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Older Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019

Chris Adams Interview No. 5​
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Sonia Blackwell ideas on homeless services
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(above) Puddle Jumpers is a stupid organisation that serves food and drink to homeless people, but keeps their toilet locked and tells people to walk down the road to the library. Vicious stupidity. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Donated items left in rain back of Salisbury Salvo store. Management concentrates on profits rather than respect for donors. But at least homeless people have a supply of fabric for improvised mattresses on concrete. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Someone is chopping down trees near a homeless camp on the Sturt River where it meets the Patawolonga Creek at Glenelg (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) The person has set up a little refuge near the tiny river. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) But green wood from the freshly cut down trees doesn't burn. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Here's a marginal improvement. Posts taken from the horse training area across the road. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) But trouble is brewing in paradise when the conservation authorities discover the damage and homeless people are blamed. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Living Well provides a Friday evening free meal at 5pm at 9 Mckinna Rd, Christie Downs. 0474 023 948. But at 6:30 they begin a religious session upon which some diners leave. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) From the recent writings of SoSo SoSo, the flamboyantly dressed sage in Adelaide's homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Stealth camping at Mawson Lakes (swamp). Amongst the horrors are a sense of privilege. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Someone burnt a 28-year-old man's van at Londsdale near Hypnotic Ron's camp. The man was absent at the time and wasn't injured. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Coming Soon: Salvation Army at Norwood; Community Union Defense League at Whitmore Square; Fred's Van at Salisbury; The only intake employee for the government funded Anglicare Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance won't register a young homeless man living in creek bed because she doesn't like his advocate; Armageddon BBQ in the city; Kitchen closed on Friday night after man throws soup at Puddle Jumpers Hindmarsh Food Hub worker then drug junkie has some sort of seizure; The Maniac threatens to kill child at Fred's Van Elizabeth; Adelaide Day Centre Soup Van; Disabled man extremely unhappy about Welfare dumping him in a doss house with thieves and drug addicts; Poor Lani; Puddle Jumpers infiltrated by the crystal meth dealers; Big rush for the Sikh's free food at Hurtle Square.
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Adelaide Day Centre soup van

It was Sunday with strong competition from the Pilgrim Church at 5pm and Fred’s Van at 6pm. A man and woman drinking wine were fiddling with each other on a park bench in the darkness near the area declared a crime scene two weeks ago and cordoned off by crime scene investigators. Now it was a smut scene.

The van arrived at 6:30pm to a dozen waiting diners, a small number compared to the Sikhs getting nearly 40 at the same location on Thursdays at 6pm.

Three men served excellent soup, muffins and slightly wet thawed out bread coated in margarine. The soup was very hot meaning it would still be reasonably hot when they went to Whitmore Square thirty minutes later.

The Croatian Genealogist bristled with anger saying his life had been stolen after being evicted from private housing and losing his worldly possessions. He subsequently lived in emergency housing at Whitmore Square for a few months then moved to that horrible little rooming house at Hurtle Square, across the street from Crazy Cottage where he pays $280 a week for a tiny room.

He said he went to the Hutt Street Centre for housing, but was “given the cold shoulder”. Another diner said, “It’s all corrupt,” upon which one of the soup van volunteers – the one who resembled a retired boxer – whispered into the ear of another – the one who resembled a wayward priest – for a full minute. The boxer gave the man a hardened look while the priestly man smiled knowingly into space.

In the darkness, one of the fiddlers urinated against a monument while the woman fiddler said, “I have to go, too.”

Nick from St Bede’s arrived. He greeted another diner saying, “Nice to see you. I thought you were dead.” In the homeless scene this is a popular greeting.

The soup men remained polite the whole time and offered second cups before they packed up and headed to Whitmore Square. This is a good service, but what was the whispering about?

Adelaide Day Centre Soup Van
Hurtle Square opposite Crazy Cottage. Cnr. Pulteney and Wright Streets, Adelaide. Every day except Saturday. 6:30pm then they move to Whitmore Square and serve at 7:15pm, but the soup may be cold by then. Four varieties of healthy soup without MSG or other contaminants. Bread and margarine. Operates 1st Monday in May to early October. Free. No I.D. required. No questions asked. Blankets generally available for rough sleepers only.

Early 18 May 2026


Monday lunch in Blair Athol

They offered either day old or freshly baked Turkish bread plus other vegetables to take away. The Mandarins were keen collectors that drew the ire of a white diner who used the word, “shit”, while glancing towards them.

Certain items were distributed in the kitchen to volunteers who often spend five or six hours preparing the meal and cleaning up afterwards. A woman named Leanne is a real cook so the meal produced with old ingredients is restaurant quality. She’s helped by Karen and another woman. They always have vegetarian options.

Rob the retired truck driver and mechanic read a complex maths book saying there were secret messages on the pages. And he actually found some symbols that had nothing to do with the book. Then the professional musician named Greg said, “leave everything to a registered charity,” between songs. How did that fit into the music? A secret message?

Curly missed her first song request. She’s the work horse in the Op Shop that funds the church.

The man who spent his fortune at the Crazy Horse strip club mildly rebuked his African support worker who earlier in the day told him to throw away the mouldy bread on his kitchen table. The Crazy Horse client said he cuts the mould off and eats the rest. He wouldn’t listen to the health risks. Maybe the mould makes him visit the Crazy Horse.

I was reluctant to attend this free lunch venue due to ugly gossip, but everyone seemed kindly last Monday. There were some empty chairs.

This joint often brings the best out of both the workers and the diners. You see a certain emotional and spiritual beauty in people previously thought to be living in the land of the dead.

Church of Christ Prospect
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol (near the IGA) ph 8262 6263. Monday 10:30am free morning tea with free lunch served at 11:30am. Billiards. Relaxed atmosphere as angry diners with violent histories have been expelled. Decent toilets. No I.D. or data collection. Some free vegetables. Nice diners. None should be chained to a wall. Poor church with rich dedication. Quality workers.

Early 18 May 2026

(above) Another campfire site in the Adelaide CBD. Such a small inexpensive activity brings more comfort to desperate homeless people than "counselling" from sleazy government-funded employees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

On the Street

Rob “Windmill” Caldwell has moved camp with his homeless team. They were in the creek bed below the Tea Tree Gully Salvos, but have moved further downstream.

Two residents had complained the homeless men’s mini wood stove fuelled by burning twigs had triggered asthma in one of them.

Now residents above their new camp complain of shouting during the night. That was Hugo last Thursday who slept in the next morning. The residents want the campers gone, but Sonia Blackwell says the complainers sleep in safe warm houses while the campers have nothing and where can they go.

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The Nice Old Man annoyed those attending a funeral at the Ingle Farm Salvation Army Corps by yelling into his phone during the service. His haranguing voice competed with mourners praising the deceased person.

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Bruce was scammed of $600 from his Commonwealth bank account the week before last. Bruce is the man who smokes tobacco and drinks orange soft drink from his invalid scooter outside the Salisbury library and Parabanks shopping centre.

The scammed money was spent on a hotel suite in Houston Texas. Bruce thought the bank would take months before they recovered the cash, but in four days the money was back in his account and the bank provided a new ATM card. Bruce was impressed.

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A soup kitchen client said her car swerved towards a man walking alongside the road. She said a psychic entity turned the steering wheel. It happened a second time and on both occasions she fought the steering wheel and avoided killing the man. She drove another route after those incidents.

The man was later hit by another driver and killed.

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Dogs are welcome at the free Armageddon BBQ every Saturday at 8:30am in front of the Christadelphian Ecclesia at 105 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

Dogs are treasured by homeless man who talk to them as if they’re real people. Most owners are tough trainers and don’t let their dogs bark or bite people at the BBQ.

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A homeless man arrived angry at the Orange Sky laundromat after being kicked out of his camping spot in the North Adelaide parklands near the Prince Alfred College sports ground.

He was using the free BBQ electricity just like any other BBQ user.

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The man living for two years on Beach Road at Christies Beach was kicked out of his camping spot so he’s moved a few doors down. He’s okay until someone complains. People are generally quite tolerant, but authorities act on a single complaint – unless it’s against them.

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“Like your dress.”

Someone from a healthy group of young foreigners observing my bulked up homeless layers of coats while expecting to be in the weather that night.

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“Bye, Loretta,” a man said to another who dined at the Christadelphian free BBQ the Saturday before last. He wore just underwear under his long shirt or short coat.

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Sefton Park Salvo store regularly say they’re not currently accepting donations. They’re swamped with stuff and the store is not crowded with customers. The prices are too high and there is social pressure on old people to get rid of their life possessions.

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Mick and Eleanor are under siege by the Salisbury Council who say they live in squalor. Council employees want to rob the house and throw the contents into industrial rubbish bins then send the bill for removal and labour to Eleanor who owns the house.

That happened to the 76-year-old homeless woman in Salisbury after the Council accused her of living with black mould in the house she owned.

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Some components of Fred’s Van Kilburn meals verge on restaurant quality, but the fresh salads are made from rotting Oz Harvest donations. No amount of sauce of vinegar can kill the rotting flavour.

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A reader who disagreed with The Cat Lady about throwing excess rubbish in OTR petrol station bins says he prefers throwing it into domestic bins outside Housing Trust units. He says they’re usually put out only half full so what is the problem.

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While the Chelsea Ireland Puddle Jumpers Hindmarsh Food Hub building was being renovated, a group of people handed out decent free fruit and vegetables from the carpark. But since the building has been reoccupied that group of benefactors has disappeared and the vegetables inside the new building have reverted to being on the verge of rotting. Or having already reached that stage. They’re a health hazard.

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There is a new homeless camp near the R.A.A.F. base at Elizabeth. Rumour has it that it’s occupied by homeless scrap metal collectors.

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Has Puddle Jumpers being infiltrated by crystal meth dealers? The answer is probably in the affirmative.

Puddle Jumpers provides camps for children often deprived of a decent life because their parents are drug addicts. These addicts work in Puddle Jumpers Op Shops via the work-for-the-dole program and other coercive government programs.

The family of one meth addict from a Puddle Jumpers Op Shop enlisted a powerful slow learner man to punch me in the head on two occasions at Semaphore. This was in response to articles I’d written about the junkies operating from homeless joints. I’ve forgiven him as he wasn’t fully cognisant of his actions.

There has been vandalism at the Puddle Jumpers headquarters at Glandore plus their Op Shop fire last year so it’s easy to believe there is trouble with crystal meth addicts.

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Fred’s Van Kilburn are having trouble giving away takeaway bags due to their depleted contents. Two weeks ago it was white bread and a few rotting vegetables.

The only people who can’t get enough are the hoarders and who the hell knows what they do with them.

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An older man renting a Housing Trust apartment in a multi-story building at Enfield often vacates the building and sleeps in his car outside free food joints due to the screaming, yelling and loud music coming from drug addicts above him.

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A veteran volunteer at Fred’s Van Kilburn said diners getting three meals wasn’t hunger, it was greed.

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A church member collected spilt instant coffee granules from the table and put them back into a jar at church@paravista. This was a subconscious act from a person careful with money rather than acting on church policy.

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A diner at the Tea Tree Gully Salvo Corp told me, “Don’t tell anyone it’s this good,” while we were eating the free lunch in the free cafe.

17 May 2026

(above) Homeless man using electricity for the van he lives in at North Adelaide. Is this stealing electricity? It's there for those living in houses having a BBQ. Anyway, the Adelaide City Council legal employee told him to leave the area or they'd call the police. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Chelsea Ireland
​Hindmarsh Food Hub reopens

The old guy met each entering client with the donation box. One dollar. He wouldn’t take two from me. Clients entered at will without that horrible numbering system previously used. But this will return as client numbers increase.

The free food room seemed smaller than before while the kitchen appeared larger though this might have been an optical illusion.

The vegetables were disappointingly old and horrible, but the flies hadn’t yet reached the room. There was plenty of padded underwear quite useful since the toilet was locked. Why deny an essential service to homeless people?

The pantry shelves contained about ten items including capers from Morocco, chilli sauce from Italy and Chapel Street coffee pods that can be ripped open and used as filter coffee. There were also wound dressing packets one year past the Use-by data. I grabbed a few as mine have a Use-by date of 2008 and some even further back. It’s the weird pantry shelves that make this place interesting.

A thin Chinese woman kept bending over with her legs spread out as if doing exercises. The man with her was moving his hands and arms like they do in China with Falun Gong. He was doing that at City Reach West as well.

There wasn’t any milk for coffee so Janusz offered me a Coke. “I’ll have one, too,” a woman piped in who had arrived with an elderly man in a brand new Nissan X-trail. A few minutes earlier they’d driven through a narrow pathway at City Reach West church and ran over the edge of someone’s free groceries. They need sensitivity training.

The woman who wears shorts pulled low towards her pubic area brought a sausage dog. She’s friendly to everyone and makes the place more interesting. Another client arrived in a sparkling new invalid scooter designed as a three-wheeled motorcycle.

The Puddle Jumpers truck arrived with new bread. Instead of dumping the old stuff on the outdoor shelves they took it away. And instead of three busted rubbish bins overflowing with rotting food, there was just one, clean and not overflowing.

The new Chelsea Ireland food hub renovations and perhaps a change of policy has created an initial wave of optimism free of the previous fear and loathing.

Note from the next day: But it all came tumbling down the following evening when the manager and her mother arrived. Review next week.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub Hindmarsh
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Heroic staff plus the odd lunatic. Named after Chelsea Ireland whose boyfriend’s father shot her dead. Rotting fruit and vegetables. Decent bread, occasional groceries, hot coffee and food, eat outside, incontinence underwear when toilet locked. Tiny clothing rack. One-dollar donation. Don’t believe their advertised opening hours. It’s actually 10am-1pm and 5pm-7pm Mon-Fri., but may expand. Shower truck scheduled Wed and Fri, but rarely there. Water tap 24/7. No I.D. or registration required. Orange Sky 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fri. Clients include sex workers, junkies, criminals, nice people, homeless, Mandarins, diabetics, a stock broker, couple of Serbians and a partially naked woman.

Late 16 May 2026

(above) This tent occupied by a homeless man was near the horse park at North Adelaide for three months, but disappeared last week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Where have all the second wave feminists gone?

Unlike the last visit two years ago, the prison atmosphere of the community centre had changed. The two-metre gate was left open and the ram-proof door didn’t seem as formidable as previously. Woman and children could be seen playing in a room with a door that led out to a high-fenced playground.

The Oz Harvest truck had arrived early and was leaving as I arrived. The car of Tracy’s spiritual services and Reiki was parked next to it.

Two younger women apparently working there pushed trolleys out the front door and weren’t angered when I held the heavy door open for them. Two years ago the second-wave feminist women with blue hair and carrying cups of takeaway coffee as if they were babies would have glared at me with icy eyes for performing such a male chauvinist action.

Three or four people waited in the narrow corridor that is the distribution room and we immediately jostled delicately to grab the best items. But none of us were greedy and we were satisfied with five or six items from the small delivery. Most of the delivery was still there when we left.

I spoke to a young woman with children. She spoke to me as if I was a normal human being and not some ageing vagrant. Maybe the war between men and women is easing and those old second wave feminists are relics of the past and have moved into retirement units and hang around pokies joints.

I returned to my roadside campsite and felt food for the rest of the day and evening.

Hackham Community Centre
72 Collins Parade, Hackham. P (08) 8186 6944. Free Oz Harvest food Tues 1:00pm and Midday Thursdays. No I.D. or registration required. Slim pickings for decent stuff with little competition.

15 May 2026


ABS on the prowl

Two woman from the Australian Bureau of Statistics questioned a homeless man in the corner of the St Hillary’s Church free dining room at Morphett Vale. They wanted to know about the homeless scene saying they’re trying to more accurately reflect the number of homeless people in this year’s Census. One told the old man who hadn’t washed recently that some homeless people claim to be living in houses when they aren’t. Most do that.

Their questioning was kind and without the cruel subterfuge used by employees of those homeless housing alliance corporations. The man appeared to enjoy the attention of two normal women.

Allan H. now works in the kitchen. St Hillary’s was lucky to grab him after he left The Haven up on Beach Road. Terri is also a new starter who works in multiple free food joints around Adelaide. She’s full of energy and goodwill similar to Allan H.

They have a free food table near the serving counter and urge diners to accept free food parcels from the back room. And this is without the requirement to provide personal data for the government’s Eternal Shame File.

The toasted sandwiches could include more filling. And they gave me ham and tomato by mistake and gave another man the non-meat one by mistake. I removed the ham and the other diner ate half of his and put the other half wrapped in a serviette in his shirt pocket. Allan made me another one.

This place is so friendly and relaxed, but you can tell the adjoining church needs the influx of younger people. The model used by Enfield Uniting Church might be the answer. A homeless man lives on the verandah. He fiddles with the doors at night.

Note: Their opening time is 11:30am, but on my last visit they were serving coffee at 10:30. They packed up by 1pm, but when two late-comers arrived they went back into action. This is quality service.

Friday free toasties at Morphett Vale
St Hillary’s, 1 High Street, Morphett Vale. Free toasted sandwiches, soup, coffee, small table of free nick-knacks and grocery items. Fridays 11:30am to 1:30pm every day of the year including Christmas holidays, but closed on Good Friday. No I.D. required. Toilets. Slightly run-down building. Single tube fluorescent lighting. Microwave and frozen meals. Free grocery room. New air conditioner. Friendly staff and clients. Mostly old people. Crowded parking. More spaces in shopping centre. All welcome. They headhunted Allan the Cook from The Haven.

15 May 2026

(above) Fence put around the Mediterranean Restaurant at Modbury to discourage homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Dealing with debt
The Cat Lady

What to do and WHAT NOT TO DO, SHOULD YOU END UP IN DEBT COLLECTOR LAND or BE SAILING DANGEROUSLY CLOSE TO ITS BORDERS!!..........

It is a rare person, that has never had any financial worries (ever) For the rest of us, well been there, done that and now I have the T-Shirt to show for all my troubles, as well.

Rule number one....if your perpetually living in debt to the point that you, your kids (if any) pets, partner, other family members (if your all co-existing together or close by) are regularly going without food, being evicted, hounded by debt collector or on/again, off again homeless, have had everything from the car to the TV repossessed, things HAVE TO CHANGE, or people and agencies will come into your life and make changes, YOU DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN. (like take your kids into state care or place you on the Bankrupt debtors list, or remove your pets, because they are starving and sickly) Okay, that is the EXTREME end of the stick, and hopefully few if any of you, have gotten to that point.

Here's how to avoid, getting to that point; I will list by numbers;

1) CREDIT CARDS ARE NOT YOUR FRIEND!! YUP IT IS GOOD TO HAVE ONE UP YOUR SLEEVE FOR A GENUINE EMERGENCY, BUT ONCE YOU HAVE MAXXED THAT OUT, IT WILL SIMPLY ADD MORE DEBT TO THE SITUATION

2) NEVER, EVER GO GUARANTOR FOR ANYONE EVER!!! LOVE FADES, ROMANCES GO UNDER, FRIENDSHIPS END, PEOPLE DISAPPEAR (PARTICULARLY THOSE PEOPLE WHO OWE MONEY ALL OVER THE PLACE) EVEN IN A MARRIAGE YOU CAN END UP WITH SOMETHING CALLED A STD (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DEBT) IF SOMETHING FINANCIAL SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THEN IT MOST PROBABLY IS!!!

3) REMEMBER THAT A LOT OF THINGS CAN PUT YOU INTO DEBT FOR DECADES OR EVEN THE REMAINDER OF YOUR LIFE. THINGS LIKE UNI DEGREES, MASSIVE MORTGAGES, BUSINESSES THAT YOU STARTED OR WERE INVOLVED IN (INCLUDING IN A MARRIAGE PARTNERSHIP) AND HAVE GONE UNDER, ETC ETC......THINK VERY CAREFULLY BEFORE GETTING INVOLVED IN ANYTHING. YOU MAY LOVED STUDYING THAT MASTERS IN FINE ARTS DEGREE, BUT IT ENDED UP COSTING YOU 80K AND YOU NEVER GOT A JOB OUT OF IT.....AND ARE STILL WORKING BEHIND THE TILL AT BUNNINGS OR K-HUB, 10 YEARS LATER!!!

4) IF YOU ARE MAJOR FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, SEEK OUT THE ASSISTANCE OF A LICENSED FINANCIAL COUNSELLOR. CALL 1800-007-007 (NATIONAL DEBT HELPLINE) AND THEY WILL GIVE YOU THE DETAILS OF ORGANISATIONS THAT CAN ASSIST YOU. THERE IS NO COST INVOLVED. LICENSED FINANCIAL COUNSELLORS CAN FREEZE DEBT, PUT A STOP TO DEBT COLLECTORS CONTACTING YOU, IN THE INTERIM AT LEAST, AND NEGOTIATE REPAYMENT TERMS. THEY CANNOT SIMPLY REMOVE A DEBT OR DEBTS. THERE IS NO MAGIC WAND, BUT THERE IS HELP OUT THERE. DO NOT PAY ANYTHING TO GET DEFAULTS REMOVED FROM YOUR CREDIT HISTORY REPORT, OR GO TO ANY COMPANY THAT STATES THAT THEY ARE GOING TO WIPE YOUR DEBTS!!! \

THEY ARE LYING AND ALL YOU WILL END UP WITH, IS MORE DEBT. A LICENSED FINANCIAL COUNSELLOR CAN DISCUSS WITH YOU IN PRIVATE, WHAT YOUR OBLIGATIONS ARE FROM A LEGAL AND FINANCIAL STANDPOINT.

THEY CAN ALSO ORGANISE CONCESSION AND ONE OFF GRANT PAYMENT, FOR THINGS LIKE ELECTRICITY AND WATER BILLS. BE MINDFUL THOUGH, YOU NEED TO BE HONEST AND UPFRONT. IF YOUR DEBT IS CAUSED THROUGH GAMBLING, OR SOME OTHER KIND OF ADDICTION (SHOPPING, ONLINE GAMING, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, FOOD ADDICTION, COLLECTOR CARDS, AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON) YOU WILL NEED ADDITIONAL HELP AND SUPPORT. A FINANCIAL COUNSELLOR CAN ONLY HELP YOU, IF YOU TELL THEM WHAT EXACTLY IS GOING ON AND FINALLY

5) LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS.....AND YES THIS CAN BE HARDER SAID THAN DONE. BUT IF YOUR DRIVING AROUND IN A BIG V6 OR V8 CAR, EAT TAKEAWAY 6 DAYS A WEEK, YOUR HOME IS LIT UP 24/7 LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE, YOUR KIDS EACH HAVE TO HAVE $400.00 PRESENTS EACH TIME SOME CELEBRATION HAPPENS, AND YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS, SO EACH TIME YOU NEED TO PAY FOR SOMETHING YOU REACH FOR A CREDIT CARD OR AFTERPAY, ZIPPAY, HUMM OR SOMETHING ELSE ALONG THESE LINES THINGS ARE GOING TO CRASH AND BURN (IF NOT IMMEDIATELY, EVENTUALLY) IT IS OKAY TO SAY NO TO THAT 2K, 2 DAY BASKETBALL CAMP YOUR SON IS DEMANDING YOU PAY FOR, OR THE NEW IPAD, OR THE $90.00 BRATZ DOLL.

WHEN YOUR KIDS GET OLDER A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SAY NO TO THEM AS WELL.....THEY MAY AS WELL GET USED TO HEARING THE WORD NOW. A NEW IPAD MAY BE GREAT TO USE, BUT YOU CANNOT EAT IT, OR PAY YOUR ELECTRICITY BILL WITH IT, NOR CAN YOU PUT FUEL IN THE CAR WITH IT. IF YOU MUST PURCHASE SOMETHING, LOOK AT WEBSITES THAT OFFER RECONDITIONED OR RESALE ITEMS, OR SEE IF YOUR KIDS SCHOOL OFFER THEM ON SOME KIND OF RENTAL OR CHEAP INTEREST FREE TERMS. ALWAYS ASK YOURSELF, DO I NEED THIS, AND IF THE ANSWER IS YES, HOW URGENTLY DO I NEED THIS, AND HOW AM I GOING TO PAY FOR THIS, IF I ACTUALLY NEED IT.....

That's it for now.....
Meow, meow.......*uck you.
Cat Lady.

14 May 2026
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What is the truth?

Abdullah Shafiq has been charged with 16 counts of child abuse material. This means he either accessed it on the internet or was in possession of it or both.

He’s a 23-year-old student at Flinders University. He volunteers with Humanity First who provide a free meal every two weeks at the Christie Downs Community Centre. The diners include people living on the streets though I’m not sure if this is where he does the unpaid work or not.

He got bail on the basis that he had exams at university and that he had a mortgage. No doubt there were other reasons.

What sort of monster is Abdullah? Very bad you’d think with a name like that and being a Moslem. But what was the child abuse material? Babies? Children? Teenagers under 17? We don’t know, but we do know he’s a monster, alleged, because our minds automatically think the worst.

Or maybe he was in possession of images that might have been legal where he came from, or where his parents came from. We don’t know and probably never will because the court system in South Australia is difficult to access and the corporate media won’t tell the truth. That would wreck the story. But you can imagine what he’s going through now and how this will affect his career and life.

The moral of this post is not to believe the worst until we know the facts, if we ever will. And to realise the internet is poison and we live in an era of mass hysteria.

14 May 2026

Baptists expand service
​at Christies Beach

Along with free coffee they now supply hot lasagne, chips and toasted sandwiches. Like most places the sandwiches are mostly toast, but still inviting if you’re camped out in some doorway near the beach.

They had a stack of brand new swags on the floor two weeks ago, but when I mentioned them the master of ceremonies told me in so many words not to even think about them. They’re for special cases, that is, desperadoes sleeping on the beach or in doorways. This is a good policy or hoarders would have snapped them up within 48 hours.

Using the shower nearly always requires submitting to a short lecture about wiping the floor with one towel and your body with the other. There aren’t clothing hooks or a chair so your clean clothing must stay in a bag. The shower has four powerful heat lamps when you’re drying your body.

The drier operates via a heat pump so it takes awhile to gain full steam. I haven’t got the hang of it yet as I like to check the temperature every five minutes.

There are rarely more than three clients in the building at any one time so it’s quite relaxing and everyone has been excellent except an old woman with dementia and brimming with hate. However, I think she’s been shipped out to a nuthouse.

This church is where a woman called Vicki compiled a list of food and other services for homeless people. It’s precise and not the kind of vague propaganda produced by other joints.

The services for homeless people at Christies Beach Baptist Church are self-funded by church members so they don’t collect personal data for the government’s Eternal Shame File.

Baptist Church Christies Beach
8 Fowey Street, Christies Beach. Mon, Tues, Fri 9:00am to 12:00 noon. Free coffee, chips, lasagne, toasted sandwiches. Tiny free grocery box on dining table. Shower, soap, towel, washing machine and heat pump clothing drier that takes over an hour. Friendly, but very security conscious. They don’t require I.D. or data for the Eternal Shame File.

14 May 2026

(above) The government has installed restrictive gates to stop a homeless man sleeping in his car at Gepps Cross. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) It appears someone has been complaining to the government and police about the camper who bothered no one. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) There is always a loophole in any system, but every fence and gate needs security that exhausts government finances and raises costs for everyone. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Dealing with the police
The Cat Lady

LIFE HACKS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW- HOW TO DEAL WITH THE POLICE, SHOULD THEY SUDDENLY TURN UP IN YOUR LIFE...........

1) The Police are NOT your friend. If requested by Police, to supply information at a local Police station/POLICE HEADQUARTERS or they come to your door, it is usually because they (aka) the Police have information (that if they get enough of) can have you formally charged, with an offence and or offence/s and or arrested in the worst case scenario. In the event of this happening to you, (and the odds are fairly high, if you live long enough) DO THE FOLLOWING!!!

a) Ask immediately, do i REQUIRE A LAWYER or FORMAL LEGAL REPRESENTATION? Make it really clear from the get-go, that you will NOT discuss anything of an incriminating matter, without a Lawyer/legal representative, present. Police DO NOT LIKE GETTING LAWYERS involved and will do EVERYTHING to dissuade you from requesting this assistance. However, YOU HAVE A RIGHT to a LAWYER/LEGAL REPRESENTATION, if the charges are serious enough that they come under the summary INDIGHTABLE OFFENCES ACT (commonwealth) This is just fancy speak, for any offences that have the ability, for you to end up with a criminal conviction (which stays on your police clearance record for ever) as handed down to you in a court of law and or a custodial sentence, (which means a term of imprisonment) as handed down by a court of law in this country.

b) If questioned always answer with the following- "NO COMMENT" You want to tell YOUR side of the story? tell it to a Lawyer/legal representation, WITHOUT THE POLICE PRESENT. (Which is your right as someone facing allegations of an alleged criminal matter and or matters) Please remember POLICE DO NOT BECOME INVOLVED IN CIVIL MATTERS. They are not going to turn up on your doorstep, because your neighbor has built their new fence, too close to your house. (That is a civil matter, which you need to take up in court and pay for yourself or with the local council) The Police WILL TURN UP, if you have *ashed your neighbor's head in with a rock and they are now brain dead or deceased. This THEN becomes a criminal matter and the Police become involved.

c) The Police will always LOOK FOR THE EASIST ROUTE TO HAVE YOU CHARGED WITH AN OFFENCE OR OFFENCES. The easiest way is for you to INCRIMINATE YOURSELF. It just requires you to divulge to one active Police Officer, what you believe to be the issue and what you may or may not have done to resolve this issue. SAY NOTHING!!! WHEN INTERVIEWING YOU, THE POLICE WILL ALWAYS STATE THE FOLLOWING;

" WHATEVER YOU SAY IN RESPONSE TO THESE ALLEGATIONS, CAN AND WILL BE USED IN A COURT OF LAW AGAINST YOU, SHOULD THIS BE NECESSARY." DO YOU UNDERSTAND"

IT'S OKAY TO SAY, I UNDERSTAND- THAT IS NOT INCRIMINATING YOURSELF- JUST FOLLOW EVERY QUESTION WITH, "NO COMMENT"

IF YOU ARE ISSUED A WARNING CITATION, DO NOT SIGN IT!! SIGNING IT IS AN ADMISSION OF GUILT AND CAN BE USED AS EVIDENCE AGAINST YOU, IN A COURT OF LAW.

I am not inferring that Police as a whole are heartless, interfering monsters, that just want to see you go under in a big way. (Some quite possibly have this kind of mindset) Most however, I believe (at the forefront of policing) are trying to do the best they can do, with extremely limited resources and a generally poor public perception of their role, in a lot of communities at least. Commissioner Grant Stevens isn't patrolling the streets of Davoren Park or Mitchell Park or Smithfield at night. He's tucked up nice and warm in his bed.....In many ways, I feel sorry for the average Police Officer now. It is not a job role I would want to take up myself. However, if put into a position, where the Police believe you "may" have committed an offence serious enough to warrant a criminal conviction/s, LOOK AFTER YOURSELF FIRST!! THE POLICE WILL NOT COME TO YOUR RESCUE, OR SIMPLY DISMISS SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO CONVICT YOU, SHOULD YOU GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. IT IS THEIR JOB ROLE AND WHAT THEY ARE TRAINED AND OBLIGATED TO DO.....

meow, meow.....*uck you.....
Cat Lady.

13 May 2026

Resting, not camping

TheDiscoDingo aka Harold Holt

First wanted to say I enjoy reading the escapades of this high quality journalism. The efforts of this page show a high level of dedication, not seen by the likes of other more notable media sources. I find the new character, the crazy cat lady, quite entertaining and full of knowledge. There’s a crazy cat lady in every suburb, but maybe this one is the true oracle…

I wanted to write in to say, I’m currently sleeping/resting in my car (not camping, as that is a recreational activity and not permitted in many locations, as per “the councils” signage). I also have an old male dog which remains in tact, balanced hormones help maintain their health; unless they become cancerous, likely through lack of use. But what I did want to say is, a lot of people are cautious of in tact male dogs. This is why I always try and make sure to tell people they shouldn’t worry, I make sure he’s fed before I take him out into the public or around other small dogs…… ;)

It’s an effort to convince them he won’t eat their dog, it’s a joke, I find it funny. It can make some people uncomfortable. He’s highly socialised though and prefers to chase ducks, he hasn’t figured out that they fly away when he gets too close. He has worked out that rabbits are too quick and doesn’t waste his energy on them.

-theDiscoDingo aka Harold Holt

13 May 2026


Armageddon BBQ in the city

More than half of the thirty or more diners appeared to be sleeping outside with most others in temporary rooming houses or in cars. One man pushing a walking frame covered in blankets could hard walk.

The Croatian Genealogist and Cardplayer David were there, but I didn’t recognise anyone else as the homeless scene changes by the month. Few want to present a still target for predators or the authorities.

One rough sleeper said he had to give up his dog and her puppies. He said he was heartbroken.

They served bacon, eggs, fried onions, sausages, bread, sauces, coffee, cordial and a vegetarian chilli con carne. It was top quality food and not from Oz Harvest or FoodBank. The coffee girl said she had four wisdom teeth removed a few days earlier, but there hadn’t been any subsequent swelling. The food ran out briefly, but Una Strempler’s son ran out for more and we were back in action.

The Christadelphians set up three canopies over two long tables and chairs to protect us from the weather.

Armageddon Barbecue in the city
105 Halifax Street, Adelaide. In front of the Christadelphian church. Free bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, coffee, non-meat stew, fried onions, sauces, bananas, cold water, books, and odd grocery item 8:30am to 9:30am Saturdays. Tables, chairs and canopy in hot or rainy weather. Friendly church people, desperado clients, uncastrated dogs. No data collection for Eternal Shame File. Toilets.

17 May 2026

(above) Some free food venue clients are too smart for comfort. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Slim pickings at Modbury

Friday is the best day at Tea Tree Gully Salvos so we were surprised when Old George announced there wasn’t much to grab at the free food event supplied by Aldi and delivered by Oz Harvest.

That didn’t bother me as I’m too fat, anyway. But I did get some decent olive bread and Red Leicester cheese from England. That was enough. But other people were disappointed. One factor is a new driver who arrives later with less product from Aldi’s. That certainly has fuelled conspiracy theories.

Patricia has began working at the Corps. She was a client and is finding the transition rather challenging. Rob “Windmill” Caldwell was disappointed not being able to use the showers because the once-a-month old folks group was using the main hall and required the disability toilet that is shared with the shower. And the Corps building closed at 12noon just as the old folk were leaving.

This situation isn’t working for homeless people. Those living in the gully are stressed beyond belief and can’t remember what seems to them a haphazard opening and closing schedule. Ingle Farm Salvos are better as the shower stays available whoever is using the building including big funerals.

Tom Farmer, 65, made a cameo visit. His festering arm wound was from flesh cut off to fit onto his tongue where he had cancer.

Quite a few workers and clients are concerned about a young man living in the creek bed. He’s naive and not a drug user. He doesn’t appear to have socks or a change of clothing. All the homeless industry bureaucrats and executives are proving useless to him.

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 10:30am. Showers Mon, Wed Fri 8:45 - 11:45am. Thirty-minute showers. Towel and toiletries supplied. Slow laundry or Orange Sky Wednesdays 1:00pm to 3:00pm. No I.D. required except for supermarket cards, parcels, & blankets. Free coffee, toast, heated frozen meals from cafe Mon, Wed, Fri 8:30am to 12:00noon. Morning Tea 2nd and 4th Weds 10:30am to 12:00noon. Intelligent staff. Clients range from fascinating and decent to slightly strange.

Late 12 May 2026


Church@ParaVista record client number

They had a record 43 “groups” for last Wednesday’s fortnight free food handout. This included a crazy guy who intimidated others with his angry monologues while staring into space.

Staff issued numbers so just ten at a time were let into the free food room to stop everyone rushing in at once. This change came from complaints about pushing and shoving. Numbers are issued upon arrival so they might see a similar situation to other places where clients arrive four hours prior to a ten-minute food handout in order to get the best position.

Everyday Church using Annie’s Cafe at Christies Beach issue tickets randomly so arriving early makes no difference. That’s the best method.

Very few clients take advantage of the free coffee and biscuits. Most want the takeaway meat and vegetables only and come to this location exclusively and don’t do the rounds like the hoarders. The boxes of chocolate and soft drinks were labelled “one per client”, but some ignored this even when reminded by church volunteers. “What can we do?” a church woman said.

A woman pushing a pram arrived at 4:20pm to discover nearly everything gone and no meat left. She asked why they advertised being open from 4pm to 5pm, but couldn’t get a serious answer. I suggested she arrive at 3:25 next week to get an early ticket. Even so, the pushing and shoving is obnoxious.

Two white female police officers with guns and pepper spray arrived for the crazy guy after everyone had left. He peeked at them from behind the church as they entered the front door.

Church@ParaVista free food
Unusual name for a church. Ph (08) 8263 2344. 308 Nelson Road, Para Vista. (Next to the IGA shopping centre.) 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.

Late 12 May 2026
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Invitation to sleep on cardboard

Thank you so much for previously joining us at Christmas on the Table! Your support helped create something really special for our community. Because of people like you, we were able to share not just meals, but connection and care during a time that matters most, and to help others too. 
 
So, we’d love to invite you to be part of our other big event of the year, Soup & Sleep. 
 
Soup & Sleep is all about stepping into the shoes of those we support every day. You’ll join us for an evening of connection, hear powerful lived-experience stories, help prepare meals for South Australians doing it tough, and then sleep out overnight in our carpark on a luxury piece of cardboard, as a reminder of why this work matters. 
 
 Thursday, June 4 
Food on the Table (2 Chief St. Hindmarsh) 
 
It makes a huge difference in enabling us to continue the work we do - preparing and delivering thousands of meals each week to people facing food insecurity. If you’re able to join us and support us by fundraising (and getting sponsored), we would be so incredibly grateful. 
 
Register here: https://soupandsleep.org.au/ 
 
If you can’t make it this year, you can still make a meaningful impact by donating here: https://soupandsleep.org.au/donate 

Click on the Participant Guide so you can get a better feel for what the night involves. 

Whether you come on your own or bring a team, your involvement has a real, tangible impact. 

And if you’ve already heard from us or signed up, thank you! And please ignore this note (or better yet, invite a friend along.

We’d absolutely love to have you there. 

With gratitude,
The Food on the Table Team

Posted Late 12 May 2026​

(above) If you have the mental strength the life of a vagabond can be rewarding. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2026.)

Grill’d gets biggest crowd ever

Grill’d got 403 diners over a two and a half hour period. The queue was backed up to Frome Road when the doors opened just before 5pm. It remained in replace until nearly 7pm when hamburger production stopped. Over a dozen employees dealt with the rush that included clients having discovered they can request two added fillings to the burgers. This required an extra 30 seconds labour to each meal, but with having to serve more than two diners a minute this will have ramifications over the following months.

How does a small food venue produce such a large benefit to us?  

I had the fake meat burger that was pink inside. It was too realistic so next month it’s back to a vegetable burger. Mine was cold because they got the numbers mixed up, but whose complaining with such miraculous free service.

There seemed to include less homeless people than before, possibly due to the crowded nature of the restaurant. Homeless people carry huge backpacks and other contraptions for survival and moving amongst a crowded room presents both mental and physical problems.

Shannon was there with a new boyfriend. Troubled Mel seemed not troubled at all. The Big Issue Mel said she was moving to the east coast in six weeks. She comes from a small hippy town near Lismore. Her exit will be missed.

The Ghost Who Walks was disappointed that the Voluntary Assisted Dying business wouldn’t help kill him. I suggested a private contractor we know, but he showed little interest.

Deserving Dennis (formerly Dennis the Menace) wasn’t there. He was also missing from Stevo’s at Sefton Plaza earlier that day.

A MyAgedCare client said he’s with the Silver Chain R.D.N.S. contractor and all he has to do is phone to request a purchase code and it’s granted.

We talked outside until after 11pm. Eight or nine Aboriginals had been standing in Hindmarsh Square below the Pullman Hotel where the man had been camping last month before authorities shoved him somewhere else. A man slept on the concrete near the R.A.A. building while someone in a car took a photograph. The woman with me yelled at him.

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

15 May 2026
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Living Well Christie Downs

They opened the carpark gates only wide enough to allow pedestrians through while car drivers parked on the street. This was slightly unnerving when you live in your car and depend on it. And this is a crime-ridden area despite being a few hundred metres from the police station.

The meal included white rice, hamburger stew, tomato sauce, salt, pepper, ice-cream, canned peaches and coffee. There were about eight diners plus a similar number of church people.

Toby wore a flannelette shirt over his “I am a Muslim. Ask me anything” shirt. He exchanged a few words with the Christian preacher who backed away saying. “I’ve been rebuked.”

They don’t collect personal data, but asked me many questions about my religious beliefs that might have annoyed some, but I like talking historical, philosophical and esoteric scripture providing they don’t bring in the devotion-to-Jesus part.

The 90-minute coffee and meal was followed by 90-minutes of religious discussion. Most diners made an exit before the religious talk began, but some stayed.

As I drove back to my camping site I spotted the Muslim man sleeping on concrete next to his baby pram. Now there was a cultural treasure in the flesh.

Living Well Church Christie Downs
9 Mckinna Rd, Christie Downs. 0474 023 948. Free meal Fridays 5-7pm. No I.D. required. The meal begins about 5pm then morphs into religious instruction by 6:30pm. No obligation to stay. They say they help homeless people with tents and bedding.

11 May 2026

(above) Another camper in the Adelaide CBD parklands, moved on and forgotten. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Small campfires are lifesaving to some people living outside. They're cheap, usually safe and no problem, but rarely tolerated by Councils. Aboriginals get some exemption, but not carte blanche. So does the homeless industry advocate for leniency? No, they advocate for more funding for their salaries and cars. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

On the Street​

Volunteers announced last Sunday there will be no Fred’s Van at Salisbury tonight due to lack of volunteers who are attending Mothers’ Day functions.

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Linda said she’ll try to visit Salisbury railway station tonight to tell the dozen indigenous people that the One Mob food service has stopped until further notice. Aroha the cook and Linda are both seriously ill.

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The man whose image is pasted on the wall of Randall’s Hardware at Blair Athol has a claim to fame in other stores including a clothing store at China Town and possibly at multiple other locations. The images include him leaving stores with bags of allegedly unpaid items.

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A retired Anglicare employee remembered an invitation to an employees’ cocaine party.

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Kitchen staff are still using frozen food purchased last year by Woody and Skip when they controlled the Salvation Army Tea Tree Gully Corps kitchen.

Skip believed they should stock up for a long famine. The frozen food is currently used for the free lunches supplied to anyone who turns up on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at the Corps. And they don’t collect data for the government’s Eternal Shame File.

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The Uniting Churches have been providing synthetic sleeveless hooded puffer jackets to clients at Hindmarsh Square on Thursdays at 5pm. But church volunteers have noted that some Mandarin clients and others arrive on a second Thursday pretending to be fitting a coat for themselves.

One diner said the garments had zippers that break easily. They might be items that sell on Temu for $3.34 postpaid.

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Deserving Dennis missed out on the free groceries at a recent Stevo’s Tuesday brunch at Enfield Encounter church. He couldn’t hear his number being called despite clients and others shouting his name.

When he finally responded, the next person on the list had already entered the free food room. Dennis became confused and despite Petra Kolly and another person offering to help him, he said it was all too much and left with his dog.

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The Op Shop lady at St Andrew’s Church in Glenelg threw away a headless black display mannequin that she didn’t need. Such items sell quickly at garage sales and are particularly desired by elderly Italian men, for some reason.

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St Peter’s Anglican church at Glenelg has stuffed up their coffee and toasted sandwich service. It was weekly then fortnightly then the Minister was absent then they decided to change the time, but weren’t telling anyone and it’s nearly impossible to get through to them by phone. No wonder they get just two clients on some Wednesdays.

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Casino Warren said City Salvos allocate 100 barista free coffees for each morning they’re open at the Pirie Street Adelaide Congress Hall. Each person gets one free coffee. A second cup costs $2. I’ve never seen anyone pay money. They gave me a second cup free when I staggered in with Covid.

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A woman aged about 32 and in apparently good health showed us her diabetes pen outside Fred’s Van where they serve huge trays of sugary bakery products. Most free food joints serve devitalised sugary food to people not educated enough to realise they’re being poisoned. It’s a crime scene.

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A woman named Vicki from the Christies Beach Baptist Church produced a detailed 8-page list of services for homeless people in the southern suburbs of Adelaide. Unlike most free food lists produced by welfare groups this tells homeless people what they can expect at service centres.

But other free food joints in the area display their own useless pamphlets instead of that produced by Vicki.

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Every free food joint needs someone to analyse their services rather than blindly do the same thing every year.

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A man from the Noarlunga Uniting Church offered me fresh spinach from their little garden behind the hall.

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A man from Crazy Cottage said homeless people moving there remained on the Housing Trust Category 1 waiting list. Crazy Cottage is part of the Eternal Shame File database so residents are given preferential housing to those living in the wild.

To be fair, Crazy Cottage residents are often in terrible physical and mental shape.

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A homeless transgender woman asked for a toasted sandwich and to use the single shower at a free food place in Christie Downs. She said the sandwich maker asked if she was transgender. She asked what that had to do with anything.

The shower was a Unisex shower, anyway.

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A leading Anglican parishioner said he has nightmares that may be influenced by the devil. One nightmare involves living in a building of 4000 people with two toilets.

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I was parked on a sloping hill above Lonsdale Highway near Hypnotic Ron’s camp when a police car with flashing lights raced behind me. Two officers ran out and shouted whether I was gassing myself.

One officer said they were relieved not to see pipes leading from my car exhaust. It took them a few minutes to calm down. The male officer said he could see that I still had my marbles.

He said camping on Crown Land was okay, but I should move my car behind a tree and not frighten people. I had been sitting in my car preparing the next instalment of Adelaide Homeless Journal and had fallen asleep when someone driving along the road below had jumped to conclusions.

This has happened numerous times before, but the fear has always been that I’d had a heart attack or stroke. Being homeless is a wild experience where normal people project their own fears on those living outside.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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Understanding the appropriate magic words is crucial when applying for housing for homeless people. Showing self-respect and that you take care of yourself mentally and physically is the wrong approach. Saying you’ve had thoughts of death are the magic words. Not washing is also a bargaining chip. Don’t go overboard and use the word ‘suicidal’. They may cart you off to a locked ward.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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Are clients expressing gratitude in videos to the Hutt Street Centre on anti-depressant drugs that create a feeling of euphoria? The producers of these videos have high production skills and wouldn’t leave anything to chance. A depressed, exhausted person not on happy pills might not produce the same product. That person might even tell the truth.

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A client at the Playford Salvation Army breakfast at Elizabeth East said a meal last week consisted of canned white spaghetti, white flour crumpet and a can of Coke on a cold rainy morning. He added that they supplied real butter for the crumpet.

But he wonders why they serve an unhealthy cold drink on a cold rainy morning when the coffee machine, coffee, milk and sugar are sitting on a counter.

10 May 2026

(above) Police investigating a crime scene in Hurtle Square last week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) A room renter said three residents at Crazy Cottages died over the past two weeks. One from natural causes and two from drugs. This doesn't include the woman who was hung elsewhere. Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours). (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Client not provoked at Elizabeth

The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man walked into the Elizabeth St Vincent de Paul office for a free hamper. He perhaps thought he’d provoke an employee by making this request.

The employee yelled that he’d gotten one last week and the limit was one every three weeks. She yelled in a way to provoke and humiliate him perhaps hoping he’d react so she could kick him out.

But he responded politely and wished her the best of the day, which in the context of the exchange was a subtle insult. He said he was hungry and could he have just one can of soup.

This is the technique of street beggars. When refused money, they lower the amount until it becomes so small that refusing it makes the potential giver appear the one at fault.

The employee probably knew this technique and gave him a can of soup. He again wished her a good day adding that he hoped the soup wasn’t too expensive for her to give him.

The N.D.I.S. man had won the encounter.

Late 9 May 2026


Church@paravista free food

Thirty-seven names were put on the sign-in page that includes first name and number of people for whom the client is collecting. Others arriving late didn’t sign the page.

Hands and Feet charge the church $7.50 per crate. They previously charged per person, but the crate charge is simpler. The crates include old vegetables that aren’t worth $7.50 and frozen meat that is worth more. The church spends about $120 for each fortnightly food handout for which they don’t charge us. They don’t get government funding.

The church@paravista property was previously owned by Victory Church who moved to larger premises down on Maxwell Road then changed their name. Before that it was a hardware store. The property also includes a medical surgery and a church Op Shop. The church@paravista movement began with a few people operating from a home forty years ago. Those few included George who packs away the tables and boxes after we’ve left.

No one acted strange on this day. The N.D.I.S. man was normal except for directing a continuous stream of somewhat insulting and disgusting laughing sounds at no one in particular. He continued this vile stream for fifteen minutes. With each new insecure client entering the room he’d direct a sound that resembled something from a public toilet.

I’m not sure if Matthew was there. His car scrapes the concrete while driving down the ramp to the back door. He has begun waiting at the front of the church whereupon staff bring the food out to him. He can barely move yet is our most optimistic and cheerful client.

Other clients were grabby as usual, but this didn’t include the Asians who were moderate unlike those elderly “grab hags” at other joints.

The convener didn’t want me handing out the 36-page Adelaide Free Food guide until he'd read it so I said, “Forget it”. Some charity and “non-profit” workers glare at me for six-months after reading it so why fuel their antagonism.

Church@ParaVista free food
Unusual name for a church. Ph (08) 8263 2344. 308 Nelson Road, Para Vista. (Next to the IGA shopping centre.) 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.

Late 9 May 2026

(above) Homeless camp at Fairfield Road, Elizabeth South three weeks ago. I've waited to publish images until the Council has stolen their belongings. (Thanks to the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man for images taken in early April and published May 2026.)

(above) Executives in the homeless industry own their houses thanks to money removed from public welfare housing programs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Published May 2026.)

(above) Lots of empty decrepit Housing Trust flats fenced up with boarded windows. Horrible, but better than 24/7 Anxiety of living like this behind a school. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Twenty-two Anglican churches
​don’t have a bishop

Twenty-two Anglican churches covering the Fleurieu Peninsula, Riverland,, Adelaide Hills, Murraylands and the southern suburbs of Adelaide don’t have a Bishop after he was caught having an affair with another church member.

Rt. Rev. Keith Dalby, Bishop of The Murray in South Australia divorced his first wife in 2021 then began an affair with a church lawyer named Alison Dutton. Despite a substantial view within the Diocese that women not be ordained as priests, he did so with Alison in a ceremony promoting two other women and Rodney Fopp to the priesthood. But a key issue was that he did this ten days before secretly marrying Alison in a civil ceremony on the east coast.

The church hierarchy fumed over the issue and in April 2026 the Episcopal Standards Board of the Anglican Church of Australia ordered him to resign in three weeks.

But the Right Reverend Keith Dalby said he had a few years left on the clock that he wanted to devote to the Church. And that his younger second wife has perhaps thirty years left to serve the Church. He admits he made some big mistakes, but isn’t throwing in the towel.

The Diocese has been effectively paralysed administratively for quite some time and the impasse may lead to the precedent of the case going to a civil court that the Church wants to avoid.

Those involved must be going through a mental and emotional nightmare. The Anglican Church itself is nearly dead with the congregations of all 22 churches in the Diocese having little more active members than the single Pentecostal Revival City Church at Modbury. The Diocese is more a cultural heritage curator of old buildings with old members too frightened to do anything. The churches have become aged social clubs with rooms to rent.

Yet there are a few genuinely spiritually aware people in the church who fight the institutional lethargy that was befallen the church. Some even realise it’s a battle being fought in the spiritual realm as much as in this world.

8 May 2026


Annie’s Cafe at Christies Beach

The Hands and Feet driver walked around in circles muttering about a car appearing behind him as he was backing the new vehicle into position. A man from Everyday Church pulled him from his confusion and helped unload the Aldi crates onto tables.
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Another church woman issued numbered tickets at random for two dollars. This meant you might be the first or last to be called to collect some food. Two volunteers took items for themselves, but most did not.

There were about thirty clients collecting bread, mushrooms, vegetables and meat. The man who gave away toasters at Morphett Vale Salvos two years ago warned me the chicken was sometimes “off” and that he threw it away. Another man who advises everyone to visit a fish and chip shop down the street asked if they had any fish. Not this week. They offered toothpaste that turns yellow teeth white in three days, but I didn’t take any. I used many tubes of that stuff and my old teeth stayed yellow.

Not everyone went inside the cafe for the cheap coffee, strangely. Service took twenty minutes because Annie disappeared with her son leaving one young woman to serve twenty customers who arrived all at once. One diner previously asked if he could get the drink for one-dollar and give the two-dollar donation food a miss. The answer was in the negative.

There were complaints that Hands and Feet doesn’t bring enough stuff.

Not quite free meat and milkshakes Christies Beach
Annie’s Cafe, 60 Beach Road, Christies Beach. Friday 4pm. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, meat from Everyday Church and City Light South Church via Aldi. The cost is two dollars. You can also get a coffee or milkshake inside the cafe for one dollar. No I.D. required.

8 May 2026

(above) The free food people are taking seriously diner criticisms of the service. These include no salt and pepper, unedifying rush for free takeaway food by elderly women; rushed clean up before diners have finished eating and irregular coffee service from the excellent barista. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

(above) Gideon and Veku Tlaisun and Chin Falam people, and Michael along with the Greeks provide the free service at their own expense. The Chin Falam are amongst the world's most prolific Christian evangelists. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

Two shonky outfits joining forces

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness is merging with the End Street Sleeping Collaboration. Who the hell cares?

The former describes itself as “an independent champion and catalyst for ending homelessness in Australia”. They brought us the Adelaide Zero Project that spent millions of dollars claiming they’d reduce “functional homelessness” to zero within one year, then two years then four years then they kept quiet.

The End Street Sleeping Collaboration seems to be the passive partner. They operate in Sydney and the northern rivers region of New South Wales. They’ve had trouble getting funding so their Board members are mostly getting the boot. They include Kirsten Jordan, John Macmillan, Shane Jakupec, Rabbi Mendel Kastel, Matthew Kearney and Anna Scott. Kastel’s Jewish brother-in-law was killed at Bondi by the father and son Jihadists last year.

The merged outfit will bring in executives from other homeless industry outfits showing how it’s all one big club of grifters stealing from those living outside. Instead of building houses and flats for those living outside, the money goes for salaries for executives and employees to buy their own houses.

https://mailchi.mp/aaeh/merger-announcement-13847402?e=a7a3cea2d3

7 May 2026
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Kilburn Fred’s Van

Strange how arriving late changes the perspective of a crowded dining room. The diners were talking like any other workplace cafeteria or after-work gathering of normal people.

Michelle the coordinator was sick and her replacement was called late and then couldn’t get into the building. This caused a panic in the kitchen of which we were unaware. The thin brown SAS employee with perfect teeth worked in the kitchen. Her bright smile fades slightly when I look at her with my bulging bloodshot eyes.

Not enough tables were set up so Jay ate on the soft seats of the foyer. A woman told a man not to bring Justine anymore as she was damaging her relationship. Lance Armstrong wasn’t there, but he said last month he didn’t like being called that name as Lance was an unpleasant character who destroyed reputations of those trying to expose his drug cheating in bicycle racing. The man formerly known as Lance Armstrong in our crowd was also a bike racer.

The food included non-meat sausages made from textured vegetable protein that gives me migraines. Another free food venue problem.

Two new older women seemed well adapted to the hustle and bustle of a free food joint. One asked me the same questions repeatedly.

An older woman barged into the queue demanding a second meal before others had been served a first plate. Her friends yelled at her that others behind her hadn’t been served. She seemed in some sort of mentally fixed state where she couldn’t deal with new information, either a seizure or trauma reaction from starvation during war. We forgave her.

Tony said he can’t control his bowels after getting an anal inspection. He said the doctor did something to him. He also suspects there is something in the Covid injections that is killing people. He’s getting his next one this week. He can’t remember how many he’s had. One man said he’s getting his ninth this month.

Tony is very popular despite drilling holes in fences to peek at neighbours.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide.

7 May 2026

(above) Homeless camp in North Adelaide since destroyed by the Adelaide City Council. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, May 2026.)

“Nice Old Man” suffers legal loss

Drug addict thug goes to jail

“The druggie that assaulted the little lady [in Civic Park, Modury] has been jailed for 4 months and $1000 compensation is being paid to the little lady.”

Nice Old man ordered to attend mediation

“The nice old man has been ordered to attend mediation, but appealed the courts decision and the appeal was rejected so his case against the little lady must go to mediation, but regardless her Job Seeker allowance is not able to be garnished as government payments are exempt as a source of payout in a civil case.”

“Nice Old Man” fiddled with the evidence?

“And if he rejects that in mediation and it goes to trial the evidence the court has said has been tampered with by him and the evidence bought by the little lady will see his case dismissed as he has altered documents from an auto repair place that is as the court said just a quote in any case and dated photos of his vehicle the day he vacated her property show no damage had occurred.”

No compensation for the “Nice Old Man”

“And the fact she never agreed to his trip and her name is on no paperwork that his case is extremely weak.”

Editor: For the background to this story see the 19 April 2026 post. 

The Mechanic
6 May 2026
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Clare Scriven: a politician of principle

Clare Scriven worked hard to become a politician. She was a Labor Party political aid for years then ran for the House of Assembly, did badly, then finally got onto the Legislative Council ticket and won.

She came up for re-election last month, but was placed in an almost unwinnable fifth spot. It appeared her career was over.

Clare fell foul of the Labor Party machine after supporting Liberal Ben Hood’s amendment to restrict abortion criteria for women having past the 28-week mark. At this point the fetus is a recognisable human being that acts like a human being in the womb.

The motion almost passed, but failed and the status quo remains.

I’ve met Clare’s in-laws who are mostly anti-abortion including her mother-in-law who previously picketed the abortion clinic in Woodville before doing that at this location became illegal. She then moved her protest location to Woodville Road.

Clare has principle and staked her political future on standing up for her beliefs rather than flowing with the power. Her victory declared a few days ago is a sweet note in the South Australian 2026 state election.

However, Sonia Blackwell says Clare messed up the eradication program of pine bark beetle infestation in the Tea Tree Gully area. Sonia says the infected trees were removed bit by bit allowing the beetles to spread. She said infected trees were left in piles on the side of the road. Sonia says Clare has risked the destruction of most pine trees in the Tea Tree Gully area and if they spread to the southeast the beetles will destroy a billion dollar industry. We’ll see.​

But like Sonia we also have a Member of Parliament who will stand up for her beliefs rather than agree to whatever it takes to preserve her career.

6 April 2026

(above) Port Noarlunga. Being destitute and homeless can be a blessing in disguise. It's a matter of maintaining inner strength and self-worth and avoiding "helping agencies" that cripple. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

No sympathy for DSP man
The Cat Lady

Totally agree......

I just read this article and now I am in mega rant stage.........

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-30/pensioner-wants-compensation-for-years-stripped-of-pension/106611810

Look there is a lot I love about the ABC, but this kind of article, really gives me the *HITS BECAUSE IT IS SO UNTRUE!!

Disability support pensioners, (DSP) along with aged pensioners and veterans, are pretty much the top of the Centrelink benefit pyramid. (And do not retaliate by stating they are all needy and don't get enough) At the lower end of the scale, are the carers, the unemployed and right at the bottom, are those on youth allowance. (This allowance is actually so low, it verges on disgraceful)

Let me start. Oh yes aged pensioners........currently the cut off threshold for not being able to receive ANY pension from the Government, is wait for it
(Please note that your primary home where you live, is not viewed as an asset by Centrelink, so you can essentially be living in a two-million-dollar home and still be receiving a full Centrelink pension (go figure?)

Home owners:

Single individual ($722,000) in cash assets
Combined couple ($1,085,000) in cash assets

Non-home owners:
Single individual ($980,000) in cash assets
Combined couple ($1,343,000) in cash assets

Okay that over. Persons currently receiving a Centrelink Disability Support Pension and or Aged Pension are entitled to the following;

1. Concession rate car Registration
2. Concession rate car license renewal
3. Concessions on public transport
4. Concessions on council rates
5. Concessions on Water, Electricity, Sewerage etc
6. Concessions on their dog registration
7. The Pensioner Education Supplement (plus can apply for study start up loans each year, plus can study to Masters Degree level without issue, AND take as long as they like!)
8. Disability parking permit
9. Discounts on Insurance (e.g. through companies like APIA) 
10. The 60 and over, discount card
11. Rent assistance payments from Centrelink and
12. No requirement to look for work, accept work offered or participate in any kind of mutual obligation activity

Now let's see what someone on Jobseeker payment or Youth allowance gets

1. NO discount on Car Registration
2. NO discount on Car License renewal
3. NOT able to claim PES (Pensioner Education Supplement)
4. NOT able to access study start up loans and cannot study above a Bachelor level course (which must be on Centrelink's approved course list)
5. Must participate in mandatory activities as requested by DEWR and Centrelink in order to maintain payments
6. Must accept any job offer

Concessions ONLY available if the applicant currently has a Centrelink Health care card. (Not all applicants automatically receive this)

Now let us look at the difference in payments between Disability, Aged, Jobseeker and Youth Allowance.

Disability support payment, current base rate $1290.00
Aged pension, payment rate $1290.00
Jobseker payment, current base rate: $961.84
Youth Allowance, current base rate:  $733.20

Let me add in that if your on a DSP or Aged Pension, you can work up to 25 hours a week, WITHOUT losing, either your pension or DSP. (Which is a bit odd, considering that the methodology behind being able to receive the DSP, is that you are technically unable to work, eight hours (or the equivalent of one day a week) but you can legally work up to 25 hours a week, once you have gone onto the DSP. (Go figure?)  It is even MORE odd, that those person who are either on a DSP or aged pension, are deemed likely candidates (cough-cough) to complete University, Master's level or Ph.D. Level courses, whilst those who are unemployed (or under-employed and having to survive on Jobseeker) are not considered in need of assistance with their education (Figure that one out for yourselves?) Just a bit of a side rant here. If you intend on looking for stats around how many DSP and or Aged Pensioners actually finish courses they are on, with the assistance of PES, you are sadly in for a shock. Those stats are hidden, along with the number of Indigenous students, who receive ABSTUDY (which is the highest payment yet at $1316.20!!! Per fortnight) Oh yeah, I forgot to add, if your Indigenous, you can study at master's Level, with no issues. on AUSTUDY you cannot. A bit of reverse racism there.......if ever I saw it?

So now, back to the article. There is a reason why people do everything possible, to get onto the DSP. (Which like the NDIS, was originally designed ONLY for those persons with catastrophic or profound disabilities, that were never going to get any better or resolve themselves) Well this changed and the system was rorted, like Allan Bond at a Pyramid Scheme Launch. Everyone who applied at a certain point in time, was almost certainly able to access the DSP. You could be excessively angry, really fat, have lot's of nervous tension, be afraid of the dark, and the list goes on and on and on. Eventually those persons who were on the DSP, got so large and the rorting so obvious, that the eligibility criteria was severely curtailed. And now, unless you are profoundly disabled, your chances of getting onto the DSP, are lower than Pauline Hanson's IQ. Which is a bit concerning, because there certainly are people, who SHOULD be on the DSP, but simply cannot access it. So they are forced onto Job-seeker and yes, it is extremely hard to live on Job-seeker. (Been there done that)

Now back to the Muppet in this article. At first glance, you do kind of feel sorry for him. Until you read the line that "He had to cash in several of his share portfolio's," just to survive and you notice the bling on his wrist, that would make the average American Rapper, piss his pants.......Behind the photo of him in his kitchen, are several expensive kitchen items and some expensive plonk.  If this guy is doing it hard, I am going to change into a pair of Cher's panties, right in front of you. His symptoms are not out of range of what the average aging person experiences and nothing he actually was diagnosed with was a permanent disability. He managed to find a sympathetic doctor and got onto the DSP, which he happily sat on for 26 years. Did he have trouble finding employment, yes. But I think if you read between the lines, it is because technically besides manual labor, he has zero skills in anything other than hauling ropes up the side of a fishing boat or driving the odd truck or two. There is such a thing as RE-SKILLING. I studied my way through several qualifications, which caring for my dying father. It can be done. Flipping heck. He had 26 flaming years, to do some kind of re-training??

Back to my original rant. DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR PEOPLE ON THE DSP. They are FAR better off than the unemployed, youth allowance and carers. How people on unemployment benefits would love to get as much money as those persons on the DSP and or even access to PES or the increased range of concession discounts and or not be forced to access the job network system (which is another nightmare, I will discuss at another time)

People rant and rave on about the NDIS, (which I agree is an out-of-control dumpster fire) , but there are several other issues out there as well, including an entire cohort of people, forced onto Jobseeker and denied a  livable income. You can survive on the DSP and the aged pension. IT is virtually impossible on Jobseeker and youth allowance. That's the bottom line.

My rant has now concluded,

Cat Lady.
Meow, meow...........*uck you!

​5 May 2026
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Mary’s Kitchen Glenelg

Two volunteers waited at least thirty minutes before the coordinator arrived. She carefully backed her car into a difficult space then discovered she’d forgotten the keys and raced back out. She returned 30 or 40 minutes later so the rush was on to prepare the meal.

Luckily it was a dodgy soup containing unknown ingredients followed by a main course of spaghetti bolognaise. The vegetarian version turned out to be the same including meat – by mistake. Dessert was cake and custard.

Johnny Johnson shouted at the top of his voice that he’d lost his bank book and budget book and had anyone seen it. The vegetarian cook’s daughter said they’d keep an eye out for it. But an institutional colleague named Michael made odd sounds that blocked some of Johnny’s message to the latter’s anger.

An artist said he’d read the Adelaide Free Food guide and was more interested what hadn’t been written than what was. He said he wrote an article on that subject. I responded like a Stiff and went blank.

The dining room was nearly cleared of people and everything cleaned and packed up 50 minutes after the doors had opened for the three course meal. Too fast with the speed sabotaging their effort.

Orange Sky Laundry was late and one man arriving late himself was turned away. The van should perhaps go there just once a week, but for many more hours. What is the point of a 90-minute shift that takes hours to drive to the scene, set up, operate, take down and return the vehicle to Norwood? And if the volunteers are too tired for an extra long shift make it two teams. ​

St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen)
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771. Every Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Free soup, buns, coffee Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:15pm. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items, hygiene bags, old fruit and vegetables. One free PBS prescriptions at Blooms Glenelg pharmacy weekly (50 a year). Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm; Fri 10:30am – 12:30pm.

5 May 2026

(above) Oz Harvest brings food straight from supermarkets to distribution points to minimise spoilage of food already on the edge. To their credit, they don't collect client data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Their opening hours at 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh across the road from the soccer stadium, may change slightly from summer to winter. Parking is a problem as the Novita disability joint next door don't want us using their huge parking lot. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The Mandarins and some white folk arrive as early as 6am. Some leave a bag in the queue then return three hours later. Oz Harvest say this isn't proper behaviour. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) No speak English? No excuse, now. The Mandarins swamp some services, but over time they've become accepted as being similar to us: stupid, greedy and often kindly. Grab Hags are perhaps an exception, but they come from every ethnic group. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Armageddon Barbecue in the city

“That c*** can’t even walk,” a desperado muttered as he rode past me on his bicycle as I was returning to my car for a hat.

We arrived at the Armageddon BBQ and food table at the same. His shaven head showed numerous white scars from yesteryear plus new still bleeding strips of ripped flesh. His right arm was savagely grazed while his face and legs were covered in sores and cuts. His eyes were bloodshot and his skin generally had a medicated appearance. “All I want is bread and a sausage,” he said as he got three of each, a coffee and cold water then relaxed somewhat.

A much younger man showing no signs of drug use or injuries became upset when asked if he lived outside.“All I did was come here for a pleasant meal,” he said and quickly finished breakfast then retreated across the road. Other diners were emotional raw and in crisis. I remember being that way myself when younger. I’d shout at the top of my voice at the smallest remark. The experienced homeless people around me stayed quiet and didn’t react.

About forty people had breakfast arriving at different stages so nearly everyone got to sit at one of the 16 chairs around two long tables in front of the Christadelphian Ecclesia building.

A diner named Adam said grace loudly before he ate. He’s one of these humans naturally liked by everyone. Another diner was blind. Quite a few showed signs of untreated illnesses. There were three powerful dogs on leashes and under strict control by their homeless owners.

The BBQ restarted two months previously after stopping over the Covid period. It had been operated mostly in Hurtle Square, but now they’re doing it exclusively in front of the Ecclesia building where they offer more variety including coffee plus toilets.

I remember at one BBQ in 2018 when Grinder complained there were just two diners living outside while everyone else lived in buildings. Today there were a higher proportion of diners living outside or in cars than before. The Armageddon crowd are hitting the right targets.

Armageddon Barbecue
​105 Halifax Street, Adelaide. In front of church. Free bacon, eggs, sausages, bread, coffee, non-meat stew, fried onions, sauces, bananas, cold water, books, and odd grocery item 8:30am to 9:30am Saturdays. Tables, chairs and canopy in hot or rainy weather. Friendly church people, desperado clients, uncastrated dogs. No data collection for Eternal Shame File. Toilets.

4 May 2026

(above) Hiding, hiding in homeless camps as housing infill makes its systematic encroachments. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) You may see the residents of these hidden camps during the day and not realise they're desperadoes experiencing similar thoughts and feelings to those living in houses, but with a continuously heightened alertness for their safety. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

On the Street

A male volunteer with a swollen cranium at Puddle Jumpers grabbed the manager’s adult daughter by her private parts. This was at the free Monday meal at the Bagster Road Community Centre in Salisbury. The daughter’s mother demanded the man remove his Hi-Vis vest and hand over his identification badge then told him, “You’re walking home.”

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Playford Salvation Army decided not to serve coffee with their usual free breakfast last week. No reasons, no excuses, just an arbitrary decision that showed the clients what management really thought of them. The problem is the Army boasting a service they can’t maintain. Better to be open less days, but have surplus staff available in case of illness.

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The Asian woman known as “The Farmer’s Wife” does the rounds with a zeal reminiscent of Catherine the Doctor of whom she appears to be the successor. Catherine is in her 80’s and has slowed down since being stabbed, but “The Farmer’s Wife” could have another thirty years left of “grab hagging”.

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A Chinese man wouldn’t make the one dollar donation at the Puddle Jumpers free food service last Christmas. He said, “No speak English,” but another man of Chinese descent said he spoke English quite well.

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St Bede’s had a full house the Tuesday before last. They’re also offering pancakes for breakfast and have a self-service toasted sandwich service along with bacon and eggs and other hot foods. They’re arguably the best free breakfast in Adelaide. More details in the Adelaide Free Food Guide.

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The Baptist WestCare preacher doesn’t adopt a holier than thou stance when working with damaged and oppressed clients. He dives into pseudo depravity while they’re trying to find polite words.

When asked how his other job as a private school chaplain was going, he responded, “The salary is good.”

He also tells jokes: “A man told his pastor that, ‘Whenever I drink whisky, my bottom hurts.’”

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A diner said the chef at Baptist WestCare is a real chef. He said the $2.50 meal last week was exquisite. “As good as a $40 restaurant meal.”

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Cancer has spread into the head of The Ghost Who Walks. He gets terrible headaches that come and go. He’s retains his sense of humour usually on the subject of finding a doctor to kill him.

He’s still banned for life from Baptist WestCare after a complaint made against him about 15 years ago. No mercy for him.

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An older woman sought a second meal at Fred’s Van Kilburn. Her friends yelled that people still waiting for their first meal stood behind her. The older woman stubbornly refused to move until she got a second meal.

She was locked into a state of mind where she had to get the extra food however bad she appeared to others.

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A homeless camper in the gully at Modbury feeds foxes by hand and even pets them. Another camper said one fox “had a go at me”.

A fox once bit Emma Hines when she was camping near the West Terrace cemetery. The bite became infected and Emma spent two weeks in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

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Some people hate foxes and want them exterminated, but they kill rats who target the soy-based wiring of Japanese cars. Especially of homeless people with food in their cars. I see foxes nearly every night running along the ridges chasing rabbits and rats.

One rat ate my car wiring at the homeless camp at Port Adelaide now occupied by some Aboriginal bureaucracy. This was where the crystal meth dealer from Port Adelaide Backpackers placed his meth addicted customers. I wasn’t sure who was the worst, the crystal meth addicts or the rats.

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Hands and Feet hadn’t any meat to bring to the free food session at the Manton Street church two Thursdays before last.

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A homeless camper told me of his travels in the tunnels under Adelaide when he was a public servant. He said tunnels running along North Terrace and up King William Street are clean with regularly spaced lighting.

Upon becoming homeless, he travelled a different set of tunnels with mysterious sounds and foggy images that turned into humans that ran away.

He said he’s lived three lives that have been impossible to live in one time period. He says he must live in three parallel time frames.

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That pleasant singer at The Haven in Salisbury sang the words, “sinners eating ice-cream” while diners lined up for desert.

A psychic added that half the people dining at The Haven aren’t even quietly thankful for the meal provided. She said being appreciative is the first stage of spiritual growth.

A drug dealer operated openly during the meal, but the church people aren’t sensitive to what is happening.

Note: This is The Haven at the Salisbury Anglican Church and not the Sonder Safe Haven on John Street.

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I noticed a trail in the bushes that led from the road for 200 metres then looped back a few metres from my car. Someone has been observing me at night for a long period of time.

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A man living under a building said the Hutt Street Centre showers don’t turn on unless an employee presses a button from another room. And to get the button pressed, a person must go through an initial 30-minute life history interview and then before each shower have their identity verified.

He said the showers are for three minutes – others say six or seven minutes – and then the water goes off. The mechanism is faulty and the shower may stop even sooner. The homeless man said, “you can’t run out there naked asking them to turn it back on,” so you have a soap shower with no rinse.

The politicians, celebrities and bureaucrats don’t see any of this. And the Hutt Street Centre doesn’t mention any of this in their promotional videos and documents produced by HughesPR.

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The Hutt Street Centre shower man also said clients drop powerful magnets connected to cords over the cubicle walls and drag up anything the magnet can hold.

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Two women at a Whitmore Square free food event talked about another woman who hung herself in their apartment building. One woman it wasn’t suicide because the man in the apartment hung her. They continued talking until the smile left the face of one woman who said, “It isn’t a good place. I’ve got to get out of there.”

3 May 2026

(above) Playford Council animal control program. One resident asked the Mayor if they'd come and poison his neighbour's cats. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Why are overweight women attracted to the pursuit of castrating male dogs? Homeless people want ferocious dogs for protection. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Main course from Sonia Blackwell for men camping in the creek bed at Modbury. Neighbours called the police twice when they lit a tiny wood stove to cook food. The police said the campers weren't doing much wrong. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Shock and awe

It’s usually been someone lying on the ground beaten senseless and bleeding that put me off free food venues. Especially when I’ve been a candidate for such treatment.

Such violence happens less at free food joints since the introduction of cameras and the mass administration of psychiatric sedatives via the homeless housing programs. Less tolerance of violence from volunteers and management has also been a factor. But since this change, attackers have used more subtle techniques such as ferocious vibes and threats that leave intended victims shaking with fear.

But what put me off Kilburn Fred’s Van three weeks ago was an older woman demanding more takeaway bags while others hadn’t received any. The small young woman volunteer handing out the bags held two in her hands of which she refused the older woman saying she’d have to wait until others had gotten their first. But the older woman aggressively grabbed the two bags from the younger woman’s hands. The young woman was shocked. The older woman must be locked into a starvation mentally from a situation in her past that might have included war. It was disturbing to watch. ​

Second Editor
​2 May 2026

(above) The Tea Tree Gully Anglican Church members pay Hands and Feet $7.50 a crate to deliver old food on the first and third Mondays of each month to give away to anyone who turns up. The church doesn't collect data for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Hands and Feet forgot to deliver the food last Monday so we waited an extra hour while they did a rush job up the hill. We watched wild kangaroos from the waiting room window. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Hindmarsh Square free food

Times have changed. The exquisite Jasmin restaurant free food has gone. The Trinity, Athelstone and Hope Valley Uniting Churches continue their role of supplying boiled eggs, cordial, bananas, pies and pasties with sauce every Thursday at 5pm.

Four elderly men in their seventies arrived in three cars driven onto the grass opposite the RAA building last Thursday at about 4:50pm. They were friendly and without passive aggression. One said they’d been doing this for thirty years.

The one from Trinity Church said the historic church – Adelaide’s oldest – is closing for two-and-a-half years while a high-rise building is constructed in their carpark. It’s s a shared equity program lasting 30 years with other tenants being Adelaide University. To make up for their lost carpark, the church will get a certain amount of carparking spaces on Sunday. But who pays the bill when the building is old and needs to be pulled down. The Freemasons got into a similar deal with their building further up North Terrace. And the Lutherans lost their seminary building at North Adelaide through a bad investment.

The dozen or so clients here in Hindmarsh Square were mostly mentally and social oppressed old men as distinct from desperadoes on the rampage.

The Uniting volunteers couldn’t identify which pies and pasties were non-meat so I had a pleasant snack of two bananas and two cups of cordial then raced off to the Sikh’s in Hurtle Square.

Hindmarsh Square Adelaide Thursdays
The Jasmin restaurant owners have retired so their free Thursday takeaway meals finished. Hope Valley, Athelstone and Trinity Uniting Churches continue offer boiled eggs, bananas, cordial, pies and pasties at 5:00pm Thursdays. Not crowded like before.

1 May 2026

Are supermarkets addictive?

Something strange has happened in supermarkets. You go in feeling okay then come out feeling as if you’re on drugs.

It’s the manipulative sounds disguised as music, the flickering lights affecting our minds, the positioning of light reflecting packaging and the zombie mental states of the employees.

Something is wrong.

1 May 2026
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No Australian Royal Commission for them

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/4/24/silent-suffering-why-children-in-gaza-are-losing-their-ability-to-speak

1 May 2026

(above) Turning handle removed from the tap closet to the Aboriginal encampment next to the West Terrace cemetery. Either cemetery staff removed it or a tribal clan removed to preserve the water supply for their own use and discourage rival clans from living nearby. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2026.)

Petra Dowdy has left the building

Seven homeless men, three Tea Tree Gully Council employees and a woman awaited at the tents across the creek from the Salvation Army Corps at Modbury. They were waiting for Petra Dowdy, the “intake officer” from the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance (A.N.W.H.A.). That’s a government-funded homeless bureaucracy operating from the Anglicare Corporation building in Elizabeth.

They waited half an hour past the appointed time as Petra circled the area, refusing to enter the scene until the ‘other woman’ had left. The Council employees were somewhat disgusted, but played the game. Time meant little to them.

The other woman was Sonia Blackwell. The homeless men had asked her to be their advocate. But Petra wasn’t coming in until their advocate was gone. And, no, the advocate sitting in her car and watching the scene wasn’t good enough. Sonia Blackwell had to leave the area.

Sonia was responsible for pushing government departments and “non-profits” to house the homeless men who had been camping near Waterworld at Ridgehaven nearly two years ago. She got the Bleach brothers housed and they’re doing fine now. Petra and the other paid bureaucrats never forgave her.

Anyway, Sonia left the area so Petra came in. The deal was that the Council wouldn’t confiscate the men’s tents and clothing providing they “engaged” with the “agencies”. They had just over 48 hours to do this. Their last chance ends at 5pm tomorrow, Friday the 1st of May.

The “agency” in question included Petra’s employer, the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance, formed by a group of “non-profits” including Anglicare Corporation. The men had to phone for an interview to get on a waiting list for another interview to trigger a series of further interviews to become case managed clients and then who the hell knows what.

And, no, Petra wouldn’t phone her office receptionist with the men’s seven names and set up appointments. The men had to do it themselves. This seems reasonable on the surface, but if you knew the mental states and miserable experiences most of the men have had by “engaging” with the “agencies” then you’d see Petra was both petulant and incompetent.

While not meaning to be excessively critical, A.N.W.H.A. is one of the most institutionally corrupt agencies in Adelaide. As the leader of the homeless men in the creek bed previously said, most homeless money goes to bureaucrats who do nothing for those living outside.

But what about Petra Dowdy? Will she face some sort of reproach from her masters at the Anglicare Corporation office in Elizabeth? Apparently not. She reportedly leaves her job at the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance tomorrow. The creek bed debacle was her last hurrah.

30 April 2026

(above) Most people would think this a bit of garbage, but it represents someone's camping area. Such people don't appear as homeless in the Census because they'll pretend to be living at a normal address. Or they're simply the invisible people that live across metropolitan Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Adding the body of a deceased Catholic Nun at West Terrace Cemetery (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Big rush on the Sikhs at Hurtle Square

Twenty people waited on the grass for an hour before the Sikhs arrived. A man emerged from an alley next to that dodgy rooming house a few doors from where deceased intellectuals Christopher Pearson, former Chief Justice John Bray and that architecture fellow lived.

The man sat on a bench smoking a cigarette as if he were on a Marlboro ad. He shouted at two young joggers: “Who made you. Who made her?” He finished his smoke then glided back into the alleyway.

The five Sikhs arrived at 5:50pm. Four traditional and one modern. A queue of forty formed. A woman emerging from Lazy Cottage met me at the end of the queue. She gestured for me to step in front of her. I tried to voice a ‘thankyou’ but a grinding sound came out instead. That was okay because I was walking like someone who didn’t know how to talk.

The Sikhs silently gave each person a plastic container of seasoned noodles, a wooden spoon, a bottle of water, a pastie or sugary bun and some other stuff. One Sikh said the container of food was “always” vegetarian, but they couldn’t vouch for the donated pasties and pies.

The queue dissolved quickly with some people crossing Wright Street into Crazy Cottage while a few raced to Fred’s Van.

Some Sikhs will acknowledge they are the “Jews of India”. I like their style of quietness, yet intelligent responses when spoken to. Why don’t the Talmud Jews serve free food to homeless people? We would like that.

Sikh vegetarian Adelaide
Hurtle Square, Adelaide. (cnr Pulteney and Carrington Streets). Thursdays 6:00 to 6:30 pm, but summer time may change. Sikh Community hands out free fresh sentient vegetarian meals, water, and sometimes packet soup, bread, snacks, and blankets. No I.D. or registration required. Volunteers speak perfect English. Food could be a bit hotter. Most Sikh temples in Adelaide offer free meals seven-days-a-week. At least forty clients or more since the Jasmin closed down.

29 April 2026

(above) Foodbank truck making its way into the Woolworths distribution centre at Gepps Cross. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Sonia just made it

Sonia Blackwell took six main courses plus extras to the camp in the creek bed at Modbury expecting to find three men, but she found six. I’m not sure if Simple Simon was amongst them. One came from Melbourne and the other from Sydney. People in the homeless scene are in constant travel mode.

These included the Black Belt man who feeds the foxes and the young Asian man who isn’t a drug addict.
Sonia was aghast that the 70-year-old Black Belt man was sleeping on open ground without any cover after the Council took his tent and belongings.

The police visited the camp twice after Sonia gave Rob “Windmill” Caldwell two miniature camping stoves that use wood as fuel. Neighbours complained about the smoke and the campers, but the police weren’t too concerned. The campers weren’t doing any harm.

Sonia hopes the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance bureaucrats will visit the site on Wednesday. But will they make a difference apart from data mining the men and further reduce their dignity and self-empowerment.

Sonia has had previous success pressuring government-funded housing agencies to rent apartments to people from the creek bed.

Stayed tuned to Adelaide Homeless Journal for further developments.

28 April 2026

(above) One Life new church at 12 Bremen Drive, Salisbury South. Free food day once a month on a Wednesday at 1pm. Cafe still being renovated. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) They've since installed chairs in their café. Their congregation has increased so they moved from their Ormsby Avenue, Parafield Gardens complex to this new building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Salvation Army lured
​into its own hyperbole

After months of renovation, the new tenants moved into the defunct Mustard Seed cafe at the Ingle Farm Salvation Army complex. They were the Salvo Housing section of the Salvation Army. But over the past six weeks business hasn’t been brisk.

I observed one employee driving in at 8:55am. H got out of his car at 8:58. His right arm was covered in a blue and red tattoo. He carried a trendy white water bottle. He had a trendy haircut. He was about 40. He limped slightly probably from spending most of his life sitting in a chair.

He opened the front door at 9:00am. That was no problem. There weren’t any waiting clients. In fact, over six weeks I haven’t seen a single client. The only other visitors appeared to be overweight female social workers.

At 10:00am the employee returned to his car to collect a brown bread sandwich. He took a few bites at his car then perhaps unconsciously sensing a critical audience returned to his suite of rooms.

Four old homeless men use the Salvo shower in another part of the building. Staff are respectful and helpful to the four old men. I asked one if he’d been in the Salvos Housing building.

He didn’t answer the question directly, but said the Hutt Street Centre was useless and that, “Once they see you’re a white man, you’re nothing.” To him, the Salvo Housing office was an invisible dwelling.

I also haven’t been in the office with the big sign outside. Nor have I asked the main receptionist what it was about. We know it isn’t for us without asking.

It may not even be an actual housing service. And its allure isn’t for actual hardcore homeless people like the shower men. It’s probably for a behaviour modification program for some special age or interest group and the bait is housing. The main action is Case Management that includes controlling the subjects’ lives in an attempt to make them normal. Cheap rental housing with regular sniffing visits is the bait.

If it was simply rental housing then hundreds of applicants would be waiting at the door before opening time.

That’s why the old men showed little interest. They've seen it all before. They’ve heard all the government media releases. None of it means anything. They’ve been lied to so many times about housing that nothing means anything anymore. They’ll keep living in their cars despite one having a heart attack last month. That’s how it goes.

27 April 2026
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WHAT ANZAC DAY REALLY MEANS

from The Cat Lady

Some uncomfortable and unsettling historical facts, about ALL war-related events (including Anzac Day) that draws attention to or emphasizes a countries involvement and behaviors during wartime.

Today is Anzac day and for most of us, we already know it is a time, to reflect on Australia's involvement in all major wars (From the Boer War right through, to what is currently happening in the Ukraine and Middle East) So, i don't think it is necessary for me, to go into a long winded history lesson, about Australia's involvement, as far as this topic is concerned. If you do need to update your knowledge, a simple google search, will set you right.

What is LESS well known to the average Australian, is Australia's less than "appealing" involvement in several events, that have at a later date, been labelled, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY, by various organizations, including the HAGUE and the UNITED NATIONS.

Do I have enough time to list them all (sadly no) So here is an abbreviated version.

1899-1902- The South Afrikan Campaign or better known as the Boer War. The Australian contingent, along with British forces, were complicit in the capture, torture, and execution of innocent Afrikaner Farmers and their families (known as Boers- which is the Dutch word for Farmer) More than 2000 were rounded up and put into overcrowded, internment camps without adequate food and water (South Afrika has a very similar climate to South Australia) in that it is VERY HOT, VERY DRY and has loads and loads of flies. Death soon ensued and pretty much everyone rammed into these situations, died (Men, women and children) But you won't hear this as part of the dawn service.

Now let us go to the first world war (1914-1918)
This war was largely force fed to the Australian Public by the British war propaganda machine (The famous, YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU, POSTER, showing Lord Kitchener (who never actually was on any front-line battlefield himself) was classic Propaganda, designed to entice gullible, men to sign up. Unlike Britain, Australia NEVER HAD A COMPULSORY DRAFT SYSTEM DURING THE TIME OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. The Government of the day, conservative (now called the LNP) (Billie Hughes) who was a RABID Anglophile (aka loved all things British, was himself, a shoulder hunched, partially deaf, poorly educated, moron of a man) that pushed Australia into a war we (like the Americans and Canadians, could have avoided, until at least 1917)

Despite a compulsory draft not going ahead, the propaganda machine of the day, went into overdrive and aided by the likes of the Salvation Army and the Red Cross (so much for the notion of THOU SHALT NOT KILL and PROTECTOR OF ALL HUMANITY) with enlistment offices opening up everywhere and Posters showing what the HUN is going to do to us, (all complete Rubbish by the way and illustrated by a German hating Norman Linsey, a well-known author and illustrator of the time period) encouraged thousands of men (the majority from smaller regional and rural locations) to sign up (and essentially sign away their lives) If they didn't end up slaughtered outright (at places like SUVLA bay) or the Western Front, they came back, shattered, physically and mentally or infected with Gonorrhea and or Syphilis (which before the discovery and manufacture of widely available Pennecillin, some 30 years later, was effectively a death sentence in itself or at least poor health and very uncomfortable symptoms for the remainder of your life. Missing limbs, blind, deaf, missing eyes, teeth, noses. These veterans were called TPI (Totally and permanently incapacitated) Then there were the ones that went insane and were quietly hidden away in Places like the mental ward of the Repatriation General Hospital, Callan Park, Kew Mental Hospital and then later in wards at the Northfield Mental Hospital in the 1930's (later to be Renamed Hillcrest Mental Hospital at the end of the second world war) You won't hear them discussed during the dawn service either.

Nor the recruiters that signed up boys as young as ten years of age (oh wow I thought that only the Nazi's did that.......well yes they did do that as well, but Australia was doing this, long before the Fascists, decided it was a good idea to have 10 year olds, manning the Barricades) On top of this, was the suffering and mayhem, many of these damaged returned Veterans heaped onto their families. (Go read a Book called "MY BROTHER JACK, by Australian Author, Malcolm Johnson) Aside from coming back mentally "fried" (literally) they often left behind countless illegitimate children/pregnant girlfriends-love interests (of sorts) overseas and or brought back a plethora of STD's (sexually transmitted diseases) which they then gave to their girlfriends and wives. Some were lethal, (like Syphilis) others caused blindness in newborn babies (Gonorrhea) and others turned the female partner sterile (Chlamydia) Chlamydia was rampant amongst the returned solider population during both the first world war right through to the Vietnam war and was one of the driving forces, behind a massive increase in post war adoption rates in this country, due to couples being unable to conceive. Interesting that this happened, because Australia as a country (as with other countries) were well aware of the harm that STD's caused their soldier and its destructive abilities as far as fighting man power was concerned, and as a result gave out lecturers on how to avoid getting infected and handed out condoms like they were bags of M and M's......(right back to the 1st world war) Clearly they weren't being used, or not used enough) Finally, returning soldiers bought back the most lethal disease of all, to this country....THE SPANISH FLU......what did that do? Well it was like Covid on STEROIDS and a thousand times worse. Millions of people died around the world. Australia although not immune to this dreaded outbreak, was a bit luckier than the rest of the world, due geographically to the fact we are an isolated Island, in the middle of a ruddy great ocean. Still thousands upon thousands of people died.......(that is not mentioned during the dawn service either)

Second world war (1939-1945) Where do I start? Australia was dragged into a conflict, WAY TOO EARLY by the BUFFOON of a Leader, Bob (pig-iron) Menzies. Who himself was NEVER involved in any war time conflicts. He conveniently got out of ANY kind of war time service (even managed to dodge Military cadet training and volunteering) whilst a student at Melbourne University during the time of the first world war…(He got his wealthy family to pull strings and got a full Exemtion) Years later, John (I love Bob Menzies, he is my spirit BRO) Howard did much the same thing) getting out of compulsory National Service, by stating he was partially deaf (unlike my dad's neighbors Son, who was epileptic and had a partial club foot, AND still had to volunteer for National Service training) My own late father was color blind but he still had to complete national service (Difference between the poor and the rich, I guess) So what does that idiot Menzies do......well he follows Britain and pushes Australia straight into a conflict, WE DID NOT NEED TO BE INVOLVED IN.......(not at this stage anyway) The early involvement in the war, resulted in thousands of Australian Soldiers, ending up in POW camps After the DISASTEROUS fall of Singapore in 1941 and a dangerous situation, where we had to call upon the U.S. for assistance, After the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese. We didn't have the manpower or resources, as we had only just come out of the Great Depression. The U.S. did so much better (because like the First World War) they refused to become involved straight away...Interestingly After the war (around 1947) Menzies once again showed what an complete brainless idiot he was, by signing a contract, allowing Britain to explode Nuclear Bombs at various locations within Australia for the next 25 odd years (Yae, what a good idea not!!!) There was a very real reason, for him being called BUFFOON BOB....anyways, at least the threat to Australia, was a lot more real and valid than the first world war. Despite this, Australia and it's soldiers were involved in some very horrible acts, including aiding the RAAF, (led by that EVIL PUNT OF A MAN-BOMBER HARRIS) in the firebombing of Toyoko, Dresden and Hamburg. This involved dropping Phosphorous (which doesn't go out even under water) (an earlier version of Napalm) onto innocent civilians, which ended up killing in excess of 100,000 k civilians) Then ensuing fireball this created, was larger and stronger than that which was created when the A Bombs were dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the Yanks in September 1945. You won't hear this being discussed at the dawn service either.... nor the fact that at least a third of the BRITISH royal family at the time, were active supporters of Hitler and various Fascist parties (including the leader of the British Black Shirts, Oswald Moseley and the leader of the Italian Fascists, Benito Mussolini)

I could go on and on and on.......the bottom line is war is BAD. There are winners and losers. The winners are the GREAT BIG INDUSTRIAL COHORTS that make a fortune out of weapons, and military supplies etc....Fray Bentos made a fortune out of canning meats for the army in the U.K, Hugo Boss and Karl Lagerfeld the German Fashion Icons, made a fortune out of making military uniforms (their niche market was making uniforms for SS soldiers) Fiat the car factory is currently the biggest producer of land-mines around the world..(absolutely true) Volkswagon produced the KUBELCAR which was used by Germans to carry troops into other countries during invasions, and the list goes on and on and on.......but the other side, is the mayhem that war causes. The destruction, the damage, the lost lives (the unknown and unfound bodies that died in a meter and a half of mud and slime, before they were old enough to vote or buy cigarettes, or get married or drink a beer......But he didn't have an education.........Soldier boy.......could have been a rock star, could have been a politician....just to end this. Currently in America, the largest number of enlisted recruits G.I (or general inlisted men and women) come from the poorest parts of the country. Primarily Appalachia, Kentucky, Carolina, West Virginia an and so forth.......No different anywhere else. Ukrainian draftees are often the poorest as well. (A rumor now is that Ukraine authorities are taking soldier numbers from Prisons and mental hospitals, they are so low in fighting men)
It is GOOD TO REMEMBER PAST EVENTS........IT IS BAD TO GLORIFY OR TURN THEM INTO SOMETHING SPECIAL OR HEROISTIC.......Behind every soldier is a much sadder and more complex story. War doesn't fix anything at the End of the day...

My rant is now officially over. If you want to stab me, line up and join the queue......there may be a wait involved.

The Cat Lady.
28 April 2026

(above) Friends of Djibouti Ali had this tent at North Adelaide near the dog park for two months. It disappeared yesterday. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

On the Street

“I’d like fifty dollars. I haven’t got five-dollars to wipe my ass,” said an elderly matronly diner loudly at the Kings Baptist free evening meal during the prayer before the food was served.

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A soup kitchen client said his mother’s hearing deteriorated after she got hearing aids from Spec Savers. He said the hearing aids damaged her eardrums.

I’ve noticed that since I’ve been using hearing aids I get a continuous ringing in my ears that wasn’t so noticeable before. And this is even when I’m not using them.

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“It’s not about hats and sunscreen and water. Now it’s about how do we get sleeping bags, beanies, warm clothes, and try and get food in to get frozen so that we can get through the winter months ahead,”
Hutt Street Centre Chief Executive Chris Burns.

But we rarely see anyone wearing those stupid beanies that are handed out in the thousands. Most go straight into rubbish bins. What people living outside need are waterproof mattresses, camouflage tarps and camouflage tents, not beanies in silly loser colours. Only schizophrenics wear such beanies.

https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/04/13/fuel-crisis-to-hit-sa-homeless-sleeping-in-cars-over-winter

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Spy camera files were shown on TV of an illegal tobacco store being robbed at Salisbury. The robbers identified were the secondary thieves who arrived after the initial bandits had broken in and take their haul. The initial bandits were laughing.

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“Fruit and vegetables all rotten and squishy, slimy and rotten, they should put it in the bin, people walking around tables all squished together. They should close that place down.”

Chinese Jenny talking about Puddle Jumpers at the Bagster Community Centre in Salisbury.

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A homeless man said hair spray is made from the shells of prawns. He said that vegan women don’t know this.

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One Life Church at Salisbury South continues its monthly free food session, but without clients being able to arrive two hours earlier to sit in the cafe drinking free coffee. However, they’ve brought in chairs and have almost finished renovating their kitchen and hopefully will restart their weekly service. See the Adelaide Free Food guide for more details.

https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/free-food-adelaide-211277-722347-554432.html

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I never applied for a free Australia Post post box. It wasn’t 100% clear whether the Salvation Army would simply give me the required referral letter or I’d have to go onto their data base. Best not to get involved with big charities that can turn into psychic vampires.

Second Editor

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Renovations are nearing completion at the Chelsea Ireland Food Hub in Hindmarsh. In the meantime, Puddle Jumpers is providing intermittent deliveries in the carpark of good vegetables, good rolls filled with quality ingredients, pies and pasties plus loaves of bread. This is from their truck in the carpark on some days 5pm to 7pm. That’s the problem, there isn’t a schedule.

But the quality seems better than when they operated from the building. Maybe they should change the little building into a toilet and shower block and keep supplying food from the truck. Homeless people are intentionally deprived of ablution facilities by the big homeless “non-profits” and local Councils. The Hutt Street Centre is evidence of this.

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Some homeless men are avid golfers. Most carry just one club, a large metal plated wood with a couple of balls for decoration. The clubs are enough to send an opponent into the fairy world and the evidence can be disposed over the fence of a golf course.

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St Vincent de Paul at Elizabeth set a certain amount of interviews for free stuff each day. Those phoning from 9am get appointments based on who phones first. One man said he phoned at 8.59:59 seconds and got the first interview.

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Rob Caldwell was recently featured in an Advertiser newspaper article. Much of the article was filled with charity bosses saying they wanted more money to meet the ever increasing numbers of homeless people.

But Rob Caldwell told the journalist that most of the homeless money goes to bureaucrats who do nothing useful for us living outside. The journalist, Sam Lowe, excluded this from the article.

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A camper in the creek bed behind Modury Bunnings said it was an exaggeration that the Tea Tree Gully Council picked up four tonnes of stuff when they cleared his campsite. He collects broken electric items then sells the valuable components as scrap metal.

He also said the Council are storing some of his belongings from his cleared camp, which is quite decent of them.

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A homeless man says he bought three Fuel Sinc devices for ten dollars off Temu. He said plugging one into his cigarette lighter socket has reduced fuel consumption by 40%. Other people living in cars showed no interest in his story.

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The homeless man who had a “sleeper” heart attack is back living in his car. He sleeps with a front seat pushed back still requiring him to sleep at an angle that compresses his heart.

Oddly, the employees at the Salvo Housing joint near where he stays haven’t bothered talking to him. The homeless man and the employees know the system is a scam for data mining, social control and not housing. The old man doesn’t need controlling so no housing for him.

It makes one think the people running the homeless welfare industry are either in a trance or intrinsically evil.

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Catherine House is spending $32 million dollars to renew their shelter that will increase capacity from 60 to 76. That’s two million dollars per bed.

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I asked another elderly homeless man if he’s registered with the Housing Trust or Adelaide Northwest Housing Alliance This usually vocal intellectual had nothing to say except that they do little for Australian military veterans of which he is one. He was particularly scathing of the Hutt Street Centre whom he said catered mostly for “women and druggies”. He added that, “As soon as they see a white man, you’re nothing.”

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People are putting their names on the list of those to be served in order of attendance from 6am for a free food handout at 11am at the Thursday free food handout at Manton Street in Hindmarsh. Some actually stand in the queue for hours just to be first. But others sign up their friends who may or may not turn up. Two weeks ago, ten people on the list didn’t arrive. Last week it was 16 out of 57 on the list.

The free service is put on by City Reach West Church at Hindmarsh who use the Ukrainian church at 62 Orsmond St., Hindmarsh. Thursdays 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, tiny amount of pantry items. No I.D. required. Friendly. A few Ukrainians and Mandarins, but they’re okay.

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How is it that whoever is in charge of the Hutt Street Centre claims every year that demand for its services has increased hugely yet the numbers seem little different than twenty years ago.

Was Deserving Dennis (formerly Dennis the Menace) correct when he said the Centre contains little franchises that also claim a client whenever anyone uses them. This could mean one physical person entering the building may be classed as five client visitors in one day.
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I was standing somewhat uncomfortably at the urinal in the St John the Evangelist Church in Salisbury. I’m always nervous there as the door opens to the hallway where weirdo women can view men urinating.

A man was doing the same next to me, very close. Another man left the cubicle and rushed out the door. “He didn’t wash his hands,” I muttered somewhat unconsciously.

The man next to me pulled up his zipper, washed his hands, dried them and ran out the door in about five seconds. He went into the hall, grabbed his kiddies scooter and left the building.

Nothing suspicious about this, but since having Covid No. 4 I’ve been saying things without really thinking and it’s brought some hilarious results including being kicked out of another church free meal permanently after being a respectful client for the past ten years.

26 April 2026

(above) Man enjoying surf at Port Noarlunga. The dog has other ideas. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Renown Park Multi-cultural centre

A bigger crowd than usual with three new diners. They even displaced the Greek benefactors at their head table. One new guest previously threw drinks and tried to ram customers at Para Banks shopping centre last year. She’s brain damaged so it isn’t her fault.

Another diner stood over the group rocking back and forth with arms folded, red-faced and intense.

An older Vietnamese woman learning English may understand it better than Australian speakers, but her speech isn’t understandable because she can’t pronounce the Australian vowel and consonant sounds, and seems unable to understand the necessity.

Preacher Gideon talked about the passing of life, how our existence in our bodies is passing. He added croaking and choking sounds to illustrate the concept.

But the free meal was too rushed. Some diners just been served when the cleaner was telling others to leave. He pushed aside an old woman’s bag and cup then sprayed disinfectant nearby. He squirts the stuff like a mad cop with a bottle of mace.

Why put in so much effort then mess it up by making the diners eat like animals? I watched some who would take bites then look around nervously gauging the approach of the cleaner. It’s self-sabotage and might explain why nearly everyone comes here for a few weeks then we never see them again.

This joint is worth more than this. And the free lunch costs money for both the Greeks and Gideon’s family.

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeaway vegetables
Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church, 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton. Sunday 11:00am free coffee and snacks. Provided by Gideon and Vika Tlaisun and Chin Falam people from Burma. Personal data not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.

Note: To their credit, management extended the meal longer the following week giving diners plenty of time to finish eating before cleaning began. Not many places listen to the clients, but this one does.

25 April 2026

(above) Camping in a park in North Adelaide means 24/7 stress. You never know when someone will attack or demand answers or make threats. The woman in this tent simply screamed when anyone approached her. She's gone now. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

A morning at the Modbury Oasis Café

Tom Farmer arrived at the Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corp to everyone’s dismay. Luckily for us he pus-ridden arm was firmly bandaged. He said the flesh was forming over his tendon that “you can hardly see, now.” Then he went outside to drink cheap cask wine before collapsing on the ground with one arm danging onto the roadway.

Another man living in his vehicle said his head wasn’t quite right after getting Covid. He said this was followed by four days of severe headaches. He said the latter was connected with his acquired brain damage. He lives with this condition without self-pity.

There were mutterings about a shortage of certain cooking products in the kitchen upon which the Sunday church crowd were labelled as having filched it.

The receptionist won’t walk thirty metres to the cafe anymore instead phoning with messages including the shower being ready for the next person on that morning’s list.

A newly homeless man who doesn’t use drugs took a bit from his toast then spat it out upon discovering it was mouldy. He went on to eat three reheated frozen meals and two thick slices of fruit load. His Mum and Dad were in Civic Park looking for him.

Another new client said he stopped an argument with his N.D.I.S. support worker by throwing his phone and I.D. from the window of the moving vehicle. He said he now regretted it.

Construction Warren made a guest appearance. He was cautioned against calling people and things “f******* **nts.” in nearly every sentence. Despite this he’s a quality human being.

Construction Warren said when he was younger the years passed either quickly or slowly, but now they all fly by quickly. He appeared vaguely confused when saying this.

Another homeless man puts his underwear on the front fence to dry. An Army worker said, “Someone might nick your nickers,” and a few people laughed.

I gave away a bag of coffee beans to a woman who speaks multiple languages. They’re the beans I tried to grind with a two-dollar grinder from St Vincent de Paul. The grinder was rubbish and didn’t cut anything except my thumb and one of my fingers.

Another homeless man moved his tent because Tom Farmer prowled the area. He moved opposite a cafe where his view changed from Tom to half-dressed women.

Tom used the shower, but left the door open while he threw his dirty clothing into the hallway. That’s like retired Central Districts football player Mark Sullivan who would come out of the shower and walk in the main hall with just a towel around his waist.

Mark got kicked out of his Housing Trust unit after being drunk and unconscious while another man was murdered in the same room. After Mark was cleared of any involvement, he returned to Housing Trust accommodation. That’s how the rights of Trust tenants have been reduced.

The free food room was cleared of 95% of all free food with ten minutes of the front door opening.

Megan has disappeared. She’s been gone for one week. She left her tent and all her stuff in Edinburgh Park. I saw an ambulance pick up a woman of similar appearance on Kettering Road at Elizabeth South, but couldn’t identify if it was her.

A major volunteer at the Corps has been accused of laughing too much when he drives into his retirement unit at Golden Grove.

Rebekah served chicken schnitzel with very good chips for the free lunch last Friday. It was a BYO vinegar and sauce meal, but very nice.

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

24 April 2026

(above) Homeless camp behind Salisbury cinema gone within a week. It isn't known if the Salisbury Council's anti-homeless squad was involved. This image taken from a different angle. See image below of the camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2025.)

(above) These courageous homeless campers behind the Salisbury cinema with an invalid scooter, gas cooking and shopping trolleys will be attacked by the Salisbury Council anti-homeless squad. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

More ways to make money
from The Cat Lady
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More ways to (LEGITIMATELY) make or get extra money that won't put you in the Remand Centre or Adelaide Woman's prison for the next 28 months, awaiting trial for grade A fraud/misappropriation.

1) Check and find out ALL OF THE CONCESSIONS YOUR ENTITLED TO.......LEGAL AND ABOVE BOARD. IF YOUR ENTITLED TO THE CONCESSION, APPLY FOR IT. WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN, IS YOU DON'T MEET THE CRITERIA FOR THE PAYMENT......WWW.CONCESSIONS.SA.GOV.AU

2) GET A SIDELINE, COLLECT CANS, BOTTLES, SCRAPMETAL, FIREWOOD, CARDBOARD, KNACKERED CAR BATTERIES, ETC ETC. START AN ONLINE ACCOUNT WITH EBAY OR ETSY (CHECK TO SEE WHAT FEES AND CHARGES YOU MIGHT BE OUT FOR FIRST THOUGH!!!-EBAY CAN START YOU UP WITH A FREE ACCOUNT- ETSY NOT UNFORTUNATELY-THEY HAVE FEES YOU GOTTA PAY FROM DAY ONE) ONCE YOUR SET UP, GO KERB CRAWLING ON HARD REFUSE DAY (THE RICHER THE SUBURB, THE BETTER THE PRODUCTS) MOST PEOPLE ARE HAPPY TO SEE THEIR SHIT LEAVE IN SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR......JUST BE POLITE AND LEAVE IF HOMEOWNERS GET AGRO (OR COME BACK QUIETLY AFTER DARK-COUGH COUGH, NOT THAT I HAVE EVER DONE THAT (:0).....THEN UPLOAD ONLINE AND FLOG OFF AT WHATEVER PRICE YOU CAN GET. TRAWL THROUGH OP SHOPS (THE POORER THE SUBURB, THE CHEAPER THE [PRODUCTS-WEIRD, BUT THAT IS HOW IT GOES WITH OP SHOPS/SECOND HAND SHOPS) SUPER CHEAP IN DAVOREN PARK AND MEGA EXPENSIVE IN NORWOOD. ALWAYS REMEMBER IF THE SUBURBS FULL OF RICH (*UNT) BOOMERS, YOU WILL END UP PAYING $9.00 FOR A SHITTY RETRO COFFEE MUG......GO TO ELIZABETH/DAVOREN PARK/SMITHFIELD AND THERE WILL BE A BOX OF FREEBEES WITH THE SAME MUG, OUTSIDE THE FRONT OF THE OP SHOP.....DON'T KNOCK THE POOR SUBURBS, THEY HAVE MORE HEART AND SOUL THAN ALL THE RICH (PUNTS) PUT TOGETHER....

3) THIS IS A BIGGIE SO LISTEN UP FOLKS!! GO FIND A REALLY NICE AND OBLIGING G.P. THAT WILL SIGN YOUR MEDICAL HEATING AND COOLING APPLICATION (WHICH BY THE WAY CAN BE APPROVED FOR ANYTHING FROM CHRONIC MIGRAINES THROUGH TO ANXIETY THROUGH TO EXCESSIVE HEAMORROIDS AND ADHD) THEN LODGE IT WITH DHS. AND WAIT IT GETS BETTER. THE PAYMENT IS BACKDATED FROM THE TIME, YOU WERE FIRST DIAGNOSED. SO IF YOU WERE DIAGNOSED IN 1989 WITH ADHD OR WHATEVER, THE PAYMENT (WHICH IS ROUGHLY $70.00 A QUARTER, HAS TO BE BACKPAID FROM THAT DATE!!! I KID YOU NOT!!! FOR SOME PEOPLE IT WILL AMOUNT TO THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS

4) ANOTHER GOOD ONE BUT COMES WITH A BIT OF A CATCH. IF YOU GET A CARERS PAYMENT, OR A DISABILITY PAYMENT OR AN AGED CARE PAYMENT OR A SUPPORTING PARENT PAYMENT, YOUR ENTITLED TO SOMETHING CALLED A PENSIONER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT OR (PES) THIS CAN GIVE YOU UPWARDS OF AN ADDITIONAL $60.00 A FORTNIGHT ON TOP OF YOUR BENEFITS. THE CATCH IS YOU HAVE TO ENROL IN AN APPROVED COURSE AND COMPLETE A MINIMUM NUMBER OF STUDY HOURS A WEEK. YOU CAN GET MORE DETAILS IF YOU GO ONTO CENTRELINK'S WEBSITE, OR GOOGLE PENSIONER, EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT. UNFORTUNATELY NOT AVAILABLE FOR PERSONS ON JOBSEEKER OR YOUTH ALLOWANCE.(WHICH IS RIDICULOUS, AS WHY WOULD SOMEONE WITH A PROFOUND DISABILITY OR WHO IS AGED, WANT TO START STUDYING A NEW CAREER PATH, GO FIGURE, BUT I DON'T MAKE THE RULES) AND,

5) THIS ONE IS A BIT OF A DOOZEY BUT LISTEN UP...CURRENTLY BANK (RYHMES WITH *ANK) SA, HAVE AN ACCOUNT AVAILABLE THAT IS FOR PEOPLE ON LOW INCOMES, CALLED THE BANK SA, CONCESSION SAVER ACCOUNT (I BELIEVE THAT BSA WERE FORCED TO MAKE THIS TYPE OF ACCOUNT AVAILABLE, BY THE BANKING OMBUDSMANS OFFICE SOME YEARS AGO, AFTER THEY GOT KYBOSHED BY AFCA (AUSTRALIAN FINANCAL, COMPLAINTS AUTHORITY) FOR BASICALLY DRAINING PEOPLES ACCOUNTS WITH LOADS OF (*UNTISH) FEES.


NOW THE GOOD PART (PROBABLY THE ONLY GOOD THING ABOUT THIS SHITHOLE OF A BANK) THERE ARE NO FEES OR CHARGES ALLOWED ON THIS ACCOUNT- NIX, NADDA, NOTHING AND IF (THIS IS THE BEST PART) YOU GET DISHONOUR PAYMENT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, BANK SA HAS TO PAY YOU IT BACK!!! I KID YOU NOT....BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CHARGE DISHONOUR FEES FOR THIS TYPE OF SAVING ACCOUNT- SO LET'S SAY YOU HAD A PAYMENT DUE TO GO OUT ON SUNDAY, AND ITS DISHONOURED (BOUNCES) ON MONDAY YOU WILL FIND THE BSA HAS PAID YOU BACK THE MONEY YOU DIDN'T PAY...........IT IS A BLAST!! NOW I AM NOT SUGGESTING YOU GO NUTZ AND STOP PAYING YOUR BILLS, OR RENT OR MORTGAGE, OR CAR PAYMENTS. I AM ALL FOR INTEGRITY AND KEEPING YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER.....BUT HAVING AN ACCOUNT WHERE YOU CANNOT BE CHARGED A DISHONOUR FEE, IS A SERIOUSLY GOOD THING TO HAVE!!!


KEEP IN MIND THOUGH, IF YOU MAKE A HABIT OF DISHONOURING PAYMENTS, LEFT RIGHT AND CENTRE, THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTION, AKA YOUR BANK, DOES HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLOSE YOUR ACCOUNT (THEY HAVE TO ASK PERMISSION FROM AFCA AND HAVE VERY GOOD REASONS FOR DOING SO) SO THIS IS NOT, A GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD. SMALL DISHONOURS ARE NOT GOING TO GET YOU TO THAT POINT.........ONE'S THAT ARE WORTH THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, QUITE POSSIBLY. KEEP THAT IN MIND.

OHHH, FORGOT TO ADD......AS A SMALL "HOBBY" SELLER WITH EBAY, WHATEVER YOU EARN UP TO $75K, YOU ARE NOT TAXED ON, AKA WHATEVER PAYOUTS YOU ARE GETTING, THEY ARE 100% YOURS.....IF YOUR GOING BIG GUNS AND ARE ABLE TO MAKE MORE THAN 75k A YEAR OFF OF EBAY (YOUR DOING A LOT BETTER THAN ME) YOU MUST REGISTER FOR BOTH GST AND OBTAIN AN ABN NUMBER, WHICH MUST THEN BE HANDED OVER TO EBAY......(me, I think most people making money on ebay, just log off for a bit if they know they are getting close to 75k in earnings) then once the end of financial year comes around again, they are back to 0 and can start all over again) THIS APPLIES FOR EBAY AUSTRALIA ACCOUNTS ONLY.......NO IDEA WHAT THE TAX RULES ARE OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA.

HAVE FUN AND STAY SAFE,
CATLADY.
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23 April 2026

Para Vista Good Shepherd

They couldn’t get rid of the beanies. Churches and other groups give away thousands each year to people living outside, but you rarely see anyone wearing them. The styles scream charity and homelessness.

The takeaway milk went in a flash with the bread moving well. One group got so many loaves they couldn’t fit it in their car. One passenger suggested they throw a loaf to each passing car. “F**k me,” she said.

Lisa and Jay were exiled from the ex-Bouncer’s table for gossip and odour so we formed a breakaway group with the retired intelligence officer. The musician sang 1960’s and 1970’s popular songs at the volume where everyone could hear him, but still converse in comfort. Another exile at our table accidentally slipped his fingers into the soup, licked his fingers then passed me the salt and pepper shakers while holding the tops with his licked fingers.

The second prize soup chef at Casablanca made me a special non-meat dish that was exquisite. I added some Tabasco sauce so Lisa began a spiel about chilli that annoyed me. Then I got angry as she and the intelligence officer talked about spoons. I apologised for being a grumpy old man upon which the intelligence man said “That’s okay grandpa. You’re always like that.”

The highlight of the evening was us singing Happy Birthday to Julianne who has Downs Syndrome, but is the light of the room. How lucky we are to have her. ​

Lutheran Good Shepherd Para Vista
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Free meal Mondays 5:30pm to 7:00pm. No I.D. required. Award winning chef and staff. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly. Safe for kids. Good toilets. Bit of religious talk. Fresh bread every second week. Quality singer, 1960’s and 1970’s.

23 April 2026

(above) Old woman was sleeping near the anonymous baby section of the West Terrace cemetery. She's gone now. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday

A diner suggested I cover myself in psychic golden light to stop certain others from draining my energy. It worked. I use it on my car, but never thought to use it on my energy field.

The extensive meal included a potato entré followed by potato gems, chips, chicken, a huge egg flappé for ovo-vegetarians, mixed vegetables followed by blue berries, rice cream and ice cream. The coffee wasn’t hot. There was a huge amount of free edible vegetables and boxes of the iniquitous Coles rice crackers, Best-By Dec 2025.

The Virus Lady got four or five huge bags she said were for her chickens, but later she was seen pushing the trolley in the opposite direction of her house. She takes food to people who are housebound.

One diner changed the tone of the room by laughing obnoxiously. He’d hear normal conversation then repeated the words in a different tone of voice then laughed in a contemptuous or filthy manner to make the original speaker seem to be speaking dirty.

One diner refused to eat the chicken saying it was raw. I didn’t eat the flappé due to the chicken menstruation. There was much food rejection from our table that went into The Virus Lady’s bag for her chickens. This included the raw chicken that the cannibalistic chickens would eat.

Lucky scanned the room looking for the man who threw a knife in his direction four weeks ago. He’s on a mission.

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

22 April 2026
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One Life back in action

They said don’t arrive before 1pm as the café hasn’t reopened in the old tyre store that they’ve renovated into a 250-seat church. They sold the old complex in Ormsby Avenue at Parafield Gardens that was too small for their growing congregation. It’s amazing that a church can spring from nowhere and within a few years have a larger congregation that the huge historic traditional churches.

A church member guided me to a parking space on their property. About 18 clients sat in the free food room thirty minutes before the start time. Most were women wearing Hijabs in this Christian church. Some of these might have been Christians.

It was nice to see the volunteers still there from over a year ago. Even though we’re the charity cases and they’re our benefactors, they still seem like business friends.

The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man arrived with the woman who escaped from the Helping Hand nursing home then spent a year living in her car. She brought a younger man at whose house she lives. He fired off half a dozen volleys of obnoxious gas while Liesel the food distributor spoke. His volume resembled small to medium sized firecrackers. As we formed a queue in order of numbers allocated the N.D.I.S. man shouted “Jihadists, Jihadists”.

The free food included older spuds, older carrots, older onions, older Coles rice crackers by the box, soup mixes, newly canned tomatoes from Australia, mixed canned vegetables from China, Spring Gully relish from a new factory in Sydney, bread and a couple of other items. The farting man asked Liesel why she wasn’t giving away the jars of Vegemite on the floor. She said there wasn’t enough for everyone so she’d wait until next month.

The farting man spoke loudly using the “f***” word in nearly every sentence. The Farter said he and the nursing home escapee got identical f****** products an hour earlier from the f****** Salisbury Uniting Church including 48 packets of Coles rice crackers. “Where are we going to f****** put it all?” he asked.

While we were there the N.D.I.S. man gave me a small USB powered coffee grinder he’d purchased for two-dollars from a St Vincent de Paul store. Back at my campsite, I added beans, but the power switch wasn’t working so I pulled it apart and cut my thumb on the blades. Crimson blood pissed everywhere including all over my white lawn bowling trousers. The Big Beautiful Coffee Grinder went into my rubbish bag.

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

22 April 2026

(above) Aboriginal nomads and homeless people regularly create escape routes in expectation of being attacked. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Tribal nomad shelter in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Observations every week

The coffee man should stay by the machine instead of sitting down at the tables. Just 14 clients were there as the food was brought out. Most rushed it like cattle to the feeding troughs. There was reason in their madness.

The small amount of vegetables and heaps of bread are brought out too soon after the meal is served so those served last are still eating when the second stampede begins. It’s especially unpleasant if your table is near the stampede zone. And no wonder the children of the people who present the meal have no respect for us.

Another problem is those served last are still eating when the tables are cleared of dishes and the cleaner slops disinfectant on the tables in a menacing manner for those wearing nice clothing.

No clients are starving. Most are too fat and I suspect much of the takeaway food goes to chickens or is thrown out.

The meal on Saturday the 11th of April included high quality meat Shishkababs cooked outside on the BBQ by a likeable older man named Kim. He’s got the personality style of someone on the Asperger's scale and works there from 7am in order to present a meal to us semi-felons.

Other food for this lunch was an excellent potato salad, a fresh salad and a pasta bake with meat.

The hurried nature of the meal followed by a rude stampede might explain why so few people go there despite it being a free lunch. Another reason is that the people providing it don’t know how to relate to gluttons, people who speak non-stop as if they’re in a trance, Stiffs and the normal people who go there.

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeaway vegetables
Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church, 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton. Sunday 11:00am free coffee and snacks. Provided by Gideon and Vika Tlaisun and Chin Falam people from Burma. Personal data not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.

21 April 2026
Review for 11 April 2026
P.S. There was a full house the following week.


Big rush at Stevo’s

It was a civilised rush where it’s easier to sit quietly for fifteen minutes until it’s over. They served crumbed fish, potato salad, bacon pasta salad, fresh salad, sour cream, sandwiches, chocolate, coffee and other stuff. The free food room was inundated and the longlife milk ran out.

But the crowd dispersed rather quickly so the second hour was quiet. Retired nurse Edgar arrived fashionably late while Deserving Dennis (formerly Dennis the Menace) left early for a doctor’s appointment.

The preacher said she was going on long service leave and introduced a man taking over during that period. He seemed shy and wore thick glasses, but he had good vibes and wasn’t fat.

The preacher explained the meaning of Easter in a short speech. I mentioned to a woman next to me I’d like to hear something from the Bhagavad Gita or the Mahabharata. She said the meaning of the Gita was that we should fight for goodness against badness even if that goes against your family or country. I asked her if we the good or bad side in the war against Iran? Difficult question.

Tuesday brunch Sefton Park
Encounter Church (formerly Uniting) Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Free quality hot meal, sandwiches and coffee during school terms. No I.D. or registration required unless you’re getting the six free grocery items every two weeks. Horrible gossip discouraged. Diners include recently released criminals with wild stories. Gentle atmosphere.

21 April 2026

(above) Power cord hidden in the cemetery. Probably stolen for its copper and PVC. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Selling on Ebay
The Cat Lady

“Unfortunately Ebay's a *unt as well. I am learning as we speak. I am getting better at managing them, but it's a massive learning curve. You have to be totally vigilant or the arseholes will rob you blind. On top of that, there are scammers and low-ballers (buyers who make ridiculously low offers) everywhere. You just gotta weed out the good buyers from the shit ones, (which you block) unfortunately you don't know who they are, and when they will strike.

I don't sell many super expensive items (it's just too risky) but I have heard of sellers losing thousands of dollars worth of products. The most expensive item i have ever sold was a gold chain for $273.00 (which the arsehole returned, saying it didn't look like the photos) that was a wake up call for me.

If a buyer returns one of my items now, the most I am up for as far as a refund goes, is maybe $30.00? (they have to pay postage back, which deters a lot of shitty buyers thankfully) I also only send via tracked mail, which means devious buyers cannot turn around and say they don't have what I sent them (tracked mail, tracks from postage to delivery) I have had several of those.

Each one, has backed away when I have shown them, the delivery time-time, including the time and date they actually got the item delivered (there's nothing secret squirrel about this, you just put the tracking number into the online system and all the details around the postage and delivery come up, even to the point the time the item was posted off and physically delivered. Tracked mail is a bit more expensive than untracked mail, but it has saved my *rse, several times over. Anything that needs to be somewhere I send via tracked mail (not just Ebay) it can't be lost. 

That's my rant for the day.
take care,

The Cat Lady
20 April 2026
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Grill’d in Rundle Street

The Ghost Who Walks was in the fast moving queue. His hundred-year-old house built by his grandfather in a now exclusive suburb is worth a fortune. But The Ghost is ready to throw in the towel. Twelve doctors have rejected him for euthanasia despite having three types of cancer, bad knees and hips. “I’m in pain all the time,” he said, but won’t use pain killers. He’s hoping the Northern Territory will revive its euthanasia program. If he went to Canada, they’d kill him within days, the more the merrier in that weird nation.

The Man From Peterborough said he wants to leave Peterborough. He sleeps on a back porch while in Adelaide, which is most of the time.

A woman at Grill’d reprimanded him for calling Karaoke Shannon, “Big Tits Shannon”. The Man is autistic and likes breasts and doesn’t think that an insult. We could hear Shannon laughing for an hour at one of the booths. She initially returned a hamburger after taking one bite. She said it wasn’t what she ordered. The Grill’d employee threw it in the rubbish and ordered another for her. That’s nerve considering it’s free and high quality.

Beautiful Jessica laughs even more wildly than Shannon. She sat alone until one man sat opposite her. She’s usually with Robert the Musician who plays piano and organ at St Bede’s and Mary’s Kitchen.

The Colostomy Bag activist wasn’t there.

I didn’t notice anything unusual happening, but my mind no longer sees such events. Since stopping watching Youtube and other videos, a new inner world of thought, dreams and space has opened up making the world of scandal less interesting.

An old man pushing a trolley of garbage yelled at an empty store then pasted a meaningless children’s sticker on the door. That dodgy Aboriginal from Port Adelaide was trying to sell one of his tiny artless paintings for twenty-dollars. Lance Armstrong said he hadn’t that much money so the artist lowered it to ten. No takers from our group.

The food was great.

The Man from Peterborough and a woman I won’t name collected ten-cent deposit cans as we walked along with Lance Armstrong back to my car. On concrete, in the park below the Pullman Hotel, a homeless man had set up a camp. He sat forlornly in the dim light watching us search the bushes. We found ten brand new shoes, all left foot, but no pairs.

What a screwy society where 10% of housing is vacant, but a man sits on the ground all night with a tarpaulin stretched over park benches next to him. And the Hutt Street Centre is empty with the lights on and a paid cleaner vacuuming the floor while other homeless joints are empty. Sure, some of us are eccentrics who have adapted to destitution, but most do not like it. They even kill themselves from despair.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

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

20 April 2026
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From the anonymous contact page

Reading between the lines says loudly cat lady is supplying cats to the local bakery, if people see her they think she's dumping rubbish. It would be good if she could tell us what bakery as the cat meat in the meat pies is probably a higher standard than other meat pies anywhere else and very tasty..

The Interloperd

Second Editor: Keep reading between the lines. We need readers like you. More, please.

20 April 2026

(above) More remnants of the sanctioned homeless camp near the West Terrace Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026)

(above) Still active homeless camp in Edwards Park in the Adelaide CBD. Adelaide City Council allows this one to exist because if they destroy it the residents will move onto the city foodpaths. (Adelaide City Council, April 2026.)

(above) Another homeless camp from the government sponsored area for Aboriginal people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

The Haven at Salisbury
(not the “Safe” Haven on John Street)

A diner asked for another ice-cream cone after observing a church volunteer at The Haven Friday free meal stick her finger in the ice-cream. The volunteer obliged and even met the client’s request of putting the Hershey’s chocolate syrup into the cone before the ice-cream. That was a generous response.

The meal was described as below par, but still edible while others said it was superb.

Echo on her mobility scooter walked around with her hands in the air saying, “I’ve been touched by Jesus.” Someone asked, “What did he say?”

Old Maureen (not Spiritual Maureen) told a diner to get out of the chair where she usually sat. She does this at other joints as well. He responded in a moderately filthy manner and stayed put. Old Maureen complained to management so the diner was visited by the Judo Master who might have thought he had another Aaron on his hands. But the diner switched tacks and spoke in the most erudite manner. The ambulance driver came over and realised he’d been in St John’s with the diner before most of its services were taken over by SA Ambulance.

The Nice Old Man also sat at the table. A woman diner from the next table said he was showing images of himself bleeding from the side of the head. He said Mick of Mick and Eleanor had done that. He said he went to hospital and got four stitches. He threatened dire consequences for Mick of Mick and Eleanor. But one diner laughed in contempt as The Nice Old Man continued in his high-pitched voice. Another diner said it wasn’t good to laugh at The Nice Old Man. The response was, “He isn’t a Nice Old Man.”

Mick was in the room and rolled his eyes and puffed out his chest and made up a story.

The Nice Old Man shouted abuse at Mick and Eleanor as he left the building.

Anglican Church Salisbury Haven
Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonalds junk food joint), 5:30 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Fresh food. No I.D. or registration required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Quality workers. No salt and pepper. Flickering lights exacerbate seizure risk.

Review for 3 April 2026
Posted 19 April 2026


The Haven the following week

“Speak of the devil,” a diner said as a church member came out the front door asking people not to smoke tobacco nearby.

Aaron, The Nice Old Man, Mick and Eleanor were all absent this evening to the disappointment of those seeking blood sport. And no hard core homeless people despite the new tent complex behind the cinema. Perhaps four others who came in late with nervous smiles then sat in the corner were homeless. They seemed vaguely normal, but somewhat confused.

A diner warned me of energy drainers, later saying there was one standing behind me as my energy waned. I thought it was the 24-hour-old Wine Centre soup kept in my mostly warm car. I ate it a few minutes before going into The Haven then felt as if I’d been struck down by The Maven.

The church appears to be drowning in weird used clothing of which few diners showed interest. But six people spent most of the evening going through the racks and taking it to their cars. Simple clothing for those living outside is always in short supply.

A volunteer went up to a table and asked, “What have we been doing this week?”. That was cringeworthy. Most volunteers know better than to treat us like six-year-olds or retarded adults.

The food included a sausage stew, vegetable stir fry, corn, nice string beans, rice, sorbet, ice cream, syrup, sprinkles, grains and plenty of takeaway bread they had trouble getting rid of.

When the food was presented there was a rush to join the queue as if we were in a famine zone. But nearly everyone in the queue was overweight, some grossly. Some could hardly walk because they carried 30 or 40 kilograms of extra fat and water.

The 76-year-old woman who escaped from the Helping Hand Nursing Home was alive and well and fending off a number of men mocking her. She’s a prime example of the human spirit defeating the evil of institutionalisation.

The singing got too loud as most of the clients left. It’s nice of them to go easy on the volume while we’re there, but the goodwill exuding from the tops of their heads makes the evening worthwhile.

Anglican Church Salisbury Haven
Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonalds junk food joint), 5:30 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Fresh food. No I.D. or registration required. No data collection for the Eternal Shame File. Decent toilets. Religious singing. Quality workers. No salt and pepper. Flickering lights exacerbate seizure risk.

Review for 10 April 2026
Posted 19 April 2026

(above) A beautiful scene in the Adelaide CBD parklands? This was previously a grove of old growth trees where a dozen homeless people camped in privacy. The pond is part of a water redirection scheme from the eastern suburbs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The creek running alongside the old trees was previously dry in the summer months when this image was taken. But even in the dry season it was flowing with a malodourous black liquid. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Near the foul smelling drainage pipe at Beaumont Road in the Adelaide CBD, there is a camp of nervous homeless people breathing in the fumes. They've been expelled from the areas of the parklands used by richer people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Stealth garbage dumping
The Cat Lady

BIN FULL? Overflowing.......your neighbor has threatened to end your life more than once, if you keep attempting to shove your overflowing rubbish into their bin.........Easily solved......Just wait till its dark, find your nearest SERVO, locate their NICE, BIG, NO HUGE METAL SKIP BIN and dump your excess rubbish into THEIR BIN...…

oh and if a staff member comes out or starts complaining, start screaming GOD is GOOD, SAVE ME FROM ALL EVIL, PRAISE BE HELLO KITTY and they will scatter.....they won't stick around....trust me.

If you don't want to raise a ruckus, then just wait till its either dark or very quiet and discreetly empty that excess 50kg of rubbish, you can't fit into your own bin.....If you can find a servo or business where the bin is kinda not in full view (I know of a local Bakery, which is closed at nights and over the weekend, AND where the bin is rarely ever full, and this is MY GO TO, when I have excess rubbish I need to get rid of.....in fact, I discreetly managed to get rid of several old pallets, a pile of old dog blankets (both my dogs are deceased now (old age got them in the end) several bags of garden waste and a pile of household detritus, I couldn't be bothered lugging to any charities.

Okay, just remember, bag everything. In fact double bag. Don't tip loose stuff into the bin. Do the right thing (sort of) Someones got to empty the same bin. NO chemicals, corrosives, acids........go to your council recycling place if you need to get rid of this kind of stuff. Everything else. Bag up nice and secure, throw in the back of your car and off you go.......find that bin!!!

P.S. Keep a can of Glen 20 in the back of your car, cause sometimes this stored rubbish can STINK UP YOUR CAR!!

Have fun.....
cat lady

18 April 2026
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Fred’s Van Christie Downs

Reception to copies of the 36-page Adelaide Free Food guide was positive. Some clients read it during the meal. There is still a future for paper copies.

A couch surfer asked me if I was homeless while I was sitting in my car crammed with bedding. I said four years. A volunteer nearby looked at me with pity. Seeing an infirm old man living in a car arouses either pity or contempt.

Paid employees in the big money housing “non-profits” hold me in contempt and say I choose to live in my car. But public housing no longer involves filling out a paper copy and going on a waiting list. They want to know the most intimate details of an applicants’ life then put those details on a big database open to hundreds of welfare workers, some of whom use this information for their own purposes. It’s degrading. The big money church “non-profits” go with it. Others refuse to participate and remain small outfits. The latter are the unsung heroes. The former are the whores.

Doors opened at 7pm with just 22 clients rushing the dining room. Time is of the essence because those last served haven’t finished eating when dessert is served. And staff are packing up when they’re eating dessert. The rush is the major fault of this Fred’s Van. We aren’t feedlot animals.

The meal was a pasta bake with boiled frozen peas, margarine on bread with canned fruit and ice-cream for dessert. Takeaway food included a few sugary buns and loaves of bread, but not enough for everyone. The coffee was actually hot unlike Fred’s Van in the city where they don’t trust clients with hot water.

The former winery tour guide was allowed in an hour earlier on his mobility scooter. He’s popular with everyone because he speaks sense, but only when spoken to. As the meal progressed another ten or twelve diners arrived. There were about eight or nine children with normal looking mothers, not junkies. The sounds were positive without a discordant note.

Old Graham drove by while we were waiting to get in. He stopped then drove off. He’s in his 80’s and previously slept in parking areas at Largs Beach then moved to a caravan park at Middle Beach with his son before they got a Housing Trust unit at Christie Downs.

One diner had a Carer.

The diner living in a tent near the beach sat by himself. He doesn’t use drugs and sits still like a Buddha, a skill one develops when stealth camping in suburbia.

Fred’s Van Christie Downs
Wardli Centre, 13 McKinna Road, Christie Downs. 7:00pm Wednesday. Free quality meal including fresh salad in dining room. Good toilets. Some takeaway. Good volunteers & diners, but too rushed. They should let clients into the dining room for coffee an hour before meal is served. Diners isolated in welfare housing crave socialising more than the food.

18 April 2026

(above) Renovations are moving quickly at the Chelsea Ireland Hindmarsh Food Hub with the installation of an invalid ramp (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Those old windows frequently busted by clients finding the joint closed have been replaced by a more dignified version. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The inside has been completely refurbished including heritage grills on the windows to stop Stiffs from breaking in. Let's hope they don't fill the rooms with fly-ridden rotting vegetables like previously. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) A portion of Sonia Blackwell's free Saturday evening food for homeless people in the Modbury area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

DIG AND MAKE MONEY!

The Cat Lady

Go to some charities and stock up on E-eftpost gift cards. (The ones where you can buy anything except alcohol and ciggies) then go online to Ebay and buy yourself a second hand (used) metal detector either with a warranty or has been Electrically tag tested. (Either way, it's a guarantee the item actually works).

If you don't want to buy anything from Ebay (aka SCAMBAY) then go search out local online auction sites (deceased, SAPOL selling off stolen goods never collected, AUSPOST lost parcels of electronic goods, deceased estate, bankrupt business auctions etc, etc etc..........you get the picture! JUST AVOID GUM(SCUM)TREE.......seriously do not there.

Then once you have your metal detector (even cheap ones work reasonably well........you don't actually need a 10K metal detector (although they are VERY NICE)mine cost me under $200.00.......try to get one that you can stick the head in water, as you find SHIT LOADS OF STUFF IN WATERWAYS!!! Under old bridges, riverways, the beach you name it..........IT"S THERE. AND START DIGGING.........THE OLDER THE LOCATION THE BETTER (so digging through the floor of the Elizabeth city centre toilets.........ah no......) Just remember THE HIGHER THE CHIME, OH, OH, OH, THE LOWER THE TONE, WOE, WOE WOE........gold, silver, brass, pewter, copper has a VERY HIGH BEEP......whilst ferrous metal (cast iron, old sheet iron, old bolts etc, has a VERY LOW SOUND........if you can afford it, get a hand held (garrett) finder as well....this can pinpoint more accurately in the ground, WHERE exactly something good is.

Much easier than just slogging through the ground with your Trowel or army disposal, mini fold up shovel........(which by the way, I bought in 1989, from the old army disposal store on Unley road for $6.99......Oh and once you find YOUR HONEYPOT of items, DO NOT TELL ANYONE WHERE IT IS........I have a few nearby sites, that I am completely STUMM OVER.....only I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THEY are. Unlike Europe and the U.K. unless you dig up the proceeds of some robbery or a half submerged ATM somewhere, WHAT YOU FIND IS YOURS!! Everything from old vintage dog registrations to old bottles to jewellery is WORTH MONEY........you would be amazed at what people are willing to buy!!

Just be a bit mindful it isn't just vacant scrubland somewhere, or a public beach, you just can't lob over someone's fence and start digging ruddy great holes. (This might be frowned upon by police and the owners) National Parks are a no no as well, although I know a few, where i have skimmed (gone over the surface and got some really interesting stuff)

Just be quiet and respectful. If you are dying to go over a site, get permission and FILL BACK IN ANY LARGE HOLES. PLEASE!! I am reasonably lucky. I practically live on the tail end of a 19th century tip (no in fact, that's the entire town)

Ways to fund your metal detecting
Charities........what they don't know will not hurt you
Cash in your once a year centrelink advance. (Be mindful though, you do have to pay it back) but $500.00 will buy you a very nice second hand, tested, Metal detector and GO OUT THERE AND MAKE MONEY!!

(I will email you photos of what I have found via your email address)

take care,
Catlady.
​17 April 2026
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Calvary free lunch at Morphett Vale

The ex-tank driver from Iraq wasn’t there. He was seen walking down a side street with his frizzy-haired New Guinea support worker. The free takeaway food from the church reception counter has declined in quality, possibly from a loss of government funding, but they still do it to their credit.

Lunch included two types of chicken dishes, pasta salad, fresh salad, not-cooked-enough roast potatoes, cheese cake, coffee and tea. The pepper container on our table was empty. Overall the lunch was very good from both a meat and non-meat perspective.

The lead-up to lunch was at least thirty minutes where diners could drink tea and converse. The white woman from Tanzania was missing. She could only talk about being kicked out of the country of her birth by the black African government. “But we treat them so well when they come here,” she would say.

I asked an old woman how she protected her mind, but she couldn’t quite answer this. She’s old and vibrant and speaks clearly. I’ve been speaking differently to people since ceasing to watch Youtube videos. More pointed and even rude enough to get kicked out of one free food joint forever. Not just five years.

Another diner said the Tuesday and Wednesday free breakfasts at the Salvation Army in Morphett Vale have been reduced to just Tuesdays from 10am to 11:30am. Wednesday lunch costs five-dollars. He added that the Living Well Church in Christie Downs has a free Friday meal at 5pm. He lives in a tent near the beach. I noticed he seemed desperate to get a meal, but didn’t shake or show any symptoms of drug or alcohol use. Just another working class man tossed out of the system.

Calvary Lutheran Church Morphett Vale Thursdays
5 Windsong Court, Morphett Vale. Ph (08) 7285 9588. No I.D. required for anything. Bags of average vegetables and odd grocery item from church reception counter Thursdays 10am to 11:30am. You sit outside and are called in order that you arrived. Free meal in hall next door 12:00 noon – 1:00pm during school terms with takeaway bread and vegetables. Respectful staff. Closed school holidays. Crowded.

The Nazi Bludger
​17 April 2026
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Dog information day

Tuesday 11am to 2pm, 21 April 2026.

This isn’t for police informers, but people with dogs. Whoever operates this is offering a free sausage sizzle so if you’re homeless you can pretend to be starving then feed the sausages to your dog.

17 April 2026
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Free electricity on the move
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Need power on the move? Need to charge your EV or electrical generator or whatever........your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or whatever. Look for recessed 240 volt power points, under new light poles, that are fashioned to look like vintage light poles (Google map outside the front of the Two-Wells Public Library (where the newish BBQ area with all those fairy lites hanging across them are....... and you will see the Newish light poles, that look like old Edwardian light poles) Well underneath every single one of them, on the one side of the street is a recessed 240 volt power point (Yup the same three plug, that you have in your house) and that's not the only spot.....I have noticed them in other areas as well, where these newish type light poles have been put in.

Oh yeah, public trains have them as well...Clearly you'd need to wait till dark or at least the early hours of the morning or maybe a quiet few hours on a weekend or public holiday, but plug in and charge away........MY MONEY SAVING TIP FOR THE DAY!!

Oh, you can buy 20 meters of power extention cord from the Reject shop for under $18.00.....try and get a dark colour (black is perfect) white not so good as it shows up across the footpath....but either way......make good use of all this wonderful new technology :0)

The Cat Lady
17 April 2026

(above) Fence near homeless camp cut for escape when jumping over would alert pursuers. And some weaker homeless people aren't strong enough to jump fences. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The government-funded employees have left the West Terrace Cemetery camp, but those living outside have not. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

An evening to shine
​at Kilburn Fred’s Van

It was a night to shine for Sandy the Cook. A diner named Dawn stopped as she was leaving Karaoke and told me it was takeaway only that evening due to lack of volunteers. This was 5:00pm, two hours before serving time. I peeked through a hall window and saw one person in the kitchen. That looked bad. Was it going to be containers of cheap pasta covered in cheap sauce?

Sandy was the lone cook in the kitchen. he came out and said we could enter at 6:30pm, but it would be takeaway only tonight.

Then Oz Harvest arrived and there weren’t any volunteers to unload the vehicle. But the Man from Peterborough and the notorious Ricco helped unload the vehicle. Ricco handed Oz Harvest food to a new diner sitting amongst us. We glared at Ricco so he called us c**** and said we weren’t helping. (Two of us claim to have terminal heart conditions that are taking their time terminating.) We still should have helped. Ricco and The Man unloaded the truck as two volunteers arrived to package it into individual bags. Then Ricco gave us cheese and biscuits from his stash. I’d never seen him in this role before and that changed my mind about him.

We went inside at 6:20pm for coffee. Sandy worked without speaking with another volunteer, but with impossible odds to succeed in providing a decent meal, it seemed.

That Greek woman with blond hair brought out 200 cardboard containers of decent food that came with the Oz Harvest truck. Some diners took ten while others took none.

Bad back Anita joined Sandy in the kitchen. She’s planning to become a volunteer.

Sandy emerged once again saying the food would be late. Then at 7:20pm he brought out containers of Wine Centre soup, rice with sour cream and his classical high-quality stir fry with a single vegetarian version for myself. Sandy’s professional quality blends of vegetables and meat are restaurant quality.

At 8:00pm there were five volunteers in total cleaning up. One tipped a table just as Jay was opening a container of soup and the lot went onto the carpet. No problems. Carpets are made for soaking up food and they’re always dirty, anyway.

After the diners had left the premises, four of us talked in the darkness outside. The volunteers had left and then the lights went out and an exhausted Sandy ran from a side door to his car. There was no fanfare, no bands, no speeches as he got in and drove away. ​

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide.

16 April 2026
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Hardship also in the mid-north
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MARY'S PANTRY WALLAROO- OPEN WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY BETWEEN 10.00AM AND 12.00 NOON. EVERYONE WELCOME. YOU CAN BE FROM ANYWHERE. CATHY IS LOVELY. SHE AND HER VOLUNTEER SIDEKICK, NEVER TURN ANYONE AWAY.

FREE GROCERIES, CLOTHES, BOOKS, TOYS, BLANKETS AND SHEETS ETC ETC.....OLD BUILDING FORMER CHURCH, OPPOSITE THE WALLAROO PRIMARY SCHOOL. YOU DO NOT NEED TO LIVE AT WALLAROO, OR EVEN CLOSE BY. HOMELESS AND TRAVELLERS WELCOME. A GOOD STORY HELPS AS WELL.

The Cat Lady
​16 April 2026

(above) Signs of a homeless camp near Homo Hill in the Adelaide CBD South Parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Homeless camp in North Adelaide recently abandoned. Where do the campers go? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

The Life and Times of 
The Nice Old Man

The Nice Old Man entered the homeless scene about five years ago in Tea Tree Gully. He came across as a jovial, but somewhat forgetful 75-year-old who couldn’t hold a conversation and instead reverted to telling stories from his past. Then events took a change and he became a shrill old man.

His most recent conflict isn’t clear. According to a reliable friend, The Nice Old Man somehow hooked up with Mick and Eleanor (formerly Mick and Denise). The story goes that he’d help them clean up their house in order to appease the Salisbury Council who said they lived in squalor. And, according to Eleanor, he’d pay rent.

According to the friend, the Nice Old Man didn’t pay rent or help clean up the place, the latter task somewhat impossible as the house is full of stuff the elderly couple don’t want to part with. And Mick’s concept of cleanliness is unique to himself.

The situation came to a climax in the kitchen, according to Eleanor, when the Nice Old Man held up a plate and shouted at her. Elanor said he’d better leave or she’d leave her own house. Mick heard the commotion and rushed in and a scuffle broke out and, according to Mick, there was tomato sauce.

One version is that Mick was charged with assault having a history of losing his temper. Another – according to the friend – is that the police weren’t interested as the Nice Old Man was having trouble with another woman I’ll call The Little Lady.

Mick and Eleanor encountered The Nice Old man after the dispute at The Haven free Friday meal at the Salisbury Anglican Church. The Nice Old Man threatened dire consequences for Mick who rolled his eyes and puffed out his chest.

The Nice Old Man attempted to gain allies at his table by showing images on his phone of his bleeding head. “I had to have four stitches at the hospital,” he said in a slightly high-pitched voice. This reduced one diner to stitches of laughter while the reaction from others ranged from mild sympathy to suppressing smirks as if they were at a comedy show.

What The Nice Old Man didn’t realise was that empathy wasn’t coming from the zoned out, zonked out and self-absorbed free food crowd. Most are too immersed in their own traumas to extend any sympathy outside of themselves.

But the main story is The Nice Old Man’s friendship with a woman I’ll call ‘The Little Lady’. Three or four years ago the Nice Old Man met The Little Lady thirty years younger than himself. He said he was dedicating his life to helping her learn English, drive a car, get a divorce and become an Australian citizen.

His main competitor for her affection said he was a Simp, this being a man who fulfils the duty of a husband, but doesn’t enjoy her bed.

The couple were extremely happy with each other for a year when his smile slowly disappeared and she began to wear a distraught face. He’d been sick for six months during which their relationship reversed: she cared for him. He’d moved into her two-bedroom unit crammed with stuff similar to that of Eleanor’s house. Yet he claimed he slept outside her apartment in his car. After he recovered, their relationship became tense.

Meanwhile, the son of a famous raceway motor mechanic – and expert in motors himself – formed a relationship with The Little Lady. He stayed overnight at her house and this caused extra friction with The Nice Old Man. The climax came – no pun intended – at the Para Vista Lutheran church free Monday meal when the motor mechanic boyfriend told the Nice Old Man to sit at another table, but that The Little Lady was welcome.

According to witnesses, the Nice Old Man ordered The Little Lady to return to her Housing Trust flat with him. She declined and according to himself, he held her by the shoulder, but according to witnesses he grabbed her around the throat.

The boss of the table, a retired hotel bouncer with brain damage later said his programming took over and he marched The Nice Old Man from the building. (The Nice Old Man said he was dragged out and thrown on the ground.) The retired bouncer said he could hear the hurt in The Nice Old Man’s voice when he realised the woman of his affections had turned against him. And from the public humiliation when he was unceremoniously marched from the building.

Management at the church told everyone at the table to leave the building. The motor mechanic, The Little Lady and The Nice Old Man returned to her apartment where he screamed and yelled from his room while The Little Lady recorded everything on her phone.

The rest of the story is up for conjecture, but at this point a drug addict living in the next apartment came into the story. The addict also had designs on The Little Lady. The following hasn’t been confirmed or denied with the Nice Old Man, but there were allegations he told the drug addict that the motor mechanic and the Little Lady were in Civic Park in Modbury. The addict went there and began fiddling with the motor mechanic’s car. When confronted he attacked the mechanic then grabbed The Little Lady – who then weighed a mere 35 kilograms – and swung her around by the hair then let go. She landed on the ground unconscious.

Two workers nearby attacked the drug addict and held him until the police arrived upon which an officer took a running leap and punched the drug addict in the face. The addict was arrested then released on bail.

Meanwhile, back at the apartment, the Nice Old Man loaded the car the Mechanic bought for The Little Lady onto a tow truck and hid it in a warehouse at Port Adelaide where he stores his racing car. He was legally entitled to do this as the car was in his name despite the motor mechanic saying he’d bought it for The Little Lady. But the couple say they don’t care about the car.

With the help of Sonia Blackwell, the Mechanic and The Little Lady obtained a Housing Trust rental unit in a nearby suburb. They began clearing her cluttered apartment giving much of the contents to Op Shops.

But someone – the drug addict is suspected – put debris into the lock of her apartment door. Salvation Army Housing paid twice for a locksmith to clear the lock then said they couldn’t do it anymore. The Mechanic said he and The Little Lady spent another thousand dollars on locksmiths to perform the same task. They also obtained police protection each time they entered the apartment until the police said they wouldn’t do it anymore.

Meanwhile, the drug addict pleaded guilty to assaulting The Little Lady and is awaiting sentence. She and the Mechanic are living well in their new unit. She relinquished her larger apartment next to the addict.

But the Nice Old Man who lives in his car has unfinished business. He challenges anyone connected with the couple saying they know where they live and better tell him and that he’s got an iron bar in his car. This tactic has tarnished his reputation where sympathy has switched to The Little Lady and the mechanic. The Nice Old Man has been reduced to performing his jovial senior citizen routine to school girls at church events.

He’s pursuing a case for financial restitution in the South Australian courts for money he gave to The Little Lady, including the purchase of air tickets that were never used.

But without a lawyer, his case is going nowhere. And he doesn’t have the acuity of mind or legal expertise to conduct even a simple case. And even if he succeeds what use is a few thousand dollars at this time of his life. One observer said The Nice Old Man was insane. The retired brain-damaged bouncer replied: “No, he’s a hurt man.”

And the hurt man at nearly 80-years-old rampages through the homeless scene with threats of his iron bar while making accusations, telling stories and using up the last years of his life in bitterness.

This should be a lesson for all of us and we might thank The Nice Old Man for being the teacher, possibly one of the more valuable gifts he has bestowed upon humanity.

15 April 2026
Updated late 15 April 2026

(above) Ute at abandoned Aboriginal government sanctioned camp between Anzac Highway and the West Terrace Cemetery in the Adelaide CBD. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2026.)

One Life free food tomorrow Salisbury

They’re back in action having moved the church from Ormsby Avenue, Parafield Gardens to an old tyre store now renovated into a church in Salisbury South. They have a free food giveaway tomorrow, Wednesday, 15 April at 1pm.

It’s once a month, but I’m not sure if it is the same Wednesday each month. I will find out tomorrow. Not sure either if the free coffee cafe will be open or not.

One Life free food Salisbury
12 Bremen Dr, Salisbury South. Ph 08 7081 9879. Free takeaway food via Faith Works once a month on a Wednesday at 1pm. Phone for precise details. No I.D. or registration required. Friendly outfit.

14 April 2026
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Turning the Army into profit

from The Cat Lady

​RING SALVATION ARMY ASSISTANCE LINE NUMBER ON 1300-13-1340 AND ASK FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. THE OPERATOR TAKES DOWN YOUR ADDRESS AND WILL SEND YOU A $60.00 EFTPOST GIFT CARD IN THE MAIL. I TRIED IT MYSELF AND IT WORKED. I WENT TO THE SALVO'S STORE AND BOUGHT $60.00 WORTH OF STUFF, WHICH I THEN SOLD ON EBAY. I PAID OFF MY WATER AND ELECTRICITY BILLS AND BOUGHT SOME GROCERIES WITH THE MONEY THAT WAS LEFT OVER.

I FEEL LIKE IT WAS DOING GOD'S WORK.........;0)

The Cat Lady
14 April 2026
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The Cat Lady’s Magic

Close to the big 60 and can't find any decent or ongoing work for love nor money (unless you want to do shitty two hour home-care shifts for rich boomers, who live miles away from you and who speed dial your employer, the moment they see a hair in the bathroom sink) or spend 12 hours at a time, with monstrous clients, like the 290kg doubly incontinent, aggressive/sexually fixated, schizophrenic, I was looking after for a while, before I finally lost it completely)

So what is the next best thing? EBAY.....no seriously. I am currently surviving by selling all kinds of shite on EBAY and yeah, i have my ups and downs, but its HEAPS BETTER THAN BEING A DISABILITY WORKER. It's not A MAGICAL WAND TO FIX EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE- LET ME GET THAT STRAIGHT. But if you can find a regular supply of cheap sellable shite (from anywhere from the side of the road, to online auctions, to hard refuse put outs to giveaways (charities are really good for this, one charity gave me a $300.00 designer leather handbag for nothing and inside of that handbag was a $180.00 GUCCI coin-purse (nobody checked obviously) another op-shop sold me a vintage, sterling silver bangle (hallmarked) for $3.50....I sold it for $80.00. Jewelry (even whacko, shitty costume jewelry) SELLS FOR BIG MONEY.

​Followed in a close second tie with VINTAGE TOYS!! OMG!! I recently sold a 50 cent plastic frizz bee (from the 1950's) for wait for it, $35.00 to an overseas buyer on Ebay......He collects the same brand of toy and he paid me straight away for it. You can live in a wheelie bin and still sell EBay online. All you need is a phone and access to the internet.

(BUZZWORD.CHEAPEST MOBILE PHONE PLAN WITH UNLIMITED DOMESTIC CALLS AND DATA IS FELIX MOBILE. A POST-PAID (BRING YOUR OWN PHONE) SIMCARD IS $20.00 A MONTH. SO LONG AS YOUR PHONE IS NETWORK UNLOCKED, IT'S THE BOMB!!

ANOTHER INTERNAL SECRET. IF YOU NEED A POST OFFICE LOCKER, GO TO A REGIONAL POST OFFICE, (ANYWHERE) THEY WILL SET YOU UP WITH A POSTAL LOCKER FOR FREE AND A FREE POSTAL LOCKER POSTAL ADDRESS. I HAVE ONE FOR A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN NEAR ME. HAVE HAD IT FOR THREE YEARS NOW. COST!! NOTHING!!

Another internal secret. GO TO THE SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL DROP IN CENTRE AT GAWLER, (OPPOSITE THE TOILETS WHERE THE PARK AND THE BIG MORTON BAY FIGS ARE, AT TEN AM ON A MONDAY, TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY AND THEY WILL PAY YOUR BILLS (UP TO $350.00) GIVE YOU A $35.00, FOODLAND GIFT CARD AND THREE BAGS OF GROCERIES.

IF YOU GET LOST, JUST GO TO THE VINNIES STORE FRONT ENTRANCE WHICH IS ON MURRAY STREET, AND THEY WILL DIRECT YOU TO THE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE ROOM AROUND THE BACK. ITS HIDDEN.......AND I MEAN HIDDEN. NO SIGNS, NO WINDOW, NOTHING........BUT TWO OLD LADIES ARE AROUND THE BACK IN WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN OLD BROOM CUPBOARD/CLEANING STOREROOM AND THEY WILL ASSIST YOU. (ONE OF THEM USED TO BE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY TEACHER AT GAWLER HIGH, 45 YEARS AGO)

HAVE FUN.....
The Cat Lady

14 April 2026
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Noarlunga Uniting Church free food

Their checklist of items is respectful to the client. You tick what you want and they bring it out in a bag. This includes adult nappies and pads. They offer coffee while you’re waiting, but there is just one chair. It’s possible to get two bags of groceries though much of it is bread. They offered Basa fish from Vietnam. Protein, but farmed in filthy waters.

There were three women and one man named James serving customers. They were respectful. One of the clients was a woman of normal appearance, that is, someone struggling in life, perhaps with rent or a mortgage.

The twice monthly free Thursday lunch has been reduced to once a month and the dates change each month. The Aldi free food has been reduced from Saturday and Sunday to just Saturday from 9am to 11am. But the other free food that requires a Centrelink card has been expanded from Monday to Saturday 9am to 11am.

I like going here except one time I went two weeks in a row when you’re allowed just once every three weeks. I didn’t know, but one volunteer treated me like a scammer. And another time a volunteer said I lived across the street and had been there the previous day. But that was the past and while living on the street you either become hyper-sensitive to criticism and react harshly or become hardened and immune to it.

The next Thursday free lunch is the 14th of May.

Christies Beach free lunch and groceries
Noarlunga Uniting Church, 23 William Rd., Christies Beach. No I.D. required. Ph 0450 350 519. No I.D required for free lunch 11:30am to 1:00pm once a month on a Thursday. Centrelink card required for free food & incontinence items Mon - Sat 9am – 11am, one visit every 3 weeks. Free Aldi rescue food Sat 9:00am to 11:00 am.

14 April 2026
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Bargains if you have eyes for them

by The Cat Lady

SATURDAY APRIL 18TH- PORT ADELAIDE
HART'S FLOUR MILL- 9 MUNDY STREET PORT ADELAIDE
OP SHOP TILL YOU DROP
PUT TOGETHER BY LIFE-FM CHRISTIAN RADIO
10.00PM-3PM
FREE ADMITTANCE
LOW COST EVERYTHING!!! BARGAINS GALORE!!
EVERYONE WELCOME. UNDERCOVER.

and
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" A POT CALLED KETTLE" NEW LOW COST CAFE OPENED UP BY THE FLINDERS UNIVERSITY, STUDENT UNION.

JUST OFF REGISTRY ROAD, BEDFORD PARK
MAIN CAMPUS, FLINDERS UNIVERSITY
MONDY TO FRIDAY, 8AM TO 3PM
COFFEE, TEA, SANDWICHES, WRAPS. COME CLOSE TO CLOSING AND ASK FOR WHATEVER HAS NOT BEEN SOLD. EVERYONE WELCOME!! ​

14 April 2026

(above) Australia Post give homeless people one year free rental on a post box at the four post offices in the Adelaide CBD. They require a letter from City Salvos. It's important to tell the Salvos you want a letter only and not case management. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

The Haven at Christie Downs

Things have changed. Allan the toasty maker has moved to St Hillary’s at Morphett Vale. And when we entered the transportable building, the coffee and toasted sandwiches were already placed on the counter. This ensured quicker service, but the products weren’t as hot as with the old system.
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There were limited fresh vegetables and shelves of free grocery items. Soft drinks and other items were placed on the shelves in small amounts every few minutes to stop greedy people from taking nearly everything. The chief suspects were an old couple who do the rounds, but thankfully weren’’t present this morning.

The only person who openly recognised me was a man with Alzheimers. One diner was an ex-security guard previously working concerts with big name performers. But childhood trauma caught up to him.

The popular 93-year-old diner said she’d been feeling tired recently, but her mind is sharp as a tack. Oh, to have a well preserved mind in old age.

The air conditioner blew cold air over my head so next week I’m wearing a beanie or stockman’s hat.

This is quite a nice place with intelligent and sensitive staff. 

Church of Christ at Christie Downs
165 Beach Rd., Christie Downs. Ph 8326 1153. Tues meal 5:00pm in main church hall. Doors open 4:15pm. Donation or free if you’re broke. Behind the Op Shop free coffee, toasted sandwiches, takeaway bread, vegetables 9:30am to 12:00pm Mon, Wed and Fri. First name asked, but Centrelink card not required except for special groceries, prescriptions, clothing vouchers. Closed school holidays. Intelligent staff and clients. Water tap 24/7. Difficult shower Mon, Wed, Friday 8:30 – 9:30am; 11:15am – 12:00 noon. 15-minute bread pickup 5:45 Sun.

13 April 2026

(above) Secret homeless camp in the inner metropolitan area of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The trick to a successful homeless is camp is placing it where few people venture. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

On the Street

Djibouti Ali said Bosnia Ali had died aged 81. Djibouti Ali told me this at a homeless camp in North Adelaide, but he lives elsewhere. He’s one of the most easygoing men in the homeless scene.

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C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide are doing takeaway only for their Friday morning breakfasts for the next two weeks. This includes hampers that one diner described as essentially “a bag of rotting vegetables”.

The reason for the cancellation of the dining room breakfasts was a problem in the kitchen though another diner said the elevator was broken and staff weren’t able to lug all the food and equipment up that long flight of stairs.

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Alcoholic Tom received radiation treatment for tongue cancer earlier this week. With luck it will stop him talking garbage for a month or maybe forever.

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The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man fired his 57th Support Worker after she asked him if he was interested in voluntary euthanasia. That’s like saying to a person, ‘why don’t you kill yourself?’. After he dismissed her, she filed a complaint with the hire company called Mabel.

However, he recorded her conversation in sound and image and sent that to Mabel so she may be looking for another career.

The disabled man is reluctant to hire Support Workers 58, 59 and 60 after having such bad experiences with the previous 57.

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Tina has stopped going to Evanston free food at the Encounter Church for fear of church volunteer Mini-May sticking something in her tyres. Mini-May has that reputation and is alleged to getting her son and a friend to do the job.

Tina has already had a “rod” stuck into one of her tyres, but there is not proof this is the work of Mini-May who was the primary suspect in two instances of spiked tyres and smashed windows of another free food client.

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Djibouti Ali was sick and sleeping on the ground outside a church for months in North Adelaide. One morning he found $150 on his pillow and over a period of months was given $1200 by church and other people.

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The WestCare Baptists didn’t turn up at Whitmore Square on Easter Saturday. The Gateway Baptists brought their van with coffee described as good plus frozen meals described as not good. People living on the ground don’t want frozen food. They want warm food. But it was good that Gateway turned up.

The WestCare Baptists should have a fill-in crew to deal with times they aren’t available similar to Fred’s Van in Gawler Place who are phenomenally reliable.

Rumour has it the WestCare Baptists weren’t there yesterday either and might not be there next Saturday as well.

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A diner at Fred’s Van at Hemmings Park was angry that a new shelter was being built for women when most people living outside are men. “Politics,” he said.

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Adelaide City Lighthouse provides hampers to The Gardens Uniting Church at Windsor Gardens on Saturday mornings. The Gardens have stopped supplying clothing as it was going to hoarders rather than homeless people. Most people living outside don’t go to free food services.

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Harry Stamoulis had another heart attack. He’ll return to the nursing home at Gawler once he’s stabilised.

Harry avoided jail during the Vietnam war by agreeing to become a helicopter pilot. He later worked as a pilot for Nevada airlines then became a soup kitchen client. He had a small dog and was devastated when the dog died.

Harry was also a genius tax accountant who could find secret deductions missed by professional accounts charging $100 for a rush job.

It’s sad that he’s dying, but as Ten Inch said, “We all go that way.”

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Tea Tree Salvation Corp has a free morning tea every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month, just after the free food handout. Hardly anyone goes there including those getting the free vegetables and groceries from Oz Harvest in the next room.

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A former prison guard dined at a Rundle Street restaurant. The owner didn’t charge for the meal. The owner was a former prisoner. The guard said he’d treated all prisoners equal during his career.

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A diner at a suburban Fred’s Van said she’s going there only every second week as she can’t afford the fuel.

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A regular client at the Seventh-day Adventist free food program at Elizabeth said they’ve stopped the Thursday service, but are continuing it on Monday as usual.

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Linda from One Mob said they’re not providing any service tonight at the Salisbury Railway Station. She is in hospital.

12 April 2026

(above) Living in a car or tent and being forced to move on takes us to places we usually wouldn't go. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Port Noarlunga last week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Restaurant operator throws homeless bedding out in the rain

The Advertiser journalist and photographer wanted a young person. Someone new to the homeless scene, fresh-faced with raw emotions.

They didn’t get it the day after missing the operator of the Mediterranean Restaurant and his employee throwing bedding and personal belongings of homeless people into the rain.

He’d told The Alcoholic, Ill Stewart, the older woman and Leader Windmill to get their stuff off his verandah within 48-hours. But this homeless crowd were too far gone to take any notice. And why move if you’ll just get kicked out of the new place.

Sonia Blackwell could understand the operator’s frustration trying to open a business with alcoholics collapsed underneath the windows. But she was nevertheless in a frenzy trying to find them shelter or at least a safe place to camp. The government-funded Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance was totally useless so it was on her shoulders.

The Tea Tree Gully Council answered her requests for help and two workers arrived to move the wet bedding down to Edinburgh Park, just above the creek bed behind Bunnings and the Salvation Army. There are toilets, a free BBQ and power points plus a few mothers with children.

But the neighbours are ferociously hostile against these homeless people. And the Council has already legally banned one of the campers from the park. And this is enforceable via the police. But to the fair to the Council, they’re already storing the belongings of the banned man.

Neighbours have been disturbed by screaming throughout the night by destitute people on crystal meth and who spend time in locked psychiatric wards. One neighbour said his units were evacuated one night after a huge fire was lit in the gully.

Garbage is also the problem. One camper not of this group finally put his rubbish into black plastic bags, but left it there until foxes ripped into them and he was back to square one.

But even perfect campers fall foul of neighbours who don’t want destitute people in their neighbourhood. These homeowners complain to the Council who put ratepayer interests ahead of the campers. (However, some campers stay there for months and are given food and bedding from other neighbours.)

Social Media Influencer Sonia Blackwell tries to convince the bureaucrats that all residents deserve good treatment regardless of whether they pay property rates or not. But the elected members firmly back the homeowners.

Anyway, the two Advertiser journalists were disappointed not to find photogenic young people so they instead interviewed Windmill for twenty minutes. He was happy with the outcome.

But the older homeless woman is still distraught saying kids have been throwing potatoes at her for sport. Yes, that happens because they know the adults want the homeless gone, gone, gone.

11 April 2026

(above) Two sunburnt men carrying large backpacks arrived to find the Hindmarsh food hub empty and fenced. Puddle Jumpers management hadn't the decency to even put up a notice beforehand advising it would be closed. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The crucial water tap was blocked off as if there's no problem removing an essential service from people camping outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) The Chelsea Ireland Puddle Jumpers Hindmarsh Food Hub was closed for two weeks before renovations began. There should be better coordination. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Why are welfare joints so frequently closed for repairs and renovations when restaurants are rarely closed? The answer is that homeless services are a hobby or with big money outfits their primary existence is to fund the employees and executives. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Finally, renovations began with two tradesmen working on Good Friday. But they wouldn't let me in to take images. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Fred’s Van City Easter Monday

Forty of us gathered in Terry Hemmings Park just before 6:00pm on Easter Monday. The park is the only place named after that decent man who washed dishes at St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore and before that was Minister of Labour in the Bannon government. There’s a plaque in Terry’s memory even though he’s alive and well and living in Port Adelaide.

We thought it being a public holiday then the weekend start time of 6:00pm would apply. We stood and sat there for an hour while another forty or more diners gradually joined us. They expected the van would arrive at 7:00pm and they were right.

While we waited a black African man patted each person on the back saying, “Happy Easter.” However, when he reached the last person in the queue he asked where he was from. The man of oriental descent said Australia. That enraged the well-wisher who asked where he came from before Australia. A woman intervened without success and the well-wisher shouted for at least fifteen minutes. Then he told us we could go to hell and walked over to the open door of a cafe where the owner was putting stock into his car. He yelled at the owner for fifteen minutes and splashed a can of drink on the footpath. Then he disappeared.

The cafe is situated in the State Carpark building on the location of the old government carpool warehouse that also accommodated the Unemployed Workers Union in 1981. They were expelled when the building was demolished and five years later Terry Hemmings offered another building to the Union near the Supreme Court. Terry later laughed saying, “They even got me to provide free electricity.” I remember sleeping on a desk in the building while keeping the heater going all night. No worry about the expense. We don’t get politicians like Terry Hemmings these days when benefits go to vested interests.

Another diner said the meal at The Pilgrim Church the previous day hadn’t been so good. It began 90-minutes earlier than usual so those not ‘in the know’ arrived as it ended.

Chinese Jenny was there and got four $15 tubes of toothpaste. A man got two then gave one to another diner who arrived too late for the meal. The receiver said – and I paraphrase from memory – “It’s unusual for anyone in these places to be generous. They usually grab as much as they can for themselves.”

Meanwhile, back at Fred’s Van, The Ghost Who Walks arrived at 7pm then saw the queue and drove off. The van arrived at 7:07pm. When I asked for a vegetarian sausage the server thought I was joking until he remembered they had these wrapped in foil. I forgot to get a bag, but got a container of non-meat pasta. It was horrible. Pasta with a thin lemon sauce that costs two-dollars a jar. The Man From Peterborough said it was made by school kids.

The Man From Peterborough was looking for a skinny woman who the previous evening was shouting for Dylan Bersecott to come out of the lane where she thought he was hiding. There wasn’t anyone in the lane as the can collectors had completed their rounds.

A thin tall woman asked us where she could get a blanket for that night. Fred’s Van sometimes has them.

The woman who once held a broken bottle to my throat during a friendly conversation spoke sweetly and gently while talking about Tom before he got fat. She said he’d been chasing Jacqui, a homeless woman now living in Bowden and who claimed to be a qualified psychiatrist.

Two men boxed in a friendly manner with jabs that would have caused injury if they’d connected. The Eskimo Lady later tried to kick the larger boxer saying, “Get away from me.” A man on a bicycle was looking for another homeless man saying he’d taken his bag and something else. “Did he get your shit?” a listener asked. “No, it was in my pocket,” the bicycle man replied.

In the end there wasn’t enough food for everyone’s wants. For the gluttons and hoarders no one has any sympathy, but for homeless people spending the night on the ground, more could have been utilised.

Fred’s Van should have planned better knowing that the other joints in the city were closed after noon and everything in suburbia not even open on an Easter Monday. But they still did a wonderful job simply by being there.

Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide. Monday to Friday 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Saturdays and Sundays 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Everything free. No I.D. required. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served. Extra vegetarian meal Thursdays and Concubine Chinese Restaurant dishes on Tuesdays. Socks and blankets from the van plus William’s Wardrobe clothing Wednesdays. Slightly dangerous. Adelaide’s most reliable service.

10 April 2026
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Blah, blah, blah people

“Do you want to be homeless?” someone asks then doesn’t wait for a reply but recounts their own experiences renting and buying a house, blah, blah, blah.

“Have you tried the Salvation Army?” Blah, blah, blah, they ask without waiting for the reply that the Army doesn’t do housing except for those on special drug, alcohol and other programs.

“It must be so hard.” Blah, blah, blah, they say while speed talking to avoid hearing a response.

10 April 2026

(above) Another homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD.

On the Street at Modbury
with Sonia Blackwell and Theresa

We met at the BBQ area at Edinburgh Park in Modbury across the gully from Bunnings. Sonia had prepared a huge BBQ of lamb Shashliks, sausages and seasoned chicken with a spinach cheese bake, creamed potato bake, baby broccoli, beetroot, bread, coffee, Coke and cupcakes from the Cheesecake store.

No one turned up except herself, Theresa and me. The homeless crowd at Modbury are in a bad way and couldn’t move from Civic Park where an Indian festival was taking place.

We drove over to Civic Park and found Windmill in good form along with a man sitting on his bedding outside the closed Mediterranean restaurant drinking cask wine. Another man behind the building was too ill to move. A woman new to the scene had fled the area.

Windmill was the natural leader of the group and was trusted with taking containers of the BBQ food to the others including saving the non-meat food for the vegetarian woman.

The man camping outside the Commonwealth Bank was left alone as he shouted “f*** off” to the two women offering food. Others camping in the gully stick to themselves. The hundreds or even a thousand or two people in the park had pushed the homeless people to one side, but not excluded them. The doughnut people gave free pastries to the homeless crowd. Later, Windmill found five-dollars on the ground and gave it to the doughnut people.

Sonia dished out multiple containers to each person and said she’d return the following day, Easter Monday.

A police woman and a man in plain clothes walked by. We wouldn’t have picked them as police, but Windmill did. He’s an expert in people living in the area and knows where most homeless people camp.

The operator of the Mediterranean Restaurant gave the homeless crowd three days to move elsewhere.

Late 9 April 2026
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Adelaide Christian Church no good

Their welfare arm is called Adelaide City Care. Their receptionist said their free food was available to everyone, but their website says it’s only for immigrants and international students who are desperate for food. Australians otherwise not welcome especially Stiffs, Mutts, Paedophiles and Stinking Mutts though they don’t explicitly use these terms to describe us.

Once having registered on the website, applicants arrive on a Friday at 1:30pm and wait in the sun without seating or water. The free food consists largely of devitalised canned and packaged food. One client said the church attitude was “F*** *ff”.

Adelaide City Care
33 Sturt St, Adelaide ph 8212 2322. Back of church. Free takeaway food every second Friday 1:30 – 3:00pm, but reportedly only for immigrants, international students and those pretending to be such. Applicants must apply via https://www.adelaidecitycare.com.au/

Late 9 April 2026

(above) Another disguised homeless camp across creek from where Sherwood Forest previously stood. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

The hard life of “non-profit” executives

You have to give them their due. Charity Chief Executives have a hard life. They must maintain the aura of a charity and encourage donations.

The difficulty here is that government grants and commercial activity fund most of their operations, but not payment for their executives. These salaries come direct from donations and bequests.

This means the executive class must pretend they are begging for money to buy blankets and toothbrushes for homeless people while they’re actually fundraising for their salaries, the amounts of which they won’t disclose to donors.

Another difficulty is hiding the fact that the fundraising professionals they hire to increase donations take half of the take for themselves. This includes those people on the street and in shopping centres pressuring you to sign lifelong contracts to donate fifty-dollars a month.

It’s an ugly illusion these charity or “non-profit” Chief Executives must maintain. It requires pandering to a range of government bureaucrats and media journalists. That’s why they employ professional public relations companies to spin the story and handle media and personal enquiries. And this again eats into the gross donation take.

But how much are these Chief Executives paid? Let’s take Ian Byrne, the former Chief Executive of Anglicare Corporation’s Disability and Wellbeing Services. He recently resigned to replaced Rohan Feegrade of Lutheran Care who sadly died of cancer. How much was Ian paid at Anglicare and what was his resignation payout. And how much does Lutheran Care pay him in his new role? He wouldn’t want the public to know this.

And what about Grant Reubenicht, the look-alike to Rudholph Hess who parachuted into Scotland during World War 3? He plays the silent game of avoiding the media unlike his predecessor Peter Sandeman who was a social activist. Grant ticks over silently while wielding power in a velvet glove. What would this guy collect as a salary plus perks?

And the list goes on with most big “non-profits” having a dozen executives on juicy salaries the amounts of which they want to keep secret from the public. And thus they place public relations experts to deal with the public and media to avoid any employee accidentally spilling corporate secrets.

It’s a ruthless murky world of intrigue behind the well-oiled world of corporate “non-profits”.

Late 8 April 2026

(above) It's a beautiful church in the heart of Glenelg. No I.D. required. They also supply free groceries, but that requires a Centrelink card. (Photo supplied by Agent 12.)

Fred's Van Elizabeth

The son of South Australian Supreme Court Judge Annett (deceased) arrived at Fred’s Van Elizabeth on a large single cylinder motorcycle. He appears to live in an old bus.

Lucky said the man who threw a knife his way the previous week was trying to hit another diner. Lucky said the thrower will pay for the mistaken aim anyway.

One diner said he’s been on Home Detention for thirty years, but is allowed to go to certain places providing he gets permission from the guards who enforce his home incarceration.

The volunteers served a meat stew with a non-meat option then fish and chips, the latter a small miracle out of a tiny kitchen. Dessert was ice cream and canned fruit. They also gave away tolerable vegetables and bags of toiletries.

A woman brought her nine-year-old daughter who didn’t use a phone the whole time.

The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man said the stew was horrible. The following Wednesday, this diner was impressed by the cooking saying, “Very bloody good meal, moist cooked chicken kebabs with 3 quarter cooked potato bake and really nice peas and corn then hot cross buns with butter. Good behaviour all round. Very impressed tonight.”

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

7 April 2026

(above) Well disguised homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD. But homeless people are under constant persecution by Council employees who patrol every tiny bit of the parklands every day. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

Frank Pangallo’s ignoble end

Poor Frank could hardly have suffered a worse outcome in the March 2026 South Australian election. Independent Catherine Hutchesson got 68.7% of the final vote to Frank’s 33.3%. This was despite Waite once being a safe Liberal seat for which party Frank was competing.

Frank got his start in politics not from his own merits, but through Nick Xenophon’s SA Best party. Nick’s popularity allowed his first preference votes to overflow to Pangallo in the South Australian Legislative Council.

Once Nick was defeated, Frank left SA Best and became an independent despite being elected on Nick’s overwhelming popularity and overflow of first preference votes. Then he joined the Liberal party to stand for Waite as a “watchdog”.

Few would deny this turned out to be a sad joke. Frank dressed up in a bright blue girl’s cheerleader outfit and along with his anti-cancer pills made him appear a friendly, but mildly sinister old granny. Young voters saw him as this ridiculous and frankly disgusting old creature.

Frank had been a corporate hack in the worse meaning of the word for a TV program called Today/Tonight. He played the tough guy chasing vulnerable miscreants without lawyers while leaving the powerful and corrupt to their own devices.

But his cheap tricks and superficial tactics of yesteryear didn’t fit into the world of today. To most people, Frank resembled an aged clown cast aside after the circus had left town.

So now Frank is in limbo with his blister packs of prescription capsules. Time to join a church, Frank, and pretend claim going to Heaven.

6 April 2026

(above) Social Media Influencer Sonia Blackwell delivers home cooked meals every Saturday evening to homeless people in the Modbury area including Civic Park. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

(above) Sonia Blackwell cooks at home the food she serves homeless people at Civic Park and in the gully below Bunnings at Modbury. She denies being on a disability pension. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, April 2026.)

On the Street

Orange Sky volunteers said hello to me in unison at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Sunday.

In contrast, I once commented that a volunteer at Orange Sky at Kilburn was an Indian Fijian. He took exception and said he was seventh generation Fijian. One volunteer screamed at me then the others turned their backs and began their own conversation. They felt superior, but are gone from that scene.

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The man who received a series of E.C.T. shock treatments in hospital lost his false teeth. He left them on the floor inside his house. It is believed that rats took them. While he was being zapped out with electricity, some people threw the contents of his home – which he owns – onto the front lawn. Rats found the heaps of rotting clothing and other stuff a base from which to operate then moved back inside the house.

Geraldine – not dead Geraldine – also lost her false teeth. She left them near her bed and they disappeared. Her dog is the prime suspect though he hasn’t been seen wearing them. They would look silly on a dog.

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One Mob didn’t arrive from Goodwood to the Salisbury railway station last Sunday due to lack of money to buy food and fuel. Linda from Mawson Lakes did arrive for conversation.

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A cheerful couple have entered the Salisbury homeless scene. They don’t appear to be drug addicts or alcoholics. They push a clean shopping trolley with clean contents, most of which appeared to be two mattresses.

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There won’t be any meal service at Fred’s Van Salisbury this evening due to the Easter holiday. Last week we were served coffee by the veteran Fred’s Van volunteer from Gawler Place. She served many years there until feeling unsafe and with good reason.

You get extreme clients like the psychotic man saying he was looking for someone to stab.

We miss volunteers who disappear that we never see them again. Perhaps they miss is when we disappear forever.

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One Mob may apply for a $3000 grant from the private VR Charity at Salisbury. It was begun by a rich old man who decided to give much of his life assets to various good causes.

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A client said Fred’s Van Salisbury stopped supplying soup at their Sunday meals due to lack of money.

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The Salvation Army Ingle Farm receptionist kindly let the old men use the showers during a large funeral in the building. The childcare group also operated in the area.

You could hear the splash of water and laughter of children amongst the singing and sad speeches of the funeral. One life ended as others begin.

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Four new people have entered the Modbury Civic Park homeless scene. Sonia Blackwell and the Tea Tree Salvo Corps are offering assistance. When Sonia phoned the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance (ANWHA), their answering machine said they weren’t taking calls that day.

What is ANWHA’s annual budget? How many paid employees do they have? ANWHA has big office suites in the UnitingSA building on Dale Street, Port Adelaide and in Anglicare Corporation’s offices at the Elizabeth shopping centre. And how many people do they actually house each year in welfare housing that would have been easily filled anyway.

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Catherine the Doctor was at St Andrew’s Church in Glenelg last Tuesday. She loaded her trolley nearly as high as she was. She’s in her 80’s and is a hoarder with at least two houses including an unoccupied house in North Adelaide filled with antique furniture. And her multi-floor townhouse in the city. And many more properties.

This isn’t rumour, but based on reliable sources who have visited her houses.

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I hate hearing N.D.I.S. support workers laughing at clients’ jokes. I don’t think they find them funny. They’re making fools out of their clients.

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A Fred’s Van volunteer at Elizabeth got debris in her eye last Sunday. Another volunteer tried to remove it, but the outcome is not known.

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Adelaide City Lighthouse is believed to be operating again at their Lipson Street warehouse, but only for a targeted clientele.

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John Johnson, 81, was at Mary’s Kitchen in Glenelg last week with money dangling form his back pocket. He loses his wallet every month and doesn’t always get it back. He goes into hospital next week for serious surgery, not the first and not the last.

John is famous for taking a shortcut across the runway at Adelaide airport some decades ago. And getting locked overnight in a walk-in refrigerator at Minda. And getting hit numerous times by heavy items falling from buildings. And there was a period when he kept falling down holes. But he’s most famous for being a good sport and looking a life positively.

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A construction worker on Sheriff's Road at Morphett Vale connected lightning rods three metres into the ground from a crane working near the Australian Broadcasting Tower across the road. Electrical emissions from the tower had turned the crane cables into welding arc rods. That same electrical magnetism every day is pumped through the heads of people living in the area.

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A soup kitchen client said he’d never gotten over being molested as a child by an executive in the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper and the third in charge of the Australian Red Cross in Adelaide. He said he’d been treated a plaything, a toy. The two perpetrators have since died. But he didn’t want to say their names.

5 April 2026

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

(above) The dining room includes table cloths, nice cutlery, salt and pepper, but tends to be crowded. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Wild animals at free food joint

There has been a noticeable decline of diners with some arriving after the meal has been served. This was due to one family pulling out of the Christian outreach program of which the free lunch is a component.

The lunch is rushed with the free bread and vegetable distribution coming well before the last person served has finished eating. This might explain why some people rush to be served first.

The distribution of the bread and vegetables after the meal was a scene to remember. Seven or eight Greek and Italian elderly women grabbed everything they could while shoving each other aside. They aren’t particularly poor or in need of it. Perhaps their aged minds have retreated to their childhood of poverty in Europe after World War 2.

There was even a struggle over the bread of which there was twenty or thirty loaves available for each person. They were almost as bad as Chinese ‘Grab Hags’ and much worse than the Mandarin Mafia who visit other free food joints.

This voracious grabbing brought an angry response from a usually shy Chin Falam volunteer who was ignored by these frenzied senior citizens. 

Preacher Gideon Tlaisun is now going by his real name perhaps now realising there isn’t any persecution in Australia for religious beliefs. He’s relying on faith and education rather than jumping around singing and yelling.

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeaway vegetables
Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church, 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton. Sunday 11:00am free coffee and snacks. Provided by Gideon and Viku Tlaisun and Chin Falam people from Burma. Personal data not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.

4 April 2026

(above) A mournful scene of the old colonial chapel at Salisbury Anglican Church. Empty and forgotten, but a windbreak for desperadoes seeking sleep. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Remembering Grogan at Black Hill

Some boys connected with the Adelaide Day Centre stole my tent on the hill above Beaumont. Across the gully from that vengeful journalist, Murray Nicoll. That was a long time ago. The thieves left my heavy household mattress and bedding.

Anti supermarket food waste campaigner David Brockschmidt used his maroon van to move the mattress and bedding to the Black Hill Conservation Park, near where the boss of the Adelaide Central Mission lived.

It was a Sunday afternoon and a group of teenage boys and girls near the front gate watched in amazement as two middle-aged men carried a huge dirty mattress into the bushes. They were gone when we took in the bedding. David said goodbye and went home.

The problem the first night and every night was Grogan. I think that was his name. He barked incessantly during that night to every move I made under a brittle plastic tarpaulin. Grogan’s backyard bordered on the Conservation Park. I was a few metres past the back fence and hidden in the bushes.

Sometime during the night his owner got out of bed and went to the back porch. “What’s out there, boy?” he asked Grogan. Grogan wasn’t talking.

The owner returned to bed while Grogan spent the night barking madly. This happened for the next two weeks. The man was replaced by a woman who comforted a very upset Grogan, who was getting worse each night.

His barking became hideous demonic shrieks as if he’d been bitten by one of the brown snakes crawling through the bush.

One night the man came out in a fury telling Grogan to shut up or he’d get rid of him. After he returned to bed and presumably fell asleep I shook the tarpaulin wildly making Grogan go off his head. The man came out and bellowed at Grogan more loudly than the dog had been shrieking. The neighbours must have thought the household had gone crazy.

Then the man became sneaky. He and Grogan snuck to the fence line and waited in silence. I didn’t move a muscle fearing Grogan might venture into the bush and expose me.

The man returned to bed and for the next few days Grogan had full reign and howled the whole night. Neither the man or the woman in the house or their neighbours tried to stop him. Grogan had won. I had won.

But the barking was affecting my sleep as well so I moved to a roof of a vacant building in the city. I sent a letter to Grogan’s house explaining what had been happening and thanked them for their tolerance.

3 April 2026​

(above) Those living in houses dump rubbish near homeless camps then people think we are the slobs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Still starving
​in the cane fields of Cambodia

“You said it was free,” Chinese Jenny exclaimed in a loud voice behind me as I put a note in the donation box. “It is. Payment is voluntary,” the donation box guard said to her. Then she honed in on the gift racks. “Are these free,” she asked. They weren’t.

In any other joint this would have been amusing, but at this free food venue the guests are local normal people who live in houses and worked at careers, not Stiffs, Dogs, Paedophiles and Stinking Mutts.

The appetiser table offered expensive unique cheeses, crackers, pickles, olives and sliced cucumbers. Rather than taking a tiny amount, Jenny filled her plate as if it was the main course. She gobbled that down then went for another heaped plate meaning others missed out. Any criticism flew over her head.

After filling up with rich food she limited herself to a heaped plate from the main course and a huge dessert. She went on the begging rampage to collect the same food for her decent husband at home as if he himself was stranded in the Cambodian cane fields surrounded by Khmer Rouge soldiers and not drowning in free food in Adelaide suburbia.

Jenny’s mother was starving during her pregnancy and Jenny was born with problems associated with starvation before she landed at the Catholic Monastery at Glen Osmond with her family.

For those who understand her she is very likeable. For those who don’t she is Jenny on the Rampage.

The excellent meal every two months features a variety of pure meats, vegetarian options, fresh salads and horribly unhealthy and tasty desserts. The coffee is wickedly strong. The room is too noisy. They should open the room dividers and spread the tables more to make conversation easier since most diners are over 65 and partially deaf except a few including Jenny on the Rampage.

Faith Lutheran at Warradale
2 Ailsa Ave, Warradale. (near Marion shopping centre). Ph (08) 8377 1731. A rather good free meal served a few times a year. You can get on their phone notification list, but otherwise they don’t require I.D. or registration. There is a donation tin, but nearly everyone ignores it.

2 April 2026

(above) Durable Man's car appeared abandoned. Was this the end of his vagabond experience? No. He's back in action and his car moved from this abandoned car area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

One Mob

“Hey mate thanks for your page. I’m not a big reader but there’s a group of 4 people called the mob they supply dinner tea coffee Sunday nights from 5pm at Salisbury train station. I’d like if this is listed but thank you.”

Scotty Pollock

Second Editor: Thanks, Scotty. Got it.

One Mob Salisbury
​Near the railway station and Stockade Hotel in Salisbury. 5:30 to 8:00pm Sundays. Usually hot coffee and sandwiches or hot food. Free. No data collecting. Self-funded by four Christians. Constant flow of wild clients. Sociologically interesting. Inspiring effort.

1 April 2026
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Sonia Blackwell with ideas

Social media influencer Sonia Blackwell talking about remedies for the failure of the Housing Trust and Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpUk0jOcC1I laptop

1 April 2026
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Stiffs Outnumbered at Wynn Vale

There were just nine of us amongst a group of elderly women who owned houses. And Baptist high school students at one row of tables when they weren’t serving us. One diner appeared as if he’d walked out of the jungle that afternoon. Another as if he’d spent the day in the dirt under a car. The rest of us were Old Hands.

The donation box was studiously ignored by just about everyone.

The Baptists are now very kindly cooking food for minority interests including those who don’t eat meat. Dessert was ice cream and chopped fruit from fresh produce purchased from a store, not half rotten stuff from the rubbish bins. The quantity of food was suitable for normal people and not for gluttons who eat three or four meals.

Diners were directed to a back room as the main foyer was being used by an A-list crowd (non-Stiffs) who were served foreign cheeses and grapes costing five times the usual cost.

One diner at our table said the conversation was quieter than usual because we were in a smaller room. The diner said large rooms with high ceilings encourage more shouting and less listening.

The students serving us didn’t swear, displayed no visible tattoos and sat straight in their chairs while eating. Nor did they stare at us as if viewing an alien species. They also listened politely to the man whose clothing was covered in dirt.

Only two children were there and they played together happily. One jarring energy transfer was between two people on good terms with Lighthouse City Mission at Port Adelaide and a savage critic. No angry words were spoken, but the vibes spoke loudly. This was typical of the civility of the gathering. At other free food joints combatants would be threatening to smash and kill and accusing each other of being dogs, paedophiles, c****, and stinking mutts. I prefer civility.

We sat in the carpark after the meal as nearly everyone else was leaving. That was a mistake. We were guests for a certain period, but after that we were outsiders and not part of their church community. We just take without giving. That’s okay for 90-minutes.

Wynn Vale Kings Baptist Church
93 Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn Vale. Ph (08) 8289 1866 Mon, Wed and Fri 9am – 12:00pm for food parcels. Electricity and gas grants no longer given out.  No money for homeless people to buy stove gas or batteries. Referrals to Salvation Army. Free meal with coffee at 5:45pm Mon during school terms. They got rid of those screaming kids. No I.D. or registration required. Donation box, but don’t encourage them.

1 April 2026

(above) Burnt homeless camp near Beaumont Road in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Stevo’s with Covid

A homeless man left a 20-litre metal petrol can on top of his bedding on the landing near the front entrance of the church. And car floor matting that he slept on.
That prompted one diner to say he’d learnt how to do terrible things in the army using common chemicals. He repeated himself, turning away each time to avoid discussion.

A small older Chinese woman from Singapore said she wasn’t China Chinese. And she told an older man he called her “cutie” because she was small. She stood on an upper step and looked me straight in the eyes.

Inside the building, Julie said her coffee tasted of sour milk and when staff checked the milk it was sour – or rather putrid – because heated milk doesn’t turn sour like natural milk.

I made a fool of myself speaking as if I was normal and not brain-gibberished by Covid that I claimed was past the infectious stage.

One formerly wealthy man who spent time in the homeless scene said not a single homeless person he’d lent money to had ever paid him back. He said they avoided him thereafter, but he told them he wasn’t going to lose a friendship over $50. He said many were on welfare and had no income and could never pay it back. An example was William Cunningham who wouldn’t apply for the dole and lived out of the Hutt Street Centre - [ plus Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters]. Two women maintained clean clothing in a box for him that they called ‘William’s Wardrobe’. After William hung himself from a tree they began a free used clothing service named William’s Wardrobe. William’s mother and others to this day still deliver used clothing to homeless people, some who live outside and don’t get welfare.

Deserving Dennis was also present. He was a high school teacher and on a good day is the most erudite and interest person in the room.

The man with the bad arm arrived in a good mood. That was a relief. He wore a new cowboy hat and said, “Hello, Cowboy” to an older man who also wears such head attire. Then he sang karaoke proficiently to a John Cash song. But he can turn angry in an instant so everyone is wary of him.

As the two-hour brunch session progressed diners discreetly moved away from me and my rasping choking Covid cough. 

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).

Tuesday brunch Sefton Park
Encounter Church (formerly Uniting) Corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. 10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Free quality hot meal, sandwiches and coffee during school terms. No I.D. or registration required unless you’re getting the six free grocery items every two weeks. Horrible gossip discouraged. Diners include recently released criminals with wild stories. Gentle atmosphere.

31 March 2026

(above) St Paul's Lutheran at Glenelg's dwindling congregation can't support their own church so they closed the Op Shop and are renting the building. Yet for their size they offer almost the best free food service in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Is Puddle Jumpers a clean charity?

Puddle Jumpers Incorporated
Financial Year 23/24

This is the latest annual report for the financial year 2023/24. Their 2024/25 reporting to the Australian Charities and Not-for-profit Commission (ACNC) is long overdue.

In the financial year 2023/24 Puddle Jumpers raised $465,058 that included just $13,840 from their Op Shops.

Their expenses included $104,912 to operate their valuable camps for deprived children. They had during this financial year $134,573 in the bank. They made a surplus of $65,377 for the year.

Overheads cost $293,378 and included
Honorary Payments ($77,841)
Warehouse ($38,997) (Where rotting vegetables are sorted and shower truck parked.
Depreciation ($23,700)
Cleaning ($17,488)
Promotions and Marketing ($14,300)
Resources and Equipment ($14,505)
Interest Expense ($12,291)
Insurance ($12,352)
Rewards and Recognition ($9,957)
Subscriptions ($8,236)
Training and Professional Development ($6,455)
Telephone and Internet ($6,238)
Property Expenses ($4,794)
Power and Electricity ($3,726)
Repairs and Maintenance ($3,539)
Bank Fees ($3,030)
Printing and Stationery ($2,012)
Fees and Permits ($1,500)
Office Expenses ($546)
Stripe Fees ($123)
Incidentals ($326)
Host Agreements Expense, Etc $0
Abnormal Item - Adjustment to Bank Reconciliation ($31,420)

Fundraising total was $465,058, which is their total budget and included $13,840 from Op Shops. Fundraising included donations of $290,948 with actual fundraising of $172,078 costing $66,014 in expenses.

Net Assets are $422,665 that include a building somewhere that had an estimated value of $486,029. They also owe Blythe Development Board Inc nearly $350,000.

Their truck was valued at $96,334 in 2024.

An interesting amount was $77,841 for Honorary Payments. Where this went was not disclosed, but for a charitable corporation with 750 volunteers and zero paid employees this is exceptional in its low amount.

After observing what Puddle Jumpers actually does in the homeless scene and the good reports of its camps for children, I would conclude that it is an exceptional clean incorporated body and worthy of donations and bequests.

https://acncpubfilesprodstorage.blob.core.windows.net/public/8bbd70e1-39af-e811-a95e-000d3ad24c60-4a64ec7c-7ed6-4591-a4f5-4454c019821b-Financial%20Report-2f9b96c0-07f4-ef11-be20-002248971cf9-pjFY24statACNC.pdf

30 March 2026​

Easter news

The receptionist at Pilgrim Uniting Church in the city said the Adelaide Angels won’t be putting on their usual Easter Extravaganza this Sunday, but the regular Sunday free meal will happen behind the church on Flinders Street at 5:30pm this Easter Sunday.

The coordinator of Fred’s Van said Kilburn Fred’s Van and Gawler Fred’s Van will both be happening this Thursday, the evening before Food Friday.

Fred’s Van Gawler Place will be open on Good Friday while Fred’s Van Aldinga won’t provide their usual Friday meal on this holiday. C.H.A.T.S. will also be closed on Friday. And No Fred’s Van Salisbury or One Mob at Salisbury on Easter Sunday.
Essentially, nearly every homeless free food joint is closed over Easter except for Baptist WestCare and the Hutt Street Centre, to their credit.

Other good news is that The Haven at the Anglican Church in Salisbury will be open from 5:30pm to about 9:00pm on Good Friday. The Haven is not connected with the psychiatric Sonder Safe Haven business on John Street.

30 March 2026

(above) The government sanctioned Aboriginal homeless camp abandoned at Edwards Park between Anzac Highway and the West Terrace Cemetery in the Adelaide CBD. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) The black fella camp didn't survive. Homeless programs are rife with politics. That's why the Hutt Street Centre spends a small fortune hiring the HughesPR public relations firm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) Being homeless in the city requires an intricate understanding of constantly changing government and welfare policies. "More help for the homeless" means 'prepare for danger'. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

On the Street

Tom the Alcoholic took a bandage off his arm upon entering the Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Oasis Cafe. The tendon of his left arm was visible through infected flesh. He asked for a needle to pop the swelling pus. The cafe emptied apart from a drug addict with head lice.

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Has Towards Home gone broke or simply become dispirited. There are plenty of homeless people in North Adelaide living in tents, cars and one in a toilet for the past two years. Not that Towards Home does anything except collecting data that justifies their existence.

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“The good news is you don’t have Alzheimers. The bad news is your brain is f***** from smoking marijuana for 38 years.”

An elderly man from Christie Downs Church of Christ paraphrasing his doctor to whom he went for an Alzheimers test.

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A Puddle Jumpers volunteer proudly announced they’d had the water pump repaired on the One Voice shower truck. But while moving the truck to another location he banged the side and damaged the stairs and canopy so it’s again out of action.

The stairs were no good, anyway. They were steep and rickety unlike the One Voice shower truck in Kalgoorlie where the stairs were designed and built by mining engineers.

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A man says he doesn’t go to C.H.A.T.S. in the Masonic hall at Port Adelaide because he fears asbestos falling from the ceiling.

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“This particular crate was rescued at 7:30 AM and by lunchtime had become a nourishing meal for 350 people.”

This was a quote below an image of an Oz Harvest worker holding a 10kg crate of vegetables. They would have been tiny meals.

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A soup kitchen client with a high I.Q. said she’s been in pain for 36 years after her hip was crushed by a drunk in a stolen car driving with socks over his hands so as not to leave fingerprints.

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The Clink Cafe at Semaphore Uniting Church has transitioned into a non-Clink Cafe. The ex-prisoner Seeds of Infinity women have moved to new premises in Kilburn. A new outfit connected with the church have taken over the Thursday lunch.

The Clink women didn’t charge a cent for an excellent lunch, but it isn’t known if the non-Clink crowd can continue without charging.

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Chinese Jenny says the Preacher Ben Carbonne gave her a box of nappies, tins of formula and packets of wet wipes before Christmas.

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How can the Salvation Army operate such a cruel Emergency Hot Line. It is nearly impossible to get through. One woman said, “They won’t answer. You wait and wait and finally they ask you your post code and the line goes dead.”

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A woman said a friend lives in a Housing Trust unit, but doesn’t have gas, electricity or water. She says, “I take him to showers.”

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Looking at the Free Food Guide it would be easy to conclude there are so many places for homeless people to go. But there aren’t. Each joint caters for a specific personality and lifestyle. Most don’t welcome homeless people. They tolerate us and are always on the lookout for behaviour that can exclude us. And we’re hypersensitive, anyway, and often leave before conflict. In some cases it’s, ‘the wolves are welcome while the sheep are expelled’.

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A Stiff allegedly threw a knife at Lucky at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last week. Lucky said he’s going to get his black fella friends to go after the tosser.

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Someone set fire to one of Mick’s old cars on the street outside Eleanor’s house. His insurance didn’t cover fire. Mick is also in trouble for punching The Nice Old Man who allegedly was threatening Eleanor in her own home. The case continues.

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Alcoholic Tom tried to steal a trolley of food from the Modbury OTR petrol station. He was stopped, but the police weren’t called. Staff told him never to enter the store again.

29 March 2026

(above) Moving in silent desperation. Nocturnal scavengers and the homeless crowd emerge at dusk and leave their traces as the sun arises. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Covid in the car

Apart from finding a toilet and what do you do at Christmas, one of the most asked questions of those living in cars, tents or on concrete footpaths is “What do you do when you get sick?” The answer is you continue as always and either get better or don’t.

The worst part of my recent bout of Covid was the lead-up before realising I was sick. Life had become jaded, my body was sore, thought patterns were disturbed. Discovering I was sick was a relief.

And so with Covid, when it struck full force. I thought it was the flu until it didn’t get better as quickly as expected. And the rasping cough 24 hours a day was a bad omen. I gargled with hydrogen peroxide bleach to kill the infection, but that turned a sore throat into a sore mouth. And those anaesthetic Strepsyl lozenges were much good, either.

It was the loss of taste that signalled it was Covid and not the flu. It took a jar of ‘Always Fresh’ dill pickles from India to prove that point. I thought those Indians didn’t know how to make pickles. They forgot to add vinegar. I could have got the cheapest pickles for the same non-flavour. But it was me and not the Indians.

And sleeping 18-hours a day, some of this time slumped into the reclined front seat of my car, the rest of the flat surface of a bed in the back. Strangely, while my back usually hurt within twenty minutes in the front seat, with Covid I slept two or three hours straight in a hunched up position without pain.

And then the mental confusion. A few times I thought I was okay until seeing people backing away as if they were listening to the slurred speech of a drunk believing he was talking sense.

Anyway, after two weeks, the symptoms reduced. The rasping cough became an annoying chronic cough then it got better. But my hearing seems reduced. And my mouth is still sore from the bleach.

28 March 2026

(above) Of all the streams of consciousness that flow through the city homeless culture, SoSo SoSo is one of the most unique and valuable. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) SoSo ignores convention in the style of obscure 1950's Beatnik culture. In his latest volume, he's reduced prose to a series of aphorisms. A meditative volume rather than an intellectual read. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) And what could be simpler than this three word piece of advice, something most old people regret following from an early age. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Backgrounds of those celebrating the launching of the Hutt Street Centre Aspire program report

It was a strange report, almost another version of one already completed that claimed the Aspire Program had saved the government much more in hospital and prison expenses that it cost. In this latest report it was claimed the Aspire Program had been a runaway success with $60 million dollars saved. This was done by investing money into supporting and housing a certain group of homeless people rather than letting them live in rooming houses, tents, cars, under trees and in shop doorways.

But the report was similar to that of the non-financial section of the Hutt Street Centre annual report. More a sales pitch than a clear explanation of how much was spent to save the $60 million. Understanding how that money was saved was also beyond the comprehension of nearly every reader, possibly all readers of the report. It was more a ‘read the baby-style graphs and pictures’ and ‘trust us’ style of proof.

The report was prepared by an outfit called Social Impact Hub (S.I.B.) connected to a Foundation of sorts. But this wasn’t clear as S.I.B. appears to be a consulting and public relations outfit hiring dozens of professionals to create convincing reports for whomever pays them.

At this point I began wondering if the Hutt Street Centre was actually a homeless service or some sort of strange entity with secret projects operating in a world of sharks wanting to destroy it. Like some front for the C.I.A. or A.S.I.O.

The Indaily photo album of those celebrating the publishing of the report weren’t the usual crowd of forward thinking social workers like Ian Cox and other university educated sociologists.

The Indaily celebration album was a mastery of deception without a single shred of statistic evidence proving the $60 million savings. Those featured in what appeared to be a paid advertisement included images of Carolyn Mitchell, a commercial lawyer. The Indaily advertisement article didn’t explain what she had to do with people living outside. With her was Tilly Oborn, a mining consultant with Consentium; Anne Day with a Seymour College background; Sanjeeta Singh, a legal governance expert with the RAA; Lucy Last, a marketing expert, also with the RAA; Alex Theel, a marketing expert for failing and scandal ridden businesses; Ian Byrne of Anglicare who replaced Rohan Feegrade of Lutheran Care after the latter died; Angela Carey, HSC Board Member and expert in networking, governance and strategic planning; Bec Trude, a data base expert possibly helpful with the Eternal Shame File; Charlotte Trude, maybe Bec’s daughter and student at St Peter’s College, Mark and Julianne Hall, Mark is chair of the Hutt Street Foundation which has net assets of $10 and a turnover in 2025 of just over $18K; and two real estate agents named Sharyn Yelland and Joanna Lezanski.

When you look at the collective skills of these people you see that the Hutt Street Centre‘s main game appears to be survival with an emphasis of keeping tabs on land developers wanting to wipe the building off the map. And maintaining the dominant narrative of an organisation brimming with potential scandal due to the type of clients it serves with top class lawyers read to pounce on legal threats. But what shred of experience do they have with those living outside?

It now becomes clear why Ian Cox had to go. He was a forward thinking social worker while the new guy, Chris Burns, has a military and legalistic background. Burns is more able to deal with the threats heading the way of the Hutt Street Centre. And the new management replaced many of the senior board members, employees and volunteers with people who were comfortable with the Centre operating more on a prison level than the Daughters of Charity mode.

A yet the mystery remains why such a relatively small outfit requires such political and legal power. Are the rumours true that it’s an MK Ultra body farm with a constant supply of expendable humans? Or a huge money laundering outfit operating within the shell of a homeless joint? These are wild theories circulating in the homeless scene.

And we still have no understanding how the Aspire Program actually saved the government $60 million apart from a deceptive sales pitch that few if anyone understands. And the report didn’t mention cutting off the outdoor water tap and putting timers on the showers. ​

And how much did the report cost?

https://www.indailysa.com.au/salife/out-about/2026/03/20/hutt-street-centre-impact-report-launch

https://huttstcentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HSC-GD-5-26_Impact_Report_Booklet_Digital_Pages-compressed.pdf

https://www.socialimpacthub.org/

27 March 2026

(above) All the big money homeless programs are nothing compared to a church cemetery in Salisbury letting those living outside use their water tap. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Midway CommunityHouse 
​Elizabeth East

They opened seven minutes later than the advertised 10am Grand Opening time. Four old men and one younger woman waited nervously. Everyone was allowed into the small room except an invalid who was offered a chair in the hallway.

The room contained a cash register plus about forty canned and packaged items priced slightly lower than supermarkets. Anyone spending more than five dollars got a bonanza free FoodBank hamper that consisted of the customer grabbing a few tiny old potatoes, busted old carrots and questionable red onions from three miserable little trays. Only one client bothered. There was also a load of free sliced bread for those big spenders.

An obese client kept saying, “Thankyou so much, thankyou so much,” of which the two community house workers seem to find embarrassing.

With the Grand Opening big rush of five small purchasing customers having departed the scene, the pantry room was left in a flickering haze from an overhead fan placed below a single-tube fluorescent light on a low ceiling. These idiots are so insensitive and uncaring to those with a low seizure threshold. They can’t be told anything because we’re irrelevant.

The real action was happening outside the pantry doorway. Today was Harmony Day where we all accept each others’ differences: except child molesters, male rapists and those minimally educated people who use outdated language and are unhappy with Australia’s immigration policies.

Strangely, the two workers forgot to invite the five food pantry clients to the Harmony Day BBQ that would begin in 90-minutes. The Virus Lady and the Crystal stone lady were there by tagging along with the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man who was invited as he’s a client of some welfare unit. In other words, it was an in-house trade fair sort of Harmony situation. The Virus Lady commandeered the ten-cent deposit cans and asked for all the non-meat sausages as she was the only vegetarian there.

Guests were offered ‘Harmony Boxes’ that contained – amongst other silly items – pumpkin seeds to grow in a garden, which would indicate harmony with nature. But the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man ate the seeds in front of everyone. When offered a can of Coke he took four.

And this is the key: the Harmony Day celebration wasn’t for everyone. It was part of an informal mini trade fare where welfare workers could talk shop while being paid. Of course there were the usual pleasant obese white women in charge who ended every command with the word “Okay?” spoken in a horrible tone of voice.

And the odd indigenous person, always unsmiling to let the world know they hadn’t forgotten the children being taken away and replaced with plonk and sugary doughnuts. Older white men were present to ensure control of any loose cannon minimally educated underclass white men and women who actually believed the Facebook open invitation meant they were invited. And who might question the wonderful harmonious mix of multiple cultures in Elizabeth East that had displaced them from housing.

But on the positive side, The Food Pantry won’t make the Adelaide Free Food guide inclusion, but it will be of use to a tiny amount of disabled people in the area who will welcome a new “local store”. And if the people volunteering, employed or doing courses at the community house use the pantry, it will be a success. And of course there will be extended and intermittent closures of the Food Pantry for various petty reasons. That goes without saying.

Midway Road Community House, 48 Midway Rd Elizabeth East,
​ph ​08 8255 4352
26 March 2026

(above) Retirement units left in Trust to Laura and Alfred West Cottage Homes on Brooklyn Terrace, Kilburn then grabbed by Anglicare then knocked down and the land left vacant. What sort of murky legal and moral issues lurk within this mess? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Community Union
​Defence League (CUDL)

The Desperadoes seem less intense at Whitmore Square at a Sunday lunch than those who visit Fred’s Van in the evenings at Terry Hemmings Park. The Community Union Defence League workers are the most relaxed in Adelaide’s homeless scene. No nervous laughter, no exaggerated movements, just pleasant demeanours as they serve the food.

One CUDL man paid especially detailed attention to applying sun block as if preparing for a catwalk performance. Then he took images of the serving table followed by counting numbers in the queue. One quarter of the Stiffs in the park didn’t bother joining the queue.

Some old guy who looked like death-warmed-up was handing out 36-page Adelaide Free Food Guides.

Moslem men and women also helped out. They previously had tables next to the CUDL mob, but no longer. Three were dressed in hijabs with three children looking every Stiff in the eye. One mother dressed in light blue had pure white skin and white teeth. When she offered a wizened old street woman if she wanted watermelon, the latter said, “You don’t mix watermelon with sandwiches. What’s wrong with you? The Hijab woman was visibly thrown back, but was urged to continue by the others. This was just Australian street talk.

A client also helped serve while sampling the menu.

The cordial was warm on this hot day, but the CUDL crowd also served tea and coffee plus four or five hot packs of vegetarian and meat dishes. I chose the Mexican dish then complained it had a strange unpleasant taste. I wasn’t aware I’d already caught Covid and lost my sense of taste.

A sunburnt man dressed in 1980’s Rastafarian dress stood near the food counter and blew his nose unpleasantly for five minutes. Homeless people do these sorts of things because they’re always forced into the public view.

As always, the CUDL woman with the generous child-bearing hips arrived somewhat late with hot pots of food. She’s the best cook and is renowned for previous dishes. In future, I’ll hang back until she arrives. ​

There was plenty of food for everyone as always. This is one of the more generous suppliers and they don’t get government funding. How is it that the richer an outfit becomes the less they actually offer that is helpful to homeless people?

Community Union Defence League in the City
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. Phone 0418 894 366. 11:30am – 1:00pm Sundays. Free. No I.D. required. Lunch on the grass includes hot food, takeaway packs, coffee, biscuits, fruit and vegetables. Homeless and underclass welcome. One of the best street services. Dangerous clients, but safe unless provoked. https://www.cudl.org.au/

25 March 2026

(above) A dying pigeon alone in the pine grove. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Voting with Covid

I thought recovery was in sight when a new wave of nausea and coughing hit me as I merged into a mob of twenty-five political spruikers on the footpath in front of the Enfield RSL club. Their presence was dominated by the enthusiasm of One Nation party workers. The Liberal candidate was decidedly downbeat.

I told the old guard at the door that I was homeless and still registered at my the Anglicare retirement complex – now a vacant block – in Elizabeth. He called another worker who announced in a loud voice that I was homeless. Eyes in the queue turned downward at me sitting in a chair: messy long hair, bloodshot eyes, badly fitting charity clothing and coughing bright green phlegm in rasping growls then swallowing it back down. I smiled at them like a senile pensioner roused from a long sleep.

They quickly turned away except for a teenage girl who peered at me surreptitiously from between others. The worker eventually took me to the back of the hall where people outside the electorate cast early votes.

In my mentally confused state I messed up the lower house voting form, but upon seeing who I’d voted for, a worker wouldn’t issue me a fresh form. I returned a few minutes later with the same request, but she wouldn’t budge. She put my voting cards in an envelope destined for Elizabeth, but she did it all nasty like putting garbage in a bag.

I slunk from the hall and returned to my Covid slumber in he car for the next few days.

24 March 2026

(above) Abandoned homeless camp Elizabeth South. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) The key to a successful homeless camp is using scavenged material and minimal labour. Those producing clean, respectable and decent camps suffer the most from Council anti-homeless squads. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Remove the Shower Truck’s wheels

Why keep the shower truck registered and insured while it sits idle? Why drive the shower truck to destinations that homeless people avoid due to the truck rarely being there despite being advertised? Why waste volunteers’ personal time driving the truck to dead destinations?

It would be better if the shower truck was parked in a single destination within the complex of an active homeless area. Then leave it open during the day with an attendant keeping an eye on it from time to time. Or even washing the shower after each client’s use, not a luxury considering the disease level of many homeless people.

Volunteers wouldn’t have to drive the truck to a destination, set the thing up or train large amounts of new volunteers who rarely last three weeks. At a single destination, a dedicated number of workers would become proficient through repetition and take five or ten minutes from locked up truck to open and producing hot water. (Rather than the usual 30 minutes or more after discovering hoses are missing and gas cylinders are empty.) And hook the system up to two large household gas cylinders rather than those two creepy camping bottles.

Once permanently established and reliably open it would attract a regular cohort of desperate clients especially if toilets were nearby. And the used shower water could be permanently routed into a building drain.

Registration could be cancelled. Motor servicing almost stopped. The wheels could be removed to pay for the hot water gas.

Everyone would be happy with that unreliable fake mobile shower service gone. It’s an insult to us when it’s paraded as “helping the homeless”. It doesn’t. It creates more misery that it alleviates.

Remove the wheels.

23 March 2026

(above) Faithworks Friday meals cancelled until at least the 10th of April for renovation fever. This sign posted before the last meal, but luckily the man who smashed the Kilburn community centre glass door checked around the back and discovered the cooks at work. Never trust anything in the homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) Bullet hole in the window of the old Uniting Church used by Faith Works at Blair Athol. A nearby resident said gangsters are common in the area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026)

On the Street

Entry was vetted via a side door at the Ingle Farm Salvation Army last Tuesday when management closed their front doors. Someone kept phoning the receptionist with abusive phone calls. The caller was known to the receptionist and it is understood that police were not called immediately.

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Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army was cast in a malignant odour last Friday morning, but it wasn’t a client waiting for a shower. Management got a worker to peer into the ceiling in expectation of finding a dead animal. The mystery remains to be seen.

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Mick of Mick and Eleanor no doubt regrets befriending The Nice Old Man. Rumour has it that Mick has been charged with assault for punching The Nice Old Man in the face and drawing blood.

Mick claims – so the rumour goes – that The Nice Old Man was touching up his best friend, Eleanor, who has reached the stage where she has difficulty performing everyday life demands and seems not to know where she is. They had allowed The Nice Old Man to live in Eleanor’s house, which she owns.

Another version is that Mick asked The Nice Old Man to help with the housework and the latter refused. This story will be continued next Sunday.

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The Nice Old Man is currently involved in a messy civil claim against a younger woman for breach of trust. He claims he gave her money then she pushed him aside for a younger man. The woman says The Nice Old Man stole her car, but she doesn’t want it back, anyway. The court case has been dragging on for over a year with no end in sight.

​It's a tragedy as the usual congenial old man is wasting the last years of his life. 

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Two Moslem drug addicts arrived at Fred’s Van Elizabeth last Wednesday evening calling diners “white trash” and “dogs”. At least one diner called the police who took them away.

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The beggar from Port Adelaide known as Pineapple Head was intimidating older women at the Elizabeth South shopping centre last week. A diner at the Sunrise Cafe shoved him from the building.

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Lance Armstrong moves closer to his new career as an 80-year-old Uber Eats rider. It was suggested he could save money on food by eating portions of the Uber Eats delivered to customers. He said the containers are either stapled or stuck with stickers. I said I’d lend him a stapler.

He’d better commence his new career without delay as robots are taking over in other countries. And they don’t carry staplers.

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Chinese Jenny was distressed last week that she didn’t have enough money to buy nappies, formula and wet wipes for her disabled 2-year-old twins. The idea that she could use cloth nappies and could have provided breast milk is impossible for her to conceive.

Hasn’t having children become commercialised to the extent that it’s discouraging women?

They’re now having dogs, but even these critters are becoming riddled with new expenses. Once a dog cost practically nothing. You fed it household scraps plus beef bones and perhaps a little supermarket dog food. It ran free and houses didn’t have fences. When the dog got sick it either got better or was shot. Now they have cancer treatment and hip replacements.

And now the government forces people to desex, inject and license their dogs that are treated like retarded children rather than beasts. And if they bark too much, they’re debarked.

*

“Like a 5-star hotel,” Chinese Jenny described the C.H.A.T.S. extravaganza every Friday morning from 9am to 10:30am at the Mason Hall in Port Adelaide. She added, “Quite a few homeless people, you can tell by the way they walk.”

Note: Chinese Jenny was previously described in Adelaide Homeless Journal as Cambodian Jenny. She said that was an insult. The Khmer Rouge starved her mother during her pregnancy with Jenny and now she likes eating food too much.

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“No second coffee, you eat outside even when it’s cold. Too long a wait between the meal and the Oz Harvest vegetable hangout. Shit place, shit people.”

Diner comment on the Junction Community Centre on Grand Junction Road at Ottoway.

*

Brain-damaged Ice addicts are exaggerated examples of normal people. The addicts say a few words then their body contorts in odd postures while they laugh hysterically even when they’re straight.

While living in a monastery we had occasional visitors from the outside world. We considered our lives of minimal speech normal. Visitors considered normal in the outside world appeared to us like brain-damaged addicts. Their speech meant nothing and was accompanied with meaningless guffaws and body contortions.

*

A man and woman lived in their van for a long period in an Adelaide OTR carpark. Then someone stole their van. Life was desperate. They eventually got a Housing Trust unit. They’re still in the homeless scene. They speak very little to each other, but when they do they give each other their full attention with endearing looks.

*

“Food shit, rotting, but not as bad as Hindmarsh.”

A Bagster Road Community Centre Monday evening event client comparing the meal with that served at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh.

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A man sleeping in a tent under a hillside walkway near St Peters said local boys filled his tent with grass and one threw a rock at it while he was inside.

Neighbours complained about the smoke from his small campfire. They called either the police or fire department. An officer told the man the fire was okay, but to keep it small and not burn it constantly.

22 March 2026​

(above) Good potatoes and day-old bread left for anyone to take back of Faith Works on Clifton Street, Blair Athol. It depends on the weather and surplus food that day. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Hughes PR spinning
​the Hutt Street Centre image

Indaily published images of non-homeless people celebrating the launching of the Hutt Street Centre’s first impact report. The totality of text apart from naming the non-homeless people was.

The Hutt Street Centre launched its first impact report.

There weren’t details of the contents of the “impact report” or where it could be found. This smelled of HughesPR through and through. Such deceptive conduct shows the Hutt Street Centre has plenty to hide.

https://www.indailysa.com.au/salife/out-about/2026/03/20/hutt-street-centre-impact-report-launch

Meanwhile, The Hutt Street Centre cut off the outdoor water tap for homeless people and has timers on the tinia showers.

HughesPR has advertised the impact report on its own website, but didn’t provide a link. Why?

https://www.hughespr.com.au/news/1005/hutt-st-centres-impact-report-more-than-60m-in-crisis-system-expenditure-prevented-annually/

But the report is hidden on the Hutt Street Centre webpage, not easily seen, but located through Google. And if you believe this HughesPR spin piece, you’ll believe anything.

https://huttstcentre.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/HSC-GD-5-26_Impact_Report_Booklet_Digital_Pages-compressed.pdf

Why doesn't the Hutt Street Centre disclose how much of homeless money is spent on hiring the public relations firm HughesPR? 

21 March 2026

One Mob Salisbury

Keith and Anne replaced the black fellas. Not deliberately. The Stockade Hotel placed an industrial rubbish bin where they usually hung out. And that might not be the reason they were missing. Their imperatives are different. It could have been a funeral and ritual mourning or threats from another tribe or perhaps free tickets on the Aboriginal bus to Alice Springs Or the approaching rainy season.

Keith and Anne are from the Lutheran church at Para Vista. This is also Linda’s church. Linda is one of the inspirations behind this service to homeless people at the Salisbury railway station. Linda has very little money, but spends some of it feeding and comforting the lost and lonely. As if attracting good karma, someone bought her a new invalid mobility scooter to replace the other one that had a tendency to go tits up.

Anne is proud of her successful children, one of whom travels the world constantly doing exploration work for potential buyers of existing gold mines. She is invariably cheerful regardless of her own circumstances.

Kevin was there. I finally realised that conversation beyond five-second sound bites is impossible with him. Every subject becomes a fleeting series of disassociated ideas and impressions. But if you’re good five-second conceptualisations then he’s a great conversationalist. However, backtracking once the subject has changed is a daunting challenge.

Kevin spoke to another man who talked to himself and spilt food down his shirt. The shirt man functioned well in life until everything became too much and he fell into a mental maze of insecurity and confusion, partly to do with housing problems and fear of the future. He’d been a taxi driver in Broome so you’d think he could handle any problem in life.

The food included a curry that I suspect contained MSG because the next morning I got a migraine.

A woman asked the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man for money. He declined. She had a nasty whiny voice. An hour later she returned carrying a leaf blower and a white quilt, probably taken from back of the Salvo store, but also possibly from someone’s back yard. She was a disgusting creature that even disgusting creatures find disgusting. But then normal people using the railway station obviously found us disgusting as well.

Back of the Salvo store was a mess. Scavengers had ripped open plastic bags. They’d examined each item of clothing then threw on the ground what they didn’t want. Someone had dumped old spring mattresses amongst the donations. Mattresses are prized by local homeless people as they’re comfortable and easily replaced when stolen by the Salisbury Council’s homeless unit.

As I returned to my camp, a man was pushing two shopping trolleys loaded with wooden furniture that he’d scavenged. Salisbury town centre at night resembles a scene from a Charles Dickens novel. ​

One Mob Salisbury
Near the railway station and Stockade Hotel in Salisbury. 5:30 to 8:00pm Sundays. Usually hot coffee and sandwiches or hot food. Free. No data collecting. Self-funded by four Christians. Constant flow of wild clients. Sociologically interesting. Inspiring effort.

21 March 2026

(above) Puddle Jumpers has left the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh empty for at least March. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2025.)

(above) In a rare note of candor, the receptionist said the building is being renovated. And cleaned up. But what happens when all those rotting vegetables return with their insect friends? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) What undermines all the good intentions is that management can't see fit to place a notice saying the joint is closed during March, but free food will be distributed each day from 5pm to 7pm if volunteers are available. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) But the wonderful Chelsea Ireland water tap still pumps out drinkable Adelaide water. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

What was happening
​at Fred’s Van Salisbury?

Some strange dynamic has entered the scene. One diner reported just 22 diners the three weeks ago and about the same two weeks previously.

On the Sunday three weeks previously, they began serving the main course at 5:50pm instead of the usual 6:00pm, this not being an astute decision. By 6:25 nearly everyone had gone. By 6:35pm a volunteer shouted from the front of the hall that the last six of us still there should “please vacate the building”. This was despite them usually letting stragglers stay while they packed up the chairs. And it was raining outside.

The meal included strangely red hot dogs, excellent vegetarian sausages, nice roast potatoes, a fresh salad, lots of shredded cheese, multiple sauces, serviettes, salt and pepper. Dessert was canned fruit and custard.

One regular diner had accused a homeless old man of stealing his stuff at Fred’s Van Elizabeth earlier in the day, but there was no trouble. After the meal, the old man shuffled off to a rubbish bin back of Cash Converters. He was no trouble.

Another was interested in the mystery of who was seen urinating outside the Lutheran Ark church last month. I suggested Clean Phil, but that was only based on his actions outside Fasta Pasta in 2024.

All the indigenous people were missing having chosen One Mob at the railway station along with a few white fellas. One Mob are fresh at the job and hugely enthusiastic. They call the free meal their church service.

But something changed at Fred’s Van Salisbury that evening. The reliable staff produce good food, but diners have been voting with their feet.

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

20 March 2026

(above) Homeless crowd sleep outside the old Salisbury library that has been empty for years. Yet a dozen welfare buildings sit empty every night and on weekends. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Rubber baby not a joke to her

There were two prams sitting inside the Salvation Army Tea Tree Corps building. One contained a rubber baby and the other a real baby. In the midst of a Covid delusion I was on the verge of switching the babies to see the reaction of the mothers. What a laugh. But some shred of decency in the back of my deluded mind told me this was crossing the boundary from nasty joke into intense cruelty.

Three weeks prior, the woman who pushes a pram containing the rubber baby sent an agonising voice message to her father urging him to leave the Uniting States after her grandmother had been shot in the leg and bled to death. It wasn’t clear if this was fantasy or not, but the woman was suffering as if it was.

Then one morning last week an older man with a teenage boy came to the Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps. She told the man she wanted to be hugged. The man and boy ushered her outside leaving the rubber baby unattended.

It was the look of grief and concern on the man and boy’s faces that made me realise I’d been treated her delusion as a joke and had been blind to her distress. She and the two men were in that moment great teachers.

18 March 2026

(above) Life Christian Centre's church on Angas Street in the Adelaide CBD. They've provided the Friday Fred's Van meal in Gawler Place for years. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) Life Christian Centre church has incorporated the historic building previously owned by the Communist Party of Australia on Angas Street, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Fred’s Van Elizabeth

What a difference a year makes, in this case, four. The usual street crowd were there, but all were on reasonable terms with each other. The crowd that allowed me at their table talked about psychic entities and dream travel. The meal included an omelette, chicken, fresh salad, boiled vegetables and roast potatoes followed by ice cream and canned fruit.

The staff were exceptionally friendly and exceptionally young and happy to be with each other, and cooking for us. And we were polite to them.

It wasn’t crowded in the cafe as half the diners ate under the gazebo or in the sun. near the Orange Sky van doing laundry including drying in the sun. The whole situation was friendly and not at all as described in the Adelaide Free Food guide, copies of which an old man was handing out.

Gates opened as early as 10am for Orange Sky. Cafe doors opened at 12:00 noon with the meal served 15-minutes later. Most people had gone by 12:45pm, but staff made no move to usher us out so we stayed until 1:10pm.

Takeaway food included Coles rice crackers, cooking quality plums and tomatoes, bread, soup stock, sour candy and other stuff.

There didn’t appear to be any younger traumatised homeless diners. We were all old hands at this lifestyle. But some diners nevertheless were going through their own personal hell.

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

17 March 2026

(above) Homeless campers on Homo Hill at Beaumont Road in the Adelaide CBD. You can guess why the Adelaide City Council hasn't taken measures to control the large biting ants that infest the hill. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Fred’s Van in the city

“Forty-six,” said the Fred’s Van lady counting numbers in the queue then added, “We’ve catered for 70.”

Numbers were lower on this Saturday evening due to the higher quality meal at the Mary Magdalene Church hall in Moore Street. They provide free food every Saturday also at 6pm. Their small hall is crammed with others eating in the two laneways outside the hall. But Fred’s Van is every day and often gets ninety diners.

Construction Warren made a rare appearance saying he needed the food. His problem was feeding two cats, two lizards and a dog with a snake arriving soon.

He lived in the Housing Trust apartments opposite Prince Alfred College in Kent Town. Piano Player Wayne also lived in these apartments with his white cat until the cat disappeared and Wayne got sick and died.

Construction Warren said the drug addicts were too much to bear so the Housing Trust transferred him to a two-bedroom unit with a back yard in the Modbury area. He couldn’t believe his luck. $140 a week.

“There’s no baby,” a homeless woman told another who peered into her loaded baby pram used to transport her bedding and clothing. Just like Simon Eden in the early 1980’s.

“We’re cool?” an African man asked a white Aboriginal carrying a bottle of wine. “Yes,” the wine man answer then offered a drink to the African. They sat on the concrete and laughed and talked about life.

Another man nearby was on his phone trying to get a place to stay. He began some sentences with “worse case scenario”. He was an old-style drifter aged about 28, dressed like a stockman and without injuries caused by drugs or alcohol. Simply a victim of a mismanaged housing system. Someone shouted, “Elton”, while a black fella called a harmless young documenter an “a****le.”

A white fella slept on a bench with a sleeping bag around his body while another wine drinker slept on the concrete. No matter how many times I visit Fred’s Van in the city, I never get over the primal desperation of its clients.

Another ten people arrived as the food was being served. Of everyone there including the volunteers I recognised just two people from five years ago.

The food included white rice with a chopped hotdog sauce served in fibre containers, ham and vegetable sandwiches, no-meat sandwiches and no-meat sausages, lots of sauces, yoghourt, tepid coffee, cordial, old bananas. It wasn’t very tasty, but in the words of that crooked shyster, John Andrew Green, at least they turn up every evening without fail.

A few clients arrived after the van had left.

Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide. Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri 7:00 – 7:30pm. Sat and Sun 6:00 – 6:30pm. Everything free. No I.D. required. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit, warmish coffee in horrible plastic mugs. Vegetarian meal Thurs and Concubine Chinese Tues. Socks and blankets plus William’s Wardrobe clothing on Weds. Friday meals by Life Christian Centre. All servers unpaid volunteers. Slightly dangerous.

16 March 2026

(above) Disguised tent of homeless person in full view of thousands of people each day, but do they have eyes to see it. And this during the incredible display of wealth in the multiple arts and eating food festivals in the rest of the city parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

On the Street

Last month, the formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man hired his 53rd and 54th Support Workers and as quickly sacked them and their employer, Hola. Then he hired numbers 55 and 56 from Hire-Up. The former was chased out of the client’s front gate on Friday while 56 hovers on the edge of being dismissed. He refers to them as numbers because all those names have become hard to remember.

*

A homeless man tried every means to get a place to live and was at the end of his tether when Believe Anglicare Housing offered him a rental unit. He agreed to take it, but the next day tried to kill himself. After a year of desperation the release of the tension was too great.

Believe Housing employees went to his psychiatric ward where he signed the lease papers and he moved into the unit when he got out of hospital. The tenancy has been successful for nearly two years.

*

The private government-funded psychiatric contractor at Elizabeth is Sonder. They have a walk-in service called Medicare Mental Health. A client went there three weeks ago while suffering extreme distress due to physical health collapse and other problems.

While in the building he heard two employees joking about another client threatening to kill himself. One employee said the client was just playing games. Then they talked about the best way to place toilet paper on the roll. The new client said their discussions were within earshot of other clients. He said the employees had little or no training.

*

A tradesman last week was “renovating” the Lipson Street warehouse of Lighthouse City Mission. They’ve already begun giving people free food hampers. A stack of them were lined up on the floor awaiting delivery. Someone said they might be open on Thursdays, but this Port Adelaide Mission remains somewhat underground.

*

Playford Salvation Army is open for a free breakfast Monday to Friday from 9:30am for about an hour. It’s free and doesn’t require registration to the Eternal Shame File. But they’re occasionally not open for breakfast at these times. This is the agonising failure of “non-profits” and “charities”. It has to be experienced to be understood: a rough night under trees, bitten by mosquitoes, thirsty, depressed, stared at by normal people, needing to sit down in shelter and then finding the joint closed.

This is why most services designed for the “needy” are avoided by homeless people. But Playford isn’t too bad.

*

The dismaying part of getting old is that you see patterns repeat themselves. These include new plans to “help the homeless”, but each new plan is an increased level of surveillance and control that offers very little help.

No new housing is produced, just more control over those who traditionally inhabit such accommodation. New plans are bad plans dressed up in pretty labels. And behind them all is the reduction of personal autonomy of clients, that is, making them more reliant on welfare and more controlled by the bureaucracies.

*

I phoned Puddle Jumpers head office the Thursday before last asking if the shower truck was in Port Adelaide that day. The receptionist asked for my email to reply. I suggested my phone would be quickest. She consulted another person then came back saying they’d get back to me. They didn’t.

Puddle Jumpers is the most uncommunicative outfit in Adelaide. They don’t need HughesPR to stop employees letting slip with the truth. Keeping things secret from each other is the Puddle Jumpers corporate structure.

*

I asked an old man living in his car if he expected ever to get housing. He replied in a whispered voice that he didn’t. As he spoke, he moved about the welfare joint in slow hesitant steps. He recently had serious skin cancer surgery.

All he wanted was a bed then added that he’d like a toilet and a small stove. His housing problem is that he’s worked all his life and doesn’t use drugs, smoke cigarettes, or drink alcohol. And he doesn’t crawl to welfare authorities. They don’t like these sorts of people who must be excluded in preference to criminals and drug junkies and people who can’t stop eating.

*

The Wine Centre has provided Kilburn Fred’s Van with a non-meat soup two weeks in a row. What a relief after a whole year of meat, meat, meat that everyone else loved.

*

Mavis fell on the steps leading to the free food room at Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army last week. She didn’t make a big scene and went with Major Ros Casburn to the first aid room for some light bandages. A man who sleeps in the gully made the observation that it must be fashionable at the Corps for elderly women to take a tumble.

*

Someone knocked off the paper drinking cups from the Oasis Free Cafe at Tea Tree Salvos last week. The suspect is a toothless woman who often sleeps in Civic Park.

But the free lunch was individualised to each diner’s tastes including a fresh sandwich without meat products. Fred’s Van in the city should visit the Oasis Cafe for lessons in making sandwiches.

*

The very old man who is chasing a younger woman for the price of two tickets to Europe had a dispute with someone at the Ingle Farm Salvation Army last week. The poor old fool should realise he went into a bad situation and cut his losses by letting it go. And then it got worse with Mick and Eleanor – more details next week.

He should realise, ‘you win some, you lose some’. I said to another homeless man that he must have gone crazy. The reply was, “No, he’s hurt,” and he looked me in the eye.

*

A man living in his car said he’d once owned three houses, a pet shop and a garden centre in Western Australia. One day he gave it up and travelled the world, spent all his money and ended up near the Bidyadanga Aboriginal Community (La Grange), two hundred kilometres south of Broome. There he was bitten by a Death Adder snake and taken to Broome hospital.

When he returned to his car it had been robbed and smashed up. And he took a year to recover from the snake bite.

Now he lives in a station wagon in Adelaide. He says it’s a great life then adds nervously “not always”.

Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
15 March 2026

(above) Adelaide Christian Centre, 33 Sturt St, Adelaide ph 8212 2322. Free takeaway food every second Friday 1:30 – 3:00pm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

What is happening at Salisbury Fred's Van?

Some strange dynamic has entered the scene. One diner reported just 22 diners three weeks ago and about the same two weeks ago.

They began serving the main course at 5:50pm instead of the usual 6:00pm, this not being an astute decision. In fact, it's a cardinal sin when serving people who often have difficulty determining whether approaching dust is morning or evening. 

By 6:25 nearly everyone had gone. By 6:35pm a volunteer shouted from the front of the hall that the last six of us still there should “please vacate the building”. This was despite them usually letting stragglers stay while they packed up the chairs. And it was raining outside.

The meal included strangely red hot dogs, excellent vegetarian sausages, nice roast potatoes, a fresh salad, lots of shredded cheese, multiple sauces, serviettes, salt and pepper. Dessert was canned fruit and custard.

One regular diner had accused another apparently homeless old man of stealing his stuff at Fred’s Van Elizabeth earlier in the day, but there was no trouble. After the meal, the old man shuffled off to a rubbish bin back of Cash Converters. He was no trouble.

Another diner was interested in the mystery of who was seen urinating outside the Lutheran Ark church last month. I suggested Clean Phil, but that was only based on his actions outside Fasta Pasta in 2024.

All the indigenous people were missing having chosen One Mob at the railway station along with a few white fellas. One Mob are fresh at the job and hugely enthusiastic. They call the free meal their church service.

The drug addicts were also missing. There are about fifteen or twenty hanging around Salisbury including sleeping outside the old library building. But the rest have gone into hiding or, at least, switched venues.

But something has changed at Fred’s Van Salisbury. The reliable staff produce good food, but diners are voting with their feet. No doubt they’ll return in time.

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

14 March 2026

(above) When the Hutt Street Centre had two employees in the 1980's there was a water tap at the front of the building for homeless people to use. Then they denied water for those living in the parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) When the Hutt Street Centre became wealthier with over fifty employees, they locked the water tap meaning no water during hot summer nights. This forces homeless people to wait until opening time and register as a homeless statistic before getting water. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Kilburn Fred’s Van​

I went outside then returned to find my table gone, disappeared. But another one was available. Still, rather rude. And one group unintentionally got a little pushy with the table of the disabled old women. (Who didn’t turn up the following week.) Volunteers at most free food joints put the tables and chairs too close together making a full occupancy impossible. Every joint needs a system analyst to see what is working well and what is not.

The non-meat burgers were well-curated by someone with knowledge of quality. The Wine Centre provided two soups: one of pureed vegetables and the other containing lamb. The main course included carrots and peas boiled in water that were quite horrible, but perhaps suitable for those without teeth. There wasn’t any sauce to kill the taste, either, but at least they always have salt and pepper unlike The Haven and some Starvation Army Corps.

Lance Armstrong, The N.D.I.S. man and The Man From Peterborough were missing along with most of the drug addicts yet there were still about 48 diners present with others arriving later for the takeaway bags.

A new volunteer came to our table asking about food preferences. I said roast potatoes with plenty of grease. She said they didn’t have time to roast potatoes. She added that mashed potatoes were good for old men without teeth. And meth addicts, I felt like adding. I said the vegetarian options were terrific, but she was interested in the majority view of the meat eaters.

After everyone had gone I spoke to another diner about out-of-body experiences and the joy of flying to other dimensions without the need to breathe.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Usually excellent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Takeaway bags no good, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. I.D. or registration not required. Good toilets. Volunteers highly educated or naturally intelligent. One of the best free food services in Adelaide.

13 March 2026

(above) Hutt Street Centre pulls cage gates across their front doors to discourage people from smashing the glass doors. Not all clients are as happy with the service as those portrayed in the Centre's promotional videos. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

One Mob Salisbury

Hardly any rain for months, but two weeks in a row at the Salisbury railway station these last two Sunday evenings. One Mob was late so we went to Fred’s Van Salisbury then returned at 7:00pm.

One Mob staff and the N.D.I.S. man said they’d had 35 diners so far, more than Fred’s Van that got perhaps 23 despite being more established and inside a hall on this wet evening.

We were under the Stockade Hotel Sports Bar verandah once again. Quite nice of the hotel to allow this. Most of the indigenous people had left except for half a dozen including Cameron who lived at the West Terrace Cemetery sanctioned homeless camp before it was closed down. (The murder of Michelle last year sounded its death knell.)

More diners arrived raising the number to over forty. These included a man who repeatedly said he’d lived in Fremont Park at Elizabeth for four years.

One volunteer needed to use the hotel toilet, but was refused entry because he didn’t have a proof-of-age card. He said he urinated in front of the guard. Another volunteer said her car didn’t need oil because the red light hadn’t gone on. They’d been late because her car wouldn’t start. A diner analysed her car computer with a gadget that said it had fixed 53 errors. Another volunteer was subdued after having undergone medical tests and requiring more. Such are the One Mob church people doing a better job on this rainy evening that the big money homeless joints in the Adelaide CBD.

One Mob Salisbury
Near the railway station and Stockade Hotel in Salisbury. 5:30 to 8:00pm Sundays. Usually hot coffee and sandwiches or hot food. Free. No data collecting. Self-funded by four Christians. Constant flow of wild clients. Sociologically interesting. Inspiring effort.

Review for 1 March 2026
Posted 13 March 2026
​late for the 12th of March 2026

(above) Homeless men previously climbed up the water pipe then jumped the sheet iron fence and slept in the courtyard. Then the Hutt Street Centre replaced it with a see-through fence. For other reasons as well. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

There’s a fraction too much business

A video of clients expressing gratitude to the Hutt Street Centre for helping them in life doesn’t include production details and credits? Was it students, employees, church people or a public relations business called HugesPR? This might explain why the huge publicity and fundraising costs cited in the Hutt Street Centre’s Annual Reports are joined together.

They might not want anyone to discover that when journalists ask questions they are directed to a public relations business rather than to everyday employees of the Hutt Street Centre or their clients.

The Hutt Street Centre is threatened by residents, some politicians and big money interests who want it removed from the city. To survive they must operate like a toothpaste manufacturer and keep up a certain image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTlYehzTl5o

https://www.hughespr.com.au/clients/

https://www.hughespr.com.au/case-studies/86/hutt-st-centre/  

Early 11 March 2026

(above) We must give the Hutt Street Credit for improving the quality of rubbish bin food and apparel. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Glenelg Lutheran Church

We talked about Lauren Anne Hennessy killing Andrew Sorby-Adams at the Bentzen Housing Trust units in Walkerville last year. The 30-year-old stabbed Andrew who was a disabled 65-year-old former actor.

We were angry she got off with a mental health treatment order and an indeterminate number of years in a mental hospital prison. Why is it that crazy meth addicts invariably attack older disabled people? Why don’t they try stabbing those stronger than them.

Anyway, the church closed its Op Shop and moved its free grocery area into a smaller cramped room in the main hall. The Lutherans are attempting to rent the Op Shop building. How does this compare with Revival City that spent about four million dollars buying and renovating the building next to their 600 capacity church that has three services on Sundays to meet the demand.

But the Glenelg Lutherans have a larger welfare program than Revival City despite their ageing and shrinking congregation.

The lunch included some sort of meat with corn chips and taco filling. The non-meat version almost ran out as meat eaters today abandoned their carnivore lifestyle for thirty minutes.

One man found himself alone at his table after asking the Immanuel school girls for their phone numbers. The elderly couple who dress identically were missing. The school volunteers ate first so as to maintain their dignity while serving us. The richest man in the building – and a diner – announced that he was spending a small amount of money fixing a door in one of his houses. He’s our greatest comedian without even trying. ​

The free food room offered either six or eight free items this being every two weeks rather than previously between six or 12 times a year depending on which volunteer you came across.

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 11:00am -2:00pm. Parking at rear. Six free store-bought pantry items and toiletries plus bread. Centrelink card details kept on paper and destroyed each year. One visit per month. No card required for free lunch 11:30am to 1:00pm 2nd and 4th Weds of month. Coffee, cakes 1st and 3rd Weds. 5AA call-in celebrity Peter goes there.

Late 10 March 2026

(above) Hutt Street Centre erected fencing to stop homeless people sitting on the ledge. This created a dead zone of wasted space between the building and fence. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

One Mob Salisbury railway station

Twenty-five tribal folk yelled and danced under the verandah of the Stockade Hotel Sports Bar. One waiting diner said two of them had earlier been smoking meth in John Street. One awaiting diner performed rap dancing where he swivelled around with just his arms holding him up.

It was raining. Linda arrived on her invalid scooter via the train station on time, but the main vehicle arrived thirty minutes later. A white couple left not knowing if it would arrive.

A woman holding a bottle of red wine tried to humbug tobacco from a man in a red car. He said no despite her dishing out the flattery. Then seeing she wasn’t getting any, she said to him and myself, “You two have cars and homes. You shouldn’t be here.” Yet she wasn’t particularly antagonistic. It was simply her ploy.

The irony was that most of the people under the verandah also had homes either in the tribal lands or in Adelaide, or both. But as a member of the Salisbury Uniting Church said later – and I paraphrase, “We don’t know how each person got here so we shouldn’t judge them.”

Linda went off to buy butter. She believes in butter rather than that non-food called margarine.

When the main vehicle arrived they had to park out of a parking bay because an awaiting diner wouldn’t move his car. They didn’t say a word. They set up tables, provided chairs and began serving a tuna stew and rice. One diner ate some and threw the rest on the ground. They’d made roasted capsicum stuff with seasoned rice for myself and other diners who don’t eat meat.

Ray was there. He’s been one of the instigators of this terrific service, but was on a walking frame due to recent surgery.

One Mob serves everyone though the main group are Aboriginals as are the Christians who provide the service including the woman with Warlpiri heritage. The Warlpiri live in the Tanami desert northwest of Alice Springs. ​

This service is a form of Christianity in action. Each person is this group lives on a low income yet provide the meal largely from their own money.

And on this evening, once again, One Mob got more diners than Fred's Van Salisbury despite being under a verandah on a rain evening. 35 to 24. 

One Mob Salisbury
Near the railway station and Stockade Hotel in Salisbury. 5:30 to 8:00pm Sundays. Usually hot coffee and sandwiches or hot food. Free. No data collecting. Self-funded by four Christians. Constant flow of wild clients. Sociologically interesting. Inspiring effort.

Review for 22 February 2026
9 March 2026

(above) The conscience within the Hutt Street Centre entity is in constant battle with employees looking after themselves. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

Rumour has it that a free hairdressing outfit from Perth is setting up a service in Adelaide in the near future.

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There was a full house at the Lutheran’s Monday meal in Para Vista. Semi-old Peter and his large team produced the usual non-welfare quality of meal delivered with a Germanic orderliness. But the local preacher was a little heavy on the ‘you’re going to hell if you don’t believe what we believe’ routine.

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I paid for groceries from a jar of coins that jammed the self-service checkout machine at Mawson Lakes Woolworths. An employee couldn’t get it working so I moved to another machine. She told another employee the coin receptacles were designed for “American” coins.

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Amongst other crazy ideas such as tiny houses, there is one about partitioning buses into overnight mini sleeping cabins. What an unpleasant idea. Proper cleaning between clients would be performed “welfare style”.

Clients with sores and who haven’t washed for months would be included in the client cohort. And needles and liquids and fumes. Recipe for bad health.

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There has been a division in a free soup kitchen coffee group that meets in a Glenelg cafe a few times a week. One person accused the owner of the shop of making the coffee too weak. Rumour has it that Peter from Marden, 5AA phone-in radio star, was somehow involved. The group divided and meets in two coffee shops.

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An agent for a donor giving thick gold necklaces, rings and other jewellery to the Salvation Army wondered if the Army could say specifically where the items were sold and for how much.

The gold content alone might have been worth thirty or forty thousand dollars.

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Card Player David uses a wheelchair for mobility after a surgeon cut off his big toes due to gangrene. One diner at Grill’d said David got an infection from a nail sticking into his boot while another person said it was caused by diabetes. David previously drank huge amounts of sugary drinks from the OTR on Angus Street.

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A jovial taxi driver in the homeless scene studied engineering at university for five years then decided that driving a taxi was a healthier lifestyle.

He’s a people person and likes to make people happy and is overwhelmed by repeat customers, some insisting he comes in for a meal before taking them to their destination.

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The preacher at a homeless joint is a traditionalist. He says men should lead and that God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve.


He also said the Jews won’t go to Heaven because they rejected Jesus. Messianic Jews are okay.

But the No-Heaven Jews aren’t worried. They plan to build the third temple once they knock down the Arab’s Mosque, then there will be a world war where they’ll come out on top. Religion is wild stuff.

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A gentleman in Glenelg is rumoured to be parking his shopping trolley outside the back door of the St Andrew’s at-the-sea free food handout area the night before it opens to ensure he has reserved first place. When questioned about this, he replies. “No speak English,” but another person said he speaks it quite well.

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The homeless man at our campsite who shouts and kicks trees hasn’t been seen since a man took his clothing off on Main North Road and ran in front of traffic and died.

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A naked Aboriginal man walked down the white line on Prospect Road at Kilburn last month. A soup kitchen white fella said it might have been a ritual performed after a relative had died.

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One of the negatives of having a neurological disorder is that people constantly ask you if you’re drunk or on drugs. They actually mean it.

But our disorders are caused by ailments in the physical brain and its electrical function rather than an injury sustained through indulgence.

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One thing I’ve noticed is that the homeless services I find most useful are those least funded or not funded at all. The big money outfits don’t have much that I need despite living permanently in a car.

Second Editor

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Old Neeta fell down and hit her head. It’s increasingly difficult communicating with her on the phone. She understands hardly a word I say and vice versa. While we were on the phone last week she punched her head in rapid succession. “Can you hear me hitting my head?” she asked.
“Yes,” I said, and punched myself in the head.

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A free food diner at Revival City in Modbury said her son works at two jobs and his wife works at two jobs to pay for their children’s upbringing and pay off their house.

We no longer live in a rich country yet the fixtures set up for the current festivals in the parklands this month and the car racing each year indicate an incredibly rich society.

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Aldi at Muno Para called the police on Denise’s boyfriend sleeping in his car during the day in the carpark. They claimed they were worried he might need an ambulance. That’s like the police telling me to leave a shaded area on a 42C day because someone phoned them saying I might be suffering from the heat.

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Two people living in a Housing Trust unit said they sleep nearly all the time. They say it’s because two nearby houses are used as drug labs and dope processing stations. Others have called the police who showed no interest in investigating. That’s what they say.

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Stupid rumours appear about nearly everyone. One cruel rumour is that a soup kitchen client is recently released Snowtown killer Mark Haydon. Some diners yell at him as he walks down the street, but no one has the guts to ask him if he is the killer. Their only evidence is that he looks like Haydon, sort of.

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A diner said the meal at Fred’s Van at Christie Downs is too rushed. He added that volunteers want to get rid of diners as soon as possible. Most diners have left the dining room 30 minutes after the front doors open. The volunteers sabotage their own efforts.

8 March 2026

Sydney skid row

These are the high flyers. Most of us are not like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz8jt8h9ejc

8 March 2026

(above) Outside the Hutt Street Centre where Emma Hines hid on the morning of the last full day of her life. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Oasis Free Cafe Modbury

The new cook named Rebekah served quality hamburgers last Wednesday. She asked each person what they wanted between the buns. Mine was no meat.

Staff were giving away frozen food from the freezers stocked to the brim by Woody and Skip during their tenure. They’ve since abandoned the building and were replaced by Rebekah. Skip was a lousy cook, but Woody was okay.

Rebekah's result was better than Hungry Jacks or similar joints. More like Grill’d. The conversations were rich to say the least. The woman with the rubber baby left voice messages to her father in the Uniting States begging him to come home because it was too dangerous living there. She told us her grandmother was shot in the leg and bled to death. The rubber baby stayed silent during this intense conversation.

Robert who lives in the creek bed below Bunnings was in full swing as well, He said of the homeless support sections of the Housing Trust and the Adelaide Northwest Homeless Alliance: “Promises, promises, promises. All the money they spend and nothing.”

The showers weren’t available because the Companion Club was holding their monthly Wednesday meeting. The carpark was jammed with their cars. They require the disability toilet room that also has the shower. This is a problem because regularity of homeless services is crucial for people that have trouble remembering complex schedules or even days of the week.

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

7 March 2026
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From the anonymous contact page

“One of the best meals in town is back at Mary Mags dinners on Saturday nights at 6pm.”

www.marymagsdinners.org

7 March 2026

(above) Tent on the grass off South Terrace, Adelaide. Tents occupied by homeless people and obvious to everyone are published on Adelaide Homeless Journal, but not secret tents.

They made a change

“Our ultimate goal is to end rough sleeping homelessness in the inner city of Adelaide by 2025 making a lasting and positive impact on the lives of those affected by homelessness.” Adelaide Zero Project

These anonymous Adelaide academics and MKUltra operatives have been saying this since 2010 and even earlier.

But even their own statistics – which they conveniently stopped publishing last winter – don’t show any change.

But there has been change. Some people sleeping in the Adelaide CBD parklands no longer have access to certain homeless services despite many millions of extra dollars poured into the industry.

They don’t have access because the big money homeless joints require of those living outside a confession of their lives. They record all the traumas and humiliations of a persons life then require permission from the confessor to share that information with total strangers registered with the Eternal Shame File, a massive government database.

Another change is hundreds of new careers started in the homeless sector including maintaining the timed devices to not allow showers more than a few minutes. And registering every interaction of clients within homeless joints so as to ensure a rich harvest of statistics when applying for annual government grants. And a public relations firm to handle anyone making enquiries of the Hutt Street Centre. And lots of cars. And tricky accountants to ensure no one finds out how much the top level of employees are paid.

Yes, the Adelaide Zero Project has helped make lots of changes, but reducing the number of people without safe shelter is not one of them.

https://saaeh.org.au/azp-monthly-dashboard/

6 March 2026

An American talks about homeless shelters there

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-elH3mrIEVc

6 March 2026

(above) Homemade butter chicken on rice served to people camping in the gully below Civic Park at Modbury by social media influencer Sonia Blackwell last weekend. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) Sonia Blackwell supplies hot and cold drinks to those camping in the creek bed near Tea Tree Gully shopping centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

(above) Us professionals aren't bothered by social dereliction, but for others it is their worst life experience. Sometimes their last experience. Sonia helps by turning up with hot and cool food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, March 2026.)

Marion Salvo toasties and coffee

One way to create a no-go zone in a welfare joint is to strategically plant a donation tin. Sure, you might attract the odd creep who steals donation tins, but everyone else will avoid it like the plague.

And so went the barista coffee gold coin donation container. Each client locked onto it for half a second then their eyes went blank like zombies of the apocalypse as the container became invisible. Like a pervert staring at a woman’s crotch, my eyes fixed onto the container as if having a seizure and chomping at the mouth and glaring maniacally.

The Senior Citizen barista did a fine job dealing with the rush, not wasting any movements while remaining friendly.

To order a coffee, the client writes their choice on a piece of paper left near the invisible donation tin. Later, a woman with a mysterious smile brings it to your seat.

While the coffee man was flat out doing flat whites, the toasties counter suffered a minor boycott. My last sandwich from there contained a hint of cheese flavour plus hot air.

I asked at the reception counter about the free post boxes offered by Australia Post. In the tradition of welfare workers the two women looked at me blankly then one said she’d investigate. Twenty minutes later she gave me a piece of paper with the contact number: 0438 555 946 at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. I phoned and a man named Lee told me to phone back in March when the program for free post boxes for homeless people begins. The receptionists did a good job getting that information. Nor were they staring at men heading towards the toilet unlike the younger workers two years ago.

A government employee from Hearing Australia cruised the dining area recruiting new customers. She wanted me to abandon SpecSavers Audio. I declined so she spread her charm elsewhere. Three deaf people speaking in sign language ignored her.

A welfare worker handed a bow-legged man a packet of adult nappies. She should have done that in private or wrapped them in a bag. (Later in the day I kept seeing bow-legged old men. I didn’t realise there were so many of them.)

A woman from Gateway Baptist Church stopped for a sandwich. She offered to pray for me. Maybe I should have accepted it. You never know whether a person can transmit energy from the aether.

The Salvo store next door wasn’t as nice. The idle cashier gave me a decidedly unfavourable grimace when she saw this elderly man with bloodshot eyes, horrible clothing and messy long hair enter her store. Not that they had anything good for sale. The days of quality stock and hoards of paying customers have been replaced by sullen and disappointed day trippers.

Salvation Army Marion
155 Sturt Road, Seacombe Gardens (corner of Morphett and Sturt Rds. near Marion Shopping Centre). ph (08) 8377 0001. Free coffee and cake Mondays 9:30 – 11:00am. Tuesdays 9:00am – 11:30am semi-free barista coffee and cheese toasties. Gold coin donation. I.D. not required except for food parcels & vouchers phone (08) 8130 6188, then pick at any Corps. Decent toilets, but women watch door. Free bread Mon, Tues, Thurs 9am – 4pm. Good reception staff.

5 March 2026

(above) The van parked behind Life Christian Centre in Angas Street to provide the Fred's Van meal every Friday at 7pm in Gawler Place, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, February 2026.)

Orange Sky worker
questions efficiencies

The Orange Sky volunteers arrived early and left late to do eight loads of washing followed by drying in the laundry van parked outside the St Vincent de Paul night shelter at Whitmore Square.
The volunteer said all the clients were residents of the night shelter. When asked why the residents didn’t use the laundry inside the shelter she threw up her hands. She said shelter management sometimes let Orange Sky use their driers if those in the van were broken.

She questioned the efficiency of the operation saying it would be simpler to take residents’ laundry to a laundromat then return it than use the Orange Sky van. She said it takes 12 working hours to do eight loads of washing. (And a similar amount of time for other locations where they have just two clients.)

But the big question here is why the night shelter with all its employees doesn’t let its residents use the laundry inside the building. And that Orange Sky needs two vans for Adelaide so they can be based at two locations to minimise driving and for one to be a back-up when the other breaks down – which it does.

4 March 2026

(above) Here's a class act in the South Parklands across the street from the Theosophical Society: Streamers and their own private rubbish bin. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, February 2026.)

Mary’s Kitchen Glenelg

While waiting for the doors to open, a man packed his mattress and bedding into a shopping trolley. He sleeps under stairs near the beach. He said he won’t end up like the man who was scalped of the side of his head on Jetty Road three years ago because he’s one of the meanest men in Glenelg.

His problems are illness. He gets migraines and can’t move without falling over for up to three days. Some bureaucrat told him to move so he stood up and fell down. The bureaucrat walked away.

Another homeless man still lives in his car behind a church, but he’s accepted by the regular soup kitchen patrons as the status quo.

The man who talks quickly and for long periods thought he was going to have a fight when the alcoholic who had been sleeping next to the Orange Sky van asked him if he was a drug addict. I told the alcoholic he wasn’t because his eyes and skin were clear and his hands weren’t shaking.

The bald man known as Robert asked if he could play the piano at the Tuesday evening free meal at Glenelg. A leading volunteer agreed, but later said she dreaded what sounds might have arisen. After Robert finished she asked him to return this week and play more.

Robert almost didn’t begin as one diner yelled at him for some reason or other. Many homeless people are uptight and angry of which there were ten present this evening, but they weren’t all angry. The preacher said he expects client numbers to double once the homeless in the city realise the tram is back in operation, and as the social and political system crumbles.

The free food room now provides eight items plus vegetables every two weeks to each patron with a Centrelink card. What a far cry from the 1980’s when homeless people could get supermarket cards with a value today of close to $200. But there are so many of us these days.​

St Andrew’s Glenelg
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for rushed free three course meal. Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:00am – 1:15pm. Free soup, buns, coffee. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items and hygiene bags plus bread, old fruit and vegetables weekly. One free PBS prescription each week (50 a year). Good toilets. Good staff. Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and Friday 11:00am to 1:00pm. Cheap Op Shop.

3 March 2026

(above) In another era children climbed trees. Today they are warned of the risk despite most childhood injuries arising from organised sport. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, February 2026.)

Let the shower truck rot

The One Voice shower truck was missing in action for the third consecutive week at the Dunning Street carpark in North Adelaide. Now, even if the truck arrives, no clients will be there as its reputation for unreliability has preceded it. As if anyone doesn’t already know that?

Who cares? The shower truck doesn’t have a toilet so people urinate and even defecate on the floor then push the faeces down the grate. That means those using the shower next have to smell fresh waste.

The shower truck is used perhaps three or four hours a week, but spends most of its life rotting in various charity carparks, currently the Puddle Jumpers warehouse at Woodville. Let it rot.

2 March 2026

One Nation
​visits Adelaide homeless camp

https://www.news.com.au/national/aussies-stunned-one-nation-in-homeless-camp-as-liberal-defector-cory-bernardi-eyes-south-australia-seat/news-story/fe389621e08ecf38cd717b116b4d995f

2 March 2026

(above) Keys and foam stripping fallen off vehicle on Port Wakefield Road near Salisbury Highway. Moral of the story is don't keep all your keys in one bunch. A few days later they were gone. Maybe a happy ending. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, February 2026.)

On the Street Sunday

The police went to The Haven at Salisbury the Friday before last to prepare witness statements. The prosecutor has decided to charge Aaron with assault and other offences.

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Eating is a corporate cultural activity at free food joints. The days where activity could happen without eating and drinking are gone. No wonder nearly everyone is a fat pig.

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A guard exclaimed to a customer that she’d been in the store for three and a half hours. She told him she had trouble making decisions. Her record is eight hours.

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Enabling or disabling, that is the question. The aim of most Salvation Army Corps and other welfare services is to “get you housing”. This means avoiding making it too comfortable living outside.

So a Corps may decide to disable the homeless lifestyle by not installing lockers allowing homeless people to safely store their belongings during the day. Or in contrast it may ensure a water tap and even a power point is available outside the building.

Or like the Hutt Street Centre they’ll lock all water taps behind fences forcing thirsty homeless people to wait until opening hours then force them to register for the Eternal Shame File before getting water.

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A cynic in the homeless scene said Australia Post is offering free boxes because few people bother with them anymore.

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The Lyell McEwin hospital has a shortage of beds for patients not because the building is too small, but according to a staffer it’s because between 10% and 20% of beds have been “decommissioned” in certain wards. There is a shortage of trained staff due to the government strangling the training institutions to create a shortage that justifies bringing in foreign professionals.

It’s called white replacement theory.

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Petra Kolly is gone for good from Stevo’s. She was the paid receptionist at Enfield Uniting Church in its last days before it was taken over by Encounter Church. She did a good job and was liked by everyone.

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The disappointed woman at Salisbury is not expected to ever get out of 24/7 psychiatric control. She had a career working at the Botanic Gardens until her boyfriend returned from a trip to the Philippines and announced he’d gotten married.

She went into despair, refused to wash and never recovered. She lost the ability even to visit The Ark once a month for their community meal. When her best friend, Red Geronimo died, that was the last straw. He refused to wash as well.

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An old man at the Lutheran Good Shepherd said he paid his wife half a million dollars thirty years ago in a divorce settlement.

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It has been confirmed once again that the Wednesday morning provision of free toasted sandwiches have ceased permanently at the Bagster Road Community Centre in Salisbury.

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Anglicare Corporation has shown indifference to neighbours in Playford Court, Pennington. They’ve complained that one of its tenants has been kidnapping and killing their cats after holding them for ransom.

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Gateway provides free drinks and chips at approximately 7pm every second Thursday at Salisbury railway station.​

1 March 2026

(above) Lockers for homeless people to store their bedding and personal possessions at the Hutt Street Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2026.)

Quality movie made by two Fred's Van clients from China

The difficulties living in a village where many adults have gone to the cities to work in factories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMT8z7BcIlc  

For previous nineteen years of Adelaide Homeless Journal see the menu at top of this page

https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn
  The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity.

www.predatorsandfriends.weebly.com 
The story of Sherri Robinson
and Tony DeKort

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c

All posts since 2007 have been archived and can be accessed via the menu bar at the top of this page. This website has also been archived by numerous American Net sweepers.

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

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