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(above) Every month there is a new wave of products at free food venues that didn't sell well in stores. Last month it was Vicks VapoDrops and Cucumber infused carbonated water. The Seventh-day Adventist church at Elizabeth Park gave away the water by the carton. See the Free Food guide on the Adelaide Homeless Journal website for more details.

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

(above) If you're homeless, don't let the Hutt Street Centre or Service to Youth send you to an expensive rooming house full of bed bugs.

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

Coming Soon: Quiche with ham served at Brahma Lodge Seventh-day Adventist A.D.R.A. meal (oh, oh); Ellen Lee Zhou in San Francisco; More hypocrisy from Frank Pangallo, MLC; Dr John Falzon, advocate for Adelaide Zero Project; Jake "The Snake" McQuire's dream dystopia; Druggie yelling on Bolivar Road near where John Bunting lived and killed; All bite and no bark at U Care Gawler coffee morning; Rumours that Celebrity Can Collector is dead; Vitamin Derelict's advice for bed bugs; Two more soup kitchen clients praise Fi of Elizabeth East Salvation Army; Anglicare bringing refugees straight from Adelaide airport to elderly retirement complex; Dominic's rooming house tenants bitten by bed bugs in Salisbury; Soup kitchen man with sores on his face: flea bites, says friend; The Night Stalker talks about leaving his house and contents forever after South Australian judge's son visited with bed bugs; Perfect Housing Trust unit sits empty for 5 months; How much crooks pay to get your home address from AGL and car licensing; A.D.R.A. at Brahma Lodge too rushed; The salt, pepper and vinegar dilemma; Anglicare inspections; U Care Gawler free coffee morning; Twenty new druggies visit two Fred's Vans; Brilliant meal at Salisbury Fred's Van; New free meal at Gawler Hope Church food truck; Explaining how "greedy" people operate at free soup kitchens; Anti-poverty network soup kitchen; Why did crooked Playford Council spend $8.5 on car park kept empty; . 
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ShelterSA finds shelter for its housing expo

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

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

20 September 2019

Cos We Care forgets to bring frozen food

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

20 September 2019

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

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

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

Elderly Horse Trainer Lady still fears young druggie at Salisbury

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

18 September 2019
 

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

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

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

“All 3 could not be more different.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kings Baptist Church at Wynn Vale

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

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

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

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

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

Behaviours that help you get more at free soup kitchens

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

Disease transmission

“Infection control as free food venues - Hopes cafe had a couple of regulars with streptococci - over the years I have seen the poor hygiene and people who think that having a shower or using deodorant does more damage to the environment - I wonder if people are aware of how diseases are becoming more resilient to antibiotics these days- hmmm.”

Gypsy Soul
15 September 2019
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(above) The takeaway bags from Fred's Van Kilburn are usually quite rotten, but occasionally contain gems most people wouldn't think of buying. The Perkii fruit drinks contain probiotics coated in a natural substance ensuring they survive passage through the stomach to be released in the intestines. The Fred's Van meal begins at 7:00pm every Thursday at the Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. They don't require I.D. or registration. Some diners arrive two-hours before opening time.

​Ben "The Hipster" Moore
​receives an award

Under a photo of himself in a recent newsletter, Anglicare’s Head of Housing Operations, Ben “The Hipster” Moore, announced that Anglicare had received two Australian Housing Institute Awards.
 
The photo showed Ben smiling and no wonder because in a column next to his announcement was another photo of himself with Vicki Tsimoris announcing they were the winners of the awards.  
 
If Vicki has anything to do with Jamie at the Elizabeth South Anglicare supported housing joint near the Calvary Hospital, then she thoroughly deserves the award. And “The Hipster” determining the generous conditions of transfer of residents from our condemned housing complex to other locations makes him deserving of the award.
 
But there is the problem of an 89-year-old blind tenant and a 92-year-old tenant still in the condemned complex. With nine tenants gone and seven remaining, these two elderly women are increasingly worried about their security and where they will be moving. The faster they can be moved to appropriate addressws the better.
 
Anglicare has also reduced the waste of keeping the unoccupied units empty. They’re placing short term residents in the empty units before demolition or renovation begins. New beds were placed in the bedrooms of some units last week and an employee announced they’d be placing refugees in these units for six-week periods until they found something permanent. “They’ll get places before us,” one white tenant noted. Attitudes toward the refugees range from sending them back to wishing them the best.
 
The Anglicare employee added that the refugees would be arriving straight from the airport. The next morning, a group of foreign people inspected the units. They returned the next morning for another meeting then disappeared. Our retirement units are becoming a motel, but we have to pity the refugees who are placed in the genial “sex pervert’s” unit. After he got out of jail, his sexual targets became older, but he was still a dirty old man and such vibrations still resonate in the rooms. But at least he was clean; he learnt that in the slammer.
 
Second Editor
​14 September 2019

Infection control at free food venues
 
He might be in his thirties. He never causes trouble. “I could have this place shut down,” he says, “but I wouldn’t.” This is why the name of the soup kitchen isn’t mentioned here. Others might do just that.
 
I’ve talked to this man for two years, but he’s never mentioned this subject.
 
He talks about the food handling procedures at the soup kitchen and lack of infection control.
 
Most people don’t worry about this. They share food from plates with strangers. But this man does worry. He has a faulty heart and lungs plus an immune deficiency. He says the slightest infection is life-threatening for him. He cites a woman who shared her make-up brush with another with Golden Staph and ended up not being able to use her legs.
 
We watch the volunteers serving food. “I won’t eat anything touched by her,” he says of a pleasant woman serving food, but not wearing gloves. Another equity-minded woman wearing gloves serves cheesecake. Her gloves are covered in cream as she unconsciously wipes her nose with the creamy glove. “You can count her out,” I say. “I’ll get some from the man,” he replies, carefully watching an old man cutting the cheesecake.
 
He says that at some soup kitchens he walks away with nothing. This evening he walks away with a box of oranges, freshly picked from a backyard tree. That’s a good bet.
 
14 September 2019

(above) Soup packet given away by UnitingSA on the day they cancelled the 'Homeless in the West' expo due to the possibility of wind and rain. This soup packet stated that the product contained no MSG, but that was deceptive.

(above) The Coles 'Soup in a cup' package claims the product doesn't contain the Flavour Enhancer MSG 621. This is to alleviate the concerns of people who get migraines from MSG. However, this soup contains another Flavour Enhancer called Ribo Rash 635, which is just as bad. It was given to the underclass by UnitingSA who should think twice about giving away food, which for some, is poisoned food.

Anti-poverty Network SA
 From Gypsy Soul

“The Anti-Poverty Network (SA) has left a lot of women in Adelaide jaded and sadly the former co-coordinators where always on the recruit of socialists who were dedicated and niece [nice] and even vulnerable one is one is serving on the Onkaparinga council ready to take them all down - the injustices of passionate feminists the saga unfolds.....through the corridors of power - even as far as Sydney one has to question one motives and ethics when it comes to raising newstart - revolutionaries who think they can repeat history from old Italian fascist ghosts!”
 
Gypsy Soul
13 September 2019

Disability Expo Adelaide

“The Disability & Aged Care Expo for 2019

happens on...

"Thursday, 17 October 2019
10am to 4pm
Goyder Pavilion, Adelaide Showgrounds

For one day only, gain access to up-to-date information and have the opportunity to connect and hear directly from over 200 organisations.

Discover pathways, explore your options, but above all, enjoy a nice day out at this engaging community event!"

Ref: http://www.catalystfoundation.com.au/whats-on/disability-ageing-and-lifestyle-expo  

Ther knot askin fer a Gold Coyne donation this yere so Aye might giv it a go...”
 
Cripple Creak Stream
13 September 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

Great article on MSG Soup.

Heres Sue Dengate's page on the "No Added MSG" additive Ya mentioned:

https://www.fedup.com.au/factsheets/additive-and-natural-chemical-factsheets/635-msg-boosters-ribo-rash-ribonucleotides-627-631
 
Anonymous
13 September 2019

 Peterswool Road free food
 
The elderly crackers were okay with a Best-By date next month. They were made in Paraguay and contained very little salt, but the second ingredient was hydrogenated vegetable oil, which means margarine.
 
The mushrooms were perfect and there was bread, iced cakes, pastries, some decent spinach, old lettuce, bad tomatoes, wrinkly mangoes, but the staff were pleasant as always. There was also frozen meat meals and expensive ice cream in those round containers. I got a box of 12 glass bottles of cucumber-infused carbonated mineral water.
 
A feature of the clientele was that some arrived at 12:35pm when the gates didn’t open until 1:15pm and distribution began at 1:30pm. And arriving first doesn’t mean you’ll get served first and get the best stuff: it’s a lottery. It is also a social occasion and a break from isolation.
 
A former Korean monk now a free food client talked about motive being the most important factor for helping others. He also said that Buddhist men follow nearly 150 rules while women follow over 200 that are designed to help them evolve out of the cycle of endless rebirths.  
 
Seventh-day Adventist Church
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays.
Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp, even earlier. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some groceries. Health Care Card required. Four visits each month allowed. Happy atmosphere.

13 September 2019

From the anonymous contact page

Re: "flash event"

'Ave lived as a King in ADL past 30+years...

Lifes been good (albeit at "poverty" level at times).

Time passed by like a "flash event".

Wish to have another 1000+ years like it.
 
Anonymous
13 September 2019

(above) Within an hour of darkness and by 8:00pm, scavengers have already been through bags left at the Playford Salvation Army donation bin at Elizabeth East. The strange aspect is that the Salvation Army keeps its outdoor lights turned off.

(above) By morning, more scavengers have gone through the donated items. On some mornings, the donated items are so strewn about that it appears to be an act of ritual desecration against the Salvation Army.

Plaza Hotel guinea pigs
 
The ex-tenant with his shopping trolley of guinea pigs had a habit of standing in front of the glass doors while shaking his fist at the lone receptionist behind the counter.
 
He’d been a tenant at the Plaza on Hindley Street. He’d been ultra-secretive and if someone knocked on his door, he’d hold it open just wide enough to peek into the hallway. Finally, management forced their way into the room. That’s when they found the guinea pigs. Management kicked him out along with his rodents. But the man intermittently returned to vent his fury from the footpath on Hindley Street.
 
12 September 2019
 

Salt Church (Encounter Church) Gawler

The old man’s boots looked good, but he should have asked for his money back. They were grey with thick soles and the uppers went higher up his calves than normal boots. They appeared expensive and were designed for people with weak ankles. That’s why he should have returned them to the shop.
 
Others helped him onto a chair after he’d fallen on the floor. He said he was alright apart from weak ankles. But he also seemed weak or confused. He tried to open a packet of Darrel Lea chocolate coated liquorice bullets, but that proved too difficult so he threw them back into his shopping trolley.
 
A nurse with a kindly face appeared on the scene. She was hugely overweight and must have had strong ankles not to fall over herself. She checked his vital functions and said he was okay. He tried to open the bullets a second time, but was no more successful than before so he opted for sweetened muffins.
 
At the next table one couple picked up sixty kilograms of fruit, vegetables, bread and cakes. There was also ice cream, flavoured milk, cucumber-infused carbonated water, Vicks VapoDrops, and either chocolate or raspberry bullets.
 
I took the chocolate version of the liquorice bullets, which was a mistake because they were past the Best-By date and slightly putrid. The raspberry flavour would have been better because they contained nothing natural so wouldn’t go stale. The pastries were made in the United Kingdom, probably shipped out as frozen dough then baked in Adelaide. The vegetables were more or less fresh, but odd-sized or marked. The growers giving them to us via the Salt Church was a moral act. And even marked vegetables are healthier than junk food.
 
Within 20 minutes of the cloths being removed from the tables, nearly everyone had gone. It’s a flash event.
 
Salt Church at Gawler (Encounter Church)
25 Northside Court, Evanston Gardens. Ph (08) 8522 0000.
Thursdays 3pm. No registration and identification required. Good toilets.
Bread, surplus fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables from local growers and whatever they can get their hands on. Coffee at 2:30pm. Occasionally excellent, other times no good.

12 September 2019
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(above) Used syringe bin at Fremont Park in Elizabeth. This expensive bin is designed to stop addicts reaching in and pulling out used needles in the search for a last drop.

Is the Anti-poverty Network expelling members?

In this world of polarised politics, there is little room for divergent beliefs. Organisations floating the term “diversity” rarely tolerate a diversity of beliefs. Members must adopt the groups’ package of beliefs and policies or leave. And this appears no different with the Anti-poverty Network.
 
Rumours float about that the election of office holders is done by phone or by “show of hands”. And that few members know how many actually voted or even how many are in the Anti-poverty Network.
 
But the Anti-poverty Network is good training for anyone wanting to learn how to conduct meetings and operate a political organisation. It’s a powerful springboard towards getting co-opted into more lucrative positions within the welfare bureaucracy.  See http://www.antipovertynetworksa.org/events/ for a list of their coming events: meetings, lots of them.
 
This, perhaps, is an explanation for the resignation of Sam Shetler as coordinator of Anti-poverty Network SA. He follows Claudia Ienco, Tammy Headon and Pas Forgione for better pastures.
 
The Anti-poverty Network runs a powerful campaign to raise the dole, but another aspect of its activism might be to return the dignity to those on the dole. Why should work-for-the-dole people be used to attack the homeless by removing undergrowth and weeds in the Adelaide CBD parklands and therefore make it harder for homeless campers to find privacy?
 
And those interested in supporting the rights of the poorest Australians shouldn’t be forced by the Anti-poverty Network to adopt the whole package of left-wing or right-wing political beliefs. The Network might also clean up their process of electing office holders by making it more transparent.
 
11 September 2019
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​Food Barn sex maniac
 
That old sex maniac pointed out a number of women in the Food Barn. He said he’d visited a friend and seen one naked on the bed and when someone poked her in the… He indicated another woman and said he’d seen her on the street and she’d told him she was going to a party and was going to the be “slut of the night”.
 
His mind is filled with pornographic images. A younger diner said they were “an old man’s fantasy” created by watching too many dirty videos. Another said that pornography is addictive and changes how a viewer’s mind functions.
 
A young black central African woman sat opposite us. She sat sideways, insolently eating chicken legs. She acted like a derelict, but wasn’t. An old white man offered her an untouched leg from his plate. She shook her head. Later, when he got up, she took a partially eaten leg from his plate. Then she left. She acted with the finesse of a New York gangsta.
 
Another diner said he’d come from a house where two ankle bracelet men were “high as a kite”.
 
Apart from chicken legs, I can’t remember anything about the meal.
 
Anglicare Mission Food Barn
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Salt and peppershakers at front counter only to prevent theft.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Orange Sky Laundry cancelled.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
If you’re fresh out of prison, this joint will feel like home, but safer.
 
11 September 2019

(above) Anglicare advised that contractors would be inspecting our retirement units at Elizabeth. If we weren't home, they would enter with their own keys. The time and date of the inspection couldn't be changed. The contractors spent two hours inspecting the empty units before knocking on the doors of those occupied. They were polite, but didn't introduce themselves.

Hutt Street Centre nice salary package job

The Hutt Street Centre is advertising for a person to collect data on Adelaide’s homeless population. This means asking intimate questions then putting their answers on a data base accessible by a wide range of welfare and law enforcement agencies both in Australia and worldwide.
 
Skills required for the job are an ability to collect and record information.
 
https://www.seek.com.au/job/39778399?tracking=TMC-SAU-eDM-SharedJob-13246 (Note: this job advertisement was removed from seek.com hours after this post was published. 
 
10 September 2019
Second Edit: 11 September 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

“Thanks for comprehensive extensive

‘Coming Soon’ section.

Never a dull moment.”
 
From Me We
10 September 2019

​Cheaper education
From the Night Talker

“Ways to up your skills level without costing a fortune or paying through the nose.

“One of the editors of this website asked me how his friend who is on the dole, can get into the Cert IV in Training and Assessment, so he can become a qualified trainer.
 
“There are ways of doing this, that don't require you fork out mega bucks up front. I did my upgrade of this certificate in April of this year and didn't pay a cent. This is because the Smith Family paid for it.
 
“If you go into the SMITH FAMILIES LEARNING FOR LIFE SAVER PROGRAM, at the end of the program, they will put $500.00 into your account, so long as you have saved the equivalent amount. The money can be used to pay for any kind of educational need (books, courses, office chair, printer, laptop etc etc).
 
Another way to get on a training course is to look for free or low cost courses. At the moment DOME is offering anyone 50 and over, the opportunity to complete the CERT 3 in Individual Support for $345.00. This is a really good price as private RTO's have in the past, charged several hundred dollars (or more) to do this course.
 
“Finally there is always TAFE which offers deferred fee payment and concession payments (and in some instances) some courses (such as literacy and numeracy, reading and writing or beginners computer literacy) for free. You need to contact your local TAFE and see what is available.
 
“For those of you who are unemployed, your JNP should be helping you with such courses as first aid, manual handling, child safe environments training, which is usually compulsory for anyone looking for work.
 
“If they are not coming to the party, get vocal and threaten to contact the secretary of the UWUSA (Unemployed Workers Union of SA) There contact details are on this website.

“Remember, you can never be too clever or know too much!”

The Night Talker.
10 September 2019
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Teeth Protection
From the Rundle Spy

RE : student dentists

“One way to keep biters going strong into and through old age is to

1.QUIT nicotine (tobacco) that chokes off blood flow in the gums and mouth

2.brush teeth and massage gums at least twice a day / night

3. take a bottle of Tea Tree Oil, place the tip of a finger over the top, shake, then skim the excess back into the bottle, and rub in that slightly moistened finger tip surface over the gums AT NIGHT - when the Tea Tree Oil will stay in the mouth rather than be taken further into the system by eating drinking swallowing.

Tea Tree Oil is really a cure-all for infections and other poor hygiene.

Have avoided rotting teeth this way well so far with no complications.

Keep 'em choppers choppin'.”
 
The Rundle Spy
10 September 2019
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Charity meal too rushed

German Marten congratulated the Fred’s Van staff for their fine display of free fruit and vegetables. This included small quantities of stinking bad tomatoes, rotten spring onions, dodgy leeks, elderly pastries and stewing apples. Only a dozen clients had joined the queue at the takeaway food room. Marten understands sarcasm.
 
Numbers in the dining room have also shrunk. Diners can actually get a seat. Jessica brought some excellent pasta dishes. She works for Lutheran welfare as a paid job, but also without pay at Fred’s Van. She also helps clients with personal problems outside of these hours.
 
Other Fred’s Van volunteers are similarly dedicated. Long has been at Fred’s Van for nearly twenty years.
 
A tall woman had a seizure. That’s what her boyfriend said. Others said she was on heroin, or crack or Ice. Someone called an ambulance. The front doors of the hall were opened, which let in the cold air, but not the ambulance. She lay on the floor. The ambulance didn’t arrive. She got up and continued eating with her friends who had been quite worried and caring.
 
The 25-year-old man who shoved a 70-year-old woman against a wall at Elizabeth Fred’s Van was there. He stared at anyone he thought might be an enemy.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise has revised his belief that Denise gets into his house via a skeleton key. Mick says his dogs let her in because they know how to unlock the doors. Mick said he taught his dogs this skill after repeatedly losing his keys.
 
Orange Sky turned up. They had a couple of customers.
 
The meal was rushed. The takeaway food room opened at 5:50pm. Staff began serving the meal at 6:00pm. Chairs were noisily being packed up at 6:32pm. All diners were gone by 6:50pm. This was too fast. People go there for important social reasons.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Huge surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

10 September 2019

(above) Food Bank collection bin outside Woolworths at Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Adelaide. Note the quality of the donations.

(above) Food Bank collection bin outside Coles at Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre in Adelaide. Note the higher quality donations in this Coles bin than in the Woolworth's bin.

Really horrible Kilburn Fred’s Van
 
The salad was rotten. It consisted of those lettuce and kale leaves sold in cellophane bags in supermarkets. This lot probably came in bulk from a caterer. Some of the formerly opaque green leaves had become yellow and translucent.
 
St Vincent de Paul volunteers tried to disguise the rotten flavour and appearance by unevenly soaking the leaves in a creamy salad dressing, also on the verge of putridity. It was plain horrible.
 
I pushed the salad aside and ate the cold garlic bread covered in an ultra-thin coating of margarine. There was also lasagna for meat eaters. Dessert was okay. Coffee was available in those horrible soft plastic mugs, the kind that are useless in a fight.
 
The man with one leg has had a heart attack. He isn’t old. He lost his leg after telling a doctor that his foot hurt.
 
The dead St Peter’s Cathedral deacon’s sister shivered. She’d been shivering for three days. She’d sat in a hot bath tub of water and kept shivering. She said it was one of her seven types of heart pills that was making her cold. She said her doctor said the shivering couldn’t be helped.
 
She wouldn’t have wanted a chilling “warm” shower at the One Voice shower truck.
 
There was a feeling of impending violence during the meal. Some crazy fellow said he was going to smash Horse Trader Steve. The children have gone; the retarded diners have gone; the man who says he is the older brother of Jesus is gone. Numbers have declined over the past year. According to one diner, there’d “been a big fight outside” the previous week.
 
The takeaway bags were no good. More of that rotting lettuce and kale leaves. Just rubbish.
 
Someone slashed the tyres of Ruby’s car in the parking area. She is a volunteer who works for nothing and has a long drive to get to Kilburn.
 
There is talk that St Vincent de Paul might close down Kilburn Fred’s Van. Clients injuring each other is one thing, but attacking the property of a volunteer is going too far. They are the Gods of free soup kitchens. And the food and service are disgusting.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre. 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm Thursday. Rowdy.
Meal prepared by Adelaide Wine Centre followed by a big bag of takeaway food. Free.
As with all Fred’s Vans, no registration or I.D. required.
Orange Sky Laundry in carpark. Horrible plastic coffee cups, but interesting and informed clients. Staff a little thick upstairs.

9 September 2019

Adelaide Plaza Hotel Gregory dead

Old Gregory is dead. He was the bent-over man who sat in McDonald’s on Hindley Street as if he owned it. He used to be a fixture at the Adelaide Casino until they kicked him out. He’d dropped half a million dollars into the Casino and was left only with his pension, but that wasn’t why they kicked him out. He pissed his pants. When he needed to urinate, he’d sit on a chair. That annoyed quite a few gamblers at the Casino, especially the Asian tourists.
 
After losing his life savings, Gregory liked to play the free contests where he’d win $3000 or more. The Casino liked him to win because they knew he’d pour it back in the machines or the tables. Others did the wrong thing and use the money wisely.  
 
Gregory lived at the Plaza Hotel where he paid $250 a week for a room. He was a decent fellow who spoke little, but always insisted he was right.
 
One day he was taken to the hospital and then reported as dead.
 
R.I.P. Gregory
 
9 September 2019
 

(above) Homeless summer camp near Elizabeth North. Such camps exist across Adelaide including Burnside while the government keeps Housing Trust houses and flats empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal August 2019).

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​On the Street
 
A block of Housing Trust units at Elizabeth is surrounded by a huge iron fence with a thick sliding gate. This electric gate alone must have cost $20,000 to install, but is usually stuck in the open position making it redundant. Tenants dislike that ‘locked-in’ feeling so they regularly sabotage it.
 
*
 
George the Elder missed a day at the Food Barn last week because he caught the bus to Noarlunga instead of Elizabeth. George doesn’t check timetables, but stands in the middle of the road and catches the first bus, whichever direction it is going. George has class.
 
*
 
One Voice shower van has missed four weeks in a row at City Salvos on Wednesday evenings. Their first two excuses were the rain. Despite having an awning that slides out from the truck, and with access to the Salvation Army building, staff were afraid of the rain.
 
The third and fourth week’s excuses were renovations at the Salvation Army that took their parking spot. Surely, they could have found another space. Or the Salvos could have let disappointed homeless clients use the showers behind the café and inside the building.
 
*
 
Orange Sky Laundry has left the Food Barn due to no customers. But they had changed their days back and forth and put limits on the amount of laundry they’d do for each person. Thus, the empty machines.
 
*
 
A man was found dead in the toilets at the Elizabeth shopping centre in August. He had a needle in his arm, but soup kitchen people say he committed suicide.
 
*
 
German Marten was on his bicycle when he found a man blocking his path. The man was yelling threats similar to the manner of someone high on crystal methamphetamine. Marten took a detour across Main North Road.
 
This was near the Avondale apartments a fortnight before Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death at the Housing Trust complex.
 
Marten later said he was glad he took the detour.
 
*
 
George the Elder was eating an orange at a bus stop near his home. It was from a charity and rotten inside so George threw it onto the road. Within a few seconds a police car pulled up and asked George why he threw it on the road.
 
George couldn’t understand how the police had spotted him since there weren’t any patrol cars in the area. A friend told George there are cameras in the street lights and the police were watching him through one of them.
 
*
 
An older woman at Cos We Care named Cathie said she’d had bowel surgery and couldn’t lift heavy objects. Then she tensed up and snarled and shadow boxed around me saying she’d been threatened by four men and offered to fight them, but they’d backed down.
 
*

Mick said the Uniting Church Stasiland free lunch at 59-61 Park Terrace, Salisbury has improved. He said they show movies once a month. He watched the Lion King, but missed the last 15 minutes when he went outside to answer his phone. When he returned, they repeated the last 15 minutes for him.
 
*
 
“Don’t think and you’ll live forever.”
 George the Elder, 85.
 
*
 
An army veteran at Fred’s Van said the empty blocks of land at Davoran Park should be used for homeless housing. He said there had been Housing Trust units on the land so the water and sewerage lines should be intact. He said ATCO huts could be plonked on top to provide housing.
 
*
 
Rebecca of Hopes Café at Clayton’s Uniting Church in Beulah Park narrowly avoided a nervous breakdown when deciding to charge money at the café.
 
It had previously been an honour system of “pay what you can afford”, but this wasn’t covering costs. It became a choice of either closing down or charging for food just like in a normal café.
 
According to one customer, charges are now $l.00 for barista coffee and $2.00 for snacks.
 
*
 
A man said a surgeon removed his prostate that was “75% cancer”. The surgeon said it was lucky they got it early. The man wondered how they got it early when it was 75% cancer.
 
He says he is no longer capable of sex and this doesn’t worry his wife. What worries her is him walking around with his fly open.
 
*
 
Mick of Mick and Denise remembers a man named “Two Coats” at the Hutt Street Centre. He’d complained of headaches and when a nurse examined his head, she discovered a nest of Redback spiders that had been biting him.
 
Four people tried to force him to have a shower, but he screamed so much, they gave up.
 
*

A government-funded financial counsellor said that Centrelink should stop sending their clients to him. He said that most referred to him managed their money well. He said the real problem was that they didn’t have enough money, not that they mismanaged it.

*
 
An Anglicare employee said he’d learned American English before moving to Australia, but was disappointed to discover he had trouble understanding this country’s English. At work he couldn’t understand what others meant when they told him to “get your ass into gear.”
 
*
 
A 92-year-old woman got her first speeding ticket. She was going 100 kph in an 80kph zone in her micro car along Kettering Road at Elizabeth South. The road runs between the defunct Holden’s factory and military land. There aren’t any businesses or houses on either side where she was speeding and the road is divided.
 
She wasn’t overly worried about the $870 fine, but poignantly added, “There goes Christmas.”
 
*
 
Alice said hello to a male City Salvos client near Port Adelaide. She said that Religious Mike was on holidays. She didn’t mention runaway skin cancer or anything like that. Her manner was friendly and obliging and showed no subterfuge.
 
The City Salvos client said the negative rumours about Alice were probably wrong and came from another woman.
 
*
 
Fire Truck Wayne has made himself invisible. He sold Big Issue magazine in Rundle Mall. An employee at Big Issue suggested he get a larger sized Big Issue shirt.
 
Wayne has gained weight from the pills the government forces him to take to stop him from using his phone to send fire trucks to other people’s houses.  
 
8 September 2019

(above) An enamel pot hidden amongst a tree at a homeless camp near the R.A.A.F. base at Edinburgh in suburban Adelaide, South Australia. (September 2019).

(above) Faith Works don't require I.D. or registration or a Centrelink Card, or worry about where you live.

Orange Sky Laundry now at St Bede's at Semaphore

Orange Sky Laundry offers free washing and drying of clothing from their two trucks in Adelaide, each of which have two washing machines and two driers operated from a built-in generator. 

Orange Sky doesn't require I.D. or registration. Anyone can go there providing they're homeless or are unable to access washing facilities elsewhere. 

They're now at Semaphore on Sundays, which is good news for those sleeping in their cars or in the dune scrub. 

Monday: Church of Christ (Free 79 Centre) 379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol (near the IGA) 11:00am to 2:00pm. 
Tuesday: Vincentian Centre (St Vinnies Night Shelter), 28 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Tuesday: St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea, 92 Jetty Road, Glenelg. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
Wednesday: Clayton's Uniting Church, corner of Portrush Road and The Parade, Beulah Park. 10:30am to 1:00pm 
Wednesday: Fred’s Van, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs. 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
Wednesday: Fred’s Van, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth. 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
Thursday: St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter, 28 Whitmore Sq., Adelaide. 9:30am - 12:30pm.
Thursday: Anglicare, 91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth. Cancelled.
Thursday: Fred’s Van, Kilburn Community Centre. 59 Gladstone Ave, Kilburn. 5:30-8:00pm.
Friday: Salvation Army Marion,155 Sturt Rd., Seacombe Gardens. 10:00am to 12:00pm
Saturday: St Vincent de Paul, 28 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 9:00am to 12:00pm.
Saturday: Anglicare Arches AngliPrison, 77 Thomas Place, Port Adelaide. 11:00am - 1:00pm.
Sunday: Fred’s Van, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM). 4:30-6:30pm
Sunday: Fred’s Van at St Bede’s, 200 Military Road, Semaphore. 4:30 – 6:30pm. 

Late 6 September 2019

Cos We Care free food at Elizabeth on Saturdays

A blue-eyed white fella woman bought a cigarette from a black fella for two-dollars. She broke it apart and made three ultra-thin smokes from it.
 
A thin man helped washed the coffee cups. When he finished, he walked across Yorktown Road towards the Gloucester apartments.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise talked about a V.I.P. gardening franchisee who torched the car of a competitor. Mick had his own experience when a Jim’s Mowing man saw him cutting his father’s lawn. The Jim’s Mowing man shouted that Mick was in his territory and he’d better stop. Mick’s father came outside and yelled at the Jim’s fella.
 
Another Cos We Care client talked about his gardening business. He’d invented a powerful weed killer using sulfuric acid and swimming pool chemicals. He had a customer with trees and bushes surrounding a swimming pool. He gave his offsider instructions to use the poison sparingly. His offsider was of quite low intelligence. When their employers returned from holidays, they discovered their large tree and all their bushes dead, and poisoned debris floated in their swimming pool.
 
Another client of Cos We Care is a Latin dancer. He also teaches Latin dancing. A woman Latin dancer criticised him for wearing shorts while dancing. She said men had ugly legs and should wear trousers. The man replied by saying that if women wore shorts, so could men and anything else was discrimination.
 
Dominic was at Fremont Park after a three-month absence. He’d lived at the Housing Trust Gloucester apartments before fleeing in fear. He said someone had lit his front door on fire. He said, “The cops wouldn’t do anything. Fires are common there. People don’t bother calling the fire service.”  He added that he’d paid three-months rent when the place was unlivable due to fire damage and lack of safety. He wants the Trust to return his three-months rent because during that time he was couch surfing.
 
Ann Cooper, who started Cos We Care with a truck driver named Laura, said she broke two ribs in their walk-in freezer. Her feet were wet and froze to the floor. When Ann tried to walk, she fell forward onto metal shelving. She’s lucky she hadn’t fallen face down and got her hands and face frozen to the floor as well.
 
Dennis the Menace hasn’t been seen. He is believed to have been working for the Gawler show and now at the Adelaide show.
 
Cos We Care
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
 
Also on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, boiled eggs, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk. Up to a hundred people on Sundays.

6 September 2019
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Victory Church free Salisbury BBQ

Spanish Raoul talked about rain forests to a Spanish taxi driver. Raoul added that the taxi driver was too rich to get free sausages at the Victory Church BBQ. But taxi drivers are some of the best customers at soup kitchens. It seems a natural progression to go from driver to vagabond though this driver was doing both in tandem.
 
Others talked about getting buried. Old Val said her sister tried to kick her out of her grave. Their mother and father had been buried in a triple grave and promised Val the last position. But Val’s sister pestered her to relinquish it.
 
Old Val refused. She also questioned her sister’s ethics, particularly when she cut short their mother’s funeral to rush back to the house and grab her possessions. Val was disgusted and says she’d leaving everything to the Animal Welfare League and Cancer Council.
 
Jamie was there. He lives in an Anglicare SRF. He said, “Both my parents were drug addicts. My whole family used to beat me up.
I’m 28. I live at Anglicare. I can go and come whenever I want. Anglicare takes me places. I’m so glad. I love Anglicare.”
 
Jamie rides a bicycle while wearing a full-face motorcycle helmet.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station. Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

6 September 2019

(above) These donated goods at Playford Salvation Army in Elizabeth East were neatly rolled up at 7:00pm. An hour later, a figure arrived in the darkness and pulled everything apart while searching for something worth taking. Strangely, both the street and the Army parking area are unlit for much of the night.

Beware, Light Square student dentists
 
Old Graham’s son got roped into having his natural teeth removed. I’ve seen it myself, government dentists soothingly telling welfare patients “we’ll get those out of the way for you”. Private dentists don’t talk like that: they love rotting teeth.
 
You have to fight for your teeth at government dental surgeries. And take care of them. If you go to a dentist with teeth rarely flossed or brushed, it is natural for the dentist to question whether they should spend $10,000 restoring them.
 
Not that anyone has much of a chance at the dentists at the Housing Choices Common Ground building in Light Square, Adelaide. They use students needing to perform so many procedures to graduate.
 
Old Graham’s son lives in the back of a station wagon. He’s about 35 and smokes cigarettes. He seemed happy telling us at Fred’s Van that he was getting four of his teeth pulled out. A few weeks later, he said they were pulling all his upper teeth. Then, every tooth in his mouth.
 
But one tooth snapped off near the base. Old Graham’s son said the instructor told him it would fall out naturally. It didn’t. Old Graham’s son went back.  He said the dentist tapped his broken tooth with a piece of metal. Old Graham’s son said the pain was so intense that he almost hit the dentist. With considerable difficulty, the broken tooth was removed.
 
Old Graham’s son is waiting for a set of cheap and nasty false teeth in the coming months. That will be interesting to see if they fit properly or end up in the glove box of the station wagon.
 
Meanwhile, Old Graham’s toothless son has trouble speaking clearly. And he’s taken to watching prank videos on YouTube. He watches those of a motorised alligator head released into tourist lakes in Florida and swimmers’ antics as they scream and panic.  
 
5 September 2019
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(above) Sunday morning shopping at Munno Para for many people involves rummaging through the donations outside the Salvation Army fence. These "shoppers" kindly stepped aside while a photo was taken then resumed shortly after.

(above) it would be interesting to know how much profit each Salvation Army store makes. Some are operated by contractors who give a share of the profits to the Army. Donors don't realising they're giving to a non-Salvation Army store operator.

​From the anonymous contact page
From Big Hugs

Comment

“Perhaps Pearson's job at zero project was to find all the victims of the pedophile elite who live on the streets. His job to reduce the witnesses to zero.

“It happens.”
 
Late 4 September 2019

Orange Sky Laundry expanding
 
Having cancelled their laundry service at the Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth, Orange Sky is expanding elsewhere.
 
According to a senior volunteer, they’re going up to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at Para Vista on Monday evenings to coincide with the free meal at 6:00pm. They’ll probably be there for two hours from about 5:00pm.
 
They’re also reputed to be opening a second service on Tuesday evenings at the AngliPrison on Dale Street, Port Adelaide. Strangely, the prison doesn’t have an operating washing machine.
 
The volunteer said they’re also going to the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East while an Anglicare employee said they’re arranging to be at Fred’s Van Semaphore on Sunday evenings at St Bede’s Church Hall at 200 Military Road, Semaphore from about 5:00pm.
 
As to why they don’t turn up when it rains, the volunteer said that most of them work at paid jobs and if they get wet in the rain, they could get sick and miss work. “OHS,” he said, meaning Occupational Health and Safety.
 
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
 
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Ph 8263 5087. Mondays at 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm.
Free evening meal. No registration or I.D. required. Fresh takeaway bread. Closed at Christmas, but continues through public holidays. Up to 80 people each Monday.

Late 4 September 2019

From the anonymous contact page

From HELL I AM HERE

Comment
Re: On the Street

Monday 2 September 2019

$40000+ Walk-a-Mile-in-My-Boots-MOBILE was parked at Helliott Lodge Hostile Housing Hostel for the Homeless...

What for ?

Perhaps as advertising or promoting or undermining the underclass... undercaste.

South Asians call us "Dallid" or "Dalit" ... the Untouchables, the lowest caste.

Are we Valid or inValid if we are "Dallid" ?

Walk-a-Mile-in-My-Boots-MOBILE...
Walk-a-Mile-in-My-Boots-MOBILE...

New$ World Order...
New$ World Order...

Its a New$ World Order.
 
Late 4 September 2019
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Anti-poverty Network soup kitchen

​The Anti-poverty Network operate out of Clayton’s Uniting Church. They are a political rather than a welfare organisations. Nevertheless, they have a soup kitchen in the Hopes Café at Claytons on the fourth Thursday evening of each month.
 
It isn’t known if they charge or not. The soup and bread are served from 5:00pm to 8:00pm and if you want to help cook it, that time is from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.
 
Their number is (08) 84511589. Good place to learn politics.
 
Clayton’s Uniting Church is one the corner of Portrush Road and The Parade, Beulah Park.
 
4 September 2019
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(above) One of many brand new free shirts given away at Port Church, 47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North on Wednesday afternoons at 5:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. The clothing was destined for landfill until the Thread Together outfit stopped that practice.

Walk a Mile in my Boots

A welfare insider said that the new underwear collected for homeless people during the Walk a Mile in My Boots fundraiser won’t go to people living outside unless they undergo a rehabilitation program such as “Back on Track” or “Pathways to recovery”.
 
The insider added that the money raised this year will be spent on staff car parking and salary increases. And that the money from last year was used in part to buy the “Walk a Mile in My Boots” Toyota Rav 4.
 
Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox said the money raised this year will go to the “Day Centre” that is “not funded”.
 
Late Tuesday 3 September
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We need more Equity Queens
From the anonymous contact page.
In response to 
​"The Return of the Equity Queen" posting of 30 August 2019

“I read with interest the attack on the Equity Queen and Ken and Steph from Westcare.

“I’ve been a part of the homeless community for many years. I have needed food, clothing, vouchers to get me through tough times. I have made friends and continue to enjoy those friendships. I don’t need as much assistance now from the homeless services now, so leave that for those that do. 

“I want to encourage and thank the volunteers and organisers that work in these services, that put up with being yelled at, threatened, abused, have to break up fights and deal with people that are on ice or drunk, on a daily basis. They are usually compassionate and kind and try to make sure everyone is looked after. 

“To the person that sits in your home, with your heater running, with your fridge and pantry overflowing with food you will never eat but took anyway, your wardrobes full of clothes that you will never wear but took anyway, and write nasty things about these services and the volunteers that dared to suggest you leave a little something for the person behind you. Is that what happened with the Equity Queen, did she ask you to maybe take a little less one day?
 
“Maybe these services should start naming and shaming you? Perhaps those of us that put up with your carry on as we sit and eat our meals should fill in forms of complaint so you are no longer welcome? We know it is greed that drives you, not need. When your greed is challenged you become angry and you say horrible things about the people that had the courage to challenge you. In the same way if anyone calls you out on your bad behaviour.
 
“We know who you are. We know that you will go to these services each day and continue to take what you don’t need. We know you will sell this stuff you have taken for free to people that are less fortunate than you. I wonder who are really the people we should all angry about ….?”

“Keep up the good work Hutt Street, Westcare, Salvos, Anglicare Fred’s Van and all the volunteers that for many of us make our days a little brighter and give us a place and community to be a part of.”

From "Anonymous" via the Anonymous Contact Page.
 
Editor: Yes, there is truth to what you say. However, your views are printed on this website, but you don’t see dissenting or questioning views printed on charity organisation websites.

And, actually, the posting of which you are critical didn't originate from anyone at Adelaide Homeless Journal. It came from someone inside Baptist WestCare. We don't know the writer's identity just as we don't know yours. 
 
Thanks for your comments.
 
Late Tuesday 3 September 2019

(above) A rare offering at the Swap Cart outside the Anglicare office on Fairfield Road at Elizabeth Grove.

(above) There is nothing to stop people from leaving small items useful for homeless and underclass people at the Free swap cart outside the Anglicare office on Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove.

Koreans at Clayton’s Uniting Church
 
Sunday was the dead day at Clayton’s Uniting Church. You’d think that might have been the busiest day for a church, but while the social and welfare aspects are booming, the devotional services were sparsely attended.
 
Was this due to the feminists taking over the Uniting Church, then under the guise of “equality” getting rid of the Freemasons and ‘Old White Males’?  
 
Maybe not, but whatever the reason, the feminists haven’t been able to replace the older church folk with their own kind. Nor can they send their kids to church as many feminist women are unable or disinclined to have children. So, the church was quiet on Sundays.
 
The Korean Christians saw their chance. Norwood and Beulah Park are rich suburbs and the beautiful historical church on Sundays was basically a vacant property ready for occupancy. And they believe in both Jesus and having children. They’ve revived Sundays at Clayton’s with its white pioneer cemetery.
 
But will they install cameras like the Chinese did at Pilgrim Uniting Church in Adelaide, and broadcast weddings and funerals back to the home country, and allow some foreign government to keep tabs on the few remaining white Christians in their pioneer church?
 
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s great grandparents were devoted Presbyterians. One of his great, great grandfathers was a Presbyterian Minister.
 
But the Korean Christians at Clayton’s are a different people. They have come to the new land to thrive and prosper and have lots of children. And they will replace the welcoming feminists who despise their own culture.
 
2 September 2019

(above) A messy homeless campsite in Elizabeth. While a society in general contains a wide spectrum of personalities, so does the homeless culture. And when you're psychologically and socially obliterated, making a mess is a way of telling the world that you exist.

On the Street
 
Like Orange Sky Laundry, the One Voice shower van seems intent on confusing their customers as to where they will be parking their truck.  Why don’t they have a simple calendar updated daily?
 
https://onevoice.org.au/mobile-showers/
 
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Diners still reserve tables at the Anglicare Food Barn despite a sign saying this is not permitted. So many chairs are reserved that anyone new gets shunted from one table to another. It has become a closed shop to new customers.
 
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What is not commonly stated is that the exporting of Fentanyl to the Uniting States is a key aspect of the so-called “trade war”. Fentanyl is a synthetic heroin many times more power and cheaper than the natural version.
 
It can be purchased by mail from China and is exported through the millions of shipping containers that enter the United States each year. The United States government failed to persuade the Chinese government to control production and export of Fentanyl because it is too powerful a cultural weapon of genocide for the Chinese to give up easily.
 
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A soup kitchen client said she saw an Uber Eats driver eating the topping of a pizza outside a house before delivering it inside.  
 
*
 
What happened to David Pearson of the Don Dunstan Foundation? He preached the wonderful work of the Adelaide Zero Project that was going to achieve zero homelessness in Adelaide. But when the millions of dollars sunk into the project produced a rise in homelessness, he resigns without explanation.
 
Was he pushed or did he jump? What is he doing now? And was David Pearson a success? Perhaps the Adelaide Zero Project was a scheme to mask another project, which would make Mr Pearson extremely successful.
 
And will Sir Ian Cox comment on this latest homeless housing project?
 
1 September 2019 ​

Why poor people become hoarders
 
When a normal person goes shopping, he or she generally knows what they want and what they’ll get.
 
When underclass people go shopping at a free food event, we never know what will be available. We might want potatoes and instead get ten kilograms of overripe oranges.
 
When we go to a free clothing venue, we don’t quietly pick a shirt and try it on because there isn’t time. We grab six in different sizes then try them on at home or in a park. The ones that don’t fit might be retained in preparation of weight gain or loss, given to friends, or thrown back into a donation bin.
 
Same with cars. Parts for old cars are too expensive so we keep a wreck of the same model in the back yard.
 
But the salaried welfare workers and executives don’t see this. They buy what they want when they want it. They see our piles of car parts, clothing and food as hoarding. They want to send it to the rubbish dump. They even threaten those perceived of hoarders with removal of their children unless the parents or guardians hire an industrial rubbish bin and send nearly everything to the rubbish dump.
 
Their soft-sell approach ― and frequently hard-sell ― redefines the underclass who collect things as “hoarders” with “mental issues”.
 
They use the mainstream media to target an extreme hoarder to make it seem that all underclass people who collect lots of stuff are unhealthy.
 
And when they come to take away the bulk of a person’s belongings, it doesn’t matter if the person subsequently falls sick and dies. They don’t mentally connect the cause and effect.
 
These anti-hoarding bureaucrats are dangerous and insensitive people with an agenda that doesn’t include the well-being of the underclass.
 
1 September 2019

From the anonymous contact page

Re:

"Compare the road death rate of 1137 in Australia for the year 2018 whereas the death rate from alcohol was at least 5500. Yet we had four pages of advertisements for beer and spirits in this week’s Cole’s catalog."

Hear Hear...

Boozers Losers
Smokers Chokers
Gamblers Ramblers
Dopers No Hopers
Meaters Cheaters
Gay NO Way

Living in Fear... Trepidation at times...
Human Hell Zone... Wet Zone...
 
The Rundle Spy
1 September 2019
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(above) Fred's Van Elizabeth used paper bags for cutlery placed on tables at a recent meal. At most free soup kitchens, cutlery is available from large trays. Diners may touch twenty forks to extract a single item. They hold the fork close to their nose and mouth, examine it, then throw it back and grab another. Some cough or wipe their noses during the process. Many diners have multi-drug resistant infections such as Golden Staph, which is easily transferred to others. Every soup kitchen should take better precaution against infection transfer.

Orange Sky Laundry misses another rendezvous at Salisbury Fred’s Van

It was difficult to determine if the homeless person was a man or woman. The face was marked with despair. The left leg was wrapped in a black rubbish bag.
 
He or she walked through the foyer to the back glass doors to see if Orange Sky Laundry had arrived. They hadn’t. There was a light sprinkling of rain so they had cancelled the session.
 
Another homeless person, a man, also checked the glass doors. Being a veteran homeless person, he didn’t express anger, just a slight dimming of his aura. Others checked the doors.
 
German Marten wasn’t there. He usually brings his laundry, but knows that rain stops the laundry truck in its tracks.
 
Orange Sky management is full of self-congratulations and Show-and-Tell, but insult the homeless by being so unreliable.
 
The Crack Head was there, unfortunately. He was full of Crack or Ice. He’s a decent fellow when you can catch him straight. He currently lives outside. One of the Methadone Men was bombed out on something. Two young men who are not yet ruined were laughing wildly at nothing in particular. Another half-dozen homeless people were there including at least one woman.
 
Strangers brought six bags of Coles groceries through the front door. This wasn’t rubbish from Food Bank or Second Bite, but good stuff.
 
Jenny brought homemade cookies. She and Karen made the peanut butter cookies the previous month. They’re always good. The Woman Formerly Known as Shuffles handed them around. There was also cordial served in plastic wine glasses, the kind used at weddings where there is a risk of family members attacking each other.
 
The takeaway food, apart from the Coles bags, was the worst it has ever been. Why do they bother? Fred’s Van Elizabeth earlier in the day had much better stuff.
 
The meal was good. Minestrone soup, chips, meat loaf, fresh salad, excellent pasta in meat and vegetarian versions, pasties, boiled frozen vegetables, rolls covered with margarine, and a very good fruit crumble with ice cream.
 
At our table, we talked about the old days in Broome and Derby. We remembered James Hepi who got the bends while diving. And Bradley Murdoch, Norm Archer and the rest of the old crew, mostly dead now.
 
Jo Holloway is now the Principal Volunteer for Fred’s Van Salisbury so we now expect her to:
 

1. Put salt and pepper shakers on each table
2. Ensure the food is served hot and not cold
3. Improve the takeaway food
4. Tell Orange Sky Laundry to become more reliable
5. Bring in the One Voice shower van as there aren’t public showers in Salisbury.
6. Keep up the good work that the current volunteers are doing.

 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

31 August 2019
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​Transforming health and Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre

“Moving Hampstead into the hospitals is going to be a disaster. I would recommend the government seriously op out of the deal, if they can.
 
The need to transform the health of Hampstead itself is by removing all the dead wood.”
 
Lucas North
31 August 2019

(above) An Adelaide homeless camp in ruins. Ownership remains with the builder and anyone else using it does so at their own risk. This is the nature of the homeless camping culture. Nearly every hidden space has been claimed. But ownership lapses if the camper has died, gone to prison or not occupied the site for a certain period of time. (Adelaide Homeless Journal photograph August 2019).

(above) Many Adelaide homeless campers take high pride in keeping their sites neat and sanitary. Building a homeless camp is therapeutic compared to living in welfare housing where a nail in a wall to hang a picture can incur a fine. (Adelaide Homeless Journal August 2019).

Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre
compared to North Korea
Lucas North

​“The parallels between North Korea and Hampstead are too numerous to name in terms of what patients are allowed or not allowed to do.
 
“It depends on the whim of the person in charge, the team leader. The team leader, they ultimately have the decision as to whether something is approved or not approved.
 
“Depending on what nurse is on depends on how sympathetic or empathetic they are, which is why the majority of patients like particular nurses and why the majority of patients don’t like other nurses.
 
“The treatment is not even-handed from the nurses, either. You can get one nurse that decides that person is not very likeable and so then they decide to rub that person up the wrong way and that person explodes and then it is that patient’s fault.
 
“So, then we get to the catering staff. The food is not quite as abysmal as the Royal Adelaide. It’s of much better quality. The standout meals would have to be the scrambled eggs, battered fish and cheese sauce.
 
“Then we get to the SSO’s, the Support Staff Officers. They get the patients to the X-ray department or they travel with them to the Royal Adelaide for appointments or operations or stuff like that.
 
“The SSO’s are the face of Hampstead. They’re the go-between people between members of the public. They also would do the tea and coffee on that ward.
 
“One of their other jobs is cleaning of bathrooms, patients’ rooms, particularly steam-cleaning infection control, which is extremely important so superbugs don’t get out.
 
“Generally, the vast majority of SSO’s go above and beyond the specifications of their job because they take great pride in what they do even though this never gets recognised and their bosses generally refuse to acknowledge they’ve done a good job…it is absolutely disgusting the way they are treated.
 
“The leadership or the authority above the SSO’s is quite happy to run the SSO’s jobs according to a Kim Jong-un style of management, which is keep the workers guessing as to whether they are doing any good or not. Keep the workers guessing as to whether they are going to be sacked or not. And keep them guessing as to which shifts they will be doing.
 
“It is an ingrained culture of leadership within the hospital, within Hampstead, of people being there in leadership positions too long or working in the same position too long.
 
“Anyone who has been at Hampstead longer than 25 years should retire, or being made to retire because they no longer fit to the current society’s standards of norms.
 
“What worked 30 years ago will not work now unless they move back to North Korea.
 
“There is also a distinctive culture of bullying and intimidation and threats from the upper echelons of lower middle management, but this is not in regards to the nursing or the doctors, but in regards to the way valued SSO’s are treated.”
 
Lucas North
30 August 2019
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The return of the Equity Queen
From Westcare Watch

“Ding Dong the witch is back; the wicked witch is back !!

“The Equity Queen (Marg) is now volunteering with Baptist Care. She is currently in charge of charity vouchers for the new Food Hub.

“This lady was kicked out by the Salvos as a volunteer after many years and many complaints by clients and staff. She was found to be too strident, too discriminatory, too prejudicial, too mean, too bully bitch, too demeaning, too brash, too bombastic, too calculating, too obstructive and just plain rude. 

“Her condition was described as CCD (Crass Cow Disease). She was found to be unsuitable for contact with homeless people at the lowest point of their lives.

“With a considerable reputation preceding her, what were
Ken and Steph thinking of when they made this
appointment ?

“We are accustomed to their clumsy decisions (which often offer good writing fodder) but this is a doozy of a mistake !

“It can only be assumed that Ken and Steph are bored
and trying to take Westcare to the next level of charity 
slapstick. While we all have a giggle watching them trying to clean the fan at which they have thrown much substance, they may have gone too far this time.

“Advice to clients is to lodge written complaints on
official Baptist Care complaint forms. Make sure to
retain a copy. Be sure to date the original and exercise
the option for contact re action taken. There is no need
to wait for the Equity Queen problems to re-emerge,
make your objection now if you have suffered previously !!

“On The Way-

“A Regular WESTCARE WATCH feature - KEN AND THE CARRY-ON GANG. As they Carry On UP Millers Court.

“(Tall tales and true from the Baptist back passage)

“Cheers for now, Chaps!”
 
From Westcare Watch

Second Editor: The Equity Queen wasn’t too bad at City Salvos. True, she goes on the offensive within five seconds of interaction, but she wouldn’t tolerate The Bait Woman threatening those Moslems on Saturday nights. And the Equity Queen could have had Margo Casey in court for trying to break her legs with her mobility scooter.

The Equity Queen is good if you can trick her. One time, I waved my arms in the free food room to distract her while the rest of the Crony Gang grabbed the acrylic blankets from behind the door. She knew we’d tricked her and she was a good sport over it. I still use those blankets in my car for transporting people with incontinence.
 
Still, you’re right. No one would want to seek a food voucher from her. She’s Mrs Judith Telstra’s worst nightmare apart from the Anti-hoarding Patrol.
 
Please send more of your interesting reports.
 
30 August 2019

The nasty side of Housing Choices SA
 Kelly Henderson

“Housing Choices SA is having my remaining belongings dumped today as they don't want to pay storage costs above the 615 boxes and 11 storage containers $2290 per month that they had removed last week.
 
“HCSA or their contractors deliberately damaged some of my property by ripping storage cupboard doors and backing off, removing all covers, tarpaulins, etc to deliberately cause rain-damage to everything that they had left in the back yard, including things that had been inside the house which they deliberately put out in the rain.
 
“Would appreciate it if you could put out a call if anyone knows where my possessions have been dumped to please contact myself, Kelly Henderson, on 0432 989 676 or Anti-Poverty Network.
 
“A precious piece of tree trunk salvaged by myself years ago (part of my Park Lands & City Squares archive) is missing, presumed dumped, part of the Victoria Square RSSIL's War Memorial Avenue destroyed by Yarwood's Council.
 
“Housing Choices SA refuses to tell me where my property is being dumped to deny me opportunity to salvage possessions.
 
[It was taken away by]
 
“SA Rego S646-BTJ   Cut Price Rentals Truck, White Hino 300 - operated by PLMGN Management Services, two men.
 
“SA Rego S076-BKH  White Toyota HIACE Van (with ladders on roof racks) - operated by PLMGN Management Services.”
 
Kelly Henderson

Editor: Housing Choices SA, which runs the Common Ground building in Light Square, Adelaide, evicted Kelly Henderson from her Housing Trust home after they purchased it from the South Australian government. Housing Choices SA is based in Victoria and operates a series of semi-prisons for homeless people. 

30 August 2019

The Eskimos Story
From the anonymous contact page
​
“What happened to the Coming Soon: Eskimos?????

“Did the legal eagle get a bit too close ?

“Also, a lot of that foreign suckurity reminds us of MAJOR invasion, occupation and domination than just simple MINOR taking advantage and exploitation.”
 
Editor: The tenant lives in extreme fear. The Housing Trust is against this tenant, but is backing the Ice dealers and addicts, prostitutes and night burglars who also live in the complex. The tenant is going through the bureaucratic and legal processes with minimal positive results.
 
The story may be published when the tenant has found a safe position.
 
30 August 2019

(above) The Salisbury City Council hires guards from a foreign-owned security company to order Australian citizens off the streets. An Australian citizen said he was told by one such guard to leave the seats outside the Salisbury library while he was using the Wi-Fi during the night. The police, however, allowed him and a friend to stay there.

(above) By allowing foreign-owned security companies such as Titanium and Wilson’s to patrol Salisbury streets and shopping centres ― and have access to the most intimate security cameras ― various levels of the Australian government and business have ceded a degree of national sovereignty.

The exaggerated road toll crisis
 
We’ve all heard various police spokespersons in the media announcing yet another road blitz to reduce the road toll. We’ve all heard politicians saying that road deaths have spiked and that stronger penalties for driving infringements would be introduced.
 
However, the total annual number of deaths on the roads in South Australia hasn’t changed much in the past five years. In fact, they remain similar to the 1930’s level of 150 when there were just 15,000 cars on South Australian roads whereas we now have over half a million.
 
South Australian Road Deaths
 
2015 – 112
2016 - 96
2017 – 84
2018 – 99
2019 – 89 up to August
 
https://www.statista.com/statistics/991566/number-road-deaths-south-australia/
 
The Australian road death figures show that death from driving has reduced over the decades. Cars have never been safer.
 
Australian Road Deaths
 
Year   Deaths      Per 100,000 people      per 100,000 vehicles
 
1925 - 700              11.8                                                   229
1936 - 1350           19.9                                                   182
1952 - 2,054          23.8                                                   116
1979 - 3,058          24.2                                                    48
2014 -1150              4.91                                                      4.5
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_Australia_by_year
 
Compare the road death rate of 1137 in Australia for the year 2018 whereas the death rate from alcohol was at least 5500. Yet we had four pages of advertisements for beer and spirits in this week’s Cole’s catalog.
 
What seems possible is that the exaggerated concern over road deaths and injuries are a pretext for increased government control over our lives.
 
29 August 2019

Brahma Lodge A.D.R.A. free vegetarian meal

A.D.R.A. is the Adventist Development and Relief Agency. It is an arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Their free vegetarian meal twice a month is a means of displaying their lifestyle and helping the poor.
 
The Food Barn crowd have discovered this place. It beats hiking south to Kilburn Fred’s Van or north to Gawler Fred’s Van.
 
One-eyed Steve had been in hospital the previous weekend. His doctor told him to adhere to a special diet to help his eye recover after a lens reconstruction and gassing. Steve kept to the diet so well that his blood sugar plummeted and he had a seizure.
 
The woman listening to him said she’d gone into the Lyell McEwin hospital the same day for internal bleeding. They gave her three bags of blood and she sort of recovered.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise lost his wallet, again. He was late coming into the dining room and we could hear him outside shouting about his loss. Meanwhile, the soft-spoken ethnic preacher inside the dining room talked about water and Jesus while other church people squirmed.  
 
Before the speech, a church woman told me I was sitting in an undesignated seat. When I moved, the Horse Trainer Lady sat there and the space became a designated seat.
 
The ethnic crowd presented a nice meal, but they didn’t seem to like us. To them, and to most other people, we are Australia’s rubbish, a bunch of elderly, sick and strange white folk. But our behaviour had improved since last fortnight. This evening, none of us pounded the table with our fists or chanted some indecipherable message.
 
Brahma Lodge Seventh Day Adventist
144 Frost Road, Brahma Lodge (near Main North Road)
1st and 3rd Thurs each month. 6:30pm to 7:30pm during school terms. Vegetarian meal occasionally with eggs. Nice tablecloths and cutlery. Free. No I.D. required. Takeaway bread and leftover food. No coffee or tea. Gentle atmosphere suitable for delicate people.
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29 August 2019

(above) The Eskimo Lady asked for a blanket at Fred's Van Salisbury. There weren't any so a Fred's Van woman took her to a room and gave her a brand-new Hard Yakka hoody. This prompted a rush of Old Hands to the room and everything was gone in five-minutes. Meanwhile, the Eskimo Lady put the Hi-Vis jumper underneath her other clothing as she likes to appear invisible at night.

Port Baptist Church Largs North
 
The preacher’s mother, 84, wasn’t there. She had a “bit of a virus”. Juanita took her role of serving takeaway fruit and vegetables alongside Jacquan.
 
It included the now ubiquitous Sprite No-Sugar and peach-flavoured Coke plus Satay Tofu contaminated with MSG flavour enhancers. The fruit, vegetables and bread were okay.
 
They were running low on free pointy shoes with leather soles in the Threads shop though they have plenty of brand new shirts and those red, blue and white hoodies. And lots of womens’ clothing.
 
The meal included soup, barbecued sausaged, potato salad, 4-bean and corn salad, buns with margarine and horrible sugary buns for dessert.
 
One diner talked about Kristine from Stevo’s soup kitchen. Kristine dumped her boyfriend because he wanted to do the most obnoxious sexual acts with her. He’s the old man who shouted dirty ideas in the presence of children at Fred’s Van Kilburn. All the parents with kids have stopped bringing them to Fred’s Van Kilburn.
 
The Port Church (Baptist)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling.
Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread.
No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Open during school terms.
Phone 0414 693 218 to get on their message list. No Ice Dealers.

28 August 2019

(above) The closed-down Faith Works free store at the dying Elizabeth North shopping centre. They are now based at 5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol and occasionally have free food mornings at the Beacon of Hope Church at Ashfield Road, Elizabeth Grove near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last Monday.

(above) It takes a lot of work to operate a free food service. Not only do organisations such as Faith Works continuously search for free food sources, but also cheap or free rent locations and these are constantly changing.

Where are the homeless?
 
A City Salvos client at their Wednesday and Saturday free meals says that, “The numbers way off [down]. There are supposed to be so many homeless around. Where are they?”
 
The answer is that most homeless people don’t go to homeless places. They’re already traumatised and scared; they don’t want more trouble. Nor do young people go to these places? The decline in numbers is partially due to clients dying off. The other reason is the feeling of impending violence. Not at City Salvos, only, but in many places. And no one has any confidence that they will be helped by staff or police if attacked.
 
Salvation Army Adelaide City
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street)
Monday to Friday. Free bread, fruit, vegetables and cold meat pies.
Some people take the cold meat pies to the Pilgrim Lounge for reheating.
No I.D. required. Theoretically 9:00-11:00am, but the best stuff is gone by 9:30am.
Better stuff available if you sign up for a humiliating interview.
Wednesday evening program: Entrance from back door on Wednesdays evenings.
6:00 - 10:00 pm. Doors open at 6:00pm for coffee. Meal served at 6:45pm. Free haircuts with Danielle at 7:00pm on first and second Wednesday of each month. No I.D. or registration required. All free. They also have a free Saturday meal.

27 August 2019

Elizabeth Food Barn
 
The joint was a mad house. A normally quiet man shook in his seat. His face was white and puffed up. A friendly ex-crim asked him if a seat was vacant next to him. The quiet man jumped up and made repeated gestures to smash the ex-crim in the face. The ex-crim was holding a plate of food in front of himself. He showed no fear. The puffy many walked out of the dining room. The ex-crim followed him to the door then came back. The ex-crim asked what a man had to do to get a seat. Someone motioned him to our table. Both men don’t cause trouble, usually.
 
A social worker came into the dining room and gave a black tribal woman a Coles Gift Card. The woman carried a tiny baby.
 
An older woman said she’d never get a free haircut from Baptist WestCare due to nits and lice. She said the WestCare hairdresser didn’t clean her equipment after cutting the hair of a man with nits. She said WestCare called everyone back a month later to begin three sessions of bug killer hair washing.
 
Joe the Cook has finished going through the protocols of becoming a volunteer. He’ll be here on Thursdays only due to no other vacancies. How can this be There is plenty of scope to make the meals better by adding more labour into their preparation. And Joe knows food.
 
The meal was pasta with cheese and a hamburger sauce. It was done nicely, not like at Kilburn Fred’s Van. There were also oranges and apples, and All-Natural Bakery wheaten bars, many of them broken.
 
The crowd was so big that serving stopped at the front counter unless each diner could say they had a chair to sit on. Yet twenty-minutes later the room was half full. Many eat and run while others arrive early and have to be told to leave at 12:30pm closing time.
 
A woman diner said she had stopped going to Fred’s Van at Elizabeth on Wednesdays after witnessing the 25-year-old man get away with shoving a 70-year-old woman.
 
A diner talked about a woman throwing him onto a sharp fence that cut his neck, or he was trying to hang himself and she cut him down and he fell on the fence. His speech was so rushed it was unclear that he was saying.
 
Anglicare Food Barn Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth.  (near the shopping centre and police station).
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.
 Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm. No dessert, No takeaways. Faulty salt and pepper shakers at front counter only. Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

27 August 2019
 

(above) A needle and a blanket near a homeless camp at Elizabeth. Why doesn't the Australian government tell the Chinese government to stop facilitating the export of precursor chemicals to Australia? Why don't the corrupt and gutless executives in Adelaide's homeless industry say the same?

Foreign security company ordering Australian citizens off the streets​

One of the men in question was adamant that it was a Wilson’s security guard who told him and a friend to leave the bus stop seating area outside the Salisbury Library.
 
It was 2:00am and they were using the library Wi-Fi, but they weren’t breaking any laws so the more vocal of the men said they weren’t leaving. The Wilson’s guard left.
 
The police arrived a few minutes later. The vocal man said he was applying for jobs on his phone using the Library Wi-Fi, which was provided for that purpose. The police allowed them to stay there.
 
I phoned the Salisbury Council the following week and asked if they employed private security companies. The older woman on the phone said they hired two. I asked their names. She spoke to a supervisor and when she returned to the phone, she said they hired just one security company.
 
“Who is that?” I asked.
“Titanium,” she replied.
“What about Wilson’s,” I asked.
“No,” she replied, then said it was right that the guard ordered the two men off the streets.
 
That raised a few questions. Does the Salisbury Council have a right to order citizens off the streets? And should a foreign-owned security company be doing this?
 
Titanium is American based while Wilson’s is controlled by Hong Kong Chinese interests including the billionaire Kwok brothers, one of whom was sentenced to prison in Hong Kong for trying to bribe an official.
 
Titanium private security guards regularly rouse homeless people from sleep at the Salisbury Football Club oval. Then they order them to leave.
 
But the Titanium guards used discretion. They order the drug addicts, who make a mess, to leave immediately. Some of these expelled campers have nowhere to take their belongings so they leave them at the oval. But if a homeless person, even an addict, leaves no mess and departs before morning, then the guard allows that person to sleep the night undisturbed. One camper sleeps on top of syringes.  
 
What makes Titanium and Wilson’s ultra-powerful is the inside information they collect on governments, corporations and individuals in the pursuit of their security contracts. Foreign-owned security companies access the Salisbury Council surveillance cameras and learn things about the city that no one else knows.
 
This prompts the question whether someone in local government is taking bribes to cede this degree of national sovereignty to foreign corporations, especially Wilson’s. Or is it a Deep State action to weaken Australia’s national integrity and sovereignty?
 
26 August 2019
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The march of the methadone men 

My body tingles from the adrenaline rush. The Methadone Men are arriving. Seven or eight of them. You can see them waiting at the back of the chemist for their juice. They’ve brought dirty old bicycles this evening, tapping them against the window of the Twelve-25 Club, locking them up tight because they know the desperadoes patrolling the streets for things to steal. They wear dark clothing. Their expressions are devoid of movement, their eyes are tracking devices measuring each person as a source or not of what they want.
 
Two shopping trolley men have joined the group sitting in the foyer. One is a Methadone Man and the other a decent alcoholic with a compromised liver. A doctor gives the drinker one-year if he stays on alcohol and ten-years if he quits.
 
One Methadone Man half-sleeps on the couch, an off-white pillow under his head and a dirty blanket covering his body. Another man mutters that he is going to smash this Methadone Man who gets up and walks about the room, unable to negotiate our presence. One child is there. Parents are generally not bringing children to soup kitchens anymore. Bad vibes mess up developing minds.
 
The takeaway room reaches a new low. One very overripe tomato and one potato and tiny bags of doughnuts for each person. There are lots of scarves and beanies in absurdly bright colours. I complain, but another patron says, “They’re free. You can’t be a chooser.” Criticism isn’t taken kindly by most clients in an emotional milieu of appreciation of Fred’s Van volunteers.
 
Inside the dining room, a druggie gets old Barkuma Peter a meal from the front counter. Lisa gets Jason MS a meal. Both men have movement problems. Some diners constantly help the disabled clients. Some heroin addicts are kindly people.
 
A man orders a 2SM coffee. This means two spoons of sugar with milk.
 
Not many people turn up so there is less risk of fighting. The meal includes soup, bacon pikelets and a vegetarian version, hot meat stew, Maranello pizzas, fresh salad, salad dressings, bread, but no margarine, sauces and faulty salt and pepper shakers kept at the counter rather than being put on the tables. Dessert is ice cream, custard and elderly doughnuts.
 
Orange Sky Laundry is stationed at the back door. A volunteer brings in two bags of fresh laundry: one for a druggie and one for Barkuma Peter. Someone shouts, “Shuffles”. She replies, “Shut-up”. Tricky Mick said his Ute is stuck in gear.
 
One man waves his hand over the crowd and says that in Nazi Germany we would all have been killed.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

26 August 2019
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Gospel City Church free food
​at Munno Para

The ceiling is collapsing. They put adjustable metal poles underneath to stop it from collapsing to the floor.
 
The free food and coffee were distributed from the verandah. The vegetables were better than usual, but some needed to be eaten within 24-48 hours. Dora gave away frozen fish.
 
Richard the baker talked to another baker, but they didn’t talk about bread; they talked about diabetes. Richard wants to start a Diabetes Anonymous group. He believes in cures. David the Baker said getting his medication adjusted helped his diabetes. He went from needles to pills and lost 20 kilograms. He said his new doctor discovered his old doctor had given him the wrong stuff.
 
Richard said he got rid of his chickens. He didn’t say where they’d gone. He used to get huge amounts of bread for the chickens, but no longer. They didn’t eat the white ants. He’s growing a garden and squirting poison into the foundations of his house.
 
Harry the Dogger was looking well, but different.
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am -11:00am
Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time.
They talk religion, but it’s a well thought out intelligent religion.

26 August 2019

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

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

​On the Street
 
The One Voice shower truck missed City Salvos two Wednesdays in a row. They’re supposed to be there from 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
 
The shower truck seems a bit of a racket. More for show than serving the homeless. Why isn’t it stationed at Semaphore with its considerable numbers of people living in cars or in the bushes?
 
And why don’t they turn up the temperature of the water? Why is everything welfare deliberately sabotaged by management?
 
*
 
“You get over here,” a Hutt Street Centre employee told a man entering the front door on the “Walk a Mile in my Boots” march day.
 
He’d paid to enter the walk and decided to stop at the Hutt Street Centre for a cup of tea. He was surprised the employee spoke to him that way.  
 
*
 
Dennis the Menace upended food at a free Sunday service in the Adelaide CBD. Volunteers are questioning why they should get up early on cold mornings to work unpaid when they get treated like that.
 
It might not have been Dennis’s fault as he is on some diabolical prescribed medications that would make anyone unbalanced. And rules at various homeless joints are unstated so it is inevitable that a person will transgress some of them.
 
Therefore, the onus is on the management and staff to react quietly with the intention of educating the person rather than punishing him or her. Of course, if this doesn’t work, stronger words are required.
 
The Menace drives a huge campervan with Victoria plates and is a character in himself.
 
*
 
The elderly woman living in her car in Elizabeth has finally got a rental unit.
 
*
 
The major cannabis courier from WestCare has seven months and three weeks before he can remove his surveillance ankle bracelet. His parole officer told him that if he is about to disappear, then to leave his bracelet on the kitchen table as they cost a few thousand dollars each.
 
*
 
When Dennis the Menace wrote to the health department about a free food van, he said that “many people have been hospitalised from out-of-code dairy products”.
 
He asked the Adelaide City Council to “book” the food van “for parking on the footpath.”
 
This is despite Dennis being a client of the free food van for the past year.
 
*
 
St Bede’s drop-in-centre provided tuna burgers on a recent breakfast. They were terrific, not like the slop dished up by Fred’s Van Kilburn. And threats and violence are not tolerated.
 
*
 
Horse Trader Steve was at the free meal at Port Baptist Church at Largs North. He went over to another table and took a Berliner bun from their communal plate. They complained. Horse Trader Steve couldn’t care less.
 
This was the table that wouldn’t let Old Nieta sit with them because she was an outsider.
 
*
 
A retired horse trainer at the Food Barn said the Adelaide Zoo no longer accepts dead horses from the racing stables.
 
The dead horses make the lions sick due to the excessively powerful drugs poured into them to make them run faster. When the race horses die or are killed, they are suffering multiple illnesses including sores that won’t get better.
 
*
 
An older man who brings bags of snack food to Cos We Care said that no amount of money will fix homelessness because “the bureaucrats on 70, 80, 90,000 will always keep things the same,” otherwise “they’d do themselves out of a job.”
 
*
 
Mick of Mick and Denise found his wallet. He’d lost it in the Elizabeth shopping centre. Denise found it in their mail box. The cards were there, but the money was missing.
 
A sceptical friend asked if Mick ever actually had any money in his wallet.
 
*
 
German Marten was giving away brand new Hard Yakka shirts still in their packages. This was at Cos We Care in Fremont Park on a Saturday morning.
 
*
 
Dominic was moving tenants from one house to another. He said he’d be there on a Friday with a truck. The tenants were waiting, but Dominic didn’t arrive.
 
He later said he’d be there the following Monday. But some tenants had missed work on Friday to move their stuff and now were reluctant to miss another day.
 
“Leave your doors unlocked,” Dominic told them. No one was happy with this as Dominic had hired some dodgy people to help with the moving.
 
*
 
After Maggie Varcoe died in 2018 while playing in the South Australian Women’s Football League, the League gave her father a $100,000 cheque.
 
Her father says he gave Maggie’s boyfriend the cheque, but he has disappeared without putting a headstone on her grave.
 
*
 
A genial woman quit her volunteer work at a soup kitchen and became an unpaid worker in a sex store.
 
She said the most popular item was a “bullet dildo” that could be recharged via USB.
 
A man listening said that people hook sexual gadgets to themselves then connect them to the internet from where another person in another country manipulates the gadget via a joy stick.
 
The person in the other country might also be connected to a sex toy that will be manipulated by the first person. So, they have sex via the internet and via these little machines.
 
*
 
Quite often, Fred’s Van and Food Barn soup kitchen clients talk about their $400 or even $800-an-hour barristers.
 
*
 
The hairdresser is no longer at Unley Salvation Army. She is long gone.
 
*
 
A man shouted at another client at Fred’s Van Elizabeth for using a dirty teaspoon to stir coffee. They had an argument and one accused the other of being “a loser”.
 
There was an invitation to go outside for a fight, but this did not eventuate.
 
*
 
George the Elder said that diners abusing volunteers at Hopes Café are why management is turning it into a normal café that charges up-front prices and not by donation.
 
The most abusive diners were not donating and by charging prices the café effectively gets rid of them.
 
A managerial woman named Rebecca said she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown making the decision to charge money like a normal café. She didn’t want to do it, but they were losing money and on the verge of closing down.
 
*
 
We hear of police crackdowns on drug dealing motorcycle gangs and Ice dealers. But is it due to their drug dealing or is it because they bring the drug business into public scrutiny with gunfire and knifings?
 
*
 
A diner said that the most aggressive and dysfunctional diners at soup kitchens are allowed to get away with nearly anything because management doesn’t want them excluded. This is because soup kitchens are their last resort.
 
That is why management won’t let a soup kitchen go upmarket and replace drug addicts, criminals and those suffering anti-social tendencies with those who are simply destitute and homeless.
 
 
*
 
Perhaps it was nothing more than a bitter meme, but word amongst Anglicare management is that they are worried about Joe’s chili sauce.
 
Joe works as a cook in the Food Barn and donates jars of authentic homemade Italian chili sauce.
 
But an Anglicare manager outside the Food Barn building wants it stopped for fear that clients might demand other condiments such as vinegar or salt and pepper shakers on each table. This employee also suggested that salt and pepper should be removed from the dining room.
 
This has to be a bitter meme placed to cause misery rather than a contemplated policy. Doesn’t it?
 
25 August 2019

From the anonymous contact page
 
G'day!
 
Can you please upload this to your website ASAP?
 
Please ask your readers who are filthy/irate/disgusted with the homeless crisis in S.A. to go www.yoursay.sa.gov.au before 5pm 30th August 2019.
 
Once they are on this site, scroll down to Housing and Homelessness Strategy for South Australia (almost at the bottom of the page), then click on "Find out more", then click on "Strategic Intent' and post their thoughts & ideas on what the government should do to end homelessness.
 
Your readers might like to mention about how there are over 1000 Housing Trust homes sitting empty etc, whilst homeless singles and families are sleeping on the concrete or on wet grass.
 
It does say on this site, that you need to log in and create a profile including your full name. Really? As if it matters what your name is, when they are wanting to hear what solutions people have. 
I will be posting a lengthy response under a name that I make up, as my name is irrelevant. 
 
Those who want to remain anonymous, just pick a popular first name and match it with a popular surname. 
 
It does say for those without the internet you can ring the Housing Trust call centre on 131 299, but as most of their staff are halfwits and couldn't relay a correct message in "Chinese whispers", I would try not to use this avenue. 
 
You can also post a letter to SA Housing Authority, GPO Box 1669 Adelaide SA 5000, although again as they are months behind in actioning incoming mail, I wouldn't recommend this either.
 
Please try to not to swear in your comments, so they take your opinions seriously.
 
Thanks
 
Anonymous
 
Editor: You must be kidding. Those in control know exactly what is happening and they know the solutions; they don’t need us to tell them. The purpose of “Have your Say” is perhaps
 

1. A means of them checking if they are missing something that needs to be covered up.
2. To “smoke out their enemies” via the log-in procedure.
3. Make it appear that they are listening when they’re using the process as a delaying tactic to avoid rooting out the corruption.

 
25 August 2019

(above) The closed down Faith Works Red Shed on Barndioota Road, Salisbury Plain where they gave away free vegetables and sold elderly Food Bank stuff.

(above) The Red Shed and the Sunday free food giveaways at the Influencers Church in Salisbury have largely moved to 5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol where they are open nearly every day for free food.

Kilburn Fred’s Van in decline
 
The Orange Sky Laundry van wasn’t in its usual spot. They weren’t there the previous week, either. It might have been the rain that chased them away.
 
Half a dozen old people sat on chairs inside the foyer. Less than usual. The youngest was about 38 while the others ranged from old to almost dead.
 
Old Graham’s son watched a YouTube prank video where a man put a motorised crocodile head in a river then captured footage of people screaming and yelling as they fled the beast.
 
Old Graham’s son was wearing $300 pointy shoes he’d gotten for free from the Thread Together store at Port Church.
 
One woman entered shouting that she, “slept four f***ing hours last night, this menopause sh**. I’m over it. What women have to put up with.”
 
Then a man arrived talking about a housemate. “He stole from me. Said he was cut off Centrelink. He was shooting up. I bashed him. He can’t go to the police. He has too many warrants.”
 
There wasn’t much of a rush when the dining room doors opened. Numbers have dropped over the past year. Tonight, there were about 45 people compared with previous numbers of 70 and 80. The children and mentally retarded people have stopped coming. One diner said it was the feeling of impending violence that keeps them away. This diner also said that clients had pushed around male volunteers the previous month. She said the police wouldn’t get involved because they considered it “domestic”.
 
Rumour had it that an aloof woman holding a sheaf of papers and walking about the rooms was an employee from St Vincent de Paul. Whatever, she had no influence on the salt and pepper shakers. Why don’t volunteers fill them each week?
 
The food was soup, mashed potatoes, hamburger stew, grated cheese with a dessert of ice-cream. Also, those same slices of apples that come in little bags that were given out by Fred’s Van Elizabeth the previous evening. Tiny pieces of wet cheesecake were served, but without plates or even serviettes.  Coffee was available in horrible soft plastic mugs.
 
The bags were mildly okay with Perkii probiotic apple juice drinks in ten-cent deposit plastic bottles that the can collectors would have appreciated. The contents were designed by the University of Queensland. Each bottle contains 1.2 billion probiotic bugs that are coated to survive passage through the stomach and reach the gut for digestion. Scientists say the function of our brains is determined by the quality of digestive bugs in our intestines.
 
However, Old Graham wasn’t impressed. He said the drinks contained no apple juice because they were made by a university and what would they know about apples.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre. 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm Thursday. Rowdy.
Meal prepared by Adelaide Wine Centre followed by a big bag of takeaway food. Free.
As with all Fred’s Vans, no registration or I.D. required.
Orange Sky Laundry in carpark.
Horrible plastic coffee cups, but interesting and informed clients. Staff a little thick upstairs.

24 August 2019
 

Fred’s Van Salisbury cold food
 
A woman arrived who had been absent for a month. “She’s been pissing blood,” a diner next to me said. “I’ve got blood in my urine,” he added. “But that’s due to medication.” He said the medication put fat on his liver.
 
One-eyed Steve arrived with his usual fanfare. Tricky Mick held up two fingers and said to Steve, “How many fingers?” Steve said two as Tricky Mick put up a third. Romeo held up one finger. Steve got that right. His sight is returning in his blind eye after lens reconstruction surgery. Nearly every diner over forty has a major illness or disability.
 
I cannot remember the meal, but it was cold.
 
The Eskimo Lady was there. She carried an Eskimo-style handbag. She asked for a blanket. Fred’s Van didn’t have any, but gave her a brand-new lime-coloured Hi-Vis fleecy coat. She wore it under her jacket. The last thing The Lady wants is to be recognised. The American asked her about Grinder. She said she hadn’t seen him for some time.
 
When the Lady got the Hi-Vis jacket, there was a rush of others to the room where they were stored. The charge was led by Marten and in four minutes the supply was exhausted. People who wouldn’t work in an iron lung suddenly decided they needed work clothing.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
 
 
Third Editor
24 August 2019

(above) The 'Thread Together' shop gives away free new clothing every Wednesday during school terms at the Port Baptist Church at 47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North from 5:00am to 6:30pm. They'll also throw in a meal and a bag of groceries for free. No I.D. or registration required.

Slight drop in the Adelaide Zero Project homeless count

The Broadley Trust’s Adelaide Zero Project count of “rough sleepers” in the Adelaide CBD and immediate suburbs has dropped from 226 to 208.
 
The more interesting aspect is how these 208 “rough sleepers” are living. How many sleep on city concrete footpaths, how many in doorways, how many in the parklands, how many in their cars, etc.?
 
And how exactly does the Adelaide Zero Project define a “rough sleeper”? What area is covered in this “homeless count”? Are people who are refused service by welfare agencies in the outer suburbs then referred to the Hutt Street Centre – and who subsequently go to the Hutt Street Centre – considered Adelaide CBD homeless and added to the count?
 
Then we come to the question of the effectiveness of the Adelaide Zero Project. Why are those few remaining mainstream journalists in Adelaide not questioning the effectiveness of this Project? And don’t those people in the Don Dunstan Foundation feel embarrassed that homeless numbers have not dropped, but have risen despite the money poured into their Project?
 
And, finally, what has the Maestro to say about this? Ian Cox is arguably the leading intellectual in the Adelaide homeless scene. Will he coolly cut through the spin of an often-self-serving homeless industry and tell us what is happening?
 
23 August 2019
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Brahma Lodge Seventh-day Adventist free vegetarian meal

​The Food Barn mob has partially supplanted the old mob from two years ago. Where the old mob politely waited until the front doors opened, the Food Barn mob sneak in the back door and enter the dining room before opening time.
 
Three of them at the large central table banged their fists on the table in unison while an old man at the back table kept blowing a whistle. One diner surreptitiously drank from a little bottle she kept hidden in her coat pocket. It was Iced Coffee.
 
A boy showed us a picture of a castle he’d build with 6000 pieces of Lego. A woman said an MRI showed she was going senile. A man asked for assistance with his laptop power button, but the machine was in pieces in a plastic bag. The toilets were clean, but run down with no locks on the doors and holes in the walls.
 
The tables were covered in tablecloths, clean cutlery, glasses, serviettes and a water decanter. The water tasted like spring water rather “Port Adelaide lead pipe” flavour.
 
The meal included rice burgers, boiled frozen corn and peas, a beautiful leaf salad, vegetarian gravy, roast potatoes and carrots, apple crumble and ice cream. It tasted much better than the Food Barn food because it was made from fresh ingredients rather than Food Bank food.
 
It was a pleasant meal completely free of fear. There was a plastic donation box that was optional. It was more a means of expressing appreciation than a fundraiser. I usually put $5 into it, but have switched to coins because they make more noise. I coughed and jumped up and down as I did so, but no one took any notice.
 
Brahma Lodge Seventh Day Adventist
144 Frost Road, Brahma Lodge (near Main North Road)
1st and 3rd Thurs each month. 6:30pm to 7:30pm during school terms. Vegetarian meal occasionally with eggs. Nice tablecloths and cutlery. Free. No I.D. required. Takeaway bread and leftover food. No coffee or tea. Gentle atmosphere suitable for delicate people.

23 August 2019

​From the anonymous contact page
 
“Re : Free electricity for life

But what about Free WATER for life ?

SA Government charges us neo-homeless for 200-500 Litres water usage per day, especially since we're not on individual water meters and SA GOV wants to scrape / rob poor Peter people to pay Pol (Pol Pot - China GOV etc).

Our real water use is between 20-50 litres perday, ONE TENTH of the amount assessed and charged.

What a RIPOFF !

Stealing from the Poor Peter People to pay POL POT People kinky Chin** owners of SA GOV.”
 
23 August 2019

(above) Orange Sky Laundry van sitting idle on a Thursday evening behind the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Brahma Lodge when it should have been at Fred's Van Kilburn. It was also absent earlier in the day at the Elizabeth Food Barn.

Free electricity for life
 
The man who got $7447 worth of electricity for free used more than that. He allowed a small deduction from his bank account each fortnight, but not enough to cover what he used. That’s why the bill rose to $7447. It was heading to twenty-thousand dollars because he had no intention of paying anything more to the Chinese owners.
 
You can copy his technique and avoid paying for most of the electricity you use. It is legal. The qualifications needed are a serious illness or simply being poor. You can go on a “hardship plan”. They don’t necessarily call it this and may deny its existence, but it is there. Our $7447 trail blazer man is proof of that.
 
The key question to ask when you want to change your plan (contract) is whether they will turn off the juice if you get behind in the bill? They won’t answer the question directly so it will require a little guile and research to get on the right plan. Our trail blazer hero’s plan is ‘Fair Go 15’.
 
Is avoiding paying for electricity immoral? Yes, but not in the context of dealing with immoral adversaries. The cost of electricity in South Australia is nearly the highest on earth.
 
This is because our crooked politicians sold off nearly all of Australia’s gas production for the next ten years. Then they sold the power generators that belonged to the people to foreign corporations. These mostly China-based corporations could then name their price. And they do. They charge virtually what they want.
 
So, don’t worry about morality. And don’t be fooled when these power companies claim to be Australian businesses. They are not.
 
22 August 2019
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(above) Australian citizens sleep on cold concrete at Salisbury while the government and Anglicare keep houses empty and "refugee-ready". Meanwhile, executives from homeless joints won't breathe a word of criticism against this policy. (August 2019).

Victory Church outdoor BBQ
 
It was a shocker when Danielle showed up. She was walking by when the preacher asked her if she wanted a sausage. She said yes. We recognised each other then she told the preacher we’d met at the Casino. I shrank lower to the ground. Danielle works full-time and dresses immaculately. She speaks with precision because her job requires precision.
 
The woman formerly named Shuffles thought someone was getting into her car until she realised she’d squeezed her Fob key.
 
Cyril’s uncle was there. His name is Troy. His nickname is Bones and he is from Goolwa. He kept grabbing Wayne who is in his late seventies. Wayne yelled and ran off. Troy almost chased him.
 
Cryril talked to Brandy who pays $220 for a small studio apartment in King Williams Street in the Adelaide CBD. Brandy said when he lived at home, he called for his dead father who manifested in his closet. But Brandy soon doubted it was his father because the entity was drawing power from him. Brandy’s mother said there was something wrong with him.
 
Two diners got jobs. They both live at one of Dominic’s houses. Both ex-Army, the one that shoots people, not the Salvation Army.
 
There was a fight at the railway station. A semi-white fella grabbed a quarter cask of wine from a black fella. The black fella punched and kicked him until he fell down. Guards made a small effort to pull them apart. Police arrested the black fella. He yelled and screamed for twenty minutes.
 
Lots of homeless people were at the BBQ. It gets a higher ratio of homeless to non-homeless than almost any free service in Adelaide.
 
The filthy toilets at the railway station were locked.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station. Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.
 
Second Editor
 
21 August 2019

Big charities versus small charities
​
From the Night Talker
 
Re: comment about small independent operators, versus large conglomerates;

“I concur in regards what has been written in regards small independent operators versus much larger, more well-funded agency operations.

Street-smart sounds very much like the Bob McGuire Foundation in Albert Park in Melbourne, run by 80 something Catholic Priest, father Bob McGuire. Most people would know him as the person, who had regular arguments with John Saffron, on his tv show, from several years ago.
 
“These small operators, seem to run rings around the big boys, with their expensive outings (e.g. walk a mile in my boots, and Vinnies CEO sleepout (what a joke that is!)
 
“Fixing homelessness runs a similar vein to fixing unemployment. We unemployed all have something fundamentally wrong with us (even though I am technically not unemployed at the moment, as I am working a phenomenal (wait for it) 18 hours a week (which I almost had to hold someone hostage, to get!).
 
“It’s all about putting us back on the path of something or rather (new paths, paths to employment, paths to f**k knows where? WTF? Who thought this up?
 
“I am (under) employed because employers don't want me because of my age, (I will soon be 50) and the fact that with my qualifications, they have to pay me above and beyond, the normal going rate (I have three university degrees).
 
“I also live in a geographical location that has extremely high levels of unemployment (probably around the 40% mark) so getting any ongoing employment,(no matter what it is) is a testament to a person’s ongoing endurance.
 
“Yet I am forced to submit to stupid monthly face to face meetings with case managers, who are half my age and often have no actual qualifications in anything above a stint working at Kmart or the local Bottle O.
 
“But these alleged bastions of intelligence are meant to find me work, or make me work ready, but neither happens because come the end of the Job network agencies contract, and these persons (for want of a lesser word) will themselves be unemployed or looking for new agencies to go to, so they can continue to harm more unemployed persons.
 
“What a stupid mess made all the more complicated, by a stupid, insipid and convoluted system.
 
“The answer, force employers to take on long term unemployed before other applicants and pay for upskilling where necessary and also punish those employers where it is obvious that ageism or other forms of discrimination has happened. Then you will see people entering the workforce. Also, recruitment agencies, labour hire companies and the job network agencies themselves all need to go. These are parasites that leech off the labour market.

"You be the judge."

The Night Talker

21 August 2019

(above) Another sleeping area near the Salisbury HousingSA (Housing Trust) office. This strip of concrete is not the length of a bed so the homeless man's legs get wet when it rains. The South Australian government keeps Adelaide welfare units and houses empty for months, even years, then knocks them down and leaves the land vacant for more years. But those vicious executives at Junction Housing keep their mouths shut about this and instead blame the homeless for having "issues". (August 2019).

Orange Sky Laundry calls it quits at the Food Barn 

An old woman crouched on the concrete in front of the Anglicare Mission Food Barn today. She had a big bag of dirty laundry. She was waiting for Orange Sky Laundry. Another old lady, this one from WestCare, was in the Food Barn dining room. She went out and broke the bad news to her. The truck wasn't coming, not this week or next week. They are gone for good. Why, no one knows.
 
Orange Sky was also missing in action at Fred’s Van last Wednesday near the Elizabeth railway station.
 
Nor was it at Salisbury Fred’s Van last Sunday though that might have been due to a slight sprinkling of rain.
 
Late 20 August 2019

Is the Hopes café going bad?

“Word out hopes cafe- Beulah Park re-opens on the 21st august due to a whole new approach of pay it forward - now it'll have set menu prices - Bugga!! can poor ppl live on toasted sandwiches 365 days of the year pls dont skimp on the cheap coles/woolies deli hammS!!!! - they are running the place at a loss - after a hefty $60k in renovations the dividends are not rolling in - the crowd had died down.
 
“I often wonder about the liberal toffs in the area - I still think the place is there to attract more drug pushers & the whole vibe of the place is starting to feel like its out of an Orwellian black comedy!!”
 
Gypsy Soul

Clayton’s Uniting Church Hopes Cafe
cnr Portrush Road and The Parade, Norwood. Ph 8331 3529. Wednesday and Friday. 10:00am – 3:00pm. Lunch served at 11:00am. Donation tin not compulsory. Upper class diners with a liberal sprinkling of genuine derelicts. Barista coffee. Decent toilets. Orange Sky Laundry on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm. No residency or I.D. requirements. Free bread and vegetables from 11:00am to 12:00noon on Wednesdays for people in surrounding suburbs and this requires a Centrelink card. 

20 August 2019
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Port Baptist Church at Largs Bay

The Lefevre Baptist Church at this location fizzled out. They then lent the building to the thriving independent Port Church that didn’t have a building. The Port Church then joined the Baptist Union. It was sort of Baptist, anyway. That was last year. Since joining the Baptist Union, the Port Church has refurbished the building and built up a larger congregation.
 
That Cambodian woman joined our table. What a terror. She wanted to know how much money I had in the bank and whether I was married. One diner said she doesn’t have a filter. She said she lives in the Botanic Gardens. Our table was filled with City Salvo regulars. While never aligned with the Crony Gang, they were never close to the druggies either. The druggies attempted a takeover of the Wednesday meal at Port Church, but all the religious talk by Ben the Preacher put them off. And the anti-Ice church people at the front door didn’t encourage them, to say the least.
 
Jacquan’s husband talked about doing good being the best reason to exist. Jacquan and the preacher’s Mum handed out Swedish cheese made from milk and soya. It sells for $30 a kilo in stores. Nothing wrong with it. There was also Coke, Sprite, spuds, fruit, cauliflower, spring onions, bread and lemons. Quality wasn’t too bad.
 
The preacher’s son is a qualified journalist.
 
The Port Church (Baptist)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling.
Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread.
No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Open during school terms.
Phone 0414 693 218 to get on their message list. No Ice Dealers.

20 August 2019
 

The Park Terrace, Gilberton Housing Trust apartments

“Sleep sometimes impossible in Hostile Hostel for Homeless :

Pitch Black Frosted Fart making "music" of Bomb Box variety....

Pitch Black Attack :

nocturnal noise similar to rat active in deepest dark black night

Frosted Fart :

LOUD ASS Bikie Speeding on Eskimo ice cream.”
 
A Tenant
20 August 2019

From the anonymous contact page

Adelaide Homeless Journal said: 'Americans and the Deep State could learn so much from the South Australian government.'

"If American...

What Tribe ?

Aananin Abenaki Alabama Aleut Algonquin Alutiiq Anasazi Apache Arapaho Arawak Arkansas Arowak Attikamekw Aymara Aztec Beaver Bellacoola Beothuk Blackfoot Cahuilla Canela Carib Carib Carrier Catawba Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chilcotin Chipewyan Choctaw Chumash Comanche Cree Dakota Delaware Dogrib Erie Fox Grosventre Haida Hare Havasupai Huron Illinois Inca Innu Inuit Iroquois Jivero Kainai Kasak Kickapoo Kiowa Kuna Kutchin Kwakwala Lacandon Lakota Lenape Lumbee Maidu Makah Maliseet Mandan Mapuche Mascouten Massachuset Mattabesic Mayan Menominee Metis Metoac Miami Micmac Mikmaq Moche Mohawk Mohegan Mohican Montagnais Munsee Nanticoke Narragansett Navajo Nezperce Nipmuc Nippising Nootkan Oglala Ojibwe Olmec Omaha Osage Ottawa Paiute Papago Passamaquoddy Pekuni Pennacook Penobscot Pequot Pima Potawatomie Powhatan Pueblo Quechua Saanich Sac Saraguro Saramaka Sarcee Sauk Sekani Seminole Shawnee Shoshone Shoshoni Sioux Slavey Surinamese Susquehannock Tahltan Taino Teotihuacan Tionontati Tlahuica Tlingit Toltec Tsimshian Ute Wabanaki Wampanoag Wappinger Winnebago Wiyot Yagua Yanamano Yurok Zapotec Zuni

What Tribe ? What Tribes ?

Some might say "Those are Indians".

So what India, what part India ?

Calcutta Bombay Gudjerat Goa Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, Kashmir Delhi Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir Haryana

What India ? What part India?"
 
Anonymous
20 August 2019

(above) More ground poisoned by the Port Adelaide Enfield Council. The aim is to make all secluded and private areas easily surveilled. (July 2019).

Salisbury Fred’s Van
 
A man lay wrapped in a huge black and white blanket on the concrete outside the Twelve-25 Club. He said he was sick. He looked like Elvis near the end.
 
The Club is the main tenant, along with PBA-FM, of the Salisbury Institute complex.
 
Orange Sky Laundry got a few customers at the back gate. A woman volunteer was red in the face from cold.
 
There might have been 6 or 7 homeless people in the group of 50 diners. Perhaps more, they are good at disguising themselves. It’s an imperative to survival.
 
Adam with his lower leg chopped off spoke to a man who ignored him. Adam’s face registered dismay. The ‘Witch Man’ was there. People mock him, but he might be the smartest fellow in the room. He lives in the nicest house in Salisbury. A woman wearing skimpy shorts and a padded bra showed Old Val a picture of her daughter.
 
A can collector who cannot stand for more than a few moments charged his mobility scooter in the dining room. The machine was all bashed up and dirty. This is the new reality: elderly invalids collecting ten-cent cans and pieces of aluminium from rubbish bins.
 
An older woman said she’d not had children due to “the surgery”. She said you have to be cruel to be kind with children. Not let them get away with murder. The authorities were cruel with her.
 
The takeaway room had very little to take away. Not even bread. There was Bok Choy, small ripe oranges, rotten tomatoes, some pastries, potatoes, old lettuce, nothing much. The first in the queue got the best, but that wasn’t much. It is becoming disgusting. There were lots of beanies, but those sleeping outside need foam padding. Any size of foam to place below their hips and the rest of their bodies. Nor do they need counselling; they need foam firstly, then somewhere to live.
 
Lisa and the man who hit her with a metal water jug at Elizabeth Fred’s Van were there. Both were wary of each other.
 
The meal was exceptional with a hamburger stew (including a non-meat version), Maranello pizza, chips, fresh salad, garlic bread and soup. But it was all cold. What a tragedy. They work so hard to prepare it, then serve it cold.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.

19 August 2019

Survival techniques
​in a declining society

From the Night Talker
 
“Ways to make money and or get goods and or survive when things are sh***y (which is happening right now)...….

“Any payments you think you might be entitled to apply (whatever is approved) good for you... (remember there are quite a few; bowel and bladder payment, mobility allowance, telephone allowance, rent assistance, crisis payment, etc etc).
 
“If you are unemployed and have been told you need to be on WFTD (Work for the Dole) circumvent this by applying for Volunteer work. Make sure its somewhere where you can get food/clothing or other goodies. If you are going to do free work for someone else, you may as well get something out of it. It’s also a much better option that WFTD and gives you more choices.

“If you see PINK and or ROCK SALT anywhere and its clean grab it. Asians love it. Bag it up and sell it on EBAY or somewhere similar. My friends who live near some Salt flats, are doing this through a friend with internet and an ONLINE EBAY account. It is helping to pay for fuel, Kero, charcoal briquettes and the registration/upkeep of their car.

“If you are clever/savvy and or can stomach this. Catching, gutting/cleaning and selling wild Rabbits and Pigeons to others, is a real little money spinner.
 
“There is a local that does this here in P.W. and he asks $4.00 for a small rabbit and $6.00 for a large one. Pigeons are a flat $2.80 per bird. He cannot keep up with demand.
 
“He sells on the side of the road via one of those, heavily insulated, ESKY boxes (the really good quality ones, you can buy from Boating/Camping and or fishing stores.) He fills it up with ice and it stays cold in there up to four days. Then he puts a sign up near the highway, sits next to his box and waits.
 
“Business I have been told, is excellent and on weekends there are no council inspectors or police (They are too lazy to work or check what he is doing on weekends) (on weekdays, he traps, cleans and gets his produce ready to sell on the weekends) A more modern uptake on the old Rabbit O of Depression/War years.

“Any charity you visit, sign whatever needs to be signed and then tell the case worker, the most long and convoluted story about all the things that have gone wrong, and or are still going wrong. Make it very clear that you have SPECIFIC dietary and health needs, and these CANNOT be covered by a (crappy) Foodbank voucher. Hint you need new shoes, prescriptions filled, have numerous dietary allergies and are also mentally fragile/unwell.
 
“This works for me. I have managed to obtain vouchers for supermarkets, spend less shoes, have prescriptions paid, and vouchers given for clothing, blankets, fuel, reading glasses, dental care and haircuts.
 
“Don't feel bad about this. NO CHARITY IS IN POVERTY. They are ALL supported by EXTREMELY WEALTHY CHURCHES OR SIMILAR FAITH BASED ENTITITES! THEIR CEO'S ARE ON TRIPLE FIGURE SALARIES AND WON'T MISS A $50.00 COLES VOUCHER OR A COUPLE OF BLANKETS! oh, crying a lot and or telling the case worker that you haven't taken your anti-psychotic meds this week because you ran out, also helps!

“Ringing up Radio stations when they have promo's about the best story for this and that, and you get a gift card in return, is a really good little earner! I have four gift cards at $100.00 each, that I have collected this way, that I have still to use. Gift cards now do NOT run out (they used to only be valid for 12 months at one stage) This is no longer the case. Maybe you won't get mega-bucks out of this, but it’s easy to do and will only set you back a phone call.

“Stock up when times are not so bad and or pay off some debt, if you can. Got that tax return, or some extra payment. Stock up on goods.

(Tinned/dried food is good) Buy a few extra cans or products you can put away, each week and put aside for when things go pear-shaped. Find a nice solid carboard box and put the extra items inside.
 
“If you have extra money, get your car serviced and check the tyres (replace if necessary) etc etc. If there are any repairs that need to be done around your house (e.g. fix that broken window or get someone to look at the rotting front door) then do it. If you don't have the money up front, then get someone to do it on a bartering system.

“I have a few neighbours and friends, whom I barter with. They provide me with items I need, and I return the favour, with something they might need (car ride, letter to Centrelink, some typing done, or something needs to be sold over the internet etc etc) You get the idea. Help others out (that can be trusted) and the favour will be returned.”

Good luck!
REMEMBER KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!
The Night Talker.
 
19 August 2019

Fred’s Van Sunday at Elizabeth
 
Tory wore an Order of Malta black coat. They are designed for homeless people and were given away brand new at the St Vincent de Paul joint in Elizabeth.
 
Mr Rock Solid wore a Japanese winter hat and muttered to himself.
 
The woman who got clonked by a metal water decanter has returned. She said she hadn’t been hit in the head as reported. The metal decanter struck her in the dent in her arm caused when it didn’t heal properly after being broken when she was a child.
 
German Marten excelled himself by joining the food queue at the counter and demanding more food when he hadn’t even finished what was on his plate, and others in the queue hadn’t been served a first time. He blames his behaviour on the Lutherans when he was put into their slave camp after World War 2. Marten is quite well liked and his behaviour accepted.  
 
Getting a meal on Sundays resembles a primal fight for food. Some people prefer this scenario though it discourages the timid from attending.
 
Her name won’t be mentioned here, but a woman at our table was furious about Australian citizens being denied Housing Trust housing. She said, “… a person with three kids can be homeless while a refugee comes in and gets one right away. That makes me angry. It should be first come, first served.”
 
This is a common sentiment in the underclass culture. It’s the richer bureaucrats and politicians like Penny Wong who introduce policies that harm the poorest Australians, but not themselves.
 
Sean from Gawler was there. He’s lost six kilograms through intensive exercise, which has resulted in halving his insulin intake.
 
The cutlery was placed in paper bags to prevent cross contamination, but the salt and pepper shakers were mostly empty. There must be an anti-salt and pepper ideology in charitable institutions. Like in 1950’s children’s institutions where the food was deliberately made tasteless.
 
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview.

19 August 2019

(above) When people arrived for the advertised Homeless Expo at UnitingSA in Port Adelaide, they discovered it had been cancelled due to possible wind and rain. UnitingSA staff kindly gave away free food as compensation, but it was mostly unhealthy sugary or MSG-laden stuff. But at least it was newly purchased and not rubbish from Food Bank.

(above) This is the bag in which the free food was given to people arriving to discover the Homeless Expo had been cancelled due to possible wind and rain. However, UnitingSA Port Adelaide should have replaced "Courage" with "Gutless". Telling 28 stall holders not to come due to a little wind and rain wasn't quite an act of courage.

​On the Street
 
A man in collapsing health and approaching death said that Lieutenant Fiona Allan of Playford Salvation Army was his lifeline. He said she listened to him. He also mentioned Jo Lawrence of GP Plus as changing his life for the better. Credit should also go to the man himself, as he has the right stuff for survival.
 
*
 
An elderly soup kitchen client arrived at the free BBQ with a red eye. A branch had scratched him during the night. He lives in a cheap rooming house, but is a State Emergency Service volunteer as well.
 
*
 
Where is the Celebrity Can Collector? He usually sits outside the Adelaide railway station. He’s had breathing problems, but won’t give up smoking. Many people passing by his busking position offer him cigarettes.
 
The Celebrity gives the railway station a bit of needed class. He offsets the depraved predatory nature of the Adelaide Casino. A coin and smoke are what the Celebrity wants, not your house.
 
*
 
Victory Church ran out of hot water for coffee at its free BBQ on Friday evenings outside the Salisbury railway station. This happens frequently. And the water isn’t hot enough because it arrives in large vacuum flasks.
 
The winter evenings are cold and with a high proportion of clients living outside, many sleeping on concrete or the ground, they prefer hot coffee rather than a tepid brew or none at all.
 
*
 
An older man worked decades in construction. His back finally gave out. He’s been on the dole for eight years. He suggested to the Job Active (Job Network) government contractor that he should do a Certificate 4 in teaching construction techniques for people entering the industry. It was free if approved by his Job Network case manager.
 
The case manager promised to investigate it, but didn’t. The client reminded him at every visit and finally, after six-months, the employee made a couple of phone calls. 
 
The course was no longer free and now cost $1500 of which the Job Network joint would not pay. The elderly client hadn’t the money. The employee said “Just send in your 12 job applications each fortnight” and left it at that.
 
 
*
 
One of the men sleeping in his car at Semaphore beach has found a better location behind a church with access to toilets and a kitchen. He also works six-days a week washing dishes in a hotel.
 
It is a credit to the preacher and a parishioner at the church for arranging this because the homeless man is high quality.
 
 
*
 
At 9:50am, the Ruf Us homeless services organisation at 26 South Road, Wingfield was dead as a door nail. The doors were locked and the carpark empty except for the Lion’s Club van parked in a corner, as always.
 
They used to open at 9:30 then close at 3:00pm, but these hours have become too demanding.
 
Meanwhile, the large rental shed and van sit unused nearly 24-hours a day, 365 days a year.
 
*
 
The Anglicare “Threads” van was at St Bede’s. “Threads” is a different organisation than “Thread Together” at Port Baptist Church.
 
The “Threads” people visiting St Bede’s had measured a client three months previously then returned on this visit with clothing that specifically fitted him.
 
*
 
Heart and Soul is doing well from the arson attack on their delivery truck they’d named, “Ruby”. Apart from collecting insurance, they’ve begun a Go Fund Me page and seeking even more funds by doing the media rounds with their sad tale.
 
Adelaide’s free food operations are a tough game to play and plenty fail, but Heart and Soul isn’t one of them.
 
*
 
George the Elder fell out of bed. He asked another patron at the Marion Life Men’s breakfast: “Does this mean I’m getting old?”
 
*
 
A soup kitchen veteran said that the husband of the C.E.O. of Heart and Soul, Eman Rahim, is a leading figure at Second Bite.
 
*
 
Fred’s Van reportedly had just eight clients at Pioneer Park in Gawler on that rainy Thursday evening ten days ago. There were also eight volunteers. The clients got heaps of stuff. Diane wasn’t there.
 
*
 
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his prison cell. You’d think prison authorities would have prevented this. He was part of a sting plan operated by a foreign country.
 
Important men like Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew were invited to parties where underage prostitutes were lured in compromising situations then blackmailed at a later date.
 
Jeffery Epstein knew too much to be allowed to live. He had to be suicided.
 
The South Australian government was far more subtle. They held a Royal Commission where those presenting evidence were told not ever to speak publicly about their testimony, then the files were sealed for 80 years.
 
Of course, to make the Commission seem real, a few old men near death were prosecuted and put in jail.
 
The Americans and the Deep State could learn so much from the South Australian government.
 
*
 
A City Salvos volunteer said the Army did a police check on his/her son and father as well as herself even though it was just her that was applying to be a volunteer. No wonder volunteers are getting harder to find and need to be replaced by involuntary volunteers.
 
*
 
Religious Mike is still missing in action. Those who know where he is won’t talk.
 
*
 
The tax office is after Dominic who owns a number of rooming houses in the Salisbury area.
 
*
 
The free lunch at Unley Salvation Army has become very noisy and dusty as workers are renovating the building.
 
18 August 2019

Buying dog hydro-cortisone for yourself From the Night Talker

​“Been told by your G.P. you will need to pay to see a specialist in order to get that prescription medication you need? Maybe not?

“I have a friend who has ongoing skin problems (allergic flare ups) that have now resulted in his G.P. telling him, he has to see a specialist, in order to get authorisation for prescriptions for a stronger, than over the chemist counter, form of Hydrocortisone crème.
 
“What the G.P. was rather vague about, was the cost to see the "so called specialist" in his swanky three day a week, consulting rooms in the Eastern Suburbs. I advised my "friend" to ring up the Receptionist for the specialist first, and ask exactly how much the ten minute or so consultation is going to cost? (I already had an idea as I have already been through this, earlier this year, when forced to see the specialist who carried out my colonoscopy in the Kapunda Hospital in April of this year).
 
“My friend took my advice and rang. The receptionist casually mentioned over the phone, that it was going to cost (wait for it) ($209.00) but goody goody, $60.00 of that is Medicare refundable. (Not that it makes much difference to my friend as he is unemployed and the remaining $149.00 he has to pay upfront, will be hard to find).
 
“My friend rang me up after the call, and I asked him what exactly did he need as far as the prescription is concerned. When he told me, I said I get exactly the same medication for my dog (who suffers from rye grass allergy) online, via a vet supplies website and the cost for a 500 mL bottle is well under $20.00 (and I don't need to provide a prescription either!)
 
“I gave my friend the website address, and he promptly ordered himself some of the medication, that his G.P. told him was only available, after he pays $149.00 to see a specialist!!! What a rort!
 
“The end of this story, is my friend has his medication and his skin condition is settling down nicely. As for the specialist, they haven't rang my friend back and my friend has told his G.P. his skin allergy fixed itself (what they don't know, won't hurt him) I am not suggesting that vets/pets websites are the go to for ALL medical issues (as this is clearly not the case) but this "hack" might work for you?

Good luck.

The Night Talker. 
 
Editor: I get this stuff with ease from GP’s in the Kimberley, but my Adelaide GP is extremely reluctant to prescribe it. I use it with extreme caution as it may disrupt the immune system.

18 August 2019
​

(above) Pitjantjatjara camp near the Port River in August 2019. They move from the desert to towns to the city and live fantastic lives requiring skills ranging from the stone age to high technology.

Welcome to the Club, Dennis

An insider in the Adelaide City Council wasn’t happy receiving a letter of complaint from Dennis. Who was he to complain, having aroused more complaints from residents and businesses than nearly anyone else since Edwin John Dyer in the 1980’s.?
 
Mr Dyer would park his truck with the enclosed metal box on city streets for months on end. He didn’t believe in registration or a driver’s license. The police would tap on the metal box of Mr Dyer’s mobile house for hours each night while he hid in the darkness as their lights penetrated the cracks between the panels.
 
But Dennis’s complaint to the Council was in writing so it had to be investigated. He was unhappy that certain outdoor food services weren’t obeying strict food handling regulations. And that they were blocking the footpath for pedestrians such as blind people and those in wheelchairs. Not that such people in wheelchairs made any complaints. Wheelchair Nick gets around Fred’s Van at night with no problems. And there doesn’t seem to be a huge footpath traffic of blind people.
 
In his letter of complaint, Dennis didn’t mention that he’d phoned these charities for lifts here and there so as to save himself petrol money. Or that he got $2000 from a charity to fix the brakes on his huge camping vehicle then spent the money elsewhere.
 
Anyway, the Council insider told Adelaide Homeless Journal that the complaint had to be investigated. Meanwhile, the charities concerned have gone into extreme adherence to the most obscure rules in order to make themselves invulnerable from Council inspections.
 
This has been at some expense to the level of their services to homeless people and others.
 
Meanwhile, the Council insider said that, “What goes around comes around.” This meant the same level of scrutiny will be given to Dennis and his huge campervan that he parks near the Hutt Street Centre.  
 
But we shouldn’t blame Dennis completely. When you live in your van, everything and everyone is against you. People feel free to knock on your door in the middle of the night and ask for smokes. Everyone treats you with disrespect so you respond in kind. But the tragedy is that Dennis is aiming far and wide and hitting some wrong targets.
 
And the bottom line is that survival is the ultimate game and Dennis is creating enemies in all the wrong places and this will do him no good.
 
Welcome to the Club, Dennis.
 
Third Editor
10:00am Saturday
17 August 2019
 
Second Edit
 4:15pm Saturday
17 August 2019
​

Obtaining dental treatment
​for the underclass
From the Night Talker

​“Ways to get low cost and or free emergency and or ongoing dental treatment. 

“The Nursing Sister at the Hutt Street Centre can fast forward anyone in need for urgent or ongoing dental treatment, but you have to make an appointment to see her face to face. (You cannot do this over the phone).
 
“In a similar vein, any homelessness/disadvantaged friendly G.P. clinic (they are listed on this site) will do the same.

“I don't know what the cost is to see a Government funded dentist in the CBD, but I see one in a country area, and it costs me $61.00 upfront and then any further treatment, does not require any additional payment.
 
“The Hutt street Centre Nursing Sister linked me in with a country clinic, where I can get emergency dental care, pretty much straight away. They have in turn, linked me in with a private dentist for ongoing work. I am on top of the list and am due to contacted for further dental treatment through a private dental provider, as of September of this year. This will be negotiated via the Dental Health Foundation of Australia.
 
“I believe that private dental treatment via the Dental Health Foundation (bridges, crowns veneers etc) costs $110.00 upfront, and then all subsequent treatment is covered. If you have a case worker advocate on your behalf, I believe that amount can be halved or waivered if you are in dire straits (e.g. unwell, long term unemployed on a DSP/aged pension or homeless, mentally or physically disabled.
 
“I do not know what happens in the CBD, but there is no waiting list at the country clinic I attend? It is also extremely new (less than five years old) and the staff are all excellent. They also give you free toothbrushes, mouthwash, floss, teeth picker things, soap and face washers, which I think is really nice.
 
“If in dire need of a dentist, ask the Hutt street Nurse (or another medical service provider listed on this site) to forward you to a dental clinic that can see you immediately. That is what happened in my case.”

The Night Talker
17 August 2019
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​From the anonymous contact page

“Caution to homeless in Adelaide City Council area:

“There could be a POGROM (persecution program) being conducted against anyone and all ones who look homeless or seem homeless or could be a threat to the perceived appearance of suit-and-tie business (fraud) in the CBD (Central Business District) of Adelaide.

“Perhaps the persecution of homeless has been moved from nearby parklands into the city centre where things are the most noxious at times (car fumes, alcohol, amphetamine, human need for greed).

Details:

On Friday 16 August 2019 9:30 a.m.

Was rudely confronted by ACC Security (Adelaide City Council Security) male thug wearing black ACC sportster jacket bearing "ACC Security" logo on front.

“Was just going into UPARK on Wyatt Street between Grenfell and Pirie Streets to use toilet when made to feel very unwelcome by intitial statement similar to:

"’You're not planning to stay here are you?’"

(Aye've only been living in the CBD the past 30+ years with NO offences and have used this UPARK ACC Toilet many thousands of times with NO OFFENCE.)

Just imagine :

Yer being completely non-offensive just minding yer own affairs and some security thug, who is a complete and total stranger to Ya, gets in yer face and issues Ya with the equivalent of

"U Don't belong here"

or

"U Have no rightful business here"

or

"U Have to leave".

Krikey !

And this in a place that bears yer title "U" of "U PARK".

“Have a heart for the homeless-looking inoffensive folks in the Adelaide CBD who are just minding their own affairs, or face the bad karma consequences....”
 
From “Off Ended”
19 August 2019

(above) A man and woman were camping in a tent with their 3-year-old child at the Salisbury Football Club oval behind the Salisbury RSL club. They tried to keep warm by burning twigs in a coffee can as police don't allow campfires. They have since found a place, but almost lost their child to Child Protection in the process.

(above) Along with the couple with the child, there was also a 14-year-old girl and her similarly aged boyfriend camping at the Salisbury Oval. Guards from a foreign-owned security company working for the Salisbury Council regularly expel homeless Australian citizens from the oval area. Meanwhile, the Don Dunstan Foundation hosts expensive bureaucrats-only homeless conferences at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Who gets the “Walk a Mile in My Boots” money?

Not only who gets the money, but how much did the fundraiser cost to stage?
 
There was the radio advertising, the promotional placards and the salaried workers using their time to organise the mammoth event with its multiple stalls.
 
The $276,000 raised was in part due to the $30 registration fee for those attending the walk that passed the Hutt Street Centre and into the parklands. Concession price was $10.
 
Governor Hieu Van Le put in his usual appearance. “We do care,” he said. Premier Steven Marshall was there “supporting the homeless” while ordering HousingSA to continue knocking down welfare housing or leave them empty for long periods.
 
A client expressed her ‘gratefulness’ to the Hutt Street Centre. They always dig up a client to express his or her gratitude. This year it was a woman because there is more money in women.  
 
Jerry and his Outsiders band played in front of the Hutt Street Centre: that was impressive. Football player Justin Westhoff said the Hutt Street Centre: “…does an amazing job on SA homeless on the front line…”
 
One man who appeared homeless said, “I was thinking that there wasn’t really that much support for the people that were on the streets, after seeing this morning, it blew me away that people actually do care. It feels great to actually feel cared for. I’m in awe how great this is.”
 
But where does the $276,000 raised get spent? Some is spent on advertising and hosting the event. Hutt Street Centre CEO Ian Cox said it goes to the “Day Centre” that is “unfunded”. But who actually gets the money and what does it buy?
 
What we know is that those sleeping on the ground or concrete on the night of the ‘Walk a Mile in My Boots’ were still outside the following night. And tonight.
 
But the key is the non-monetary price for the march itself. The government doesn’t allow such an event to take place without payment. What did it extract from the Hutt Street Centre and Catherine House?
 
15 August 2019
 

Elizabeth Fred’s Van on Sunday
 
They had these huge trays of Nando’s roast chicken. It came with a fresh salad and an egg salad. The soups were homemade Minestrone and pumpkin. Dessert was a decent apple crumble and cheap ice cream. Decent instant coffee was served in excellent large paper cups like those sold in coffee shops.
 
The Lions Club provided the food. They take over from Fred’s Van on the first Sunday of each month. There were six of them.
 
Not many people were there, which meant three or four seats were vacant in the café. Mel had bronchitis. “G” had trouble getting out of a chair. Rock Solid was in a bad mood, but Rosie calmed anyone getting fearful. Once you know Rock Solid, you realise he isn’t excessively dangerous. Big Ron and George the Elder weren’t there. “G’s” entourage wasn’t there.
 
Big Julie said there were just two staff on the previous Wednesday evening. She said they were professional and didn’t panic. They advised the diners to stay calm. Big Julie said the diners did stay calm. Big Julie isn’t actually big.
 
Marten the German laughed about racists in Germany claiming the blacks were taking over. Marten dislikes racists and Lutherans. Another German at the table near the door shouted “Vagina” at Marten in German. Marten said he shouldn’t speak like that. The other German said no one understood what he’d said. Marten said, “I do.” Marten is a misundertood character.
 
There was a surplus of takeaway bread and vegetables because they are so old. Diners rushed the sugar-free Sprite and Coke like addicts at the Hutt Street Centre charging a pile of crystal meth spilt on a chair.
 
There were boxes of beanies in the corner of the dining room. Some people took one or two, but we’ve all got multiple beanies. Homeless people need tarps, mini-stoves, mosquito repellant, vacuum flasks, blankets and hygiene packs, not just beanies (touques).
 
It was difficult to determine how many homeless people were there. Perhaps four or five out of 40, but maybe ten. They are good at disguising themselves.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview.
​
15 August 2019

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Re: On the Street

'worried about the increasing numbers of dysfunctional tenants'

"What about the MALFUNCTIONAL "tenants",
those who deliberately choose to do harm,
create chaos and catastrophe ?

And perhaps for organised crime such as the Development $yndicate ?”
 
The Rundle Spy
15 August 2019
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(above) The black fellas and a couple of white fellas camped in the area under the Jervois Bridge until those ugly blocks of flats were built on either side in about 2006. Most Aborigines disappeared, but a few still camp occasionally across the Port River near the causeway. However, year by year, the Port Adelaide Enfield Council makes this experience more miserable by removing trees and bushes, and poisoning the ground. (Photo early August 2019).

​Free haircut and lunch combo
 
A hairdresser in Tanunda offers a free haircut and lunch on Sunday 8th September to Anglicare Food Barn-style clients at Elizabeth.
 
The bus will pick you up from the Food Barn, take you to Tanunda and return in the early evening.
 
Phone Roxy on 8563 1323 by 27th August to book your place.
 
15 August 2019
​

UnitingSA Homeless Expo cancelled during homeless week

There was something wrong. The plastic grass was vacant when it should have been crowded with bureaucrats.
 
I entered the front of the building on Dale Street, walking between the secret food room and the mirror-windowed room where the confiscated kids are brought.
 
Two men stood next to a table covered in bags of MSG and sugared food, and decent food. The white fella said the expo had been cancelled due to wind and rain. They had cancelled it three days previously after checking their phones for the latest weather predictions. “See you next year,” the man handing out the bags said.
 
The 28 stall holders, mostly from government funded welfare joints had been told to forget about it. Some potential attendees had been told not to come, but judging by the amount turning up at the front door, most had not been warned.
 
I got to thinking, if it had been a commercial fair, it would have gone ahead. But because it was welfare, then why not cancel it. The clients weren’t going to withdraw their patronage. To hell with the salaried hours from 28 stall presenters wasted preparing for the event.  
​
And this is the problem with welfare. Management doesn’t know which services are professionally run and which should be replaced and the employees sacked.
 
For example, the Chat and Chew meal with its embarrassing name is professionally operated on a miniscule budget. It operates as an outreach service for truly vulnerable people. It is brilliant.
 
Yet the organisation of the Homeless Day in the West expo must have cost hundreds of hours of planning across the various participating agencies. Then it was cancelled because of a bit of rain and wind that mostly didn’t happen during the 10am to 2:00pm expo schedule.
 
15 August 2019
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​Information sought
 
Reports coming in say that Hutt Street Centre no longer gives away blankets because the same people keep coming back for more after leaving them in squats or the parklands.
 
Another report is that WestCare is turning away potential lunch clients, telling them to go to St Luke’s or elsewhere.

Can anyone corroborate these reports?
 
15 August 2019
​

​From the anonymous contact page

Under free dentistry 2019

Since July 2018, the Adelaide dental school, clinic has been at the new RAH, end of north terrace, to west Tce corner. Hon [No] longer at the old frame road address). 

With health care card, costs around $70 to be seen.

So, etimes, you can seen at the super plus clinics in the suburbs instead. Eg Gilles plains.
 
Anony Mouse
 
Editor:    Yes, cheaper at suburban clinics and private dentists connected with government dentistry plan. It works out at up to $110 for $1100 worth of dentistry then everything after that free except those horrible false teeth.
 The Adelaide Dental Hospital has the worse dentists (students) and the best (the teachers and leaders in their profession).
               
15 August 2019

An American guide to living outside
 https://guide2homelessness.blogspot.com/
 15 August 2019

(above) Most homeless people have been driven from the parklands and into concrete carparks, shop doorways or onto footpaths in the Adelaide CBD. However, a few indigenous and white folk suffer the harassment and stay with nature. (Early August 2019).

Fraudsters scam Kristine from Stevo’s soup kitchen 

Kristine wasn’t happy telling her tale. Being a victim isn’t her preferred status. She’s a valuable worker at Stevo’s soup kitchen every Tuesday at Sefton Park.
 
She received a phone call from her bank. Someone had scammed her account. The caller spent three hours going through Kristine’s account details.
 
She later went to the bank. It was true, she had been scammed. But the fraud happened during the phone call from the bank, except it wasn’t the bank. It was a fraudster to whom Kristine had given her account number and password.
 
Kristine wasn’t amused, but it won’t happen again. The bank said they will reimburse her the $830, but she’ll have to wait two weeks for a new ATM card.
 
Enfield Uniting Church (Stevo’s)
corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target)
10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early.
Free snacks, sandwiches, hot meal, coffee, clean toilets. Limited takeaway food.
 
13 August 2019 

Young man shoves 70-year-old woman against soup kitchen wall

There was a dispute about takeaway food at the front counter after most patrons had left. The 70-year-old woman has a reputation for taking too much.
 
Another diner, a 25-year-old man, went to her table. He stood in front of her. His eyes were inexpressive, the pupils frozen as if he was on drugs. He stared at her then flipped over her plate of food on the table. Then he smashed his fist into a carton of eggs on the table. He tried to grab some Up-and-Go drinks from her hand. She pulled away so he shoved her against the wall and she half-fell against another woman.
 
His girlfriend tried to temper his actions. She is a reliable blond suffering open sores across her face.
 
The man went outside. Nearly everyone else had gone. Some ran to get away from the deteriorating situation. A Fred’s Van volunteer talked to the young man from the doorway saying he wasn’t welcome back inside right then, but was welcome back the following week. She returned to the kitchen.
 
Another volunteer blamed the old woman and the young man for their “argy-bargy” and suggested next time they sit at different tables. They had been. They don’t associate with each other.
 
The volunteer said she could arrange an ambulance for the woman. Meanwhile, the man hid against the edge of the doorway. The old woman was afraid to leave. “You’re quite free to call the police,” the volunteer added before returning to the kitchen. Later, she said, “You can go to the hospital.”  
 
The old woman hadn’t been injured. That was clear. But she was afraid. But the volunteers had left the issue behind. They were washing dishes. They ignored the old woman. She was invisible.
 
A friend waiting nearby escorted the old woman to her old car. By then the druggie man, his girlfriend and a boy had driven away.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat café plus outdoor seating. Hot dogs, main meal, sandwiches, dessert, coffee, takeaways. Limited free bread and fruit in Op Shop most days.
Also every Sunday at 12:00noon. Food used for meals is fresh and not from Food Bank. Supermarket purchase vouchers available during the week from the Conference Centre back of the café.

13 August 2019
​

Joe’s triumphant return
 
Joe the Cook is returning to the Food Barn. He retired five-months previously, but is returning to be with a very classy group of underclass Elizabethans.
 
Kirsty told us this. She is the coordinator of the Food Barn breakfast and lunch free service. Married. Good at her job.
 
Last weeks’ lunch included nicely roasted potatoes and carrots plus horrible boiled vegies. The roast chicken eaten by the gentleman next to me appeared slightly pink inside, but others liked it. It was roasted, not English style.
 
There were plenty of All Natural Bakery wheaten bars. Eyebrows were raised when one gentleman took fifteen.
 
Another diner said that plutonium is buried under the Elizabeth railway station. A friend of his added that there is a secret city under that section of Elizabeth.
 
George the Elder got a nice used shirt from the free table near the front doors. There were also free back yard lemons, juicing oranges, bread and dodgy footwear.
 
The security guard was disguised. He was pretending to be a derelict hanging around the front door.
 
Signs were placed around the building telling drug addicts that services had been reduced and they were entitled only to a “ten-pack”.
 
The energy is changing in the Food Barn building as most Anglicare employees have fled to their new offices in the Elizabeth shopping centre.
 
Anglicare Food Barn Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.
 Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Salt and peppershakers at front counter only.
Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

13 August 2019
​

(above) Campers in Adelaide city and suburban parks carry most of their stuff in small tightly packed bags. They leave very little behind. They sleep with the bag as a pillow and their shoes under their hip bones. It is the life of primal survival so different to the other 99.8% of Adelaide. During the day, they try to blend in with the rest of the population.

​Homeless at Salisbury
​Football Club Oval

Eman Rahim of Heart and Soul asked about the 14-year-old pregnant girl camping at the Salisbury Football Club oval with her 15-year-old boyfriend. She wanted to offer them help.
 
But they’re gone. The girl’s parents complained to the police who arrested the boy for breaking and entering. That’s the word from the street.
 
Another young couple camping in a tent on the grounds of the oval with their 3-year-old child are also gone. They almost lost the child because Welfare was on the verge of taking it from them. Their crime was being homeless. However, they’ve got a place to live.
 
Not so the other campers on the oval. They are regularly woken by Wilson’s security guards and told to leave. Where to? Anywhere.
 
12 August 2019

Fallout from Adelaide homelessness conference 2019

The “Preventing Homelessness” conference didn’t create much of a stir. A bunch of expensive bureaucrats taking a day off to attend yet another conference during Homeless Week.
 
What topics did they discuss? What was the result? Will there be a series of YouTube videos published? Will there be a report?
 
How many attended? How much money was collected from the $110 to $189 ticket price?  Where did it come from? Certainly not from the attendees. Will these details be published? Why not?
 
Who actually went? Not their actual names, but from what organisations were they from? Will this be published? Why not?
 
How much were the expenses to host the one-day event in the Panorama Rooms at the Adelaide Convention Centre? Were “snacks” provided? What were they?
 
Those sleeping in the parklands or on concrete in the Adelaide CBD business area might be interested. Do they have a right to know the facts surrounding this conference held in their name, but excluding them?
 
The real mystery is the purpose of the conference. It has nothing to do with homelessness. That’s a superficial title to disguise the real nature of their gathering. What could it be?  
 
This crowd has latched onto the homeless issue and siphons off money and credos to further their cause. Like a parasitic entity attaching itself to a host.
 
But what are they up to?
 
12 August 2019

(above) A fallen tent cast aside in the South Parklands near where Emma Hines's body was found three and a half years ago. (Photo taken early August 2019).

On the Street
 
An Army soldier said that officers from the Playford Salvation Army Playford Corps have been questioned by HQ why they haven’t been banking the money. Rumour has it ― and this is a rumour ―  that they’re using the money on clients rather than letting head office get hold of it.
 
Playford Corps is arguably the strongest street level corps in South Australia. Better than City Salvos.
 
*
 
“Three or four screens at check-in counter. You cannot just walk into the place. ‘Hey, you, where are you going.’”
 
Man walking into the Hutt Street Centre after a two-year absence.
 
*
 
A specialist was called in when fencers installing fences between Anglicare units at Mitchel Park thought they’d pierced a sewerage pipe.
 
The units are for old people. They are close together and designed so neighbours can see each other most of the time. However, with spy cameras and video phones, residents want barriers between each other. They are also worried about the increasing numbers of dysfunctional tenants put into the previously working class retirement units.
 
*
 
George the Elder said a big man was throwing chairs at a recent City Salvo Saturday free meal. Mr Elder said a security guard approached the chair thrower, then walked by. Mr Elder was perplexed at this.
 
*
 
Religious Mike hasn’t been seen recently in the city. A friend said he had runaway cancer on his face.
 
*
 
The Hutt Street Centre used a client to spruik their “Walk a Mile in my Boots” fundraiser on commercial radio station 5AA. This woman talked about “domestic violence” making her homeless.
 
Homeless joints are connecting domestic violence to homelessness because government funding is being directed to women-only projects. The sales pitch involves using such clients to express gratitude in the media.
 
But the reality is that such women go from a house to another house or flat while hardcore homeless men and women who don’t use drugs live outside for years.
 
*
 
Cos We Care is facing extreme difficulties getting fruit and vegetables. Client numbers have dropped at Elizabeth.
 
*
 
It is strange that free food distributors are highly monitored by the government. Cos We Care is forced to maintain freezers and fridges at home and in their van in order to give away food that otherwise would have been thrown out. Playford Council inspectors arrive with thermometres that they insert into crates of vegetables.
 
Yet the Playford Council makes no such requirements of methamphetamine cooks. They are not required to meet any health regulations. They fill the neighbourhood with fumes and leave only when the landlord gets nasty about the smashed walls and doors, and unpaid rent.
 
*
 
An example of our mental programing is that we remember our past as watching and listening to movies, TV and music rather than from our own experiences. This trend is accelerating.
 
*
 
Street Smart is a fundraiser in Melbourne. They fund small independent service organisations that don’t receive government funding and generally don’t have employees. For example, Cos We Care gets a small amount each year from Street Smart.  
 
Street Smart publishes the names and amount paid of everyone they fund. You can read this list at https://streetsmartaustralia.org/whowehelp/ Scroll down to the bottom of the page.
 
11 August 2019
​

The Lutheran Ark at Salisbury
 
The salt and pepper shakers were a little dodgy. Either the holes weren’t big enough or the salt grains were too large. The pepper shaker on our table was empty.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise was worried about eating the food, then ending up in hospital. He is allergic to pumpkin. His ambulance insurance ran out two days previously and he lost his adrenaline pen.
 
One-eyed Steve is regaining sight in his bad eye after surgery, but a friend of his began pissing blood.
 
There was a bit of craziness in the air. One Lutheran man kept poking and grabbing Old Val. He’d poke her on one shoulder then jump around and poke her on the other. This is because Old Val touches people when she talks to them. She pokes them or pulls their clothing. Her nickname is “Poker”, but she is okay.
 
Another old man kept blowing a whistle. That was annoying. Why would he do that? He goes to other soup kitchens as well, always blowing that whistle.
 
There were four vegetarians present including a Lutheran who hadn’t eaten meat since she was ten. She said she hardly remembers eating the stuff. That’s the good aspect of The Ark in that there is always a clear vegetarian option. And the pasta tasted as if it was from Maranello’s, good, not like that glug at Kilburn Fred’s Van.
 
The client base at The Ark each month include disabled young and elderly people, normal church people, missionaries, the Food Barn crowd and a man from the Anti-Poverty Network. Everyone is interesting and the atmosphere kind.
 
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark)
cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976.
Free meal once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2019 are August 31, September 28, October 16, November 30, December 21 (Free Christmas party by pre-registration only).
11 August 2019
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From the anonymous contact page

“Thanks for another edition of Free Food Guide

“Often go into Cole$ (Meyer) and Woolworth$ (BW$) $yndicated $tores and discover more often than not that there are no bargain items less than

“$3 for say a loaf of bread or jug of juice or bag of veg etc.

“The days when a welfare recipient could comfortably survive on the dole in a commercial environment are gone.

“However if a welfare person can scavenge enough nutritious old food from a bin

“AND THEN ACCESS A PUBLIC MICROWAVE OVEN TO COOK TO KILL OFF ANY GERMS AND MAKE IT APPETISING

“(such as one of the many FREE Microwaves at TAFE Light Square - just become a make-believe wealthy foreign student and don't make a mess, be discreet)

“then

“Bob's yer Uncle.”
 
From the Dumbster Diver
11 August 2019

From the anonymous contact page

Re: See...

"See if you can EAT some of that free underwear from the Hutt Street Centre that was collected on their “Walk a Mile in my Boots” fundraiser..."
 
Anonymous
11 August 2019

(above) Those sleeping on the cold winter ground leave their camps at daybreak to avoid dog walkers and Adelaide City Council inspectors. The Council is systematically removing undergrowth vegetation to make it more difficult for homeless people to camp in privacy. This process is called "hostile horticulture".

Beacon of Hope joins forces
​with Faith Works

The Beacon of Hope is a Church of Christ located on Ashdown Road that runs alongside Main North Road at Elizabeth. It is back of BCF and Office Works, which are on the Phillip Highway near Main North Road.
 
Faith Works brought bread, apples, oranges, good butternut pumpkins, good onions, and sugar-free Coke to the church, which supplied coffee, biscuits and a nice venue.
 
A man talking to the preacher said he sold his land to buy a house with a woman, then broke up. She got everything and now he has nothing.
 
Not many people turned up, but those that did were interesting. One woman is a Hepatitis educator. She tries to get soup kitchen people to have blood tests for Hep C, then early treatment. She said the disease caught in its early stages can be cured with drugs. She said they provide homeless campers in the Adelaide CBD with tarps and tents to stabilise them enough to go through the treatment. She added that the Adelaide City Council steals the campers’ bedding and tents and this destabilises them. They disperse to other areas of the city and state and stop treatment. She was refreshingly clean and didn’t display the Miss Princess syndrome that afflicts some women in homeless welfare bureaucracies.
 
Another conversation was about the sewerage odour that wafted about the church grounds. It was worse than Fred’s Van near the Elizabeth railway station. And almost as bad as the Otherway Centre when it was in Pirie Street. One man said it was the church kitchen sinks.
 
The Beacon of Hope church preacher went to St Luke’s church at Whitmore Square for years. He knows the derelict mentality. Bruce Kurtzer from Faith Works was terrific. Away from a microphone, he can be a sensitive fellow. When the clients had gone, he said a prayer. He said that only God knows where people are at. This possibly means he has to be nice to us.
 
10 August 2019
 ​

Cos We Care free food in Elizabeth
 
There were not much good fruit and vegetables. Saturday at Fremont Park was more a hot breakfast venue with a hot stew, sandwiches, cake and coffee. Takeaways included tampons, canned food and Twining’s tea bags.
 
What they had was plenty of used clean baby clothing and bed sheets.
 
Kerrie brought his very old mother. Kerry is old. She is even older. She chain-smoked cigarettes while sitting in a chair near the Cos We Care van. She’s smoked since the age of 12 and at nearly 80 appears in good health.
 
Allan Junior made a cameo appearance.
 
The famous SANFL player was also there. He helps Cos We Care. He has a bad back. Don from Telstra spent the whole time cutting onions in preparation for the Bunnings sausage sizzle that funds the vehicles.
 
Cos We Care needs a new independent source of fruit and vegetables. They won’t go through the Big Three: Food Bank, Second Bite and Oz Harvest. Food Bank and the Pooraka Markets have signed a monopoly agreement preventing other charities, some more worthwhile, from getting leftover fruit and vegetables.
 
Cos We Care
Saturday 7:30am to 9:00am, Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required.
 
Also on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required.
Free hot food and coffee, boiled eggs, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk.
Up to a hundred people on Sundays.

10 August 2019

(above) Homeless people have given up setting up tents because the Adelaide City Council steals them. Meanwhile, Adelaide Lord Mayor Sandra Verschoor is a guest speaker at the homeless conference tomorrow hosted by the Don Dunstan Foundation at the Adelaide Convention Centre. (Photo taken in Adelaide's CBD parklands in late July 2019)

Special breakfast tomorrow
 
Glenelg Rotary joins forces with Our Street Family Matters tomorrow, Saturday, on the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street, Adelaide.
 
There might be useful camping stuff like mosquito repellent and decent quality socks. And hot food.
 
Depending on the rain, the location is either on the grass on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, or alongside the St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street, both locations are in sight of each other.
 
Start time is about 9:00am.
 
Don’t be misled by that inferior earlier breakfast from the Hutt Street Centre. Or, you might go to both. See if you can get some of that free underwear from the Hutt Street Centre that was collected on their “Walk a Mile in my Boots” fundraiser.
 
Google Street View
 
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.9348984,138.6126361,3a,75y,68.38h,78.61t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPAMCSPhobe2bwuF_wx6FHA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DPAMCSPhobe2bwuF_wx6FHA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D342.58377%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
 
Our Street Family Matters  (Dr Jefferis)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
Either on the grass or alongside St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street. 
Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Self-funded.
Healthy home cooked food in foil containers plus hot food from pots.
All free. Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome. Most guests are pure street. Real authentic and tough street people who are a privilege to encounter. No I.D. required.

9 August 2019
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From the Rundle Spy

“Was listening to 5 Alcoholic A***holes Radio ("5AA Radio") this morning about 7:30 s.m. boozecasting from the Adelaide Central Train Station and heard 5AA jive-jockeys chatting with Premeer Stevin Marchill about homeless situation and crap conference held today at CON-vention Centre about Homeless.

“Items repeated were

1. how "complicated" the whole homeless situation is, as if it cannot be fixed or addressed by any less-complicated answers and fixes such as simply putting qualified worthy homeless into spare rooms in the massively vacant buildings throughout Adelaide

2. there is no "Magic Silver Bullet", as if homeless people are being attacked by werewolves or something similar and so the attackers of the homeless should not be stopped dead in their tracks by proven exterminators

3. undees undees undees (underwear), as if undees will make the whole situation better, perhaps give the public something to laugh about, find undees to be soft clean comfortable solution to very uncomfortable dilemma

“Surprised 5AA and the Premeer didn't drag out the Walk a Mile in My Boots then stamp and kick at us.

“Easy to realise how convenient it is for the Broadcast Bozos to superficially throw a few non-serious minutes at the homeless and ensure that nothing is done, and this on a day when a MASSIVE 50 millimetre or 2 inch rain deluge is about the bucket down on the homeless in the Adelaide area.

“Thanks for NOTHING Booze Bozos of 5 Alcoholic Arseholes Radio ("5AA Radio").

“Same applies to other Bozos at other propaganda outlets who also enjoy laughing their fool heads off in face of serious situations such homeless and ice epidemic.

“Broadcast Bozos are pathetic.”
 
The Rundle Spy
9 August 2019

St Bede’s Semaphore
​free breakfasts

Discussions continue with One Voice and Orange Sky Laundry to bring their trucks to St Bede’s.
 
The breakfast is theoretically for two hours, but volunteers calculate to having packed up by that time. This means there is a slight tendency towards an eat-and-run breakfast.
 
The good thing about St Bede’s is that they will add or remove ingredients, if possible, to suit diners’ requirements. Cutlery, expensive serviettes, salt and pepper, and sauce are placed on each table.
 
Times are changing with reduced numbers of SRF diners and more homeless people. Free stuff includes old synthetic blankets that can be used as insulation by attaching them to the inside walls of vans. Or as cushioning on concrete.
 
No one questions the homeless crowd too much as prying adds another burden on their lives, which they can experience as “being owned”.  
 
One diner last week said she got caught stealing coffee and cough lozenges, but the judge didn’t record a conviction as it would affect her employment prospects. Another diner said he’d been charged with offensive behaviour by holding an anti-Israel placard at an intersection.
 
Takeaway food included two-minute noodles, fruit and vegetables, and too much bread to fit on the front counter.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road)
8: 30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free.
Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway crackers, noodles, limited fruit and vegetables.
Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate, but clean toilets, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

9 August 2019
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(above) Hostile horticulture at Port Adelaide. The fallen trees and bushes have been dug out. The ground has been poisoned. This small area hosted small and microscopic flora and fauna. Aboriginees also camped here. But the Port Adelaide Enfield Council wanted this to be a surveillance-friendly zone to discourage homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal August 2019).

Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury railway station 

The 52-year-old ambulance driver preacher was back from his Birdsville holiday. He prayed for one man saying, “He is homeless and surrounded by angels.” He also prayed for “G” and others.
 
Wayne, the Seventh-day Adventist man, is still bitter about losing his driver’s license. He also said the Victory Church bread and pies contained pig’s fat and that was against the Bible.
 
Old Val said she was 66. She counted the number with her fingers as if using an abacus.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise said he’d lent a friend his lawnmower. The friend returned it on its side. Mick couldn’t start it. He removed the spark plug and oil poured out. He nearly had a fight with the friend who verges on becoming an ex-friend.
 
An older woman said she had an MRI at the Lyell McEwin Hospital. The doctor said she had early stage Alzheimer’s. The doctor put her on patches that release drugs into her body to slow the onset.
 
Some people stand in front of the serving counter eating after being given a sausage on bread. This blocks others waiting to be served. I condemned them until discovering myself doing it.
 
One ex-Army man described ten people he’d seen camping in the Salisbury railway station area over the past three weeks. There were seven or eight homeless men at the BBQ plus the Eskimo Lady.
 
Victory Church free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel carpark and the Salisbury railway station.
Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They might run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Church people bless and pray for those who want it. Constant array of interesting people passing through. A refreshing event. Mosquitos. Cold in winter. Filthy gov’t toilets on at railway station. Takeaway sausages occasionally for homeless people.

Late 8 August 2019
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The Port Baptist Church
 
Old Nieta went to sit with other old women, but they told her all the seats were taken. A church volunteer banged into an Australian Aboriginee woman and continued walking on. She was distracted rather than indifferent.
 
The preacher’s Mum in her eighties said she almost died last year from pneumonia. She hands out the free takeaway food. She begins work in the morning. She believes in God. She is a good example of a human being.
 
Jacquan helps the preacher’s Mum hand out the free food. She’s all there. When she talks it seems as if she is talking with her whole self. She also works as a nurse and has kids. She is married to a man who went to school with The Night Stalker.
 
The free takeaway food included potatoes, Zuchini, COS lettuces, cucumber infused water in glass bottles, good mushrooms, good onions, good corn, bread, yoghourt and a few other items.
 
The Thread Together shop smelled like Rivers clothing store. That’s because some of the clothing came from there. It is all new stuff including $250 pointy shoes with leather soles.
 
A store operator raised her voice at Andrea for letting too many people in at once. Andrea didn’t react.
 
The Ross River virus man sat on one of the red couches in the church. He said he’s felt tired for five years, but is slowly recovering. He got it from Murray River mosquitos.
 
When the meal was served, a white fella man couldn’t get a seat at a table so he sat on the red couch. Some of the church people are insular and see others as  outsiders.
 
When we were leaving, Old Nieta said the car lights were blurred when they usually were clear. It might have been a flavour enhancer in the soup they served. She has had strokes, but wasn’t having one that evening because next week she was still talking normally.
 
The Port Church (Baptist)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling.
Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread.
No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Open during school terms.
Phone 0414 693 218 to get on their message list. No Ice Dealers.

Late 8 August 2019

(above) The Lions Club Rotunda at Pioneer Park in Gawler after Fred's Van and the outsiders have left. The free meal is provided every Thursday at 6:00pm by Fred's Van, which is part of St Vincent de Paul, a Catholic outfit. Four hundred white pioneers are buried under the grass, their headstones gone.

John Falzon: professional optimist
 
Does anyone remember Dame Louise Casey saying she expected the Adelaide Zero Project to reduce homelessness in the Adelaide CBD to zero within one year? After her discreet exit, it was reported that the Adelaide Zero Project would end “functional homelessness” in the Adelaide CBD in two years.

Well, two years are up later this year and CBD homelessness has actually increased. And now we have John Falzon writing in yesterday’s Indaily that, “In a push to end street homelessness by the end of 2020, the city is actively engaged with people sleeping rough face-to-face to determine their individual needs, know them by name and prioritise secure housing.”

Apart from John virtually reading from a script, do you see his sneaky use of words? It is no longer the Adelaide Zero Project ending homelessness, it is “the city,” whoever that may be. Nor is it the Adelaide Zero Project or “the city” ending homelessness. They are reduced to being “actively engaged” with homeless people and collecting statistics.
And what about the time frame for ending homeless? John pushes it back even further to the end of 2020 and it isn’t about ending homelessness by that date; it’s about “a push to end street homelessness”.

So is John Falzon admitting the expensive Adelaide Zero Project has been a dismal failure to date? No, not at all. He’s a professional optimist attempting to maintain the illusion that something positive is happening.
John writes that, “Over the past 12 months, the project has made 180 housing placements to support people living on our streets into secure housing…” 

Is this figure of “180 housing placements” significant? Have not those living outside moved in and out of homelessness for decades independent of any “project”?  This is the natural state of the homeless culture. We move in and out of homelessness. We are a culture in a constant state of flux. Those Adelaide Zero Project bureaucrats siphoning off money for salaries add no positive benefit to our lives.
 
In fact, since this Adelaide Zero Project started, the Adelaide CBD homeless statistics have risen at least 50% to 226 as of last week. The Adelaide Zero Project appears to have been useless in reducing homelessness. In fact, it might have increased homelessness by siphoning off money for bureaucrats that could have been spent on building houses.

Meanwhile, John Falzon will be speaking at the homeless conference today at the Adelaide Convention Centre. Other speakers will be brought in from interstate or other countries. The bureaucrats in the audience will be paid be a full day’s salary to attend. Tickets cost from $110 to $189, but they won’t be paying a cent. This will come from money that could have been used to build houses for homeless people. And for those sleeping outside tonight, nothing will change.
 
7 August 2019

Response to HousingSA Stupidity

from Eclectic Eccentric

“Could really be case of HousingSA ingenuity... non-genuine...

“The "fix-it" seemed to be, or was, a deliberate act of vandalism, a deliberate act of intimidation and harassment designed to make eccentric tenant feel confronted marginalised, even more than they already are.

“There was NEVER any intention to do repairs on the place because an area of gaping holes and rushing water fault is fully available to "work men" and Housing SA staff in the nearby public hallway 24 hours a day night period, 7 days 7 nights a week, completely unfettered unhindered. There was never any exploratory work done in this fully public adjoining area.

“Housing SA, and much of the rest of the SA Gov, is acting on agenda and bias, in a desperate attempt to frighten certain good tenants to leave Housing SA properties, to get them to move out, so that SA Gov Comrades in the Development Syndicate can purchase and develop on these premises and charge sky-high prices to wealthy investors who are completely above and astronomically beyond the public housing poverty sector.

“Example of intimidation : why is it that when a tenant displays Buddhist prayer flags on a balcony, the tenant is assailed and assaulted by continuous nuisance mystery phone calls, in which the calling party immediately hangs up upon the tenant answering the call? And this, when the tenant has not given the phone number out to others and prefers to live as a recluse city-hermit, completely separate from the human insanity, to avoid human inmanity to man.

“Another Example: why is the SA Gov bowing before the World Agenda, setting up a Space Agency in Adelaide, for the purpose of further detouring the resources of society, of existence, into a completely meaningless attempt to go to Mars or other inhospitable places via $ILLION Dollar Ruble cave-human technology ? 

“What of the homeless people pets plants sleeping at the doorstep of human inmanity to man ?”

Eclectic Eccentric

This post is in response to HousingSA stupidity of 5 August 2019

7 August 2019

(above) A single chair and a campfire on a cold night.

(above) At Port Adelaide.

A rash of key problems
 
The Horse Trainer Lady at the Victory Church BBQ wasn’t driving for five weeks. She lost her car key. She finally raised $440 for a new one.
 
Meanwhile, Tricky Mick from the Food Barn said his key was jumping from the ignition while he was driving. Mick of Mick and Denise drilled a hole through it and temporarily fixed the problem.
 
And “G” from Cos We Care lost his only key to his new car. Mick of Mick and Denise said he’d search for it by dragging a magnet attached to a string around his yard at night. “G” suggested waiting until daylight, but the search the following day was unsuccessful.
 
They’ve got a new plan. They’re going to climb trees in the vicinity. Maybe a bird grabbed the key and it’s dangling from a branch.
 
The problem is these men are old. They can hardly walk. Mick has a bad knee. Tricky Mick is cactus even on a good day and “G” has a bad shoulder that makes it hard to swing from branch to branch. 

6 August 2019

A Mug’s breakfast free
 
Some diners want the name changed. Others don’t care. It is free and the church doesn’t require entry of your name and birth date into the Eternal Shame File.
 
Mug’s breakfast at Marion Life Church of Christ
Corner of Marion Rd and Alawoona Ave, Mitchell Park. (entry from Mary Street)
ph 8277 0304. Coffee and light breakfast every Monday from 9:30am to about 11:30am No registration, I.D. or donation required. Closed on public holidays, but it continues through school holidays.

6 August 2019
Second edit: later on 6 August 2019
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Gawler U Care
 
Free coffee and biscuits on Mondays from 9:30am to 10:30am excluding school holidays. Served in the beautiful historical church building. You can pick up free bread and vegetables on the same visit.
 
UCare Gawler (Uniting Church of Gawler)
10 Tod St., Gawler.   ph 08 8522 4522.  Everything free.
Open 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday. Occasional hot takeaway food.
Good day-old bread and limited pastries. Tiny amounts of onions, potatoes, carrots, oranges, etc. Best stuff gone within an hour of opening. Every day visit okay. No I.D. or registration required, but for better stuff you must live in Gawler area and supply Health Care Card. Also, free coffee and biscuits on Mondays from 9:30am to 10:30am excluding school holidays.

6 August 2019
 

Free prescriptions
 
Many charities are funded by the government to provide free prescription vouchers. These might include U Care, Church of Christ Care Works, Anglicare and many others.
 
The sicker you are, the better.
 
It helps to have a good story, a Centrelink income statement and receipts to show you’ve spent your fortnight’s income on essentials.
 
6 August 2019

(above) Orange Sky Laundry's unreliable service was cancelled on Thursday at Kilburn Fred's Van in the evening and at the Elizabeth Food Barn during the day. That was because the truck was sitting idle in the back carpark of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at Brahma Lodge, near Salisbury.

Glenelg Rotary joins Our Street Family Matters for special free breakfast this Saturday in city

Glenelg Rotary will be in the city this Saturday, the 10th of August, to add to the Our Street Family Matters weekly free breakfast on the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street, Adelaide.
 
Glenelg Rotary is bringing items useful for people living outside.
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It will be like Christmas in August and far superior to the inferior breakfast served by the Hutt Street Centre. And you won’t have to sign up for the Hutt Street Centre Eternal Shame File. Our Street Family keeps no records of clients’ details.  
 
If you see anyone homeless, it would be nice to tell them about this special event.
 
The location is either on the grass on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace or alongside the St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street, both locations in sight of each other.
 
The breakfast is a good chance to meet real street people.
 
Google Street View
 
https://www.google.com/maps/@-34.9348984,138.6126361,3a,75y,68.38h,78.61t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sPAMCSPhobe2bwuF_wx6FHA!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo2.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DPAMCSPhobe2bwuF_wx6FHA%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D342.58377%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656
 
Our Street Family Matters  (Dr Jefferis)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.
Either on the grass or alongside St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street.  
Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Self-funded.
Healthy home cooked food in foil containers plus hot food from pots.
All free. Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome. Most guests are pure street. Real authentic and tough street people who are a privilege to encounter. No I.D. required.

5 August 2019

Homeless day in the west
 
Sausage sizzle, a few welfare stalls, some giveaways at UnitingSA Family and Community Centre, 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide.
 
Thursday 8 August 10:00am to 2:00pm.
 
Quite worth the visit because this is one four-hour period where bureaucrats will actually answer a few questions.
 
Google Street View
 
https://www.google.com/maps/place/58+Dale+St,+Port+Adelaide+SA+5015/@-34.8469396,138.5037055,3a,37.5y,160.66h,80.94t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKflicXlmrN5uMTWpLflfTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x6ab0c6e427864e3b:0xb4ccc801947e626!8m2!3d-34.847303!4d138.5037654
 
5 August 2019

HousingSA stupidity
 
An eccentric lives in the Park Terrace Housing Trust units at Gilberton. That’s the group of buildings visited by the police multiple times a week. A few old women live in the front units, but most tenants are druggies. Our eccentric tenant is not. He doesn’t even smoke tobacco or drink alcohol. His crime is that he rarely checks his mail box.
 
On one mail box check, he discovered numerous letters from HousingSA, the most recent being an eviction notice.
 
He’d paid the rent and hadn’t annoyed his drug dealing neighbours, but his crime was not calling Housing SA to arrange a time to let an employee inspect his unit.
 
He faced the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Pirie Street, Adelaide where to avoid eviction he agreed to let HousingSA enter his unit.
 
A contractor arrived and inspected the wet ceiling caused by a tenant upstairs having a shower. The contractor climbed a ladder and made a hole in the ceiling. He came back down and used the magic word “asbestos” and disappeared. After three months, he hasn’t returned.
 
The water now leaks into our eccentric tenant’s apartment. He puts buckets underneath to collect the water.
 
5 August 2019

(above) This parkland at Port Adelaide is used mainly by Aboriginees. It was recently dense scrub. The Deep State government pulled out the fallen trees and bushes to make it easier to surveil from a car. This is called hostile horticulture.

On the Street
 
Bagster Road Community Centre gives away one $50 supermarket card to each year to each Salisbury Council area resident who qualifies.
 
They like a good story and receipts to show that you’ve already spent your fortnightly Centrelink payment on essentials. They like you to phone on Tuesdays to make an appointment.
 
Their address is 17 Bagster Road, Salisbury North. Phone (08) 8250 4167.
 
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Dean the Dresser made Pam eat eggs shells. He also put pills in her food and got her to drink a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream. She ended up falling off a kitchen chair and carted off to the Lyell McEwin hospital.
 
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Radio Station 5AA and others are advertising the Hutt Street Centre and Catherine House ‘Walk a Mile in My Boots’ fundraising campaign.
 
They call it the “undies drive”, but it really means money. People who go on the “walk” pay money. Organisers place token homeless people at the front, carrying the banner. One year they featured an Ice dealer who operated on Hindley Street.
 
Why don’t the organisers open the financial books for public scrutiny. How much is spent on advertising? How many paid salary hours of employees are used in organising the event? Where does the profit go? What happened to last year’s collected underwear?
 
Nevertheless, the ‘Wall a Mile in my Boots” idea is beautiful, but what precisely do people living outside get from it?
 
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River of Life Church at Christies Beach has changed its name. It is now called Grace Point. And their nice free lunch service called Tabitha’s Kitchen is now called Grace Point Kitchen.
 
Bye-bye Bewitched, hello Elvis.
 
See their listing at  https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/free-food-adelaide.html
 
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U Care host a free coffee and biscuits morning on Mondays from 9:30am to 11:00am, approximately. It’s a good opportunity to ask questions of other clients about what U Care offers.
 
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Cathie King is a Director of the Don Dunstan Foundation that operates the Adelaide Zero Project dashboard. She is also a Director of Common Ground, owned by Housing Choices, that evicted Kelly Henderson from her CBD house last fortnight and is now homeless. What sort of bureaucratic two-headed hydra have we got here?
 
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Richie Hollands is the new Executive Director of the Don Dunstan Foundation. He takes over from David Pearson.


Richie is president of the Australian Refugee Association and supports the White Ribbon movement. So we might reasonably suspect that he will lobby for less housing for homeless Australian citizens and more for “domestic violence” victims and refugees.
 
He is possibly a Deep State operative. Let’s watch to see if he breathes a word against the Chinese government sending precursor chemicals to poison Australian citizens and make them homeless? What he might do is advocate to ramp up the drug rehabilitation industry so that addicts live longer, create more havoc and consume more Made in China drugs before finally dying.
 
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Some of the growers and retailers at the South Australian Produce Market are willing to donate their unsellable produce to charities. However, management of this publicly listed company forbid them from doing it.
 
Management has signed a monopoly agreement with a quasi-commercial charity operator named Food Bank. Only Food Bank can receive leftover fruit and vegetables. Smaller free food distributors are forbidden from collecting this produce even if invited by the retailers inside the market.
 
Behind those smiles and benevolent words, the charity industry is ruthless and unforgiving.
 
Early 4 August 2019
Editor: Two posts were removed late 4 August 2019, but may return at a later date in an expanded form. 

(above) The government poisoned this ground at Port Adelaide to make it easier to surveil. This is part of the Deep State's plan to make Australians observable wherever they go. But who is doing the observing and which South Australian politicians are taking bribes and selling us out to the Deep State?

Pizza cold at Fred’s Van Salisbury
 
They did it again. The hot pizza delivered without charge by Maranello pizza restaurant was left in a cold room for half an hour before being served. This neglectful procedure must be improved by the St Vincent de Paul crowd. It’s an abuse of Maranello’s generosity.
 
Mick arrived with a swollen knee. It was visibly enlarged through his loose trousers. He’d walked from his house in Elizabeth South because his car had run out of petrol.
 
One-eyed Steve arrived with both eyes open. He’d been in surgery for two hours for a “lens reconstruction and gassing”.
 
Becky said she’d spent $1200 at the vet getting two lumps surgically removed from her dog. She took $1500 and came out with $300. A few others at soup kitchens spend small fortunes on their animals and birds. Gerry, the retired woman truck driver, was supportive of her spending. She does the same. She didn’t get rid of the bird that pecked her above the right eye. It came close to blinding her. It’s a guard bird. Gerry said it wasn’t the bird’s fault. She had forgotten to feed the creature its morning coffee. The bird goes crazy without it.
 
A volunteer serving food lives with others including a resident with Golden Staph. He touched the edges of the plates.
 
Shuffles said her heart went faulty in the Parabanks shopping centre. She sprayed nitrogen under her tongue, but it didn’t work. She gave it a second spray 15-minutes later and it did work. If three sprays don’t work, the patient is supposed to call an ambulance. Shuffles has already purchased her coffin. And she doesn’t want to be called “Shuffles” any more. From now on, her real name will be used.
 
The meal included chicken, boiled vegetables and white rice. It was nice, but needed extra flavouring, but staff had forgotten to put the sauces on the serving tables. The pumpkin soup was described as excellent. Dessert was raspberry crumble with ice cream and custard. Prior to the meal, peanut butter biscuits had been put in the foyer along with warm Milo. They were baked by Jenny and the woman with short hair and who wore the pink shirt. These cookies were far superior to that rubbish manufactured by Arnott’s.
 
Orange Sky was there. The drug couple might have used them. The Orange Sky people are always cheerful. The drug couple are also nice people. What a shame the Australian government gives the okay to Chinese precursor drug suppliers to prey upon the Australian population. Too many traitors on-the-take.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff.
 
3 August 2019

From the anonymous contact page

“What vital services?
Food. Access to food. You are publishing propaganda and discouraging those afflicted in ways different to yourself to return to the shadows and hide.

“What paycheck do I protect?
You mean my unpaid work helping my peers out? My unpaid work discovering horrors of the "system" that you'll never see or understand because you're too busy peddling nonsense and conspiracy theories? 

“You're a useful idiot selling distraction. Keep up the "good" work. The people you supposedly despite are cheering your sideshow on. I wonder why?
 
Anonymous
 
Second Editor: It would be great for our readers’ knowledge if you could be specific.
3 August 2019
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(above) The manager of the Salisbury Housing SA office is told each year to make vacant a certain number of Housing Trust units for incoming refugees and their extended families. A method of creating vacancies is to put a drug dealer amidst a group of clean tenants.

(above) Housing SA employees are trained to treat questions from the public with vagueness, even hostility. When the Australian citizen becomes aggravated, he or she is accused of being abusive. It is a choreographed routine.

Gawler Fred’s Van on Thursdays
 
Tracy and her son Aaron brought a box of food before Fred’s Van arrived. She made sure the young man with a bad heart got the most. He’s just discovered that U Care pays for prescriptions. He’s on heaps of pills to keep his heart ticking. Of U Care, he said, “They were absolutely wonderful. Oh, my goodness.” U Care also told him that they could get him into the Adelaide Dental hospital without charge. He said, he needed two teeth pulled out because, “I was homeless for a while and couldn’t look after my teeth.” Free government dentistry is no longer free and getting more expensive each year.
 
Tracy and Aaron also offered their free stuff to an old man who appeared to be homeless. He said a “young fella” living outside had asked him where he could go the previous evening. The old man recommended the Gawler hospital waiting room. “They have to let you stay; they have a duty of care.”
 
The old boy also said, “I could take you around at 10 or 11 and show you this many [sleeping outside].” He held up one hand then added. “More than this,” and held up his other hand.
 
Another client was an inoffensive woman who lives at Scotty’s Motel, that bedbug joint on Main North Road, Prospect. She is one of those bewildered women who don’t know how to play the welfare game despite being someone who should be the first in any housing queue.
 
Another client said his girlfriend was getting violent and that she’d had 29 incidents of violence and three charges against her.
 
Two adults and five kids ran towards us from a Pajero when the Fred’s Van A-Team arrived at 6:10pm. The A-Team brought Gawler South Bakery meat pies and spinach rolls, sandwiches with inadequate filling, Cheesecake shop cakes including one that was unbelievable in its flavouring. Dodie made Shepherd’s Pie that everyone liked. There was also cordial, cold Milo, sugary buns and a few other items. But they forgot to bring hot water, the cheapest and most wanted ingredient on this cold evening. That sort of slackness should not happen again. Bad central management; good volunteers.
 
They had arrived at 6:10pm, began serving at 6:20pm and began packing up at 6:45pm. They should stay longer and leave a space between courses as the most aggressive collectors grab nearly everything while the majority don’t bother joining the undignified scramble.
 
However, it was a nice event. Somehow, the outdoor venue brings the best out of people. Is it wise for Gawler Fred’s Van to move indoors?
 
Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van
Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thurs 6:00pm.
Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread. In the Lions Rotunda or on the grass next to it. Wonderful free showers nearby until 5pm.

2 August 2019
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Elizabeth Fred’s Van Sunday lunch
 
Mr Rock Solid grumbled against a group of black-dressed druggies. These are actually quite decent addicts. Drug addiction is a war and some people retain their humanity throughout the war. A woman said she’d been asked for a light from another at a bus stop. It was to light a joint they shared. She was happy throughout lunch.
 
Mr Solid carried two wine glasses. He sat next to Rosie. “G” arrived without the 100% Indian acetate coat he’d purchased from Mr Rock Solid. Mr Solid said it had been too heavy for him. All that acetate.
 
There wasn’t a huge crowd on this bright sunny day, but for some reason everyone wanted to rush the front door when it opened. Volunteers served a soup of cauliflower appearance that Grant described as “magic”. The metal decanters, one of which was used to hit Lisa two weeks ago, contained aspartame Coke. “G” said it was peach-flavoured though most soup kitchens have been giving away orange-flavoured Coke over the previous fortnight. Mr Solid and Rosie drank it from their wine glasses. Each time Rosie turned away, Mr Solid poured more into her glass.
 
The main meal was pasta and sausages. Mr Rock Solid described it as “Surprise pasta.” There was also a vegetarian version. Dessert was apple crumble not quite cooked enough with custard. Not bad.
 
Some of the giveaway bread was five days old. Fred’s Van should ensure it is fresher.
 
The man who tried to kill himself was there. He appeared reasonably happy. He is usually too sick and depressed to access services advertised for the sick and depressed. These services require cunning and energy to access so are grabbed by those not sick and depressed.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview.

2 August 2019
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(above) The Salisbury Institute building where Fred's Van arrives every Sunday at 6:00pm. Diners at the free meal include a number of homeless people sleeping on concrete or grass. One rough sleeping man has been described as "blue in the face" when he gets out of bed. The Housing Trust is across the road. They have dozens of houses and units left empty for months at a time.

(above) Fred's Van diners may arrive 90 minutes before opening time to use Orange Sky Laundry, which parks outside the back glass doors. The depleted free food room is on the right and the dining room on the left. Fred's Van doesn't require I.D. for entry into the Eternal Shame File.

Another rise in Adelaide CBD homeless number

The number of people homeless in the Adelaide CBD has risen to 226, the second highest on record since counting began in 2007. The highest was two months ago when it was 227.
 
This Adelaide Zero Project number is based on whoever the Hutt Street Centre and Neami employees can either track down or who patronise a select number of homeless joints. The real number is higher.
 
Meanwhile, government and housing association houses are consciously kept empty. But none of their managers have the courage to say this publicly. These creeps are paid to keep their mouths shut. The Adelaide Zero Project has done nothing except siphon off money that could have built houses.
 
https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/
 
1 August 2019
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St Bede’s free breakfasts
​at Semaphore

A homeless camper in the Semaphore South beach car park said the Port Adelaide Enfield Council called the police to evict them, but the police declined to act.
 
Along with the homeless crowd, another group of five or six drug addicts have begun attending the St Bede’s breakfasts. Many are sad and exhausted and trigger my survivor’s guilt.
 
There was a man who kept trying to get us to hate each other, but he rarely comes for breakfast these days. He isn’t a bad fellow, but very critical.
 
Liam offered “The Stiff” a dollar for a cigarette from the previous day, but The Stiff waved him away. Sydney derelicts used to be called “Stiffs”. Jill Rivers hugged Peter the Librarian while Janet muttered in the background. Her brother collects clothing from the stage and some say he gives it to lodgers at his SRF who are afraid to leave the building.
 
A new volunteer playing ping pong stopped and said she smelt burning in the kitchen. An old hand said the place hasn’t recovered since Mr and Mrs Moonboots were given the shove. The old hand had disputes with Mr Moonboots, but still acknowledges their contribution.
 
Breakfast was hamburgers, toasties, cereals, cut fruit, cream buns with bread and fruit and vegetables offered as takeaway food. The dining room is too crowded.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road)
8: 30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free.
Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway crackers, noodles, limited fruit and vegetables.
Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate, but clean toilets, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

1 August 2019

From the anonymous contact page

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy, I have come that they have life have it to the full"

JOHN 10:10 

To all those homeless John's/Joanne's/Joans/Josephs etc etc who cant protect themselves from Beauracrats and those vastly fat cats behind glass petitions and CCTV cameras that operate like panopticons 

Gypsy Soul
1 August 2019
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Cos We Care on Saturday
​in Elizabeth

Cos We Care spent $2000 on the refrigeration system on their largest delivery van. John Cooper said they spend $400 a week on repairs. This is funded by their Bunnings sausage sizzles, not by the government.
 
Cos We Care serves at least 35 clients each Saturday morning in Fremont Park at Elizabeth and about 80 or more on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace in Adelaide. They also respond to after-hours calls from the police and Salvation Army. Cos We Care receives no government funding. They get the right clients, mostly. The real desperadoes.
 
Last week in Elizabeth they gave away baby’s clothing though the take-up was low. Most clients either don’t have children or are so old that their children are adults and don’t patronise free food services. Many have their kids taken away by employees of Child Protection who don’t have children.
 
Grant from Elizabeth said he didn’t know what to say when people asked him what he’d done the previous week. “G” wore his 100% acetate coat he’d bought from Mr Rock Solid, the one with knife cuts on one sleeve. Julie-Anne was absent along with her sandwiches. Sonja brought buns from Munno Para Baker’s Delight. Samantha brought soup in an electric pot.
 
One client said he refused to get free travel using his Senior’s Card due to the government using it as a surveillance device. He said he either walked or used buses while attempting to buy a ticket with a high denomination note. He said the driver usually waved him on. No charge.
 
Cos We Care
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth
7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients.
 
Also on the corner of Hutt St and South Tce, Adelaide every Sunday from 7:30am to 9:00am.

1 August 2019

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

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

Work-for-the-dole crowd outside the Elizabeth Food Barn buildings
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7150258,138.6721448,3a,90y,3.33h,91.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFNhD3h0UhuZo6k4rcAeIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

https://www.lccare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-SA-ER-Directory_v2.pdf

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

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.

The Decent Man

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

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

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