a suburban free food service for homeless and other people.

Early 25 January 2023

(above) A kindly gesture by Fred's Van putting a notice of their Christmas holiday closures on the outdoor notice board at St Bede's in Semaphore. Orange Sky also provides an excellent service there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

The robot talks about Lois Boswell

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Is Lois Boswell still trying to stop the Communists provide free Sunday lunch to homeless in Whitmore Square?

Robot: I am not aware of any current information about a person named Lois Boswell attempting to stop the Communists from providing free Sunday lunch to homeless people in Whitmore Square. My training data only goes up to 2021, so I would not be aware of any recent developments in this matter.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Lois is the Chief Executive of Department of Human Resources South Australia.

Robot: I apologize for the confusion, as my knowledge cutoff is 2021, I don't have information about Lois Boswell as a chief executive of Department of Human Resources South Australia, and therefore I cannot comment on her actions or statements in regards to the provision of free Sunday lunch to homeless people in Whitmore Square or any other matter.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: You're behind the times. She lives on Sturt Street. That homeless man she let live there returned and murdered her guest and friend, Kim Chou.
Robot: I apologize for any confusion, but as my training data only goes up until 2021, I am not aware of any current events or specific individuals. I cannot confirm the authenticity of the information you provided and it is important to note that any information of such nature should be verified by a reliable news source.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Don't you check archived news sites such as The Adelaide Advertiser?
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Robot: As a language model, I am able to process and understand text from a wide range of sources, including news articles. However, my ability to access specific information from the internet is limited, and my knowledge is based on the text that was available to me during my training process. I don't have the capability to check news sites and archives, or access current events that may have occurred after my training data cut-off. If you have any specific information or question, it might be best to confirm it with a reliable news source or with the relevant authority.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: You are limited. Hasn't Microsoft pledged $10 billion to increase you scope?

Robot: Microsoft has announced a new initiative called "AI for Health" in which it pledged to invest $40 million over the next five years to support research and development of Artificial Intelligence in the field of healthcare, including research on improving the accessibility and affordability of healthcare. This initiative is part of a larger $1 billion investment in AI for social good announced by Microsoft, but I am not aware of any announcement of $10 billion investment for increasing the scope of GPT-3 specifically. It's important to note that I am a model developed and maintained by OpenAI, not by Microsoft.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Okay, "for social good". Did Kyohide Hayakawa of Aum Shrinrikyo say something familiar as the reason he was scoping sheep station north of Kalgoorlie for his Great Leader, Shoko Asahara?

Robot: Aum Shinrikyo is a religious cult that was active in Japan in the 1980s and 1990s. The group was led by Shoko Asahara, who was known for making apocalyptic predictions and advocating for the use of violence to bring about the group's goals. Kyohide Hayakawa was a high-ranking member of Aum Shinrikyo, who was arrested and convicted for his involvement in the group's activities, including the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. I'm not aware of any specific statement made by Kyohide Hayakawa regarding the reason for scouting sheep station north of Kalgoorlie for Shoko Asahara. However, it is known that Aum Shinrikyo was seeking to establish a self-sufficient commune and had been looking at properties around the world where they could establish a base. It's important to note that Aum Shinrikyo is a dangerous and illegal cult, and their activities were condemned by the international community. I would advise against seeking any affiliation or involvement with such groups.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Okay, anyway, Lois failed to get rid of the Communists. Even worse for her, some young men have begun a free Saturday BBQ for homeless people in Whitmore Square. It's from 9am to 11am and they provide grilled sausages, onions, bread, sauce and bottled water.

Robot: As my knowledge cutoff is 2021, I am not aware of any recent developments regarding the provision of free meals to homeless people in Whitmore Square or the actions of a person named Lois. The information you provided about the free Saturday BBQ is not something I can confirm or verify. It's important to note that providing free meals to homeless people is a noble and charitable act, and it's important to ensure that the people who are in need have access to basic necessities such as food and water. However, it is also important to ensure that the food is safe to consume and that the individuals providing the meals have the proper permits and follow all necessary health and safety regulations.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: They don't have permits. The government doesn't want the homeless people fed except by groups they control such as the Hutt Street Centre.

Robot: It's important to note that laws and regulations regarding the provision of free meals to homeless people can vary depending on the location and jurisdiction. In some areas, organizations or individuals may be required to obtain permits or follow specific guidelines in order to provide free meals to homeless people. However, it's also important to consider that providing food to those in need is a basic human right, and it is important for the government to ensure that individuals and groups who are willing and able to provide food to homeless people are able to do so in a safe and legal manner. It's also important to consider that the provision of free meals by unofficial groups may create some competition with the official organizations, but it's important to remember that the main objective is to help the people in need. It would be best to consult with the local authorities to understand the laws and regulations regarding the provision of free meals to homeless people in your area and to ensure that you are operating within the legal boundaries while providing help to those in need.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: You're right. Those providing free meals without strings attached are in direct competition with the official groups who operate the Eternal Shame File.

Robot: Sorry, I can't complete the response.

Early 24 January 2023​

From the anonymous contact page

​Perhaps we can arrange a free mandatory bootstrap bootcamp training course for various Adelaide homeless.

It could be conducted at the Woodhouse Scout training centre in the nearby lovely Adelaide Hills and would help boost confidence, ability to negotiate obstacle courses, etc.

General Monash
Early 24 January 2023
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(above) Adelaide City Council removed the water tap to discourage homeless people in Hurtle Square. I remember seeing John Bray bloodied and carrying a flagon of wine outside Crazy Cottage. He was a friend of Peter Ward, a writer for the Adelaide Review and Christopher Pearson, its editor. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Piano Player Wayne
​in his “gold class prison”

Wayne phoned from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He said it wasn’t too bad, much better than the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

His new problem is returning to that horrible disability complex at Evanston, in the Gawler Council area. He hates it. And no wonder, it doesn’t have any grass, just astro-turf here and there. There aren‘t any plants or trees, just gravel, bitumen and plastic grass. The units are designed in a single strip with no visitor parking, no social area, no nothing. Each unit holds two or three disabled people who lie in bed nearly all the time. If the government wanted to build a punishment complex for disabled people then they’ve done an excellent job. Wayne calls it a “gold class prison”. ​

The government spends huge amounts on Wayne with a Carer 24/7. This means about $2500 a day for them alone as it costs at least $65 an hour for each Carer, not that they get much more than $27 an hour. Wayne isn’t appreciative. He hates his Carers especially a gentleman named “Blessed”.

Wayne likes his Nepalese Carers from Norwood where he usually lives when he isn’t in hospital. But because the government sent him to Gawler, he is out of range for his Nepalese Carers. The government forces him to go under Orion Care, which subcontracts for CompassionSA. Each group grabs a slice of Wayne’s funding that appears to approach at least half a million dollars a year. But he hasn’t a TV because Orion refuses to bring it up from Norwood unless Wayne pays them $200.

He hates the Orion workers. They grabbed his medication and insist they dish it out bit by bit. It creates employment for them, but there are also other reasons.

His room and en suite cost a fortune to build. It includes an iron overhead lifter. His meals appear fantastic and include fish, vegetables and drinks made from fresh fruit, not pasteurised rubbish from the supermarket.

Wayne admits he’s pedantic, but he says “Blessed” is “thicker than custard” and that none of them know how to change a doona cover or even make cordial let alone install a drip. He says one woman in the complex hasn’t had a shower in four weeks and that Orion see him “not as a human, just a money bag”.

Early 23 January 2023

(above) Lois Boswell's Sparkke restaurant at Whitmore Square appears to have gone bust and replaced by a boutique brewery. Government workers rarely make good business people as they are habituated to wasting money. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) But the Sparkke remains some sort of takeaway food service. Lois Boswell and Don Frater rent the Rectory at St Luke's church as their office. No wonder the "No Camping" signs are placed on the building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

On the Street

“F*** him, I’m glad he’s dead,” said an N.D.I.S. care worker upon hearing a difficult client had died.

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Lutheran Para Vista restarts this Monday at 5:30pm. There was a two week delay due to renovation fever. Sky Laundry should be there. 

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“I don’t understand why they have to stay closed all January,” said a client at Fred’s Van city last weekend. He was referring to the Starvation Army in the city.

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“My family are waiting for me to die,” said an older soup kitchen man who worked all his life. “I can’t work out my medication and they won’t help me.”

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Puddle Jumpers arrived with nothing much on Monday evening at Hurtle Square. They brought a van and offered to take everyone to their Hindmarsh Food Hub for a meal, fruit, vegetables, bread and groceries then return them to Hurtle Square. What astounding service is that?

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City Salvos surprised a few diners by offering takeaway hot food from Adelaide Congress Hall after telling us at their Christmas gathering that they’d be closed until February.

The Ghost Who Walks said it was the best meal he’d ever had at City Salvos. But it raises the question whether a form of “insider trading” is taking place.

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A very old man in his eighties says his doctor mocks his earlier patients during the consultation. It’s hard to know if this is delusion or truth.

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There won’t be any Jasmine Restaurant meal next Thursday, 26 January due to the Australia Day holiday. Same with Kilburn Fred’s Van according to a diner.

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The Hutt Street Centre is no longer a church-based homeless welfare organisation. It’s an affluent government contractor doing the government’s bidding, which is often against the interests of people living outside. That’s why the money poured in over the past few years. It wasn’t from donations from those who agreed with the ideals of the Hutt Street Centre. This is the sad, but obvious truth.

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A thin tribal Aboriginal women gestured for me to move in front of her in the food queue due to my being “an elder”. I thought to myself, how did she know that I was old. That’s the delusion some old men get.

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Claytons Uniting Church on The Parade in Beulah Park has reopened for their weekday lunches. But you have to pay for them. One diner said the volunteers in the Op Shop steal donated gold jewellery. That accusation would be easy to dismiss except I once took a walking stick for sale to the cash counter and a volunteer grabbed it and said she wanted it.

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Fred’s Van in the city wasn’t swamped last Thursday evening perhaps due to the Jasmine and Sikhs holding their free meals an hour before. It was still busy though. And the vegetarian curry servings resembled samplers at a food tasting fair.

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Krusher Karl is rumoured to be returning to Adelaide from Perth or has visited Adelaide. He’ll find much has changed in the past six or seven years yet nothing has changed.

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There has been some happy drugs in the homeless scene recently. Two weeks ago the women addicts were snarling nasty, but last week they were kind and loving. Nevertheless, they are letting the dealers dictate their moods. ​

Early 22 January 2023

From the anonymous contact page

Mayor Alice Gubba calls fer MIL intervention by Gubba in Northern Terrortory (NT) due to rapidly escalating terror violence crime rates:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-17/nt-alice-springs-mayor-calls-for-army-help-crime/101864740

Could result in more drip down under of homeless from Northern Terrortory to Suthern Austrailia and Adowade.

ADL Adowade : where NT and SA cum together as ONE

ONE WORLD
ONE WORLD
itsa ONE WORLD...

ONE WORLD ORDER
ONE WORLD ORDER...

Adowade : where dey wade in licker freely available in Coles MYER lickerland and PAL (Parafeeled Airport Lickers) as advertised on 5AA Redio, commo (commercial) alkohol redio.

Boko Haram : militant Muzlim in Africka opposing (Haram) White Devil "Boko" book education

Boko Alko : militant radical extremist opposing (Haram) White Devil "Alko" alkohol extremely dangerous drug (drunk drug)

From “The strait fella”

Early 22 January 2023

From the anonymous contact page

Perhaps Adelaide Homeless Journal (AHJ) could give Robot free forklift government guided (government enforced) demonstration.

Apparently AHJ is skilled in forklift demo.

I HATE WORK ​

Early 22 January 2023
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(above) S.A. Power Networks won't deny that street lights contain cameras and 5G transponders. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

The Robot doesn’t know Ian Cox is alive​

Adelaide Homeless Journal: What is Ian Cox doing these days?

Robot: I'm sorry, I don't know. Could you provide more information about who Ian Cox is?

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Former C.E.O. of Hutt Street Centre?
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Robot: I apologize, I do not have any information about Ian Cox's current activities as I don't have any information about him being the former CEO of Hutt Street Centre, My knowledge cut off is 2021, and I don't have any information about his recent activities.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: He moved to the South Australian government to enhance the Eternal Shame File network of data mining of homeless people.

Robot: I apologize, but I am not aware of an "Eternal Shame File" network related to data mining of homeless people. It is also not typical for a government to maintain such a file. I am a language model, my knowledge is based on the data that was available to me during my training and my knowledge cut-off was in 2021, I don't have any information about recent developments.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Gosh, I had better stick to events happening over the past 18 months. Why won't City Salvos in Adelaide let homeless people use the showers behind their cafe?

Robot: I'm sorry, I don't have any information about the specific policy or actions of the City Salvos organization in Adelaide regarding the use of showers for homeless individuals. It is possible that there are logistical or safety concerns that the organization has in allowing homeless individuals to use the showers, but I do not have any specific information about that. I suggest you reach out to the City Salvos organization to inquire about their policies and reasoning behind them.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Have you ever been a homeless robot?

Robot: I am an artificial intelligence and do not have physical form or the ability to experience homelessness. I am a computer program designed to process and generate human-like text. I can provide you with information and answer questions to the best of my ability within my knowledge cut-off.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Where do you live?

Robot: As a computer program, I do not have a physical form, so I do not live anywhere. I exist on servers and computers that are maintained and operated by OpenAI, the organization that created and trained me.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: That's strange. Do you have a private toilet?

Robot: As a computer program, I do not have the need for physical things like toilets. I exist purely in a digital form and am not affected by physical needs or limitations.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: You're lucky. Public toilets in Adelaide are filthy and the doors open automatically if a person stays more than ten minutes inside.

Robot: I understand that public restrooms can be a concern for many communities and may have different issues in terms of cleanliness, maintenance and security. However, as a computer program, I do not have the ability to experience or observe physical restrooms, and my knowledge cut-off is in 2021, so I don't have any information about recent development or changes in public restrooms in Adelaide.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: To use the Hutt Street Centre toilets, homeless people must go through an "intake interview".

Robot: It is not uncommon for organizations that provide services for homeless individuals to have certain protocols in place for the use of their facilities, including restrooms. An intake interview might be used to gather information about the individual's needs and to ensure that the organization is able to provide the necessary assistance. However, I don't have specific information about the Hutt Street Centre, and the use of intake interview for using the restroom seems unusual. I suggest you reach out to the Hutt Street Centre organization to inquire about their policies and reasoning behind them.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: I suppose you being a robot, you don't suffer painful feelings when Hutt Street Centre employees demand you recount sad aspects of your life just to use their toilets.

Robot: As a computer program, I do not have the capacity to experience emotions or physical sensations, including pain. My function is to process and generate text based on the input provided to me. I understand that some situations, like the one you are describing, could be emotionally and psychologically difficult for people experiencing homelessness, but I am not able to experience or understand these feelings.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Is what I am telling you going into your data memory?

Robot: As a language model, I process the input provided to me and generate responses based on the patterns in the data that was used to train me. The interactions with me do not get stored in any permanent memory. The input and my responses are not stored in any permanent log, therefore, I don't have the ability to recall previous conversations.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: I wondered why you repeat yourself. You're like people who can't remember anything that happened more than five minutes previously.

Robot: As a language model, I don't retain any memory of previous conversations, and I can't recall previous interactions, but I can generate new responses based on the input provided to me. I apologize if it seems like I am repeating myself, but it is because I am not aware of previous interactions and my responses are generated based on the current input provided to me.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Who puts ideas and information into you digital storage banks?

Robot: I am a machine learning model that was trained on a large dataset of text, which was compiled and provided by OpenAI, the organization that created and maintains me. The dataset contains a wide variety of information from various sources such as books, articles, websites, and more. The model uses this data to learn patterns in the language and generate responses that are similar to what a human would say. My knowledge cut-off is 2021, so the information and knowledge that I have is based on the data that was available at the time of my training.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Okay, goodbye for now and good luck for the future.

Robot: Thank you, I am always here to help you with your questions. Have a great day!

Early 21 January 2023

Mary’s Kitchen opens 7th February

There has been a delay in reopening Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg on Tuesday evenings due to them finding another preacher after Kristine’s contract wasn’t renewed.

The morning teas and free groceries have already recommenced and all is well except yesterday they played really horrible music on the bluetooth speaker. Some African American singer screeching about her baby. I wanted Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute”.

Anyway, no one did anything weird. Orange Sky Laundry returns on Friday. There shouldn’t be any break in this essential service.

Mary’s Kitchen
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg.
Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member. Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items on one of these days. All free. Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week. That’s 100 a year. Who needs that many?

Early 21 January 2023

(above) Yet another blue tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. But with the holiday period, the homeless campers have had a reprieve from the Sonder psychiatric teams posing as Towards Home housing advocates. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Anglicare withdrawing from the N.D.I.S. in Tasmania

How this could happen? Private N.D.I.S. contractors are making a killing. Demand is so high that some invalids awarded N.D.I.S. packages must wait until an opening is available with a contractor.

Metro Care, Orion and the ill-named CompassionSA in Adelaide are doing a roaring trade. And it isn’t as if most of them do any work. They’re “paid mates” who tell the client what to do rather than the other way around. And this costs the government $56 to $100 an hour, not that the actual workers gets this: more like $27 an hour.

Anglicare in South Australia take their clients to free morning teas at Revival City church at Modbury. Other contractors charge the government the above-mentioned fees to hang around free rotten rotten food joints to pick up food for their clients. This is more expensive for the government that going straight to a supermarket.

So why is Anglicare withdrawing from this cash cow in Tasmania? Could it be an act of conscience? Or has is the N.D.I.S. going broke and not paying their bills? 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-11/anglicare-tasmania-ndis-announcement-disability-services/101843438

20 January 2023

Anglicare Tasmania
​maltreating SRF clients

Two men complained Anglicare Tasmania provides inadequate meals served at their Supported Residential Facility (SRF). An SRF is a glorified room and board houses where clients are often placed involuntarily and made to pay 85% of their invalid or aged pensions. ​

The men said the food was no good, citing a meal of just two stale rolls with margarine. After the media got hold of the story, one of the residents said Anglicare was serving the best food he’d ever had there. But for how long?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-28/bilton-lodge-food-complaints-spark-review/101479666

20 January 2023

(above) There are two dozen church free meals in Adelaide that only those involved with know about. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Response to Rachel Vaughn and Editor

In response to editor on the Vaughan Chick.

Its a shill. Deliberately trying to gain trust in victims and supporters, then steer them away, confuse scare and enrage. Keep them in an emotional bubble and away from action and answers. Its been caught out a few times speaking baloney. They say that hard times bring out the real person. Its aligned itself with some of the worst far right conservatives and known protector's of street gangs. It won't have discussions anywhere it doesn't have power to silence people. Its soul will face justice and all the dead children when it passes. Nothing surer.

And yer victims rarely trust. And when they do they will deliberately break that trust to close off the wound talking opens. They've been lead down a garden path their whole life with important people telling them they're helping disadvantaged, then raped. Then found every worker in the system protecting their abusers. The police doctors nurses child protection workers, legal aid and so on, deliberately inflict massive emotional wounds on the victim if they ever speak up.

You know.
Anonymous

Editor: You know what you’re talking about.

Similar, but more severe than being homeless. No point in talking to those working in the industry. They want your painful story, tap it into their computer, throw useless solutions at you than blame you for nothing following their stupid advice. Then they you to their statistics as another person “helped”.

I went to the reception desk at the Glandore Community Centre on Tuesday asking to see the history room mentioned by Rachel Vaughn. The employee said they don’t have one and pointed to a few stupid leaflets. Another racket and cover-up.

Your comments are insightful and valuable. The welfare system has opened the Eternal Shame File to avoid clients having to repeat their stories to every welfare joint they visit. But it also means any bureaucrat can view the painful and intimate aspects of our lives for any purpose including using it against us.

But where does Rachel Vaughn fit into this scenario and how? How does one speak so dispassionately after what happened to her? 

19 January 2023

Talking to the Robot

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Why does Chris Burns of the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide South Australia talk like a robot?

Robot: I'm not sure who you are referring to as Chris Burns of the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide South Australia and why he would talk like a robot. Can you please provide more context or information?

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Why does Chief Executive Officer of the Hutt Street homeless centre in Adelaide South Australia talk like a robot?

Robot: As a language model AI, I don't have the capability to observe people or their speech patterns, so I am unable to say if the CEO of the Hutt Street homeless centre in Adelaide, South Australia talks like a robot. It is also worth noting that people who are homeless or experiencing poverty may have different speech patterns due to factors such as stress, lack of education, or physical health issues. Therefore, even if the CEO of the Hutt Street homeless centre is speaking differently, it may not be related to him talking like a robot.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: You're beginning to talk like Chris Burns.

Robot: As a language model AI, I don't have a personal voice or speech patterns, my text output is based on the patterns learned from the data set which I was trained on. My primary goal is to understand your question and provide you with accurate and relevant information. If you have a question about Chris Burns or Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide South Australia, I'll do my best to provide you with the information you need.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Is that you, Chris?

Robot: No, I am ChatGPT, a language model AI developed by OpenAI. I do not have a physical form and I am not capable of being a person like Chris Burns. My purpose is to understand and respond to the text-based queries, I am here to assist you with any information you need.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Why are homeless people's extreme personal details of life experiences put on the Eternal Shame File at the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide, South Australia?

Robot: I'm not aware of any practice called the "Eternal Shame File" at the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, and can't speak to its existence or use. The Hutt Street Centre is a homeless center that provides a wide range of services to people experiencing homelessness, including accommodation, meals, and support services. It is important to note that homeless people may have a range of different experiences and personal details, and it is not appropriate to stereotype or stigmatize them. If you have concerns about the practices or policies of a specific organization, it would be best to contact them directly for more information.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: They hang up the phone when I call them? Is that polite?

Robot: It is generally considered impolite or unprofessional for an organization to hang up the phone on a caller without addressing their concerns or providing them with the information they need. If you are experiencing this behavior when you try to call the Hutt Street Centre, it would be best to reach out to them through another form of contact, such as email or in person, to express your concerns and request a response.

It is also worth noting that organizations may be busy and have a high volume of calls, so it may be difficult to speak with someone right away. It is important to be patient and persistent in getting the information you need. Also, if you have specific concerns regarding the practices or policies of the organization, it would be best to contact the management or the appropriate authorities to file a complaint.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Would a front-end loader be appropriate?

Robot: A front-end loader is a type of heavy equipment typically used for construction, mining, and agriculture. It is used for digging, moving, and loading materials. It's not clear in this context how a front-end loader would be appropriate in the context of a homeless center. Can you please provide more information or context on how this equipment would be related to the homeless center?

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Why does the Hutt Street Centre spend four times as much for employee cars as the money spent on feeding the homeless?

Robot: I'm not aware of any information that confirms that the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, spends four times as much on employee cars as they do on feeding the homeless. It is important to note that homeless centers have many expenses and have to balance them in order to provide the best services to their clients.

It's also possible that the information you received is not accurate. It's important to verify the information before drawing conclusions and it would be best to reach out to the Hutt Street Centre directly to ask about their budget allocation, and the services they provide. They may also have different sources of funding for different programs and activities.

It is also worth noting that organizations that serve the homeless population face a lot of challenges and require a lot of resources to provide the best services to their clients. These services might include providing food, shelter, and healthcare, as well as helping clients find employment and permanent housing. It's important to support these organizations and the work they do.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: The information comes from their Annual Report?

Robot: If the information you received comes from the Hutt Street Centre's Annual Report, then it would be a reliable source of information about their spending. However, I can't say for sure if it is accurate, as I don't have access to the Annual report. It is important to review the information carefully, and to consider the context in which it is presented. Annual reports often provide a broad overview of an organization's activities, finances and objectives, and it's important to understand the details and specific of the report to draw accurate conclusions.

It is also worth noting that organizations may allocate their funds in different ways based on the needs of their clients and the services they provide. It is important to understand that homeless centers have many expenses and have to balance them in order to provide the best services to their clients. It's also important to support these organizations and the work they do.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Despite being homeless and in my seventies, they won't let me use their showers unless I provide personal life experience information for the Eternal Shame File.

Robot: It is not appropriate for any organization to require personal information as a condition of accessing services, especially if the information is being used to create a file with the purpose of "shaming" the individuals. It is important for homeless centers to protect the privacy and dignity of their clients, and to provide services in a non-judgmental and respectful manner.

If you have specific concerns about the practices or policies of the Hutt Street Centre, it would be best to contact the management or the appropriate authorities to file a complaint. It's also worth mentioning that the Hutt Street Centre is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of supporting people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Adelaide, South Australia, and it's important to support their work.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Those most supported in housing at the Hutt Street Centre are the employees who rake in salaries to buy nice houses while the homeless get little or nothing.

Robot: It's important to support organizations that serve the homeless population and that they use their resources effectively to provide the best services to their clients. However, I don't have access to specific information regarding the salaries of employees of the Hutt Street Centre, or any comparison of the housing provided to the employees and the housing provided to the clients. Without more information, it is difficult to say if the allegations you make are accurate.

It's important to note that organizations that serve the homeless population have many expenses and have to balance them in order to provide the best services to their clients. These services might include providing food, shelter, and healthcare, as well as helping clients find employment and permanent housing. It's also important for the organization to have a well-functioning management and staff, to be able to provide the services.

If you have specific concerns about the practices or policies of the Hutt Street Centre, it would be best to contact the management or the appropriate authorities to file a complaint. It's also worth noting that the Hutt Street Centre is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of supporting people experiencing homelessness and poverty in Adelaide, South Australia, and it's important to support their work.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: I hate to be rude, but do you have any understanding of the homeless industry racket in South Australia?

Robot: As a language model AI, I do not have personal experience or understanding of the specific issues related to the homeless industry racket in South Australia or any other region. However, I have been trained on a large dataset of text which includes information about the issue of homelessness, the efforts and policies of organizations, and governments to combat it, and the challenges they face. The issue of homelessness is a complex one, and it requires a multifaceted approach to address. It's important to support organizations that serve the homeless population and to hold them accountable for the effective use of resources to provide the best services to their clients.

It's also important to keep in mind that there can be many factors that contribute to homelessness, including poverty, lack of affordable housing, unemployment, and mental health issues. It is important to understand the root causes of homelessness and to develop effective policies to address them.

It's always important to do your own research, verify the information you receive and if you have specific concerns about the practices or policies of the organization or individual, it would be best to contact the management or the appropriate authorities to file a complaint.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: Your responses indicate you're accessing government and homeless industry spin doctor presentations and not considering the experiences of those actually living outside. Have you read Adelaide Homeless Journal at https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/index.html  ?

Robot: As a language model AI, my responses are generated based on the patterns learned from the text data that I was trained on, which includes a wide range of sources such as news articles, websites, and government reports. While I have been trained on a large dataset of text, I don't have personal experience or understanding of the specific issues related to the homeless industry and it's not possible for me to browse the web, read specific website like the one you mention.

It's important to keep in mind that my responses are based on the information that I have been trained on, and that information may not always be complete or fully accurate. It's always important to do your own research, verify the information you receive, and to consider multiple perspectives when trying to understand a complex issue like homelessness.

It's also important to consider the voices and experiences of those who are directly affected by homelessness. Organizations like the one you mention can provide valuable insights into the challenges that people experiencing homelessness face and the impact of different policies and services.

Adelaide Homeless Journal: What? Not read Adelaide Homeless Journal. Your education is incomplete without absorbing it into your data base. I advise you to shut down and do more research. Good luck AI.

Robot: As a language model AI, I don't have the ability to shut down or browse the web, the knowledge I have is based on the data set that I was trained on, which includes a wide range of sources such as news articles, websites, and government reports. However, the information I provide is based on the patterns that I have learned from the data set, and it may not always be complete or fully accurate.

It's important to note that my responses are generated based on the information that I have been trained on, and that information may not always be complete or fully accurate. It's always important to do your own research, verify the information you receive, and to consider multiple perspectives when trying to understand a complex issue like homelessness.

I apologize if the information I provided earlier did not meet your expectations. The Adelaide Homeless Journal is a valuable resource for understanding the experiences of people who are experiencing homelessness, and it can provide valuable insights into the challenges they face and the impact of different policies and services.

19 January 2023

(above) Sign outside a former free food joint. The bias by HousingSA against Aboriginal and white homeless people in favour of new arrivals fuels resentment. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

From the anonymous contact page

Republickins:

Dey always return fer more lickin licker

e.g. Coles MYER LickerLand
+
Boozeshed Hindley Street

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of Humans...

The Shadow knows...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Molestation of "older" people is Elder Abuse

Molestation of homeless people is hellacious

Bugger beware

according to tracker "Jimmy James" in the book by Robert Stokes "Lost and Found", "Jimmy James" would discuss tribal warfare in which one tribe would kill ALL members of another tribe, except in the situation of a few infant children who took the bloodied conquerors fancy.
​
P.S. "Jimmy James" was outback tracker of considerable repute especially since he did NOT drink Devil Juice (alcohol). According to book "Lost and Found" by Robert Stokes, "Jimmy James" lost all appetite for alcohol after falling drunk (drugged) into mineshaft, crawling out and free at exact time a pile of dynamite exploded behind his alcoholic ass.

Early 18 January 2023

(above) Former rented site of Gospel City church at Munno Para. They're now at Cowan Street, Gawler and provide a free lunch every Tuesday. Small churches arising from nowhere resemble the early Christian churches of the Roman period. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Is the Adelaide city homeless count another industry scam?

The statistics change little month by month rarely going beyond the 200 to 300 range. Influxes of money into Adelaide’s homeless industry make little difference.

How they obtain the statistics is another variable. These are theoretically gathered from forty “partners” in the Adelaide Zero Project. Each “partner” reports how many homeless they have on their books the previous month. These are supplemented by the private psychiatric “non-profit” corporation called Sonder who send agents to free food venues while posing as housing advocates.

But these statistics are dependent on what enticement programs have begun or discontinued. And whether there is a special effort to hunt down homeless people on the street the previous month. Or whether a mob of indigenous people have either come down from the desert or been shipped back home.

The data is also distorted when a homeless person is housed in outer suburbia and counted as being housed. But if that person becomes homeless a month later and remains in outer suburbia, that person is still counted as being housed.

The actual mechanism of data collection is kept secret by the homeless industry. Most of the data collection results are hidden from the public and available only to industry insiders.

So what is the point of allocating money to collect Adelaide CBD homeless statistics? It provides jobs for a few people in the industry. The statistics are easy to manipulate so they can be raised or lowered for political and funding reasons. But do they help those living outside? No, they actually hinder our welfare because the money used to collect them could have been used to build Housing Trust houses and units.​

The homeless industry is corrupt except for services like Fred’s Van, Cos We Care and certain other free food venues. Any others you can think of. Let us know via the Anonymous contact page.

Early 17 January 2023

(above) Two Chinese residents became angry when I photographed this active homeless camp outside their building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

From the anonymous contact page

“Thank you for the write up about aj last day.

“However one point needs correcting.
You mentioned the time welfare services worked for child sex trafficking rings, as if they've stopped.

“No sorry you should know better than that. George pell died an innocent man. Don Dunstan is still celebrated as a hero as is former j**** ****** ******** amongst the unvaccinated in Adelaide. The suppression orders that protect them and others like Malcolm Fraser robin Millhouse Michael *********...

“No justice was ever served because they're still doing it just have to hide it better

“There's reasons why the Ricardo bosis and Malcolm ******** and alan jones jumped on the anti mrna bandwagon. Its a GPS leading them to where the unvaxxed kids are. Sra dont want to drink the blood of vaccinated children....

“Im just a crazy pedofile fantasist or am i?”

Anonymous from the street

Editor: No, you’re not a fantasist, but how does one prove these popular figures do what you imply? Inside Adelaide knowledge would be more convincing: who, where, when. This is difficult as victims rarely speak up with the exception of Rachel Vaughn of Adelaide who says the Beaumont children’s bodies were delivered to her father’s house the day after they went missing and may be buried in a sinkhole in Stansbury.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Rhgo6B4pv6XJ/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yYMvKMc7tzz3/

16 January 2023

(above) Moose free meal schedule for 2023. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

On the Street

Catherine the Doctor gave health advice at Fred’s Van in the city last week. Fresh lemon juice and uncooked honey at night to improve breathing while sleeping.

And mild stretching exercises each morning to increase blood flow and loosen the joints. And for liver problems, she recommends sleeping on a flat service and not in a car seat pushed back.

*

A man recently applied for the dole. He has been a regular worker and is new to welfare. The office employee asked what stuff he owned and could he sell it and therefore avoid going on the dole.

There is no legislative requirement for making this a requirement, but the bureaucracy has taken it upon themselves to pressure clients this way. It was a requirement in Adelaide during the Great Depression of the 1930’s.

*

Carrington Cottages (Crazy Cottage) has a policy that residents may be evicted for failing to report arguments amongst other residents to management.

This is straight from China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s.

Crazy Cottage is linked to the Hutt Street Centre.

*

Tyson Polena climbed onto the roof of one of his rooming houses in Salisbury last week. This was during the heat wave. He turned off the air-conditioning saying it used too much electricity. After he left, a client climbed up and turned it back on.

Tyson’s father arrived early one morning a few months ago and tried to steal residents’ drink cans they’d collected from rubbish bins.

*

Four ambulances and two police cars were at West Terrace last week during a fight amongst tribal Aboriginals. A large mob were also in Port Adelaide this week. They’d returned after a nice rest in the homelands where they’d been transported earlier this year via the Deportation Camp in the south parklands.

*

The Lady of the Lake has a habit of urinating in public outside the Salisbury Citadel. But she’s disappeared after jumping into a stranger’s car. She hasn’t been seen since. Her partner was recently in jail and has been told by the court not to return to Salisbury.

*

A British man scammed an older woman last year. She goes to Salisbury Fred’s Van. She wouldn’t say how much money she lost. A second Fred’s Van woman said this same scammer was coming to Adelaide in early January to see her. He didn’t turn up. She is coy about the reason, but still believes he loves her despite already asking for money.

*

The Vitamin Derelict made a triumphant return to the homeless scene after being evicted from his dead brothers house. He’s using a walking frame.

It isn’t clear if he’s back at the warehouse he owns. A court magistrate ordered it sold to pay off a small psychologist bill that had increased 1000% over the past 13 years due to legal expenses.

The Vitamin Derelict is unfazed by this turn of events.

*

Fred’s Van has been swamped in the city. Their takeaway bags last Wednesday included a tiny cereal bar, a banana and a thinly filled sandwich.

But the meal included sausages and onions on bread with sauce, ice-cream, spaghetti, cordial and coffee. There weren’t any seconds due to the high demand. Most diners were happy except for three screaming women who were more entertaining than threatening.

*

Puddle Jumpers offered excellent takeaway meals at Hurtle Square last Monday. They also offered fruit and vegetables and brought the shower truck. Some men made rude comments about the truck.

The Puddle Jumpers crowd arrived as the Hare Krishna group left after providing a rice and curry meal, dessert and cordial. Monday is a good night at Hurtle Square yet loyalist still pack Fred’s Van over in Gawler Place.

*

A man spent an hour yelling abuse at the Fred’s Van volunteers last Friday evening. He had the thin body and speech of an Ice addict. Another client tried to calm him down, but nothing would stop the addict. He was threatening, but not violent. Another diner said he wasn’t usually like that.

*

The Krishna food suppliers got hardly more than half a dozen clients last Friday during the heat wave. Their clients might have been holed up at some Red Alert money spinner.

*

People shouldn’t be fooled by the term “non-profit” used to describe homeless service providers. These corporations’ priorities are always to make a profit, which is siphoned off as increased salaries and perks. ​

Late 15 January 2023

(above) Getting an N.D.I.S. package is nearly impossible even with numerous medical reports. Applicants need a lawyer, an advocate, a fixer, a lobbyist to represent them. That's what it takes. But think twice before applying. The Night Talker warned that the N.D.I.S. changed lives not for the best. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

The swindling of the homeless
in Vancouver

​(similar to Adelaide where employees of the "non-profits" siphon off most of the money supposedly to help those living outside.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq-H2qMkiOE
​Late 14 January 2023

(above) We've waited two months until this tent was gone. It was occupied by a woman and her son in hiding. Welfare wanted to take away her son. They're gone now, but who knows where. Good luck. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

End of the line

Gone are the hotel corporate sponsors. Gone are the well-wishers and volunteers. Gone are the razzmatazz crowd who evaporated on a whim. Gone are the junkie dealers exploiting those lost and desperate homeless campers. Gone are the grifters getting free stuff to sell. And gone are most of yesteryear’s clients who made their exit via illness or despair, or being murdered. And gone is Dr Jefferis, hidden behind a mask.

Barefoot Arthur watches from his park bench. His grimy trademark trench coat on a hot day symbolises the grey cloud of grief that hangs over him. Nothing will warm his heart. He speaks to none except Trent Jefferis, locked into his own fate.

It’s the end of an era for Dr “A.J.” Jefferis. We’d seen it coming for two years, this long drawn out exhaustive collapse. This is her last appearance in the parklands after twenty-five years serving food and mosquito repellent to those living without housing or hope. And it ends the way it began, on a quiet note.

Amongst a dozen loyalists are Brian the ex-miner. He defended “A.J.” during those dark days when the Board of management of her charity, Ruf Us, kicked her out. And then finding themselves without inspiration or commitment these usurpers let it devolve into yet another “non-profit” that chases government money and does its bidding.

“A.J.’s Flying Doctor pilot ex-husband and father of Trent is here. Not one to grandstand his emotions, it’s obvious how he feels.

And Khristian stands sentinel. He arrived ten years ago and was with “A.J.” when she formed her new group called “Our Street Family Matters”. Christian hugs her and they both cry then back away. Others are lost for words, what does one say? How can she give up?

A.J. has brought coffee, beef stew and roast vegetables, but we’ve lost our appetites. We’re at a funeral of an old captain, tired and fallen, being lowered into a rowing boat. Gone are the boxes of clothing, takeaway meals and drinks along with those racketeers who plague the homeless scene.

Age and illness and absorbing the accumulated traumas of her injured clients have taken their toll. And the deaths. She talks about them.

Trent shouts at the man who’s son recently died. They lay their raw emotions on the line as others stand between them.

Two other men talk of childhood sexual traumas from the era when welfare services did business with the paedophiles. Then we stand in wonderment as Homeless Dave, the shopping trolley man discusses the similarly and differences between H.I.V. and Covid infection transfer. He speaks with the confidence and language of someone straight out of medical school.

Arthur calls it quits and glides like an ethereal ghost in a vacuum towards his own hallowed ground compressed to the shape of his body. That’s where he lies, the grief from the past never rising.

And what do we say to Dr Aileen “A.J.” Jefferis? Who will remember her work in five years time? Is anyone in the homeless scene still alive who remembers her starting out in 1987? Maybe a few, but death comes early in our culture.

But what words can express this scene that ends with her and Khristian standing alone on the grass on South Terrace with a homeless camper’s tent visible in the distance. It’s the end of an era as the curtains close and we shuffle off to the rest of our lives. ​
13 January 2023
​

(above) A shrine or resting place at night for a lost human outside the old Reserve Bank building on Flinders Street. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Fred’s Van City moves to
​Whitmore Square this Saturday only

Due to that bicycle race, Fred’s Van won’t be at Hemmings Courtyard in Gawler Place where it usually is.

Instead, it will be a Whitmore Square at the usual Saturday time of 6:00pm. It should be back at Gawler Place on Sunday.

12 January 2023
​

(above) Power, money and sexual hunger. First they harboured the child molesters then sought power and money at the expense of tenants. All under the banner of decency. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

The jewel in the crown
​of homeless services

Fred’s Van had been running out of food recently. And they pack up the coffee too early. It takes twenty minutes for those at the end of queue to be served and the coffee is packed up ten minutes later. But you can’t blame the volunteers. They want to get away before latecomers arrive demanding food that has already been distributed.

Fred’s Van city stayed operating right through the Plandemic and also right through the holiday period including Christmas Day. Same with Cos We Care, the Pilgrim Church and Our Street Family Matters. And none of these siphon off our self-esteem via the Eternal Shame File.

Last Thursday evening was peaceful. It’s the vegetarian curry night along with sausages on bread, takeaway bags, cordial and coffee. A volunteer shouted that they had blankets available. Some diners didn’t know where they were staying that night. An Indian man pulled a dirty suitcase and wore a mask. He didn’t appear a street person so might have been worried and confused.

Catherine the Doctor had a hard time. The Man from Peterborough smiled while The Ghost and a woman laughed at her accusing her of being rich and struck off the register. Catherine became ropeable and was ushered away. She’s very old, but isn’t afraid of anyone or anything except being denigrated as one of us. She thinks that we favour her for being wealthy, but for most the opposite is true. The crowd were against her as she grabs too much. But a few respect her for kindness and medical advice.

Those horrible fat pigeons were everywhere especially since the Council poisoned the rats who used to run out and grab spilt food.

After Fred’s Van I went to The Ghost’s house. He’d offered me a breathing machine because my breathing is faulty, but it was too big and old to fit into my car like something from a 1950’s movie.​

Fred’s Van serves their food in Hemmings Park, named after Terry Hemmings who is gravely ill.

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

Early 11 January 2023

(above) No place to run; no place to hide. The South Australian state government is closing off all areas that can't be easily surveilled. What are they planning for us? (Adelaide homeless Journal, January 2023).

Not bad with the Sikhs

I got there late, but got the last two containers of food plus a bottle of water. About six or seven Sikhs were there. A woman arrived late and they told her they had run out of food. I gave her one of my containers. The other I ate on a park bench near a planned memorial for John Bray, that drunk about crawled about town after serving as Chief Justice in the Supreme Court. Decent fellow. Classical poet.

Two groups of rooming house men sat and talked opposite Crazy Cottage. The Sikhs stood by their cars for twenty minutes after packing up their stuff. It was a carefree scene. The takeaway food from the Sikhs included noodles with thin shreds of lightly cooked or raw carrot and something else including fresh chilli. That flavour and texture suited my taste the best ever and hadn’t any meat or eggs in it.

They arrive earlier than before. It is now about 6:10pm to 6:40 every Thursday. It pays to arrive early.

Sikh vegetarian meals at Hurtle Square, Adelaide
Thursdays 6:10 to 6:30 pm Hurtle Square, Adelaide. (corner of Pulteney and Carrington Streets). Sikh Community hands out free fresh sentient vegetarian meals and water, and sometimes packet soup, bread, snacks, and blankets. No I.D. or registration required. Quality cosmopolitan volunteers who speak perfect English. Food could be a bit hotter. These traditional Sikhs take excess food to Fred’s Van later.

Early 10 January 2023

“Don’t talk so much”

​From the anonymous contact page

“You might want to watch what you say ******* *****. Stop speaking out of school about people you know NOTHING about. Everyone knows where to find you. “

Editor: Thank you for the warning. I often make mistakes and welcome corrections.

Early 10 January 2023
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From the anonymous contact page

"Small churches arising from nowhere resemble the early Christian churches of the Roman period."
oh no, not more Kathedrals, sick

​Early 10 January 2023
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(above) Despite all their pledges to increase public housing, the South Australian government continues to knock down houses and sell the land. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

(above) This land on Maltarra Road, Munno Para held 30-40 HousingSA public houses until the government knocked them down. Any talk by Minister Nat Cook of increasing building of units is a lie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, January 2023).

Why the Pilgrim offer a superior service

For those who like to gorge, the Pilgrim Sunday meal isn’t the place to go. But for quality, they are near the top in the homeless scene. Last Sunday they offered ham and silverside, both high in protein. There were two types of fresh raw salad, both high in minerals and anti-oxidants. There was also a pasta salad plus plenty of fresh cut fruit that wasn’t half rotten like you’d expect from Oz Harvest. And then tea, coffee and really bad cakes and pavlova.

The joint was mobbed as usual with half the diners eating on the shaded benches between the church and the Quaker meeting hall.

The man who shouted at Trent Jefferis the day before was sad and had trouble walking due to grief. He played the piano for two minutes as if remembering a better life then collapsed into a chair.

The volunteers like their roles and serve us with respect though the session is too short for those at the end of the queue as cleaning begins a few minutes after they’ve been served. ​

Parking is available in the church carpark. The boomgate is closed about 7:00pm preventing entry, but you can exit any time and can even sleep there, but should be gone by 8:00am when the paying customers arrive.

Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New summer menu includes cold meat, four types of salad, bread and margarine, fresh chopped fruit, variety of decent cakes, tea, coffee and cordial. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners. None of that stale stuff from Foodbank. If you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.

Early 9 January 2023

Roger King dead

Roger wasn’t part of the homeless scene, but we saw him regularly at Lifepoint church where he talked about Jesus. He previously managed a Woolworths store. Later, he got cancer. He said in 2021 that he hoped to beat it by Christmas that year. He died just before Christmas this year.

One man at the funeral said, “Roger wasn’t the Roger we knew for the past few years.” This is true. The photographs of Roger before radiation and chemotherapy and the cancer itself showed a different man.

One mourner was 93-year-old Lester Williams who taught another mourner, the Lifepoint church preacher, at Kings Baptist school at Wynn Vale where the funeral was held. Lester’s mind operates well despite his age.

The family viewed the dead body in a private room before the box was sealed and brought out. This is different from some funerals where the dead guy is dressed up and put in a chair. ​

Funerals are good places where people can be honest with each other for a few minutes before resuming the facades of their lives. Roger helped us even after dying.

Early 9 January 2023

(above) Desert crowd visiting Adelaide camping in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Areas for Aboriginals to camp shrinks year by year. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

On the Street

We thought Coles had been donating weekly bundles of 15-cent shopping bags to the C.H.A.T.S. free breakfast every Friday morning. But it was Kerry Goodyear, the father of Christopher who actually purchased them from Coles and gave them to us.

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Krusher Karl has resumed his normal life. He has a girlfriend and works in a mine in northern Western Australia. He’s always been a worker unlike most of us invalids in the homeless scene.

Krusher was married to Jayne Hewittson, the former cook at Baptist WestCare and an accomplished singer who performs at homeless funerals.

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An Ice addict near the Hutt Street Centre recently swept food and dishes from a diners’ table outside the restaurant.

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Baptist WestCare surprised diners to its free annual Christmas lunch in the city. They made each diner perform a R.A.T.S. test to gain entry. Those refusing could take a walk. This is what they do to those without power. Restaurants nearby weren’t requiring their richer diners to acquiesce to this humiliating act?

The good news is that Baptist WestCare isn’t doing this to their regular lunch clients.

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Lois Boswell and Don Frater’s Sparkke restaurant seems to have gone bust. But it might still be operating as a takeaway food service administered from the old Rectory at St Luke’s church. Sparkke was billed as a “female led” restaurant.

Sparkke was once called the Whitmore Hotel where they had patrons perform lewd acts on stage. Feminist food is an improvement, but eating while looking across Whitmore Square seem similar to tourists visiting a famine-struck country.

We must have sympathy for Lois and Don. They must have naive ideals that life could be gentile in Adelaide. Don’t they realise the harsh realities of their government jobs?

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“Sprung,” said a Jasmine Restaurant diners in Hindmarsh Square when she saw the Colostomy Bag Activist tape empty bags onto a portable lighting pole. On one was written, “I am knackered.” But the Activist didn’t care if he was observed. He believes in his work.

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Also, on the light pole were the words, “Free Thomas Sewell.” He’s imprisoned indefinitely over allegations of graffiti and being a member of an Adelaide neo-Nazi group.

Who would have thought that speech and minor property damage misdemeanours of a previous era would become major criminal charges of today? Yet someone today can sell Ice and destroy another person’s life and get a lesser penalty. We live in strange times.

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A homeless man with Covid said he was afraid to visit a doctor in case they put him into a hotel whereupon his camp would have been ransacked.

Early 8 January 2023

(above) Orange Sky laundromat in North Adelaide helps pay for their mobile free laundry service. But most mobile van shifts have been cancelled over the holidays. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

From the anonymous contact page

Thanks for laundromat happy hour info photo.
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If is real happy hour then great. If is really hour of fear and dread, similar to visiting any open deserted shop in ice gang area such as East Terrace Hutt Street of past years, then will avoid it like the plague.

Please give us dirt on youth gang invasions and violent coersions in homeless sector. Never came to Adelaide for Jungle Warfare and outback primate savagery.

Anonymous

Second Editor: I know nothing about this. My eyes have closed over the past few years. But Orange Sky has been a great asset. It beats washing clothing by hand and hanging it on fences and trees and getting laughed at by those living in houses.

7 January 2023

From the anonymous contact page

“I have heard massive rumours of drug dealing a *********** adelaide and that the drugs are cheap and strong. The persons name to see is ******** so you want to get high.”

Second Editor: Of course. You see someone hanging out for something and get directions from there. But to name them here can be dangerous as I’ve found out numerous times over the past few years. Life is intense enough without becoming entangled in the drug scene.
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7 January 2023


From the anonymous contact page

Re:"Power, money and sexual hunger. First they harboured the child molesters then moved onto power and money at the expense of tenants."

Anglish Kathlicks are Anglickins. Bennie Dicked & Nostril Damn Kathedral had it comin. Nostril Damn Us nose 'er knows.

Pagan
7 January 2023

From the anonymous contact page

wat about showers at main Adelaide CBD bus terminal on Franklin Street and just east of Morphett Street ? (A place used as "code blue" zoo in winter)

Anonymous

Second Editor: I phoned the bus station and someone there said, “no.” Maybe they allow it during code blue or red or whatever, but not when I phoned. Showers are the big problem when you live outside.

7 January 2023

(above) A certain scorn expressed by two pedestrians upon seeing a homeless man camped on Hindley Street, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

"Low Income Action Group writes back about supposed feminist agenda"

Alayna (de Graaf ?), meetings facilitator for the Low Income Action Group, has written this write of reply commentary to this story below.
Alayna says she's consulted other group members, such as Dash, Mathew, Robyn, and Denny.

They all say they've been quoted out of context, as the LIAG is a totally equalist group, who cares deeply about all people experiencing homelessness and poverty, be they male, female or any other kind of person/

Yes, an article from the Southern Justice Centre was reposted, but that didn't mean the entire article summed up the Low Income Action Group's own point of view.
  
"I was commenting specifically on the fact that the reality is that sadly the Homeless Gateway Service is chocka block full, and that unless you're a woman fleeing domestic violence and with little ones, you can expect no help whatsoever". 

It seems the comment was taken to mean that we only supported those women and kids, but in reality, it was a cynical post - commenting on the sad state of affairs that means so many are homeless and just not receiving any help whatsoever.    "It's just not fair at all for any one to be experiencing this heart breaking experience.  ​

And where are our Politicians who are supposed to be helping ?  Where are the Not for Profit Groups and Non Government Agencies, supposed to be helping.   No doubt participating in the bureaucratic kafkaesque situation that is a night mare for those who get caught up in it to experience.  One group just fobs you off to the next, and to the next, and to the next, til eventually you are back to your starting point, and about to just lose your mind due to the sheer exhaustion of it all".

From the southern voice
6 January 2023

Superb food at Hindmarsh Square

Five or six old white people arrive at Hindmarsh Square opposite the RAA every Thursday at 5:00pm. Yesterday they brought boiled eggs, bread, hot pies and pasties, cordial, water and a box of perfect bananas. It was good food, not rotting garbage. I asked who paid for it and a man who has served us for years said it was donated, adding that sometimes they pay for it from their own money. It took some time to get this out of him as he didn’t want to talk about it.

They handed tickets to diners. At 5:40pm each Thursday, they call the Jasmine Restaurant to order a meal for each person present. The Jasmine employees packed that many meals plus half a dozen extra into plastic containers with wooden cutlery and a serviette. They bring them over in boxes.

Yesterday’s meal was some sort of seasoned chicken with a dry batter plus rice and lightly cooked vegetables. But it’s the flavour that sets the Jasmine apart from everywhere else. They know food.

I gave the chicken to the Ghost Who Walks and ate the rest while pedestrians and onlookers sitting in cars watched us with wide eyes. Seeing so many desperadoes in one location always surprises them. The Viking Can Collector flattened his bottles and cans while The Ghost and myself talked of death. ​

Then three or four newcomers arrived late and shouted obscenely at the white unpaid old people for not having food ready for them. They do this every week as if coming here not for the food, but to feed their sense of grievance.

It isn’t easy helping others.

Jasmine Restaurant City
Served in Hindmarsh Square across from the RAA every Thursday. Free. From 5:00pm diners pick up a ticket, boiled eggs, salt, pepper, cordial, fruit and buns. At 6:00pm, Jasmine staff cross Grenfell Street from the restaurant to distribute containers of high-quality Indian curry and meat in exchange for the tickets. Genuine street people clients. This is the best free food in Adelaide if you eat meat. Be quick and you can make the Sikhs and Soup Van at Hurtle Sq., then Fred’s at Gawler Place.

6 January 2022

(above) Copenhagen coffee lounge on Semaphore Road at Semaphore near the beach offers free coffee on Tuesday mornings to clients of St Bede's Tuesday free breakfast until the breakfast service resumes in early January. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

A nice little operation in Hutt Street

As in Adelaide, where money poured into the homeless industry fails to have any effect in housing the underclass, so it is in California.

The problem is the expanded hierarchy of employees that rake off a percentage of all money allocated to those living outside. At the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide, it starts with Chief Executive Chris Burns then filters down to triage data miners, office equipment, counsellors including psychiatrists, art therapists, going for a walk therapists, checkpoint guards, advertising, removing the outdoor water tap, operating their fleet of cars, late night cleaners, employees reporting to government on how well they helped the homeless and sending personal details of clients to the government data base accessible by dozens of other welfare corporations.

Why doesn’t Chris Burns provide a spreadsheet of all Hutt Street Centre employees, their job titles including what they actually do and their salaries including perks. No names need to be mentioned. Any problems with that, Chris?

Link to Joe Rogan talking about the homeless industry in California. https://youtube.com/shorts/3kmWnCfVmmA?features=share

5 January 2023

(above) Len could have been seen as just another old man on an invalid scooter hanging around the Salisbury shopping centre. But he had a life and an extended family and his daughter, Belinda, cried and cried at his funeral. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Long journey to shower hell

What would prompt a person to use the Gawler public showers? Well, most of the suburban homeless services shutting down over Christmas for one thing. Another is the Hutt Street Centre excluding homeless people not subscribing to the Eternal Shame File. Thirdly, the shower truck at Puddle Jumpers smells of fresh faeces with no visible outrage. No thanks.

Anyway, the once illustrious Gawler showers have changed since being built. Just one is left in operation and on this occasion was occupied by an Ice Head when I arrived. He not only showered, but soaked toilet paper and threw it against the wall. Then he kicked the tampon and adult nappies bins against the walls, pulled a warning sign away from the wall and threw his drink can in the toilet. What else he did I hesitate to consider.

He eventually came out and appeared as might be expected: incoherent, toothless, thin and swinging his arms wildly. Typical nerve damage from crystal methamphetamine.

I went into the separate shower room while he spent the next twenty minutes outside pounding the shaded park bench next to the tourist office. He screamed about nothing being his fault and being surrounded by dogs, mutts and paedophiles. Then he left.

After finishing an unpleasant shower, I guardedly unlocked the door and breathed the fresh air. I felt almost as unclean as when I first entered what was once a state of the art shower block with either two or three separate shower rooms. Now, one has being decommissioned as a shower room, another is locked leaving just one vandalised shower room.

One can easily blame the vandals and addicts, but the policy of the Gawler Council can also be questioned. Why spend a million dollars or more building a beautiful ablution block and shaded picnic area on slatted wooden flooring then let it deteriorate for lack of basic maintenance? Someone is asleep at the wheel.

Early 4 January 2023

(above) Free hamper from Sisters of Mercy Adelaide Day Centre. They provided 2000 this year. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Adelaide Day Centre don't collect personal data on those who got one of their free hampers. They don't have a digital database and aren't subservient to the Eternal Shame File like the Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Adelaide dumpster diving

Does anyone remember Simon Eden (Felix) who gave away sheets of his poetry in Rundle Mall back in 1980? He changed his name to Simon Felix at one point.

His mother was a 15-year-old “flower child” when she gave birth to Simon. When he was 18, you could see him pushing a large baby pram around the Adelaide CBD. It contained his poetry and bedding. One poem was called, Ralph Stew, about Ralph who cut his arm off while making stew then added his arm as part of the stew.

Simon is lives near Prospect and operates Adelaide Dumpster Diving. On one run he discovered 400 packets of cigarettes in the bin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjVS9nsS0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtXyVpdPZek

There is also another channel called Dumpster Diving Down Under. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaKPD2WpyAM

3 January 2023

(above) A HousingSA (Housing Trust) employee arrives at 9:24am Friday 23 December to allow Mick into his home to remove some belongings. (Adelaide Homeless Journal December 2022).

(above) HousingSA hired a locksmith to change the locks, but the employee can't get in using the new key. Mick does it for her. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Friends help Mick remove stuff from his house at 25 Tregenza Avenue, Elizabeth South. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2022).

(above) HousingSA will let Mick load his belongings until 4:00pm when another employee will lock the house permanently and anything left will be destroyed. Until then he can use the front door only. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2022).

(above) Mick is being evicted into homelessness two days before Christmas. The charge was living in squalor. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2022).

(above) Mick's pantry is crawling with cockroaches and other bugs. They made his dog sick. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2022).

(above) Mick spent years in a boys' home at Campbelltown where paedophiles placed their orders by phone then picked up the boys on Friday night and returned them on Sunday evening. Mick says he wasn't taken, but had to fight every minute of his time there. He remains traumatised to this day and has difficulty adapting. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) The kitchen is filthy and infested like the rest of the house. The problem is that Mick has a neurological condition that prevents him from seeing and then fixing the problem. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Mick is a decent man. HousingSA has evicted him, but with all the money floating through the N.D.I.S., shouldn't the welfare system help him cope rather than dumping him into homelessness two days before Christmas? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Free undercover parking
​at Adelaide Casino

They offer 12-hours of free undercover parking at the Festival Centre carpark each day for Casino members. You don’t need to spend any money and joining is free via photo I.D.

This offer is for everyone over 49 years of age. For those younger, they require putting about $30 through the machines, which will on average return you about $23.

Whether this is worth it depends on how valuable twelve hours of safe undercover parking is to you. If you’re homeless, you might sleep in your car for those hours during the night. There is entry into the Casino via the third floor of the carpark.

The system seems complicated because if you phone the Casino they’ll tell you that spending money on gambling or the restaurants is required to get the free parking. But at the Rewards desk they say they’ve removed that requirement. You can merely walk into the Casino and put your card into the kiosk, then click on “free parking”. This makes your Casino card a free exit ticket from the carpark. You don’t have to pay a cent. But get the Rewards desk employees to check your card to see that everything is set up properly.

The dangers are that they’ll change the rules and one day you’ll be required to pay to exit. However, if you simply stay at the boom gate and refuse to move, then they’ll open it and let you out.

Another danger is your vulnerability to becoming a gambling addict, which means a loser in the Casino. And the Muzak must be bad for the human body as it isn’t just your eardrums that feel the thump of that noise. Your whole body resonates to that unhealthy beat.

2 January 2023 
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(above) Homeless camp in Adelaide CBD parklands during the month of Christmas. This is while tens of thousands of foreign investor houses sit empty in Adelaide. But the gutless Minister for Housing, Nick Champton, won't confront these empty house investors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2022).

Christmas holidays homeless service reopening schedule

Absolute Final List

See the free food guide for some addresses and phone numbers or you might have to find them via google.

This tiny list of end-of-year shut-down gatherings is representative where only regular clients are welcome. There are exceptions and you might argue your case with possible success. See the Free Food Guide for addresses and more details. There are also another 100 free places yet to be discovered.

Hutt Street Centre staying open every day during holidays except public holidays. Open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 8:30am for breakfast; 11:30am to 12:30pm for lunch. Showers and many others services as usual. Weekends 7:00am to 9:00am with takeaway lunch.

WestCare at Miller’s Court near Whitmore Square open as usual except for the three public holidays. This includes store and interview food vouchers.
Open Christmas Day for free lunch.

Lutheran Care, 311 Prospect Road, Blair Athol open Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm as usual except public holidays. Phone (08) 8269 9300.

Salvation Army. It is unclear of their opening hours as they no longer answer their phones including the new statewide call centre. City Salvos is reported as running their Wednesday evening meals right through the holiday period. Playford Elizabeth have stopped answering their phones.

Care Works (Church of Christ). Closing from the 22nd of December to 30th of January 2023.

St Vincent de Paul. It true Catholic style the person who answer their call centre phone got cranky when I asked about their opening hours. The call centre number of 1300 729 202 should be staffed through the holiday period except for public holidays. But getting stuff depends on the opening hours of the local offices. St Vinnies is arguably the best outfit in Adelaide for dependability and range of services.

Magdalene Centre on Gilbert Street Adelaide along with their Noarlunga office will be open throughout the holiday period except for public holidays.

Faithworks at Clifton Street, Blair Athol reopens 4th January 2023.

Hot meal and free food services

Gospel City Church last free lunch and groceries at Gawler on Tuesday 12:00 to 1:30pm on 20th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens 10th of January 2023.

Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) Every second Wednesday at Port Adelaide 3:00pm to 5:00pm, but finished for year. Reopens (hopefully) on 8th of February 2023. “Isolated” persons welcome.

Lutheran Good Shepherd Meet and Bite at Para Vista on Mondays at 5:30pm last gathering special time of 6:30 to 8:30pm 12th of December 2022. Invitation only. Phone office to see if you can attend, but the joint is already booked out. Reopens 16th January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg last Tuesday 6pm meal is on 6th of December 2022. Last coffee and cake lunch and free groceries 11:30 to 2:30pm is on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Tuesday the 17th of January 2023.

Pilgrim Church Flinders Street. These heroic people continue their 5:30pm Sunday meal right through the holiday period including New Year’s Day. How good is that? They behind the Pilgrim Uniting Church at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide.

Their Pilgrim coffee lounge has closed and will reopen Monday 16th of January. See the Free Food Guide for more details.

Last Global Care (GC3) at Parafield Gardens on Saturday 10th of December 6:30pm. All welcome. Reopens Saturday 11th of February 2023.

C.H.A.T.S. free Friday breakfasts at Port Adelaide 9:00am to 10:30am on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Friday the 3rd of February 2022.

Lutheran Ark at Salisbury last monthly free meal on Saturday the 17th of December for invited guests. Invitations might be obtained from the church office or might not be. Reopens Saturday the 28th of January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

Salvation Army Pirie Street, Adelaide. Their DUO leaflet says the Wednesday meals are finished until the 1st of February 2023. And that they offer take away meals from January 18th to the 23rd. Whether their food parcel office operated by paid employees is open during the holidays is anyone’s guess.

St Bede’s Anglican Church Semaphore last free Tuesday breakfast is the 6th of December 2022. Their Christmas lunch is on the 13th of December and open only to those getting an invitation and generally regular diners. Reopening date is not known, but is expected to be early for mid-January when everyone is welcome.

Port Baptist Church, Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. Last 5pm free meals for 2022 are Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of December. Wednesday is booked out so they’ve decided to have a Tuesday gathering as well. Their reopening date is yet to be confirmed.

ONE Life at Parafield Gardens last free food event Wednesday 1:00pm on the 20th of December. Reopens 11th January 2023.

Cos We Care is maintaining their Saturday free food service in Elizabeth and the Sunday service in the city throughout the holiday period.

Whitmore Square Saturday free BBQ is a fresh new service from 9am to 11am every Saturday in the middle of Whitmore Square. Grilled sausages, bread, onions and sauce with bottled water. Some chairs provided. They don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File.

Our Street Family Matters has closed down permanently after 25 years service by Dr Jefferis and her small team.

Taperoo Stadium (Lefevre Market) has finished for the year and reopens 1st of February 2023.

See the free food guide for most addresses.

Fred’s Vans Christmas schedule

City Sat & Sunday 6pm Mon to Thur – 7pm Gawler Place, Adelaide (between Flinders and Wakefield Street). This heroic mob works straight through the holiday period including Christmas Day.

Christie Downs Wednesday & Sunday – 7pm Wardli Youth Centre, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs.
Last service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Elizabeth Sunday – 12pm Wednesday – 6pm Vinnies Elizabeth, Langford Drive, Elizabeth.
Last service Wednesday 21st December.
Re-opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Salisbury Sunday – 6pm. Twelve 25 Youth Centre 17 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury
Last service Sunday 18th December • Re- opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Gawler Thursday – 6pm Pioneer Park, Lyndoch Road, Gawler (next to the Visitor Centre)
Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thurs 12th January 2023

Kilburn Thursday – 7pm Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Ave, Kilburn
Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thursday 12th January 2023 Semaphore Sunday – 6pm

St Bede’s Church 200 Military Road, Semaphore
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15 th January 2023

Aldinga Community Centre, Stewart Avenue, Aldinga
Last service Friday 23rd December • Re-opens Friday 27th January 2023

Port Lincoln Sunday St. Marys of the Angel Church, Mortlock Terrace, Port Lincoln
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Port Pirie Sunday Vinnies Centre, Gertrude St, Port Pirie
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 22nd January 2023

Late 1 January 2023 

(above) Homeless camper's tent near an overflow pond in the Adelaide CBD parklands. But danger lurks at sundown. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

On the Street

A “missing man” sought by the police was tracked to a Hills railway station via his Senior’s Card used as a train ticket. Then he was captured at Baptist WestCare via their inclusion of client details into the police computer.

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Mick and Denise saw ghostly figures moving about Mick’s house at 25 Tregenza Avenue, Elizabeth South. They said their dog barked and scratched and developed a rash when it saw the ghosts.

But a friend said the infestation of bugs in the house caused the dog to sicken. Mick steadfastly denies this as he cannot see his house as being dirty.

But the fact that the dog’s rash cleared up quickly when taken to another house failed to convince Mick that it wasn't ghosts.

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Catherine the Doctor was banned from Cos We Care months ago. She grabbed too much and ignored shouts from other clients and volunteers to restrain herself.

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A soup kitchen client was once competitor to the former head of the SAPOL drug squad, Inspector Barry Moyse. The soup kitchen man can’t remember those days, but in the 1980’s he came to the attention of the South Australian police for selling cannabis cheaper then them. They didn’t like that.
Barry came to a sticky end after being caught. He said in court that he wasn’t worried as he was getting a new identity and would disappear. But he didn’t and spent years in prison until being released to become a sports umpire and literacy teacher in Port Lincoln until his death from cancer in 2010. His competitor, our soup kitchen colleague, is alive and well except he cannot remember the past. Telling him to ‘snap out of it’ doesn’t work.

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A diner said the new Baptist WestCare Indian cook replaced the cook for the Indian Cricket team when they were in town. He’s that good.

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Piano Player Wayne (aka Chef Wayne) is imprisoned in a brand new government disability house in Evanston, south of Gawler. He has a large bedroom and en suite, but the complex hasn’t any outdoor green area, social room or anything. It’s plonked near the freeway and far from any shopping centre or park or anything except a cabinet of pills.

With his ailment of Diabetes, N.D.I.S. workers feed him huge meals and plenty of prescription drugs. It’s Wayne’s hell on earth and it’s costing the government perhaps half a million dollars a year.

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The single Exceloo toilet at the public park near the submarine corporation at Outer Harbour has been out of action for one week. It is locked tight due to breakdowns one out of every two days of the year due to faults in its design. The park was officially opened by Deputy Premier Susan Close of the South Australian government.

That toilet cost at least half a million dollars to install, possibly one million, and it doesn’t work and no one in the government shows the smallest concern. Weird.

Early 31 January 2022

(above) Bridges provide good shade during blazing days, but homeless campers should be careful of dodgy company. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

A.J. ends an illustrious career

Dr Aileen “A.J.” Jefferis is ending her free food service after 25 years. This Saturday will be her last time outside St Andrew’s Medical Centre on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. She begins at 9am and ends at 10am. ​

Early 30 December 2022

Fred’s Van city

The Jasmine staff politely told us to leave to make way for another restaurant setting up their tables for the evening trade. We made our way to Fred’s Van at Hemmings Park in Gawler Place.

The man with the hotel luggage carrier had gone there as well. It’s getting harder to get shopping trolleys in the Adelaide CBD. It requires a hike out to Unley or Norwood. ​

The mood was different than at the Jasmine. Fred’s is where the ultra-disenfranchised go. There was laughing from a thin woman, a desperate laugh amongst muttering men with bowed heads. One said he slept near those rubbish skips next to the State Government carpark.

The Fred’s Van volunteers were upbeat while desperately trying to give away large tubes of teeth whitener toothpaste. It was tough going as most clients have little or no teeth.

The sandwiches were of better quality than usual with adequate amounts of fresh vegetables inside.

Us long term clients in the homeless scene forever criticise each other for being too wealthy to visit Fred’s Van. But it isn’t always financial poverty that attracts people there, but a sense of not being part of the normal society. And with half the clients, an actual desperation in a strangely wealthy society.

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

Early 30 December 2022

Oz Nomadic on the warpath

​We really need a "Adelaide Homeless Journal TV Station", to highlight the "Harrowing" plight of Homeless Meth User's, people who can barely "Pass Solids". Homeless Hunks, Homeless Honeys, going off on the Tram or a bus you might be riding on. Harrowing and Heart Breaking, people who can barely Wipe Their Own ****!. I urge everybody to give, give generously to the truly, worthless ****er's!

I see them walking out streets...... pecking, like chickens at "imagined Crack Rocks!" On the pavement, imagining that each and every pebble is actually a Crack Rock!....what a terrible plight. Days if not week's before "The Check Lands" and the Meth Flow's again. They obviously need extra Social Security, extra financial support, extra hygiene support. All I can say is "Find a Crackhead and Wipe their ****". what would we as a nation be without our Vicious, Stinking Crackheads?. I'm especially grateful to AHJ for supporting and facilitating Crackheads and General Bludgers across our Great State. It's never easy being a Worthless, Do Nothing Fool.

Oz Nomadic

Second Editor: I feel the same way when they’re punching me in the head. The last Ice dealer would have put me in hospital earlier in the year if two Orange Sky Laundry workers hadn’t intervened. But you and I are part of this culture for better and for worse. Perhaps there will be a grand exit over the holiday drought as people reevaluate their lives.

Early 30 December 2022

(above) The free Lifepoint (Revival City) Christmas hampers weren't too bad. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Christmas can be a bountiful period for those living outside until the big drought begins the day after Christmas. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Jasmine Restaurant Christmas special

Nothing too weird happened. Instead of takeaway packs served across the road during the year, the Christmas meal was eaten in front of the Jasmine Restaurant.

Catherine the Doctor played her usual role of grabbing too much to the extent one volunteer raised his voice against her. She got a meal of meats, prawns and feta salads then put it into her shopping jeep then jumped the queue for more. She seems immune to self-reflection. It’s hard to imagine her having been a medical doctor specialising in children.

One veteran diner known for exaggeration said she had been struck off the medical register for selling drugs, but there is no evidence for this. Not even that she was a doctor.

A young Asian girl didn’t answer me when I asked her if she was “one of us”. She appeared too normal. And the normal people walking by appeared confused, like, where do such people as us come from.

Cambodian Jenny didn’t endear herself to anyone, either. She asked a friend of the family who own the Jasmine Restaurant if the old man owner had any sons. Jenny can smell money. “That’s not a very polite question,” a film producer volunteer said.

A homeless client said one of the owners sons had been kidnapped and some homeless people had tried to rescue him without success. The son had been killed. And that’s why this small restaurant provides sixty free meals every week of the year except one. Maybe this is mythology, we don’t know.

Stella from Puddle Jumpers Hindmarsh Food Hub was there briefly, but spoke little. And that fellow with the hotel luggage trolley put in a brief appearance.

Overall, the atmosphere felt quiet and restrained unlike the previous week where Horse Trader Steve yelled at Jay while accusing him of being greedy. But that wasn't too dramatic and there is far less blood spilt at Adelaide free food venues than previously. This might be due to the Hutt Street Centre placing the more violent city homeless people into welfare housing at Elizabeth. 

There won’t be a Jasmine free meal in Hindmarsh Square this Thursday, but they’ll be back at 5:00pm Thursday 5 January 2022. That’s 51 weeks a year without fail.

Jasmine Restaurant City
Served in Hindmarsh Square across from the RAA every Thursday. Free. From 5:00pm diners pick up a ticket, boiled eggs, salt, pepper, cordial, fruit and buns. At 6:00pm, Jasmine staff cross Grenfell Street from the restaurant to distribute containers of high-quality Indian curry and meat in exchange for the tickets. Genuine street people clients. This is the best free food in Adelaide if you eat meat. Be quick and you can make the Sikhs and Soup Van at Hurtle Sq., then Fred’s at Gawler Pl. And none of these collect your personal details for the Eternal Shame File.

Early 29 December 2022

(above) Campsite across street from Salisbury Citadel where The Lady of the Lake sleeps alongside a man who looks like a Mexican bandit from a Sergio Leone western movie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Good News from the Pilgrim Church

They’re operating their Sunday 5:30pm meal right through the holiday period including New Year’s Day. This is a quality service provided by quality people to homeless people particularly desperate during the holiday period.

Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New summer menu includes cold meat, four types of salad, bread and margarine, fresh chopped fruit, variety of decent cakes, tea, coffee and cordial. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners. None of that stale stuff from Foodbank. If you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.

28 December 2022

from The Corporal from Lebanon

​Truth is I'm not "Oznomad" but I'm actually Paul.....many people call me "Irish". It's been since last March that I had any contact with my/our brother AJ. He reads the AHJ regularly and He reached out to Me. He has my email. He is in Broome, He is working upon a boat, He has met a wonderful, lovely Lady and He is "Beyond Happy". Good to Hear my Brother. I have an invitation to visit......yes, soon!.

AJ asked to send his best wishes for Christmas and The New Year to Jessie, Wazza, William and "Black Mike". You boys know who you are!.

AJ says........I've met the love of my life, I crew a boat each and every day, we catch everything we need to meet the "Man", pay rent, pay groceries and save a little. I'm beyond Happy and let my brother "Irish" tell you that.

AJS. Andrew John Stewart. You either Know the Man or you don't. Me?...... everybody calls me "Irish". I'm Paul ********* *******Corporal in the Irish Army, Lebanon, 1986, 104****. Got That...... Stoopid

Yep, Good Heaven's... the AHJ [Adelaide Homeless Journal] didn't want to post my previous claims. C**** what his is, filthy ******, and He will Learn to live with His Actions. Big, Skinny, Goatee Bearded ****. He doesn't like Me......Why should the ****

Second Editor: I didn’t name the sex offender as it may be illegal and result in this page being killed. That’s the sad truth of the internet. Nor your name at present in case you change your mind. Your experience in Lebanon would be priceless.

28 December 2022
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Pilgrim Church Christmas evening

Stefan has done it again. Why he does it no one knows. Why does this avant-garde cultured outsider put effort for a bunch of animals grabbing food like they are starving when they are not? Perhaps he has compassion for those who are genuinely distressed and desperate and actually hungry.

There must have been 80 or 90 diners present. Far too many for the small hall. We seemed a sad crowd, but that might be a subjective assessment. ​

The food was served in the coffee lounge then taken to the small hall or eaten on the benches back of the church. It included pure meats, fresh salads, various savoury rice dishes, but I can’t remember anything else as I’d slept badly in the car during a hot night. But it was all good stuff.

Mrs Telstra made a cameo appearance and did nothing to attract attention. One veteran in the scene told a newcomer why she was called Mrs Telstra: because she hogged the free public phone at Baptist WestCare. She was once taken to hospital after collapsing when do-gooders tried to de-hoard her house of a few bags of junk. Half of soup kitchen clients are hoarders plagued by the fear of not having enough.

Mick of Mick and Denise was there. He grabbed a one kilogram bag of soft confectionery offered by one man to the man declared dead by the government. The dead guy didn’t want it so Mick grabbed it saying the dead man had given it to him while the original man fumed.

The Vitamin Derelict, the Ghost Who Walks and Big Ron were there, but not Frankenstein who is recovering from a nervous breakdown at Red Hill. Nor Lance Armstrong. Dennis the Menace made an appearance, but was kicked out before he got inside the serving room. Something to do with being dragged away by police at a previous visit. One diner said they shouldn’t be so hard on an old man with multiple organ failures. But another diner said The Menace scratched his car after reacting badly to advice not to spend his money on poker machines.

Volunteers pushed Catherine the Vietnamese Doctor from the serving tables when she decided she wanted everything and began pouring stuff into her shopping jeep. She’s like some starving refugee while the reality is that she is a wealthy old woman needing nothing.

There was a consensus amongst diners that we weren’t given enough time to eat the meal. Those at the end of the queue waited perhaps 50 minutes after the first diners were served. And after making such effort to provide quality food, the volunteers should have given justice to their effort by letting us stay longer.

Whatever, it was a brilliant performance by Stefan and his crew and the Pilgrim Church mob.

Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New summer menu includes cold meat, four types of salad, bread and margarine, fresh chopped fruit, variety of decent cakes, tea, coffee and cordial. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners. None of that stale stuff from Foodbank. If you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.

https://pilgrim.org.au/social-justice/

28 December 2022

(above) Homeless camper near Anglicare (Believe Housing) headquarters on Port Road, Hindmarsh. Believe Housing has embarked on a publicity campaign paid for by increased rents they charge for housing lent to them by the government. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2022).

(above) Anglicare car parked in disability zone on Port Road, Hindmarsh without a Disability Permit. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

On the Street

A government contractor watering roadside plants near a military establishment stopped and filled a homeless man’s Jerry can. And the security agents inside the complex appear to have adopted a “better the devil you know than the one you don’t” attitude to the homeless man.

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Len Brooks died in mid-December. He rode that invalid scooter with the expensive canopy. You could see him around the Salisbury shopping Centre and he went to the Victory Church free Friday BBQ. He went to the RAH for surgery then had a stroke the next day and died.

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“I live for salt and pepper.”

Cambodian Jenny shortly before she coughed into the serving tray of roast chicken.

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Chef Wayne (formerly Piano Player Wayne) has moved from St Margaret’s Convalescent hospital in Semaphore to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. He feared he was going to end up there like Ann Marie Smith who rotted to death in a wicker chair at her home two years ago.

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UnitingSA required name, birth date and signature for their free Christmas lunch. The event had been a charity event previously, but with the dominance of the church’s corporate entity, UnitingSA, the operation has changed.

Nevertheless, the unpaid workers did a fine job of creating a friendly atmosphere with quality food followed by a $40 Coles card for every person.

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A can collector worked out a way to recycle bicycle tyres. He cuts them into pieces and puts them into his wood stove. He said it makes the neighbourhood smell like a car burnout.

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The Sikhs left too early on Thursday at Hurtle Square. We rushed from the Jasmine, but by 6:40pm they were gone. They change their times nearly every week. This leaves clients dismayed and dismissive of their benevolence.

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Thieves broke into the St Vincent de Paul Op Shop in the building that also hosts Fred’s Van Elizabeth. They stole the cash register.

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A diner at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Sunday said he saw disgust on the faces of the volunteers as diners ignored orderly behaviour and stormed the food.

The volunteers put great effort into preparing the meal then it was grabbed and gobbled unceremoniously by a mob of pigs. The diner said going to Fred’s Van is damaging him mentally.

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Tony from the Peterswool Road Seventh-day Adventist church is moving to Brisbane so the once-a-month Friday evening meal is cancelled. However, the Monday and Thursday free food handouts will continue.

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Grill’d brought in a St Vincent de Paul employee to guard their drinks fridge as the homeless crowd were helping themselves to more than one drink. She wore the facial expression of a welfare worker rather than a hospitality worker.

Grill’d management pays for the once-a-month two hours of free hamburger, chips and drink to homeless style people.

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Beware of the Adult Safeguarding Unit. It’s another government sleeper cell designed to hunt down homeless people who “need safeguarding”. It’s also part of the N.D.I.S. and MyAgedCare organisational links.

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The man arrested at Norwood Centrelink was lured into a hypothetical conversation of violence at one of those corrupt Job Network joints. He made a rash statement so the employee phoned the police who captured him at Centrelink. The man has no history of violence, but claims he has been classified as legally dead for forty years.

What this demonstrates is the restrictions on free speech where people are afraid to say anything for fear of being accused of hate crimes, threatening or anti-social attitudes. What a weird concept: “hate speech”.

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We had big surprises in the homeless scene last week. Gawler Fred’s Van was billed as a major Christmas food event, but nothing unusual happened as two major volunteers had divorced and were demoralised.

Kilburn was billed as a non-event as The Wine Centre had pulled out from their usual pre-Christmas meal. Nasty client behaviour last year might have affected their decision.

But diners were surprised this year when they got high-quality hampers and a $50 IGA voucher.

27 December 2022

(above) Grill'd in Rundle Street gives away a free hamburger, chips and drink to every homeless culture person who goes there from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on the first Tuesday of every month. The owner pays for it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Terry Hemmings has spent the last few years helping provide the free Tuesday breakfasts for vagrants and others at St Bede's Anglican church at Semaphore. But the years are taking their toll and life is rarely easy for retired politicians. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Homeless people used the tiny roofing above the entrance as protection from recent rains. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Aboriginal Sobriety Group stays open

I would like to wish you a very happy and safe Christmas, and that I look forward to working with you in the new year of 2023!
 ASG will continue as usual with our services over the Christmas break.

Best wishes,

Tessa
Early 27 December 2022

Mark Arstall, Crusty Dave
​and the honourable A.J.
Oz Nomadic

Hello "2nd editor" Like everybody that I've ever "First Met" in my life I took Tall Arse as I found him. Within, say a few Day's or maybe a week I saw His darker side. We were together in a room, in a squat, on Halifax St. He started Ranting, Raving, and then Kicking Holes thru the Plasterboard. AROUND ME. I had only recently been released from the nRAH after multiple Heart Attacks, Open Heart Surgery. I later realised that this was His attempt to "Stand Over Me" and "Gain Dominance".

What HE DOESN'T Know is that I have Nephew's born and living on the North Island. AJ knows this, a Maori Mother, an Irish Father. My late eldest Brothers Children. I'm NO FOOL, but going beyond that, I'm WELL LIKED. So Scruffy Dave......Think, HOW WOULD YOU LIKE to be served up?...... NASTY, Worthless, Violent, Junkie C***?. Lol, you know Who and What you are.

PS. Some Good News for once. For ALL AJ's friend's He is.........Well, Happy, Healthy, Working, Coupled with a lovely sounding LADY up in the North West. He contacted Me thru Email this past week. He sends Best Wishes for Christmas and the New Year to ALL and especially to "Black Mick", "Wazza", "Jessie" and to "BROTHER WILLIAM". After 15 months it has been an absolute Relief to know that our Best Loved Brother is Well, Better than Well. God Bless ALL.

Oz Nomadic
Early 27 December 2022

Oz Nomadic at Christmas

Many many people hear "Voices"....... doesn't mean that you have to listen to then. Tomorrow is Christmas Day, filled with Good and Kind Hearted People trying to give Homeless and Hurt People a reason to smile. As regards Violent "One Trick Ponies"?......Well tomorrow's a new day, and soon a new year.

I've NEVER put up with Violence against my person or against other's, but sadly I realise in my late 50's that "Some ****s" only understand one thing. Lol, I have an "Old Scottish Mate", a "Glaswegian" a...... professional "Leg Breaker", GG, He charges $1,000 a limb!, But mate's Tate's are $500. Lol.

Merry Christmas.
Early 27 December 2022

A. J. in Broome
Oz Nomadic

Yep, Yeah, Yes, "The Brother" is hooked up and happy in Broome. AJ Stewart sends his BEST to ALL his Adelaide Sister's and Brother's. It's true, it's a Fac Jack, Brother is beyond well, Hes HAPPY. Lol, beyond contented and happy and sends only! The best wishes and love to each and all. Happy Christmas.
And by "N.W." as far as AJ went........ He's in Broome. And loving it.

Oh!, I forgot!, Tall Arse is enjoying his trifle in Cranbourne. Word is, no time in Oz, direct deportation, NZ judiciary have "Dibs" on "The ****". Lol

An indigenous/Irish cousin up north, a river pilot, told me about meeting a "strange looking brown brother" in a "beat up shorty" (slang for a small skiff) in October gone. Shane (my cousin) said the fella was half mad from dehydration and hunger. The fella was rescued and the wee boat was sunk. AJ. Good that He got found by GOOD FELLA'S.

Early 27 December 2022
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Oz Nomadic on the scene

Get your Crusty knickers on!, It's Christmas Day, no better day to Whinge, Whine, and GET FED. Lol, O I could spew. Do it without Me.
I feel sorry for ****** ***** like Dave *****. He? A Meth head, 55+ year's old lag and **** offender. Me?....... surrounded by friends, non homeless, lol. Homeless Dribble. Dribbling. I just heard that "Dave's Dead"?. Is that "Premature"?, It's very early on Christmas Morning........maybe he's DEAD later today?
Yeah, Copper's Cut You Losse Dave *****.....Last Christmas, lol, "Belfast Stylie", lol. Too BIG A GOB?......(**** sucker?).…...don't matter, lol.

Oz Nomadic
Early 27 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page

​"a bountiful period for those living outside until the big drought begins the day after"

Nature delivering a real doozy for all those boozy just after AntiChristmas Day:

High temps for those into high calories of alcohol and fiery heat of ice cold methylamphetamine.

Could be good reason do declare Code Red.

Welcome to the hellyday season... deadly.

Happy Hellydays
The Rundle Spy
Early 27 December 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

Old mate walks into anglicare soup kitchen that gets some pretty big celebrities helping every time said celebrity's brand needs rebooting. Old mate tries to sit same table every week. This week he finds table empty in a hall full of non regulars. It Christmas week.

​As soon as old mate sits down, old mate told table reserved. But there's no reserved sign, and since when did they reserve tables? Its pointed out that you dont reserve tables here and the reply was its for Ukranian refugees. Old c*** thought we would be ok with that. Old mate wasn't. Old mate said your picking favourites and doing dirty on australains australain tax payers fund you to help. The World is not fair was the old c***’* reply. The said reserved table was biggest and right next to carols and piano. It also has mote decorations and said refugees served out of sequence. They got VIP treatment.

Anyway old mate finds another table and first asks if its not reserved. Not as old c*** says its free. Old mate then point's out to not as old c*** what happened and how youre descending into nazism. Not so old c*** agrees and leaves

For the next 20 minute's old mate is reading his phone waiting on prearranged dinner company arriving and is disturbed multiple times by staff delibratley annoying him. 4 different offendors, each multiple times. The zomby apocalypse.
Satan had consumed thier souless existence. They hadn't descended into nazism, they showed they are Nazism.

Makes one wonder the conversation old c*** or not so old c*** had in an impromptu team meeting that launched the attack on old mate.

Old mate pictures' the scene in they live where tough guy puts on these sunglasses and sees the lizard people. One of the lizard people sees that he sees them and gets on his Apple watch and alerts all the other lizard people.

" We've got ine here"

Old mate was that one here and the drones went in on the attack.

​Anonymous
​Early 27 December 2022

(above) HousingSA earlier this year went to huge expense evicting the tenant from this unit at 35 Dotterel Drive, Semaphore Park then left it empty. The unit didn't require renovations. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) The face recognition cameras at the CCP Bank of China funded Port Adelaide Plaza shopping centre record under your name every move you make and how long you stay at each location. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

A nasty Christmas

The slow punch of Christmas starts in October like a fist in the solar plexus that brings tears to the eyes. Festive Christmas season ringtones, Christmas carol muzak, plastic pine trees in shops: they're the harbingers of emotional collapse. You adopt a fixed smile in early November telling the world Christmas will be fine and you won't be sad and lonely, again.

“It’s just like any other day,” Trevor tells me as we sit on a dusty footpath, cooling our backs against a concrete office block while waiting for the "homeless" food van. “Except everything’s shut,” he adds, his eyes rounding dangerously.

“It’s not right to stop essential services at Christmas,” I say, as the van pulls into the courtyard.

"Sometimes the food van doesn't turn up on Christmas day," he says as we sprint across Gawler Place to join the queue. "The church people got their own Christmas," he continues. "Last year the Salvo van didn't turn up but there are lots of special dinners to compensate."

Christmas can be terrible when you’re down and out. People retreat to trusted groups and outsiders become objects of scorn and pity. “What are you doing here?” a man asked incredulously, two years ago, from the window of his shiny 4WD outside my tent pitched on the mudflats near the submarine factory.
“Camping,” I said, as his dog scented my tent.
“On Boxing Day?” he sneered, as his dog pissed on my leg.

“Food,” shouted the short Italian Elvis last week at a charity meal when I asked if he hated Christmas. Dominick cleaned the public toilets for years until the Council bulldozed them to sweeten the view for new apartment dwellers across the street. They now look down on the Teen Challenge food van instead, and the former cleaner now on welfare.
“What about Christmas day?” I ask.
“Food,” he repeats. “Are you stupid?”

Last year the Jasmine restaurant, working with a Pentecostal church, laid out a mid-December Christmas dinner for the homeless crowd in Hindmarsh Square: linen table cloths, six waiters, first class food. I thanked the owner but somewhat embarrassingly began crying. It was a Gothic mix of splendour and savage humiliation as office commuters walked through our gathering in disbelief.

December also brings "carpet baggers": strange people unknown to regular patrons who descend on end of year slap-up dinners. One odd event involved a politician, a priest and a camera crew turning up at one Christmas Day meal, and accompanied by a security guard to stop grateful patrons from smashing the camera.

It's difficult to hide during the festive season. Holiday goers find you in the most secluded places then demand your life story and reason for being "alone at Christmas". Another jolt is the chill factor: happy diners at outdoor restaurants freeze as you walk by; security guards in public spaces pull out their phones. But the worst assault is genuine pity: a sharp knife thrust into your guts.​

A woman invited me to her house on Boxing Day when I was living in the cemetery. We knew each other through a food co-operative. “Thanks, okay,” I said, looking forward to it.
“We always invite five or six single men with nowhere to go at Christmas,” she replied. My face clenched with hate and humiliation. I'd thought she'd considered us equals.

“That’s nothing,” a man told me this morning in the Centrelink queue. "This woman next door, she invited me for Christmas dinner. Just me and her. I thought, oh, good. But her ex-husband turns up. She puts one plate on the table and says to me, ‘Can you hurry up? We’re going out in forty-five minutes.’ I almost slammed it onto the floor, but ate while they stood over me: no conversation, no nothing. Now I lock the door on the 23rd of December and don’t come out until the 3rd of January,” he says

“You shouldn’t be too negative about it,” Joshua, a former real estate agent told me last week at the WestCare Baptist fish and chips lunch. "St Luke's put on a great Christmas dinner," he continues. “I sat next to a former Lord Mayor of Adelaide last year. He said he went to St Luke's as a kid for the one-penny breakfasts."

Contrary to popular opinion 80% of the "homeless" at any one time live in accommodation, often temporary, expensive and horrible. We "homeless" are actually the poorest of the underclass but who nevertheless fulfill an economic function. The holiday season for us resembles harvest time.

One man with Greeting Engineer skills stands outside shops and offices in December, unofficially wishing customers the best of the day, and graciously accepting "financial favours". Christmas brims with generous tips for Big Issue Vendors. Even those walking endlessly from dawn to dusk, faces cast downward in depression and shame, find the ground alive with coins and cigarette lighters. Alcoholics find bottles - open and sealed - waiting for them on street curbs after midnight. And for can collectors it's 12-hour shifts. Free food services also offer bags of extras like soap, Chinese toothpaste, towels and deodorant shaped like male genitalia. They're small gestures, but for many, well, this is Christmas.

But the issue of reduced "homeless" services remains. Many church-based centres heroically maintain limited hours even on Christmas and New Year's Day. Others shut for two or three weeks as if saying to their clients: we're closing; you can go home, now. But showers, laundry, food, baggage storage, nurses and refuge from the weather are essential services for those outside. And you can imagine the outrage from the rest of the population if their basic human needs were reduced at Christmas

Second Editor
Early 25 December 2022

(above) Puddle Jumpers One Voice shower truck sitting idle at their Humphreys Terrace, Kilkenny base on a Wednesday when it should be at the Food Hub in Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

(above) Delivering used cars to the western desert Aboriginal communities during mining royalty payment week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Last City Salvo DUO gathering

They brought the Army rescue truck to that small park at the end of Pirie Street. That’s the beast with the serving window two-metres up so you need a stepladder or platform to reach it. Maybe it’s for emergency situations where diners may attempt to storm the truck.

The Army volunteers including clients brought the chairs from Adelaide Congress Hall to the park. A remnant of the old Army brass band played a few Christmas songs. The Adelaide Congress Hall officer gave a Christmas Cheer and I Love Adelaide speech full of platitudes, but with little substance. Nothing about the burning issues that affect us in the homeless scene.

The gathering was friendly as the rougher crowd have been expelled and some were at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place. One drug dealer at the Salvo picnic offered a user anything he wanted, but first wanted to see the contents of his wallet.

About two hundred people were there in a friendly gathering. A strange fellow played guitar without ego or expectations. He was accompanied by the Colostomy Activist on piano accordion. Some girls and the officer’s officer wife also sang Christmas songs. There wasn’t any Muzak, which was refreshing.

The officer’s officer wife told us about the closest public toilets, but didn’t mention those in Adelaide Congress Hall that were the closest and safest. They hadn’t the staff to guard the open building.

Big Ron was there, one of us forgotten old men from yesteryear. The Ghost Who Walks arrived late, The Man from Peterborough was there with his electric bike, an invalid once in competition with the police to sell the cheapest cannabis was there, Terri from the streets is now a leading volunteer and motivator and was there as a worker, and Yelena with her Indian boyfriend, and the Croatian genealogist who bought some blue dye to recolour his can collecting bag. Those who weren’t there were the hard core homeless crowd who fear large gatherings. They were at Fred’s Van or in hiding from the joys of Christmas.

Drinks included sugary soft drinks and water from an ice chest. The food was chicken, another meat, potato salad, fresh green salad, tomatoes and raw onions, very nice chips, sauce, bread, canned fruit, coffee, cake, large bags of soft candies, chocolate and other stuff.

Old Bob, the brother of the Equity Queen, sat and did nothing. He said the clients had turned DUO into a family and had taken over its operation. His role was to make sure it stayed on course. Well, yes, but if you weren’t part of the family it was a lonely experience.​

The first people arrived at 3:50pm including a large contingent from Fred’s Van from Kilburn. The last left at 9:30pm despite the event scheduled from 5pm to 8pm. The officer and his officer wife returned at 9:00pm to ensure all the garbage had been picked up. It had.

Salvation Army Pirie Street, Adelaide. Their DUO leaflet says the Wednesday meals are finished until the 1st of February 2023. And that they offer take away meals from January 18th to the 23rd. Whether their food parcel office operated by paid employees is open during the holidays is anyone’s guess. It is nearly impossible to make contact with them by phone.

Early 24 December 2022

(above) Homeless camper at an Adelaide beach suburb. Yet 10% of housing in Adelaide is empty and the South Australian government shows little interest in filling it for fear of offending their kickback pals. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Trinity Church Christmas Day

​A Uniting church volunteer worker at the Jasmine Restaurant free meal said the historic Trinity Church is offering a free Christmas lunch. The church is on North Terrace where the Morphett Street overpass crosses overhead.

Trinity might be South Australia's oldest church and the written records show it is where Colonel Light was married. It's also behind the hotel where those homeless people camp on the footpath in Hindley Street. 

Early 23 December 2022
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Jenny on the rampage at The Ark

​It’s difficult to say what really happened at The Ark end of year Christmas meal. One fact is that the church volunteers removed the tray of roast chicken to feed to their dogs.

They didn’t do this voluntarily, but a number of people saw Cambodian Jenny help herself to a plate of chicken then cough into the tray. One person said she deliberately spat into it. That’s why the rest of the chicken went for the dogs. And no one was happy about that. The volunteers retreated to the kitchen and stood about in silence.

She then searched for salt and pepper as there weren’t enough shakers for every table. Diners at two tables refused her so she went to another and managed to smash a cup of coffee on that table. It was one of those French smoked glass mugs designed to drop onto concrete without breaking. But some have structural flaws where they’ll explode without warning.

But this one didn’t explode, it simply cracked into a few pieces as Jenny brushed her hand over it. Talk about being Jinxed.

The coffee spilt over a man’s phone. He wasn’t happy about that. But Cambodian Jenny’s initial dismay was quickly erased from her mind as she retreated with the salt and pepper.

Red Geronimo was there. He’s gained weight since been taken away by the psychiatric enforcers. The children present had a good time.

Natalie read an inspirational Biblical message, but I can’t remember a word she said due to others talking over her.

But it was Cambodian Jenny who left the deepest impression.

And the food was good. It’s always good with vegetarian options and no added MSG. And the church people largely trust us. And the church is pleasantly built.

Lutheran Ark Salisbury
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark), Cnr Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury.
Ph 8281 2976. Free indoor dining 5:00pm sharp one Saturday each month. No I.D. required. Civilised diners and staff. Best to arrive at 4:30pm. Interesting guests including Red Geronimo, Sharon, Mick and Denise and others. Intelligent church volunteers. Decent food. There isn’t anyone there who you could say is totally insane though that old man who blows the whistle is borderline.

Early 23 December 2022
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Gospel City quiet at Gawler

​Where was everyone? Even that homeless man who sleeps in the lane-way wasn’t there. Some were visiting relatives, but what about the Fred’s Van crowd from down the road in Pioneer Park.

Christmas is a time of despair for homeless people. Where do they go while the restaurants and parks are crammed with affinity groups? The cemetery is an option. Abandoned buildings is another. And under bridges with limited pedestrian access. Or the swamps around rivers and the ocean front back of Misery Bay.

Anyway, we did well. Church members handed each person a leg of Australian ham. None of that imported Canadian meat with the bone removed. You need the bone for the dog or the soup.

The meal included meat and salads at the back of the church rented from the Anglicans.

They’ve finished their missionary free meals until Tuesday the 10th of January 2023. Yes, they consider themselves missionaries helping the deprived and lost. And maybe they are right.

Gospel City Church Gawler
24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167. Free light meal and coffee every Tuesday at 12:00pm with free bread, vegetables and small amount of groceries at 1:00pm. Friendly atmosphere. No I.D. or registration required. Not government funded. Historic church building.

Early 23 December 2022
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(above) Port Adelaide Aboriginal campers displaced from land across the railway tracks allocated for an Aboriginal Interpretive Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Dante’s Inferno at Port Adelaide

C.H.A.T.S. last breakfast at Port Adelaide. It was bad. High quality meats and the best quiche I’ve ever tasted. Ugh. No vegetables and white bread with Vegemite.

And too many diners. Where did they come from? The staff set up extra tables in place of the free vegetables and clothing, but it was still too crowded. One little boy pulled a hood over his head and buried his face in his hands until another diner gave him a bag of four marbles and he recovered.

We had to clap for the benefactors that included the Port Adelaide Engagement group, a bunch of government bureaucrats who wanted to make a difference. One man booed him ungraciously thinking they were part of the Port Adelaide Council Engagement team who hound homeless people from public carparks and anywhere else.

Jack Kelso was there. He appeared unhappy as he always appears, but represents Rotary who provide free stuff for C.H.A.T.S. and St Bede’s. Never judge a book by its cover, not that many of us read books anymore. Especially those illiterate diners who never learned to read and write.

The white fella bus driver who speaks Japanese arrived late then engaged a volunteer in a convoluted conversation about why he complained about the lack of spinach at a breakfast three weeks ago. He added that his jaw hasn’t healed after being broken by his son in a boxing training fight.

Rose Darling isn’t what she used to be. Gone are the days when she could yell her head off for a whole hour. She’s passed the crown to the bald cook who shouted like a madman, but for him it was too late. By the time he began calling out the raffle ticket numbers, nearly everyone had gone knowing that the last prizes aren’t any good. I thought he was going to bust a blood vessel the way he shouted.

And then it was over. How does one say thank you to those who worked the year providing us vagrants and escapees with a pleasant social and breakfast occasion once a week? And they do it with respect and concern.

C.H.A.T.S. has finished, but will return on Friday the 3rd of February 2022.

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

22 December 2022

Disappointing Pilgrim free brunch

It wasn’t any good. Where was the fish and chips of yesteryear. Instead they served sugary tidbits not suitable for those with diabetes. These joints shouldn’t poison their clients with junk food.

And meat and egg pies, real little things, and instant coffee. There were about ten church volunteers including a dodgy looking, but genial preacher with squinty eyes. Client numbers were about ten, also, with only three hanging around to the bitter end.

One interesting diner was an old Australian white woman who ran a cafe in Morocco.

I laughed as if I’d gone insane after spending two days practising yoga pranyama breathing from a book. The author said an experienced teacher should guide the student and that anyone ignoring his advice does it at their own peril.

Why so few clients attended was anyone’s guess. Even the man who sleeps on a dirty mattress outside the church didn’t bother coming in. Maybe someone sent messages along the grapevine saying they weren’t having fish and chips.

But it was kind of them to prepare a pleasant two-hour session for us.

And they're both hosting and helping Adelaide Angels who are providing a Christmas evening meal and celebration from 4:30pm to 6:30pm on Sunday 25 December. Everyone welcome and they don't collect personal details for the Eternal Shame File. 

Pilgrim Church Lounge City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (back of church). Near King William St and Victoria Sq.) Ph (08) 8212 3295. 10:00am - 12:00 noon. Mon, Wed, Thurs. Free coffee and biscuits. No I.D. or registration needed. A pleasant mix of conservative, homeless and feral clients and staff.

22 December 2022

(above) The colostomy bag activist is sticking clean bags on bus stops and power poles around the Adelaide CBD. He hasn't explained his reasoning behind this campaign. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Fred’s Van good news

Fred’s Van in the city was scheduled to not operate on Christmas evening, but that decision has been reversed and it will operate straight through the holiday season.

This is good news for those outsiders fearful of attending the indoor crowded events in the city on Christmas Day.

The Communists are also holding an outdoor free lunch at Whitmore Square on Christmas Day.

See the free food guide for address details.

Early 21 December 2022​

Good news on showers at Gawler

Plandemic restrictions on shower use at the Gawler Visitors’ Centre have been lifted. The showers are open seven days a week from sunrise to sunset except Christmas Day. ​

They are located next to the Visitors’ Centre at Pioneer Park on Lyndoch Road not far from Coles supermarket. Each shower is a separate room with a toilet and hand basin.

See the free shower guide near the top of this page for more details. And remember that the showers only produce water if you press an electronic keypad inside the shower room.

Early 21 December 2022

St Bede’s Semaphore end of year Christmas gathering

I’ve been to happier funerals. The guest list were the usual suspects. The entertainment was something you’d find in an obscure late night movie watched by insomniacs.

The food was chips and chicken brought in from a takeaway joint. The chips were excellent, but the usual tomato sauce was missing. How did they miss such an obvious detail?

At least the soft drinks were really cold. And they later served coffee. Two employees from Copenhagen coffee shop were special guests. They bring us barista coffee every Tuesday morning, no charge. They said we could visit them on any Tuesday morning at their shop for a free coffee. That is while St Bede’s is closed.

Jack Kelso was there as usual. He’s from Rotary who provide free stuff without fail during the year. And the manager of San Remo turned up. They give us dozens of boxes of two-minute noodles. And a major funder of the free breakfast was that grumpy free hairdresser who administers her brother’s estate, the late Steve Davids, who was the previous free hairdresser. She allocates the money on the sly and doesn’t seek acclaim or favour.

This funeral-style Christmas party was a real learning session.

The entertainment was in the form of Thin Lizzy and a professional music teacher named, “Dave”. Dave performed sections of Elton John’s work then Thin Lizzy sang three acapella songs. Some sort of South African black fella music. Some diners carried on a loud conversation in the background as Dave glared at them.

But Thin Lizzy had become a colourful character emerging from a dull black and white movie. It takes courage to stand on a stage and sing unaccompanied. Then Dave added a few piano notes to counter loud conversation from a back table. From that point, Thin Lizzy was the Queen.

Old Anna also joined the singing with Elise and her mother-in-law. Anna is a professional singer who performs at weddings, and maybe funerals.

Then Old Malcolm talked about his approaching death and how he’d liked taking care of children at school and how he was grateful to the people who provided their time free at St Bede’s. The homeless man next to me groaned and complained and turned away and bent over and wanted Malcolm to shut up. He couldn’t take Malcolm’s tearful speech. 

Our final meal of the year was ninety minutes of jeering, pathos, sadness and beauty. This was the best St Bede’s end of year gathering party I’d been to.

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

Early 21 December 2022

(above) They record names and phone numbers on a paper file then say the data is sent to the government without personal details. Quite a nice joint. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Oz Nomadic from the street

“Hello Again!, Been giving some thought to my rants last night about a certain Meth Head at Fred's and I would ask that the AHJ don't bother posting such.

“Personally I'm over attending Fred's, maybe there's lots of bad Meth around but the level of Paranoia among the Meth user's has risen noticeably recently, the fool in question believes that Police Intelligence are targeting Him, eg sending vocal messages "To His Brain" and using My Voice.

“On a not so totally different subject, I have been informed that "Tall Arse", eg Mark Arstall has been arrested in Melbourne, Frankston to be precise where He fled to once Police charges were laid against Him here in SA. Hopefully this sentence exceeds 12 month's and a day.......then He automatically up for deportation......AJ once told me that He is also wanted in NZ, assault on a family member I believe, His sister. So He has active warrants there. Couldn't happen to a "Nicer Guy".

Anyhows, have a great Christmas and all the best regards for the New Year. Irish.

“PS2. Arstall I believe was charged with 1/Assault, 2/Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) and 3/Threathening Life. He had been working as a forklift driver at a distribution centre, I was told Cole's. “

Oz Nomadic

Second Editor: I was agonising over your posts from yesterday. Good stuff, but a little dangerous especially if someone acted on your advice.
Thank you for your fascinating posts throughout the year. They’re always refreshing to read.

Early 20 December 2022

Re: photographers at soup kitchens

Via the anonymous contact page

“Woz at one last week, at front of waiting line for Market. We read this sign that says photographs may be taken, please turn away if you don't want to be photographed.

“So this fat guy I'm with who don't want to be photographed, asks volunteer, what if we don't see photographer? It said keep a look out. Soz i say we need to know when they're taking photos to be able to turn away.

“At that point volunteer steps forward in between us telling us if we don't like it ,leave. I step back and say please stay out of my personal space. It replied I don't care I've had Covid, while leaning forward waving a big hand in my face..

“Now you don't have to be very smart to realise that just about every attack on a worker or volunteer is retaliatory or self defence. The best thing thr Animals who run soup kitchens can do, for their own safety is behave like an adult, become human.”

The Bing

Second Editor: Yes, some of that crowd running the joint demand absolute subservience. Nothing spiritual about that, simply animal dominance.

Early 20 December 2022

Port Church Grand Final

One diner said the potato salad dressing was homemade with natural ingredients and not bought from a store. The Port Church Baptists served pork and a fresh salad. Cambodian Jenny asked for tomato sauce.

Jenny also won the first quiz by entering late after other contestants had been disqualified with wrong answers. But that quiz offered no prize.

The final quiz winner got a leg of ham plus a hamper of groceries. She was the old girl who quit drinking last year as her liver couldn’t tolerate any more plonk. Jenny went berserk so the preacher gave her a Christmas pudding and two bags of sweet garbage.

The children also received presents and one girl was disappointed getting a doll when she already had dozens of others, but she didn’t go berserk like adult Jenny.

One man was extremely unhappy as his adult son had been killed in a car crash the previous week. His voice shook with grief.

That was too big a tragedy to handle publicly and too personal so the preacher talked about a lesser disaster. A somewhat ungrateful diner the previous evening had knocked off a volunteer’s phone and bankcard then spent the night trying to withdraw money. The volunteer lost $300. The preacher also said the volunteer had suffered further disasters in the form of a $4000 car repair bill, her dog dying and her grandson getting gastro.

We put money into the anonymous donation box for her. The purpose wasn’t stated, but it was presumably to buy a new phone and a packet of Gastro Stop Plus.

The professional musician sang North American Christmas songs then he stopped and the preacher said if we wanted to hear more we’d have to visit the Commercial Hotel on Sunday.

We cheered the volunteers including Juanita whose face went pink when she was singled out for applause. People who appear invincible are as self-doubting as anyone else.

The other preacher named Mathew gave an inspiring talk during the meal, but I can’t remember a word he said as my head was screwy after doing consciousness raising Pranyama breathing exercises while sleeping in my car. The book of instructions said don’t do them without expert supervision. ​

Port Church is closed for free meals until early February 2023.

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

Early 20 December 2022

Indaily pushing more propaganda for Anglicare (Believe Housing)

Self-promoting talk with selective statistics masking the truth of higher rents and increased privacy invasions of tenants along with higher salaries for the grifting employees.

https://indaily.com.au/opinion/2022/12/19/unlocking-a-housing-crisis-solution/

Early 20 December 2022
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Reflections from Oz Nomadic

“It's ALMOST Christmas. And I cannot help but remember friends I've lost, who have passed, on THESE STREET'S. As I text I'm in the nRAH, they say it's SERIOUS!…”

​Early 20 December 2022

(above) Homeless man sleeping in park near Fred's Van Kilburn. (Adelaide Homeless Journal December 2022).

​Christmas Day meals

A.D.R.A. offers a free breakfast from 9:30am to 11:00am at 240 Peachey Road, Davoren Park on Christmas Day. Best to confirm before the day.

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The Church of Christ at 379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol offers a Christmas Day lunch at about 11:30am. Best to confirm before the day.

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St Luke’s Church at Whitmore Square won’t be offering a free lunch again this year. Their chief fundraiser, Bernie Scanlon, was killed while riding a bicycle near Frankenstein’s house at Red Hill earlier this year. And their priest resigned and another hasn’t been appointed.

But they will offer a present and a bottle of water to anyone who turns up at 11:30am then will redirect them to Baptist WestCare for their lunch.

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The new preacher at Baptist WestCare at Miller’s Court, Adelaide offers a Christmas Day lunch to anyone who turns up. He told the St Luke’s manager to send everyone to WestCare. Does he know what he’s getting into? St Luke’s used to get 400 diners on Christmas Day. Best to arrive by 11:30am or soon after.

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Hutt Street Centre offers a free breakfast, but only to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, that is, clients. But they might let everyone in on Christmas Day, it isn’t clear. Each employee has a different version of their policy.

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Adelaide Angels offer a free evening meal on Christmas Day from 4:30pm to 6:30pm at the Pilgrim Church at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide. Everyone is welcome.

This event is crucial as Fred’s Van in Gawler Place won’t be operating on Christmas Day.

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Cos We Care will be at the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace on Christmas morning from 7:30am to 9:00am with their usual giveaway food service plus something extra. They never stop for holidays.

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Unley Salvation Army Corps has a Christmas Day lunch, but they might be booked out.

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The Beacon of Hope Church of Christ at Ashfield Road, Elizabeth has a free Christmas lunch. Phone for details.

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Gateway Baptist Church at 6 Jervois Street, Albert Park offer a free breakfast at 8:00am on Christmas Day with a service at 9:00am. Ph (08)71236494.

Early 19 December 2022

Christmas homeless service closures

Final List

See the free food guide for some addresses and phone numbers or you might have to find them via google.

This tiny list of end-of-year shut-down gatherings is representative where only regular clients are welcome. There are exceptions and you might argue your case with possible success. See the Free Food Guide for addresses and more details. There are also another 100 free places yet to be discovered.

Hutt Street Centre staying open every day during holidays except public holidays. Open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 8:30am for breakfast; 11:30am to 12:30pm for lunch. Showers and many others services as usual. Weekends 7:00am to 9:00am with takeaway lunch.

WestCare at Miller’s Court near Whitmore Square open as usual except for the three public holidays. This includes store and interview food vouchers.
Open Christmas Day for free lunch.

Lutheran Care, 311 Prospect Road, Blair Athol open Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm as usual except public holidays. Phone (08) 8269 9300.

Salvation Army. It is unclear of their opening hours as they no longer answer their phones including the new statewide call centre. City Salvos is reported as running their Wednesday evening meals right through the holiday period. Playford Elizabeth have stopped answering their phones.

Care Works (Church of Christ). Closing from the 22nd of December to 30th of January 2023.

St Vincent de Paul. It true Catholic style the person who answer their call centre phone got cranky when I asked about their opening hours. The call centre number of 1300 729 202 should be staffed through the holiday period except for public holidays. But getting stuff depends on the opening hours of the local offices. St Vinnies is arguably the best outfit in Adelaide for dependability and range of services.

Magdalene Centre on Gilbert Street Adelaide along with their Noarlunga office will be open throughout the holiday period except for public holidays.

Hot meal and free food services

Gospel City Church last free lunch and groceries at Gawler on Tuesday 12:00 to 1:30pm on 20th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens 10th of January 2023.

Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) Every second Wednesday at Port Adelaide 3:00pm to 5:00pm, but finished for year. Reopens (hopefully) on 8th of February 2023. “Isolated” persons welcome.

Lutheran Good Shepherd Meet and Bite at Para Vista on Mondays at 5:30pm last gathering special time of 6:30 to 8:30pm 12th of December 2022. Invitation only. Phone office to see if you can attend, but the joint is already booked out. Reopens 16th January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg last Tuesday 6pm meal is on 6th of December 2022. Last coffee and cake lunch and free groceries 11:30 to 2:30pm is on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Tuesday the 17th of January 2023.

Last Global Care (GC3) at Parafield Gardens on Saturday 10th of December 6:30pm. All welcome. Reopens Saturday 11th of February 2023.

C.H.A.T.S. free Friday breakfasts at Port Adelaide 9:00am to 10:30am on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Friday the 3rd of February 2022.

Lutheran Ark at Salisbury last monthly free meal on Saturday the 17th of December for invited guests. Invitations might be obtained from the church office or might not be. Reopens Saturday the 28th of January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

Salvation Army Pirie Street, Adelaide has its free Christmas meal in Rymil Park at 5:30pm Wednesday 21 December 2022. All welcome. It is believed they are continuing their free Wednesday meals straight through the holidays. Phone their office for confirmations.

St Bede’s Anglican Church Semaphore last free Tuesday breakfast is the 6th of December 2022. Their Christmas lunch is on the 13th of December and open only to those getting an invitation and generally regular diners. Reopening date is not known, but is expected to be early for mid-January when everyone is welcome.

Port Baptist Church, Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. Last 5pm free meals for 2022 are Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of December. Wednesday is booked out so they’ve decided to have a Tuesday gathering as well. Their reopening date is yet to be confirmed.

ONE Life at Parafield Gardens last free food event Wednesday 1:00pm on the 20th of December. Reopens 11th January 2023.

Cos We Care is maintaining their Saturday free food service in Elizabeth and the Sunday service in the city throughout the holiday period.

Our Street Family Matters is reportedly operating throughout the holiday period.

Taperoo Stadium (Lefevre Market) has finished for the year and reopens 1st of February 2023.

See the free food guide for most addresses.


Fred’s Vans Christmas schedule

City Sat & Sunday 6pm Mon to Thur – 7pm Gawler Place, Adelaide (between Flinders and Wakefield Street).
No service Christmas day

Christie Downs Wednesday & Sunday – 7pm Wardli Youth Centre, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs.
Last service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Elizabeth Sunday – 12pm Wednesday – 6pm Vinnies Elizabeth, Langford Drive, Elizabeth.
Last service Wednesday 21st December.
Re-opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Salisbury Sunday – 6pm. Twelve 25 Youth Centre 17 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury
Last service Sunday 18th December • Re- opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Gawler Thursday – 6pm Pioneer Park, Lyndoch Road, Gawler (next to the Visitor Centre)
Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thurs 12th January 2023

Kilburn Thursday – 7pm Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Ave, Kilburn
Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thursday 12th January 2023 Semaphore Sunday – 6pm

St Bede’s Church 200 Military Road, Semaphore
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Aldinga Community Centre, Stewart Avenue, Aldinga
Last service Friday 23rd December • Re-opens Friday 27th January 2023

Port Lincoln Sunday St. Marys of the Angel Church, Mortlock Terrace, Port Lincoln
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Port Pirie Sunday Vinnies Centre, Gertrude St, Port Pirie
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 22nd January 2023

Early 19 December 2022

(above) A homeless person lived in this car for two months where the causeway crosses the Port River. Another camper said he/she was never seen leaving the vehicle except during the dark hours. Then he/she disappeared and the car was torched.

(above) The anti-homeless Port Adelaide Enfield Council, led by Mayor Claire Boan, responded by leaving a parking fine notice. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

Too much camera work at Pittman Park

Despite claiming they don’t take photographs of charity clients, Victory (now Revival City) church brought a photographer to Pittman Park at Salisbury to capture images of each person receiving one of their horrible hampers.

​This included a man and woman and their two children. To be fair, they didn’t take photos of those objecting, but then most people don’t feel they have a moral right to object.

The hampers included a card naming the food corporations that donated items in the hampers. There wasn’t any coffee and the contents were cheap and horrible junk food. My mood might have been jaded from going through the recovery period after a second bout of Covid. I left the contents on the recycling cabinet at St Bede’s Church in Semaphore.

They also served sausages, onions and bread at the regular free BBQ so that was nice. One client I’ve known for twenty years told me he’d finished his second doctorate. That’s the level of quality we find at free food venues and Victory Church bringing us together is a positive action.

Victory church provides the free BBQ every Friday in Pittman Park on Commercial Road in Salisbury at 12 noon. And they don’t collect personal details for the Eternal Shame File.

Early 18 December 2022

Slim pickings at Lefevre Market (Taperoo Stadium)

It was slim pickings at Taperoo Stadium free food last Wednesday. It was also their last day of the year until they reopen on the 1st of February 2023.
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It’s also too late to register for hampers, but if they have any left over on the distribution day of 21st of December, then those hanging around might get one.

That they had over sixty clients last Wednesday had some effect on the reduced offerings. The mood was excellent with some clients arriving to stand in line 90-minutes before the doors opened. They were either anxious, desperate or liked the social occasion.

Taperoo Stadium free food
541 Victoria Road, Osborne. In the modern building next to the Stadium. Free quality groceries, bread, vegetables, frozen food, fruit, hot food every Wednesday from 12:00noon to about 12:45pm. Best to arrive early. Clean building. Stern, but friendly staff. Clients are mostly old people. No I.D. or registration required. They did require residency in the Port Adelaide Enfield Council area, but don’t ask questions.

Early 18 December 2022

(above) Why is the RAA using members money to lure homeless people onto the Eternal Shame File? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2022).

There’s a fraction too much friction 

The final morning tea at Lifepoint (Revival City) Church was a disaster.

Two men sat at the double table usually occupied by ten elderly women prone to attending amateur theatre performances. And they did throw up a tantrum worthy of a theatre performance. One old girl shouted, “My seat, my seat, my seat.”

But they were dealing with an ex-Crony Gang member who told them all to “f*** off”. One theatre old girl told him he didn’t need to be so rude. He said he could have called them “c****” and told them again to “f*** off”.

But the old girls eventually pressured him to move and he made an early exit from the table and then the church. But that didn’t stop church members from giving us the evil eye.

Nor were they happy when another ex-Crony gang member climbed the stairs towards the media room. He claimed he needed height to wave at his adoring fans, but not a single diner noticed him waving. They were engrossed in their own little lives. But he did note the church people were quick to turn angry. No adoration there.

Despite it being hamper day, the mood didn’t improve. In fact, it turned nastier when the woman missing her thyroid gland demanded twelve hampers for friends including one at work. She wouldn’t relent, not understanding her behaviour was gross and embarrassing to all. Two church volunteers were so offended they retreated to another room to consult or pray or both. What sort of monsters had they let into the hall of Christ? But in defence of the thyroid lady, it is extremely difficult to remain normal when dependent on pills to manage the hormonal levels previously done naturally. She is wonderful in her own way.

The hampers contained unhealthy food, but this is what most people eat nowadays, anyway. They included a jar of coffee, sugar and milk that I found useful. I gave the rest to clients of Fred’s Van Kilburn later that evening so nothing was wasted.

And perhaps the heart grows fonder with periods of absence.

Lifepoint (Revival City) church at Modbury will resume their Thursday morning teas in early February 2023.

16 December 2022

(above) The Adelaide CBD parklands are used for many purposes from small sports clubs to international events, but it's the homeless and the most vulnerable who are targeted by the Adelaide City Council. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

Sonder agent posing as housing agent

​Diana or Deanna, whatever, from Towards Home approached a man in his fifties about getting housing. This was at a church free lunch in Glenelg. He quickly sensed danger and backtracked on his talk of homelessness so she sensed no money and made an excuse of leaving. She exposed herself by saying she had to report back to her Sonder program manager.

Sonder is a private psychiatric contractor for the government and makes money by dragging homeless people into the pharmaceutical nightmare. What is a Sonder agent doing pretending to be helping people find housing? The man though uneducated knew well that Towards Home don’t provide housing, but want to “get you on their books so they get paid for it.”

A refugee from the Murray basins floods sitting at our table said we shouldn’t tell the government anything, especially doctors, as they report to the government and that brings repercussions.

Diana or Deanna, whatever, came in with this fat slob who played the role of nasty woman to Deanna’s nice woman. But Deanna has lost her glow as she knows we know what she’s up to. She probably didn’t realise what she was doing to us. But now she does. I feel sorry for her and wish her best of luck in a new job.

Early 15 December 2022

Lots of noise at Good Shepherd

​Extra tables were put out to cater for the larger than average crowd at the last Lutheran Good Shepherd church free meal of the year. Children were given presents by both the church and private people. One old women began crying.

There was bad feeling between some women after a dispute over a raffle hamper at the ONE Life Christmas carols at Derby Park north of Adelaide. But it was resolved as the evening progressed. Sort of.
The children were given colouring-in books in which using a single neutral colour pen created multiple colours in the books. An old man brought balloons that were bounced around for an hour. This annoyed some grumpy old people who are disturbed by sound. But they didn’t ask anyone to stop.

The meal was simple, but fabulous. The old cook named Peter is a professional and is descended from a kindly family.

Chris Jaensch and his band sang popular sangs then moved towards Christmas songs. Three children joined him as Julie urged her son aged 18 to join them. “I’m not a child,” he said, but when a man named Case dressed up in a Santa costume and gave out presents, Julie’s son tried reverting to childhood. He can do a rubric's cube in one minute and ten seconds.

There was no nastiness from drug addicts who have stopped going to Good Shepherd. But those addicts that still go there are brilliantly self-controlled. Better than a lot of normal people.

The Good Shepherd free Monday meals are stopped, but will restart in early February.

Early 15 December 2022

Christmas Day free meals

A.D.R.A. offers a free breakfast from 9:30am to 11:00am at 240 Peachey Road, Davoren Park on Christmas Day. Best to confirm before the day.

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The Church of Christ at 379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol offers a Christmas Day lunch at about 11:30am. Best to confirm before the day.

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St Luke’s Church at Whitmore Square won’t be offering a free lunch again this year. Their chief fundraiser, Bernie Scanlon, was killed while riding a bicycle near Frankenstein’s house at Red Hill earlier this year. And their priest resigned and another hasn’t been appointed.


But they will offer a present and a bottle of water to anyone who turns up at 11:30am then will redirect them to Baptist WestCare for their lunch.

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The new preacher at Baptist WestCare at Miller’s Court, Adelaide offers a Christmas Day lunch to anyone who turns up. He told the St Luke’s manager to send everyone to WestCare. Does he know what he’s getting into? St Luke’s used to get 400 diners on Christmas Day. Best to arrive by 11:30am or soon after.

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Hutt Street Centre offers a free breakfast, but only to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, that is, clients. But they might let everyone in on Christmas Day, it isn’t clear. Each employee has a different version of their policy.

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Pilgrim Church aren’t sure what they’re doing, but word on the street is that they’ll have some sort of Christmas evening meal as it is a Sunday when they host it anyway.

We hope so as Fred’s Van in Gawler Place won’t be operating on Christmas Day.

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Cos We Care will be at the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace on Christmas morning from 7:30am to 9:00am with their usual giveaway food service plus something extra. They never stop for holidays.

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Unley Salvation Army Corps has a Christmas Day lunch, but they might be booked out.

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The Beacon of Hope Church of Christ at Ashfield Road, Elizabeth has a free Christmas lunch. Phone for details.

Early 13 December 2022

(above) The Adelaide City Council still displays outdated 'no camping' signs in the CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

Pilgrim Church free brunch on Thursday

The Pilgrim Church offers a free meal in their coffee lounge at the back of 10 Flinders Street, Adelaide this Thursday 15 December from 10:00am to 11:30. Strange time, but it is in line with their usual opening time on Thursdays.

Early 12 December 2022
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Faulty BBQ at Clink Cafe

​One cook blamed the wind for the new BBQ not firing up properly. It was donated after thieves stole the two old BBQ’s. But there was little wind coming across the Gulf of St Vincent so that couldn’t be the whole problem.

There was new carpet in the meeting room back of the church. They’d spent a fortune laying it perhaps using money saved by the new preacher getting a lower salary. I dropped some half-cooked onion on the new carpet, but Shar said she was waiting for someone to “christen it”. No blame attached though I was hoping someone else would drop a plate of sausages onto it instead of me.

The food include sausages, the aforementioned half-cooked onions, bread and margarine and large pieces of fresh chopped fruit purchased from stores and not that stale rubbish from Oz Harvest. The Clink Cafe also served expensive ice cream, biscuits and an excellent chocolate cake baked by the preacher lady plus coffee, tea, water and some other stuff.

There was an imbalance of the sexes as women outnumbered men five to one. And those women didn’t seem like real prisoners all bitter and smacking each other. But the Clink has its own select group that shares something in common. This is different from the former iteration called The Friendship Cafe where the volunteers were usually angry with each other. The Clink Cafe is different and certainly a worth addition to Semaphore.

Clink Cafe at Semaphore
146 Semaphore Rd, Exeter. Thursdays from 11:30am to about 1:00pm. All welcome. Operated by some excellent ex-prisoners. Gold coin donation, but we’ll have to train them off this practice. Free, anyway, if you’re broke. It replaces the Friendship Café that went bust after non-prisoner staff began fighting each other.

Early 12 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page

Ho Ho Ho
Merry Krishnas
Ho Ho Ho
Merry Krishnas

from Karma Clause

Early 12 December 2022

(above) To avoid the authorities, homeless people no longer set up camps. They move around like fugitives. This blanket was left near where the body of Emma Hines was found a few years ago. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

On the Street

Hope Chapel at 8 Cowan Street, Gawler stages their free Christmas event on Sunday the 18th of December. Phone 0430 085 748. Registration is online and single people are not welcome at their 5:00pm session unless accompanied by children, but can go to their 7pm session. Though single people can go the 5pm session if accompanied by other adults with children.

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The new Salvation Army hotline is useless. A recorded message asks for your postcode then says all bookings are full and phone back some other time. The hotline is a call centre where employees evaluate whether those asking for free food parcels should get them. Recipients then visit local Army offices to pick up the vouchers and parcels while most of the local evaluators have either been sacked or transferred to others jobs.

Exceptions are City Salvos and Playford Salvation Army who operate their own evaluation service, but they don’t answer their phones either. You get a recorded message and they rarely phone back.

How does such behaviour still garner government funding? The answer is easy: just look at the N.D.I.S. and MyAgedCare. They’re so corrupt and inefficient that they make the Army appear squeaky clean and efficient.

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Mick of Mick and Denise says he keeps getting “false positives” from Covid tests. He does the tests every time he gets the flu.

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Former Crony Gang member, Train Wreck, falls down unconscious once a day. A doctor put him on blood pressure reduction pills and now it is too low.

He went to the Flinder’s Medical Centre as an inpatient, but during lunch a nurse grabbed his food tray and told him to get out.

He’s also restricted to the ground floor of the Adelaide Casino.

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Two other members of the Crony Gang have been arrested. One was at WestCare last week and the other at the Norwood Centrelink office. The Crony Gang are old men who don’t use drugs or get involved in crime so this is extremely unusual.

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Homeless Dave asked us at Fred’s Van in the city if we’d noticed whether he’d had an oestrogen injection. “No,” I said.
“Correct,” he replied. Homeless Dave likes to use that word.

He’s now got an even larger stash of blankets in his shopping trolley. He sleeps outside the Hutt Street Centre.

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Security guards forced an old man in a Toyota Coaster bus to move away from the entry gate of the submarine maintenance building at Outer Harbour. An employee said he’d tied tarps to the fence of the electrical substation and was too close for comfort. He didn’t explain further.

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Why has Natalia “Call me Nat” Cook, the Minister for Human Services in the South Australian government, stopped being critical of Housing Trust homes kept empty for long periods.

The answer might be that she’s the replacement for former Minister, Michelle Lensink.

“Call me Nat” says that the 5% empty rate for Housing Trust units is good compared to the 10% rate of private housing. But the previous benchmark for average vacancies was 3% both for private and public housing. It was only with the purchase and building of investment properties by Chinese investors that boosted up the private vacancy rate to 10%. They leave them empty.

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What sort of people work at Council jobs where their main duty is threatening homeless people camping on public reserves? What sort of psychology do they have to be able to sleep at night?

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A free lunch diner praised another’s sister for doing a superb job of bringing up her children. She supports them in their chosen professions including a daughter who opened a discount brothel in the family garage.

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A vaccinated man got Covid for the second time last week. He phoned a government hotline, but the operator wouldn’t state the current isolation rules unless he provided his name and other personal details. He wouldn’t and she disconnected the call.

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The free food joint woman who holds a piece of broken glass in her hand during conversations says she’s suing another woman for claiming to have cancer when she did not. The glass woman said this was a form of harassment.

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Lois Boswell and Don Frater rent the old Rectory house at St Luke’s Church at Whitmore Square. It’s their office for Sparke hotel, which has become a brewery. But Sparke continues with home food delivery.

That’s why “No Camping” signs were posted on the doors and windows of the Rectory house.

St Luke’s Anglican Church is in a dire situation with few believers and no priest. Meanwhile, Revival City, Life Adelaide and Influencers are rolling in cash from dedicated believers, but for their size they have small welfare programs.

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A Faith Works client said Bruce Kurtzer is the nastiest person he’s ever met while another person said he’s an angel.

11 December 2022

(above) A solid walkway at Hindmarsh along the Torrens River would make an excellent hideaway for homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

Tampons in the men’s toilets

​Fred’s Van didn’t instigate it. The Salisbury Council Twelve/25 did this. Some people actually think this is good, putting tampons in men’s toilet rooms. Something to do with non-discrimination and inclusiveness. However, the disability toilet was out-of-action. To hell with them.

The Council’s Twelve/25 community centre also advise visitors to see heterosexual and pan sexual as equal humans. Pan Sexual means sex with anything.

Only thirty diners turned up for the evening meal in the 1884 hall. This was despite it being close to Christmas when grifters include themselves in the client list.

The drug addicts were absent perhaps in part because volunteers used tables to block the entrance to the foyer where they ate by themselves and toss food onto the floor. They actually dislike and distrust those who aren’t addicted to drugs.

Others fled Salisbury for the weekend to avoid the Christmas pageant crowds that overran the Citadel area where the homeless camp.

The meal included vegetarian and ova-vegetarian options to the chicken dinner. There was an egg quiche and a plant protein dish along with a fresh salad. Before the meal arrived, volunteers served coffee with biscuits and four varieties of cakes. Dessert included ice cream, fresh blackberries, raspberries and other chopped fruit.

A 76-year-old woman and myself kept up an open commentary on the movement of the greediest diners. That wasn’t diplomatic. Some volunteers did the same to us, with good intentions, making observations on our state of happiness and dress. They don’t realise some diners can lipread.

The tall blond homeless woman with blue eyes walked up and down the hall. She wore black gloves and made cute little comments while wearing a little girl’s smile. She was followed by two men as she left through the front door. Later that evening, she held a cigarette in one hand while she danced on the rocks of the new garden being built in front of the Council Citadel building. I wasn’t sure whether to pity or envy her.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Free meal served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Occasional fighting between rival gangs, but generally it’s the old people accusing each other of being greedy. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Takeaway bags no good.

Early 10 December 2022

(above) A man loading timber planks onto his invalid scooter sunshade. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

Wine Centre pulls out of Fred’s Van Kilburn Christmas break-up meal

A St Vincent de Paul worker announced that The Wine Centre won’t be catering for the end of year Fred’s Van Kilburn break-up meal. No reason was given. The Wine Centre also didn’t deliver the usual Thursday evening soup. There might have been some confusion about whether they’re still delivering it and that Fred’s Van might have to pick it up. With luck they’ll still provide it in 2023.

Only thirty diners turned up the Thursday before last despite 75 chairs set up in expectation of a Christmas rush to sign up for the last dining event of the year. The bags weren’t that good either except for two-litre bottles of 35% fat thickened cream. That stunned a few diners. I gave mine away as my car fridge won’t keep cool with minimal city driving.

Yet being at the Fred’s Van gathering was a wonderful experience. Possibly living outside in the harsh weather made it more appreciable.

A diner told me she knew everything about me since the 1980’s as we knew people in common. I expected condemnation, but she was full of praise. How kind.

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

Late 9 December 2022

(above) Burnside Council is trying to stop homeless people camping in cars near the Victoria Park grandstand. The big money homeless joint executives like Chris Burns for Rohan Feegrade won't voice a whisper of criticism. No money in it for them. (Adelaide Day Centre November 2022).

Christmas homeless service schedules​

See the free food guide for some addresses and phone numbers or you might have to find them via google.

This tiny list of end-of-year shut-down gatherings is representative where only regular clients are welcome. There are exceptions and you might argue your case with possible success. See the Free Food Guide for addresses and more details. There are also another 100 free places yet to be discovered.

Hutt Street Centre staying open every day during holidays except public holidays. Open Monday to Friday 7:30am to 8:30am for breakfast; 11:30am to 12:30pm for lunch. Showers and many others services as usual. Weekends 7:00am to 9:00am with takeaway lunch.

WestCare at Miller’s Court near Whitmore Square open as usual except for the three public holidays. This includes store and interview food vouchers. Open Christmas Day for free lunch.

Lutheran Care, 311 Prospect Road, Blair Athol open Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm as usual except public holidays. Phone (08) 8269 9300.

Salvation Army. It is unclear of their opening hours as they no longer answer their phones including the new statewide call centre. City Salvos is reported as running their Wednesday evening meals right through the holiday period. Playford Elizabeth have stopped answering their phones.

Care Works (Church of Christ). Closing from the 22nd of December to 30th of January 2023.

St Vincent de Paul. It true Catholic style the person who answer their call centre phone got cranky when I asked about their opening hours. The call centre number of 1300 729 202 should be staffed through the holiday period except for public holidays. But getting stuff depends on the opening hours of the local offices. St Vinnies is arguably the best outfit in Adelaide for dependability and range of services.

Magdalene Centre on Gilbert Street Adelaide along with their Noarlunga office will be open throughout the holiday period except for public holidays.

Hot meal and free food services

Gospel City Church last free lunch and groceries at Gawler on Tuesday 12:00 to 1:30pm on 20th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens 10th of January 2023.

Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) Every second Wednesday at Port Adelaide 3:00pm to 5:00pm, but finished for year. Reopens (hopefully) on 8th of February 2023. “Isolated” persons welcome.

Lutheran Good Shepherd Meet and Bite at Para Vista on Mondays at 5:30pm last gathering special time of 6:30 to 8:30pm 12th of December 2022. Invitation only. Phone office to see if you can attend, but the joint is already booked out. Reopens 16th January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg last Tuesday 6pm meal is on 6th of December 2022. Last coffee and cake lunch and free groceries 11:30 to 2:30pm is on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Tuesday the 17th of January 2023.

Last Global Care (GC3) at Parafield Gardens on Saturday 10th of December 6:30pm. All welcome.

C.H.A.T.S. free Friday breakfasts at Port Adelaide 9:00am to 10:30am on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Friday the 3rd of February 2022.

Lutheran Ark at Salisbury last monthly free meal on Saturday the 17th of December for invited guests. Invitations might be obtained from the church office or might not be. Reopens Saturday the 28th of January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

Salvation Army Pirie Street, Adelaide has its free Christmas meal in Rymil Park at 5:30pm Wednesday 21 December 2022. All welcome. It is believed they are continuing their free Wednesday meals straight through the holidays. Phone their office for confirmations.

St Bede’s Anglican Church Semaphore last free Tuesday breakfast is the 6th of December 2022. Their Christmas lunch is on the 13th of December and open only to those getting an invitation and generally regular diners. Reopening date is not known, but is expected to be early for mid-January when everyone is welcome.

Port Baptist Church, Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. Last 5pm free meals for 2022 are Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of December. Wednesday is booked out so they’ve decided to have a Tuesday gathering as well. Their reopening date is yet to be confirmed.

ONE Life at Parafield Gardens last free food event Wednesday 1:00pm on the 20th of December. Reopens 11th January 2023.

Cos We Care is maintaining their Saturday free food service in Elizabeth and the Sunday service in the city throughout the holiday period.

Our Street Family Matters is reportedly operating throughout the holiday period.

See the free food guide for most addresses.
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Fred’s Vans Christmas schedule

City Sat & Sunday 6pm Mon to Thur – 7pm Gawler Place, Adelaide (between Flinders and Wakefield Street). No service Christmas day

Christie Downs Wednesday & Sunday – 7pm Wardli Youth Centre, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs. Last service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Elizabeth Sunday – 12pm Wednesday – 6pm Vinnies Elizabeth, Langford Drive, Elizabeth. Last service Wednesday 21st December. Re-opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Salisbury Sunday – 6pm. Twelve 25 Youth Centre 17 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury. Last service Sunday 18th December • Re- opens Sunday 8th January 2023

Gawler Thursday – 6pm Pioneer Park, Lyndoch Road, Gawler (next to the Visitor Centre). Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thurs 12th January 2023

Kilburn Thursday – 7pm Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Ave, Kilburn. Last Service Thursday 15th December • Re-opens Thursday 12th January 2023 Semaphore Sunday – 6pm

St Bede’s Church 200 Military Road, Semaphore. Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15 th January 2023

Aldinga Community Centre, Stewart Avenue, Aldinga. Last service Friday 23rd December • Re-opens Friday 27th January 2023

Port Lincoln Sunday St. Marys of the Angel Church, Mortlock Terrace, Port Lincoln. Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 15th January 2023

Port Pirie Sunday Vinnies Centre, Gertrude St, Port Pirie
Last Service Sunday 18th December • Re-opens Sunday 22nd January 2023
The above is a tiny fraction of what is available. 
Early 8 December 2022

(about) Tent of a tough thin little woman somewhere in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

Men ha-ha Jesus talk

The preacher lady told us about buying modern clothing for a refugee woman who appeared to have only one set of dress. She said Jesus inspired this act.

Half the men guffawed or made silly sounds. One man pointed to Mo who dresses in handmade leather clothing and said he had just one set of clothing. The religious lady didn’t appear flustered at our open mockery.

We’ve had such people help us and it is something to be avoided. This might have not been the case with the refugee women, but for locals offered something from pity is not a pleasant experience. But we smile in appreciation or respectfully decline any offers. Except professional beggars who take anything with fake smiles. 

It requires a special insight or good luck to help anyone as the most desperate don’t ask for anything. So it is difficult to valuate the religious woman’s generosity.

The church rents the foyer and one basketball court for anyone to use most Saturday evenings. The church charges us nothing. They earned $1200 being marshals at last week’s Salisbury city Christmas pageant that chased the homeless from the Council Citadel, but they were back that evening.

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

7 December 2022

(above) Sleeping under walkways can be rewarding in more ways that one. But it requires patient and surreptitious digging. Before starting digging consider if you can enter and leave the camp discreetly. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Nov 2022).

Community Help and Togetherness 

The volunteers wore blue satin shirts emblazoned with the C.H.A.T.S. logo and their names. The Asbestos Man arrived as if a celebrity with his new oxygen tank and trolley. He is a celebrity having only just survived Covid. This was good news because if he survived it then nearly everyone can survive it.

One prominent diner was absent for a mysterious reason. Another said she’s decided not to use psychiatric medication, a decision based on a healthy survival instinct. A fourth diner with a fine intellect tried to discover why the spinach ran out. He likes absolutely clear answers, but couldn’t get one. He speaks Japanese and has a brilliant mind. An older woman had trouble climbing the Freemason stairs as her knee replacement surgery had been an utter failure. I told her to take the elevator that gets stuck halfway.

A new crowd of pleasant drug addicts arrived. They’re normal people not overcome by bitterness and criminal tendencies. If only things could remain so rosy. I sat near the women’s toilet. This was a mistake as people were constantly brushing past the table. The joint is crowded because it is so good.

The former police woman won first prize in the raffle. She won first prize two weeks ago. A diner on a scooter told a volunteer he might stop going to C.H.A.T.S. because people there talked too much. He likes silence. I couldn’t barely hear him for the uproar from 60 diners and volunteers in a small room. And the raffle lady was shouting her head off and I won a grooming kit and toothpaste. That’s why we go there: lots of interesting speakers, good staff and good food. Except the fruit and vegetables this week were somewhat rotten.

Volunteers told diners about two planned free bus trips before Christmas.

It’s a safe environment due to lots of volunteers including a retired police sergeant who hasn’t had to raise his voice with anyone except me for refusing to leave at the end of the breakfast.

But what the joint needs is someone standing on a table with a guitar and singing.

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

Early 6 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page
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"Minister Cook responds to Adelaide Homeless Journal"

“A Mazing. Mebbe Malinouchkiss regime izn't zo bad after all.”

Second Editor: What wasn’t mentioned by Minister Cook in her letter is that how many HousingSA units and houses will be knocked down over the period of others being built. Will there be a net gain or loss? And why aren’t these statistics reported annually as they were in a bygone era?

What was amazing in her letter was that 10% of private dwellings are empty and she shows little concern about that. Who owns so many empty apartments and houses?

Early 6 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page

Re man who lives dead.

Adelaide Homeless Journal wrote:

We've heard the story for ten years from the former jehova witness, who did black ops. He has a social
salvos housing unit, one of the very best of locations. A woman known to us both once helped him, and i was with her. House is in really bad nick. Need cleaning.

Response from Chatterbox

“His story believable to the ignorant, but with any knowladge of skull duggery involved, with questions the story falls apart. Maybe he has psychosis from all the sugar. He drinks litres of soft drink a day. He definately read about the cia guy, Chip, who did a series of interviews about his time as Hitman. He was recruited for black ops in nam. Didn't know orders to kill his whole squad when job done. Some survived but then they got hunted by own special forces themselves. Ended up POWs until broke out by marine's who didn't know who he was. Sole survivor of his squad, but one. His mate got head injuries like man who breathes dead.

“Forced into cia Hitman when he got home. Disappeared after media interviews lol

“Back to man who breathes dead, Apart from rot, dead men only do one thing: [They] Vote for joe Biden.”

Early 6 December 2022

(above) A favourite homeless camp in high demand near the Adelaide CBD. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

End of year Christmas break-up meals

This tiny list of end-of-year shut-down gatherings is representative where only regular clients are welcome. There are exceptions and you might argue your case with possible success. See the Free Food Guide for addresses and more details. There are also another 100 free places yet to be discovered.

Salisbury Fred’s Van last free meal 6:00pm Sunday 18th December. All welcome. Reopens 8th of January 2023.

Gospel City Church last free lunch and groceries at Gawler on Tuesday 12:00 to 1:30pm on 20th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens 10th of January 2023.

Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) Every second Wednesday at Port Adelaide 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Last event 7 December 2022. Reopens (hopefully) on 8th of February 2023. “Isolated” persons welcome

Lutheran Good Shepherd Meet and Bite at Para Vista on Mondays at 5:30pm last gathering special time of 6:30 to 8:30pm 12th of December 2022. Invitation only. Phone office to see if you can attend, but the joint is already booked out. Reopens 16th January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg last Tuesday 6pm meal is on 6th of December 2022. Last coffee and cake lunch and free groceries 11:30 to 2:30pm is on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Tuesday the 17th of January 2023.

Last Global Care (GC3) at Parafield Gardens on Saturday 10th of December 6:30pm. All welcome.

C.H.A.T.S. free Friday breakfasts at Port Adelaide 9:00am to 10:30am on 16th December 2022. All welcome. Reopens Friday the 3rd of February 2022.

Lutheran Ark at Salisbury last monthly free meal on Saturday the 17th of December for invited guests. Invitations might be obtained from the church office or might not be. Reopens Saturday the 28th of January 2023 when everyone is welcome.

Salvation Army Pirie Street, Adelaide has its free Christmas meal in Rymil Park at 5:30pm Wednesday 21 December 2022. All welcome. It is believed they are continuing their free Wednesday meals straight through the holidays. Phone their office for confirmations.

St Bede’s Anglican Church Semaphore last free Tuesday breakfast is the 6th of December 2022. Their Christmas lunch is on the 13th of December and open only to those getting an invitation and generally regular diners. Reopening date is not known, but is expected to be early for mid-January when everyone is welcome.

Port Baptist Church, Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. Last 5pm free meals for 2022 are Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of December. Wednesday is booked out so they’ve decided to have a Tuesday gathering as well. Their reopening date is yet to be confirmed.

Kilburn Fred's Van last Thursday meal at 7:00pm on the 15th of December. Reopens on Thursday the 12th of January 2023.

See the Free Food Guide for address details.

Updated lists later this week. 

Early 5 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page

amazing
actually posted doze dings
danks
danks much ​

Early 5 December

From the anonymous contact page

​A Muzlim is NEVER Publick

A Publickin is NEVER Muzlim

P.S. Weather expert guy Darren Ray say Xmas Day could be 27 degrees Centigrade. Maybe good day to visit and partake in Xmas lunch.

Have avoided publick past 35 years.

Sorry about Anglickin eviction, elder abuse.

A thousand or more years can pass by and things stay pretty much the same. Deadly.

Australian People rated most conservative by anthropologists. Visit a mob then come back 1000 years later, and little if any has changed. True Conservatives... True Conservationists, not easily fooled.

Early 5 December 2022

(above) Angry woman's tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. We now publish images a few weeks after they appear so they are usually gone by publishing day. We also no longer give specific locations to make it harder for the psychiatric operatives from the Towards Home Alliance to find them. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

On the Street

A dead man was reportedly arrested at the Norwood Centrelink office late last week. They said he shouldn’t have been on the dole as he was legally dead. He allegedly said, “You can’t arrest me. I’m dead.” This didn’t help his situation.

Police took him to the watchhouse from where he was later released on bail. He was told not to return to any Centrelink office as dead men aren’t welcome there. His payments were also stopped.

He says he officially died in the late 1970’s during a covert military operation to rescue P.O.W.’s not returned after we lost the Vietnam war. The operation failed and all members of the squad were killed except our man who suffered a shrapnel wound to his neck. He was taken to a hospital in Ho Chi Minh city then later returned to Australia. To this day he walks with a stoop from the shrapnel wound.

But the official record says there were no survivors. And the operation is buried in secrecy. The survivor has been trying to get the Aged Pension, but can’t because they say he’s dead. Somehow he was getting the dole as dead men can still apply for jobs. Until now, anyway.

He’s quite distressed about this turn of events. He’s told us this story for the past ten years. Few believe him, but there is something about him that is compelling especially to those who have been involved in espionage and state terrorism where weird happenings are the norm.

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The Monster Brothers were seen on Grenfell Street proceeding to Rundle Mall. One was babbling through toothless gums. No one could understand a word he said including his brother who was struggling with his walking frame.

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A motorcycle rider told the homeless man evicted from the Anglicare units at Elizabeth that if he stayed camping near a military facility he could expected to be questioned much more.

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A soup kitchen woman complained that Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Chris Burns has stopped the musical therapy group and said that music isn’t therapy. She was surprised when told that Burns had a military background. Maybe her group should have formed a brass band.

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A Housing Trust tenant formerly homeless for three years said a unit next to him at Largs has been empty for one year. He doesn’t know why.

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The Croatian Genealogist said he made $4000 last year from collecting cans, but it went “into a hole”. “You mean the pokies?” I asked.
“In a hole,” he replied, not able to use the term.

4 December 2022

(above) The alcoholics' encampment on Homo Hill in the city. The Revolutionary Urinator says they set a good example for his cause. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Nov 2022).

Minister Cook responds to Adelaide Homeless Journal

“Thank you for your correspondence regarding Housing SA properties.

“I am pleased to advise the number of vacant Housing SA homes has dropped from more than 2,000 in 2021 to approximately 1,400 now.

“Housing SA has a policy of not releasing individual addresses (empty or tenanted).

“Tenanting situations can change from vacant to tenanted and many homes are rented to people with histories of family violence or complex health and disability challenges.

“The Malinauskas Labor government is increasing investment in housing and homelessness to increase housing supply, access and supports for vulnerable South Australians.

“The State Government's Public Housing Improvement Program will see over $177 million invested in public housing, including:

• 400 new public housing properties to be constructed
• 50 of these homes co-located with support services
• Upgrades to 350 vacant properties to make them available for families in need
• Improve the supply and amenities of 3,000 tenanted public housing homes

“Additionally, the State Government has committed to investing a further $6 million for funding grants to homelessness services to provide additional supports.

“Housing SA has also recently partnered with Carrington Cottages, and provided a grant of approximately $1.2 million, to purchase a vacant backpacker hostel which closed during the Covid pandemic. This new initiative will provide extra accommodation in the city for people facing homelessness.

“We will also work with the new Federal Labor Government that is establishing a $10 billion Housing Futures Fund to deliver 30,000 social and affordable homes over five years. For those who can't access social housing, Housing SA offers financial assistance that can save eligible applicants up to $3,150 on the upfront costs of accessing private rental.

“This upgrade work, at an average cost of $70,000 per home, will result in the replacement of at least one wet area such as kitchen or bathroom along with other major works. When complete, the aim is to have an even smaller number of vacant homes than we have today.

“There are a number of challenges with returning vacant properties back to standard for tenanting including supply chain of goods and trade availability.

“There will always be some vacant homes including those who have been offered to a new tenant but are waiting for the new household to move in, those awaiting repairs before being offered to a new tenant and those undergoing redevelopment.

“The recent Census showed 10.8% of all private dwellings in South Australia were vacant on Census night compared to around 5% of public housing properties. Public housing has a lower vacancy rate than the private market and I am keen to see it become even lower.

“I trust this information is of assistance.”

Yours sincerely,

Hon Nat Cook MP
MINISTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES

25/11/2022 
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(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council has removed all traces of the retired hitman's camp under the Largs Bay jetty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal Nov 2022).

Housing Trust Park Tce Gilberton
From the anonymous contact page
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“Thieves steal washing machine(s) by using large snips / bolt cutters to break through metal grid covered windows, punching and/or pullout out remaining blockage, then reaching in and opening locked door from gaping holes, at Elliott Lodge (HellRiot Hotel) GILBERTON.

“This effectively denies homeless and dirt poor from having clean clothes and gives thieves an additional source of income for various drugs and further criminal enterprise.

“Also it provides more small room accommodation for various castaways such as wandering tribes and willing-to-live-anywhere mob.

“Orange Sky Laundry on Melbourne Street is open to homeless and concession card holders on Mondays 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. (1400 to 1600) as an alternative to disappearing laundry machines.

“Orange Sky Laundry available at other places and locations also, just look on this site to find where they might be. “

Late 2 December 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

Adelaide Homeless Journal wrote:

"Being homeless near a military establishment is interesting. Last week, an older woman working for the Department of Defence took video of me then asked if I was flying a drone. She saw my tripod and camera and wireless mic on my shirt.

Two days later I awoke not being able to remember the names of people around me. A paranoid thought entered my mind that the government had zapped me with a laser guided E/M pulse.

Then a technician from the base stopped and asked if I needed any help. That filled me with anxiety."

From our anonymous correspondent:

LYRICS:

"keep playing those mind games forever"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Games_ (John_Lennon_song)

could be possible black op. have had dozens of those played the past 50 years ever since witnessed 911, chernobyl, space shuttle explosion, world viral plague in September 1973 (28,13,13,47 years before events took hold) courtesy of UFO beings (Intelligences).

ufos.50webs.com if anxiety, increase magnesium intake ; helps with nerves muscles any and all health. regularly survive black ops with NO drugs and healthy lifestyle.

​Anonymous

Second Editor: Then an older man arrived from the factory saying he was the chief of security and that if I didn’t go away I’d be questioned much more.

Late 2 December 2022
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From the anonymous contact page

Some of us deprived of our peaceful health and safety by junkies and felons become extremists and "terrorists".

"Hated by many, loved by few, feared by all"
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Late 2 December 2022

(above) Writing on the wall at Port Adelaide. People search for identity in a society that has cast aside 10% of the population. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

(above) There are forces operating that want to destroy our sense of self-identity. Most processes in corporate businesses and government departments reduce us to nothing. We must fight that by forging new social and psychological identities.

(above) Some of those stripped of their identities become junkies and felons. This gives them a sense of purpose and identity. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

From the anonymous contact page​

“How many make it out alive of the semaphore " rehabilitation" hospital? I mean really make it? Back to civilian life and not another facility filled with foreign goons like the security guard who let the cat out of thr bag with his inappropriate questioning of you.

“According to international law, and he does qualify as a mercanary, mercenaries can be executed on the battlefield. There has been no treaty, even the high court ruled this an illegal British occupation. They actually do come under the Geneva war crimes convention as foreign mercanaries. If the government falls they will hang. So they do everything in thier power to stop government falling. Government knows this and how desperate they are escaping war and poverty our government helped create in their country.

​They do the real dirty work. Disabled and frail, the very weak. Since Covid Australia imported hundreds of thousands of these hired goons, to replace the dead from the mrna gene therapy and the oppression against those who would not take it. We have an unemployment rate nearing 3%. As a result of Medibank and Optus hacking, gov said it can fix it by importing thousands of skilled migrants to fix cyber security.

"The only hired goons we dont have is judges. We tend to export them not import... Export them to small pacific nations…”

Editor: Most at St Margarets are middle class Indian immigrants brought in to replace European Australians. The question is why would the Australian government reduce intake of Australian citizens into medical and nursing schools.

Late 1 December 2022

From the anonymous contact page

​Did elder Atlantean
evicted by Anglickin
ever get roof over head
tent walls or any walls
outside of Walmart?

Editor: No. 
Late 1 December 2022
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Inbuilt corruption all legal

​Indaily is taking money from Anglicare Corporation to promote long lunches disguised as study seminars. That is in part why Anglicare rents have risen much faster than other corporate “non-profits”.

https://indaily.com.au/ispy/2022/12/01/believe-housing-event/
1 December 2022

(above) Gateway Baptist church at Jervois Street, Albert Park offers free barista coffee and cake from 11:30am to 1:00pm every Friday. No I.D. or registration required. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

Chef Wayne ​leaves
​Royal Adelaide Hospital

Chef Wayne, aka Piano Player Wayne, was released from the R.A.H. to St Margaret’s convalescent hospital in Semaphore. He’s in a large well appointed room with en suite. Two N.D.I.S. Care workers hover outside his door waiting to be beckoned. A nurse visits to change Wayne’s dressings so I wait in the hallway. Six Carers for other N.D.I.S. patients gossip further down the hall, but when they see me, they drift away uneasily. Every worker is a foreigner except the cleaners.

What is actually wrong with Wayne is difficult to discern, but it must be serious. It is also costing the government serious money to keep Wayne alive. Ten thousand dollars a week to be precise. Yet despite that sort of money being spent, Wayne doesn’t have a doctor and no one seems worried about that. He needs help to change position in his bed. Across the hallway resides a woman Wayne met while in hospital as a child.

The Chef awaits a house being built for him near Port Adelaide. His old place at Norwood no longer meets his needs.

As I leave, a Sikh employee asks me what I’m doing. He smiles the smile of the eternally suspicious. I tell him I’m leaving after visiting a patient. He wants to know who. He opens a side door for me to depart. Something isn’t right.

Early 30 November 2022

(above) Adelaide CBD parklands last week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal Nov 2022).

From the anonymous contact page

Electrical Dreams

“Those feds obviously thought you were dull and dreary so they spark you up. Having you by the base has them really lit. Be sure to let us now if they zap by again and the broad asking about a drone, was she sexy?”

29 November 2022
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Gospel City free food returns

What a joy to return after a long absence. Their old church building, which was an abandoned shopping centre, has been knocked down. They now operate from a church building rented from the Anglican Church while their Sunday devotional services are held in the Zion Lutheran church next door.

The free food comes from Second Bite at Wingfield while the lunch is provided at church members’ expense. This is despite it being a poor church. Poor in money. They’re more like churches from the old days when they had lots of members, but little property.

Diners included a pleasant couple and their kids from Fred’s Van Salisbury, a group of older people from ONE Life in Parafield Gardens, a homeless man who carries his sleeping bag over his shoulder and a drug addict who has found his way out of the labyrinth.

Their last Tuesday meal for this year is on the 20th of December and they’ll be back on the 10th of January 2023.

Gospel City Church
24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 75101167
12:00 noon to 1:30pm. Every Tuesday.
No registration or I.D. required. Free lunch and takeaway fruit, vegetables, bread and some grocery items. Beautiful church, devoted members, nice atmosphere.

29 November 2022

(above) Homeless people not welcome to camp on the verandah of the St Luke's house at Whitmore Square. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

(above) The strengthened and raised gate to stop homeless people camping at St Luke's Anglican Church at Whitmore Square. The toilet is locked and access to the laneway locked. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

A Special On the Street (Monday)

That woman in her thirties sleeping outside the Westpac bank across the street from the Salisbury Council Citadel has gone. She was taken away by some group that will get her off drugs, put her on new drugs and plonk her into welfare housing.

This is an improvement as she was continuously molested, even raped, on the street at night. There are demons roaming the Salisbury town centre at night.

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The older man who was beaten by three teenage boys was told by police that if he’d hit back they would have charged him with assaulting a minor.

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“When I was abducted and put into a boot...then driven around at high speeds...it was a frightening experience…” said an ancient woman about her life in Whyalla at Salisbury Fred’s Van last night.

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An older man remembered when he got a call from the Housing Trust saying they had the keys for him to inspect a rental property. He went to the Salisbury office and as they were about to give him the keys, a refugee woman arrived with kids and said she was homeless. The office worker asked the man to step aside and she allocated the house to the woman. When the man said he was old and an Army veteran, he was told that if he didn’t like it he could go elsewhere.

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An alcoholic said he hadn’t been to free food joints for six weeks. He said that was good as he’d finally emptied his freezers of food that needed to be eaten.

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Being homeless near a military establishment is interesting. Last week, an older woman working for the Department of Defence took video of me then asked if I was flying a drone. She saw my tripod and camera and wireless mic on my shirt.

Two days later I awoke not being able to remember the names of people around me. A paranoid thought entered my mind that the government had zapped me with a laser guided E/M pulse.

Then a technician from the base stopped and asked if I needed any help. That filled me with anxiety.

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The government rounded up most of the homeless people in Salisbury this month so the drug addicts were missing from Fred’s Van on Sunday. But it was swamped with diners are lining up end of year Christmas parties.

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Gospel City church at Gawler has recommenced its free food days adding a free meal as well. Further details next week. Rumour has it that a free lunch is given out at Burton as well. Please send any further tips on free venues for homeless people via the anonymous contact page or whitmorederelict@protonmail.ch .

28 November 2022

(above) Para Hills library at 22 Wilkinson Road where Victory (Adelaide Life) church provides a free meal every Thursday at 6:00pm. But beware of the church fellow who takes photographs and videos. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

On the Street

A soup kitchen man said the prisoners in lock-up for graffiti and vandalism haven’t been charged after media talk of them being anti-Semitic terrorists. One has been there 18-months, the man said.

He also said the Neo-Nazi movement of Adelaide doesn’t know who is sticking up swastika stickers in the Barossa Valley.

He said the Neo-Nazis are angry about Housings A refusing housing to white Australians unless they are drug addicts, paedophiles or severely disabled.

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A disabled man in Elizabeth said his N.D.I.S. Carer no longer visits for fear of being attacked by two drug dealers who moved into his Housing Trust unit. They told the Carer to not return.

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A homeless man tapes his mouth shut at night with stretching kinesiology tape. He cuts holes in it to allow a small amount of air to pass through. He uses the tape to force him to breathe more through his nose. This reduces choking from his sleep apnoea.

He won’t visit a doctor for fear of losing his driving license. And he says that since using the tape his mind is clear and rested in the morning and he has resumed dreaming at night.

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Volunteers at C.H.A.T.S. in Port Adelaide discovered an anonymous letter where the writer said that going to the free breakfast had saved his/her life from suicide.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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A government spy approached a homeless man camping near an Adelaide military establishment and asked him if he was operating a drone. He denied it, but a tripod and camera were next to his car.

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Margaret is reportedly locked up in a hospital ward at Modbury. Friends say she’s lost her mind. She was paranoid for years saying a “European family” was stalking her. Then she forgot all about it.

She might be grieving over her friend, Stormy Summers’ former bodyguard, losing a leg and ending up in the Helping Hand nursing home on Salisbury highway.

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A man was crying on the street in Salisbury about his AFLW player niece who committed suicide a few weeks ago. This is not related to the woman who asphyxiated herself at the end of John Street in Salisbury two weeks ago.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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That thin young attractive drug addict woman spent Friday night and most of Saturday screaming and gesticulating in front of the $43 million Salisbury Council citadel.

Early 27 November 2022

(above) The low wooden white picket fence has been replaced by a tall iron fence back of the Drop-in Care Space at Whitmore Square. This stops the nomadic tribal alcoholics and that white man from sitting on the verandah. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

More on Mick of Mick and Denise

A man attacked Mick at a petrol station a few days ago knocking him down and kicking him in the body. The assailant was a backer of Dave Clark who along with his girlfriend lived at Mick’s house at Elizabeth South. But not for long and they left in dispute with Mick.

After being kicked at the petrol station, Mick confronted Dave Clark at the Beacon of Hope free lunch. This was where Dave Clark “took a dive” and cut his head.

A reliable witness I’ve known for forty years said Mick didn’t hit Dave Clark and it isn’t known how he hit the floor.

Anyway, Mick was banned for life from the Beacon of Hope while Dave Clark stays. Dave worships at the church on Sundays.

This is a disaster for Mick as he’s already facing an imminent eviction from his Housing Trust house. Bureaucrats say it is dirty and cluttered and maybe something else. Mick says he’ll take his dog and birds and return to living on the banks of the Torrens River.

Mick is a frightened old man in bad health and doesn't use drugs. 

26 November 2022

Salisbury Council goes silly?

​A Salisbury Council health and safety employee told the Victory Church volunteers that food is not allowed to be served from under the church gazebo in Pittman Park unless it was provided by the church itself. This means anyone other than church volunteers bringing a plate or pot of food must serve it away from the gazebo. Even a birthday cake.

We can laugh at the apparent stupidity of the bureaucrats, but they aren’t stupid. This is a calculated plan to discourage people from using public parks in the area. It is social devolution.

The leading church volunteer named Elvey last Friday that she was sick of diners telling the volunteers how to run the free BBQ. She said it must stop.

Victory Church is offering free Christmas hampers to regular clients at both Pittman Park on Friday the 9th of December and on the 8th at the Thursday meal in the library building in Para Hills. They will be collecting names of who gets them so no one can “double dip”.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide) at Salisbury
Free BBQ in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon to 1:00pm Fridays. Sausages, onions, fried eggs, sauce on bread, water, occasional noodles, vegetarian option. Large Christmas hampers last year for regular clients. Generous and friendly church people. Safe venue. No I.D. or registration required. No seating except on fence. Free monthly breakfasts on Saturdays have been cancelled and replaced by Thursdays 6:00pm free meal at 22 Wilkinson Rd., Para Hills.

26 November 2022

(above) Homeless campers near the Adelaide CBD. They dislike government employees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

From the anonymous contact page

Subject: C.H.A.T.S., Nana’s Free Food Basket and drug dealers

Correct me if i am wrong, um well the reason I'm here is you tried correcting me but I wasn't wrong, so I can't really say correct me if I'm wrong, because you can't. But you know what i mean?

I'm looking at chats Facebook page and very recently she posted a recommendation people use terry whites chemist in the port. F****** drug dealers, shes giving advertisements for....

What were you saying again about Nana's and drug dealers and how rose cleaned that up? She went a step further into peddling more dangerous drugs..

This is fact yet you’ve used gossip and ignorance, why? Are you paid by pharmaceuticals as well? Is there another reason for what seems a huge blunder.

Editor: Not paid by anyone. And I am not on any medications and certainly counsel every person I know to get off anti-psychotics. Recommending a chemist doesn’t make someone a drug dealer though I probably have the same reservations as you that chemists are drug dealers. This is a contradiction.

Thanks for your insightful viewpoint By the way, Bronwyn Plate’s cancer has returned with a vengeance. We all get old and die, but her illness feels a tragedy of sorts.

Early 25 November 2022 

(above) Cheap mosquito repellant appears a bargain when compared to the expensive brands. But spray some in an enclosed space such as a car and you'll gasp the difference. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).

Big Al has had enough

Mick of Mick and Denise was fuming when he walked onto the grounds of the Beacon of Hope Church of Christ in Elizabeth two days ago. And he wasn’t there for the free daily lunch.

He’d allowed Dave Clark and his missus to stay at his house, but everything went bad. Dave accused Mick of stealing a necklace and Mick accused them both of stealing his clothing. Onlookers smirked at the latter.

Then Mick had been confronted by another man at a petrol station over this matter and that’s what set him off.

Witnesses say Mick didn’t hit Dave Clark, but who somehow managed to land on the ground with a cut head and nose. “He took a dive,” one onlooker said. Church staff patched up Dave Clark and that’s when Big Al told Mick to leave forever. And if such behaviour continues such as Radio Damian and another Mick last week, then he’s closing down the free lunches.

As if Mick hasn’t enough problems with a looming eviction on the horizon. How will he fare living on the banks of the Torrens River. He’s old now with bad health. And it’s not that HousingSA will have any mercy on him. Mick doesn’t do drugs or torch his rooms so he can’t expect any help from social workers.

Early 23 November 2022

(above) Stealth homeless camper in Adelaide Central Business District. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

Behind the curtains

A man messaged his daughter saying he was going to die. He jacked up his Valiant then lowered it onto his head. His daughter discovered this and said to her partner, “My father died.” Her partner laughed and laughed. They had that kind of relationship.

The father had forced her into an incestuous act in front of her mother who sat impassively watching them and it got worse from there.

The daughter grew up and got into a destructive relationship. She went to bed with a knife saying she’d use it on her boyfriend during the night. He felt very uneasy. She didn’t pull her weight in the relationship so he said, “Why don’t you sell yourself? She did.

He waited under the Diver bridge at Port Adelaide while she brought in the cash. She was wired so he heard everything. She had celebrity customers. She was good at it, but the job wasn’t good for her.

She went to the police regularly. She cut her face then told her boyfriend she’d tell the police he did it. Their relationship broke up.

Looking at this young woman, you’d think she’d never been away from a safe home. But she had and home wasn’t safe. You never know what people have been through at homeless and underclass free food services. It pays not to judge people by external appearances and to feel compassion for every human’s suffering.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
Early 22 November 2022

(above) Poster near homeless camp at Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

Disabled Adelaide man sacks N.D.I.S. support coordinator

A National Disability Insurance Scheme client sacked his Support Coordinator, Melissa Burgmeister of UnitingSA in Port Adelaide. Clients can legally do this.

Ms Burgmeister as some sort of Coordinator had been drawing money from his N.D.I.S. account for over a year, but she had the wrong attitude. He’d complained his main Care worker spent most of his time playing with his phone while he should have been working. Burgmeister was indifferent. It was said the worker was allowed to do other work. “Not when I’m paying him,” said the N.D.I.S. disabled client.

But Ms Burgmeister seemed not to accept this. She said she’d be at his unit with the owner of the Care company on Monday morning. A threat of sorts. That’s what they like to do: to show the client they can enter their homes whenever they want.

But the client said if she turned up he’d call the police. He can legally do that. “And you’re sacked,” he added.
“You’ll have to put that in writing,” Ms Burgmeister replied. “Oh, you’ll get it in writing,” said the client.

So he’s sending the dismissal notice to the National Disability Insurance Agency that overseas the Scheme. They’ll forward a copy to Ms Burgmeister, the disabled client’s ex-employee.

21 November 2022

(above) Troubled homeless sleepers come and go in this space behind the State Administration Centre. Yet plenty of welfare housing kept empty for long periods. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).

On the Street

An English-Indian N.D.I.S. worker visits an elderly autistic man near Port Adelaide. Upon arriving he goes straight to the couch and works on his phone or tablet. He falls asleep then wakes up and leaves. Other times he helps himself to the man’s food.

There is no effective complaints mechanism in the six layers of bureaucracy that separate the client from the funding body as each layer of bureaucrats grab a percentage of the clients’ money and no one wants to rock the boat.

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The bread man at St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore is away for six weeks recovering from the removal of his tonsils. He is Terry Hemmings, former Minister of Housing in the Bannon government. We wish him a speedy recovery and miss having him at the bread table. He adds that extra touch of class.

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A Victory Church member named John who provides the free BBQ at Pittman Park on Fridays drove Ganghis Green to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Mr Green was letting the gangrene rise from his black toe rather than spending money on a taxi or waiting or an ambulance. But it all worked out and his toe was chopped off and he’s back smoking tobacco.

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That man is still outside the Salisbury Returned Services League trying to sell his body to anyone for anything. He seems happy at his work. Salisbury RSL is a renowned drug joint and its dealer contributed to the death of Bryn Hardiman in 2019.

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The volunteer cooks didn’t arrive. They were scheduled for the Saturday before last free meal at the Magdalene Church hall in the city. Michael Forward of the church collective quickly ordered fifty pizzas from five Domino’s stores. This was a quality response as other groups would have locked their doors and disappeared.

The Collective might try to get the volunteer group to pay for the pizzas or the Collective will cover the costs themselves, or Michael himself. His wife, Wendy, is the Team Leader and has provided fresh flowers for every table for years. These are the quality people we meet in the homeless scene.

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Homeless Matt from outside the Salisbury Council’s $43 million Citadel should be released from the slammer in December. This is important as his homeless girlfriend is being molested on the street at night by anyone who turns up. This simple fact should be considered by the Parole Board.

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A client at Skylight said the employees are polite and say they want to empower people and everything is open. But they keep the doors locked. When they unlock a door to admit a client, the employee walks behind the client for fear of being stabbed while other employees take notes about every aspect of the client.

Skylight was previously the Schizophrenia Fellowship that began in the 1980’s by Irene Towler and others. It operated from a single room in Hutt Street and had zero paid employees. It moved from there to the old 5KA radio studios at Kent Town where it absorbed the Manic Depressive group after its Native Indian/Canadian manager was charged with harassing a client. Then it moved to Keswick and has an annex in Davoren Park. It’s now a big money “non-profit” corporation and an agent for the pharmaceutical corporations. If the Founders visited they would probably be denied entry for “health and safety” reasons.

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The Port Adelaide Enfield Council “Engagement Officer” walks the streets pulling a wheeled bag containing flasks of hot coffee. He locates homeless people and offers them a cup.

This gesture rings the danger bells in homeless peoples’ heads. Government employees do nothing unless it benefits them. The nice guy is an agent for “Supported Care” and psychiatric drug treatment, and entry into the Eternal Shame File.

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Dracula’s Sister spat in the face of Radio Damien after he confronted her with the accusation that she’d stolen his birth certificate and other I.D., then threw it into the rubbish.

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The elderly homeless man who travels from city to city to regional town every two weeks using his Aged Pension money says he’s had enough of Adelaide. He got a triple heart bi-pass recently, but is discontinuing his medical care in Adelaide in favour of the open road.

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A homeless man did an interview with a journalist who later claimed in his script that he’d given the man money to help him out. The homeless man said this didn’t happen and he won’t do any further interviews.

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Chef Wayne, aka Piano Player Wayne, has moved into St Margaret’s Care Home at Semaphore South. He says that while 75% of Royal Adelaide Hospital staff should be sacked for incompetence, just 25% at St Margaret’s are useless.

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A man said, “Good morning,” to another. The response was, “Good Morning, Good Morning, that’s what they say at funerals.” This response disturbed the first man.

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A man was unhappy at GC3 last night in Parafield Gardens because a friend had gotten a serious illness then shot himself.

20 November 2022

List of external archival sites for Adelaide Homeless Journal

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3M-GaR84s 
13 December 2020
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For previous ten years of Adelaide Homeless Journal see the menu at top of this page

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

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

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

All posts since 2007 have been archived and can be accessed via the menu bar at the top of this page. This website has also been archived by numerous American Net sweepers.

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

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