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Older Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019

(above) Homeless campers near Water World on the Ashley Reserve at Ridgehaven in Adelaide's northeast suburbs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) The homeless people were camped on Council land below Bunnings at Modbury. The Tea Tree Gully Council ordered them gone so they moved to bushland near Water World. The Council issued another eviction order telling them to leave that area. The order would be enforced by police. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) Social media influencer Sonia Blackwell came to the rescue and pushed the government to provide two weeks emergency accommodation for the campers. More details below on Monday 9 December post. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) Homeless crowd on Homo Hill in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Adelaide City Council workers confiscate tents and blankets then make it impossible for homeless people to reclaim them. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) 53-year-old Adrian Beucy was driving to work along Purling Avenue at Edinburgh two weeks ago when his car slammed into the military bridge support pillar. He died almost instantly. Death awaits all of us on a day not of our choosing or knowledge. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) Adrian's mother is Ursula who dines at the Osborne Community Centre at Osborne. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) Novita disability equipment joint at Hindmarsh doesn't want Oz Harvest clients using its carpark. The Oz Harvest carpark is too small so clients park on the street. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

Coming soon: Adelaide City Council making it impossible to reclaim confiscated tents in South Parklands; Grill'd another winner; Adelaide Casino man says most full-time gamblers are autistic; Dead Faye's dead white husband leaves estate to 11 Filipino relatives when he didn't have to; Lots of syringes found in Tea Tree Gully Salvo carpark; Homeless Keira off her head vomits in dining room rubbish bin at Peter Jin's church; GC3 final event low-key; Popular volunteer gets boot from St Andrew's church-at-the-sea; Ken Henderson alive and well; Train display at Peter Jin's hangout good for epileptics; David Pearson of Homelessness Australia displays his ignorance of life in the homeless culture; Renown Multi-cultural planning extra free lunch each week in 2025.

The continuing saga of the Tea Tree Gully homeless campers

Out-of-control fires and nights of blood-curdling screaming did alienate a group of homeless people camped in the gully below Bunnings at Modbury. The private rental residents were particularly disturbed then the flames reached the Housing Trust units in the dark hours. Police even evacuated some tenants.

Meanwhile, other homeless people were camped back of the Salvation Army Corps including The Twins in their caravan. They were fine until building developers next door complained and the Tea Tree Gully Council told the Army they didn’t have residential permits for homeless people.

The dispersal included at least one person going into psychiatric care and another into prison.

There was a dispute when the combined group moved moved up the gully towards Water World. One camper suffered a tent peg would in the temple. Seven or eight ended up below the lawn bowling club near Water World in the Ashley Reserve at Ridgehaven.

Despite being in an affluent suburb of Adelaide, the lawn bowling club staged a BBQ for the homeless campers. Rotary mover and shaker Joylene Mitchell persuaded Water World to let them use its toilets and showers. This was an amazing result perhaps guided by residents having little experience with hard core homeless people.

All was well until the inevitable screaming and yelling began due to existing psychiatric conditions and drug use. There was movement throughout the night of strange men riding children’s BMX bicycles pulling wood carts delivering drugs and food.

Harrison Funerals were outraged. They wanted grieving relatives to contemplate Heaven for their loved ones, not a background noise resembling the screams and gnashing of teeth in Hell.

Tea Tree Gully Council again ordered them gone. But then social media Influencer Sonia Blackwell charged in. She planned a media conference explaining the homeless people had nowhere to go. She was backed by YouTube interviewer Woody of Woody and Skip. He’d lived for months under a tarp outside the local Salvation Army complex and wasn’t a drug addict.

Suddenly the media conference was cancelled when a government department funded caravan park accommodation for four campers while another moved into a motel. While short term housing, it took the steam out of the story. Sonia waved goodbye as two taxis took the homeless people away last Thursday afternoon.

But not everyone was gone. There were lights shining inside the tent complex that night. On Friday morning there was at least one remaining person while a Council employee nervously paced the outer perimeter. He maintained a cautious distance in case he had to make a run for it.

Meanwhile, other homeless campers at Modbury weren’t offered free accommodation. One man living in a tent is undergoing medical treatment for a life-threatening illness, but he’s discreet, considerate and does voluntary work. The homeless industry isn’t kind to such people.

Early 9 December 2024

(above) Linsell Lodge Salvation Army Aged Care high-rise building demolished at Whitmore Square. It stood empty for nearly twenty years after residents were transferred to Angle Park. The Army plans a major redevelopment of the area. Click image to view building before demolition. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

On the Street

The Master of Ceremonies told assembled diners that Rose Harrap had provided money for the meat served to 80 diners last Monday at the Para Vista Lutheran church.

Some diners had called Rose the “Gold Digger”, but it turns out she was generous while her detractors don’t give anything.

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The C.H.A.T.S. pre-Christmas break-up fancy breakfast at Port Adelaide was booked out almost before they announced they were taking names. This is arguably Adelaide’s most dynamic free food joint with plenty of yelling and screaming from clients and staff including Founder Rose Darling.

They have a raffle every Friday morning with many winners announced above the noise of eighty diners. Rose yelled her voice box into exhaustion so she bought a microphone to ensure diners hear the raffle numbers.

But recently she met her match when a tribal woman arrived with a typically powerful voice of desert hunters. In this case, she yelled into her phone while insisting on sitting on the floor as they do in the desert. Her voice was so strong that even Rose with her blaster was challenged.

The secret of C.H.A.T.S. success is:
1) offering lots of good stuff
2) plenty of quality volunteers
3) consideration for the needs of each client
4) tolerance of eccentricities
5) lots of yelling
6) nearly always open including during the Covid closures
7) no tolerance for violence or threats
8) always welcoming
9) no data collection for government

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City Salvos provides free hairdressing every second Wednesday at 3:00pm. Due to high demand, customers queue up at 2:00pm or earlier as the list is quickly filled. And due to so many clients, haircuts are done very quickly and are rudimentary.

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A Salvation Army volunteer almost quit when told he couldn’t participate in the protest in support of homeless people at Water Word near Modbury.

The Army is reliant on government funding, one condition of which is a prohibition from joining political protests of homeless people. This was never the case in the early days of the Army in England when government funding was non-existent.

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A retired clinical and administrative nurse got the sack from St Andrew’s Church-at-the-Sea free food service. An administrator said she became exhausted too quickly and had to withdraw. The volunteer said she’d given food to someone outside the rules so they sacked her as an unpaid worker.

The standard of volunteers is extremely high at St Andrew’s, but sometimes efficiency and professionalism can exclude someone we want to return.

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A church pastor told a reduced assemblage at a free food joint that the most valuable accomplishment of the service was to “create a community”. One cynical client later asked what community.

The Fred’s Van crowd had mostly expelled the previous clients then sat in two small factions while glaring at each other from opposite ends of the tables.

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The Taperoo Uniting Church free food service distributes a one-page list of free food joints in the Western suburbs. It is years out of date. They should consult the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide for an updated list.

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Word from Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps is that someone defecated on the floor of the toilet room instead of using the toilet itself. The Manager checks the shower room after each patron for the same reasons.

Defecating inappropriately seems a primal insult. A comedian from Nepal performing at the Adelaide Casino said that his father-in-law defecated at night on neighbours’ front lawns when he was displeased with them. An angry homeless couple did the same with the One Voice shower truck at the Western Food Hub three years ago. And prisoners on death row throw faeces through their bars.

When I wrote philosophical statements on the doors of the Hutt Street Centre toilet doors, another client wiped faeces over the words.

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A patron at Mary’s Kitchen in Glenelg said security guards at Marion shopping centre previously took troublesome boys into secluded hallways where they smashed them together. He said the new guards are “all Indians” who are afraid to lift a finger.

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An old man took his wife to an Adelaide hospital. He was his wife’s official Carer. She had an abscess on her knee.

The abscess was reported to Welfare who said the man was incapable of taking care of his wife. N.D.I.S. Carers took over the treatment and after one month the woman’s abscess had tripled in size and she had bed sores. The cost for that one month was $110,000.

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Ben Carbone from Port Church returned from India where he spread the Christian Word and taught reading and writing to poor people.

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Mini-May is suspected of employing someone to smash Carol’s side and back window of her car while slashing all four tyres. Mini-May is a tiny woman with a limp originating from her hip. She was the prime suspect of putting a piece of wood impregnated with nails under Carol’s car at Gospel City Church at Gawler five months ago.

Carol is in her late seventies and was living in her car until renting a tiny Housing Trust unit in Elizabeth.

Tony wasn’t making coffee at the Beacon of Hope free lunch last Monday because Carol usually takes him there.

Early 8 December 2024

(above) Five churches including Elizabeth Grove Baptists plan to operate a homeless shelter in the Elizabeth area this coming winter. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

Homelessness Australia inspires new scam in Western Australia

“Imagined Futures and the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (WAAEH) have joined forces for the Fremantle Zero Project, an evidence and place-based approach to ending rough sleeping in the Fremantle local government area by 2028.”

It’s hard not to be cynical that after getting government funding this outfit will then extend their 2028 target date further to justify more funding while failing to deliver results.

Following the Mafia model and resembling the Adelaide Zero Project, they’ll claim to have housed hundreds, even thousands of homeless people while doing nothing apart from insinuating themselves between housing and those living outside.

They’ll siphon off housing money and redirect it to “non-profits” who will hire data collectors that require each homeless person endure a dozen interviews and medical visits while forcing that person to sign privacy release documents. These privacy release documents are often signed unread on tablets without copies given to the homeless person. This allows them to access every aspect of the homeless person’s life then merge it into one huge file accessible by strangers without further permission. Any homeless person not complying is denied housing that was previously available to them. This is essentially what the Adelaide Zero Project ideology has done to us and what will happen in Western Australia.

https://imaginedfutures.org.au/fremantle-zero-project-ending-homelessness/

Early 7 December 2024

(above) A man lay in the hot sun for hours waiting for the Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh to open on a recent Saturday. It stayed closed despite a sign stating it would open. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

Rotary BBQ a disaster

A man not wearing a shirt waved his arms wildly and ran towards the Rotary crowd as they brought supplies to the public BBQ area at Civic Park near the children’s playground.

Joylene Mitchell of Rotary yelled at the man to put on his shirt then shouted again when he swore. He complied then said no one was helping him. His legs were covered in itchy sores and abrasions.

The Rotary crowd once again neglected to bring hot water flasks saying they’d disappeared. There were just three of us present when Rotary arrived, one living in a tent in the gully, the other in the open and myself in an SUV. Joylene speculated the previous day’s hot weather was the reason for so few diners. But she couldn’t fathom that not bringing hot water two fortnights in a row had an effect. Someone suggested plugging in an electric jug. She said they’d have to consult “The Committee.”

Joylene phoned a few homeless people asking why they weren’t at Civic Park. Well, the cruel truth is that bacon and egg burgers cooked on the BBQ by Joylene’s husband wasn’t enough in this era of plenty of free food. Coffee was the issue. And not staying long enough. The Water World campers didn’t think it worth the long walk without coffee.

Rotary didn’t bring bags of clothing and other stuff after realising that those with homes were taking nearly everything while those living outside took little or nothing.

After thirty-minutes two housed people arrived for the BBQ, but it was a disappointing affair without coffee.

But the subtle reason was the BBQ didn’t provide the overall emotional and mental experience that desperate homeless people need. And I got tired of repeatedly being asked if I was “alright” while doing something as simple as changing position in a chair.

But it is still a good service by Rotary and their involvement in getting Water World to give free toilet, shower and swimming access to the homeless campers near Harrison Funerals must be commended.

Rotary free Saturday BBQ Modbury
Civic Park BBQ area, Northeast Road, Modbury (across road from shopping centre). Ph Joylene on 0422 086 922. Every second Saturday 8:30am to 9:30am. Free hamburgers, coffee, takeaway crackers, tuna, cheese, chips, powdered soups, canned fruit, blankets and coats. Safe. Quite nice. No swearing allowed. Camera surveillance in park, but it doesn’t record swearing.

Early 6 December 2024

(above) Hands and Feet appear to be a Christian based old food distribution group servicing about sixteen mostly poor churches distributing free food as a means of attracting religious seekers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

(above) Hands and Feet on Grand Junction Road at Rosewater charge the churches three-dollars per person served. Most churches absorb that cost and give the food for free. The food is usually higher quality than Second Bite. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2024.)

Client pukes at Kilburn Fred’s Van

Once again they opened the front doors an hour early so diners could sit in the hall rather than stand in the hot sun. Cordial and water were available then coffee at 6:30pm.

Volunteers in this week’s crew were less relaxed than the previous week when the kitchen roller door and entry door were kept open while staff prepared the meal. Staff kept them closed this week, but their wisdom and kindness in letting us in early can’t be emphasised enough.

A driver in a RAM truck delivered food at 6:00pm with the Oz Harvest truck thirty minutes later. The Wine Centre soup was cream of pumpkin. It was not ordinary horrible soup, but the quality of which restaurant diners pay $15 a bowl. This was the first non-meat soup for six-months.

The meal was chicken, salad and something else with a vegetarian option that might have given me a migraine.

Ned the Croatian genealogist talked about his three crashes on his Nifty Fifty motorcycle. His bone and joint injuries aren’t getting better, but he insists on riding that little death machine. It uses less petrol. Ned repeated his crash story ten times until another diner told him to leave the table.

Rails was the oldest person in the room. She and a friend sat with tribal nomads after falling out with the Head Table.

The distribution of mostly rotten vegetables in the takeaway bags was fraught with the same shouting and screaming. It never gets better.

It was a disturbing evening with anxious people running here and there. However, the drug addicts that filled one table were quiet and civilised. They usually stick to themselves, but their method of communication disturbs others. They grunt and groan and laugh with occasional sentences spoken in code.

A late diner at our table talked incessantly while gobbling her food. Before her mini-marathon was finished, her head fell backwards over the chair. Her eyes went in different directions and she vomited undigested food over her furry clothing. Annette shouted at someone nearest to her to push her head forward so she wouldn’t choke. Not Annette’s head, but the puking diner.

A volunteer called an ambulance. Others waited on the street to wave it in. The alcoholic who stopped drinking twelve years ago also waited. A volunteer suggested he turn on his bicycle light to alert the ambulance. Someone muttered “shut-up”.

The ambulance arrived in one hour. The woman had regained consciousness and demanded that the ambulance take her rotting food home before going to the hospital.

A dozen volunteers and clients waited until she was gone. She previously worked at Harrods in London and also as a dancer in various European countries.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent.

Early 5 December 2024

(above) White Tiger free food back of Baptist Church at 19 Haydown Road at Elizabeth Grove. No registration or I.D. required. Monday and Friday 2:00 - 3:00pm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Fred’s Van Salisbury

There was a full house with three tables of quiet pure black tribal nomads. A different type of bush woman entered the room carrying a tree branch with a jagged hook at the end. Two tribal women watched her with open unblinking eyes. She weren’t part of their mob.

Volunteers set up an extra table to cater for the larger than usual crowd that resulted in smaller than usual servings of which the vegetarian version I found quite tasty. There are rarely more than three non-meat eaters including Kate from New Zealand and The Virus Lady (formerly The Horse Trainer Lady). We call her
The Virus Lady after we were put under house arrest when she was wrongly diagnosed as having Covid in 2020.

With Becky deceased, I was the oldest diner in the room. After sleeping awkwardly in my car during the afternoon, my eyesight was blurred and my mind confused. This improved as the meal progressed.

There was good energy in the room including from a friend of Trent Jefferis who has replaced drugs with alcohol. He was slightly drunk.

Another diner at our table was an N.D.I.S. client who discovered her African support worker in her bathroom. The client said the support worker was “rubbing” her “creams and potions” onto her face, hands and upper breasts.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal nomads.

Note: The final meal service for 2024 will be Sunday 22 December at 6:00pm. It will be closed on the 29th of December then resume on Sunday the 5th of January 2025.

4 December 2024

(above) Sign up for free hamper at Unley Salvos from first Monday in December. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

White Tiger free food Elizabeth

A volunteer shouted my progress on foot across the carpark suggesting someone should carry me in. Once inside, the mother and daughter operators explained how their group operated without paid employees, but they sold some food to pay for petrol and shed rent to the Baptist Church. ​

They get their supplies from surplus elderly Woolworths stock though sometimes spend their own money to buy better stuff. A volunteer sorting the incoming vegetables said she was told on her first day to throw out anything she wouldn’t eat herself. That sounded hopeful. They sold Stilton cheese for one-dollar a pack and threw in pickled onions without charge.

The staff of seven people included a male volunteer who waved his arms like a windmill and shouted about f****** c****. Another volunteer punched the door frame as I left saying he was there to keep order. White Tiger was founded by retired martial artists so maybe this was one of them nostalgic for the old days. 

I look forward to the next visit.

White Tiger Elizabeth Grove
Shed back of the Baptist Church, 19-21 Haydown Rd., Elizabeth Grove. Ph 0434 096 152. Mon and Fri 2:00pm until food runs out, which is 45 minutes. Free fruit, vegetables, bread plus drinks, meat, gourmet food sales. White Tiger began as martial arts group. Selfless operators.

Early 3 December 2024
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Fred’s Van Kilburn

Their new policy worked perfectly. It was one of those early hot days of spring so volunteers opened the building to clients an hour earlier than scheduled.

In the heat outside, police chasing someone down a drainage channel that runs under Gladstone Avenue. Squatters took over houses in the area by removing fence panelling alongside the dry concrete channel.

The coffee urn was available as clients sat in the air-conditioned hall rather than in the blazing sun. Volunteers went about their jobs in the kitchen as if we weren’t there. Clients knew not to disturb them. This is the new enlightened policy at Kilburn and also at Salisbury Fred’s Vans.

There has been a rift at the leading table. The woman who appears like a 1950’s movie star is no longer friends with the ultra-old inspiring Mensa woman. The intelligent woman moved to the back with her bodyguard. Volunteers might have sensed something happening as the tables had been set up differently.

The Mensa lady’s bodyguard is thin and muscular after having become fat when he quit smoking. It wasn’t simply replacing tobacco with food that made him fat, but no longer walking 10 kilometres a day while bending over to retrieve butts from the ground. An outsider might think this an action characteristic of someone slightly deranged, but this man is alert and disciplined.

The diner who funds the printing of the Adelaide Free Food Guide did not side with the movie star woman as they had a fight over a ten-kilogram bucket of yoghourt in 2018. It was the movie star lady along with the woman accused of torching vehicles who were knocked down by Catherine the Doctor last year. Catherine has been missing in action for six-weeks, either travelling overseas or gone senile and locked up.

The man who smashed the front window was absent, but his Ice pals were present and sat with the Mensa lady who was not intimidated in the least as the addicts are respectful of her. (She’s brave, anyway.)

The takeaway bags were handed to those remaining in their seats before those in the queue received them. This enraged some people, one of whom went red in the face and stormed out of the building.

A volunteer told us they aren’t doing the booking system for the pre-Christmas final gathering this year. The booking system with limited numbers was excluding some regular diners who missed the booking week while others added names of people who only turned up once a year. This year everyone just turns up and hopes for the best. The date is the 19th of Thursday. The usual time is 7:00pm, but might be earlier. Best to arrive much earlier.

There is a new camera installed in the corner of the dining room. The Beast has infiltrated every aspect of our lives.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent.

Review for Thursday, 21 November 2024
Posted early for 2 December 2024

Writing Doom – a short film about A.I.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfMQ7hzyFW4

Dry Begging

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UthOjQc0i5w

Early 2 December 2024
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On the Street

Diners at free food joints spit on me as they’re eating and talking. With some it is a fine spray while others project large drops of spittle and even lumps of food that lands on my face and meal.

But other diners discreetly wipe their face when I speak to them.

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Does anyone remember Ken Henderson from Baptist WestCare in the city. He’s now senior pastor at the Elizabeth Grove Baptist Church. I thought he’d be in a retirement village.

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A homeless man near Water World at Modbury refers to the Hutt Street Centre as the Mutt Street Centre. He says its full of Mutts. These are people who will do anything sexually for money and drugs. He corrects anyone who calls it the Hutt Street Centre.

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City Salvos in Pirie Street placed a ‘No camping” sign on its front verandah after it was used by that murderer who killed a homeless woman in the carpark at BusinessSA on Greenhill Road.

Three weeks ago, a woman slept on the verandah. A Salvo officer roused her and ordered her to leave. She then set up camp in the more dangerous back lane not controlled by the Army. But another Salvos office named David had been warned by a night walker that Mad Mel was on the prowl. So David told the sleeping woman that she could return to the front verandah that faces Pirie Street with its constant traffic.

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Kilburn Fred’s Van management cancelled the sign-in process for their famous Wine Centre pre-Christmas meal, free hamper and IGA purchase card. It had been exploited by non-regular clients who filled the reservation list and thus excluded regular clients

The hall holds less than 100 people so this year a queue may form two hours before the 7pm opening time on the 19th of December.

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A homeless man said he is worried about the many lavish meals offered by homeless and church joints leading up to Christmas. He fears weight gain.

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A former long-term homeless man expressed regret at squandering the house and fortune left him by his parents. His father worked his guts out to build a fine house and put him through Australia’s most expensive private school. Then he poured it into the pokies, but added he “helped a few people out”.

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Tea Tree Salvation Army closed its paid cafe then reopened it as a free cafe serving coffee, toast and frozen meals heated in the microwave. But client numbers remain low. See the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide for more details.

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The Lutheran Church near the corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads at Glenelg plans to extend their monthly free lunch to a weekly service on Wednesdays at 11:30am. The Catholics at Glenelg plan a Thursday evening free meal at St Andrew’s church on Jetty Road at Glenelg. See the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide for more details.

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The homeless group at Water World near Modbury have “gastro” according to a fellow camper. Another person says they’re all “sick and can’t move”.

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Homeless campers in the area are quietly anxious about the Tea Tree Salvation Army Corp closing down for two weeks. Some depend on the showers and free cafe as a refuge during the day.

The Corps officers are reportedly suffering an illness or at least exhaustion while the manager has been so overworking that he collapsed and spent time in hospital. Minor renovations and deep cleaning of carpets, shower room and toilets will be done during the closure.

The Corps has improved their position slight after obtaining the services of some reliable housed and homeless unpaid volunteers. However, the rigorous training schedule has discouraged or prevented others from helping out.

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A homeless man cut his foot and was suffering back pain last week at Modbury after sleeping on concrete and walking barefoot.

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Ants are crawling up the legs of diners at the Tea Tree Salvation Army free cafe. Volunteers sprayed the area with some effect. The problem may be addressed more forcefully during the fortnight closure of the Corps over the Christmas period.

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Unley Salvation Army provide free toasted sandwiches and barista coffee every Monday. When I asked for salt and pepper, a worker said they didn’t have any. This is similar to City Salvos. Why is this? These are popular additives to food and cost very little. It seems cruel and strange not to supply it.

1 December 2024​

(above) It's important to sign up right away. They didn't question whether I lived in the area or not. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Mick pulls a swifty

Mick of Mick and Eleanor said he’d been kicked out of ONE Life free food event due to a disability. His hip bone becomes displaced frequently and he calls for help for another person to put in back in place.

The ONE Life coordinator told him not to return because of it. This is according to Mick. The coordinator also told Ian Cole not to return because he was too weak to get out of his car parked in the sun. Ian didn’t return and then died.

Mick told us at GC3 that he had been cured by a miracle healer. The healer put his hands over Mick’s bad hip and it had been miraculously cured. Mick later return to the healer’s building and found it empty. Hallelujah.

Mick says he can return to ONE Life as he no longer has the disability that got him kicked out. And that he put in a good word for the doctor that healed him resulting in him getting a position at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney that he’d been seeking for ten years.

30 November 2024
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Faith Works meal not too bad

Some diners arrived 75 minutes before the doors opened. Waiting outside these places is a way of life as well as a culinary rendezvous. The doors opened at 5:00pm with about 18 diners attending. Women sat on one table while men took the other. Unusual, since some of us already knew each other.

Free cold drinks were available from a small commercial fridge. Diners took what they wanted and not one person was greedy. Two meat dishes, string beans and unflavoured rice were available from heated trays alongside cutlery and bread. There was salt and pepper, but no sauces. Church staff brought out the food and coffee without fanfare or even involvement with us, but exuded a benevolence.

Barista coffee was delivered from the kitchen, its evidence being an intermittent thumping sound as the barista emptied the strainer. (I thought a church member was angry at having been made to do charity work for a bunch of undeserving no-hopers. That’s how guilt eats at the mind.)

Ice-cream, cake and giant muffins were placed next to the hot food half-way through the meal.

Conversation was relaxed and non-controversial. Near the end, a woman arrived in a new Honda carrying four children. They were normal healthy children who ate dinner then played amongst themselves in the lounge area of the small historic Wesley hall.

Their meal schedule is two weeks on and one week off with the establishment closed from the 21st of December 2024 to the 7th of January 2025. This means that theoretically the next Friday meal is on the 6th of December.

Faith Works Blair Athol
5 Clifton Street, Blair Athol. Free food 10:00am to 3:15pm. Mon – Fri. Fruit, vegetables, groceries. Some free, other stuff costs money. I.D. required, but not for carpark giveaways or free quiet self-serve meal 5:00 – 6:30pm some Fridays. A quiet 90-minute refuge from the cruel world. (Dates on front door). Constantly changing. Some staff kind, others certifiable. Some clients ought to be locked up, but most are good. https://www.faithworks.net.au 

30 November 2024
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Disturbed – Sounds of Silence
https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung-rev2&source=android-browser&q=youtube+disturbed+sound+of+silence#ebo=0
Nancy Drew
​30 November 2024

(above) It's difficult to engage in conversation after camping days in suburban "no man's land". (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

On the Street Thursday

The leader of Fred’s Van Salisbury prefers to be referred by her first name in the Adelaide Homeless Journal rather than “the old lady”

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Some people knew the internet was poison from the beginning in the 1990’s and avoided it like the plague. What wise souls.

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Christmas anxiety has manifested in the homeless scene with increased anger and violence.

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The Master of Ceremonies publicly thanked Lisa Lang*** for her “sizeable donation” to the Para Vista Lutheran free food program. Lisa is not wealthy and battles a chronic life-reducing illness yet still donates to others.

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Two homeless men camping in a gully at Modbury left the Para Vista Lutheran free food event due to the large crowd and noise. People living outside become both hard and ultra-sensitive to changes in their physical environment. That’s why most homeless people don’t go to free homeless meal services.

Another diner who lives in a house said he sensed disturbance in the air while I was slumped over the table in a migraine that wouldn’t go away.

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A high-quality middle-aged homeless man had brain surgery last month then after a short respite went back to his homeless camp. He’ll get chemotherapy in January.

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An old man living in his car said he’s disturbed by people looking down at him. They see him sitting in his car full of stuff. They see him sleeping in the front seat at night. He was camping near the beach at Brighton.

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The education and skills of free food joint volunteers are incredible. One volunteer at St Augustine’s Anglican Church maintains highly sophisticated medical machines for the South Australian health system.

He doesn’t simply clean them, but calibrates their operation and makes repairs. This is a highly responsible job yet his demeanour is one of modesty.

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A client of the Taperoo Uniting Church free food distribution was snarling about her nephew borrowing her card to go shopping then not returning it. She carried on in a style of threatening language popular with “Stiffs” and “Stinking Mutts”. He returned the card the following afternoon.

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The Salvation Army at Kilkenny has reduced their opening hours to Mon, Wed and Fri only. 9:00am – 12:30pm. They’re at 14 Arndale Street, Kilkenny (near Arndale shopping centre). Phone 8445 2044. Alternately, you can phone their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 for free supermarket and Op Shop vouchers and money for electricity.

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Peter from Black Forest is now Peter from Marleston. He moved to a Housing Trust unit after being unable to afford his private rental. He’s been depressed over the move. He’s a call-in radio star at station 5AA. A listener said he should have his own in-studio segment.

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There is a constant problem of overhead lighting at the Salisbury Haven Friday night community event at St John’s Anglican Church. The fans turn below the fluorescent lights creating a flickering effect that triggers epileptic seizures. The organisers don’t see the problem despite it being deadly to an epileptic man. He’s put into comas at hospital to prevent such seizures from damaging his brain or even killing him. It is also illegal to allow such lighting in a public place. The remedy is to put the lights at the top of the walls or replace overhead fans with wall fans.

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An Adelaide Anglican church soup kitchen client said he’d been involved in building a school in Zambia. The school began small, but grew to 800 pupils from the rich and powerful families of Zambia. And from a foreign supported school it rose to charge $30,000 annual fees per student in a country where most people were close to subsistence farmers.

One student was Castro Chiluba (brother of Stalin Chiluba) and son of the five-foot tall President.

The Anglican church worker said he had a problem with Castro as a student. One evening Castro pulled a knife on him and before anything could happen the local football team pinned the Anglican church worker to the ground. Castrol was soon expelled and later died from a congenital heart ailment at the age of 33.

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A soup kitchen woman said her friend looked like The Joker after the latter’s boyfriend hit her with an axe at the side of her mouth. Luckily, the wound healed and she appears normal.

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ONE Life had its last free food event of the year last Wednesday. They’re vacating the church and moving into another building sometime in the New Year upon which the free food event will resume.

Early 29 November 2024

Mary’s Kitchen Glenelg

​A schizophrenic Ice junkie confronted numerous diners with his aggressive delusions and threats at Mary’s Kitchen the Tuesday before last at Glenelg. William the Surfer stood up to him so he turned on other more vulnerable diners. Staff did nothing. He’s part of a new crowd of brain damaged drug addicts that has arrived in Glenelg, but they rarely last more than a few months.

Mary’s Kitchen has changed over the past decade. Staff are too busy serving food too quickly so they don’t have a chance to get the feel of the room. They opened the door at 6:00pm to about sixty diners then at 6:55pm told the few remaining diners to leave. They’re churning out the grub then rushing us through rather than allowing us to relax after the meal. It was slower paced ten years ago when they served just soup, coffee and buns then free vegetables to take home.

The diner who left his Housing Trust unit to save money for surgery rents a storage container. It’s a similar conflict faced by most of us when becoming homeless: what do we do with our lifelong collections.

This homeless man seeking surgery lives in a tiny car and can’t sleep flat at night thus he’s become mildly confused during the day and finds it difficult to speak coherently and make proper decisions.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:45pm. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit, vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at a Glenelg pharmacy each week (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and Friday 11:00am to 1:00pm.


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Excellence at Osborne 

Certain mysterious women cook the food in the kitchen, but we rarely see them or at least we can’t identify them. The trolleys of food arrive via a kitchen door that leads into the foyer and into the pensioners community centre main hall.

Last week, they served sausage rolls and vegetarian rolls. The wide-spectrum flavour was exceptional and we felt satisfied eating small amounts. They also served a beautifully delicate leaf and cherry tomato salad lightly sprinkled with dressing. There was also sliced rock melons, sourdough bread with margarine, relish and Sicilian orange cake.

One volunteer said the food is prepared from scratch using quality ingredients.

A local hairdresser gave free haircut vouchers for some of the clients while a volunteer suggested that diners could donate items for the raffle. Not junk, but good stuff brand new.

One of the diners was the mother of Adrian Beucy killed the previous Monday morning on his way to work on Purling Avenue, Edinburgh. She said she had to keep moving to stop thinking about it. She said nights were the worst. His death added to the poignancy of the gathering.

One of the volunteers could have been Stevie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac singing, “Players only love you while they’re playing.” In this case, “Servers only love you while they’re serving.” They’re glad to see us turn up, but equally happy to see us leave.

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium)
Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. Healthy food. Vegetarian option. No added MSG or other contaminants. Good toilets. Decent hall. No I.D. or registration required All workers unpaid. Pleasant building and staff with safe parking. Safe atmosphere. Raffle, but the prizes aren’t much good. Free takeaway bread and vegetables. No diners completely insane.

28 November 2024

(above) Self-medicating for life's troubles, heart trouble and doctors' pills swirling about the N.D.I.S. ex-homeless man's head. (Adelaide Homeless journal, November 2024.)

Free Christmas holiday functions

25 November 2024
Seventh edition

This is a tiny list that will be expanded if you phone other groups listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide . And if they refuse access to their Christmas functions and hampers you may still qualify for a standard food package or supermarket card.

It is crucial that you act immediately as places are limited especially hampers, some of which may be fully allocated before the end of this week.

Free Christmas Day lunch

Parafield Gardens Community Club

65 Shepherdson Rd, Parafield Gardens, SA, Australia, South Australia. (08) 8182 3444
Free lunch for “homeless and lonely”. Usually free beer and wine included. Some diners may be escorted or carried from the building.. Phone immediately as there is a big rush for free tickets.

Gawler Salvation Army

The receptionist said last Friday that they offer a Christmas lunch, but are still looking for a group to put it on. As to hampers, she said recipients must do a money management course before they are given out. This seems outlandish and she told me this after I told her I was homeless. Based on the past, their Christmas day functions are worth attending.

Salvation Army Gawler. 17 Edith St., Gawler East. Ph (08) 8523 4844. Free breakfast of toast, cereal, barista coffee. Mon 9am – 10:00am; Tues- Thurs 9:00 – 9:30am; Friday 9 – 10:00am; Sat 8:00 – 10:00am; Sun 8:00 – 9am. Showers available similar times.

Baptist WestCare

Free Christmas Day lunch without putting your name and photograph on the Eternal Shame File. You just turn up. Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200.

Hutt Street Centre

They offer a free Christmas Day lunch, but take your image and put it on the Eternal Shame File. 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace). Ph 8418 2500.

Wynn Vale Salvation Army

99 Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn Vale. Ph 8289 4724. Registration Required.
Christmas Day lunch, 12noon to 2:00pm. Free. Beware of screaming children present.

Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth

Excellent free lunch about 12 noon on Christmas Day. Not too hectic and with a blend of normal and eccentric people. Phone to reserve a place.

38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth

Not sure of break-up date, but it will be Sunday lunch about 12 noon. They may supply hampers and supermarket cards as well as a terrific lunch. It is usually mayhem with a bit of yelling as old enemies meet in person in a semi-truce. Well worth the cultural experience unless some drug dealers is after you. No registration required. You just turn up. Good luck.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth. St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients semi-animals, but otherwise fine. Improved takeaway bags plus leftovers. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm Wed and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality, battle hardened volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across the street.

St Luke’s Mission Whitmore Square

They previously hosted Adelaide largest and best free Christmas day lunch including presents for every person. They used to get 400 people until the chief fundraiser was hit by a car at Red Hill north of Adelaide.

They aren’t sure what is happening this Christmas, but you can leave you name with them on 8232 0048.

UnitingSA Port Adelaide

A nice, but subdued free Christmas lunch including a Coles card. Phone the UnitingSA Family Centre to book your place. Usually open to anyone and everyone. 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2299. Mon – to Fri 9:00am to 1:30pm.

Exeter Uniting Church at Semaphore

I’ve heard they’re planning a free Christmas lunch. Friendly and tolerant place for sex change people, ex-prisoners and others. They also do energy cleansing and yoga. A progressive and worthy church. 146 Semaphore Road, Exeter. Ph 0476 998 164

Uniting Care Modbury – not sure, they don’t answer their phone.

Adelaide Angels at Pilgrim Church

They usually have an excellent free late Christmas day meal and gifts starting from 4:30pm.12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Ph (08) 8212 3295

St Jude’s Anglican Brighton

444 Brighton Road, Brighton
0413 685 027
Free Christmas Day lunch. All welcome.
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Free Christmas hampers

Hampers may include a box of food or a supermarket card or both, or a kick below the belt if they don’t like you. Act quickly.

St Jude’s Anglican Brighton

444 Brighton Road, Brighton
0413 685 027
Free Christmas hampers.

Adelaide Day Centre

Box of groceries with a lot of sugar. They deliver. No strings attached, but the receptionist got a little confused when I told her I lived in my car.
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Back of a block of residential units. Mon – Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048.

Unley Salvation Army

Registration for free hampers begins from 1 December 2024.
They don’t appear to require residence in the Unley area.
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839.

St Jude’s Anglican Brighton

A Glenelg regular said St Jude’s provide hampers this Christmas. Contact them immediately.

Cnr Brighton and Jetty Roads, Brighton. Ph 8296 8333. Free lunch Fridays in large hall. 11:30am to 1:00pm. Soup, main course, dessert, toasted sandwiches, coffee, water. They don’t rush you. Water taps around church. Outdoor cabinet filled with bread. Church takes sleeping gear left in alcove so the homeless person gets more from a charity. Another possible sleeping area is under huge fig trees. No I.D. or registration required. BYO salt and pepper. Occasional free hairdresser.

Lutheran Glenelg

Rumour has it that the Lutherans are giving away pre-Christmas hampers this year.

St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Ph 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:30am -2:00pm. Parking at rear. Free store-bought pantry items and toiletries. Centrelink card details kept on paper and destroyed each year. Six visits per year. Good food, not from Foodbank, Oz Harvest or Second Bite. Free lunch every third Wednesday 11:30am to 1:00pm. No card required for this.

St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. Christmas hampers and/or supermarket cards. They visit your home unless you’re homeless or live in the Elizabeth area where they require a visit to their Conference room near the railway station. (They fear being attacked by “Stinking Mutts” and “stiffs” from Elizabeth.)

Fred’s Vans

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. https://tinyurl.com/FredsVan for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details.

Playford Community Fund

They’re taking names for hampers this week, but you have to be in the Playford Council area holding a Centrelink card. They also give $25 supermarket cards four times a year.

They’re in a building next to Anglicare Corporation in the Elizabeth shopping centre across the carpark from the Council offices and library. Phone 8255 1599.

Revival City church Modbury

Free hampers for morning tea clients and apparently anyone who asks for one. Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Phone 8395 0888. Act quickly. Also at Revival City Churches at147 Hurling Drive, Mount Barker (08) 8395 0888 and 6 Jacob Street, Tailem Bend.
Gospel City Church at Gawler

This is a poor church and a generous church providing a pre-Christmas free lunch usually with an extra generous free vegetable and meat handout at their last Tuesday lunch of the year. I’m not sure of the date. Please don’t swamp them. 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide)

They usually offer free hampers at their last free BBQ of the year. This is the 13th of December in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays.

Life Adelaide also offer hampers at their last Thursday 6:00pm meal at the Para Hills Community Hub at 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills. You better go there this Thursday to establish yourself as a client or it will be too late. It may already be too late. And the preacher might want to take your image with him giving you the box. I said, “no” and they accepted this.

Anglicare Corporation

The Corporation cleverly asks for charitable donations from the public then uses them to up-sell their welfare and rental products. This allows them to charge extra rent to tenants because they offer hampers they get for free. And they shouldn’t call their Elizabeth office a “Mission” since they’ve gotten rid of most of their church volunteers and use work-for-the-dole and other involuntary volunteers.

To be fair, there is a battle within Anglicare between those holding Christian principles and those dominated by financial concerns. And the N.D.I.S. homeless man says Anglicare Believe Housing has been good to him.

If you’re a customer of some sort, they offer Christmas hampers at the three locations below.

The Magdalene Centre
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph (08) 8305 9434
AnglicareSA Elizabeth Mission
At the clock tower, Elizabeth shopping centre
Playford Blvd., Elizabeth. Ph (08) 8209 5400
AnglicareSA Outer Southern
111 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Ph (08) 8186 8900

Salvation Army Ingle Farm

They gave $40 Woolworths cards last year in the form of two letters with barcodes. They also gave some quality free food from the back room. They have a huge registration day when they ask why you think you deserve a barcode. I said, “greed” and that was okay with the unsmiling elderly woman processing the application. This year it’s, “Fear of Missing Out”.
Ingle Farm Salvation Army, Cnr Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph (08) 8397 9333.

Pre-Christmas gatherings

This tiny list is most redundant since most free food joints listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide have a special end of season extra good meal and event. To be invited to most, you must attend the session when they issue invitations or you put your name on a list. At some of these gatherings they offer a supermarket card and/or hamper or just a decent meal and a bit of singing.

Salisbury Lutheran Ark Church Salisbury

Cnr Winzor St. and Waterloo Corner Rd., Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Last free meal 5pm on 30th November 2024. This is last chance to sign up for the 21st December pre-Christmas free meal.

Lighthouse City Mission Port Adelaide

They host three pre-Christmas evening dinners with presents for children on the 18th, 20th and 22nd of December. Register by emailing [email protected] saying how many children you will bring and their ages. Or text 0487 727 012 with the same information. I’m not sure if they accept people never previously associated with their welfare program, but they are arguably the most generous church in Adelaide.

Fred’s Van Salisbury

Break-up meal Sunday 22 December. Best to arrive at 5:30pm though this time could change. No requirement to register, just arrive. No hampers or supermarket cards.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Occasional screaming and yelling. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Interesting tribal people from the desert.

Salisbury Uniting Church
Cnr Brown and Park Terraces, Salisbury. Ph 8258 2675.
Pre-Christmas Wednesday lunch 11th December, but this may be only for Salisbury Council residents and homeless people or for everyone.

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free Tuesday evening meal on the signing-up Tuesday of which I don’t know the date.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal.

Global Care 3

I think Saturday 30 November at 6:30pm is their Christmas gathering. Anyone can turn up. Last year, Tony Zappia was a guest speaker when the formerly N.D.I.S. homeless man shouted that he should “go home to your slapper,” whatever that means. Very small crowd, usually, as a group of Fred’s Van clients have supplanted the original church attendees.

Global Care BBQ (GC3) Parafield Gardens
Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (back of Aldi’s and Salvation Army) Ph (08) 8289 0556. Cnr. of Martins Rd and Kings Rd, Parafield Gardens. Every second Saturday. 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Free coffee, sausages, patties, bread, sauce and cake. Regular special foods. Soft drinks $2.00. GC3 is not operational during school holidays, Easter, June and October long weekends. Global Care rent a basketball court so others can use it without charge.

Stevo’s at Sefton Park

They have a nice pre-Christmas gathering with a coherent preacher. To get invited it is crucial to attend their regular Tuesday brunches starting immdiately. They might still let you go there if you phone at the last minute. They haven’t set the date yet.

Stevo's at Enfield Uniting Church, Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early. Free. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File. Free excellent brunch, takeaways and games.

Salvation Army Adelaide City

A regular client said their end of year Christmas gathering is Wednesday, 18th of December. The usual start time is 6:00pm, but it might be wise to phone to confirm.

277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Mon to Fri. 9:00am to 10:00am for vegetables, bread, free. Coffee and sandwhiches 9am–10:30am. Free. Arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal at 6:00pm on Wednesdays with entry at 5:00pm for coffee. Addiction meeting and Bible group. Occasional free morning BBQ’s. Free groceries if you sign up for interview and provide a Centrelink card. Free hairdresser occasionally. Water tap in back lane 24/7.

Lutheran Good Shepherd

9th December Monday about 5pm. Bookings 18 November. There were newcomers last Monday posing as regulars so you might be able to go there next Monday and get invited to the pre-Christmas dinner the following week. It’s a long shot.

Unley Salvation Army

Their pre-Christmas meal is on Christmas eve, the 24th of December at 6:00pm. Bookings essential. They don’t require residence in the Unley area. 70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839.

St Bede’s Semaphore

Friendly pre-Christmas fancy meal with modest presents for regular clients only, but if you turn up next Tuesday or the following week they might relent. St Bede’s is always good so it is worth the journey. They don’t have funding for Christmas presents, but they do their best. I suggested they give clients Swiss army knives, but that wasn’t treated seriously.

200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tues 8:30 - 10:00am. Free breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they take names for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free day old Semaphore Bakehouse and Bakers Delight quality bread. Free clothing. Water tap at back, but requires a 4-way key handle available in aisle 56 at Bunnings. Monthly free hairdresser & Thread Together clothing. Dining room cold in winter.

Pilgrim Church Lounge City

This unique service usually have a special pre-Christmas lunch that varies year to year from a stack of nasty sugary garbage to quite nice lunches.

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

Anglicare Corporation

Anglicare and Believe Housing have fairs across the city for their clients and tenants. Ph (08) 8305 9434 or Believe Housing for more details.

Fred’s Vans

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner, most available to anyone who turns up. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details of their hampers. Only the city Fred’s Van is open on over the Christmas holidays. Others stop for two or three weeks.

Fred’s Van Kilburn

They usually offer an IGA voucher, a hamper and provide an excellent Christmas evening meal, but that is never guaranteed. What is almost guaranteed is a safe environment.The date is Thursday, 19th of December with a nominal start time of 7:00pm, but it is best to arrive earlier, maybe 6:00pm.

Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Quality volunteers who rarely go off the deep end. Healthy Nola went there until a tumour killed her in six weeks.

Western Food Hub Hindmarsh

Not sure what they’re doing though they may have a special interference pre-Christmas special event where a dozen desperadoes rough you up.
Or it might be wonderful like beauty within the depths of despair and deprivation.

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

A client said they don’t have enough money to offer supermarket cards this year, but even their regular Friday morning breakfasts are breathtaking to say the least. You can’t lose unless you get trapped in the cheapo elevator.

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.

Post Christmas events

St Augustine’s Church at Unley

183 Unley Road, Unley phone 0452 331 870.
These astute people realise there is a glut of free services before Christmas then a drought over the next four weeks. So they’ve offered a free Concert and Dinner on Sunday the 29th of December at 6:00pm.

A client from last year said they put bottles of wine on each table then when they were guzzled clients could buy more at $15 a bottle. I asked a volunteer last week if this was true and he said it was.

Early 26 November 2024

(above) St Augustine Anglican church at Unley serves free coffee and a light lunch every Wednesday from 11:30am to 1:00pm. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

(above) St Augustine's Anglican at Unley also provide free bread from outside the Op Shop that sells quality donated goods because Unley is a rich suburb. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024)

Council evicting Modbury homeless again

The Tea Tree Gully Council delivered an eviction order last week to those few homeless campers who moved from the gully behind Bunnings further up the creek to Water World. The Council order told them to remove their tents, bedding and personal possessions.

Water World provide shower, toilet and swimming pool access to the campers thanks to their kindness and the intervention from supporters with influence. However, Harrison Funerals want the campers gone. Their funeral parlouroverlooks the camping area that is seen as a visual and perhaps auditory disturbance. Harrison’s want mourners to feel their deceased loved ones are going to Heaven or somewhere nice while the screaming from tormented homeless campers suggest perhaps Hell is their next stop.

The campers include at least one person who is regularly interned in hospital crisis psychiatric wards. The others are overwhelmed by the stress of repeatedly pushed from here to there and back.

“But where can they go?” Rotary free BBQ lady, Joylene Mitchell, asks. She’s friends with social media Influencer Sonya Blackwell and Mayor Marika Ryan, but the trio still face political and social pressure from those wanting the campers gone.

Meanwhile, formerly homelessness activist Woody of Woody and Skip are planning with Sonya Blackwell to protest in support of the campers. It’s from 12 noon to 1:00pm Sunday on the 1st of December at the campsite at Ashley Reserve, Ridgehaven about two kilometres up Milne Road from Revival City church. (see image for directions).

Early 25 November 2024

On the Street

A soup kitchen client said he is weary of always taking, always being grateful. He wants to help, but the training program for volunteers is too intense and the required police clearances intrude too much into his past.

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Elizabeth Fred’s Van didn’t open the Wednesday before last due to lack of volunteers.

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A gentleman of Asian extraction said white people who express racist opinions should be arrested.

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A soup kitchen client said she was “sick of eating”. Like many diners, she craves the social aspect of free food joints, but the preponderance of pasta and sugary baked products has made her fat and diabetic.

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People eat their food in a more civilised manner at the Lutheran Para Vista free meal on Mondays than at other joints. Diners elsewhere seem oblivious to their surroundings apart from nervously looking around like animals fearful of other beasts taking their food.

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Anne Quast returned to the Lutheran Church at Para Vista last Monday. Despite having a stroke, being in a coma and on life support, then having life support removed and waking up the next day then getting Covid, she seemed her old self except for dizziness when walking. Her recovery uplifted those around her.

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An Ice dealer shook hands with a friend of a dogging couple at Port Church the week before last. A simple gesture shows a new link.

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A group of us at a welfare joint last week discovering that nearly everyone had a Julie Manning story.

Julie travels suburbia knocking on doors, asking to use a phone to call a doctor for her sick child. She then either runs away with the phone or if the homeowner – usually elderly and vulnerable – goes into another room to get the phone, she steals whatever she can grab and runs. She prefers credit cards and through them lives an affluent lifestyle.

Another tactic is asking for laundry detergent to get the victim to go into their laundry.

Those who refuse or otherwise annoy her find fires breaking out resulting in minor damage or complete ruin. Other victims find whisky bottles thrown through their windows. Julie predates on the vulnerable to can’t fight back.

She operates with two men – one a thug to back her up if there is resistance and the other as getaway driver. Julie spends part of their life in prison and the rest robbing vulnerable people. She operates from Parafield Gardens to Elizabeth. She’s robbed thousands of people and will continue to do so. She plays on the fact that she’s part Aboriginal and has special needs.

But as Dracula feared garlic, Julie Manning fears the word, “police”.

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Lighthouse City Mission is offering three pre-Christmas meals from the 18th of December. Their Mission is to the desperate and degraded saying that Jesus forgives all sins.

But the Child Protection Agency wasn’t forgiving to that drug addicted couple with the new born baby. Agents swooped in and grabbed all their children. The parents were crying at the Sunday service at the Mission at 40 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide.

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Many homeless people have lost the ability to attend homeless services, even outdoor BBQ’s. We saw a homeless man walk by the Rotary free BBQ at Modbury last week. Someone said hello and he turned away. He checked behind some bushes and picked up a pair of shoes and continued his way without a word.

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It seems unbelievable that Israeli troops’ current orders are to shoot Arab children in the head in Gaza. A former soldier told me at a free soup kitchen years ago that as a sniper he was ordered to wound Palestinians rather than kill them because an injured person drains resources from many people. If the enemy is killed then no resources are drained.

But if Israeli troops are shooting children in the head, it is possible they’re trying to shift the total population of north Gaza further south and claim the north as their own. ​

Whatever is happening, we don’t know the whole truth, but the images of total destruction of north Gaza tells us a bit of the truth.

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Ursula’s 53-year-old son was killed last Monday at 6:20am on his way to work at a timber mill in Edinburgh. The death happened when his car hit the bridge on Purling Avenue, Edinburgh. She was at the Osborne lunch last Thursday saying she had to keep moving to stop her thinking too much about it. She said the nights are the worse. Poor Ursula.

Early 24 November 2024
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The nightmare of welfare joints constantly changing service hours

From the anonymous contact page

I walked down to Kilkenny Salvos with my bestie the other day - it was a Thursday.

Initially pleased we were out & about early, we were most disappointed to find the place CLOSED, with sign saying they're now ONLY open on Mon, We'd & Fridays & only in the mornings now - nothing after 12.30.

My friend & I are peeved! Then I saw we could let you know via email, so you can update other poor souls out there regarding this resource now the latest victim of funding cuts (oh wait - it's the increasing number of us needy types that are the budget busters).

Forgive my sarcasm, it's NOT directed at you - you do a wonderful job, we'd be LOST without 'the blue book' & we THANK YOU for your work,

Name and email supplied
​Posted late 23 November 2024

(above) Shade and solitude are a luxury in Adelaide's homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Diane “cops a pretty good hiding”

That’s how fellow soup kitchen diners described Diane’s beating from her “ex-boyfriend and his new partner”. Diane was also Jeff’s old girlfriend. He’s friends with Tim’s ex-wife and mother-in-law.

This happened last Friday at the Church of Christ goodwill free lunch at Elizabeth. Witnesses described either three or four police cars plus an ambulance in attendance. Diane refused to go with the ambulance despite being rough up.

Diners guessed the dispute was over drugs, but this hasn’t been proven.

The Church known also as the Beacon of Hope is the replacement for the old Anglicare Food Barn, but without a security guard or as much funding. ​

Beacon of Hope Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467. Free salad rolls, soup, coffee, meat pies. 11:00am - 12:00pm Tues, Thurs and Fri. Free bread. Frozen takeaway meals $1. Food parcels for those in desperation. No I.D. or registration required for Eternal Shame File. Special giveaways Fridays 11:00am. Somewhat wild clients.

Early 23 November 2024

(above) Free fortnightly box of food from Baptist Pathway at Clovercrest. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

No sympathy
​for Thomas Stapleton-WestCott

Does anyone remember Neil Sieben, 66, who was allegedly beaten senseless by Thomas Stapleton-WestCott, 32 in April 2023 at Smithfield?

Stapleton-WestCott, now 34, has been in custody since the attack. He tried to get Home Detention, but that was denied. He wisely chose a judge-only trial perhaps knowing how the general population feels about axe attacks.

Neil Sieben was at the Beacon of Hope church last week. He’s now 68. One side of his head is indented from the weapon that he described as a hammer. One eye is still problematic though he isn’t blind in that eye and is awaiting surgery.

He said the attack was not over drugs, but the dead body of the father of the alleged attacker lying in a caravan in his back yard. He said Thomas Stapleton-WestCott had demanded to enter the caravan before police had arrived to investigate the death. Neil said he refused. ​

Neil said that he was asleep the next day when Stapleton-WestCott returned and gained entry when he forced a woman living at the house to let him in. Neil said he remembers the first blow of a hammer, but nothing else. He said it was a hammer though the media reporting the trial refers to it as an axe. Judging by the broad indentation of the right side of his head, it appears that a blunt object was used.

Neil says he will approach Victims of Crime next year for compensation. What surprised everyone about Neil was that he displays no residual bitterness from what will assuredly reduce his life span. Nor does he feel sorry for himself. Amazing.

The trial before Justice David Lovell is over, but the sentence has yet to be handed down.

Early 22 November 2024

Indigenous claim backfires
​on disabled junkie

A gentleman in his fifties has speech difficulties due to physical trauma and drug use. He was involved in a car smash a few years ago so relies on a mobility scooter for travel. He’s the man with a friend who carries a golf club disguised as a walking stick and used as a legal weapon.

The invalid man seeks government assistance on top of his disability pension to fund prostitutes. His current method of securing this service is convoluted and degrading while also producing minimal reward. He wants the N.D.I.S. to supply prostitutes for his unconventional enjoyment. The N.D.I.S. still does this despite denials from the Minister for the N.D.I.S., Bill Shorten.

Our invalid pervert went to Centrelink for advice. They referred him to MyAgedCare where he obtained funding. The disappointment was that despite MyAgedCare being easier to gain funding from, the maximum amount is a mere $60,000 a year and this doesn’t include sexual services.

So how did someone in their fifties get MyAgedCare anyway. That is not usually granted until a person reaches the age of 65?

The answer is that the man claimed to be part Aboriginal, which allowed him to get MyAgedCare at a lower age because indigenous people have a lower life expectancy. Welfare authorities thought they were doing him a favour.

But now he’s unhappy because once you’re on MyAgedCare it is nearly impossible to revert to the higher paying N.D.I.S., which provides sexual services. So instead of prostitutes, the man gets a professional lawn mower to cut his scraggly grass outside his welfare house.

Early 21 November 2024
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Free Cafe at Tea Tree Gully

It’s very simple. A table with a toaster, hot water, microwave and a fridge. There are often frozen meals from Soul Foods in fridge, coffee, bread, margarine and jam. You can also bring your own food and the cooks might even cook it.

There are four tables in the cafe and they might open the courtyard. The vending machine takes coins, notes and cards and is slightly cheaper than machines elsewhere.

The clients range from friendly, intelligent to troubled so it is important to tread carefully. The cooks and other staff are sensitive and intelligent. You can stay in the cafe for long periods providing you don’t scream and yell or break the legs off the tables.

Army officers, employees and volunteers are available to help any problems you might have, but as most admit, they can’t do much about housing.

This is a good joint, but it’s important not to get involved with other peoples’ problems. Not too involved, anyway.

Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army
138 Reservoir Road, Modbury. Ph (08) 8360 6444. Mon – Fri 8:30am to 2:00pm. Oz Harvest free food Wed & Friday 9:30am. Don't take more than you need. Very clean shower Mon, Wed Fri 8:30am – 3:00pm. Exceptions 9am – 11:30am Thursdays during school terms and 1st Wednesday of every month 9am – 2:30pm. Towels and toiletries supplied if needed. Slow free washing machine and drier. No I.D. required except for supermarket cards, parcels, & blankets. Free coffee, toast, frozen meals in cafe Mon, Wed, Fri 8:30am – 3pm. Thurs 11:30am – 3:00pm.

Early 20 November 2024

(above) Waking up during the night and wondering how you got there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Free Christmas holiday functions

19 November 2024

Fifth edition

This is a tiny list that will be expanded if you phone other groups listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide . And if they refuse access to their Christmas functions and hampers you may still qualify for a standard food package or supermarket card.

It is crucial that you act immediately as places are limited especially hampers, some of which may be fully allocated before the end of this week.

Free Christmas Day lunch

Gawler Salvation Army

The receptionist said last Friday that they offer a Christmas lunch, but are still looking for a group to put it on. As to hampers, she said recipients must do a money management course before they are given out. This seems outlandish and she told me this after I told her I was homeless.

Based on the past, their Christmas day functions are worth attending.

Salvation Army Gawler
17 Edith St., Gawler East. Ph (08) 8523 4844. Free breakfast of toast, cereal, barista coffee. Mon 9am – 10:00am; Tues- Thurs 9:00 – 9:30am; Friday 9 – 10:00am; Sat 8:00 – 10:00am; Sun 8:00 – 9am. Showers available similar times. Nice dining room with view of river. Morning prayers. Two-dollar lunches are available Sunday to Friday, but with equally confusing times. Washing machine and drier at laundromat using Salvo card. No I.D. required for above services, but they will want a Centrelink card for vouchers to supermarkets and free outdoor lockers. Train from city.

Baptist WestCare

Free Christmas Day lunch without putting your name and photograph on the Eternal Shame File. You just turn up. Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200.

Hutt Street Centre

They offer a free Christmas Day lunch, but take your image and put it on the Eternal Shame File. 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace). Ph 8418 2500.

Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth

Excellent free lunch about 12 noon on Christmas Day. Not too hectic and with a blend of normal and eccentric people. Phone to reserve a place.

38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467.


Fred’s Van Salisbury

Break-up meal Sunday 22 December. Best to arrive at 5:30pm though this time could change. No requirement to register, just arrive. No hampers or supermarket cards.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Occasional screaming and yelling. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Interesting tribal people from the desert.


Fred’s Van Elizabeth

Not sure of break-up date, but it will be Sunday lunch about 12 noon. They may supply hampers and supermarket cards as well as a terrific lunch. It is usually mayhem with a bit of yelling as old enemies meet in person in a semi-truce. Well worth the cultural experience unless some drug dealers is after you.

No registration required. You just turn up. Good luck.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients semi-animals, but otherwise fine. Improved takeaway bags plus leftovers. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm Wed and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality, battle hardened volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across the street.


St Luke’s Mission Whitmore Square

They previously hosted Adelaide largest and best free Christmas day lunch including presents for every person. They used to get 400 people until the chief fundraiser was hit by a car at Red Hill north of Adelaide.

They aren’t sure what is happening this Christmas, but you can leave you name with them on 8232 0048.

Uniting Care Modbury – not sure, they don’t answer their phone.

UnitingSA Port Adelaide

A nice, but subdued free Christmas lunch including a Coles card. Phone the UnitingSA Family Centre to book your place. Usually open to anyone and everyone.
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2299. Mon – to Fri 9:00am to 1:30pm.

Exeter Uniting Church at Semaphore

I’ve heard they’re planning a free Christmas lunch. Friendly and tolerant place for sex change people, ex-prisoners and others. They also do energy cleansing and yoga. A progressive and worthy church. 146 Semaphore Road, Exeter. Ph 0476 998 164

Adelaide Angels at Pilgrim Church

They usually have an excellent free late Christmas day meal and gifts starting from 4:30pm.12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Ph (08) 8212 3295


St Jude’s Anglican Brighton

444 Brighton Road, Brighton
0413 685 027
Free Christmas Day lunch. All welcome.

Free Christmas hampers

Hampers may include a box of food or a supermarket card or both, or a kick below the belt if they don’t like you. Act quickly.

Adelaide Day Centre

Box of groceries with a lot of sugar. They deliver. No strings attached, but the receptionist got a little confused when I told her I lived in my car.

Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Back of a block of residential units. Mon – Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048.


Unley Salvation Army

Registration for free hampers begins from 1 December 2024.
They don’t appear to require residence in the Unley area.
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839.


St Jude’s Anglican Brighton

A Glenelg regular said St Jude’s provide hampers this Christmas. Contact them immediately.
Cnr Brighton and Jetty Roads, Brighton. Ph 8296 8333. Free lunch Fridays in large hall. 11:30am to 1:00pm. Soup, main course, dessert, toasted sandwiches, coffee, water. They don’t rush you. Water taps around church. Outdoor cabinet filled with bread. Church takes sleeping gear left in alcove so the homeless person gets more from a charity. Another possible sleeping area is under huge fig trees. No I.D. or registration required. BYO salt and pepper. Occasional free hairdresser.


Lutheran Glenelg

Rumour has it that the Lutherans are giving away pre-Christmas hampers this year. And that their free monthly Wednesday lunch is going to be every week. 

Lutheran Glenelg free food
St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Ph 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:30am -2:00pm. Parking at rear. Free store-bought pantry items and toiletries. Centrelink card details kept on paper and destroyed each year. Six visits per year. Good food, not from Foodbank, Oz Harvest or Second Bite. Free lunch every third Wednesday 11:30am to 1:00pm. No card required for this.

St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. Christmas hampers and/or supermarket cards. They visit your home unless you’re homeless or live in the Elizabeth area where they require a visit to their Conference room near the railway station. (They fear being attacked by “Stinking Mutts” and “stiffs” from Elizabeth.)


Fred’s Vans

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details.

Playford Community Fund

They’re taking names for hampers this week, but you have to be in the Playford Council area holding a Centrelink card. They also give $25 supermarket cards four times a year.
They’re in a building next to Anglicare Corporation in the Elizabeth shopping centre across the carpark from the Council offices and library. Phone 8255 1599.

Revival City church Modbury

Free hampers for morning tea clients and apparently anyone who asks for one. Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Phone 8395 0888. Act quickly.

Gospel City Church at Gawler

This is a poor church and a generous church providing a pre-Christmas free lunch usually with an extra generous free vegetable and meat handout at their last Tuesday lunch of the year. I’m not sure of the date. Please don’t swamp them. 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army

Free groceries and supermarket gift cards. They have a huge registration day then you return a few weeks later to collect the stuff. They do ask why you want a hamper or card. I told them, “greed” last year and they accepted this, but this year my answer is “Fear of Missing Out”.

Corner of Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph 8397 9333. Free large shower room with bench, hand rails, large mirror, toilet, hand basin. You simply ask at reception to use shower. No humiliation or signing up. Mon – Thurs 9am to 1pm. Washing machine and drier, also.


Victory Church (Life Adelaide)

They usually offer free hampers at their last free BBQ of the year. This is the 13th of December in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays.

Life Adelaide also offer hampers at their last Thursday 6:00pm meal at the Para Hills Community Hub at 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills. You better go there this Thursday to establish yourself as a client or it will be too late. It may already be too late. And the preacher might want to take your image with him giving you the box. I said, “no” and they accepted this.

Anglicare Corporation

The Corporation cleverly asks for charitable donations from the public then uses them to up-sell their welfare and rental products. This allows them to charge extra rent to tenants because they offer hampers they get for free. And they shouldn’t call their Elizabeth office a “Mission” since they’ve gotten rid of most of their church volunteers and use work-for-the-dole and other involuntary volunteers.

To be fair, there is a battle within Anglicare between those holding Christian principles and those dominated by financial concerns. And the N.D.I.S. homeless man says Anglicare Believe Housing has been good to him.

If you’re a customer of some sort, they offer Christmas hampers at the three locations below.

The Magdalene Centre
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph (08) 8305 9434
AnglicareSA Elizabeth Mission
At the clock tower, Elizabeth shopping centre
Playford Blvd., Elizabeth. Ph (08) 8209 5400
AnglicareSA Outer Southern
111 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Ph (08) 8186 8900


St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free Tuesday evening meal on the signing-up Tuesday of which I don’t know the date.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal.

Salvation Army Ingle Farm

They gave $40 Woolworths cards last year in the form of two letters with barcodes. They also gave some quality free food from the back room. They have a huge registration day when they ask why you think you deserve a barcode. I said, “greed” and that was okay with the unsmiling elderly woman processing the application.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army, Cnr Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph (08) 8397 9333.

Pre-Christmas gatherings

Most free food joints listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide have a special end of season extra good meal and event. To be invited to most, you must attend the session when they issue invitations or you put your name on a list. At some of these gatherings they offer a supermarket card and/or hamper or just a decent meal and a bit of singing.


Lighthouse City Mission Port Adelaide

They host three pre-Christmas evening dinners with presents for children on the 18th, 20th and 22nd of December. Register by emailing [email protected] saying how many children you will bring and their ages. Or text 0487 727 012 with the same information. I’m not sure if they accept people never previously associated with their welfare program, but they are arguably the most generous church in Adelaide.


St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free Tuesday evening meal on the signing-up Tuesday of which I don’t know the date.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal.


Salisbury Uniting Church

Cnr Brown and Park Terraces, Salisbury. Ph 8258 2675.
Pre-Christmas Wednesday lunch 11th December, but this may be only for Salisbury Council residents and homeless people or for everyone. For homeless people, it is wise to get multiple Centrelink cards showing multiple homeless camp addresses. This is legal and useful. 


Stevo’s at Sefton Park. 

They have a nice pre-Christmas gathering with a coherent preacher. To get invited it is crucial to attend their regular Tuesday brunches starting immdiately. They might still let you go there if you phone at the last minute. They haven’t set the date yet.

Enfield Uniting Church, Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early. Free. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File. Free excellent brunch, takeaways and games.


Salvation Army Adelaide City

They usually have a special day in the park a week or two before Christmas. And they don’t require that you’re a regular client.

277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Mon to Fri. 9:00am to 10:00am for vegetables, bread, free. Coffee and sandwhiches 9am–10:30am. Free. Arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal at 6:00pm on Wednesdays with entry at 5:00pm for coffee. Addiction meeting and Bible group. Occasional free morning BBQ’s. Free groceries if you sign up for interview and provide a Centrelink card. Free hairdresser occasionally. Water tap in back lane 24/7.


St Bede’s Semaphore

Friendly pre-Christmas fancy meal with presents for regular clients only, but if you turn up next Tuesday or the following week they might relent. St Bede’s is always good so it is worth the journey.

200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tues 8:30 - 10:00am. Free breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they take names for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free day old Semaphore Bakehouse and Bakers Delight quality bread. Free clothing. Water tap at back, but requires a 4-way key handle available in aisle 56 at Bunnings. Monthly free hairdresser & Thread Together clothing. Dining room cold in winter.


Pilgrim Church Lounge City

This unique service usually have a special pre-Christmas lunch that varies year to year from a stack of nasty sugary garbage to quite nice lunches.

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

Lutheran Good Shepherd

9th December Monday about 5pm. Bookings nearly finished, but regulars might book in next week.  Too late for newcomers posing as regulars unless you have a brilliant homeless story. It’s a long shot.

Unley Salvation Army

Their pre-Christmas meal is on Christmas eve, the 24th of December at 6:00pm. Bookings essential. They don’t require residence in the Unley area.
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839.

Anglicare Corporation

Anglicare and Believe Housing have fairs across the city for their clients and tenants. Ph (08) 8305 9434 or Believe Housing for more details.


Western Food Hub Hindmarsh

Not sure what they’re doing though they may have a special interference pre-Christmas special event where a dozen junkies rough you up.

Or it might be wonderful like beauty within the depths of despair and deprivation. Unpredictable.


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

A client said they don’t have enough money to offer supermarket cards this year, but even their regular Friday morning breakfasts are breathtaking to say the least. You can’t lose unless you get trapped in the cheapo elevator.

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.


Fred’s Vans

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner, most available to anyone who turns up, but Kilburn is only available only to regular clients who have signed up for the meal. The latter require that you leave your name with them sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details of their hampers. Only the city Fred’s Van is open on over the Christmas holidays. The others stop for two or three weeks.


Fred’s Van Kilburn

They usually offer an IGA voucher, a hamper and provide an excellent Christmas evening meal. Names are taken either this week or the next and the limit is 80 so it is crucial to be there when the signing up paper is displayed.

Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Quality volunteers who rarely go off the deep end. Healthy Nola went there until a tumour killed her in six weeks.


Post Christmas events

St Augustine’s Church at Unley

These astute people realise there is a glut of free services before Christmas then a drought over the next four weeks. So they’ve offered a free Concert and Dinner on Sunday the 29th of December at 6:00pm.

A client from last year said they put bottles of wine on each table then when they were guzzled clients could buy more at $15 a bottle. I asked a volunteer last week if this was true and he said it was.

183 Unley Road, Unley phone 0452 331 870.

The End

There are many more places than those listed above. 

​19 November 2024

(above) There are two thousand empty welfare houses in Adelaide yet a man like this is homeless. And the Chief Executive of the Housing Trust administering these empty houses is paid $650,000 annually plus "little extras". (Thanks to Agent Zilch for image.)

(above) The welfare housing system in South Australia is awash with money that is being siphoned off by corrupt officials. (Agent Zilch.)

Hot day at Hindmarsh

A homeless man had laid half asleep on the grass since mid-morning. The Western Food Hub was advertised to open at 11am, but no one had turned up. Clients arrived and left until 5pm when there were 14 people waiting, but still no one had opened the doors.

Two women phoned Puddle Jumpers throughout the afternoon, but got an answering machine only. The website didn’t list the Food Hub as being closed this 34 degree Saturday afternoon. One person did get through earlier and was told they’d open if they could find volunteers for the evening.

The man who scratches his face wandered about getting as far as the Ice rink at Thebarton then stumbled back to the food hub. He seemed philosophical rather than disappointed at the closed door. And unaffected from wearing a winter coat on a hot day.

Over the next 90 minutes, people came and went. Three women left when one said she was leaving and the others – including one with a child – said they didn’t feel safe with four desperadoes sitting at the picnic bench in the sun. Some volunteers have left he Food Hub due to the sense of threat from these and even more frightening characters.

I decided to leave as Mick and Eleanor arrived. Then came a young Asian women with a few boxes of quality bread. She said Western Food Hub management hadn’t told them they were not open this Saturday. She appeared nervous about approaching the building as the desperadoes had increased the tempo of their discontent near the front door.

She handed a few loaves to departing clients then Mick took the last two boxes. This enraged the desperadoes including the 8-litres-of-wine-per-day alcoholic. He threatened to hit Mick. Mick didn’t back down, but eventually took one box to the picnic table then later a bag of rotting vegetables. This appeased the desperadoes who didn’t actually want the bread.

We left as a cool wind dropped the temperature eight degrees.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee, good hot food, female sanitary products. Tiny clothing rack. A few drug addicts. One-dollar donation. Theoretically open Mon – Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Sat 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sun 4:00 – 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable.  Shower truck scheduled Wed and Fri, but rarely there. Toilet. Water tap outside. No I.D. or registration required. Quality staff rough around the edges. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. Also Mon 6:00pm Bagster Rd. Community Centre, Salisbury for meal and groceries $1.

Early 18 November 2024
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More drama at Big Issue magazine

From the Anonymous Contact Page

There was movement in the station as the word was passed around, a senior executive or two will be leaving town.

Internal review by HR on culture of cover ups and turning a blind eye to lateral violence. A clear culture of they don't care what happens to their clients, what they do to each other, only if it effects them. A culture of violence against clients. HR take these matters very seriously, apparently.

The big issue rap sheet five miles long
Do dah
Do dah
The big issue clients safe from current predator executives from now on
Oh do dah day.

They're ( executives) gonna run all day, gonna run all night. I bet my money on a suicide or two oh do dah day.

Turns out an ******** left his social media profile open, even after report's of the culture under him investigated by hr. He publicly broadcast his sexual fetishes to the world. He publicly broadcast his interest in psychedelic drugs

He publicly broadcast he was state operations manager and shared photos of him in big issue uniform. You could find adverts to forced bi party's on his social media. State operations manager for Qld,NSW and Canberra. His fetishes seemed to be around degradation humiliation and domination. Some sado masochism as well and fem dom.. When that got out he shut his page down. On his page was his wife, executive assistant to the chief executive officer of the Australian council for social services. Further deep diving revealed photos of this state operations manager for the big issue, with very drugged up very young ***** in a pose that his previously publicly available sexual fetishes, raises serious questions. You could find out the years after the photo, the two young young ***** would battle substance abuse issues and mental health. A sexual degenerate at the very least in plain sight and nobody cared?. They do now.

One of the advisers to the board of big issue is none other than head of royal commission into family and domestic violence in south Australia, Natasha Scott Despoya. Former Democrat senator who lists that judge Millhouse (who run off to Tuvalu to avoid extradition due to the mess Peter Liddy being exposed created) as her political hero (He was leader of democrats) Not saying anything Nat should under no circumstance be allowed anywhere near a royal commission, unless she's being investigated, due to what she turns a blind eye over and the company she keeps.

The big issue about the scandal brewing in Australian council of social services and the big issue may have as many far reaching consequences as the Liddy/Millhouse affair.

When it hits the press, you published the scoop first.
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Stay tuned.

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Early 18 November 2024

(above) Some bureaucrat had nothing to do so he or she ordered an inappropriate sign to be erected at a homeless camp at Glenelg. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

On the Street

Big Al faced down an aggressive younger diner at the Beacon of Hope free lunch at Elizabeth late last month. Other diners and friends were worried about the age disparity, but Big Al prevailed and the diner backed down over an issue undisclosed.

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Richard’s religious BBQ tried to get permission to operate a BBQ every second week at Modbury’s Civic Park to complement the Rotary morning BBQ for homeless people that happens every second week.

But the Tea Tree Gully Council allegedly told them that the fortnightly Rotary BBQ was enough.

But do people need a license to use such BBQ’s?

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The Lutheran Church set up a separate table for special guests from Baptist Pathway the Monday before last. Pathway supplies most of the food for the Lutheran free meal on Monday evenings.

Master of Ceremonies Allan said Pathway had contributed $68,000 of food over the past few years. He added that us diners hadn’t paid a cent for it apart from some donations. We clapped in appreciation of the Pathway volunteers, but they seemed somewhat glum the whole evening.

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Old Rose scraped someone’s car the previous week at the Para Vista Lutheran Church then drove off. The owners were aggrieved and vowed to confront her, but nothing happened the next week. Meanwhile, someone called the Animal Welfare League over Mick of Mick and Eleanor’s dogs. Mick has bad luck with dogs included two large black maulers who died during hot weather over Christmas.

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A man was angry after being asked for tobacco from a Port Adelaide drug addict who recently found a place to live. The man called the addict a “low-life”. He said he’d been picking up butts from the ground all day and if the addict wanted tobacco he could do the same.

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A client of the Hindmarsh Oz Harvest free supermarket was angry they’d changed opening times on Tuesday and Thursday from 10am to 2pm to 9am to 12noon. He got there at 1:30pm. He then went to the Hindmarsh Food Hub where he said there was a “stagnant horde” waiting for the next food delivery.

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A diner wearing a net shirt at the Grill’d free hamburger evening in Rundle Street grabbed a heavy iron chair and ran across the street. He slammed it onto a pure black fella who jumped aside then punched the net shirt man who fell to the ground. The net shirt man jumped up, but realised the black fella was fit and knew how to box so he backed off. The black fella left the scene despite being able to injure the net shirt man who struck a glancing blow with the chair that must have hurt him.

Later, the net shirt man kicked over Chinese electric scooters and rubbish bins outside Cafe Michael then went raging down Rundle Street.

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Woody and Skip asked two homeless men what someone should do if they found themselves without a place to live. One homeless man suggested signing up for “Homeless Connect” despite that government-funded outfit not helping him at all.

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A formerly homeless man and friend of Trent Jeffries was asked if he got free travel on the trains via the Seniors’ Card. He said he wasn’t old enough, but didn’t buy tickets anyway.

That’s how it is now. Some people don’t buy tickets and the drivers are told by management not to confront them.

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A homeless man said he heard Police Commissioner Grantley Stevens saying on radio that Parliament might consider passing legislation charging smokers for buying illegal tobacco.

South Australian police say they know of 200 business selling illegal tobacco so why don’t they get a small squad of officers to buy a packet of smokes from each place then charge the operators for selling illegal tobacco. Easy, but they won’t. Someone with power is protecting the illegal industry. Who could it be?

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At Salisbury Haven each week, an ex-policeman raises his voice through the sound system saying we will pray before the meal is served. At Fred’s Van Kilburn, the volunteers say quietly that they’ll say a prayer before the meal is served. Some people keep talking and it’s hard to hear the words.

But I find the Kilburn procedure more convincing as the prayer is voiced with humility and without carnal aggression.

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A volunteer at the Lutheran Ark at Salisbury said the numbers have guests have never reached the level before Covid. This is the case at other venues as well.

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Someone broke into Becky’s house in Elizabeth South a few days after she died.

Separately, her best friend says he’ll be homeless this week. A soup kitchen client said funerals are the best time to rob people as they’re at the funeral. Drug addicts think this way.

Early 17 November 2024

(above) Anglicare tenants pre-Christmas gathering, but one tenant said he's better off mentally by not attending. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Brothers Ink save shower truck

The shower truck disappeared about 2pm Friday afternoon then returned to the Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh in time for the 5pm opening. Three men on motorcycles and dressed in decorative motorcycle gang uniforms handed out wraps, dried tomatoes, olives, dolma and ham to about twenty people waiting to enter the free food room. They were from the Brothers Ink motorcycle gang. And instead of dealing in drugs and prostitution, they had been helping Puddle Jumpers retain control of the shower truck that its owners were thinking of taking interstate.

The truck has been a service disaster for the last ten years regardless of who operated it and the Brothers Ink are playing a role in keeping it in Adelaide. Diners at the Hindmarsh Food Hub seemed oblivious to what was happening.

Orange Sky pulled up about 5:45pm and were politely busy to the bitter end despite homeless people being noticeably absent.

The man who drinks eight litres of wine each day worked tirelessly bringing in supplies from the Puddle Jumpers truck and setting up the outdoor furniture. He’s tough as nails despite the horrendous assault on his body by cheap wine.

An Asian woman brought cartons of water and sunscreen then talked to a woman who recently obtained a rental unit from the Housing Trust. The latter talked about her dysfunctional neighbours who screamed loudly at all hours and crept around the neighbourhood like predators. She said it was driving her wild and she might go back to being homeless. The Asian woman advised her to find an inner calm within herself that would make her immune to her neighbours’ disruptions.

A Western Food Hub volunteer handed out Marcellina family-sized pizzas. I asked for a coffee and got a hot chocolate with a fly in it, but the Tabooli wraps and olives were excellent.

The free food room staff asked each client for a donation, but some said they didn’t have any money and were advised, “Next time.” I got two packets of cough drops, not wanting anything else.

Over the evening, I talked to two rational and calm women: one shy and retiring while the other is a fist fighter. A third person said another client “eats children”. Both the Brothers Ink and Western Food Hub volunteers took videos of the crowd.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Free rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee, good hot food, female sanitary products. Tiny free clothing rack. A few drug addicts. Theoretically open Mon – Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Sat 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sun 4:00 – 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable.  Shower truck scheduled Wed and Fri, but rarely there. Toilet. Water tap outside. No I.D. or registration required. Quality staff rough around the edges. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. Also Mon 6:00pm at Bagster Rd. Community Centre, Salisbury for meal and groceries for $1.

Early 16 November 2024

(above) Home Sweet Home as the scent of burning rubber crosses through the fence as passenger planes land at Adelaide airport. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Free lunch at Osborn

Last Thursday was the bad lunch, smaller than usual and terrific as usual. Two tables were set out instead of three. The lunch included sliced raw carrots and celery, hummus dip, tahini, tabooli, flat bread, meat shish kababs, falafel, strawberry cake and coffee plus free vegetables and bread to takeaway.

The conversation was all over the place with speculation, conspiracy theories and gossip. A volunteer told us not to stick our name tags on the walls of the building.

Once again I didn’t win the raffle. Since becoming old I never win, but when young it was the opposite. How is that?

Not a single diner did anything crazy as most have held responsible jobs during their working careers. This is a very safe venue as most homeless people have been expelled from the square mile of mudflats that have been fenced and are surveilled due to the military factories.

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium)
Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. Buy Nothing quality food. They spend nothing on food and waste goes to compost. Vegetarian option. No added MSG or other contaminants. Healthy food. Good toilets. Decent hall. No I.D. or registration required All workers unpaid. Pleasant building and staff with safe parking. Safe atmosphere. Raffle, but the prizes aren’t much good. Free takeaway bread and vegetables. No diners completely insane.

Early 15 November 2024
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Cries and whispers in the homeless scene

The volunteers were disappointed at the low turnout of five people with three of us classed as homeless. But they’d neglected to provide hot coffee saying the vacuum flasks had disappeared. One homeless man said some diners came there only for the coffee and company.

The twins, Jesse and others have moved upstream after being evicted from the gully behind Modbury Bunnings. The distance wasn’t worth walking for an early breakfast without coffee. The volunteers should have provided hot water from another source. It’s not rocket science.

Similarly, down the hill at the Multi-cultural free Saturday lunch at Renown Park, the coffee machine wasn’t turned on because two volunteer operators were absent. The donor of the machine sat next to us while the organiser rationalised its inaction. Other diners and volunteers would have been able to operate it, but we’re graduates of the School of Acquired Helplessness and wouldn’t offer to lift a finger for fear of rejection yet again.

Further north at the Salisbury Haven Friday evening gathering they decided not to supply salt and pepper for some ideological or emotional reason. Most people use these cheap products, but the churches involved decided to ignore such common wishes. Why?

At other venues, diners like to help set up then pack up equipment after free services, but are not encouraged – or even warned off from helping – for insurance and other purposes. It is burden to always take and not give. We occasionally want to give: to become part of a productive group.

Early 15 November 2024

(above) Free grow cart at Taperoo Stadium at Osborne Park. Leave stuff or take stuff. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

(above) Free food carts rarely last more than a few months due to the greed of Grab Hags and hoarders. Anglicare tried it on Fairfield Road, Elizabeth South about six years ago. But you never know, the social attitude might change in the future. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Oz Nomadic’s premonition

G'day, no worries that you lost my email, it was basically a riff on early onset dementia, where I ran out of coffee last Monday and then Tobacco on Wednesday and was too crook to get to Coles worth's and was sitting in the kitchen looking at a cupboard door that I never use, when a strange premonition came over me to look in it.

A 500g Tin of Nescafe, 2 litres long life milk, 3 full pouches of baccy and 4 tins of Hungarian Beef Casserole!. I'd put them there month's ago and had...... forgotten

Oz Nomadic
14 November 2024

Fred’s Van Kilburn

There were more children than usual possibly in expectation of signing up for the pre-Christmas meal where Fred’s Van give presents to children, but not old people entering their second childhood. Despite this, numbers of diners present was lower than usual, a trend happening at many free food events.

The reason for this at Kilburn Fred’s Van isn’t clear as their meals have improved over yesteryear though the takeaway bags have reduced in quality.

One reason might be the N.D.I.S. taking clients to restaurants and strip clubs, but otherwise this is a mystery considering that housing costs have risen far higher than general monetary inflation, wages and welfare payments. Another reason might be that young people are avoiding homeless joints while elderly folk have become afraid. Yet to contradict this, even homeless people and squatters in Kilburn are no longer attending the dining experience.

A diner at Kilburn last week who experienced an epileptic seizure many years ago wants to regain his driver’s license, but is unable to find a bulk billing neurologist to perform an EEG. He’s on an endless waiting list at a public hospital, but doesn’t know how to manipulate the system so is left high and dry.

The Wine Centre soup has contained meat every week, but one over the past year, but nearly everyone is happy with this. Fred’s Van staff provided a vegetarian option, which his quite a feat considering I am almost the only non-meat eating diner and missed the last six weeks.

The takeaway bags included hard doughnuts and vegetables and little else. Nevertheless, there was a mad rush for them.

Catherine the Doctor hasn’t been seen anywhere for five weeks. She’s either left the scene or is travelling the world visiting her relatives, or went senile.

Rails gasped for air as she left the building. Her lungs are nearly gone, but she still attends music and karaoke sessions around Adelaide and down south. That’s the way to confront old age.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Quality volunteers who rarely go off the deep end. Healthy Nola went there until a tumour killed her in six weeks.

14 November 2024

Free Christmas holiday functions

12 November 2024

Third edition

This is a tiny list that will be expanded if you phone other groups listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide . And if they refuse access to their Christmas functions and hampers you may still qualify for a standard food package or supermarket card.

It is crucial that you act immediately as places are limited especially hampers, some of which may be fully allocated before the end of this week.

Free Christmas Day lunch

Gawler Salvation Army

The receptionist said last Friday that they offer a Christmas lunch, but are still looking for a group to put it on. As to hampers, she said recipients must do a money management course before they are given out. This seems outlandish and she told me this after I told her I was homeless.

Based on the past, their Christmas day functions are worth attending.

Salvation Army Gawler
17 Edith St., Gawler East. Ph (08) 8523 4844. Free breakfast of toast, cereal, barista coffee. Mon 9am – 10:00am; Tues- Thurs 9:00 – 9:30am; Friday 9 – 10:00am; Sat 8:00 – 10:00am; Sun 8:00 – 9am. Showers available similar times. Nice dining room with view of river. Morning prayers. Two-dollar lunches are available Sunday to Friday, but with equally confusing times. Washing machine and drier at laundromat using Salvo card. No I.D. required for above services, but they will want a Centrelink card for vouchers to supermarkets and free outdoor lockers. Train from city.

Hutt Street Centre

They offer a free Christmas Day lunch, but take your image and put it on the Eternal Shame File. 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace). Ph 8418 2500.

Baptist WestCare

Free Christmas Day lunch without putting your name and photograph on the Eternal Shame File. You just turn up. Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200.

Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth

Excellent free lunch about 12 noon on Christmas Day. Not too hectic and with a blend of normal and eccentric people. Phone to reserve a place.

38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467.

Fred’s Van Salisbury

Break-up meal Sunday 22 December. Best to arrive at 5:30pm though this time could change. No requirement to register, just arrive. No hampers or supermarket cards.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. Quality volunteers ensure everyone served. Meal rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal alcoholics.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth

Not sure of break-up date, but it will be Sunday lunch about 12 noon. They may supply hampers and supermarket cards as well as a terrific lunch. It is usually mayhem with a bit of yelling as old enemies meet in person in a semi-truce. Well worth the cultural experience unless some drug dealers is after you.

No registration required. You just turn up. Good luck.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Sun 12 noon. Wed 6:00pm. Free. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Relaxed atmosphere apart from Ice addicts wielding knives and accusing others of being paedophiles. Some clients semi-animals, but otherwise fine. Improved takeaway bags plus leftovers. Orange Sky laundry Wed 5:00– 7:00pm Wed and Sun 10:00 – 1:00pm. Quality, battle hardened volunteers. Methadone and needle supply joint across the street.

St Luke’s Mission Whitmore Square

They previously hosted Adelaide largest and best free Christmas day lunch including presents for every person. They used to get 400 people until the chief fundraiser was hit by a car at Red Hill north of Adelaide.

They aren’t sure what is happening this Christmas, but you can leave you name with them on 8232 0048.

Uniting Care Modbury – not sure

UnitingSA Port Adelaide

A nice, but subdued free Christmas lunch including a Coles card. Phone the UnitingSA Family Centre to book your place. Usually open to anyone and everyone.
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2299. Mon – to Fri 9:00am to 1:30pm.

Exeter Uniting Church at Semaphore

I’ve heard they’re planning a free Christmas lunch. Friendly and tolerant place for sex change people, ex-prisoners and others. They also do energy cleansing and yoga. A progressive and worthy church.
146 Semaphore Road, Exeter. Ph 0476 998 164

Adelaide Angels at Pilgrim Church

They usually have an excellent free late Christmas day meal and gifts starting from 4:30pm.12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Ph (08) 8212 3295

Fred’s Vans around Adelaide

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details. Only the city Fred’s Van is open on over the Christmas holidays. The others stop for two or three weeks.

Free Christmas hampers

Hampers may include a box of food or a supermarket card or both, or a kick below the belt if they don’t like you. Act quickly.

Adelaide Day Centre

Box of groceries with a lot of sugar. They deliver. No strings attached.

Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Back of a block of residential units. Mon – Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048.

Anglican Brighton

A Glenelg regular said St Jude’s provide hampers this Christmas. Contact them immediately.

St Jude’s Anglican Brighton
Cnr Brighton and Jetty Roads, Brighton. Ph 8296 8333. Free lunch Fridays in large hall. 11:30am to 1:00pm. Soup, main course, dessert, toasted sandwiches, coffee, water. They don’t rush you. Water taps around church. Outdoor cabinet filled with bread. Church takes sleeping gear left in alcove so the homeless person gets more from a charity. Another possible sleeping area is under huge fig trees. No I.D. or registration required. BYO salt and pepper. Occasional free hairdresser.

Lutheran Glenelg

Rumour has it that the Lutherans are giving away pre-Christmas hampers this year.

Lutheran Glenelg free food
St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Ph 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:30am -2:00pm. Parking at rear. Free store-bought pantry items and toiletries. Centrelink card details kept on paper and destroyed each year. Six visits per year. Good food, not from Foodbank, Oz Harvest or Second Bite. Free lunch every third Wednesday 11:30am to 1:00pm. No card required for this.

St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. Christmas hampers and/or supermarket cards. They visit your home unless you’re homeless or live in the Elizabeth area where they require a visit to their Conference room near the railway station. (They fear being attacked by “Stinking Mutts” and “stiffs” from Elizabeth.)

Fred’s Van

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details.

Playford Community Fund

They’re taking names for hampers this week, but you have to be in the Playford Council area holding a Centrelink card. They also give $25 supermarket cards four times a year.
They’re in a building next to Anglicare Corporation in the Elizabeth shopping centre across the carpark from the Council offices and library. Phone 8255 1599.

Revival City church Modbury

Free hampers for morning tea clients and apparently anyone who asks for one. Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Phone 8395 0888.

Gospel City Church at Gawler

This is a poor church and a generous church providing a pre-Christmas free lunch usually with an extra generous free vegetable and meat handout at their last Tuesday lunch of the year. I’m not sure of the date. Please don’t swamp them. 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army

Free groceries and supermarket gift cards. They have a huge registration day then you return a few weeks later to collect the stuff.
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Corner of Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph 8397 9333. Free large shower room with bench, hand rails, large mirror, toilet, hand basin. You simply ask at reception to use shower. No humiliation or signing up. Mon – Thurs 9am to 1pm. Washing machine and drier, also.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide)

They usually offer free hampers at their last free BBQ of the year. This is the 13th of December in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays.

Life Adelaide also offer hampers at their last Thursday 6:00pm meal at the Para Hills Community Hub at 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills. You better go there this Thursday to establish yourself as a client or it will be too late. It may already be too late.

Anglicare Corporation

The Corporation cleverly asks for charitable donations from the public then uses them to up-sell their welfare and rental products. This allows them to charge extra rent to tenants because they offer hampers they get for free. And they shouldn’t call their Elizabeth office a “Mission” since they’ve gotten rid of most of their church volunteers and use work-for-the-dole and other involuntary volunteers.

To be fair, there is a battle within Anglicare between those holding Christian principles and those dominated by financial concerns. And the N.D.I.S. homeless man says Anglicare Believe Housing has been good to him.

If you’re a customer of some sort, they offer Christmas hampers at the three locations below.

The Magdalene Centre
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph (08) 8305 9434
AnglicareSA Elizabeth Mission
At the clock tower, Elizabeth shopping centre
Playford Blvd., Elizabeth. Ph (08) 8209 5400
AnglicareSA Outer Southern
111 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Ph (08) 8186 8900

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free Tuesday evening meal on the signing-up Tuesday of which I don’t know the date.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal.

Salvation Army Ingle Farm

They gave $40 Woolworths cards last year in the form of two letters with barcodes. They also gave some quality free food from the back room. They have a huge registration day when they ask why you think you deserve a barcode. I said, “greed” and that was okay with the unsmiling elderly woman processing the application.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army, Cnr Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph (08) 8397 9333.

Pre-Christmas gatherings

This tiny list is most redundant since most free food joints listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide have a special end of season extra good meal and event. To be invited to most, you must attend the session when they issue invitations or you put your name on a list. At some of these gatherings they offer a supermarket card and/or hamper or just a decent meal and a bit of singing.

Stevo’s Uniting Church at Sefton Park

They have a nice pre-Christmas gathering with a coherent preacher. To get invited it is crucial to attend their regular Tuesday brunches starting immediately. They might still let you go there if you phone at the last minute. They haven’t set the date yet.

Enfield Uniting Church, Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early. Free. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File. Free excellent brunch, takeaways and games.

Salvation Army Adelaide City

They usually have a special day in the park a week or two before Christmas. And they don’t require that you’re a regular client.

277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Mon to Fri. 9:00am to 10:00am for vegetables, bread, free. Coffee and sandwhiches 9am–10:30am. Free. Arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal at 6:00pm on Wednesdays with entry at 5:00pm for coffee. Addiction meeting and Bible group. Occasional free morning BBQ’s. Free groceries if you sign up for interview and provide a Centrelink card. Free hairdresser occasionally. Water tap in back lane 24/7.

St Bede’s Semaphore

Friendly pre-Christmas fancy meal with presents for regular clients only, but if you turn up next Tuesday or the following week they might relent. St Bede’s is always good so it is worth the journey.


200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tues 8:30 - 10:00am. Free breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they take names for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free day old Semaphore Bakehouse and Bakers Delight quality bread. Free clothing. Water tap at back, but requires a 4-way key handle available in aisle 56 at Bunnings. Monthly free hairdresser & Thread Together clothing. Dining room cold in winter.

Pilgrim Church Lounge City

This unique service usually have a special pre-Christmas lunch that varies year to year from a stack of nasty sugary garbage to quite nice lunches.

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

Lutheran Good Shepherd

9th December Monday about 5pm. Bookings 18 November. There were newcomers last Monday posing as regulars so you might be able to go there next Monday and get invited to the pre-Christmas dinner the following week. It’s a long shot.

Unley Salvation Army

Their Christmas meal is on Christmas eve, the 24th of December at 6:00pm. Bookings essential. They usually require a person to live in the Unley area, but not when I phoned to reserve a spot.

Anglicare Corporation

Anglicare and Believe Housing have fairs across the city for their clients and tenants. Ph (08) 8305 9434 or Believe Housing for more details.

Western Food Hub Hindmarsh

Not sure what they’re doing though they may have a special interference pre-Christmas special event where a dozen junkies rough you up.

Or it might be wonderful like beauty within the depths of despair and deprivation.

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

A client said they don’t have enough money to offer supermarket cards this year, but even their regular Friday morning breakfasts are breathtaking to say the least. You can’t lose unless you get trapped in the cheapo elevator.

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.

Fred’s Van Kilburn

They usually offer an IGA voucher, a hamper and provide an excellent Christmas evening meal. Names are taken either this week or the next and the limit is 80 so it is crucial to be there when the signing up paper is displayed.

Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sometimes excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets, but lights makes your eyes appear red and your teeth yellow. Quality volunteers who rarely go off the deep end. Healthy Nola went there until a tumour killed her in six weeks.


Post Christmas events

St Augustine’s Church at Unley

These astute people realise there is a glut of free services before Christmas then a drought over the next four weeks. So they’ve offered a free Concert and Dinner on Sunday the 29th of December at 6:00pm.

A client from last year said they put bottles of wine on each table then when they were guzzled clients could buy more at $15 a bottle. I asked a volunteer last week if this was true and he said it was.

183 Unley Road, Unley phone 0452 331 870.
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Lutheran Good Shepherd

A speaker updated Anne Quast’s health condition. According to her wishes, she didn’t want to be kept alive by artificial means so a doctor turned off some life support machines leaving her to starve and die of dehydration. She’d been in a coma for three days. Bye, bye, Anne, everyone thought. She was in her 80’s.

She awoke the next morning alive and well and was transferred from Lyall McEwin hospital to Modbury where she got Covid. Hospital staff didn’t see this as much concern and she was sent home a few days later.

There has been an influx of diners from the Tea Tree Gully homeless scene after they read positive reviews in Adelaide Homeless Journal. Lisa from Parafield wasn’t there due to declining health and doctor’s appointments. The man who swore and threw food on the floor wasn’t there either. Old Ron who works at the Life Adelaide free BBQ in Pittman Park on Fridays paid a visit to see how the Lutherans operated. He was impressed by the decent food, good service and Germanic sense of order.

Lutheran Good Shepherd Para Vista
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Free meal Mondays 5:30pm to 7:00pm. No I.D. required. Chef told us his soup won a medal at Casablanca. Orange Sky Laundry 5:30pm to 7:30pm Monday. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Supermarket purchase cards might be available from office. Ph 8263 5087 Tues-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly.

Second Edit: The good news is that Anne recovered and walked into the Lutheran Church last night with her body and mind intact. Her only problem is slight dizziness.

Late 12 November 2024

(above) Some of the professional servers at Mary's Kitchen, a free Tuesday 6:00pm meal service at St Andrews-at-the-sea church, Jetty Road, Glenelg. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Western Food Hub Hindmarsh

They offered free R.A.T.S. Covid tests with a Use-by date of 2023 and boxes of face masks, but there was no rush by clients to grab them. Does anyone still believe that story? Even Dr Fauci didn’t wear a face mask except while giving interviews. There are a few people in the homeless scene proud they didn’t get the mRNA injections while others, equally proud, say they’ve had five and want more.

The pantry shelves were bare apart from cough drops and Mexican chilli sauce past its Use-by date. But the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. disabled man said such products improve with ageing like fine wine so I grabbed one.

A client doing the Aged Care program at the Hutt Street Centre said staff were annoyed he doesn’t go on their bus trips. The client said he was sick of listening to “junkies talking rubbish” and fear for his well-being at the Hutt Street Centre. He said a guard came to the rescue of an old man last month being pressured for money by a junkie. The client added that the Aged Care program is about making money for the Hutt Street Centre via government funding and that the clients get very little of value.

Staff closed the Western Food Hub an hour earlier as the coordinator had to pick up her sick children from school. She said it was a miracle the place had been opened as they didn’t have enough volunteers and she was called at the last moment. Another volunteer was a chubby Indian woman who seemed happy to be serving us. The quality of volunteers has improved very much.

The coordinator said they were hosting three hundred children at the hub the following Saturday. Puddle Jumpers is essentially a charity for deprived children and worthy of huge donations and bequests. Even the Founder, Mel somebody-or-other, is taking care of someone’s baby. These are quality people.

However, the free vegetables are a disgrace. Clark Kent said he rarely accepted free produce as he was tired when he got home. He said you have to do something with it as it won’t last until the next day. He said you could see it rotting before your eyes. Well, at the Western Food Hub, it’s already rotten.

They shouldn’t bother stocking such rubbish. Even the desperate Arabs have stopped going to the Hub. This leaves the Hub with the primary role of providing hot food and drink to homeless people and other desperadoes and this is working out quite well. They attracting the right crowd from the homeless point of view.

As a sideline, the Food Hub should offer free compost material.

Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub
​Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, exotic groceries, hot coffee, hot foods, female sanitary products. Free clothing rack. A few drug addicts. Theoretically open Mon - Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Saturday 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday 4:00 - 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable. Shower truck scheduled Wednesdays and Fridays, but it rarely turns up. Toilet. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required so you remain anonymous. Staff range from excellent to inappropriate for the job. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. Most staff excellent, but some crazy so don’t be surprised if they go off like a firecracker.

Early 12 November 2024

(above) Homeless camp in suburban Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Bill Frangos murdered

Terri’s ex-boyfriend said he was walking the streets of Woodville Gardens early last Thursday morning about 4am. He smelled smoke and heard fire engines heading for Bill Frangos’ house on Essex Street.

Bill, 72, was a client of the Ridley Grove Uniting Church free food service and also appeared two or three times at the Renown Park Chin Falam Christian Saturday lunch.

Terri’s ex says someone stabbed Bill 14 times in the early hours of this particular Thursday and he died. The house was torched in an attempt to conceal evidence. But there hasn’t been any reports of him being stabbed, just dying and the house burnt.

Gideon Misajo told Saturday diners two days later that Bill had been murdered and that we should take heed that life on earth is short. We could die at any time without notice or being able to prevent it.

Terri’s ex believes there was more than one attacker. Bill had a grossly rude manner of speaking to people and was involved with people growing cannabis, but the motive is still unclear.

Terri’s ex-boyfriend collects cans from bins and that was why he was on the streets early that morning. 

Early 11 November 2024

The cruel experience
​of being the Lady of the Lake

An African man driving a silver Ford Falcon stopped his car outside the old Westpac Bank in the Salisbury Town Centre. He shoved the blue-eyed Lady of the Lake from the front passenger seat onto the street. She rolled onto the grass. He drove off.

The Lady of the Lake responded by removing every bit of her clothing then using a rag while shouting, “I’m wiping someone’s filthy *** from my *****. She threw the used rag onto someone’s car.

Children watched while one asked its mother, “What is that?” The Lady of the Lake responded, “What are you looking at?”

A man asked if he could help. The Lady told him to **** ***. The man said later that he saw someone in distress. He said the scene resembled “apocalypse now”. He said, “this girl has parents”. He said a police patrol passed by, but the driver didn’t stop.

A witness said men watching shouted crude comments towards the Lady such as, “Why don’t you **** ** ****?” Others grabbed money thrown about by the Lady, her eyes indicating she was both terrified and not knowing what was happening. The witness said some people wanted to increase her pain rather than reduce it. The witness said the Lady of the Lake was methed out or on some drug. The witness said her eyes were “rolling around in her head like a poker machine.” The witness added, “I made sure no one attacked her.”

She proceeded fully naked into the Para Banks shopping centre where she ordered food from the Yiros bar. This is where elderly diners from ONE Life church and other free venues sit in the morning. Staff at the Yiros bar gave her food without charge.

The witness doesn’t know what happened to the Lady of the Lake after that. The witness said, “This is not right. Society is not functioning.”

Early 11 November 2024

(above) Twenty-two hours of homeless solitude each day in a bustling city. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

On the Street​

A disabled man now living in a unit said the worst experience of being homeless was going through extended interviews with helping agencies that promised housing then didn’t want to know him. This included Homeless Connect that prevents those living outside from approaching most social housing entities. Instead they must go through this central “gateway” that resembles a locked gate. The disabled man said dealing with them almost sent him insane.

Then Cornerstone Housing sent him to a unit on a street where children from the Thomas More college called it paedophile street of which he was not one. Then they sent him to a Women’s Shelter that was even more absurd.

He had the strength of character to see it through and didn't go insane, but those with weaker minds have succumbed. 

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“...you are consenting to your personal information being provided to our volunteer team and St Vincent de Paul reporting purposes. Please be polite and respectful to our staff and volunteers when asking for assistance.”

This is from the St Vincent de Paul assistance hotline recording. What does “reporting purposes” mean? Would it be connected to the government’s Eternal Shame File? St Vinnies should clarify this.

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Last Tuesday’s 8:30am menu at the St Bede’s Anglican church free breakfast included chopped fresh fruit, yoghurt, orange juice, cereal, cream buns, instant coffee, barista coffee from Copenhagen's, tea, eggs, bacon, muffins, chicken nuggets, cooked seasoned tomatoes, baked beans, roasted vegetables, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches and other ingredients I can’t remember.

The joint is never crowded and the volunteer staff operate better than waged restaurant staff.

A front door volunteer collects first names and insists diners use hand sanitiser, but they don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File.

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Diners sang “Happy Birthday” to a dead woman at the Lutheran Ark the Saturday before last. This was for Rebecca “Becky” Long who died a few days before her birthday.

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The person on the phone at St Vincent de Paul told me there were three volunteers last Monday taking 500 calls.

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Soup kitchen friends of Rebecca Long were aggrieved that the family held a funeral without giving them the opportunity to attend.

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The Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh didn’t open at 11am as advertised. A female volunteer arrived at 4pm, but closed the door immediately as eight “stinking mutts” snarled on the grass nearby.

I had listened to them from my car for two hours as they became increasingly ferocious and on the verge of attacking each other.

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There were fifty people at the Victory (Life Adelaide) Thursday meal at Para Hills the Thursday before last. One person said the increased number was in expectation of Christmas hampers and they were posing as regular patrons.

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A patient at the Lyall McEwin hospital said a doctor lowered her mask each time she coughed repeatedly when near him.

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The next Salisbury Lutheran Ark Saturday 5pm meal is the 30th of November instead of the previously advertised 23rd of November. They’re on the corner of Waterloo Corner Road and Winzor Avenue at Salisbury. Everyone welcome.

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Ian Cole is dead at 86. He went to ONE Life church free food event at Parafield Gardens. I told his ex-wife he should have died three years earlier due to his terrible health. She said he shouldn’t have been born.

She said his behaviour at the nursing home was abominable. She didn’t go into the gory details. She said nursing home management assigned a Carer to him who had served five years at Yatala Prison, either as a guard or an inmate. She told Ian he’d “met his match”, but Ian proved too much for her so he was sent to a hospital.

To his credit, Ian refused to be pushed around by authorities of any kind including doctors.

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Walking frame Lorraine from ONE life church is alive and well. And the church hasn’t been sold and ONE life hasn’t bought another church to replace it. Free food coordinator Leisel told us not to believe or spread false rumours. In response, one person said she’d had a fall and crushed her hips, but the following week she was up and running without a limp.

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The call centre person at the Adelaide Day Centre for homeless people was confused when I phoned for a free Christmas hamper. She asked my address and I said I was homeless. They deliver hampers and weren’t sure about delivering one to a bush site. She told me to phone back in early December then instead took my number and said they’d contact me later.

The irony is a group serving homeless people is confused when one phones for a hamper. But they’re still okay.

Early 10 November 2024

(above) Free six items every two weeks on Tuesdays 10am to 12noon at Enfield Uniting Church on Main North Road, Sefton Park. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page

Thank you very much for the very detailed and informative list of Christmas propaganda events exploiting the poor annually. People who pretend they care when most services cancel their normal service for up to 4 weeks, over the whole Christmas and new year period, at the very time their clients need them the most.

​If anyone who ever experiences meeting a recent immigrant or student using the same service, who was given accommodation, and you one of the ones, whose lease was ended, to house the influx since COVID jab of immigrants/ students, is reading this, whatever emotions come up come up, they're the right ones for that time.

Hobby Bobby
9 November 2024

Apology to Oz Nomadic

Sorry, Mr Nomadic. I lost your recent post due to a foggy mind due to the most recent bout of Covid or whatever they call it now

9 November 2024

The old crowd’s final victory

The Victory (Life Adelaide) church is calling it quits on the Pittman Park free 12:00noon BBQ at Salisbury. Their last BBQ is on the 13th of December. This represents the final victory of the previous operators of the free BBQ who were also then with the Victory Church. They’ve since begun the Salisbury Haven free meal in the Anglican Church hall, in conjunction with other churches, on Fridays that attract 70 diners.

Victory (Life Adelaide) had cancelled their funding and use of the church BBQ trailer for the previous group. Now the church has done the same with the current operators of this Pittman Park free BBQ saying their numbers had dropped too low to make it worthwhile.

Victory (Life Adelaide) has a record of disloyalty to adherents including Michael Guggelmichi who was not supported enough during his troubles. The church seemed more interested in preserving its reputation rather than adhere to the principles of forgiveness. 

How did this free BBQ service actually fail? The answer is reduced offerings, horrible noisy location without seating, not turning up on some Fridays and interpersonal conflicts between diners.

The current operators are John, Elvey, Ray, Debbie and Ron who say as one door closes another opens meaning they are looking for an indoor venue to provide the same service. 

Victory Church (Life Adelaide) at Salisbury
Free BBQ in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays. Sausages, onions, sauce on bread, water, occasional noodles, no vegetarian option. Christmas hampers last year for regular clients. Generous and friendly church people. Safe venue. No I.D. or registration required. No seating except on fence.

Anglican Church Salisbury Haven
Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonalds junk food joint), 6:00 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Nice fresh food, not from Foodbank. Free. No I.D. or registration required. They don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Operated Pastors Rad Runjo of Hope Central Salisbury, Justin Gutteridge of Salisbury Uniting Church, Preacher Peter Jin of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church and other groups led by Rodney Harrison, Steve Bacchus, Jen Fyfe.

P..S. They’ll be taking names for the Christmas hamper sometime over the next few weeks.

9 November 2024
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(above) Amidst the fear and grief of being homeless, there are advantages from being a refugee in your own land. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Adelaide Zero Project
​actually a data miner

You might wonder why the government funds the collection of homeless numbers in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands. Very little changes month to month so why do they do it.

From September to October 2024 the Actively Homeless count rose from 217 to 226. This included the Rough Sleeper count dropping from 193 to 191; the Temporarily Sheltered number rising from 17 to 28 with the Actively Homeless – Other number staying at 7.

The figures were affected by the “Moved to inactive” number increasing from 19 to 34.

But how they collect these figures? They won’t say, but it no longer includes that program where they aroused sleeping homeless people during the dark hours demanding personal data. They even kicked them awake, gently.

The process seems designed as a data collector rather than serving any other purpose. If you look at most corporations, other businesses and the government, you see they’re all collecting data on each of us and merging previously segregated personal files into one big file.

The Adelaide Zero Project also distributes personal data of homeless people to a variety of undisclosed businesses, “non-profits” and government departments. That was former Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox’s briefing: to help the government collect data on homeless people and merge it into one big file. Ian Cox was conned into this job thinking it would help us, but instead it helped employ more bureaucrats while reducing our self-respect.

To add insult to injury, while diverting money from building houses and units to pay data collecting bureaucrats, the Adelaide Zero Project has the nerve to say it has housed 1165 homeless people via its programs since May 2018.

It played no role except collect data that diverted money from housing so it actually reduced the number of homeless people that could have been housed.

It should be called the Adelaide Zero Respect Project.

8 November November 2024
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Salisbury Fred’s Van

A young couple with two cats in a shopping trolley said they lived in Gawler. Another client told the woman to get out when she brought one of the cats into the hall, but later gave her a container of salad. Staff took food outside where the silent couple tended their cats as if they were children. The pair were about 20-years-old and displayed the symptoms of fear usually indicative of being homeless.

The front table where Becky Long sat was empty except for one person. Another table was unoccupied. Numbers of guests has been dropping despite decent food and decent staff. One criticism is the undignified speed of the meal and fear of violence from the famous Salisbury town centre drug addicts.

A diner said he’s avoiding Salisbury Fred’s Van for awhile due to pasta every week. That’s true, nearly every place serves pasta as the main course every week. An exception is Port Church where they serve a huge fresh salad plus rice, Coleslaw, meat and … pasta.

Later, as Old Val and I left the Institute hall, the homeless couple with their cats and sleeping bags laughed and mimicked us in the darkness of the T.A.F.E. grounds.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. High quality volunteers who ensure each person is served. Meal slightly rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal alcoholics.

8 November 2024

(above) Home sweet home while in Adelaide's southern suburbs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Free Christmas holiday functions

7 November 2024

Second edition

This is a tiny list that will be expanded if you phone other groups listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide . And if they refuse access to their Christmas functions and hampers you may still qualify for a standard food package or supermarket card.

It is crucial that you act immediately as places are limited especially hampers, some of which may be fully allocated before the end of this week.

Free Christmas Day lunch

Hutt Street Centre

They offer a free Christmas Day lunch, but take your image and put it on the Eternal Shame File. 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace). Ph 8418 2500.

Baptist WestCare

Free Christmas Day lunch without putting your name and photograph on the Eternal Shame File. You just turn up. Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200.

Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth

Excellent free lunch about 12 noon on Christmas Day. Not too hectic and with a blend of normal and eccentric people. Phone to reserve a place.

38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467.

St Luke’s Mission Whitmore Square

They previously hosted Adelaide largest and best free Christmas day lunch including presents for every person. They used to get 400 people until the chief fundraiser was hit by a car at Red Hill north of Adelaide.

They aren’t sure what is happening this Christmas, but you can leave you name with them on 8232 0048.

Uniting Care Modbury – not sure

UnitingSA Port Adelaide

A nice, but subdued free Christmas lunch including a Coles card. Phone the UnitingSA Family Centre to book your place. Usually open to anyone and everyone.
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2299. Mon – to Fri 9:00am to 1:30pm.

Exeter Uniting Church at Semaphore

I’ve heard they’re planning a free Christmas lunch. Friendly and tolerant place for sex change people, ex-prisoners and others. They also do energy cleansing and yoga. A progressive and worthy church.
146 Semaphore Road, Exeter. Ph 0476 998 164

Adelaide Angels at Pilgrim Church

They usually have an excellent free late Christmas day meal and gifts starting from 4:30pm.12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Ph (08) 8212 3295

Fred’s Van

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details. Only the city Fred’s Van is open on over the Christmas holidays. The others stop for two or three weeks.


Free Christmas hampers

Hampers may include a box of food or a supermarket card or both, or a kick below the belt if they don’t like you. Act quickly.

Adelaide Day Centre

Box of groceries with a lot of sugar. They deliver. No strings attached.

Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Back of a block of residential units. Mon – Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048.

St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. Christmas hampers and/or supermarket cards. They visit your home unless you’re homeless or live in the Elizabeth area where they require a visit to their Conference room near the railway station. (They fear being attacked by “Stinking Mutts” and “stiffs” from Elizabeth.)

Fred’s Van

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details.

Playford Community Fund

They’re taking names for hampers this week, but you have to be in the Playford Council area holding a Centrelink card. They also give $25 supermarket cards four times a year.
They’re in a building next to Anglicare Corporation in the Elizabeth shopping centre across the carpark from the Council offices and library. Phone 8255 1599.

Revival City church Modbury

Free hampers for morning tea clients and apparently anyone who asks for one. Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Phone 8395 0888.

Gospel City Church at Gawler

This is a poor church and a generous church providing a pre-Christmas free lunch usually with an extra generous free vegetable and meat handout at their last Tuesday lunch of the year. I’m not sure of the date. Please don’t swamp them. 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army

Free groceries and supermarket gift cards. They have a huge registration day then you return a few weeks later to collect the stuff.
Corner of Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph 8397 9333. Free large shower room with bench, hand rails, large mirror, toilet, hand basin. You simply ask at reception to use shower. No humiliation or signing up. Mon – Thurs 9am to 1pm. Washing machine and drier, also.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide)

They usually offer free hampers at their last free BBQ of the year. This is the 13th of December in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays.

Life Adelaide also offer hampers at their last Thursday 6:00pm meal at the Para Hills Community Hub at 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills. You better go there this Thursday to establish yourself as a client or it will be too late. It may already be too late.

Anglicare Corporation

The Corporation cleverly asks for charitable donations from the public then uses them to up-sell their welfare and rental products. This allows them to charge extra rent to tenants because they offer hampers they get for free. And they shouldn’t call their Elizabeth office a “Mission” since they’ve gotten rid of most of their church volunteers and use work-for-the-dole and other involuntary volunteers.

To be fair, there is a battle within Anglicare between those holding Christian principles and those dominated by financial concerns. And the N.D.I.S. homeless man says Anglicare Believe Housing has been good to him.

If you’re a customer of some sort, they offer Christmas hampers at the three locations below.

The Magdalene Centre
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph (08) 8305 9434
AnglicareSA Elizabeth Mission
At the clock tower, Elizabeth shopping centre
Playford Blvd., Elizabeth. Ph (08) 8209 5400
AnglicareSA Outer Southern
111 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Ph (08) 8186 8900

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea Glenelg

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free Tuesday evening meal on the signing-up Tuesday of which I don’t know the date.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal.

Salvation Army Ingle Farm

They gave $40 Woolworths cards last year in the form of two letters with barcodes. They also gave some quality free food from the back room. They have a huge registration day when they ask why you think you deserve a barcode. I said, “greed” and that was okay with the unsmiling elderly woman processing the application.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army, Cnr Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph (08) 8397 9333.

Pre-Christmas gatherings

This tiny list is most redundant since most free food joints listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide have a special end of season extra good meal and event. To be invited to most, you must attend the session when they issue invitations or you put your name on a list. At some of these gatherings they offer a supermarket card and/or hamper or just a decent meal and a bit of singing.

Stevo’s at Sefton Park

They have a nice pre-Christmas gathering with a coherent preacher. To get invited it is crucial to attend their regular Tuesday brunches starting immdiately. They might still let you go there if you phone at the last minute. They haven’t set the date yet.

Enfield Uniting Church, Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. Best to arrive early. Free. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File. Free excellent brunch, takeaways and games.

Salvation Army Adelaide City

They usually have a special day in the park a week or two before Christmas. And they don’t require that you’re a regular client.

277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Mon to Fri. 9:00am to 10:00am for vegetables, bread, free. Coffee and sandwhiches 9am–10:30am. Free. Arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal at 6:00pm on Wednesdays with entry at 5:00pm for coffee. Addiction meeting and Bible group. Occasional free morning BBQ’s. Free groceries if you sign up for interview and provide a Centrelink card. Free hairdresser occasionally. Water tap in back lane 24/7.

St Bede’s Semaphore

Friendly pre-Christmas fancy meal with presents for regular clients only, but if you turn up next Tuesday or the following week they might relent. St Bede’s is always good so it is worth the journey.

The Christmas presents aren’t much good. I suggested they give clients Swiss army knives, but that wasn’t treated seriously.

200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tues 8:30 - 10:00am. Free breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they take names for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free day old Semaphore Bakehouse and Bakers Delight quality bread. Free clothing. Water tap at back, but requires a 4-way key handle available in aisle 56 at Bunnings. Monthly free hairdresser & Thread Together clothing. Dining room cold in winter.

Pilgrim Church Lounge City

This unique service usually have a special pre-Christmas lunch that varies year to year from a stack of nasty sugary garbage to quite nice lunches.

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

Lutheran Good Shepherd

9th December Monday about 5pm. Bookings 18 November. There were newcomers last Monday posing as regulars so you might be able to go there next Monday and get invited to the pre-Christmas dinner the following week. It’s a long shot.

Unley Salvation Army

Their Christmas meal is on Christmas eve, the 24th of December at 6:00pm. Bookings essential. They usually require a person to live in the Unley area, but not when I phoned to reserve a spot.

Anglicare Corporation

Anglicare and Believe Housing have fairs across the city for their clients and tenants. Ph (08) 8305 9434 or Believe Housing for more details.

Western Food Hub Hindmarsh

Not sure what they’re doing though they may have a special interference pre-Christmas special event where a dozen junkies rough you up.

Or it might be wonderful like beauty within the depths of despair and deprivation.

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

A client said they don’t have enough money to offer supermarket cards this year, but even their regular Friday morning breakfasts are breathtaking to say the least. You can’t lose unless you get trapped in the cheapo elevator.

C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.


Post Christmas events

St Augustine’s Church at Unley

These astute people realise there is a glut of free services before Christmas then a drought over the next four weeks. So they’ve offered a free Concert and Dinner on Sunday the 29th of December at 6:00pm.

A client from last year said they put bottles of wine on each table then when they were guzzled clients could buy more at $15 a bottle. I asked a volunteer last week if this was true and he said it was.

183 Unley Road, Unley phone 0452 331 870.


The end.

Late 7 November 2024
​Third edition late 11 November 2024.
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Oz Harvest changes opening times

Below are their summer opening times to get things over before the day gets too hot. They may resume their winter times when the weather cools. Winter times are 10am to 2pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 

Oz Harvest free supermarket Hindmarsh
Free supermarket. No I.D. needed. Just walk in. 27 Manton St, Hindmarsh. Ph 08 7007 0080. Summer times Tues 9:00am - 12:00pm; Wed 3:00pm - 7:00pm; Thurs 9:00am - 12:00pm.
Food not excellent. Long queue at opening time. Safe and orderly. Winter times change.

7 November 2024

(above) Oz Harvest free supermarket at 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh. No I.D. or registration required. Now open from 9am to 12 noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays due to hotter weather. Also Wednesdays 3pm to 7pm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2024.)

Homeless joints won’t speak up
​for campers

Earlier this week, fifteen employees of the Adelaide City Council with a police escort attacked a homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands.

Attack might not be an exaggeration as Council employees threw multiple tents, bedding, camping equipment and personal items into their rubbish truck. One camper said they almost ran over a dog, such was the callousness of the raid.

A homeless woman said they took her diaries and I.D. along with all her belongings straight to the rubbish dump. The police escort left in disgust at the Council’s action on such vulnerable people.

Two of the campers – who don’t appear to be drug addicts or deranged – roamed the city street on Tuesday evening each carrying a cheap sleeping bag and a pup tent that one said was too small and designed for children.

So where is the outrage from the Hutt Street Centre for homeless people with its seven-million dollar annual budget? Where does Baptist WestCare stand on this incident?

Gone are the days when Janet Mead of the Adelaide Day Centre got a direct line to leading politicians and told them what she thought of their actions. Janet is gone, but do we have a replacement for her? Certainly not with a big money homeless joint like the Hutt Street Centre that pressures elderly clients to participate in walks in the park and bus trips to silly places to justify its government funding. And limits showers for homeless people to six minutes because employees reduced opening hours due to their desire for client-free working hours.

Late 6 November 2024

Homeless Chat by Woody and Skip

Based out of Tea Tree Gully.
Skip is an idiot.
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ROBBO Homeless Chat by WoodySkip - Robbo is sick and tired of being Homeless & wants a Unit or Flat!

MATT B & SCOTT Interview...Homeless Chat by Woody Skip -The 2 brothers + Brutus - Camping Site:)
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6 November 2024
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Oz Nomad on the street

Another successful week of food begging in Adelaide, many impressive, steaming bowel movements. Rapper "Peezy" dies in North Melbourne...... another loss of "cultural enrichment". Fred's Van Friday again resembling D-Day as hapless crowd's charge for Donuts.......Donuts need to be added to the food pyramid, like fingerbuns. All in all a good week, warmer temperatures but thick footlong Grogan's still steaming in the Sun.

Oz Nomad
Late 6 November 2024

(above) Women only. Probably illegal.

Free Christmas holiday functions

5 November 2024

Preliminary list (new list late Thursday)

This is a tiny list that might be expanded if you phone other groups listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide . And if they refuse access to their Christmas functions and hampers you may still qualify for a standard food package or supermarket card.

It is crucial that you act immediately as places are limited especially hampers, some of which may be fully allocated before the end of this week.

Free Christmas Day lunch

Hutt Street Centre

They offer a free Christmas Day lunch, but take your image and put it on the Eternal Shame File. 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace). Ph 8418 2500.

Baptist WestCare

Free Christmas Day lunch without putting your name and photograph on the Eternal Shame File. You just turn up. Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200.

Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth

Excellent free lunch about 12 noon on Christmas Day. Not too hectic and with a blend of normal and eccentric people. Phone to reserve a place.

38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death). Ph 08 8255 2467.

St Luke’s Mission Whitmore Square

They previously hosted Adelaide largest and best free Christmas day lunch including presents for every person. They used to get 400 people until the chief fundraiser was hit by a car at Red Hill north of Adelaide.

They aren’t sure what is happening this Christmas, but you can leave you name with them on 8232 0048.

Uniting Care Modbury – not sure

UnitingSA Port Adelaide

A nice, but subdued free Christmas lunch including a Coles card. Phone the UnitingSA Family Centre to book your place. Usually open to anyone and everyone.

Exeter Uniting Church at Semaphore

I’ve heard they’re planning a free Christmas lunch. Friendly and tolerant place for sex change people, ex-prisoners and others.

Adelaide Angels at Pilgrim Church

They usually have an excellent free late Christmas day meal and gifts starting from 4:30pm. 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free Sunday meal 5:30pm. No I.D. required. Healthy fresh food purchased by the parishioners. Nothing from Foodbank. After meal you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for Pilgrim updates.

Fred’s Van

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details. Only the city Fred’s Van is open on over the Christmas holidays. The others stop for two or three weeks.


Free Christmas hampers

Hampers may include a box of food or a supermarket card or both, or a kick below the belt if they don’t like you. Act quickly.

Adelaide Day Centre

Box of groceries with a lot of sugar. They deliver. No strings attached.

Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Back of a block of residential units. Mon – Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048.

St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. Christmas hampers and/or supermarket cards. They visit your home unless you’re homeless or live in the Elizabeth area where they require a visit to their Conference room near the railway station. (They fear being attacked by “Stinking Mutts” and “stiffs” from Elizabeth.)

Fred’s Van

Most Fred’s Vans have a pre-Christmas dinner available only to regular clients. You need to leave your name with them on a week sometime in November. The meal may or may not include a hamper or supermarket gift card. It is almost too late to become a regular client, but maybe not. Click here for list of Fred’s Vans or phone St Vincent de Paul on 1300 729202 for details.

Playford Community Fund

They’re taking names for hampers this week, but you have to be in the Playford Council area holding a Centrelink card. They also give $25 supermarket cards four times a year.
They’re in a building next to Anglicare Corporation in the Elizabeth shopping centre across the carpark from the Council offices and library. Phone 8255 1599.

Revival City church Modbury

Free hampers for morning tea clients and apparently anyone who asks for one.
Cnr. Milne and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Phone 8395 0888.

Gospel City Gawler

This is a poor church and a generous church providing a pre-Christmas free lunch usually with an extra generous free vegetable and meat handout at their last Tuesday lunch of the year. I’m not sure of the date. Please don’t swamp them.
Gospel City Church Gawler​. 24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army

Free groceries and supermarket gift cards. They have a huge registration day then you return a few weeks later to collect the stuff.
Corner of Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph 8397 9333. Free large shower room with bench, hand rails, large mirror, toilet, hand basin. You simply ask at reception to use shower. No humiliation or signing up. Mon – Thurs 9am to 1pm. Washing machine and drier, also.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide)

They usually offer free hampers at their last free food service of the year. This is the 13th of December at Salisbury and I’m not sure of the date at the Para Hills Thursday evening meal.

Para Hills Community Hub

22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills. Thursdays. Free meal 6:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Hosted by Life Adelaide (Victory) Church. You better go there this Thursday or next to register or it will be too late. 

Victory Church (Life Adelaide) at Salisbury
Free BBQ in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays. Sausages, onions, sauce on bread, water, occasional noodles, no vegetarian option. Christmas hampers last year for regular clients. Generous and friendly church people. Safe venue. No I.D. or registration required. No seating except on fence.

Anglicare Corporation

The Corporation cleverly asks for charitable donations from the public then uses them to up-sell their welfare and rental products. This allows them to charge extra rent to tenants because they offer hampers they get for free. And they shouldn’t call their Elizabeth office a “Mission” since they’ve gotten rid of most of their church volunteers and use work-for-the-dole and other involuntary volunteers.

To be fair, there is a battle within Anglicare between those holding Christian principles and those dominated by financial concerns. And the N.D.I.S. homeless man says Anglicare Believe Housing has been good to him.

If you’re a customer of some sort, they offer Christmas hampers at the three locations below.

The Magdalene Centre
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph (08) 8305 9434
AnglicareSA Elizabeth Mission
At the clock tower, Elizabeth shopping centre
Playford Blvd., Elizabeth. Ph (08) 8209 5400
AnglicareSA Outer Southern
111 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Ph (08) 8186 8900

St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea

Pre-Christmas meal for regular clients. They sometimes give supermarket cards or hampers or neither. To get invited you must attend their free events starting now.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:45pm. No I.D. or registration required except for the fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit and vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at a Glenelg pharmacy each week (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and Frdiay 11:00am to 1:00pm.

Salvation Army Ingle Farm

They gave $40 Woolworths cards last year in the form of two letters with barcodes. They also gave some quality free food from the back room. They have a huge registration day when they ask why you think you deserve a barcode. I said, “greed” and that was okay with the unsmiling elderly woman processing the application.

Ingle Farm Salvation Army, Cnr Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph (08) 8397 9333.

Pre-Christmas gatherings

Lutheran Good Shepherd

9th December Monday about 5pm. Bookings 18 November. There were newcomers last Monday posing as regulars so you might be able to go there next Monday and get invited to the pre-Christmas dinner the following week. It’s a long shot.

Unley Salvation Army

Their Christmas meal is on Christmas eve, the 24th of December at 6:00pm. Bookings essential. They usually require a person to live in the Unley area, but not when I phoned to reserve a spot.

Anglicare Corporation

Anglicare and Believe Housing have fairs across the city for their clients and tenants. Ph (08) 8305 9434 or Believe Housing for more details.

Post Christmas events

St Augustine’s Church at Unley

These astute people realise there is a glut of free services before Christmas then a drought over the next four weeks. So they’ve offered a free Concert and Dinner on Sunday the 29th of December at 6:00pm.

A client from last year said they put bottles of wine on each table then when they were guzzled clients could buy more at $15 a bottle. I asked a volunteer last week if this was true and he said it was.

183 Unley Road, Unley phone 0452 331 870.


The end. New edition in two days.

Peterswool Road free lunch Elizabeth​

I felt dirty leaving the venue. A bad taste in the mouth despite the excellent food. Perhaps it stemmed from unease seeing the African congregation sitting outside the church. The free Saturday lunch had gone from a service for the wretched refuse and the unfortunates to a combination church and wretched refuse lunch.

The good part is that the African church people scared off the drug addicts and junkies. What a relief that was. It also scared off most other clients leaving about five or six white fella people that included The Virus Lady, Lisa, a retired nurse, a man with ten university degrees, the activist vegetarian and that was about it. All diners I get along with.

The serving counter proved problematic when I asked if the food contained eggs. The Seventh-day Adventists are most vegetarian – more than myself – but they eat eggs and I don’t. I made a derogatory comment about Quiche that resulted in the main server refusing to offer me anything. I asked for a certain vegetarian dish and she slopped it over the side of the plate. Well, no worries. Since my heart went bad, I mostly sit still and require little food.

Later, we lined up for dessert and she said I’d already had chocolate cake. A diner beside me said I hadn’t, but the server – who I’d never seen before – said I had. She relented and offered me a slice, but I didn’t want one anyway and hadn’t asked for it. Wilma offered me ice cream.

Is this petty of me for bringing it up? Yes, but as a homeless person we’re dumping grounds for others negative feelings. We exist on the verge of “the straw that broke the camel’s back”. And the servers can’t be blamed. They probably cooked the food and rather than expressing gratefulness, we’re often critical. Why don’t they provide salt and pepper for unsophisticated diners?

Such criticism of free services comes from being under constant stress living outside or in a car. Any effort we make to improve our homeless circumstances – such as building a small shelter – is quickly destroyed by government workers. We’re frightened day and night by marauders that prey on homeless people. And also government funded marauders posing as helpers. Most government-funded homeless joints have become predators in data collection, forcing us to surrender privacy rights while they up-sell their product which requires us to proclaim in a signed contract that we’re defective.

Anyway, after the meal we talked about reality, death and Tantric Buddhism for three hours.

And I can’t praise Wilma enough. She’s been serving us selflessly via the church for years.

Seventh-day Adventist Church at Elizabeth Park
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. Free vegetarian lunch Saturdays 12:30 noon. 
Free bread, fruit, vegetables, groceries Mondays and Thursdays 11:00pm – 11:30am. Centrelink Card required or a brilliant story. Thursday best day. Friendly clients & staff. Occasionally excellent meat, fish and soft drinks. Ph Vilma on 0412 739 369 for details. 

Early 5 November 2024
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Government psychiatric unit promoting bestiality to 14-year-old girls at Renmark high school

An Australian Broadcasting Corporation report says that Year 9 girls were ordered to attend a class without a teacher present while a person from the government psychiatric unit, Head Space, spoke to them about diversity sex including with animals.

" The students said bestiality was then explained in detail and the presenter seemed to imply it was something practised by people who identified as LGBTQIA+.

"They said [the queer community] just accepts all of it, even though … isn't it illegal?""

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/alleged-bestiality-references-renmark-high-school-presentation/103653438

Meet the executive head cases at Head Space, responsible for [such people] going to schools promoting [such acts].

https://headspace.org.au/our-organisation/our-people/executive-team/

Second Editor: Head Space is a government mental health initiative specialising in psychological and psychiatric treatment of young people – meaning drug medications.

I thank the person who emailed these references. I haven’t used the full report from our valuable correspondent as it detracted from the prime issue at Renmark High School that is worthy of everyone’s total attention. No wonder some parents work extra jobs to send their children to private schools.

Early 4 November 2024
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Dharma Kitchen at Black Forest

Unlike some Christian outfits, the Hindus from the Vishva Hindu Parishad made little attempts to spread their beliefs or even speak to the almost exclusively elderly white diners numbering perhaps 65.

A man and woman removed their shoes then sang a prayer before the meal. A 6-year-old girl with wide-open eyes and dressed in traditional garb danced from her own volition to modern Indian music.

The meal of nine items was served in cardboard sectioned dishes and was 100% sentient without garlic, onions, eggs, mushrooms or meat. They provided table service so we didn’t have to queue up.

Most seats in the hall were taken except those around myself. The only person I knew there was Lorraine, not by face, but by her shrieking laughter. She didn’t recognise me. There wasn’t a single Stinking Mutt or Stiff in the crowd.

The Indians – or at least the Community Centre person who answers the phone – asks that diners pre-register, but no one questioned me as I walked in.

A small food co’op staffed by elderly white people operated prior to the meal being served. An Unley Council employee took photographs for propaganda purposes, but at least asked for permission to take images and asked those selected to sign a “talent release” form. But he did take overall crowd shots without asking permission. The Indians also captured video on their phones, but this seems to be what happens these days.

This was their last free lunch of the year. With luck, they’ll continue the service next year. They are Indian Hindus.

Dharma Kitchen, Clarence Park Community Centre, 72-74 East Ave., Black Forest. Ph 8293 8166. First Saturday of month. Difficult parking. Free vegetarian lunch. 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Clients are mostly non-Indians. No registration or I.D. required.

Early 4 November 2024 ​

(above) Salvation Army property on Anderson Walk, Smithfield. Unoccupied for years. Old tennis court would make a perfect caravan location for a homeless person. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Good tent camping on the unoccupied-for-years Salvation Army property on Anderson Walk, Smithfield. Just keep it clean and don't annoy neighbours. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Big problems at Big Issue magazine

From the anonymous contact page

“There's whispers around the scene of Canadian guy called Chris Campbell. He CEO and head of operations in NSW and Queensland of the Big Issue [magazine].

“Employee's working the streets in Sydney where he is based don't respect him. Apparently awhile back, his old man died and his employer paid his travel expenses to go the funeral. If this is true, it's quite pathetic considering the big issue is sold via slave labour.

“Apparently a Storm has broken out and he was bypassed by someone in the complaints system and the direct contact was made with the board, about some serious allegations against staff under him. A full internal review has been ordered.

“Turns out a Christian psycho Chick cakledr Claire, was turning up to the soccer program lying about her credentials to the clients...any sought of intelligent conversation with her, would lead to her using v******* on the soccer field. She will be pissed she's been exposed and is capable of anything. She's since fled to America.

“The boss, a woman called Lou has also left the country, fleeing the internal review, using sick family as the excuse. The new boss of the Office, apparently, had a long career in Centrelink. She keeps shutting the office and going home, ignoring the slaves on the street when they contact her...she's required to respond when a slave books there spot for the next day, she doesn't. Ignores calls ect.

“Chris has had to turn up until another replacement has been found and " support" her. Since the board has been contacted, various events have been cancelled and all of a sudden they're saying the Big Issue [magazine] is going broke. They're about as jumpy as a trampoline as they don't know where the next hit is coming from and with a lot to hide, they're behaving like trampolines.

“Under the last one ( Lou), for two years anyone whoever complained about anything was pushed out. Now there's an investigation into some real sick sh** done on her watch, apparently she's fled the country. If verified the media will be contacted.

“Chris's behaviour is best described as a cover up, of what's gone on in an office he was responsible for. Slaves who know him in Sydney know the cancer starts with him. When attention is brought to him, and it will be, he will probably flee the country as well. The vendors are being gifted very professionally. Organised crime this is and the usual suspects of Anglicare and Catholics front and centre.

A name and email supplied

Second Editor: Thank you. Please keep our readers informed of more developments.

Early 3 November 2024

On the Street​

We criticised Becky Long, recently deceased, for grabbing more food than she needed at Salisbury Fred’s Van on Sundays. But like most people, she had a hidden side to her personality that included donating $20k to the New South Wales bushfire appeal.

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Clark Kent got his nickname ducking into a lane off Hindley Street and changing his clothing. He dressed down for a visit to free food event called Night Train near that dirty clothing shop that sold guns on the sly.

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A man punched Mad Mel in the head at the Pilgrim Church last Sunday. Few diners had any sympathy for her. She punches total strangers without provocation, usually choosing those too passive or too weak to fight back. So the man was something of a hero for punching a woman in the face.

Mad Mel entered the homeless drug scene twelve years ago according to a friend of the Vitamin Derelict and The Ghost Who Walks. The friend said Mad Mel was all laughs and giggles, but Adelaide’s housed Ice junkies soon took the smile off her face and now she’s like them. The friend said Mad Mel “is not a happy traveller.”

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“When I was in prison for murder…,” a Fred’s Van client began a conversation. He’d been accused of murder despite the police being unable to locate the victim’s body. He spent four and a half months in prison until the murder victim appeared in court alive and well. The soup kitchen man said he received $600 compensation and the careers of some police involve either ended or promotional prospects were severely curtailed.

Does this seem an unlikely tale. Yes, but not in the homeless scene where murderers abound including family members connected to both the Snowtown Killers, The Truro killers and The Family.

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Two diners from the Mary Magdalene Saturday evening meal in Moore street praised last Saturday’s food. One described it as, “a delicious good one, made up for a few dodgy ones.”

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Catherine the Doctor hasn’t been sighted in the homeless scene for a month.

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Teresa is dead. She was the main suspect in the theft of the donation tin from the St Bede’s free breakfast ten years ago. We crammed it to the top with coins and notes, but after the theft left it empty. She also stole cutlery.

Teresa seemed the most horrible person alive, but then talking to her one day it became apparent she was simply another human being with a terrible upbringing and unfulfilled life.

She and Gaavin broke up in part from her jealousy of his career as a Karaoke singer. Gaavin has since been in a coma twice from diabetes and is married to Julie.

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A man said he had trouble controlling himself when a neighbour screeched at him in the same voice his mother used when she threw him at a picket fence where he dangled from his chin. His mother was later murdered by a boyfriend.

This is an example of the traumatised people who attend Fred’s Van free gatherings across Adelaide.

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Tricky Mick is back on the scene. (He shouldn’t be confused with Mick of Mick and Eleanor or Mick the Ice dealer.)

Trick Mick is purple in the face despite lugging around his oxygen bottle on wheels. His leg went putrid from diabetes, but has healed somewhat. He said his sleep apnea machine went strange and blew hot air into his lungs.

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A formerly homeless man said he hadn’t felt sexual arousal since his wife divorced him in 1982. Another formerly homeless man said he’d never had sex. Another man in an SRF said he’d never had sex.

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The St Bede’s free bus trip to the Barossa Valley left with three seats empty. The St Bede’s Coordinator, Dorothy, was 80 last week. The volunteer at the front door has returned from “holidays” after being knocked to the floor two weeks ago by a client angry about Covid rules. That was a good recovery.

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Dennis the Menace said that while being rushed through the hospital on a bed, staff stopped in the hallway as a doctor cut his shoulder with a scalpel. Dennis wondered what was going on, but later discovered his lungs had filled with fluid and he was about to have another heart attack. The doctor couldn’t wait until they reached the surgical theatre so began the procedure to drain Dennis’s lungs then and there.

Dennis previously lived in a camper van in the city where he ignored parking regulations. The government stopped him from driving after a series of heart attacks, surgery and other ailments. He now lives in a retirement unit.

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A man who lived in front of the Hutt Street Centre said it’s easier to devolve than evolve. He’s practising the latter.

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A homeless man said he’d been drinking alcohol when someone spiked his drink. He woke up behind Hungry Jack’s covered in vomit and unable to move. Police helped paramedics put him into an ambulance.

He later said some paramedics are police officers working undercover. They do this to collect information from patients because paramedics are not allowed to share patient information to the police.

A group of us at a free food joint were talking about the police being helpful to homeless people though we all agreed that police officers are compulsive liars.

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Western Food Hub volunteers at Hindmarsh were reluctant to provide food when they opened at 5:00pm for fear of annoying Preacher Josh from Gateway Baptist church. His crowd arrived with the coffee trailer at 5:30pm and took awhile to get it operational.

Josh allegedly wanted to keep clients hungry so we’d consume his coffee, Tim Tams and overcooked pasta with sauce and meat balls that tasted excellent from the basis of it being free food. The barista coffee had a mean bite and was welcomed by everyone. The trailer is a bonus on most Thursdays.

Meanwhile, the Western Food Hub free food room should have been called the Foodless food room. The pantry shelves contained four packets of cough gums and six jars of salmon baby food dated 2022. The vegetables were rotten, but the pastries and quality of volunteers was exceptionally good.

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A ferocious Ice junkie said Mad Mel doesn’t spit at him because she knows he’ll spit back.

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A man screamed at his mother on his phone while selling a high-end watch to Cash Converters just before closing time the Tuesday before last. He then pulled a knife on the employee named Lisa when she didn’t offer a price to his liking. Six Cash Converters employees rushed to protect her while police were called. Lisa kept a straight face throughout as if it was nothing more than a routine transaction.

Cash Converters services the home invasion and drug addiction industry. It’s a cancer.

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A high quality volunteer at ONE Life church free food event was sick for three months after getting a Zoster vaccine injection. He said it gave him shingles that went into his mouth and eyes. His doctor suggested he doesn’t get the second shot.

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Mick of Mick and Eleanor said that as children he and his friends referred to themselves as “unfortunates”. He added that, “We’re not allowed to say that now.”

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Ice addicts and a dealer have been operating from an Op Shop in Adelaide’s Western suburbs for at least one year. A volunteer informed management so they kicked her out and installed a compliant leader. Police know of the Op Shop distribution point, but have no interest in taking action as the prisons are full, the drug rehab joints have waiting lists and addicts don’t pay fines.

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Someone burnt a homeless man’s tent in the South Parklands last week. He was a new client at the Hutt Street Centre. Welcome to Adelaide’s homeless scene.

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The disabled formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man knows how to beat the system. The N.D.I.S. wouldn’t buy him a lawn mower, but agreed to buy all kinds of disability junk. He then sold the disability junk and used the money to buy a lawn mower.

A casual reader might think this immoral, but in a completely corrupt disability system, proper behaviour gets a disabled person less than they are entitled to while questionable behaviour produces results and everyone is happy. People with serious disability can’t get the N.D.I.S. while those with lesser problems, but with legal advocates get lots of money.

Another example is MyAgedCare, the Australian funding body for infirm old people. After drug addicts stole my tent and bedding I replaced it with a smaller tent in which it was difficult to dress in the morning.

Being an MyAgedCare client at aged 73 (I tried to get off MyAgedCare, but once you’re on it you stay on it for life.) I asked if they’d buy me a taller tent making it easier to dress in the morning.

After two weeks of phone calls and bum steers, they said, “no,” but they would buy me a whole lot of disability aids for living in a house even though I was homeless.

I could have gotten the lot for a few thousand dollars, sold it on eBay then purchased five large tents. This is how a corrupt system works.

I didn’t follow this crazy path and a client at St Bede’s gave me a tent that performed well until stolen by the Salisbury Council’s anti-homeless squad.

Such is life.

Early 3 November 2024.

Head Space at Renmark​

From the anonymous contact page

“Recently a Head Space headcase educator attended a high school in Renmark talking to year nines about LGBTQIA+ issues. The headcase Head Space guy admitted that the + symbol represents all the illegal sh**, his flavour was besti***** Which he went into detail about being OK..the big issue pushed the pride movement, which means they OK about sex with *******.

Remember everyone who pushes that movement, ask them can you come have sex with their ****? Betya they say no.

A name and email supplied

Early 3 November 2024

(above) UnitingSA at Glenelg give morning tea clients six free pantry items, bread and elderly, but edible vegetables. There are blankets for rough sleepers only. More resourceful rough sleepers dine luxuriously from restaurant bins. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Too fast at Salisbury

A volunteer collected the cutlery before diners were finished eating. Same with salt and pepper shakers. She shook coffee and cordial cups to see if they still contained liquid even while diners were still eating. We felt nervous getting up in case our plates had disappeared when we returned. Take your eyes off your plate was too risky as she’d whisk it away in a blink of an eye. Then came the banging and scraping of chairs across the floor.

This is why diners make the rude rush to the serving tables. Being amongst the first served means you finish the meal before staff grab cups and plates and remove the coffee urn.

All that effort to prepare the food then they degrade it by rushing diners through the meal as if we’re animals and not human drug addicts, homeless, mentally deranged, brain damaged, homicidal lunatics, victims of violence or social alienated.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. High quality volunteers who ensure each person is served. Meal slightly rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal alcoholics.

Review for Sunday 20 October
Posted early 2 November 2024


Mary’s Kitchen

John Johnson sang Danny Boy with energy, but missed a few notes. A diner said he was an accomplished singer and at 80 he’s still an effective entertainer. I regret laughing. John also sang a religious song with Peter from Black Forest then Sebastian sang with a young female volunteer.

Peter announced he was now Peter from Marleston since he couldn’t afford his private rental unit and is moving next week to a nasty Housing Trust joint in Marleston. Good luck to him, he’ll need it.

Meanwhile, the ex-taxi driver has moved into his car from a Housing Trust unit that he couldn’t afford as he wants to spend his income on surgery in Victoria. Both men are old and in bad health.

The man who owned twenty taxi licenses and cars sat with his long-term girlfriend who acted more as his servant than wife. The man was demanding while silent as if he’d had a stroke.

The diners handling life better than others were educated at Minda Homes. They’d come to terms with the limitations of their lives and accepted these while still striving to improve themselves every day. A miracle in education that the Woke industry couldn’t wait to destroy.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:45pm. No I.D. or registration required except for the fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit and vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at a Glenelg pharmacy weekly (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and Friday 11:00am - 1:00pm.

Early 2 November 2024

(above) The Salisbury Council anti-homeless squad were quick to steal my tent, bedding and camping equipment. But they've left householder garbage at a homeless site for over two months. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council warned me to leave a homeless site, but they never stole my tent or equipment. And when a householder dumped rubbish at a homeless camp, they removed it within ten days. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Someone jabbed the Susan Close toilet at Outer Harbour with a pick. The toilet cost a small fortunate to install, but is usually closed or doesn't flush properly. Susan Close is the Puppet Deputy Premier of South Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Hutt Street Centre

From our email contact account

Overheard by hutt st client how he bragged having S** with his mother in law in Cameroon it was perfectly normal for an Aussie man as his brother in law was a Supreme Court judge!!!

Meanwhile Mr. Black shiny patent shoes says the meals in hutt st are 2 star quality given St. Peter the chef is the best they have had!

Grifters or Drifters they are lonely old men confident they’ll take all there wealth into there ‘next life’ and buy there place in heaven 😂😂😂

Email supplied
Early 1 November 2024
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From the anonymous contact page

We are now back to being homeless have been all week.
No options around adelaide anywhere
Horrible story/ situation
That made us leave our accommodation residency at caravan park
Of 7 months
That had nothing to do with us.
Is there anywhere to get food/ fruit pls

Second Editor: Phone Crisis Care or check Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food guide. What happened? Your email doesn't accept responses from my account. 

Early 1 November 2024
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Police still investigating Grinder’s death

Police officer K9 performed his usual intimidating posture, never going beyond a short distance from his fellow officer who was operating undercover as a lunatic.

This was at the Puddle Jumper’s Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. A female diner became enraged at Officer K9’s barking behaviour. She said he should be on a leash. She followed both officers as they retreated to their car. She shut her screeching mouth when K9’s colleague showed his police I.D.

Grinder’s death remains a mystery. He was due to visit a dentist the following day. A friend bought him clothing for the visit, but has since declared he’ll spit on Grinder’s grave when he finds it.

Grinder was apparently visiting his sister in Brompton, hours before his death from a suspected drug overdose or even a hotshot designed to kill him. Grinder had plenty of enemies. And friends doubt Grinder even had a sister in Adelaide.

Early 1 November 2024
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Women’s shelter man's victory

Cornerstone Housing evicted the previously homeless man from the Women’s Shelter apartments in Elizabeth. They said the white male broke three windows, two of which were in a drug addicted woman’s apartment. In the same night of conflict, someone damaged the accused man’s car and spray painted his front door.

The white male tenant was charged with assault and damaging property.

The female drug addicted “victim” proved an unreliable witness and was also the suspect of the car and door damage.

After numerous court appearances, police dropped assault charges against the man then a magistrate dismissed the property damage charges regarding the drug addict’s windows.

That left a single charge of breaking his own window. This was dismissed by the court with a magistrate saying the man broke his own window after locking himself out.

Lutheran Cornerstone Housing kept the case going saying they wanted payment for the broken window. The man’s lawyer missed the point, but the accused realised the window damage should have come from his bond, which had already been retained by Cornerstone.

After two years of repeated court appearances, the magistrate dismissed the last of Cornerstone’s case meaning the accused was found not guilty of all charges.

The man is now investigating the possibility of taking Cornerstone to court for negligence after they placed him into the Women’s Shelter in the first place, which is absurd.

Early 1 November 2024 

(above) Food suitable for homeless people given away for free at ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens where they don't collect personal data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Free lunch at Unley

Pleasant dining at three tables next to small kitchen back of the historic church pews. Beautiful stained glass windows. On the menu were couscous salad, chicken sandwiches and a strange vegetable stew of which a French speaker said he hadn’t a clue if it contained MSG or “vegetable seasoning”. Also butter on buns and coffee served by decent volunteers.

There were just ten diners with three church volunteers. Four amongst us spoke French, three Chinese plus a Chinese woman who only spoke English. Two Chinese women said they’re not coming back as they didn’t like the food. But all the Chinese seemed similar to us, crazy. Meeting new immigrants is a good way of breaking away from racial stereotyping They’re deluded and suffering similarly to anyone else.

The French speakers spoke a little French while gazing suspiciously across the room as French people do. I asked a Chinese women if they minded if I stared at them while they were eating. They didn’t understand me so I didn’t stare despite watching a video the previous evening saying Chinese stare at everyone.

Through a translator, one Chinese woman said she’d brought her elderly mother and father to Australia, but they couldn’t access Medicare, ever, and the government charged $60,000 for each of them to immigrate. Her father died of a heart attack within a month of arriving. No refund. She has three houses in China.

A homeless man said he spent three hours in the chair at the Dental Hospital. He said a fifth year student butchered him while extracting a tooth that broke into pieces, but a supervisor repaired the mess. It cost him $67. I said he could have got a dental surgeon to pull it for free despite the usual $2000 price plus $500 for anaesthetic. All he needed was a support worker. Like myself, he wasn’t interested in being linked to the Eternal Shame File. I also went the $67 path and the tooth broke into pieces at the root, but the dentist was a real dentist upgrading his skills. The surgery was performed in a storage room with people unloading boxes next to the chair.

I asked church staff if the rumour was true that they have an annual free dinner with plenty of bottles of wine on the tables. He said the rumour was true.

The Wednesday light lunch was nice with no “stinking mutts” or “stiffs” in attendance.

St Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church Unley
183 Unley Road, Unley. Free soup, sandwiches, coffee 11:30am to 1:00pm Wednesdays. No I.D. or registration required. Preacher Mee Ping LAU speaks nice English and seems normal. Volunteers sane and well-intentioned. Toilets next door at library.

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Early 31 October 2024

(above) St Joseph's Orphanage building being demolished at Largs North. Homeless Craig (not Crazy Craig, different person.) lived in the children's cubby house for years after the building was vacated. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Black Africans removing asbestos from St Joseph's Orphanage building being demolished at Largs North. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Salisbury Haven

I felt crook a few minutes after entering the hall. Overhead fans made the roof lights flicker pushing me towards a seizure. Polarised sunglasses fixed that, mostly, but what sort of weirdo wears sunglasses inside a building and even after it had gotten dark outside. Well, three diners, actually.

The musicians were late getting started this evening and some thought that a blessing. They’re too loud in a building conducive to a preacher shouting from the stage, but not for sixty-five people conversing. However, some consider music drowning out conversation a positive atmosphere, perhaps replacing intellect with passion.

They gave away bread before the meal that was described by everyone I talked to as very good. They buy the food from their own money and serve it with good manners apart from rationing the salt and pepper. One diner brings his own.

​The joint is usual packed to capacity with some overflow in another room. 

Last Friday evening, the biggest man in the building had a seizure or similar medical episode. Luckily, Steve the ambulance driver and others treated the size 17 shoe man before the ambulance arrived. He left in good cheer and his presence always adds to the quality of vibrations in the church hall.

After most diners left the core church group had a religious gathering.

Anglican Church Salisbury Haven
(Not to be mistaken for Sonder unSafe Haven on John Street.)
Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonalds junk food joint), 6:00 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Nice fresh food, not from Foodbank. Free. No I.D. or registration required. They don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Operated by Pastors Rad “Bazooka Bob” Runjo of Hope Central Salisbury, Justin Gutteridge of Salisbury Uniting Church, Preacher Peter Jin of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church and other groups led by Rodney Harrison, Steve Bacchus, Jen Fyfe.

Review for 25 October 2024
​Posted early 30 October 2024

(above) Free box of food from Baptist Pathway at Clovercrest available once a fortnight to residents in the area or once a week to homeless people "camping" in the area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Christian Inspiration

I hope to be forgiven for betraying a private conversation, but one diner said what a wonderful event the church provided. She takes her confused mother to a different place each day.

Our generous hosts are ethnic Chin Falam from Burma, Indians and Greeks.

Darryl played a guitar and wore a western hat sitting on the piano. Gideon pressed him to take it home, but Darryl said he already had a hat, a “wise guy” hat popular in New York in the 1950’s.

Richard the Taxi Driver makes copies of the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide and gives them to his customers and others who appear desperate.

Volunteers physically stopped three elderly women from jumping in early and grabbing loaves of free bread being laid onto tables. There was much more than they could give away, but the well-fed women acted more desperate and starving than people in Gaza. And the well-fed women didn’t have their guts blown apart and their children shot by snipers.

The meal include Shish Kabob, fresh salad, chicken, rice made with chicken stock, doughnuts and barista coffee from the machine donated by Richard the Taxi Driver.

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeaway vegetables
Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church (Inside Greek church building), 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Barista coffee 10am to 12:00 noon. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton, ping pong, billiards. Provided by Gideon and Vika Misajo and Chin Falam people from Burma, and others using a Greek non-orthodox church. Sixteen nationalities amongst workers and diners. White fellas welcome. Personal information not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.
They welcome everyone regardless “...of ethnicity, culture, wealth, gender, mental health, physical ability, languages and colour of our skin. Hope Grace Church allows all people to grasp how width, length, height and depth the love of Jesus Christ.”

Early 29 October 2024
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Dharma Kitchen Black Forest

This is their last free lunch of the year. With luck, they’ll continue the service next year. They are Indian Hindus.

Dharma Kitchen, Clarence Park Community Centre, 72-74 East Ave., Black Forest. Ph 8293 8166. First Saturday of month. Free vegetarian lunch 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Non-Indians welcome. They prefer you phone to book a place. 

Early 28 October 2024
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Comment on St Jude’s Brighton

There seems to be alot of needy men looking for love in that place…If only the walls could talk!!!! Paul and his volunteers do A Stirling job!!

Familiar faces, many from St. Andrew’s (grifters amongst the genteel poverty) hmmm.

Email supplied.

St Jude’s Anglican Brighton
Cnr Brighton and Jetty Roads, Brighton. Ph 8296 8333. Free lunch Fridays in large hall. 11:30am to 1:00pm. Soup, main course, dessert, toasted sandwiches, coffee, water. They don’t rush you. Water taps around church. Outdoor cabinet filled with bread. Church hide sleeping gear left in alcove so the homeless person gets more from a charity. Another possible sleeping area is under huge fig trees. No I.D. or registration required. BYO salt and pepper. Occasional free hairdresser.

Early 28 October 2024


GC3 back in action

But only once a fortnight due to staff exhaustion. There were about fifteen attendees last Saturday evening. The food included pasta and meat sauce, sausages on bread, cake, biscuits and coffee, all free and without any strings attached to the Hutt Street Centre’s Eternal Shame File.

One group cunningly walks in the front door after the tables and billiard table are set up then discreetly leave before it’s time to wheel it into a room off the basketball court.

The Afghan indoor soccer players looked at us with contempt, a bunch of white folk in incredibly bad health, our primary illnesses being obesity and diabetes.

The Recreation Centre staff member has changed again. The most popular had been one whose gender was indiscernible. The second most popular was an incredibly sexy young woman with a sexy mother.


The mood was serene as most clients felt sad about the death of Becky Long and a GC3 volunteer’s problems.

We didn’t see the Salisbury Fred’s Van volunteer and court interpreter who collects cans from rubbish bins as everyone left early. Half of us had been to the Lutheran Ark so we didn’t need any food.

Global Care BBQ (GC3)
Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (back of Aldi’s and Salvation Army) Ph (08) 8289 0556. Cnr. of Martins Rd and Kings Rd, Parafield Gardens. Every second Saturday. 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Free coffee, sausages, patties, bread, sauce and cake. Regular special foods. Soft drinks $2.00. GC3 is not operational during school holidays, Easter, June and October long weekends. Global Care rent a basketball court so others can use it without charge.

Early 28 October 2024


Full house at The Haven

They served free sausages, vegetarian patties, potato salad, bread, sauce, coffee, fruit juice, spring water plus seven types of dessert. Salt and pepper strictly rationed and only upon request. I’m bringing my own in future. Takeaway food included tomatoes and two watermelons one of which was taken by Mick of Mick and Eleanor.

A woman jumped around outside as if she was crazy or on Ice. She went inside and became slightly less crazy. No one bothered her and she calmed down even more. Nearly everyone there is dysfunctional either socially, mentally or neurologically, but we think we’re normal.

There were just four or five homeless people in the crowd of 70. About 15 diners are clients at Sonder unSafe Haven on John Street. That crowd are even more alienated than the rest of the Salisbury Haven crowd. We’ve got a complex social hierarchy within our own subculture.

The Virus Lady made a cameo appearance and we shouted at each other with minimal communication as we’re both partially deaf. The musicians made communication even more difficult, but most people like them. What the Virus Lady and myself needed were headphone hearing aids that could communicate with each other.

The overhead fans were stationary as the weather had cooled down meaning I didn’t have to wear sunglasses to stop the strobe effect from the ceiling lights putting me into seizure territory.

The man whose group of friends protected me from drunken squatters at Bowden in 1981 was there. He’s recently built a huge house north of Elizabeth.

Some of the church crowd performed healing ceremonies in the room next to the hall. It’s quite amazing what they do while not requiring anything of us, not even our names.

Anglican Church Salisbury Haven
Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonalds junk food joint), 6:00 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Nice fresh food, not from Foodbank. Free. No I.D. or registration required. They don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Operated Pastors Rad Runjo of Hope Central Salisbury, Justin Gutteridge of Salisbury Uniting Church, Preacher Peter Jin of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church and other groups led by Rodney Harrison, Steve Bacchus, Jen Fyfe.

Review for 19 October 2024
Posted early 28 October 2024

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Love that cheap Chinese garlic?

Have you ever wondered how Chinese peeled and crushed garlic sells for six-dollars a kilo in jars while Australian garlic costs $25 a kilo unpeeled?

The reason includes the use of prison slave labour used to grow and process it. But morals aside, former prisoners say the garlic is initially peeled using their finger nails, but as these become soft and worn, prisoners then use their teeth to peel the garlic.

Peeled garlics from China 
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Garlic and the 'dirty secret' of China's prisons

Early 28 October 2024

(above) Homeless camp on the road to Munno Para, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

On the Street

Becky Long went into the Lyall McEwin Hospital last week after most of her teeth were pulled out in preparation for heart surgery. After the dental visit her heart rose to 200 beats a minute. She went into Intensive Care, but died last Tuesday at 7:00pm. She was 76.

There was disbelief and sadness at Fred’s Van Salisbury and Salisbury Haven. What people liked about Becky was despite being at death’s door for years, she never felt sorry for herself or sought sympathy from others. She lived well and died well. R.I.P.

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The Tea Tree Gully Council ordered homeless campers to leave government land below Bunnings at Modbury after social media Influencer Sonya Blackwell had previously advised them to leave.

Sonya is a friend of Mayor Marika Ryan and also Joylene Mitchell of Rotary who provide a free BBQ every second Saturday at 8:30am in Civic Park at Modbury.

When the homeless people ignored Sonya’s recommendation and the Council’s order, police arrested one man who protects a woman suffering anxiety from constant orders to leave wherever she sleeps.

People who live in houses don’t understand the fragility and desperation in the homeless culture and how a small action creates a violent ripple effect.

Meanwhile, another homeless camper jabbed a man in the temple twice with a tent peg, luckily missing his eye. The victim objected to the newly evicted tent peg wielder from putting his tent close to his.

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Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army has installed a vending machine. The general opinion is it won’t stay there long as most clients can’t afford top price confectionery and might even fiddle with it.

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Three Africans tried to rob the confectionery store in the Para Banks shopping centre.

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N.D.I.S. Carers are nervous about recent prosecutions in the industry. Audits have shown fake appointments and hours paid for work never performed. Clients are being hauled into government offices to examine payment sheets.

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The Housing Trust allocated a three-bedroom house to a homeless woman near Amsterdam Crescent in Salisbury. The N.D.I.S. supplied her with four Carers 24/7. This meant 12 employees working full shifts each day costing the government nearly $7,000 daily.

Bars and grills were put on the house to keep her inside. The roof was repaired after she climbed out and joined the homeless drugs addicts in the Salisbury town centre.

Since she effectively no longer lives there, the N.D.I.S. has reduced the carer number to one per 8-hour shift costing the government a mere $1800 a day.

This means that a Carer sits alone for 8 hours then is replaced by another for 8 hours and so on. Some bring their washing to work while most sleep in preparation for second jobs.

Every few months they drag the homeless woman back to the house for a Housing Trust house inspection where everyone pretends the homeless woman still lives there.

Meanwhile, a family sought a three bedroom unit or house from the Salisbury Housing Trust, but was told that two-bedrooms was enough for them.

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A man was taken away by ambulance at the Jasmine Restaurant free meal at Hindmarsh Square.

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Mad Mel has appeared more mad than usual. Her eyes are black and swollen in their sockets. She was spitting in diners’ food at the Hutt Street Centre, but no one dared confront her. One client said touching a woman would be too “political”. Mad Mel physically attacks strangers almost daily. Few victims have faith in the police or judicial system so complaints are not lodged.

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Two homeless men talked about Lorraine being a nice sort of person. She was AJ’s girlfriend for a few years. He said she kept him alive. He attacked Grinder on a number of occasions after the latter gave Lorraine a dirty version of crystal methamphetamine.

Lorraine knocked down the shelves at the Western Food Hub and was expelled for life.

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Someone rammed a stick down Homeless Les’s throat while he was sleeping at Elizabeth. Les now speaks with a rasp.

Les doesn’t collect welfare and is ferociously angry with everyone. He rarely visits free food joints. One church work has little sympathy for Les due to his attitude.

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That black-haired woman who wears sunglasses at the free food event at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army is the first to arrive and nearly the most greedy person there. During the undignified scramble to grab the best stuff she appears to be crying or seething like a wild animal.

Last week she snuck into the cafe and grabbed the food being kept for the fortnightly Wednesday free coffee and cake morning.

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The scourge of the homeless scene in the Adelaide CBD are drug addicted marauders who rob naive homeless people building their camps. The marauders take everything of value then accuse the victims of being guilty of some crime imagined in the robbers’ drug addled heads.

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The Port Hedland Council voted 5 to 2 to condemn the use of Pfizer and Moderna Covid injections in the Council area. The Council has little power to enforce their motion, but according to one citizen journalist, they were worried that the death rate in the town had increased from one funeral a week to one nearly every day. ​

Early 27 October 2024

(above) Free food from Taperoo Uniting Church every Tuesday from about 11:30am. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Oz Nomadic on the rampage

Gotta say I'm loving those conspiracy theories, especially when P. Diddy enters the Adelaide Homeless Scene. Diddy Do It?. Most of the rest is just whining about the quality of previously thrown away food, I myself prefer to find Lobster and Oysters in a street bin.

If so many didn't have a monkey on their backs they might be able to eat on the dole, I know that I can even if I'm feeding a stable of racehorses every Saturday.

When is Arstall returning?, when will the "Munster Apocalypse" begin?

Ps. "Chin Up"....... it's only going to get worse

Oz Nomadic

Second Editor: Undercover police including K9 at free food joint investigating the death of Grinder.

Early 26 October 2024
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Salisbury Fred’s Van

Two mysterious men in white shirts sat on the stage watching us. Volunteers said they’re thinking of helping. The meal was pies and pasties including vegetarian plus canned peas, fresh salad and dressing, buns with margarine and pumpkin soup followed by canned peaches, custard and muffins.

There was controversy about taking the bottles of tomato sauce after the meal. Two volunteers said it had been destined for China, but some bottles had been damaged so the whole shipment was returned and donated to charity. But another volunteer said diners couldn’t take the bottles.

The idea of exporting the sauce to China is strange since most tomato paste used to make the sauce comes from slave labour from western China though there was some Chinese writing on the plastic bottles. (They gave away the same sauce in the food hampers at Port Church later in the week.)

Spoons were another issue. Elderly Joan said they’d gotten 100 dessert spoons whose number had reduced to 43 and 100 soup spoons that had decreased to 27.
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Some homeless people took them, but the thieves were mostly hoarders who are the scourge of free food joints. Also, some spoons were taken by street addicts who use them to consume their drugs.

Diner numbers were down despite being bolstered by a quiet tribal group from the desert. Becky wasn’t there having got her teeth pulled out the day before in preparation for more heart surgery, but the dental visit appears to have sent her into crisis and she’s in Intensive Care at the Lyall McEwin hospital.

Old Val is showing her age and walks in a shuffle. What unnerved me was people who wanted me annihilated previously are now friendly.

Fred’s Van Salisbury
​Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Sundays 5:30pm. Free quality meal served inside an historic hall. High quality volunteers who ensure each person is served. Meal slightly rushed. No I.D. required. Huge government cameras in foyer and dining room. Often a pleasant dining experience. Excellent drug addicts. Tampons available in men’s toilets. Occasional screaming and yelling. Visiting tribal alcoholics.

Early 26 October 2024

On Peter Sandeman

From the anonymous contact page

P**** Petter pumpkin eater sandpaperbrainsman article on homeless deaths.

From what you taught me here, that load of sh** is nothing but properganda and exploitation to justify the money easyed in datta collection.

Peter pumkin eater wasn't counting the days one of the subsidiaries under him had Ann marie Smith stuck in a chair while her assetts were plundered. It was nearl 400 days...

Has the owner of this blog’s former unit he was evicted from going?

Early 26 October 2024

(above) Gawler Visitors' Centre public toilets and free showers, once the best in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) But vandalism from the "stinking mutts" resulted in the Council locking the shower doors. The Salvos have filled the gap, sort of. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

St Paul’s Lutheran Glenelg

The free food list has deteriorated, but at least it’s not old stuff from Foodbank. St Paul’s don’t give nearly as much as before and clients can visit just six times a year, but the church volunteers are polite.

There were six people waiting for free groceries including a man and women who later prayed intensely at lunch. I shrank with shame into my seat when I saw Immanuel College girls in the back room. When we’re with our own socio-economic group we feel okay, but through the eyes of teenagers from middle-class homes our personalities evaporate. What sort of adults beg for food at churches?

When David – the man handing out the free groceries – invited me for lunch cooked by these same students, he said (I’m paraphrasing), “It isn’t charity; they’re doing it as part of their course.”

Now at the free lunch next door, these students stand behind the serving tables while a preacher reads a religious text that means nothing to me. When he prays, half of the students stand wide-eyed while most of the diners close their eyes.

The meal includes a hamburger stew, Coleslaw, corn, beans, corn chips, greased garlic bread, Pavlova, coffee and a huge amount of expensive pastries. Peter from Black Forest gets a lay preacher to ask quiz questions that he’s supplied. Peter says the winner gets to spend the night with him. No one laughs. His left arm is horribly swollen from drinking Red Shiraz some of which he barfed up in a two-metre arc last month at St Jude’s at Brighton. The retired high-quality theatre nurse who cares for her senile mother cleaned it up.

We sign a card for Geoffrey the Fisherman who went into hospital with throat cancer. He’s had trouble speaking for over a year, about the time he collapsed on Glenelg Pier. The Ambulance couldn’t drive on the old structure so the Ambos pushed a gurney in the rain to Geoffrey.

St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Ph 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:30am -2:00pm. Parking at rear. Free store-bought pantry items and toiletries. Centrelink card details kept on paper and destroyed each year. Six visits per year allowed. Good food, not from Foodbank, Oz Harvest or Second Bite.
Free lunch every third Wednesday 11:30am to 1:00pm. No card required for this. 
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Early 25 October 2024

(above) Daily rations at U Care in Gawler. Better stuff if you provide a Centrelink card and submit to an interview. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

The art of stupefying the poor

The systemic mental abuse of clients at homeless services varies from the ridiculous to the insidious. A 10-year-old girl walked outside the sliding doors at the Bagster Community Centre at Salisbury earlier this month. This was about 6:00pm at the Puddle Jumpers free meal and takeaway vegetable service. The sun shone brightly through the front door.

A volunteer shouted, “Anyone under 18 not allowed to go outside without supervision.” Apart from the ridiculous aspect of this order was that diners defended it. None challenged a stupid command. What if a 17-year-old drove a car to the venue? Would that person need supervision upon leaving the building to the car? No one at our table thought this question relevant or that the order had been silly.

At another free venue, two old women were ordered not to hug each other for fear of spreading disease. No one objected to such a stupid rule.

And at Salisbury Haven (not to be confused with Sonder unSafe Haven) they won’t allow diners to add salt and pepper to their food. They insist a volunteer perform this task and use only a small amount.

This is how welfare authorities and their proxies mentally condition us to accept silly commands without question. This degrades the minds and self-respect of people using welfare services. ​

Early 24 October 2024

(above) Pick and shovel mine shaft from the 1900's at abandoned town of Siberia northwest of Kalgoorlie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Pick and shovel miners were desolate upon running out of food and water and not finding gold. Dynamite was a familiar form of ending it all though Tom chose strychnine. Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours). (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Back to the psychiatric joint

The tenant who smashed up her free-standing, low-rent two-bedroom Housing Trust house in the Modbury administrative area recently returned from psychiatric confinement. During three months locked up, her friends took the opportunity to further damage her house. Then six trades people spent a few weeks repairing it.

Upon returning to the house from confinement, she spent the first two days screaming at the top of her voice suggesting that $40,000 spent on psychiatric care had not produced positive results.

Things quietened down for the next week, but it became apparent this unfortunate woman was unable to care for herself. She hasn’t bothered putting milk in the fridge so the plastic bottles of rancid milk sit on her kitchen counter.

Despite her numerous N.D.I.S. Carers hanging around inside the house while she was locked up, not one thought to clean the fridge or kitchen area. Nor have the cupboards been repaired or replaced that another of her so-called friends destroyed during a night while she was away.

After she returned, two N.D.I.S. Carers tried to make a visit, but rushed to their cars with her not far behind. They drove away with her screaming in the middle of the street.

Two police and two ambulance officers later arrived and took her away. The house remains unlocked.

What comes next is anyone’s guess, but judging by an African man who trashed five Housing Trust units and houses then given a sixth, this unfortunate woman hasn’t finished knocking holes in her walls.

See “Her craziness has returned” dated 1 October 2024 for more details.

Early 23 October 2024
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All except one died

Peter Sandeman’s article in the Anglican magazine, The Guardian, not too bad except the sales pitch for Adelaide Zero Project.

https://adelaideguardian.com/2021/09/17/death-on-the-street-the-hidden-crisis-of-homelessness/

Early 23 October 2024​

Mary’s Kitchen Glenelg

The good-natured taxi driver with the fat stomach said his life was being broadcast on social media. The suspect was Peter from Black Forest.

The taxi driver confirmed he’s moving from his Housing Trust joint and living in his car to save money. How can a big man sleep well in a small car? He finds sleeping in chairs better than a bed according to rumour.

But friends warn him he’ll never get another Housing Trust joint due to the 20-year waiting list. He won’t be alive when his number is called.

It’s criminal that a man with disastrous health will have a hard time moving back in when those released from jail after selling drugs that killed people quickly get cheap rent accommodation.

There was a full house at Tuesday’s meal of good soup, sausages, fried potatoes, fresh salad, ice-cream and cheese cake. Our table included a stranger who sang songs, made the sign of the cross on his chest, cried, ate his meal and said good-bye.

John Johnson appeared exceptionally well at 80 apart from a dribbling mouth after jaw cancer surgery, but his life force is strong.

The ever-popular Horse Trader Steve made a cameo appearance sporting a walking stick that serves as a chair. Half the diners were big names from the past, but with the absence of those who died from suicide, being hit by cars, medical issues and drugs.

Some diners are from Adelaide’s leading families and the conversations different than at Fred’s Van at Elizabeth and Salisbury where most clients come from disastrous backgrounds not printable here.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:45pm. No I.D. or registration required except for the fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit and vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at a Glenelg pharmacy weekly (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and Friday 11:00am - 1:00pm.

Early 22 October 2024

(above) The Playford Council carpark is advertised on their website as having 361 spaces. Their screen says they have 144 vacant spaces so there should be 217 vehicles parked inside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Nearly every floor of the Playford Council carpark on the corner of Phillip Highway and Main North Road at Elizabeth is empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) There were about 30 vehicles (mostly from Playford Council) parked on an upper floor last week. Some were being washed by an old man using a home quality pressure spray. There didn't appear to be a single paying customer in the six floor building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) The Playford Council Windsor carpark cost $8.5 million dollars to build and was closed earlier this year for repairs. Since opening in 2018 it has lost over a million dollars. Council locks it at night to prevent homeless people camping inside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page
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Hi please help, I’m standing at whitmore square 3rd Friday of the month I’ve been standing here for an hour since 3:40-4-40, i thought the BBQ was 4:30 nobody is here.

Anonymous

Second Editor: They’re don’t stick to a strict schedule. Sorry about the bum steer. They’re planning a Saturday BBQ at Modbury soon.

Early 21 October 2024
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Victory Church free BBQ

John and Elvey plus another man arrived in a mini-bus. They brought a hot box containing sausages, cooked onions, bread and sauce. There was also bottled water. Eight clients attended including two on invalid scooters, two from a small group of tribal people and four others including one homeless man.

The carpark venue off Commercial Road is noisy and without seating. They got forty clients at its peak, but Covid, disputes among clients, not bringing the BBQ trailer, a horrible venue, reduced number of volunteers and reduced food has resulted in its decline.

But it’s still a nice little service for those lost and in pain, but that big church should pour more resources into it.

Victory Church (Life Adelaide) at Salisbury
Free BBQ in Pittman Park on Commercial Road, Salisbury. 12:00 noon - 1:00pm Fridays. Sausages, onions, sauce on bread, water, occasional noodles, no vegetarian option. Christmas hampers last year for regular clients. Generous and friendly church people. Safe venue. No I.D. or registration required. No seating except on fence.

Early 21 October 2024
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Tall grass man

He threw his long think Sherpa backpack on the seat of a picnic table illuminated by street lights and passing cars. Within a few seconds he described its contents, mainly a huge blanket that he bought for $80 and his bladders of cheap wine plus an emergency bottle of methylated spirits.

He’d walked from Mildura over the past few days. His hands were swollen from alcohol. His family was from the Mt Isa and the Arnham lands. He said what we called World War 1 was actually World War 2. The first war was white settlement of Australia.

He claimed to be worse than drug injectors because he put the stuff into his mouth: wine and methylated spirits. He slept with a bottle in the crook of his arm in case his Sherpa of wine was stolen during the light. But he added that his ears were his eyes at night and the slightest unexpected sound roused him from sleep.

He drinks 8 to 10 litres of wine each 24 hours including two cups before sleep and two upon wakening. Any sudden withdrawal could result in deadly seizures so his cradled bottle is his emergency life support.

While unable to hold a complex conversation, he appeared reasonable and self-constrained with a basic object of maintaining his supply of wine and content for his cones.

He didn’t exude violence or insanity. A safe person to be around. ​

Early 21 October 2024

(above) Such an expensive structure not actually designed for people at Outer Harbour. It's never used because the government designed it to discourage people from using the nature reserve on Pelican Point Road. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) This is hostile architecture designed to prevent homeless people sleeping here during the rain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

On the street

People often open the door of the Orange Sky Laundromat. Last week, two old people peaked inside while one said, “Isn’t that cute?” and left.

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They give us new name tags every week at the Lutheran Para Vista community meal. Last week a man wore a label with my name on it despite that not being his name. Another man wore my name. He said he told them his name, but they gave him a label also with my name. Then a woman referred to a Chinese-born gentleman using my name, which was different than his name. We don’t even have a similar appearance.

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Piano Player Wayne nearly died last week when his foreign-born Carer gave him the wrong medication. He said his Carers are Chinese, Indians and Canadian Indians and they don’t know the English alphabet.

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White Tiger free food has changed its opening times. They are:

White Tiger Elizabeth Grove
Operates from the Baptist Church, 19-21 Haydown Rd., Elizabeth Grove. Ph 0434 096 152. Monday and Friday 2:00pm until food runs out, usually 45 minutes. Free fruit, vegetables, bread plus some food for sale. White Tiger began as a martial arts group in 1993. Friendly.

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Dutch Steve said City Salvos have a free BBQ at 10:30am on Friday 25 October. Arrive at 9:00am for free barista coffee, some food, free vegetables and then the BBQ.

Salvation Army Adelaide City
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Mon to Fri. 9:00am to 10:00am for vegetables, bread, free. Coffee and sandwiches 9am–10:30am. Free. Arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal at 6:00pm on Wednesdays with entry at 5:00pm for coffee. Addiction meeting and Bible group. Occasional free morning BBQ. Free groceries if you sign up for interview and provide a Centrelink card. Free hairdresser occasionally. Water tap in back lane 24/7.

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A young homeless confused woman sat on the floor surrounded by her stuff at Orange Sky Laundromat at North Adelaide. I told her how to use the machines for free rather than wait for the 2:00pm free service. She took 30 minutes to sort her stuff then started the washing machine.

She left the laundromat and crossed Melbourne Street, her pert body and smoke in her mouth making her seem a normal young woman apart from her destination and her black eye.

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Terri’s ex was collecting cans from rubbish bins near Arndale when confronted by a tribal man holding an empty Jim Beam whisky bottle in one hand and the spindle of a floor fan in the other.

Terri’s ex adopted a ferocious demeanour and the tribal man retreated preferring easier prey.

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A man living in a unit says he misses being homeless because it forced him to go places and do more things. Now he has few demands in his life and spends long hours and days within four walls and away from nature.

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An N.D.I.S. innovator got many thousands of dollars of camping equipment without charge while living outside. All the stuff wouldn’t fit into his car so he put it into storage. After moving into a disability house, he asked N.D.I.S. to buy him a lawn mower. They said, “no”, so he returned some of his camping equipment to BCF and got $1288 in cash that he spent on the lawn mower and other stuff.

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Grinder’s dealer must be in mourning after his death. Grinder’s death might have been a blessing in disguise as she brings her child in a shiny new car to a free food joint to peddle certain drugs. She’s obvious to anyone with street knowledge and should stop if only to protect here custody of her child.

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Friends of Peter of Black Forest are worried about his health. He was lying on Jetty Road at Glenelg outside Feed during a rain storm after drinking alcohol throughout the night. And rumour has it that Omar doesn’t exist and that the photograph of him was taken off the Net.

Early 20 October 2024
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Ashton Forbes talking about MH370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79R77zt6JkU
Early 20 October 2024

(above) Two homeless men outside the Grenville Centre at Elizabeth last week. It's rare to see any homeless people at Elizabeth during the day as they usually appear only after sunset. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Re: Richard Kelvin

From the anonymous contact page

The group hired von einem from corrections in the city. An officer there was a teacher at Glanville? where it's published what he did to boys. After going to far he was given another job, and they always go to far, the bag men and the people like him who source victims for the elite. His new job was to find von einem to do the dirty work, to find bag men. His old job was filling orders for children.

Apparently Richards old man broke confidentiality and needed to be warned. For whatever reason von einem's job was to hold Richard as blackmail. It didn't work out. You have to erase everything Rachel Vaughan has taught you. Controlled opposition 💯. An actor.

Today they can't infiltrate correctional like they did, so they changed tactics and convince coppers and that to become defence lawyers. Multi tasking. The brains behind this were the archbishop's and judges. They infiltrated the anti covid movement because they want pure blood victims.

P Diddy trafficked for these groups in the British colonies and America. Bag men for them have been caught before and the information of this gang, based out of Hollywood servicing orders for the colonies, trading, has been quietly published, but not for awhile.

Early days of internet whistle blowers and researcher's spread some real information on a lot of things. But now all it is does it spot the whistle blower and they silenced. You're left with what they want you to be left with. It works for them now. A tool. However it can be reversed. That takes conviction morals and courage.

Anonymous
Second Editor: I was disappointed Rachel didn't respond to my requests to visit her. I asked through her brother who also didn't want to be interviewed. 

Please send more of what you know about this subject. 

Early 19 October 2024
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Bad Thursday not too bad

A group talked about how they hated cats so staff blasted loud music to drown it out. Two elderly women were told not to hug each other presumably for risk of transmitting RSV, Covid and the flu. I didn’t think anyone still believed that stuff. There are retired nurses both within the volunteers and clients. If you’ve ever wondered what happens to retired nurses, just visit free food joints. And taxi drivers with a few police.

The food included four potato dishes all containing eggs, but they looked good nevertheless. The soup was acclaimed by everyone near me. They also served Italian toast with chopped tomato or smashed avocado with seasoning. Staff were brilliant, as usual.

Despite being Bad Thursday, I found it perhaps better than Good Thursday because there was less to eat, this being good as most people gorge themselves when they should be fasting.

Our table was full with just Scott at the middle table and four or five others at the third table. There was plenty of giveaway vegetables after the meal including frozen vegetarian dishes, but I’m so fat I declined these. Since my heart reduced its efficiency I hardly walk more than a few steps at a time and thus need hardly any food. Isn’t life full of change?

Second Editor

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium)
Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. Buy Nothing quality food. They spend nothing on food and waste goes to compost. Vegetarian option. No added MSG or other contaminants. Healthy food. Good toilets. Decent hall. Good staff. No I.D. or registration required All workers unpaid. Pleasant building and staff with safe parking. Safe atmosphere. Raffle, but the prizes aren’t much good. Tablet Lady goes there, a survivor from the drug underworld.

Early 19 October 2024

(above) UnitingSA at Salisbury Uniting Church free monthly hamper. (Gift card just once every three months.) Centrelink card required and you must live in Council area. Free Wednesday toasties and coffee at 11:00am to 12:30pm. No I.D. or residency requirements for this. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Gov’t plan comes straight from China

An idea put forward is that old people with unused bedrooms be persuaded to rent them to homeless people? A logical suggestion, all these wasted rooms.

But most old people worked hard to buy their houses. Do they deserve in their frail years to have troubled strangers sharing their kitchen, toilet and privacy?

In contrast, you’ll hear few hints from politicians that Chinese and other foreign investors be persuaded to rent their units and houses left empty for years, even decades. Oh, no, this might raise the ire of those who mutter the words, “racist, racist,” and careers could be ruined.

Or those 2000 empty Housing Trust houses in South Australia be rented in their imperfect conditions at a very reduced rent. The powers-that-be don’t want to hear that sort of talk. Hutt Street Centre managers and The Board wouldn’t even whisper that rude idea. They could lose clients.

As to putting homeless people into old people’s houses, well, the Chinese government uses this technique with minority groups by installing a soldier in each home to monitor a family’s speech and religious practices.

And of course the housing shortage in South Australia was manufactured. The powers behind our puppet governments exported building supply industries to China. They closed down most technical colleges. They restricted land subdivisions to hamper construction.

Adelaide’s Homeless Industry contributed by diverting money for house construction into the bureaucracy that now requires thousands of dollars worth of interviews and psychological testing because homeless people are put on a viable waiting list. And more money wasted on endless meetings, seminars, interstate study trips and conferences where they design even more invasions of personal privacy requirements before homeless people can rent cheap rooms or units. ​

Early 18 October 2024

(above) No self-pity for Brian. He seemed to be working close to the day of his death selling Big Issue in Rundle Mall and Jetty Road at Glenelg. He was a positive influence to the street and a tribute to humanity.

From the anonymous contact page

Who was the big issue executive telling vendors they had to get jabbed to work but in their personal life they were bragging they're unvaccinated for covid?

Anonymous
​Second Editor: Ugh, add that name to the list. Who was it?

Early 17 October 2024
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Richard Kelvin​

An insider in Adelaide’s gay scene said murder victim Richard Kelvin wasn’t the angelic boy portrayed in the media, particularly by Channel 9 where his father, Rob Kelvin, read the news.

The insider said Richard had pierced lips, ears and nose and sold himself at Beat No. 1 along the Torrens River to pay for those dodge-em cars on Hindley Street.

Rob Kelvin worked with Kevin Crease beginning in 1987. Kevin’s brother, Gerald, worked for Premier Don Dunstan as a secretary, but died from a drug overdose in 1969 shortly after Dunstan’s new lover – a drug addict and thief named John Ceruto – urged him to inform Gerald that he was being replaced.

Janet Crease, wrote in her 2005 book “A reason to live,” that their father raped Gerald repeatedly in the presence of herself and Kevin. She said their father sold her sexually to sailors at Port Adelaide on the SS Karatta. Janet was put into a “bad girls” home named “The Pines” at Marion after reacting to the sexual assaults.

Their mother Kathleen died in 2005, just before “A reason to live,” was published while Kevin died from cancer 18 months later. Kathleen is buried with Gerald.

Richard was murdered by gay torturer Bevin Spencer von Einem after being abducted from North Adelaide in June 1983.

Meanwhile, those in the homeless scene remember Bevin Spencer von Einem somewhat differently. They said his victims operated in hotels where they lured gay men into back lanes where they beat and robbed them. And that Richard wore a dog collar when visiting Beat No. 1. Another popular rumour is that Channel 9 studios at North Adelaide were used to produce pornographic films using underage subjects.

The good news is that the descendants of Kathleen’s evil husband have broken his spell and live decent lives. And the truth is that von Einem and his accomplices were some of the most evil people on the planet. And that Richard Kelvin was a boy in his early teens.

Early 17 October 2024

(above) Those mysterious high-quality tracks between Ora Banda and the abandoned Siberia that go nowhere as they thin out to a walking trail. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Anti-vaxer knocks old volunteer 
​to the floor

An anti-vaxer objected to the requirement of applying hand sanitiser upon entry to the free Tuesday breakfast at St Bede’s at Semaphore. He accused the elderly front door sentry and management in general of forcing everyone at the breakfast to get the Covid injections. His anger devolved into a scuffle whereupon the aged sentry was knocked to the floor.

The anti-vaxer fled the scene while staff and diners went to the rescue of the sentry. The dishwasher phoned the police. The sentry told police he didn’t want to press charges though he could have had the anti-vaxer convicted of assault. It was decent of him not to prosecute as the anti-vaxer isn’t generally a menace, certainly not in the style of Ice addicts in the city. But he did knock a lens from the glasses of the sentry who has given selfless service to St Bede’s for years. Police will visit the video man and warn him not to return.

To the credit of the sentry, he continued working as if nothing had happened though he kept an eye on the front door in case the anti-vaxer returned. The veteran volunteer sentry arrives early and leaves late and doesn’t stop working the whole time. He’s in charge of the operation on most days.

A woman from Fred’s Van said the anti-vaxer had been shouting at the Sunday evening meal in the same hall. Everyone was on the side of the aged volunteer.

Later, Jak performed her exercise class from the stage, which is always inspiring. A diner spoke to me about insanity and said that 95% of humans are insane. I agreed. She told her psychiatrist that she thought Jews were behind everything bad in the world, but recently discovered it’s the Roman Catholic Church. Even Italians are a little suspect.

A diner in his seventies, but not present yesterday, pleaded guilty to punching St Bede’s previously “Most Active Volunteer” in the nose at Semaphore Uniting Church. His costs are $2000 and if the victim enters any room, anywhere, he must leave due to a court order.

The table of pastries from Semaphore Bakehouse was unnerving. Most of it beyond the budgets of St Bede’s diners, but here it was all free. The breakfast was good as usual including chopped fresh fruit and about seven cooked items. What makes St Bede’s better than most other joints is the kitchen staff offer more choice and some flexibility in how they cook it. And there isn’t any limit to how much salt and pepper clients may use unlike Salisbury Haven where it is limited to 30-seconds per shaker.

The worst aspect of St Bede’s is the reduced opening hours of just 90 minutes a week compared to four hours prior to the Covid farce. The good news is that the elderly volunteer attacked will be back next week. 

St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfast200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tues 8:30 - 10:00am. Free breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they take names for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free day old Semaphore Bakehouse and Bakers Delight quality bread. Free clothing. Water tap at back, but requires a 4-way key handle available at Bunnings. Monthly free hairdresser & Thread Together clothing. Dining room cold in winter.

Early 16 October 2024

(above) The view from Gawler Salvation Army free breakfast cafe. Ironically, many homeless people turn away from it as they've had too much of nature. Windowless rooms are preferred. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Protected by a black fella

A recently homeless white woman pulled up on a bicycle at a free food joint last week. She’d gotten a two-bedroom townhouse to rent after camping outside a Housing Trust office. They’d given her a favourable referral to Believe Housing who rented the unit to her. Not because they had compassion or good sense, but because she’d become an embarrassment to them.

To pay for drugs, she collects cans, bottles and copper cabling for which she carries wire cutters. She said she won’t steal to get money.

She had good skin on her face and expressed no malevolence to anyone in her past. She hugged an Aboriginal man she called “Uncle”. She said he protected her when she was living in the south parklands near the Hutt Street Centre for six months. ​

Early 15 October 2024

(above) Formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man's monthly shopping list. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page​

Questioning why Oz Harvest has a Chinese translation of opening times at their “free supermarket” in Hindmarsh.

“Seriously are they rounding them up as a huge communist exercise there good at standing in line I suppose there getting us ready when they invade.
Considering they’ve bought all the dairy farms in Tasmania?
All smoke & mirrors…”

14 October 2024
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Showpiece tobacco raids

We hear big news stories of police seizing illegal tobacco and fining tobacco shops. They may raid eight stores and count that as victory. Yet there are hundreds of tobacco and Asian grocery stores in Adelaide that sell illegal tobacco without impediment. All you have to do is walk in and ask for the product.

That requires little investigation. One or two officers simply walk in and buy a packet. Court costs can be reduced by issuing minimal fines and confiscating the product resulting in few contested cases.

But something else is happening in the tobacco world. Those with political power want illegal tobacco sold despite the loss of taxation revenue to the government along with reduced respect for the rule of law.

Who protects this industry from prosecution? Not Premier Peter Malinauskas. He’s an installed puppet unable to make a move without permission from others, but who are these “others”?

14 October 2024

(above) Bush cemetery memorial in cemetery in Western Australia. If anyone did that inside a cemetery in Adelaide, officials would self-righteously rip it down. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Governments fear unofficial memorials to the dead. They want family connections dissolved. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

On the Street Sunday

I mentioned to an Anglican Church elder the intrusion of overhead cameras at intersections. These recently installed cameras record drivers using their phones even while vehicles are stationary. He defended this saying it prevented traffic smashes.

Sure, I said, maybe ten people a year will be saved, but is the intrusion by government into what is happening inside our cars worth it? He said, “Yes.”

I replied by asking, “So why doesn’t the government do something about drug dealers who kill many more people?” He reacted as if told a joke. He swivelled his head in a goofy, neither yes or no, response and smiled. I asked him if he’d noticed his reactions to my two questions. He moved to another table.

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Puddle Jumpers Op Shop on Port Road, Hindmarsh lists on their front door three days and times each week when the shower truck administered by Puddle Jumpers is scheduled to visit the Western Food Hub. It rarely arrives. No one cares whether homeless people will be tormented by this inaccurate advertising or not. This has been happening for at least three years. I’ve phoned the head office of Puddle Jumpers, but they have no interest in the matter.

This is how welfare cripples homeless people mentally and “all the king’s horses and all the king’s men” won’t do anything about it. The “horses” and “men” refer to Adelaide’s Homeless Industry male and female and gender neutral bureaucrats, so many of them.

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Numbers have declined at St. Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore. This has happened at similar free food services, but rarely at those places where Ice addicts and dealers are excluded by various means. People are afraid of them.

St Bede’s is safe. There have been just two assaults over the past few years, both against myself so other diners have nothing to fear, but they do.

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St Augustine’s Anglican church at Unley hosts a Homicide Victims Support Group
A writer on the church website says, “This is a group of amazing people. People who have been tested like no one else can dare to imagine. A group you don't want to become a member of.”

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A group of homeless people used an angle grinder to break into a tunnel in suburban Adelaide. This is where they live. Adelaide has many tunnel systems.

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A friend of Grinder challenged the belief that he died in his sleep with no suspicious circumstances. This person said it’s a “grey area” and Grinder might have been “given something”. Grinder had many enemies due to raiding homeless camps and selling Ice to those whose lives were subsequently destroyed. But within this evil lifestyle, he had a certain honour and knew his life was wrong.

Police won’t be interested in using resources to investigate the matter. Many see Grinder’s departure a blessing.

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A shopper at Salisbury Woolworths tried to stop a major shoplifter, but was told by a staff member to let them go. They had camera recordings that would be given to the police.

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Someone left a stolen roll of toilet paper in front of the Hindley Street police station last week. It was a huge roll found in public toilets. There was also junk left next to it. SAPOL is unable to maintain the front of their own police station.

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Salisbury Uniting SA on Browne Terrace now provides toasted sandwiches or a light meal every Wednesday from 11:00am to 12:30pm. I.D. is not required and there are no residency restrictions. On some days they offer free barista coffee. Otherwise it is instant coffee. The attitude of staff to clients has improved significantly. This joint is on the rise.

Getting a Woolworth’s gift card and bags of food does require I.D. showing you live in the Salisbury Council area.

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St Augustine of Canterbury Anglican Church at 183 Unley Road, Unley offers free soup, sandwiches and coffee from 11:30am to 1:00pm every Wednesday. Preacher  Mee Ping LAU suggests we arrive by 12:00pm. He speaks nice English and seems normal.

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The free lunch at the Church of Christ on Prospect Road at Blair Athol resumes this Monday after being closed for a public holiday and the week before closed due to lack of volunteers. This is a very poor church that rents its building yet supplies more free services than most larger churches.

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A retired Carer at a free lunch said she’d been robbed three times, the latest at a bus stop at Osborne. She said all three thieves were, “First Nations”.

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5AA radio call-in celebrity Peter from Black Forest has extended the date of his marriage engagement ceremony to early 2025. He is preparing to marry Omar, a recent visitor seeking citizenship to Australia though some people say Omar doesn’t exist.

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A diner at Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg recounted the nomadic man known as Irish drinking three bottles of liquor then collapsing onto the floor during the Tuesday evening meal. An ambulance took him away. Irish has a wild life on the streets.

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Mad Mel befriended a 76-year-old woman at Kilburn, but as Mad Mel’s friendships always turn out, she ended up smashing the windows of the old girl’s house who then installed security windows and doors, and lives with a residual fear.

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A client complained about the food served at the Oz Harvest free supermarket at Hindmarsh. Another client said they wear nice uniforms, black and yellow. She repeated this over and over. Staff are trained similarly to those at Woolworths whereas some Heart and Soul staff at Wingfield appear to have undergone training with the Department of Corrections.

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Becky from Salisbury Fred’s Van got her teeth removed yesterday prior to having open heart surgery. This indicates the desperation of the surgery. She’s always a cheerful personality at Fred’s Van Salisbury and at cafes in the Para Banks shopping centre.

Early 13 October 2024

(above) Orange Sky is also coming to Tea Tree Gully Salvos in a few weeks. Shower times have been reduced due to staff and volunteer shortages. Even the Corps manager collapsed and spent a few days in hospital. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Kane Hockley dead​

Kane was a friend of Dave Taylor at Elizabeth who also died two months ago. Kane was in his late twenties according to Kevin on the Bicycle. Kane had bone cancer that morphed into blood cancer.

Kane Hockley shouldn’t be mistaken for Kane Lukich who died at the age of 86, also a friend of Kevin on the Bicycle. Kane Lukich said in the last week of his life that he was ready to go and be with his brothers.

Early 12 October 2024

(above) Golf course named after Geneice Brooker who in 1971 ran bare breasted through the scrub pretending to live with kangaroos at Eucla. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Dining outdoors at Hindmarsh

The shelves inside the Western Food Hub free store were empty except those elderly miniature pouches of tomato sauce, mustard sauce and larger plastic bags of either soy sauce or BBQ sauce. And of course, pierced one-kilo bags of peeled garlic from China. There was also bread and the usual display of advanced rotting vegetables.

The chairs were left in the toilet area preventing anyone from using the facility plus the door was locked, anyway.

The building was staffed by three or four females plus that old man who operates the Anglicare Threads Together van. It was a pleasure to be served by them. They liked what they were doing. They served pasta upon opening, but when it ran out they served pasties and meat pies. I was lucky to get one and a half vegetarian pasties that tasted extra good since I hadn’t eaten much that day. Near closing time they offered extras to take away. And rather than closing shop earlier than the scheduled time, they brought us coffee with good cheer to the bitter end that wasn’t bitter.

The Western Food Hub staff over the past three years have gone from verging on the criminally insane to better than employees in a shop where you pay top dollar.

It was a wonderful evening since everyone was happy including the drug addicts. Even the ultra-thin crazy man wearing shorts didn’t do anything too weird. And the old man planning a third visit to Israel to warn them about something predicted in the Bible was vaguely interesting.

Another diner said what a wonderful service providing food and kindness to the least respected people in the city. Well, I am paraphrasing. She was more eloquent and accurate. Anyone wanting to donate to a worthy cause would be making a good decision by choosing this outfit.

Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Fruit (sometimes rotten), vegetables, bread, exotic groceries, hot coffee, hot foods, female sanitary products. Limited free clothing. Drug addicts come and go depending on police raids. Theoretically open Mon-Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Saturday 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday 4:00pm to 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable. Shower truck maybe on Wednesday and Friday, but it rarely turns up. Toilet. Water tap. No I.D. or registration required so you can remain anonymous. Staff range from excellent to inappropriate for the job. Most are good. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. Free bus from Hurtle Square at 6:00pm on Mondays for meal and food collection then return to city. If Food Hub closed, then bus will deliver food to Hurtle Square.

11 October 2024

(above) Two years and ten months ago, Anglicare sought an eviction order against the last tenant of 16 good units on Atlanta Street at Elizabeth East. They told the court (SACAT) they urgently needed to redevelop the site. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) After knocking down 16 good retirement units, Anglicare (Believe Housing) left the land empty while the evicted tenant, 73, remains homeless. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Person 18​

Person 18 is a woman who would be confined to a high security ward of a mental hospital if Glenside and Hillcrest hospitals still existed.

You see her in the city randomly attacking strangers, sleeping wherever she can. She camped in Hindley Street until the government gave police extra powers to expel people from certain parts of the Adelaide CBD.

She went to a house in Kilburn where she let 18 men have sex with her in a single night. The 19th man held a mirror to her face and said that was the reason he wasn’t interested.

She regularly harms herself, but has a group of Ice friends protecting her – if they’re in shape to protect anyone.

She returned to the House of 18 after it was sold to an Indian family. “This is my house,” she said.

On a good day she is charming and coherent. You wouldn’t know her background of trauma. Have mercy on Person 18, but beware.

10 October 2024

(above) Tourist replica miner's shack at Boulder in Western Australia. The Council should let one of Kalgoorlie-Boulder's many homeless people live in it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page

Just found this your great website.
Seems very informative and useful
Thanks ​

Bob the Blob

Editor: I’m glad it’s useful. Thank you for letting us know.
9 October 2024


On the Street Wednesday

A homeless man said he hid his tent and bedding behind an outdoor flower box outside the Hutt Street Centre. He later discovered it in the rubbish bin.

He also found a bicycle helmet in the bin. A friend asked him how he’d obtained her helmet. She’d left it in storage at the Hutt Street Centre. That was when they kept clients’ stuff in a room with no locks except the outer door. Staff let kleptomaniacs and other thieves inside the room alone.

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Adelaide City Council last week threw tents and bedding from homeless camps in their rubbish truck. This was south of the creek in the Adelaide CBD south parklands.

The residents left huge amounts of garbage around their camps, making Council workers particularly unsympathetic. One told other homeless people to help themselves to what was being thrown into the rubbish truck. Some grabbed a few things, which is a taboo in the homeless culture. The rule is never touch another person’s stuff even if it is being thrown out.

Meanwhile, in Salisbury, Council workers threw bedding used by homeless people outside the old library into their rubbish truck and hosed the footpaths. Some homeless have moved to the T.A.F.E. school property, but when the holidays are over, their stuff will be destroyed if it is still there.

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Recently, I was buying brackets for my car fridge at Randall’s Hardware at Blair Athol when up on the wall was a picture of the Ice Gentleman walking from the store.

Randall’s support 27 charitable groups including one that distributes rehabilitated bicycles to underclass children. The preacher from the Church of Christ across Prospect Road works at Randall’s as the preaching business doesn’t pay very well, if at all.

The free Monday lunch at the Church of Christ will resume on Monday 14 October after closing last Monday due to the public holiday and the previous Monday due to lack of volunteers.

There isn’t a lack of people wanting to help. The problem is meeting the government security checks and insurance requirements. Yes, the government is the problem.

9 October 2024

(above) Salvation Army at Gawler is the north's hidden gem. But the service schedule is confusing especially for those sleeping outside who are often disorientated. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Bagster Road saves the day

With so many joints closed on a public holiday plus the school holidays, it was a pleasure to discover Puddle Jumpers operating their free meal and vegetable service at Salisbury.

The thirty-year retired military soldier and diplomat now acting as a volunteer said 83 people had come through the door then a few more arrived. Perhaps three were heavy-duty drug addicts, but very well presented. But just 20 or so stopped for the meal, the rest got vegetables, old bread, and two pantry items. Not really that much.

The meal included some sort of non-meat pasta while others ate sausage stew with two kinds of boiled vegetables.

Two clients had been married for 65 years and still appreciated each other’s company. There was plenty of talk about dogs and cats and veterinary expenses that I found uninteresting. So different from the old days when a dog was shot when it got old or seriously ill.

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

Early 8 October 2024

(above) Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army offers free food every Wednesday and Friday for ten minutes from about 9:30am. It's a mad rush. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

On the Street Monday

Very few readers will remember Edwin John Dyer from Wright Court Day Centre in the 1980’s. He drove a truck carrying a white box in which he lived. He didn’t believe in registration, number plates or driver’s licenses. He claimed anything he’d pay would go to Jewish people including his ex-wife. John had some strange ideas.

Police spent hours banging on his truck at night near Whitmore Square, shouting for him to come out, but he never did.

Other homeless people are doing the same thing in Adelaide. They’re at the end of their tether, overwhelmed by their circumstances and indifferent to their fate.

Meanwhile, there are hundreds of Homeless Industry bureaucrats leaving buildings empty at night and on weekends. And paying for their own houses via salaries obtained by draining resources from public building projects for homeless people.

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An insomniac found an effective treatment. He listens to government legislation being read aloud.

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Mick of Mick and Eleanor wonders whose hands lifted him from the water when he awoke confused and drowning. He’d been sleeping near the Torrens River when someone opened the gates of the Bonython Park weir.

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Anne from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is in a grave condition in hospital. She’s in her 80’s and was born in the United States, but married an Australian man. Her family all have a high I.Q. and are successful. Anne finished a theology degree two years ago.

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A soup kitchen man said he once found a baby on his door step. He cared for it for five days. He said the baby didn’t react to anything. One day the mother knocked on the door and wanted her child back. He gave it to her.

Another time he found a newly born baby in a shopping centre so he handed it to a woman in a shop.

A third time he heard a baby cry and knew it was an oracle telling him not to give up, but keep fighting.

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An older woman gave all her savings to an online scammer. He wanted more so she borrowed from Centrelink. When she had no more to give he unleashed a torrent of abuse over a long period of time. She still contacts scammer men operating from overseas, but she won’t give them a cent. The latest living in a Canadian airport wanted a mere $150 to buy gas to travel to meet her in Australia.

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Artist Jungle Phillips has been diagnosed with an inoperable liver cyst, according to a friend. A doctor said he has twelve months to live.

Jungle is an accomplished dancer and with his girlfriend won many competitions. On one occasion, when they came second place, his girlfriend spat in the face of the judge.

Jungle previously appeared on Peter Goers’ ABC radio program. On one evening, he said his brother shot at him, but missed except for grazing an ear. Then the brother shot himself.

​Jungle lives in a house with his front fence covered in his paintings. 

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A former tenant at the Housing Trust’s Sandison apartments in Glenelg said they’re now a detention centre that deals with overflow from the Adelaide Remand Centre. He said that while living in the apartments there were four murders, two suicides and one body found in a car.

These are the units where Steve’s girlfriend slashed his throat then killed herself.

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The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man plans to divert $12,000 to a gourmet meal provider. His idea is to get his N.D.I.S. Carer to load his fridge on the back of a truck, go to the food provider and tell him to load it up.

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A maintenance tradesman from a company that claims total integrity was seen stealing a tool box from a Housing Trust house still tenanted.

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I found that the Port Adelaide Enfield Council are kinder than Salisbury Council. Port Adelaide staff told me to remove my tent from a certain area, but took no action. The Salisbury anti-homeless squad stole everything from my camp.

Early 7 October 2024

(above) Bush grave for two dogs a few kilometres outside Ora Banda in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) Some dogs are better remembered than people, even close relatives. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

(above) All thirteen residents of Ora Banda and travelers respect these graves. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2024.)

Ice Gentleman back in the news​

A Port Church preacher asked the Ice Gentleman not to return to Port Church after certain erratic behaviour. The Gentleman got into more trouble at the Magdalene last week. Staff working at the free meal for homeless people called the police due to more erratic and frightening behaviour. His associates warned him of the impending visit so he fled the scene.

Is the Ice Gentleman an experiment of an MK Ultra program in South Australia? He’s resourceful, brazen and lives on another mental planet.

6 October 2024

Out-of-body consciousness

Joe McMonEagle talking to Shawn Ryan for five hours about working as a detective while out-of-body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRTon6qgVws

6 October 2024

(above) Sixteen outdoor camera surveilled lockers at Gawler Salvation Army Corps. Free use is by signed agreement that is renewed every three months. Designed for homeless people to store bedding during the day. Entry from 7am to 9pm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Entry to free lockers at Gawler Salvation Army is by password. Not designed as a drug dealing hub and two people have been expelled for this. A camera records everything. Tea Tree Gully Salvos plan to install lockers as well. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

On the Street Saturday

A worker at Gawler Salvation Army said their children’s program never recovered after that “Covid thing”. He said they’d get sixty people, but now get as little as 3 or 4 children.

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Shane Spears is dead. No suspicious circumstances. Shane previously went to Chat and Chew in Port Adelaide. Last year at his Royal Park house, he wrapped himself in plastic and doused himself in petrol.

His injuries were serious enough to warrant wearing a body suit. He appeared to be coping with his new health status then died. No suspicious circumstances.

R.I.P. Shane. Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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A Port Adelaide Enfield Council worker visited my homeless camp last month. He was from Cambodia. He said that when workers fell ill during the Khmer Rouge era, soldiers took them behind a bush and slashed their throats. They also tortured people by tying grass around their waists and lighting it.

A soup kitchen client is from Cambodia. Some diners criticise her craving for excessive food. She eats as if she was starving. Her mother was starving and pregnant with her in Cambodia during the rule of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970’s.

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A former client of Sonder went to the Head to Health clinic in Gillingham Road at Elizabeth. The joint hadn’t a single client. He said the receptionist was snoring at the front desk. They weren’t interested in his condition so he left.

Head to Health is near the Department of Corrections building and across the railway tracks from arguably the most dangerous homeless camp in Adelaide. The camp is attached to a fence of the Royal Australian Air Force base.

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An elderly woman was disappointed with the Oz Harvest “Free Supermarket” at Hindmarsh. She got a chicken that she said was “off”. She gave it to a friend.

She then went to the Western Food Hub just as Domino’s pizzas arrived. She got three and said her journey had been worthwhile.

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Kane is dead. He’s the old man from either Croatia or Serbia who went to the ONE Life free food service at Parafield Gardens. He’d been wanting to die for some years.

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Nurses are keeping Ian Cole as comfortable as possible in hospital as his health deteriorates. “He’s going downhill,” a friend said. Ian went to ONE Life until last summer when staff told him to stay away. He was too weak to get out of his car. They feared he would die there.

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Ice addicts use N.D.I.S. Carers to drive them to their dealers’ houses to pick up drugs or to deliver them to other users. They get N.D.I.S. funding from brain and body damage caused by these same drugs.

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Homeless people are moving their camps 20 metres every time Salisbury Council employees tell them to move. Sometimes they ignore warnings and lose everything to the Council’s anti-homeless squad.

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Who are those well-dressed scavengers at City Salvos? One client described them as “Asians” who grab much more than they need including the ten-cent deposit cans. City Salvos has in response installed a box for diners to leave the cans.

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A Mary’s Kitchen diner said new people using the free Tuesday evening meal service make her feel uneasy. Glenelg is attracting more homeless desperadoes and drug addicts than previously.

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An old man said he’s due for his 7th Covid injection and that his doctor said he should get a booster every year.

Early 4 October 2024

(above) They don't collect data for the Eternal Shame File. Everyone welcome. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Grill’d in Rundle Street ​

I got there late after being caught in traffic between Harbour Town and Glenelg on Tapley Hill Road. I’d been sleeping outside the airport fence.

There were plenty of seats available inside Grill’d and on the footpath, but the flow of clients accessing the first Tuesday of the month free hamburger, drink and chips continued for another hour.

The event is called the “Friends of St Vincent de Paul and the Salvation Army” evening. People with money to pay are refused entry in preference to street people. I was disappointed not to be challenged with the words, “You don’t look homeless.” After nearly three years living in tents or my car my confidence has dropped to be unable to buy new clothing.

Eight paid staff treated us as if we were paying $35 for the meal. Being late and engaging in conversation with another person in a back booth, I didn’t see many others except The Ghost Who Walks. He happily said he has three types of cancer and is looking forward to death. “Bring it on,” he said. I told him I was looking forward to death as well.

One must be careful to whom this sentiment is expressed as Welfare keeps us under surveillance and such talk, even from a Buddhist perspective, is seen as an illness by welfare authorities.

Last month, Grundy’s across Rundle Street gave three pairs of large-size shoes to homeless people at Grill’d. They hit the right target as many homeless people have swollen feet. Grundy’s shoes cost up to five hundred dollars a pair. One clever man arrived this month in bare feet covered with cosmetically applied dirt.

Anyway, after the doors closed a few of us talked about the rigours of camping in the parklands. While we spoke, a homeless man set up his camp in the darkness outside the doorway of an empty building. He’ll be gone before sunrise and few will know he was there.

Grill/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of month 4:30pm - 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. Street people are amazed something like this happens. Many big names in the homeless scene go here. Normal people not allowed in during this time even if they are willing to pay. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jacks. Professional staff.

Early 4 October 2024

(above) Track to the cliffs on the Nullabor Plain. The Yalata Aboriginal group made leaving the highway on both sides an illegal act over a 100 kilometre stretch. Travelers voted with their wallets leaving the Yalata roadhouse usually empty while nearby Nullabor Roadhouse is busy 16 hours a day. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Grinder

from Oz Nomadic

Grinder?......good riddance to bad rubbish.
Mark Arstall?......he left South Oz for the East end of 2017......7 year's ago, ancient history. Scene must be exceptionally boring if the long past has become the topic of convo. Ah well summer's almost here and I'm looking forward to many a night's fishing down the Metro jetties.

Oz Nomadic

Second Editor: Mark Arstall may be back in the news soon. And could you keep an eye out for Coughing Geoffrey fishing on the jetty? He’s lost most of his speech and has a nagging cough.

Early 3 October 
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St Andrew’s Glenelg changes times​

St Andrew’s have changed their coffee and cake times to 11:00am to 1:45pm, still on the same days of Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Intelligent and trained staff plus interesting and educated characters such as Peter from 5AA and Irish.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:45pm. Free soup, buns, coffee. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items and hygiene bags. Good bread, old fruit and vegetables weekly. One free PBS prescription at a Glenelg pharmacy each week (50 a year). Good toilets. Good staff. Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and 11:00am to 1:00pm. Cheap Op Shop.

3 October 2024
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Piano Player Wayne on the rampage​

Wayne has fought the N.D.I.S. for three years seeking more funding on top of his $600,000 annual package. He needs a mere $200,000 extra to help rehabilitate him to walk on his plastic leg after doctors chopped it off three years ago.

Wayne says this extra payment will be cheaper in the long-run since he’s already spent two years in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He’s back home now, but expects to return to hospital unless he gets the extra money.

As to the N.D.I.S., he says they spent 40 hours doing assessments to choose the right kind of shower chair for him. He said he and his Carers already knew what was required.

Piano Player Wayne wants the N.D.I.S. to pay $2000 each to a number of fast food joints as wants to be “wined and dined before I’m totally screwed”. Readers might think this request wouldn’t fit into the N.D.I.S. funding protocols, but it does. The N.D.I.S. homeless man used to take us to Fasta Pasta at Sefton Park for unlimited price meals. The bill including alcohol cost up to $800 per meal.

Wayne also wants to buy the block of Housing Trust units where he lives and replace the feral tenants with fire fighters, doctors, police and contributors to Adelaide Homeless Journal.

Wayne retains a lingering dislike towards Captain Matt Reid for kicking him out of Adelaide Congress Hall. Matt wouldn’t allow Wayne to put his cat, Omo, on the dinner tables or on the piano in the church while Wayne tapped out a few classics. Wayne said Omo was his service animal, but the Captain wasn’t going for that.

While the Ice addicts from that era remain at Adelaide Congress Hall, Wayne was expelled. Other diners spoke against Wayne, but they’re afraid to voice any dissent against the addicts.

Wayne grew up in the Salvation Army and says Matt Reid was locked out of Sydney Congress Hall by the deacon after trying to disband the songsters and timbrels. He says Matt married the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Collander. Being in the Salvation Army isn’t an easy job either as an officer or soldier.

The good news, Wayne says, is that the Sydney officer in the form of Major Irene Pleffer from Korea has kicked out the Hillsong influence resulting in 100 families returning to Sydney Congress Hall.

3 October 2024

(above) A misty morning on the Nullabor Plain where the cliffs become a smooth rocky incline. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Facing the Bight and Antarctic Ocean. Travelers can camp in this area without charge. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2024.)

Pilgrim cafe back in action

“morning tea in pilgrim church in flinders st is open (monday, wednesday, thursday). I was there yesterday (monday sept 30)
thank you.”

Anonymous

Second Editor: Thank you. This is important information for those living on the street.

Pilgrim Church Lounge City12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (back of church). Near King William St. and Victoria Sq. Ph (08) 8212 3295. Open 10:00am – 12:00 noon. Mon, Wed, Thurs. Free coffee and biscuits. No I.D. or registration needed. Pleasant mix of conservative, homeless and feral clients & staff. Decent, but mildly creepy toilet. Church open if you want to pray. Chinese camera at serving counter. Woman who plays with herself put on medication so she acts normal now.

2 October 2024

(above) Some estimates are that the Nullabor Plain emerged from being under the ocean many millions of years ago. If so, then why are there sea shells on the surface. Could they have lasted millions of years in the hot sun and alternating wet and dry weather? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Her craziness has returned

The Housing Trust tenant who with help from her associates smashed up a modern free-standing rental house has returned to resume her tenancy.

Before she arrived, an electrician repaired the ripped-out wiring and circuit breaker board. A carpenter and dry wall specialist replaced the punched and slashed Gyprock wall panels. He also replaced wooden backing on the walls as the vandals had ripped that out as well. He used 14 panels of Gyprock.

A plumber made repairs while another tradesman replaced four doors, this time using three extra-strong hinges. A glazier replaced broken windows and a locksmith changed the locks.

New fly screens were put on the windows, but they didn’t get the colour coordination correctly. A painter painted every room including the new doors.

All repairs were done while shifting the stinking and stained mattresses and broken furniture back and forth across the rooms. Broken furniture and stinking clothing that was never washed were thrown into the carport.

One tradesman said the Housing Trust was “spending a fortune on this place.”

It isn’t clear if the cupboard doors have been replaced. The Housing Trust might replace all the kitchen storage cupboards as the tenant and her associates bent the hinges when they ripped off the little doors that are now difficult to screw back on.

The N.D.I.S. got in on the act with numerous contractors making multiple visits then hanging around inside the house for hours. The only work they appeared to do was throw some smashed doors onto the grass outside the house. One team threw a heap of stinking clothing alongside the house then another arrived a few days later to throw it into the carport to justify their presence that cost the N.D.I.S. about $540 for that three member team’s short visit.

From the moment the tenant returned from psychiatric confinement, she turned on the lights and they have stayed on 24-hours a day. It is expected the house will be damaged again and then repaired again similarly to her previous Housing Trust house in Kilburn.

Below are the images taken from inside the house by a trades person.

Very Late 1 October 2024
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(above) The Housing Trust might have picked the wrong tenant for this previously renovated modern free-standing house in the northeast suburbs of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Whoops, don't swing that bathroom door too hard, deary. And watch that fancy footwork. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Why do washing when you can throw it out the laundry door and get new stuff from charities. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) This was a superb modern two-bedroom unattached house with carport and backyard and rented for $125 a week, but to the wrong person. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The insane tenant was transported to a psychiatric ward. A man arrived later and broke the kitchen window then opened the door to three others. Police told a neighbour they wouldn't respond unless the tenant called them. But a single officer did arrive to investigate, but the culprits had gone. Luckily, another neighbour had video footage of the quartet. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) A week later, another unknown person broke into the locked South Australian Housing Trust house at 4:am and spent more than an hour ripping up the kitchen and smashing more walls. Neighbours didn't bother calling the police. No point. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The vandal in a fit of rage used a knife or axe on the wall. This didn't make the South Australian crime statistics because it wasn't reported to police. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Aha, syringes and dope bags in this smashed up Housing Trust house in the Modbury administrative area. Of course, homeless people not using drugs aren't considered for rental housing. You have to use drugs first. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Not to worry. Remember the Puppet Premier of South Australia, Peter Malinauskas, saying they were allocating millions to repair empty Trust houses. Well, this is where at least $60,000 will be spent. And then what? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Good Thursday at Osborne​

The good aspect of this free service is their attempt to keep their food pure. This means no flavour enhancers that include the neuro-toxin MSG. They also provide a genuine non-meat alternative. This week it was hamburgers with six types of relish, pickles and sauce, Coleslaw (with chicken menstruation), and a strange dessert.

The diners appear old and useless, but have some surprises. One diner speaks seven languages while another worked as a theatre nurse in a hospital. What secrets of success do the other diners have?

A 73-year-old singer entertained us with his ability to adopt a persona combining both Bob Dylan and Norman Gunston. A group of students served the food and they acted almost normal most of the time. The disabled clients weren’t there, but there were plenty of geriatrics. I was the only homeless diner as most people living outside don’t attend such free events. Living outside is so alienating that being in a crowd is unbearable.

This was the Good Thursday. Below is Bad Thursday.

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium)
Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. Buy Nothing quality food. They spend nothing on food and waste goes to compost. Vegetarian option. No added MSG or other contaminants. Healthy food. Good toilets. Decent hall. Good staff though one volunteer called me an ass****. No I.D. or registration required All workers unpaid. Pleasant building and staff with safe parking. Safe atmosphere. Raffle, but the prizes aren’t much good. Tablet Lady goes there, a survivor from the drug underworld. Could do with a few derelicts.

Review for 19 September 2024
Early 30 September 2024
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Bad Thursday really good at Osborne

It was supposed to be Bad Thursday according to rumour. The off-week when they served a “light meal” rather than the regular excellent cooking.

But Bad Thursday turned out as good as Good Thursday. The light meal included homemade pizza including vegetarian options. Two homemade soups without those added neuro-toxins called Flavour Enhancers, including MSG. None of that. Dessert appeared to be homemade cupcakes. The menu components were from Oz Harvest, Second Bite and other donors that I suspect included some of the unpaid staff.

The guests around our table included a man from Timor East studying English at UniSA. Other guests were fascinating in their conversation. It seems that state of mind determines what sort of experience one has at Osborne.

This is a safe environment for frail people and the volunteers are a tribute to humanity.

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium)
Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. Buy Nothing quality food. They spend nothing on food and waste goes to compost. Vegetarian option. No added MSG or other contaminants. Healthy food. Good toilets. Decent hall. Good staff though one volunteer called me an ass****. No I.D. or registration required All workers unpaid. Pleasant building and staff with safe parking. Safe atmosphere. Raffle, but the prizes aren’t much good. Tablet Lady goes there, a survivor from the drug underworld.

Review for 26 September 2024
Early 29 September 2024
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Activate your second brain
Mantak Chia says our gut system is our second brain and he shows how to activate energy centres so you aren’t tired all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaefdiE4ovk
Early 29 September 2024
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On the Street Saturday

Our investigator from the street said that homeless people put into hotels and motels are required to apply for five rental properties a week. This might explain the huge number of people applying for rental housing. They’re making pseudo applications with no hope of success, but merely fulfilling government requirements. This must annoy landlords and wastes everyone’s time.

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A youngish alcoholic woman was lugging bags through the darkness of Tea Tree Gully last week. She previously slept in civic park then moved to a Housing Trust unit in the exclusive suburb of Parkside. But alcohol is her primary imperative leaving bills and being a good neighbour much less important.

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A group of homeless men have life-threatening ailments. They’re still homeless largely due to functioning intellects, self-respect and the fact they use little or no drugs or alcohol.

This sounds an outlandish comment if you’re not familiar with Adelaide’s Homeless Industry and their upselling-the-product imperatives.

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A badly dressed man hangs around a shopping centre. People give him money and gifts thinking he’s homeless. He said he’ll never go to Modbury Hospital again. He asked a nurse for pain killers for his back and she said, “I’ll throw them on the floor.”

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Chairs were thrown at a man holding a knife at Fred’s Van Elizabeth three weeks ago. No one was particularly disturbed.

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The Moslems are criticised for grabbing too much food at free food joints. But one homeless man in critical health said one family provided him with cooked food and even invited him to their home. This was when he was critically ill and living in his van back of a Christian church.

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GC3 at Parafield Gardens has stopped for an indefinite period according to Mick of Mick and Eleanor – formerly Mick of Mick and Denise. There have been nervous breakdowns and marriage collapses amongst church volunteers leaving inadequate staff to operate the event. Client numbers also decreased after the Fred’s Van crowd displaced the Christian clients then the Fred’s Van crowd fought amongst themselves leaving an atmosphere of fear and loathing where hardly anyone wanted to be.

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Rumour has it that Mary’s Kitchen at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-Sea have expanded their Tuesday free meal service by providing another free meal on Thursdays. But a church official told me it hasn’t happened yet. She said Our Lady of Victory Catholic church at Glenelg plan to use St Andrew’s church to provide this weekly service just before Christmas.

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Word filtered down that Tea Tree social media Influencer Sonya Blackwell visited a homeless camp telling the residents they weren’t allowed to stay there. One resident was fearful until another homeless person told him that Sonya has no authority.

Sonya is a friend of Mayor Ryan and Joylene Mitchell, the latter of whom provides the fortnightly free Saturday BBQ in Civic Park at 8:30am.

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A homeless man said the Tea Tree Mayor tried to “friend” him on social media using an alias, but the Mayor told us she is regularly hacked, which probably means others are using her symbols and even her name. Social media is a cesspool.

*

A Gawler Salvation Army officer asked a barefoot homeless man if he wanted some shoes. The man answered, “Size 12”. The officer returned with a pair of socks as they hadn’t any shoes in that size.

The homeless man had trouble putting on the socks as his feet were swollen.

*

A preacher at Port Church told an Ice junkie to cease his rendezvous with other men in the male toilets. The following week the junkie was “high” and rushed from his table forty times on little errands to disguise his jitters and to continue his rendezvous outside. He has been asked not to return as the Port Church doesn’t tolerate drug use or dealing drugs, which is different to Fred’s Van.

Meanwhile, the preacher advised assembled diners that the male and female toilets are for respective sexes only. This came after a person wearing a dress was seen in the toilets reserved for women. That person says she was born a woman and dresses as a woman. Life can be cruel.

*

A homeless man said Towards Home got his discharge documents from the hospital in two hours while the hospital refused the documents to him saying they were available only after a minimum of 18 days.

28 September 2024
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Another good place gone

xpresso on Flinders is closed (as I was informed by staff)
thank you (I visit your site) and sorry (bad news and taking your time)

Anonymous

Second Editor: Thank you for informing me. Sad news.

27 September 2024


More on Mark Arstall

from “Un-biased”

I was reading about the return of the rat to this scene, on this page when one day on a Currie Street bus stop there it was with two intellectually challenged slaves. I had never met him or anyone in the two gangs grouse anoni mouse mentioned.

I saw more than a predator, I saw him see me as prey. He is a predator constantly looking for victims. Anyone defending him has to be a predator that shooted up ice with him? There's no grey line. Birds of the same feather flock together. Mark Ars( whole) and all pure evil and so many victims we don't know about.

He tried making me one but didn't get very far. I was just a random person at a bustop he never met before or heard of. Not part of any club. What I get out of grouse anoni Moise contribution here is Mrs Telstra is predator as well and all the others grouse anoni mouse shows support for here. All to be avoided at all costs.

From “Un-biased”

Second Editor: Thank you for this viewpoint. I’m sure most of those elderly people he singled out would agree with you. Rumours of what he’s up to now are even more incredible. If true, he’s still the predator.

27 September 2024
​

Latest CBD Homeless Industry figures

The number of Actively Homeless people in the Adelaide CBD rose from 200 to 217 between the months of August and September 2024.

This includes Rough Sleepers who have gone from 179 to 193. Those Temporarily Sheltered rose from 15 to 17, which includes those housed under the Covid Emergency Response. Does anyone still believe in that thing? I remain homeless while having Covid. Doesn’t everyone else do the same?
​
Those in the Actively Homeless – Other category increased from 6 to 7

Have the numbers really increased? Maybe not. The number kicked off the list dropped from 35 to 19. These are called Moved to Inactive meaning they haven’t been heard from by the homeless joints or got some sort of housing. Since this dropped by 16 and the Actively Homeless increased by 17 one might guess nothing has actually changed.

And where does that middle-aged man sleeping rough fit into these statistics? He was kicked off the Towards Home housing waiting list just before being offered rental housing because he fled the city for his own safety. Oh, what a crime he committed: self-respect and self-preservation.

https://saaeh.org.au/azp-monthly-dashboard/

 27 September 2024

In praise of Mark Arstall

from Anoni Mouse

I really think that hero worshipping Grinder as a homeless hero and Arstall as a crook is quite sick. Arstall was quite supportive of Mrs. Telstra, who was a victim of this site, the Housed Old bBstards club, and Payne Nuttler.

If Mark attacked anyone who is now disabled it was The Vitamin Derelict who had publicly named Mark as Mark Tallarse, Arsed Markall and
All Markarse.

The VD (Vitamin Derelict) was later evicted from his house for cat hoarding, assaulting police during the eviction and was jailed.

Mark is a hero to Mrs.Tesltra, her support group and those who have been heckled and threatened by the HOBC (Housed Old Bastards
Club) and this site. Mark, although reactive and fond of substance is perceived as decent, worth supporting and having potential as a graphic designer and producer. A kiwi gent who has been badly bullied by the HOBC.

HOBC is:
Lance Armpit
VD
F. Christmas
The Ghost
Faith Forossi
Anyway, Arstall survived and Grinder did not.
Best wishes and sympathy for your loss of Grinder.

Anoni Mouse

Second Editor: Thank you. You’re quite relevant. Mark was another of those homeless people with an I.Q. far, far higher than average. The only other person with the surname of Arstall is a heart surgeon at the Lyall McEwen hospital. I might be saved by an Arstall, how ironic. 

Most of the old men he attacked did live in houses while Mark did not. And Grinder was no angel. But kicking that old bicycle rider at Fred’s Van in the darkness of evening was not right, to say the least.

Thanks for this perspective and please send more. 

How is Mrs. Telstra?

26 September 2024

One thinking homeless man​

It’s a thankless task advocating for homeless people as one middle-aged veteran rough sleeper discovers every week of his life.

The Mayor of Tea Tree Gully is Marika Ryan. She has discuss with the veteran homeless gentleman how the lives of those living outside can be improved. One subject was the concept of tiny homes made popular in California where the government managed to spend more on each dwelling as a normal house or unit.

The problem with this model is that sewerage, water and electrical connection costs are similar to normal homes plus the cost of land. But we’ve already got tiny homes in Adelaide in the form of tiny studio apartments that are little more than a large room and bathroom. And if they’re stacked on top of each other in a large tower then we’re already there. Throw in monitored and controlled entry and exit and we’ve got potential prison blocks already built across Adelaide.

A more immediate need for those living outside are toilet and shower access. The Tea Tree Council workers lock public toilets in Civic Park at Modbury at 9:00pm to stop doggers and drug addicts. The veteran homeless man suggests that the Council fits a card operated lock on the disability toilet and issue entry cards for those registering at the Council office.

He also suggests the shower cubicle in the carpark under the Police Credit Union be turned on during the day. The cost would be negligible as everything is operational apart from the cubicle fittings being removed.

Lockers for homeless people to leave their bedding and clothing during the day and early evening are being planned at the Salvation Army Corps across Reservoir Road from Civic Park.

These are some of the issues being promoted by this homeless rough sleeper who incredibly remains homeless because Towards Home kicked him off the waiting list after he fled the city for his own protection.

26 September 2024

Gospel City church free Tuesday lunch at Gawler

The historic church hall was packed. They brought out extra tables. Clients were mostly disabled and old people. There wasn’t a single junkie in the building. At last ten church workers in attendance made sure of that.

The food was essentially bacon and cheese burgers with ingredients purchased from their own money. The takeaway food included decent fruit and vegetables and frozen sausage meals, tomato sauce, mustard relish and a small amount of two-minute noodles.

They open earlier and earlier after discovering people want to be there to socialise and to a lesser extent talk about the Bible. Coffee is served as early as 10:30am with the meal at noon.

One diner said a friend had aged twenty years almost immediately after being put on anti-schizophrenic medication. We talked about the N.D.I.S. and a manic-depressive said it had kept him out of hospital for four years. Another client talked about heart surgery and how doctors killed him for a short period before restarting his heart.

Nothing crazy happened except a mother told her three-year-old she didn’t want him going into the men’s toilets alone. Probably good advice except it is an insult to most men.

An N.D.I.S. client talked about becoming an N.D.I.S. Carer while remaining a client.

An older man sings with a good voice and plays guitar for two hours straight.

But on the following week I discovered an undercurrent running through the client collective mind. One diner said she’d discovered a block of wood with two protruding nails behind a tyre of her car. Church officials had a suspect.

And another client pointed to another diner saying he’d promised to fix her late model laptop then disappeared with it. Then he turned up at the church free meal as if nothing happened.

Also on the following week, they supplied large amounts of frozen beef, pork and chicken.

But the mood and safety level are higher than most other free food services.

Gospel City Church Gawler​
24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167. Free light meal and coffee every Tuesday at 12:00pm with free bread, vegetables and groceries at 1:00pm. Friendly atmosphere. No I.D. or registration required. Not government funded. Historic church building. Another small church with a huge welfare operation operated by unpaid workers.

Early 25 September 2024

(above) The builders at Eucla on the Nullabor Plain in the late 1800's didn't understand the power of drifting sand dunes facing the Bight. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The postmaster's house at Eucla was overcome by sand and had to be abandoned. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Oz Nomad from the street

Summer's almost here. The winter has washed so many off of the streets and this "extremely warm" coming summer will do likewise. Hey, listen to yourself, or, listen to your dealer. They're funny people, insanely paranoid with camera's about them, sitting up at night Piping the Rock's watching the screen. Usually found incoherent in bed when the door's come down. Hilarious to watch, great entertainment. Well good luck to all this coming summer. Irish, over and out.

Oz Nomad
​Early 24 September 2024

(above) Meditating next to the Trans-Australia railway line is like being in a Zen monastery. Pure silence interspersed with eight trains every 24-hours. With Zen, someone intermittently slaps you in the back with a plywood board to keep you awake. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

U Care Gawler

Friendly man behind counter. No problem when I said I was homeless. Not much to offer. Just one loaf of bread. Day old bread. Other bread past the Best-by date. Lots of free underwear liners and tampons.

It was an exceptionally bad giveaway, but you can go there every day from Monday to Friday, no problems. And the staff are decent. However, they still haven’t restarted the weekly free lunch or use of the shower and washing machine. This is a major flaw in their service

UCare Gawler (Uniting Church)
10 Tod St., Gawler. ph 08 8522 4522. Mon-Thurs. 9:30am – 3:00pm Friday 9:00am – 2:30pm. For Gawler and Lyndoch residents including homeless. Free fruit, vegetables and bread each morning. No I.D. required. Meat, pantry, pharmacy prescription, bedding and clothes require Centrelink, student or immigration card. Showers, laundry and free Monday morning teas still cancelled. Personal details are retained, but anonymised when sent to gov’t.

23 September 2024

(above) Homeless people camped under the railway line over Lipson Street at Port Adelaide. So the government covered the entrance with iron sheeting. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Skip and Woody's best interview yet

He calls himself Little Jesse and is a great survivor having slept six years on the ground without cover. Jesse has no self-pity and considers a tent with pillows for a mattress being comfortable. He's a time traveler with just one fear: being attacked during his sleep. 

He talked with Skip and Woody last week and is worthy of another interview about time travel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3emAnuY-1w

22 September 2024

(above) Wombat burrows along the abandoned railway line near Poochera between Cedune and Port Augusta. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) It isn't advisable to explore wombat burrows. If you meet one coming the other way it will crush your bones in the tight squeeze. Aboriginal people hunt them with iron bars. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Comparing Gawler Salvos
​and Gospel City

We might compare Gawler Salvation Army with Gospel City church. Gospel City church at Gawler rent their building at their own expense. They provide a full-house weekly meal at their own expense. They giveaway free produce and some frozen items donated to them. No one gets paid.

Gawler Salvation Army has paid employees. They offer many more services, but their basic breakfast and shower use has varied opening times that confuse homeless people. Their opening times for these services are too short. And they got four people to their free breakfast on a day last week. Their building cost three-million dollars and they own it.

But an often savage critic of homeless welfare services has nothing but praise for the help given him by Gawler Salvos while he was living in his car. He said the officer took him to a petrol station for free fuel and that breakfast at the Corps building in Gawler was excellent. And they have a water tap at the front of the building.

Gospel City Church Gawler​
24 Cowan Street, Gawler. Phone 7510 1167. Free light meal and coffee every Tuesday at 12:00pm with free bread, vegetables and groceries at 1:00pm. Friendly atmosphere. No I.D. or registration required. Not government funded. Historic church building. Another small church with a huge welfare operation operated by unpaid workers.

Salvation Army Gawler
17 Edith St., Gawler East. Ph (08) 8523 4844. Free breakfast of toast, cereal, barista coffee. Mon- Thursday 9:00 – 9:30am; Friday 9 – 10:00am; Sat 8:00 – 10:00am; Sun 8:00 – 9am. Showers available similar times. Nice dining room with view of river. Morning prayers. Two-dollar lunches are available Sunday to Friday, but with equally confusing times. Washing machine and drier available with confusing access times. Staff no longer ask shower clients if they have dirty extremities or a sexual disease. No I.D. required for above services, but they will want a Centrelink card for vouchers to supermarkets. Lockable lockers outside. Christmas haircuts. Water tap.

Early 22 September 2024

(above) Sunrise on the Nullabor Plain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Lutheran Para Vista

They obtain cooking supplies from Baptist Pathway at Clovercrest, but occasionally spend their own money buying food for the Monday free meal.

A dope dealer has infiltrated the congregation according to a sharp-eyed diner.

The Lutherans serve two choices of meals each Monday with variations plus a special vegetarian dish for two or three diners. Dessert has never been the Lutheran’s forté, but the quality of the main course plus soup make up for it. Every two weeks they give away free bread baked that morning.

Last week, Ian Hutchinson gave a religious talk about Joseph who went to Egypt and that he and his brothers were the beginning of the twelve tribes of Israel. Ian also said Jesus died for our sins and that God was very nice to offer his son to save humanity. How that could happen, I haven’t a clue. Ian was very gracious explaining this to our table

It’s hard to determine whether a service is good or not. It depends on one’s need and frame of mind. Last Monday seemed excellent, though I’d eaten 150 grams of sugary chocolate before going there.

My only criticism is that such a good meal is rushed at the end. Those last served have hardly finished eating when the chairs are packed up. And such a valiant effort of producing a meal for seventy people deserves a better fanfare.

Lutheran Good Shepherd Para Vista388 Montague Road, Para Vista.
Free meal Mondays 5:30pm to 7:00pm. No I.D. required. Chef told us his soup won a medal at Casablanca. Orange Sky Laundry 5:30pm to 7:30pm Monday. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Supermarket purchase cards might be available from office. Ph 8263 5087 Tues-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly.

Early 21 September 2024

(above) Mist over the cold waters off the Great Australian Bight near Border Village, South Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Chicks nearly ready to take flight from their nest on the cliffs overlooking the Great Australian Bight. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Grinder Fan Club

from our valuable anonymous contributor

Apparently, Grinder passed away in his sleep last Wend. at age 55. He leaves behind many assault victims and debts.

Just prior to his passing, it has been suggested that he was planning to have a homeless person beaten up at the Adelaide City Library by a knife carrying youth. Luckily the homeless person did not turn up.

Thanks for the memories Grinder. RIP Amen.

Anonymous​

Second Editor: I thought Grinder might be after me ten years ago when Krusher Karl from Baptist WestCare fed him less than accurate information. But I was saved when Krusher was extradited to Western Australian for offences against a prostitute.

Grinder was no fool. He saw through Mark Arstall’s campaign against old and disabled people in the homeless scene as little more than Mark strengthening his ego by attacking the vulnerable. Grinder came to my aid when a crazy fellow punched me lightly in the throat at Fred’s Van at Terry Hemmings park.

There should be a memorial garden at West Terrace cemetery for homeless luminaries such as Grinder.

Early 20 September 2024 

(above) Dunes and pristine beaches devoid of humans on the Great Australian Bight at Eucla on the South Australian and Western Australian border. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Sand and dust storm at Eucla on the Great Australian Bight. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Gawler Salvation Army

Four clients for breakfast. One friendly barefoot man who slept the previous cold night on the ground and muttering to himself. Short-haired man with knife scars on scalp. An old man (must have been 50). And myself.

Two officers and another person introduced themselves to me. Friendly kitchen staffer brought a barista coffee to my table. Self-serve free food included Vegemite, jam, sugar, milk, bread, toast and three types of cereal plus barista coffee. The barefoot man used a whole bowl of sugar as he’d become chilled during the night. I know the reaction to cold and have done the same myself.

The toaster was a problem. The adjustment dial is difficult to access because it faces another machine. You can’t turn it around because the power cord is too short. This means it is set on “burn black” so clients watch it carefully and turn it off at the power point when the toast begins to smoke.

One homeless man plugged in his phone. Two had quick showers. I ask the employee behind a plastic screen, but she told me to see someone else after he finished supervising children. Preacher lady read verse from Bible about suffering from telling the truth. (Hopefully they won’t punish me for writing this report.)

The preacher lady asked if anyone had any prayer requests. I almost asked her to pray that the drug dealers didn’t get me for telling the truth about drugs in the homeless scene, but from experience know that people in her position discourage such discussions.

The building is clean as if built yesterday, but was constructed ten years ago from a three million dollar bequest.

Salvation Army Gawler
17 Edith St., Gawler East. Ph (08) 8523 4844. Free breakfast of toast, cereal, barista coffee. Mon- Thursday 9:00 – 9:30am; Friday 9 – 10:00am; Sat 8:00 – 10:00am; Sun 8:00 – 9am. Showers available similar times. Nice dining room with view of river. Morning prayers. Two-dollar lunches are available Sunday to Friday, but with equally confusing times. Washing machine and drier available with confusing access times. Staff no longer ask shower clients if they have dirty extremities or a sexual disease. No I.D. required for above services, but they will want a Centrelink card for vouchers to supermarkets. Lockable lockers outside. Christmas haircuts.

Early 18 September 2024

(above) Camping along the Trans-Australia railway line on the road to Rawlinna. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Foodbank shifts client supply location

Foodbank no longer supply old food directly to clients from their Cross Road warehouse in Edwardstown. One source said the warehouse remains in operation, but the direct-to-client service operates from the Parish of St Mary’s at 1167 South Road, St Mary’s, which is the Picket Fence Anglican community centre that provides a three-dollar lunch on certain days of the week. Our source says that the new location is a smaller operation:

“Last week I discovered Edwardstown has closed down & moved to a tiny space at St. Mary’s church - south road (picket fence) - I found the older female volunteers are patronising one offered me a bag of ‘fairy floss’ I grimaced & threw her a dirty look whilst the other two female volunteers grinned in disapproval! If they can’t sell it they give it away!!!???

A no brainer seriously!!

They volunteers never smile in those places either!!”​

Late 17 September 2024

(above) Poverty store in such a beautiful town. The Foodland supermarket sells fabulous and expensive food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2024.)

(above) The poverty and despair of Ceduna Food Bank contrasted with big spenders at the Foodland supermarket. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Rotary free Saturday BBQ Modbury

They forgot to bring cooking oil, but at least the Council BBQ’s were operating, at least some of them. They served fried bacon and eggs on buns, but no vegetarian options, which was fair enough since I hadn’t been there for three months.

Hot water from coffee came from flasks with Joylene Mitchel who brought nearly everything with the help of another woman and a man. But there was only that horrible latte frothy coffee pouches and no stirring spoons.

The takeaway food included tuna and crackers, cheese and crackers, corn chips, cup-a-soup, fairy floss, oranges, apples, bottled water, canned peaches, sausage rolls, potato chips and other stuff.

Tea Tree Gully Mayor Marika Ryan made a cameo appearance doing selfies with others in front of the BBQ area and free stuff. She spoke to a veteran homeless man from the city about makeshift shelters for homeless people.

Marika responds to political pressure where most voters want homeless people expelled from the Council area by stopping services for them. But she’s doing her best and at least turned up last Saturday.

Rotary free BBQ Modbury
Civic Park BBQ area, Northeast Road, Modbury (across road from shopping centre). Ph Joylene on 0422 086 922. Every second Saturday 8:30am to 9:30am. Free hamburgers, coffee, takeaway crackers, tuna, cheese, chips, powdered soups, canned fruit, blankets and coats. Safe. Quite nice. No swearing allowed. Camera surveillance in park, but it doesn’t record swearing.

16 September 2024

From the anonymous contact page

I'm gonna find U n bash U racist dog
Sleep a week
U don't know shit
"Chinese drugs"
Ur a piece of sh**, get a clue

Anonymous

Second Editor: Please inform me about drugs. I like to correct errors. Thank you for your comment. Please keep in touch as my knowledge of the street has become outdated. 

16 September 2024

(above) The Oz Harvest free supermarket at Hindmarsh doesn't offer very much and you wait forty-minutes in the queue. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The key to offering the best produce is getting it straight from the supermarket throwaway area to the distribution point in one hour. it isn't clear if Oz Harvest manages to do this at Hindmarsh. And the quantities are embarrassingly small. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

On the Street

Word from the street is that anyone admitting to couch surfing (at least, males) are removed from the rough sleeper category making welfare housing less possible, to say the least. The rational is that a couch is a roof over your head.

Another view is that a person should not admit even living in a tent in case that is classed as having a roof over your head. (This is the fear and paranoia on the street.)

*

A homeless man said there are five or six hundred women with and without children living in Adelaide hotels paid for by the government. These include Pavlos, Scotty’s, Toll Gate, Welcome Inn on Glen Osmond Road and the Fullarton Motor Lodge. There are also homeless people living in the Sombrero Motel in Prospect.

The benefit of staying in a motel or hotel is that it isn’t classed as having a roof over your head. It’s also expensive with a limit of 8-weeks so the government is keen to get those hotel dwellers into permanent housing.

*

The South Australian Housing Trust refused a rough sleeping man emergency accommodation because they said he was in need of medical treatment. So they kept him living outside on concrete.

*

Pathway has been asking men not to throw unwanted food in the carpark, but to bring it back. And they don’t require clients to produce their Pathway cards, but ask for name and phone number.

*

One reason the Oasis Cafe at Tea Tree Salvos lost customers was former Central Districts football player going behind female customers and thrusting his hips forward.

*

St Vincent de Paul has used up its supermarket Gift Cards for the year except for clients living in three or four of the poorest suburbs in Adelaide.

*

Anglicare’s Magdalene Centre in Gilbert Street, Adelaide previously gave Gift Cards along with food packages, but currently let clients choose either one or the other, but not both. They administer this from their new building that must have cost many millions to build.

*

Orange Sky plans to open a free laundry service at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps on the corner of Reservoir and Montague Roads in Modbury. It will open on Wednesdays for just two hours from 1:00pm to 3:00pm once they’ve trained and signed-up some decent volunteers.

*

A client said Soul Food’s free food was rubbish. The client said it was frozen pasta that was handed to homeless people.

*

Gawler Salvation Army have about 16 free outdoor lockers welded into one unit and attached to an outdoor wall of their building on Edith Street at Gawler. They’re for homeless people. Two lockers have holes punched in the doors, but the others seem okay. Entry is with a card or combination pad. Tea Tree Gully Salvos plan the same system.

This was the same service homeless people requested of Major Tim Watson of Port Adelaide Semaphore Salvos when he visited St Bede’s free Tuesday breakfasts. But Major Watson decided instead to operate social gatherings for new immigrants.

*

The Salvation Army at Gawler have a free breakfast of cereal and coffee seven-days a week, but the fatal flaw is staggered times rather than the same time each day. It’s as if they’re trying to sabotage their own operation.

And to make it worse, on some days both the free breakfast and shower are available for only half an hour at the same time.

*

Richard’s religious group plan a free BBQ in Civic Park every second Saturday to complement Rotary’s free BBQ every second Saturday. Richard previously worked for Baptist Westcare in the city.

*

A client of Baptist Pathway free food in Modbury said they wouldn’t let him use their toilet. He has a medical issue that requires quick access. Do we live in such an uncivilised society where toilet use is rationed or prohibited especially when they spent half a million dollars on recent renovations.

*

If you follow research results on homeless people in Australia you’ll see numerous expensive reports by university academics discussing our culture and making suggestions to allocate housing.

But each report seems to find identical results and solutions and makes use of the data collected by homeless industry bureaucrats conducting intrusive interrogations of homeless people’s personal lives.

*

St Bede’s Anglican church at Semaphore has a new preacher with an American wife from New York. He attends the Tuesday free breakfast and said that service was what the church was about.

Early 15 September 2024

From the anonymous contact page

Probably my last message to you
Don't want too annoy you tbh.
I'm sorry if I said or did anything wrong
I really did class you as my friend
Cause you were always honest and kind
Not many people around like that these days.
Stay positive.
Everything is fine till everything becomes a memory.
The memories are always good ones.
The present is just a reminder of the good old days
Where everyone got along :)
Who knows we all might cross paths again one day
Most likely not though.
Stay cool
From a friend (at least I think I am haha)

Anonymous

Second Editor: My emails to you bounce back. I’ve stopped going to a few places due to negativity and threat of violence. Be careful with whom you associate. 

Early 15 September 2024

How Scammer Payback
​got Indian scammers arrested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdEELggaY5Q
Early 15 September 2024

(above) Gateway Baptist Church. Not bad except for the three-dollar charge. Most other Hands and Feet food is free from other churches who pay the Hands and Feet organsiation three dollars per client from their own funds.

Church@ParaVista changes format

Following recommendations from the Ambassadors to Jesus organisation, the Church@ParaVista, agents for Hands and Feet, have adopted a new method of giving away free food.

They’ve introduced a coffee and cake session prior to the free food handout in order to instill the teachings and faith of Jesus into the clients.
This proved a disaster last Wednesday when just two volunteers showed up. They spread margarine on raisin bread and told clients to get coffee from the counter. There weren’t any tables so clients held the coffee and bread in their hands. Four out of six clients complained they wanted it toasted.

Before the free food handout was finished one volunteer opened a large door to flood the improvised coffee room with cold air to discourage the diners from staying any longer. She said she didn’t want to hang around until 5:00pm, the official closing time.

However, the free food handout including frozen beef steak, Tasmanian farmed cod and a selection of quite good vegetables.

Church@ParaVista free food
Unusual name for a church. Every second Wednesday, coffee and raisin bread at 3:30pm then quite good free vegetables, bread, fruit, frozen meat and the odd grocery item from 4:00pm to 5:00pm. They ask for a first name, but don’t require I.D. Friendly crowd. They may ask personal questions, but that isn’t for any database.

Early 14 September 2024

(above) A clump of daisies in the desolation of the semi-arid woodlands in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024)

(above) A once busy highway near the Kalgoorlie radiation zone being overgrown by bushes and trees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

On the Street

A client outside Baptist Welfare in Wright Street said Mark Arstall has graduated to attacking “old people” and robbing them. And that if he returns to Adelaide he’ll go to jail for three months for shoving and threatening an old man on a walking frame inside the Hutt Street Centre. And will get beaten up by inmates who don’t approve of attacks on old people.

And if he does return, any court case will involve half a dozen other old people arriving on walking frames and wheelchairs with their Carers to testify against him. So he could be in the slammer for years.

*

An elderly man and a friend in the homeless scene invested a few hundred dollars into Bitcoin and Etherium some years ago, but for the life of them they can’t remember the passwords and can’t find a way to recover them.

*

A homeless man in Port Augusta wants to buy a car, but says the Housing Trust will kick him off the high-priority Category 1 housing waiting list due to his finding a safer place to sleep – his car.

This is how the Homeless Industry cripples people by punishing them for the slightest self-improvement of their lives.

*

“Stab me, stab me,” a courageous homeless man told a group of thieves carrying a machete and knives. He moved closer to them while they backed off. He invited them to return to the darkness of the creek bed where he camped.

*

WX 5 steak at $89.95 a kilo sold across the road from a homeless camp near Prospect.

*

Outback safety tool

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwJvFxw8aHs 

Early 13 September 2024

(above) To get fresh bread at the Western Food Hub in Hindmarsh it is important to either be there when it arrives or know what shelves have the good bread and what have the pre-mould specials. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Garbage and faded sign at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Grill’d in the city

​From the anonymous contact page

Its a different atmosphere at Grill'd [Rundle Street] free food every first Tuesday of the month at 530. There's chit chat vibrancy energy you don't see anywhere else, perhaps maybe nanas in semaphore park or the filthy Freemasons on Friday in the port , back in the day.

The food is unhealthy, it is a dangerous addictive poison marketed as if not. You do get a dopamine rush and you don't get genuinely full but you have a good time doing it. What goes up must come down, so expect the dopamine low. Staff make the vibe, its infectious.

They think they're helping , but not us. They're helping a decadent evil predatory system produce propaganda and keep us amused. They should talk to us. Everything is a meeting of two people and we're not meeting them, we're meeting a manufactured personality for marketing purposes. But then why would they talk to us? Their illusion their leaders have created will be blown.

If you're told what to say
How to act
What to do when dealing with a vulnerable person, then you're nothing but a programmed and dangerous zombie.

Jacob’s Well (anonymous)

Grill/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of month 4:30pm - 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. Street people are amazed something like this happens. Many big names in the homeless scene go here. Normal people not allowed in during this time even if they are willing to pay. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jacks. Professional staff.

Early 12 September 2024

(above) The joy of a dry track between Stations in the Outback before it turns to a half-metre of soft sand. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Strange psychology of the human mind​

Have you ever wondered why someone who has done you wrong – and generally harms everyone they can – retains a ferocious hatred of you while you believe they should feel guilty rather than vengeful.

For example, crystal methamphetamine addicts in the homeless scene forever seek revenge for something done against them when to maintain their lifestyle, they constantly harm others.

The answer to this question may be in Joe Scott’s video below, but you’ll have to pay attention to get the answer. Starting at 19:00 minutes is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYuTid9a6k

Early 11 September 2024

(above) This is the complete pantry food range at Western Food Hub that gets over a hundred people a day. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Not worth a donation​

The Western Food Hub appears to be leaving the game of free pantry items. Their shelves are often empty except for sample-size outdated sugary sauces. And one client says they’re demanding a donation for these items. However, the rotting and rotten vegetables are still free. The bread is also free and this is often day-old if you visit as it arrives from the supermarkets.

The Western Food Hub has lost clients to the Oz Harvest free supermarket two streets over at 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh where their vegetables are old and horrible, but not actually rotten.

The volunteer staff at the Western Food Hub have improved enormously with some of them actually liking what they do. And the pastries and meals are often of high quality when made by Tanille Rogers and a woman named Sue.

We often see six or seven people wearing green aprons arrive with almost fresh sausage rolls, scrolls and other pastries. They’re from a local bakery.

Clients include an interesting Japanese-speaking bus driver who had an argument with an elderly woman and her adult daughter about their dog entering the rotting vegetable room. He said it spreads disease, but she argued that it wasn’t a big deal.

Big Ron was there, but doesn’t see or hear much these days. The Right Honourable Grinder was there, just out of the slammer and looking healthy and expecting to go back into the slammer depending on the quality of his new lawyer.

My visit was worthwhile in getting a cheese scroll from the green apron people, filling my water can and talking to a few interesting people.

Puddle Jumpers Western Food HubBrick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, exotic groceries, hot coffee, hot foods, female sanitary products. Free clothing rack. A few drug addicts. Theoretically open Mon - Fri 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Saturday 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday 4:00 - 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable. Shower truck scheduled Wednesdays and Fridays, but it rarely turns up. Toilet. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required so you remain anonymous. Staff range from excellent to inappropriate for the job. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. Most staff excellent, but some crazy so don’t be surprised if they go off like a firecracker.

Early 10 September 2024

(above) Thousands of interesting rock formations south of Lake Carnegie (salt) near the Little Sandy Desert in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Visiting Oz Harvest free supermarket

I liked the yellow and black tape and stickers bearing images of their trucks and vans. It’s plastered over their repackaged ageing food. And the building is painted in the same startling colours.

It looks impressive until you see the clients waiting for forty-minutes in the weather in a fenced-off corridor resembling entry to a sheep dip. The so-called supermarket is a thin hallway where staff hand out tiny amounts of meat and vegetables.

Some of the building is devoted to the “Nourish Academy” where volunteers are trained similarly to extra-friendly Woolworths employees. Not everyone appreciates this exaggerated behaviour, but for the odd suicidal client, a friendly demeanour can be life saving.

Most of the building is devoted to sorting donated food and loading or unloading their truck and van. Space is at a premium since Oz Harvest vacated its spacious warehouse in Bowden.

Oz Harvest’s delivery system is often straight from a supermarket to a point of distribution. For example, they pick up from Modbury Aldi and drive straight to the Tea Tree Salvation Army. Very efficient and the stuff is less rotten.

Unlike that unpleasant outfit called Food Bank, Oz Harvest don’t require I.D. and don’t record clients’ names and birth dates for the Welfare Industry’s Eternal Shame File. And you don’t need a Case Manager or Support Worker.

The distribution to clients at their Hindmarsh building last week was orderly and fair unlike some places where the doors open and the most rapacious people grab huge amounts of the best stuff while the meek get very little.

On a day last week they offered frozen meat, weird vegetarian fake meat (I liked it), frozen potatoes for chips, rolled oats, dried Barlotti beans, wilted green leaves (not rotten), wrinkly capsicums, questionable mini-tomatoes in tiny amounts, high-quality Vittoria biscuits, cake, weird tea, one tiny can of Coke and bread.

We had a forty-minute wait outside and one hour and ten minutes after opening time they’d already served 88 people with 24 more in the queue. It was a relatively friendly situation, but most clients were nervous as the joint has just opened. There was just one person who could be identified as homeless. ​

Oz Harvest free supermarket Hindmarsh
Free supermarket. No I.D. needed. Just walk in. 27 Manton St, Hindmarsh. Ph 08 7007 0080. Tuesdays 10:00am - 2:00pm; Wednesdays 3:00pm - 7:00pm; Thursdays 10:00am - 2:00pm. Not very good and there is a long queue, but at last it’s safe and orderly.

Early 9 September 2024

(above) Desolation, despair and shortage of water, but plenty of wood for nice campfires during the dark night of the soul. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Overlooking the Great Victoria Desert and the prohibited zone of the Jindalee over-the-horizon R.A.A.F. base in Western Australia. "We see everything," a guard told a tradesman down on the plain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

On the Street

​A worker at Food Bank on Port Road at Woodville ate food in a slurping manner while standing amongst the food tables. She wiping her mouth with her hand and without washing her hands or wearing gloves handled the fruit and vegetables.

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University of Adelaide free food program

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/news/news/list/2024/08/22/src-food-pantry

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The man who brought drugs into Kalgoorlie in the 1990’s served decades in prison and upon release returned to the town and currently operates a drug rehabilitation joint.

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A woman came into Kalgoorlie Salvation Army last week wanting to work as a volunteer to “get away from the drugs and alcohol”.

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The preacher at Port Church gave his usual speech about safety saying there were male and female toilets and that they should be used appropriately. He was referring to a man who used the female toilets two months ago.

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Aboriginals in an outback community near Kalgoorlie paled when a Baptist preacher staggered into town while having a heart attack. They’d cursed him and he was supposed to be dead. He’s now in his nineties and in good health.

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One man from a group of vagrants stole Kevin’s bicycle from The Haven food and religious meeting at St John the Evangelist Anglican church in Salisbury. Kevin loses one bicycle each year. He can’t collect welfare because he saved too much money during his working life and doesn’t have the mental energy to invest his savings to preclude them from Centrelink deeming.

But at least his new $800 bicycle has four locks.

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Aboriginals lit a huge fire near their tents in Pittman Park at Salisbury during that cold spell last month. They’re sensible because they camped in an area difficult to access by fire trucks.

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Does anyone remember the white man with a bad heart being predated upon by a professional gambling addict Chinese woman. Well, he finally dislodged her from his life.

But now people at Salisbury are giving him money thinking he’s a homeless. He’s not a beggar, but last week someone even gave him a bottle of wine. He received it graciously despite not drinking alcohol.

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A client at the new Oz Harvest free “supermarket” wasn’t impressed by the unnatural familiarity of volunteers who behave as if we’re their old friends.

One client commented, “Yeah the ridiculous rations I’m not going back there in a hurry!! It’s sad & depressing thru could at least offer free water for waiting in line! The volunteers have been ‘programmed’ don’t like it so impersonal.”

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Martyn Campbell resigned his position of Commissioner for Consumer Affairs and plans to enter the private sector. One of his jobs was “cracking down on illegal tobacco…” I bet there’s a story behind his resignation.

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Poor Lani’s power bill was $889.04 last quarter. Her air conditioner and lights stay on 24-hours a day even during the period while she was locked up in a psychiatric ward. She remains incarcerated in a psychiatric institution while her house has been further damaged by “friends”. She returns home with a Carer every two days to feed her cat. Some open food packets are left on her shed roof, but rats are good climbers.

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Ice addicts are dangerous to be around because their egos are under chemical siege and to maintain their sense of self they need to create enemies in others...and harm them.

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The N.D.I.S. now funds cleaning supplies for its clients saying these are crucial to maintaining good health. But these cleaning supplies include some rather interesting chemicals that can be transformed into other substances.

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Minister for the N.D.I.S. Bill Shorten is resigning from Parliament next year. Bill says he’s leaving on a high note. This gentleman must be delusional to think this. The N.D.I.S. is possibly the most expensive, the most corrupt and most useless government entity in the history of the Australian federation.

8 September 2024

(above) Another cave overhang in the Giles Breakaway 50 kms north of Laverton in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Travelers may believe they're in the middle of nowhere, but look around and there may be a surveillance mast watching your every move. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Fremantle homeless fringe benefit

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness October conference at Fremantle in Western Australia involves twenty-five organisations and businesses, many of whom are government funded “non-profits”.

It’s not money down the drain, but an excellent investment in using social/psycho control methods on the most vulnerable group in Australian society. What they discover in manipulating and controlling us will later be used on the general population.

This mechanism of control monitors and restricts tenants’ use of their own money and assets then controlling our minds with “medications” and getting us used to accepting insane tenancy and rules of living so we stop questioning their “directives”.

There won’t be a word against the crystal methamphetamine dealers and junkies that leave human minds permanently damaged. No speeches about dealers and thugs infiltrating and controlling clients at homeless services ‒ and even some employees. Nothing about governments discouraging police from making arrests.

The following groups contain many wise and compassionate people posing as our friends, but somehow becoming our enemies. One mechanism is treating every homeless person as a psychiatric patient willing to surrender their dignity to the welfare system. Any person living outside who objects is classed as “wanting to be homeless”.

Groups involved in the Fremantle summit are: Australian Alliance to End Homelessness; Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness; RUAH; St Patrick’s Community Support Centre; MICAH Projects; Social Futures; Neami National; Accord West; Vinnies Good Works; St Barts; City of Fremantle; AnglicareWA; Salvation Army; Housing Choices Western Australia; Mission Australia; Lottery West, Government of Western Australia Department of Communities; CS Net; ShelterWA; Org Code; Community Solutions; Simon Community Scotland; Uniting.

https://aaeh.org.au/australian-zero-homelessness-summit-2024

​7 September 2024

(above) Hope Community Centre in Kalgoorlie maintains a free bread and pantry items box for travelling nomads and homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Increased deaths due to Covid policies

​From the anonymous contact page

It was said here years ago the covid scam would hit the underclass hardest and designed to do so. It was said in many places ànd by some qualified to do so.

Well, here's the data showing that prediction came true.

"All of our observations can be coherently understood if we interpret that the covid-period socio-economic, regulatory and institutional conditions induced chronic stress and social isolation among members of large vulnerable groups (individuals afflicted and co-afflicted by poverty, obesity, diabetes, high susceptibility to bacterial respiratory infection [inferred from pre-covid-period antibiotic prescription rates], old age, societal exclusion, unemployment, drug and substance abuse, and mental disability or serious mental illness), which in turn caused many of these individuals to be more and fatally immunocompromised, allowing them to succumb to bacterial pneumonia, at a time when a documented national pneumonia epidemic raged and antibiotic prescriptions were systemically reduced; in addition to possible co-morbidity from COVID-19 vaccine challenge against individuals thus made immunocompromised, under broad and hastily implemented “vaccine equity” programs."
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from https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=116&name=2022_08_02_covid_period_mass_vaccination_campaign_and_public_health_disaster_in_the_usa

Covid was a class war. Never forget who got richer. People like the ceo of Vinnies.

Vinnies favourite pedophile protector ****** ******* made sure protests in Adelaide got nowhere..
Anonymous
6 September 2024

(above) An expensive dirt road being reclaimed by nature in the outback. Change is the only permanence of life and despair while being homeless is not permanent either. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Plenty of new and old remembrance markers are seen along the roads and tracks north of Kalgoorlie. In the early white settlement days, people were buried near where they lived. And today, animals are also remembered such as the above. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Kalgoorlie Salvos struggle

​The Kalgoorlie Corps of the Salvation Army struggles. They have a few accommodation rooms, but these have remained empty for years due to mould, a leaking roof and asbestos. And no money to rebuild.
The main building is quite nice though the shower cubicle could do with an upgrade. The old top loading washing machine available to clients is superb with lots of water unlike the Orange Sky van across town at the Church of Christ. (Though Orange Sky has three washers and three driers.)

The Salvation Army electric clothing drier doesn’t produce heat and trips the ovens in the kitchen.

The Salvos serve lunch every Tuesday at 12:30pm in a nice dining room with takeaway food freezers and fridges that are filled by Second Bite amongst others. There are racks of free clothing and occasional kitchen appliances free to anyone.

The Salvos serve free coffee and snacks every day of the week. The regular clientele are Western Australian, but still friendly to “eastern staters”. When my American accent was strong in the 1970’s they were more friendly, but now my speech resembles that of an “eastern stater”. Joking aside, they are pleasant and non-threatening with some staff living outside.

Paid staff include two Majors and a civilian employee, the latter who served for years as an unpaid employee. And maybe another person in the office.

There are adequate toilets in the hallway with another in the shower room.

Last year there seemed to be more elderly prospectors while this year there has been an influx of N.D.I.S. clients and their employees. Regardless, there are many interesting people who visit the Corps every day or so, people who may appear to have lived uneventful lives, but certainly haven’t.

What I especially liked about going there was the lack of fear. There aren’t any drug dealers operating from the joint. This lack of fear contrasts to the Church of Christ’s homeless service closer to the main shopping centre where I felt nothing, but fear due to the whiteness of my skin.

But the elephant in the room is the decrepit state of the Corps building while Kalgoorlie produces huge wealth, most of which goes to Perth and foreign shareholders plus the well-paid fly-in, fly-out workers in the mines.

Yet you see ambulances parked amongst trees treating tribal people and at Boulder camp where people live tents below the huge slag mountains formed from excavating the Super Pit. This contrast of wealth and income can signify only discord now and in the future.

Early 5 September 2024

(above) Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub free tomatoes appear okay in a photograph, but upon inspection they're vaguely cooking tomatoes only. And use plenty of herbs and spices to mask the stench. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Puddle Jumpers carrots at Hindmarsh Western Food Hub are okay, but the celery is rotting. And would you feed these decomposed mushrooms to any human being?

Oppressed homeless man interview

Woody and Skip have produced a new video since they moved from under a tarp outside Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps to a flat in the Salisbury-Elizabeth area.

You might notice in this video that the homeless man can’t articulate words properly. This along with closing eyes is a symptom of psychological and physical oppression. I’ve seen it for decades amongst people without a place to live. And they often never recover normal speech or eye contact again.

https://youtu.be/iyrEFM8JdWk?si=W0v2Bu4pmOipag

4 September 2024


Wise homeless man interviewed 

with Woody, Skip and Jack

Homeless Chat by Woody Skip... today we Interview Jack who has been Homeless for over 29+ Years (youtube.com)

​4 September 2024​

(above) Overlooking the edge of the Great Victoria Desert and an isolated RAAF base. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Dark night of the soul on a sunny day. Isolation is mind cleansing if you have the right attitude. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Another one bites the dust

​The Brougham Uniting Church has ceased its free food handout on Wednesdays due to renovations of the historic church. The foundations need reinforcing and a crack in the south wall repaired.

They don’t know how long this will take especially if they find new problems that could take years to fix. Until then their free food service is cancelled.

Cancelled until further notice
Uniting Church North Adelaide free foodBrougham Uniting Church, 193 Brougham Place, North Adelaide. Ph 08 8267 2657. Free slightly old vegetables, groceries, bread Wednesdays 11:30am to 1:30pm. Usually decent staff. Beautiful church building. No I.D. required, but they want name and phone number, but you might live in a cemetery or another no fixed address and not have a phone.

Late 3 September 2024


No C.H.A.T.S. this Friday

The C.H.A.T.S. free breakfast this Friday is cancelled as the outfit has something happening at the Royal Show. They should be back the following Friday on the 13th of September.
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C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.

Late 3 September 2024

(above) Alcina is a credit to humanity giving her time to produce quality food for a bunch of desperadoes and disabled people at the Osborne Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Another exceptional unpaid volunteer preparing for the onslaught of ravenous diners. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Adelaide's Homeless Industry statistics

From the month of June to July 2024 the Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands dropped from 210 to 200. Not bad, eh? The actual Sleeping Rough number rose from 178 to 179. The Temporarily Sheltered component dropped from 29 to 15. The Actively Homeless – Other rose from 3-6.

The slight improvement of a reduction of 10 seemed due to an extra 10 people kicked off the homeless list from the previous month. This was called “Moved to Inactive” and that was an increase from 25 to 35.

Another statistic they published was that homelessness was down 183. This was called “Functional Zero Modelling to Functional Zero in 2025 commenced in July 2022. Current shortfall against modelling minus 183.” Yeah, you figure out what this means. I couldn’t.

What isn’t clear is whether the Pitjantjatjara mob camped in the no-whites-allowed area by the West Terrace Cemetery are “rough sleepers” or “temporary sheltered”.

Another unclear definition is whether those sleeping in their cars are considered “rough sleepers” or something else. Most car sleepers avoid the Adelaide CBD.

Anyway, collecting these silly stats creates jobs for bureaucrats in the homeless industry who would otherwise be unemployed. And their statistics provide fodder for university academics such as “The University of Adelaide’s Dr Joanne Flavel, Researcher in the Stretton Institute and School of Social Sciences.”

She helped publish a study to justify collecting intimate details of the lives of homeless people. She said that collecting the data provides “An accurate profile of homelessness helps in devising appropriate responses to crises that adequately support people experiencing homelessness.”

Good on ya, Ms Flavel, but does it provide housing in any way whatsoever?

https://saaeh.org.au/azp-monthly-dashboard/
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Early 1 September 2024

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

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

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

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