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(above) Both scheduled events are cancelled. There may be a Christmas community meal later in December. The Ark exercises an abundance of caution yet outside the church doors the world continues with most stores and government agencies open. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) Remnants of a homeless camp from last month at Salisbury. They moved up from the city and have since moved elsewhere. Always being moved on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) A Playford Council call centre employee said it was the tenants' responsibility to remove shopping trolleys dumped on Council Land outside an Elizabeth retirement complex. When it was explained that a 91-year-old 95% blind woman walked by each morning, she relented and ordered the trolleys and dead branches be removed. That was the trick: remind them of the risk of legal action and bad publicity. That’s all these people understand. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) Toilet paper tree outside the Elizabeth Shopping Centre. What does it mean? Note the smiling tree baby. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Coming Soon: Man and woman in fifties still living in car at Elizabeth while Anglicare at Elizabeth keeps retirement units empty, some for two years; Scrap collector discovers six good Housing Trust houses, empty and vandalised; Disabled "pulling out their hair" while locked down in Anglicare joints after everyone else freed; N.D.I.S. contractor wants to use up client's $60,000 annual funding in one month then reassess him at a higher bracket of support; Mr Rock Solid meets his nemesis, Rock Solid Jr.; Lingerie man got angrier as he lost weight: he's fat now; House of Chow waitress doesn't get joke; Sharka back at Elizabeth Fred's Van; What's in those boxes in the Food Barn?; Elderly Sudanese man happy with uni exam score: 5%; Brad Chilcott laments White Ribbon week overshadowed by "The Pause"; Death as a Bridge by SoSo; William angry at Whitmore Square; Was Wilma "asking for it"?; Semaphore Park CB Channel 3 Repeater druggies; Mid-north free hampers (The Night Talker);  Did an N.D.I.S employee pass Megaphone Man's social worker report to Semaphore Park druggies? Sense of despair and anger over virus at Peterswool Road free food event; Wanted: scans of case management agreements.
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Fred’s Van and Orange Sky at Semaphore
 
“How f***ing are you,” a Fred’s Van worker said to a man walking into the driveway. “F***ing excellent, bitch,” he replied. She said, “I like the way you talk.”
 
But she didn’t like it when Horse Trader Steve arrived with his laundry. She told him curtly that if he didn’t arrive by 5:30 in future they wouldn’t do his washing. “There’s something wrong with that bitch?” Horse Trader Steve told the dirty-talking man. A third man told Horse Trader Steve to note the laundry van bore Queensland number plates. That’s their vulnerability, he said.
 
A young blond woman was there. She doesn’t use drugs and has all her teeth. “Can I go to that mad thing you go to,” she asked a friend, and thus she was at Fred’s Van. She appeared so sweet and innocent, but when an old man talked rubbish to her, she replied, “What are you? Trash, mate? I’ve never spoken to a bigger load of trash in my life.”
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. or registration required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Free. Sit down meal in the main hall. Much improved. A bit rushed.
Slightly rough and dangerous customers. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Some rude stuff.
Occasional tipping over of tables and fighting, but usually calm. Free Orange Sky Laundry.

Early 27 November 2020

The joy of cleaning and case management
 
A cleaner quit his job at Yatala Prison because he was sick of removing faeces smeared onto walls and windows. He went freelance.
 
A tradesman met him at the home of a still employed public servant where they were both working. The tradesman said the public servant appeared as if, “she’s going to have her legs cut off, virtually no circulation. I walk into this place and…I stand there and say, “I don’t like what I’m smelling.’”
 
“She’s sitting there in this chair. She says, ‘I put rags on the chairs in case I piss myself,’ and she doesn’t move anything for me to sit down…she’s got gangrene on her foot, the smell, thick, musty, smells of human waste, smells like a crime scene after someone died and left there to bloat.”
 
“Three hundred dollars of cans and bottles, small fortune of money in car, full of sh**, she takes off her adult nappies and throws it on the floor, the dog comes along…friend of ******* [who pisses on the floor in shops] she’s got R.D.N.S. coming every day to change her bandages, blood and sh** removed off her skin, whatever, and I’m like, why have you got that on the kitchen table. Why did the R.D.N.S. person leave it there? At 34 degrees, the whole house was a steaming pile of sh**, the way she giggles to herself, heh, heh, heh…that’s making me feel sick.”
 
Early 27 November 2020

Why don’t Democratic Party leaders in the United States get the Coronavirus? Face masks?
Yoichi Shimatsu
 
https://rense.com/general96/biden-obama-rice.php
 
Early 27 November 2020

(above) The takeaway bags from Fred's Van Kilburn are getting smaller each month forcing people to visit multiple places to get the same amount as before. This allows FoodbankSA, Oz Harvest and Second Bite to claim they're serving increased numbers of clients each month. It's all statistical lies, which are then trotted out by Spence Denny and Ali Clark on ABC Radio Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Too many Playford Council and Housing Trust employees doing nothing useful

The Playford Council didn’t want to remove shopping trolleys from Council land outside the Anglicare retirement complex in Elizabeth. They said it was the tenants responsibility to phone the various supermarkets. Shopping trolleys have increasingly been dumped outside the complex as Anglicare has left most units empty, some for up to two years. There was also a huge pile of dumped tree and bush branches near the footpath across the road and in front of some Housing Trust units.
 
When it was explained to the call centre employee that a 91-year-old 95% blind tenant walked by the trolleys each morning and might trip over one of them, she changed her tune. The Council sent out a front-end loader and a dump truck to remove the branches and the trolleys.
 
The Playford Council showed more zeal when it spotted a tiny stack of paving bricks in the driveway of a man’s Housing Trust semi-detached house on Halsey Road, Elizabeth East. The tenant was in the process of paving his driveway. That was obvious, but the zealous Council employee phoned the Housing Trust who sent an officer to investigate. The officer told the tenant the pavers were blocking the 40-metre driveway – the tenant’s driveway – and they could affect emergency vehicles. The tenant moved the pavers to one side and the Housing Trust employee filed a mission-accomplished report and all was fine. That’s how insane are these people.
 
Early 26 November 2020

Hope Chapel at Gawler West
 
The trick of entering a free food zone is to walk in as if you own the joint. Every place has its rules. The Hope Chapel service doesn’t appear to have any rules because no one causes trouble.
 
I sat with a white Aboriginal woman, Tornado Tom and his son. Tornado Tom is the unofficial Mayor of Gawler West. He worked for Crisis Care for many years. “Nothing could upset me,” he said. There was also at our table a man who had been homeless in the early 1980’s.
 
The church people were polite and practiced their Christianity without preaching. The crew served quality hamburgers with plenty of ingredients that were all fresh. Nothing like that stuff from foodbank with its smell of decomposition that even strong sauces can’t camouflage. This was all fresh and carried the odour of health.
 
The woman in charge infused the group with a sense of lightness. She has good teeth, slightly crooked to show they are real teeth and not giant veneers or implants like those of Vice President elect Kamala Harris of the United States.
 
There were about 45 diners, but many left because there weren’t enough chairs around the food van.
 
Hope Chapel’s next appearance is on the 4th of December at 6:00pm for their Christmas event.
 
Gawler Hope Chapel Food Truck
Corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West. Phone Rachel on 0430 085 748. Nice people.
1st Friday of each month at 6:30pm to 7:30pm. Sausages, hamburgers, bread, coffee, sweet buns. Tables and chairs and a generator on the grass. Child friendly.  Free. No I.D. or registration required.

Early 26 November 2020

(above) Some free food from the Elizabeth Park Seventh-day Adventist church giveaways every Monday and Thursday at 1:30pm. Their bread ranges from okay to terribly old. Some families go to seven free food joints a week. You can understand why. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Future Directions for Homelessness report
 
This is the long-awaited directions paper for the homeless industry in South Australia. The new system will be run by the South Australian Homeless Alliance, which is the same old crowd under a new name.
 
The key aspect of the paper is the prevention of homelessness. And that 60% of homeless people are women, well, not exactly. The homelessness directions paper has equated the status of being actually homeless with being at risk of homelessness.
 
This is rather convenient as it allows them to boost the “homeless” numbers as well as direct resources from rough sleeping men to women already in housing. So a key platform of the positions paper is the “safety” of women and children, which will be at the forefront of this prevention of homelessness.
 
This is nothing new. All a woman has to do is badmouth her male partner and bingo, new housing is at hand. Can you see the long-term agenda here? Adding incentive to break up the nuclear family into an even smaller “family” unit.
 
But the Future Directions for Homelessness report makes some idealistic statements including: “Respect people’s capacity to build their  own lives, acknowledge their own strengths, and ensure choice and control is in their hands. Support is flexible, immediate and available for as long as it is needed.” But this is tempered with another premise: “Actively, persistently and assertively  engage with people at risk of, or currently experiencing homelessness.”
 
If they were simply offering a cheap room or unit, that would be good, but the process involves signing contracts and pledges and surrendering privacy and independence. They need to document and describe the candidate as defective and then mould her or him into a new person, like those reformed ex-homeless people they roll up at conferences.
 
Behind this Future Directions for Homelessness document lies a social and political agenda that has little to do with homelessness. Not that this is apparent in the report. It is impossible to decipher what it actually means though we can speculate. The government will merge all government-funded homeless service providers into the category of “contractors” who will then bid for contracts under the new Homeless Hub, much like MyAgedCare and the N.D.I.S. Can’t you just smell the corruption that will sneak into this?
 
So, will it mean quickly accessible cheap rental rooms and other housing for homeless people? Yes, if you join a therapy program and submit to many interviews. This system has already been operating.
 
According to a veteran Fred’s Van client, Jesse Gunther got a place through the pooling system where he didn’t have to repeatedly tell “his story”, but got to choose something from a pool of housing vacancies from multiple agencies after signing up with one. Not that Jesse minds telling stories. He’s a natural entertainer and is the man who dressed up in a see-through Red Cross nurse’s uniform last month at Fred’s Van in the city. Maybe he got housing via Red Cross and wanted to show his loyalty.
 
This pooling system has been operational for years via the Housing Trust and community housing organisations, but is largely dysfunctional as nearly all vacancies are filled by refugees and druggies. The non-druggie homeless crowd end up renting privately at much higher prices.
 
The next most important service for homeless people after food is  easily accessible clean showers? Will this new direction in homeless service delivery fix that? Don’t even dream of it. They’ll spend millions on the program and you won’t get a shower from it. And if you don’t sign up to the program, you’ll be lucky to get a sandwich.
 
Much of getting homeless people into housing relies on trust, but the service providers don’t trust us. Who are the South Australia Homeless Alliance behind this new system? Where is their office? Who are the Adelaide Zero Project? Where is their office? And why do welfare workers insist on meeting homeless applicants in busy coffee shops where strangers listen to the painful and shameful aspects of their personal lives.  
 
All these impediments make groups that provide services to homeless people without requiring personal details especially valuable. And they manage to do this by refusing government funding.  
 
https://www.housing.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/296537/Future-Directions-for-Homelessness.pdf
 
Early 25 November 2020
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(above) Three underclass men waited outside the locked gate of the Northern Communities of Hope Church of Christ property at Davoren Park for last Friday’s free food session. But the gates stayed closed due to “The Pause” virus lockdown. The Church should have put a notice on the gate explaining the situation. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

The teenage predators didn’t know who they were up against

A 16-year-old boy was homeless in the early 1980’s. We would have crossed paths at St Vinnies Night Shelter and the Wright Court Day Centre, but I don’t remember him. It was when Tex at St Vinnies carried that snub-nosed revolver.
 
The boys were part of a gang. When each got his welfare money, he’d buy grog for the rest of them. They looked after each other.
 
It was the era of Bevan Spencer von Einem and Olympian Mike Turtur’s drag queen brother taking drugged teenagers to a house in Alberton then delivering them to von Einem’s gang.
 
But the 16-year-old boy wasn’t a victim. He and his gang predated on elderly rich Gay men at pubs. One played the innocent underage boy in the pub. On one occasion he targeted an older man in an Armani suit. The man offered to buy him a beer, then another, then a smoke of dope, then a walk outside.
 
All the time, the boy’s homeless friends were tailing them. When it was safe for them to do so they savagely beat up the man and took his money and valuables. “I don’t feel bad about any of it,” the boy, now an old man, tells me decades later. “Not what they were doing.”
 
He goes on to say that they stuck together and it was only when two of the gang strayed that trouble struck. Those two were Allan Barnes and Mark Langley. The homosexuals they thought they were manipulating were far more devious and vicious. Allan and Mark’s bodies were discovered containing prescription drugs and with anal injuries that had probably caused their deaths.
 
Second Editor
Early 24 November 2020

Old-style communism in the mid-north
The Night Talker
 
“They [the communists] used to have public forums opposite the old Balfours pie factory back in the 50’s. Rant and rave and sing the Internationale. Then the cops would turn up with wooden clubs and all hell would break loose. An old guy told me years ago. He used to wait there for the broken pies to go onto the bins. Then it was a free for all. Adults trampling over kids to get ot the food.”
 
“A hundred times worse than the pushing and shoving at Puddle Jumpers.
 
“I see more and more people fighting and arguing around supermarket bins now. Wasn’t this bad a year ago. Now it makes me more wary. I can’t afford to get injured.
 
“A whole family was going through the bins at the back of Wallaroo Foodland ten days ago. Nobody stopped them. Even the supermarket staff turned a blind eye.”
 
The Night Talker
Early 24 November 2020

(above) A rotting mattress used when it was new at Salisbury by an Aboriginal man last summer. Some people prefer to live outside during the summer. The powers-that-be want them in boxes with addresses. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) Anglicare collected $207.05 for a cleaning bill of Bryn Hardiman’s retirement unit after a car knocked him out of this world. They got it from Bryn’s bond. Despite being an Anglicare tenant, it was the Housing Trust who provided the bond. The Trust hired debt collectors to chase Bryn for the money paid to Anglicare, but Bryn was dead. The Trust finally declared the bill a bad debt written off.

Bryn defeats the Housing Trust
 
Former British Navy seaman Bryn Hardiman left a debt to Anglicare of $207.05 after he was mowed down by a car in front of the Elizabeth RSL. Anglicare took the dead man to the South Australian Civil Authority Tribunal. Bryn lost so Anglicare claimed the money from the bond he’d paid via the Housing Trust.
The Trust then wanted its money back so it hired a dodgy debt collection outfit who sent to Bryn a couple of threatening letters. Bryn was unmoved. He’d never been intimidated by thugs no more so than in death.
 
The Housing Trust finally realised it had met its match. It called off the debt collectors and sent Bryn a letter saying they’d written off the $207.05 as a bad debt.
 
Early 23 November 2020
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Beacon of Hope Elizabeth
​Church of Christ

Asian Christian Carol wasn’t amused when an old man talked about his younger days at women’s lingerie parties. He said he’d wear underwear that had a hole in the front and would “crack a ***”, which the women would photograph.
 
He said the women avoided looking at him when he was standing there with a ***, but stared intently at the photographs.
 
“Blah”, Carol sounded as she fled into the restaurant. “Smut,” she added.
 
It surprised us that a man we thought must have had a conventionally boring life would get up to those tricks.
 
He also told us about the various 75 and 80-year-old girlfriends he had when he was in his fifties. I was eating a fresh salad and cheese roll, but his talk made me feel a little nauseous.
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth free lunches
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) 
ph 08 8255 2467. Nice salad rolls, soup and meat pies 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. Frequently free bread and vegetables out front. No I.D. or registration required for Eternal Shame File. Served from outdoor trailer. Good atmosphere. Top quality staff. One free takeaway uniquely flavoured coffee per client available from restaurant counter. Optional $7.50 restaurant meals.

Early 23 November 2020

(above) The Chief Messenger of Infinity, SoSo, has published a raft of new books over the past 18-months. He can be seen/viewed/experienced sometimes at the Cos We Care free food venue on Sundays at 7:30am outside the medical centre near the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

On the Street
 
While domestic violence shelters have become so yesterday, the witness protection buildings are the new hot spots. Yet you can see older druggie women smoking cigarettes outside the front doors as if secrecy doesn’t matter. A local man drove me around Port Adelaide identifying the witness protection buildings that accommodate trial witnesses. It was like peering into a hidden dimension of a secret war.
 
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Does anyone remember the Covid Safe app? The complicit media touted it as having been downloaded six million times. The mainstream media bombarded with messages hourly proclaiming its worth. Then it disappeared. Gone, as if it never existed.
 
How does this compare with George Orwell and his book, “Nineteen eight-four”? Prominent people disappeared and were erased from the history books and if they’d never existed.
 
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The Beacon of Hope Church free lunch was crowded last Tuesday, but many left with their food. Church staff had removed half the chairs due to the latest social distancing regulations.  
 
The Beacon has been running their free lunches since the Anglicare Food Barn shut down early in the year. Anglicare volunteers say the Food Barn won’t reopen at all.
 
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The Playford Council inspectors are pestering a homeowner about growing vegetables on the dirt between the road and footpath. They said the tomatoes and spinach are a tripping hazard.
 
Years earlier, they sent Council employees who gleefully stomped on her pumpkins and pulled up the plants grown outside the fence.
 
Two houses down the street, a tenant has piled dirty mattresses and other junk against the front fence on Council land. No problems.
 
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A Housing Trust tenant let the retired Australian Federal Police officer park his camping truck in her back yard. He is old and very ill. He’d been camping on Semaphore South beach carpark until the Council got the police to kick out the homeless people.
 
When the Housing Trust tenant told the retired officer that she was moving and asked that he move his van off the property, he allegedly refused. She moved out and he stayed there until the Housing Trust offered him a unit on Semaphore Road near where Gaavins ex-missus lives.
 
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A man photographed four Playford Council workers sleeping underneath a work truck at 9:30am. He returned at 1:00pm and they were still under the truck.
 
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Numerous sources at free soup kitchens report that Anglicare might not be opening the Food Barn next year and that they’re finally going to knock the building down and rebuild.
 
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A methamphetamine-addicted woman phoned death threats to Megaphone Man. She used her real voice at first then switched to a digitalised voice. Rumour has it that she is a relative of the founder of Nanna’s Free Food Basket and was recently released from prison. The rumour also says that their neighbour is a drug dealer related to Sue Koumidis who lives with Julie Mann and who smashed windows in Megaphone Man’s car on multiple occasions.
 
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A tradesman wondered how psychiatric patients living in a boarding house could have such a high standard of living. One resident explained that he signed N.D.I.S. documents that said his “worker” worked more hours than he actually did. The “worker” reciprocated by paying the resident an amount of money in cash.  
 
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A man transporting horses across the Nullarbor discovered an overturned McCain’s refrigerated truck on the highway. Frozen peas and other frozen vegetables were strewn about the road along with bodies being transported from a morgue.
 
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A former nurse said that medical students used to run races around the morgue pushing trolleys holding cold bodies.
 
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A tenant remembers living at Ferryden Park when the government began knocking down 1500 Housing Trust houses. He said the Trust wanted to repaint his house two-weeks before he was due to leave the house that was scheduled to be knocked down.
 
He said dirt driveways of other houses were concreted when the Housing Trust knew the houses would be demolished within months.
 
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A medical source remembers Dennis the Menace being in hospital with heart problems. Dennis had told people he didn’t expect to recover from surgery. The medical source said Dennis received single bi-pass surgery. Not quite as serious as we had believed.
 
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Some Hutt Street Centre employees are so cloistered that one didn’t know Cos We Care had been operating next door outside the medical centre on Sundays five years.
 
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Has anyone ever heard a positive word said about any of the Job Active (Job Network) joints in Adelaide? The best might have been, “They don’t cause me any trouble.”  These joints must be a symptom of a society in decline, like having cancer.
 
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Cos We Care isn’t offered hampers this Christmas, but will be offering “something special” at the free food giveaways closes to Christmas Day. They’ll be at Elizabeth on 26 December and in the city on the 27th of December, but these special days might be the week before Christmas.
 
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Anne Cooper of Cos We Care said that clients are taking less than previously. This was despite Cos We Care having more to offer. She also said the clients police outbreaks of anger and violence from others. One kocked old Anne out cold a few years ago.
 
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An Aged Care worker said a nursing home resident in his eighties rarely had visitors. But they were intrigued when his 60-year-old son began visiting a few times each week. They later discovered he’d been sneaking across the hall way and having sex with a demented old woman who thought he was her husband.
 
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The Monster Brothers are maintaining their post outside Coles on Grenfell Street in the city. There are food containers strewn about marking their territory. One brother relies on a walking frame.
 
Over on King William Street, there are urine stains along the footpath. The Council has removed most public toilets and locks others during the night.
 
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A diner wouldn’t leave the Semaphore St Bede’s church hall on Tuesday morning. Staff asked him if he could eat quicker so he slowed down. One volunteer asked, “Could you hurry up?” to which the diner replied, “No, I’m not going to hurry up.”
 
Early 22 November 2020

(above) Neighbours have begun dumping shopping trolleys at the Anglicare Elizabeth retirement complex where half the units have been empty for up to two years. Thieves broke into a car last month. One remaining tenant is 93 and a blind tenant is 91. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Moore Street tonight cancelled
 
Father Peter Clark said the Moore Street meal tonight has been cancelled, but it will happen on Saturday 5 December.
 
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Last Saturday meals are on Dec 5th and Dec 12th then it stops for Christmas. 6:00 - 7:00 pm Free. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Grinder. Excellent volunteers like Garfield Loveday and quality young Anglicans. Toilets used by druggies. Some violence. Some of Adelaide’s homeless luminaries go there.
 
12:00pm 21 November 2020
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Fred’s Vans takeaway only
 
We’re back to the old game. Takeaway only at Fred’s Vans that are open. This includes the city, Semaphore and Elizabeth.  And probably all the others if they’re even open.
 
St Bede’s Anglicare Tuesday breakfast also cancelled.
 
See Free Food Guide for usual opening times though it is currently inaccurate until “The Pause” Covid emergency is lifted.
 
11:30am 21 November 2020

Orange Sky services mostly cancelled
 
Orange Sky Laundry has cancelled most of its services, but these might resume this week. They are returning to Salisbury Fred’s Van in early December. Check the link below:
 
https://locations.orangesky.org.au/
 
11:30am 21 November 200
 

 Journalism with integrity?
The Night Talker

“Just a comment about recent media portrayal's online about the Covid-19 lockdown in South Australia........

“The other day I noticed an online video that was on nine.msn.com.au showing police in the Adelaide CBD, moving on two men, who were sitting on the ground in Victoria square. The audio that accompanied this video stated that both men were having a "picnic". However, if you looked closely you see that both men had trolleys with them packed with personal belongings and were more likely to be homeless and transient, rather than enjoying a leisurely picnic in Victoria Square?? Is this a deliberate misconception to make the public believe that there are no homeless people in the Inner Adelaide CBD?

“I wonder where these two (ageing) men went after they were asked to move on by the Police. Did they find anywhere to go where they could stop for a while, or are they being pushed out everywhere they go? In this current hot weather, this must be extremely distressing. I am assuming that they parked themselves near the water fountains because its cooler than sitting in a doorway somewhere and safer than squatting behind building or laneways. Shame on SAPOL and the Adelaide City Council!

"’Poor Souls.’"

The Night Talker
21 November 2020

There’s a tough guy in town
 
Police Commissioner Grant Stevens is our new Covid tough guy.
But how did he react to the drug dealers preying on the homeless at the Hutt Street Centre? Grant said he wasn’t in the business of arresting Ice dealers. He actually said that on ABC Radio Adelaide. Sure, Grant had his own rationale. He said he was aiming for the big dealers and intimated the small dealers weren’t worth his trouble. He could have said his detectives blackmail the small dealers for information on their sources, but he didn’t. Police politics is smoke and mirrors. Too complicated for us mere citizens.
 
21 November 2020
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(above) Anglicare has purchased the Midway Apartments complex at Kurralta Park. This will be good inner city accommodation for those linked to the Adelaide CBD. Yet could Anglicare have better bought land and built new units and thus added to the net availability of housing for the underclass? It's a debatable question without a clear answer. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Adelaide City Fred's Vans times
(will change over next two days)

From the Fred's Van coordinator

***Due to the new Covid-19 restrictions announced on November 18, most Fred's Van services have ceased operation, with the exception of the City services***

City - Gawler Place

• Saturday, Sunday - 6pm
• Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - 7pm

City - Whitmore Square (Cafe Outside the Square)

• Wednesday - 6.30pm

from
 https://www.vinnies.org.au/page/Find_Help/SA/Food/Freds_Van_mobile_food_service/  

See usual schedule
https://www.vinnies.org.au/content/Document/SA/Fred's%20Van%20schedule/Fred's%20Vans%20times%20and%20locations%20-%20070920.pdf 

Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide for more details

Late 20 November 2020

Homeless Connect didn’t receive government Covid directive or guidance over this week’s lockdown

A “worker” at Homeless Connect said today they hadn’t received any government directive whether to increase “motelling” vulnerable and homeless people. She said, “No one has been given a clear answer…[we] got slammed.” She added that “each worker is different…every client is different...and that we have been motelling rough sleepers.”
 
One aspect of this has been confirmed by multiple homeless people who say they get a different response from each “worker” so you have to shop around.
 
Homeless Connect is the new name for Homeless Gateway and is a link in the Future Directions for Homelessness plan largely formulated by former Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox.
 
The Homeless Connect phone number is 1800 003 308
Late 20 November 2020
 

Baptist Care (WestCare)
 
A spokesperson for Baptist Care said they’re reduced today to serving a free takeaway breakfast from 9:00am to 10:30am and lunch from 11:30am to 1:00pm Monday to Friday. And Sunday from about 11:00am to 1:00pm. No I.D. or registration required for the Eternal Shame File.
 
Showers, laundry and toilets are locked tight. The Food Hub is closed with all that old food getting older.
 
Of course, this will change on Monday morning and change again later so nothing is certain. Below are some details of their services when things are vaguely normal.
 
Baptist Westcare Adelaide City
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide.
Ph (08) 8118 5200.
Open from Monday to Friday for breakfast 9:00am to 10:30am takeaway according to their receptionist. Then for lunch from 11:30am to 1:00pm. Good quality takeaway food.
Open Sundays from about 11:00am to 1:00pm. Free. No I.D. or registration required.
For showers applicants must register between 10:15am to 10:30am. Three showers available and begin at 10:30am. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables in Food Hub store from 10:00am-3:00pm Monday to Thursday. Centrelink, student or immigration cards required.
 
Late 20 November 2020

 Code Red and Code Blue
 
The Duty Officer for the Eastern Adelaide Generic Homelessness Service said the government doesn’t issue a Code Red alert for homeless people simply due to a very hot day. It must be a series of hot days with other weather factors.
 
She said the result of an Alert is the Hutt Street Centre staying open a few hours longer each day and WestCare (Baptist Care) setting up beds for sleeping inside.
 
But these camp cots are placed so close together that cramming a bunch of homeless people together would be virus suicide. I bet no one in the Department of Human Services will be keen on pressing the Red Alert button this summer.
 
Late 20 November 2020
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Decision pending on placing homeless people in hotels

The duty officer at the Hutt Street Centre working from home said the government still hasn’t decided where homeless people in the city will be housed to meet the stay-at-home six-day order.
 
The duty officer said the police are not arresting people “at this stage. We’re still waiting for official information from HousingSA as to what that response will be.”
 
The duty officer said they’re “…encouraging people to look at backpackers and self-funding at motels and bits and pieces because we still don’t have any information.”  
 
The Hutt Street Centre offers takeaway breakfasts from 7:30am to 8:30am and takeaway lunch from 11:30am to 12:30pm. They are mainly for rough sleepers and those with a good story. The duty officer wasn’t clear whether a Centrelink card is required to get the takeaway meals. Showers are available, but the duty officer didn’t know the times, but said the Hutt Street Centre is open from 7:00am to 1:00pm weekdays, anyway, and that homeless people are not allowed to stay inside the building during this time.
 
The Hutt Street Centre temporary phone number is 0424 665 819, but this will change.
 
Note: Do Brenda the former Cook, former C.E.O. Ian Cox and former Chairman of the Board Phil Donato miss their times at the Hutt Street Centre? Do they miss the wild characters like Chad, Robyn the Junkie, Tony the Clued-up Drug Dealer, Filthy Phil, Mark Arstall, Jesse Gunter, Emma Hines and the hundreds of others who moved or died?
 
Early 20 November 2020

Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters maintain services during lockdown 

While the big money outfits stall, Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters continue serving food on Saturdays and Sundays regardless of the virus restrictions.
 
Both groups have been designated essential services. And both groups are not funded by the government and avoid FoodbankSA like the plague.
 
But there won’t be any coffee at Cos We Care, at least, and clients are urged to keep moving to maintain social distancing. This means take the food further into the parklands to eat it.
 
Our Street Family Matters City (Dr Jefferies)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide.  
Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Home cooked food in aluminium containers plus hot food from pots. All free. Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome. It’s a place to meet genuine homeless people. They also have special days where they give away mosquito repellent and stuff homeless people especially require. This is where the real street crowd go. No I.D. or registration required.
 
Cos We Care City
Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. 7:30 - 9:00am Sunday.
Free. No I.D. or registration required. Clients include genuine homeless people.
Hot food and coffee, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing.
Occasional yelling and screaming and surprisingly pleasant extras.

Cos We Care Elizabeth
Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth. 7:30am to 8:30am Saturdays. Free. No questions asked. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns, used clothing. Genuine Elizabeth-style clients. I.D. and registration not required. Improved. More free stuff.
 
Early 20 November 2020

 Playford Community Fund folds like a house of cards

The Playford Community Fund isn’t even answering their phone. A recorded message said they’re closed indefinitely and don’t bother leaving a message. This is in the middle of Christmas hamper registration season.
 
They might be back next Wednesday 25 November.
 
Early 20 November 2020
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Fred’s Van City operating as usual

Fred’s Van in the city is operating as usual according to coordinator Teresa Branch. There will probably be more Covid precautions than earlier this week.
 
It isn’t clear about the other Fred’s Vans, but with luck we’ll have more information tomorrow.
 
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Free. I.D. or registration not required. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served at Gawler Place with vegetarian curry and rice from Sathya Sai group on Sundays and Thursdays. Wednesday Fred’s Van is at 34 Whitmore Square, Adelaide from 6:30pm to at least 7:30pm. They might have socks and blankets. Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Slightly dangerous.

Early 20 November 2020
 

Don Dunstan Foundation bailing out of Adelaide Zero Project

Richard “call me Richie” Hollands has announced that the Don Dunstan Foundation has decided to “transition out…” of the Adelaide Zero Project.
 
He wrote in their November newsletter that, “…we feel it is a timely and natural progression for the Foundation to transition out of the backbone role at the end of December. “

“Importantly, this does not spell the end of the Adelaide Zero Project. There is great innovation, skills and capacity within the Project partners, and we are working with these partners to ensure the key features will continue as the Project moves closer to reaching Functional Zero rough sleeping in the city.”
 
He should have said, “Thank God for the virus. We were stuffed until that came along. Now it’s time to bail out before the vaccine is introduced and the homeless return.”
 
Early 20 November 2020
 

(above) Shipping container at Savers Modbury waiting to be filled and sent to Africa or India. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) Savers have continuous surveillance over their donation hubs. The Salvos are different. They seem to be consciously giving scavengers first pickings over their donated items. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Sunday meal a spitting success
​at Salisbury

Kevin shouted from a car window that the event had been cancelled. The old man who can’t get out of his car was driving. Later, Kevin denied he said it especially when the doors of the Salisbury Institute building opened.
 
Old Val was tapping a man on the shoulder while singing, “We’re getting married in the morning.” Another man said he’d let a friend stay at his house who then had sex with his girlfriend so he kicked out both of them. He won’t be getting married in the morning.
 
Another man said he appeased his unnatural hunger pangs by drinking lemon juice before going to bed, but awoke during the night feeling lemony. He said he didn’t like feeling lemony.
 
We lined up to sign the Plandemic register while ignoring social distancing. In the queue, one man was talking to another. The light through the window reflected off droplets of spit coming from his mouth. The visible droplets weren’t like a fine sneeze, but heavy droplets that descended after being propelled half a metre.  
 
Inside the hall, an Ice head kept running out the fire door as practice in case an enemy came in the front door. But the enemy was already inside and watching him.
 
Cambodian Jenny’s daughter lost control of a helium balloon that rose to the ceiling and got caught in a fan.
 
The meal was pizza not warm enough and not cooked enough. No salt and pepper like last week. But the salad, Coleslaw and rice were terrific. Tasty and healthy.
 
We had to submit our full names, addresses and phone numbers for the Covid Plandemic register book. The book was then left open on an unattended table in the foyer for over an hour. This was a major security lapse as some people go to free food events for no other reason than to cheat and rob others.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accusing each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags much improved.
 
Early 19 November 2020

Minor Contemplation on Fusion/Infusion: Towards Imbibe-Ability And/To Imbibingness
By SoSo, Chief Messenger of Infinity

“Ingesting/injecting the ‘ecstacy’ of infinitism consciousness via indepth musing(s) and contemplation(s) on infinity thus imbibing infinitisms magnanimity and untrumpability and emancipatory power and enlightening service to all, with humbling effect on you and humanity; and all I mean. So, bring light into your li/fe/ves your head(s), heart(s), imbibe and infuse your/self/ves with wholesomely luminour message.
​
Seek wholeness.
Be in wholeness.”
 
Page 72
Infinitism: Transmissions/Message(s)/Teaching For/To All.
By SoSo, the Chief Messenger of Infinity.
The Messenger can be found/seen/heard at Cos We Care in the city on Sunday mornings outside the medical centre on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace.
 
Early 19 November 2020

Cheap car and house insurance
The Night Talker

Re: Elderly homeless lady has her uninsured camper van stolen........

IAG insurance offers people on low and middle level incomes, low cost car and house and house and contents insurance. To be eligible you must have either a centrelink low income health care card and a blue pension concession card. Go to www.goodshepherdfinance/IAGlowcostinsurance.com.au

car insurance is set at a maximum value of $10,000.00 and costs around $5.00 a week. Contents insurance is the same.

The Night Talker
Early 19 November 2020

From the anonymous contact page
The Rundle Spy

Artie Fartie is a Bugga, camps out in Adelaide CBD Austin Street just off North Terrace leading into Renaissance Arcade near to ReRun Records and various Asian food shops.

Artie really is a Bugga and will approach anyone and everyone trying to show off (good quality) outback art and possible art story in attempt to capture attention then extract money.

Artie's skin has been turning a darker shade of brown perhaps due to liver damage with alcohol use.

Thing is, Artie could also be a potential virus Super Spreader, since Artie really gets in the public face, close up.

Some have to put on protective glasses to avoid spitlets from Artie's spraylets.

Artie has been in Adelaide CBD about 2 years and will often predate and hunt folks in Rundle Mall, actively closing in on those he suspects can give up money.

Older people seem a favourite target.

Artie stats : age about 30, height medium, weight fat but not obese, round melon or pumpkin shaped head, short to medium dark hair that springs into stubble on face, wears dark clothing perhaps to exert dark authority upon victims and prospects, very nervous full of anxiety at times as if missing some opiate or sedative or drunk drug.

In times of non-of-us-desire-us-a-virus, suggest COMPLETE avoidance of Artie Fartie Bugga.
 
The Rundle Spy
Early 19 November 2020

(above) A feature of free services for the homeless is that if something breaks it stays that way such a long time as if the clients are irrelevant. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Virus disruptions ​for
free food services including Christmas day free lunches

Big Al at the Beacon of Hope Church of Christ in Elizabeth advised us not to advertise their free Christmas lunch as it was in doubt depending on whether the latest outbreak of Covid-19 would be cleared up.
 
Other free food places have the same view. St Luke’s attracts 400 people to their free Christmas lunch at Whitmore Square and that is in doubt to say the least.
 
St Bede’s Anglicare at Semaphore has already cancelled their Tuesday breakfasts. Other places have also cancelled their food services. Phone before visiting.
 
There won’t be a list published here of free Christmas lunches until the situation becomes clearer.
 
However, on the bright side, the smaller outfits with few or no paid employees plan to provide services right through Christmas without fear or favour from the virus. Fred’s Van, Cos We Care and Our Street Family Matters are some of the more reliable people who stay with us during the plague.
 
Early 18 November 2020

Outright maladministration
​at Playford Council

The Playford Council still hasn’t repaired the burnt park bench at the Rotary Lookout at Hillbank. The job is little more than replacing six planks.
 
The damage was caused by drunks lighting a campfire at the lookout and then on top of the bench. Two Playford Council employees drove up to the lookout after the fire, but couldn’t be bothered raking up the half-burnt bits of plastic and charcoal. Instead, they broke up unburnt branches that had been dragged from the bush. They then loaded them onto the truck to take to the rubbish dump. Yet these branches came straight from the bush and could have been thrown back. The two young workers then spent twenty-minutes looking at the view over northern Adelaide.
 
Another Council team drove up later and placed tomato stakes and warning tape around the burnt bench, but did nothing about the burnt plastic on the ground. After six-weeks or so another team drove up and removed the stakes and tape. The bench seat remains burnt and unusable.
 
The elected Council members know this, but they have not the intestinal or mental fortitude to challenge those running the racket.
 
Early 18 November 2020

(above) The Food Barn dining room at Anglicare Elizabeth. It's been closed for seven months. A homeless man on Thursday asked for some hot water. Guess what this huge corporation with all its paid employees told him? Yes, you're right, the answer was "No." (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

An unusual evening at Fred's Van Semaphore

“What’s wrong with these people because they treat us like retards?” asked an annoyed diner. Staff had provided elderly crisp bread rolls unsuitable for people with missing or no teeth.
 
Fred’s Van staff had been late opening the doors so one man banged on the door and shouted, “Open up you miserable fu**ers.” The diner said staff had, “…got here 30-minutes late so they couldn’t cook things properly, but they made us to feel bad.”
 
One volunteer did bring out margarine to soften the texture of the bread rolls. It arrived as a small piece of margarine on a huge dinner plate. The critic said, “You really went out of your way for me, didn’t you?” He later admitted that the salad was “fantastic, home grown.” But he wouldn’t touch the pale sausages saying, “I’m not going to make myself sick over these.” Undercooked meat is a common complaint at free food venues.
 
And the coffee man was friendly though the annoyed client said he was “bombarded by retards.”
 
Horse Trader Steve was there, a stable terminal amongst mayhem. Lester was talking “unadulterated bull****” according to a patron.
 
A homeless woman said, “This is the most miserable evening I’ve ever had.” She had her unregistered, uninsured camper van stolen and was now living in her station wagon on the beach. She said to one man, “Don’t talk to me anymore or I’ll cry.” He couldn’t stop talking and she started crying.
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. or registration required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Free. Sit down meal in the main hall. Much improved. A bit rushed.
Slightly rough and dangerous customers. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Some rude stuff.
Occasional tipping over of tables and fighting, but usually calm. Free Orange Sky Laundry.

Early 17 November 2020

You can see us dying
 
Wheelman Wayne’s house is for sale. He hasn’t been seen for a month. They come and go in the homeless scene. At least one-third of us diners are near death. Costco offers flat pack coffins for less than $200 each, but you have to buy ten. I was thinking of giving them away as Christmas presents.
 
A pleasant Indian woman held her arm out and said, “White privilege”. I held my arm out and said, “Part Arab”. I would have liked to have responded with a clever repartee, but couldn’t think quickly enough. I had badmouthed Indians the week before so this was payback.
 
One-eyed Steve named various diners he’d known for decades, a few since childhood. As Stormy Summers’ right-hand-man, he didn’t say how he’d met some of them.
 
The druggies were running around over some issue. I’ve learnt not to interfere with their lives, not even to stand near them when they’re talking. They’re actually pleasant people when they’re not strung out. And we’re all outcasts.
 
The meal included English-style boiled food like they served at the Food Barn. I didn’t like it, but the staff were pleasant, the clients were pleasant, the building is beautiful.
 
After the meal, when we were talking outside, Shuffles shouted, “Who sh** themselves?” A disabled drug addict said he’d had trouble in the toilets. Another man said he didn’t smell anything.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accusing each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags much improved.

Early 17 November 2020

From the anonymous contact page

"A feature of free services for the homeless is that if something breaks it stays that way such a long time as if the clients are irrelevant."

Correction

A feature of free services for the homeless is that if something breaks it stays that way such a long time as if the clients WHO STOLE THE DAMNED THING WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN, perhaps to use the proceeds of stolen item(s) for Drug purchases.
 
Anonymous
​Early 17 November 2020

(above) Does anyone remember our images of those 35 houses and townhouses on Maltarra Road, Munno Para that were knocked down two years ago? They were good houses with invalid ramps and carports. Well, the South Australian government has left the block of land unused since then. There weren't any redevelopment plans. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Anglicare management orders Magdalene Centre employees
​to lie to clients

Anglicare employees are telling underclass and homeless applicants that they aren’t doing hampers this year. This is happening at the Magdalene Centre in the city and at the Food Barn building in Elizabeth.
 
However, Maria Reveruzzi, Anglicare Senior Manager of Volunteers ― who writes her name in All Caps ― has been posting volunteers copies of an internal document called “Volunteer Update”.
 
In it, Anglicare calls for volunteers to pack and deliver 1500 hampers to “…families and individuals facing an uncertain and challenging festive season.”  
 
But who are these special people? One insider client said it was those undergoing “financial counselling”. A cynic could say the hampers are for those who make money for Anglicare by signing up for government-funded programs. Or to politically approved ethnic groups. We’ll never know because Anglicare doesn’t share this information to the public.
 
And while these hampers will be packed in a back room at the Magdalene Centre in Gilbert Street, Adelaide by unpaid workers, paid workers at the front of the building will be telling people in person or on the phone that they aren’t providing hampers this Christmas.
 
Anglicare says those wanting to help should email Belinda Avery at bavery@anglicaresa.com.au . They also need people to deliver the hampers.
 
Early 16 November 2020

Did the Almighty Bruce make a boo-boo?
 
We arrived at Lois Lane’s free food giveaway last Saturday and found the garage door closed and a car blocking the driveway.
 
A young man knocked on the door and was told that the FoodbankSA fruit, vegetables and bread hadn’t been delivered via Faithworks. Later, we heard at another free food venue that Bruce Kurtzer of Faithworks had forgotten to add this fact to the Faithworks magic five-dollar app. So dozens of disappointed clients milled about at the front of Lois’s house.
 
Meanwhile, the evening before, Bruce had excelled himself pushing a wheeled esky along a rough track at Cobbler’s Creek reserve to deliver free soft-drinks and water to boys riding mountain bikes along a 20-hectare series of trails.
 
His Faithworks team was holding a free BBQ for anyone who turned up. He advised those of the event on his magical five-dollar app.
 
But those who had found nothing at Lois Lane’s house were stunned though not a single person had a word of criticism for Lois.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.
 
Early 16 November 2020

(above) Yum, yum. Fresh free produce from Pathway at Clovercrest. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

On the Street
 
Shuffles and a friend were going to the Global Care free BBQ for the first time at the Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre. They told the front door people in tuxedos they didn’t know anyone there, but were there for the BBQ only.  After some sideways glances and muttered oaths from the greeting staff they discovered they’d mistakenly gone to a wedding reception at the private Morella Reception Centre. They made a sweaty exit across the carpark to the Council recreation building where a Global Care pastor was sizzling the sausages.
 
*
 
A women’s shelter worker was offended when Adelaide Homeless Journal identified the location of a city shelter in our 30-page Free Food guide handed out at soup kitchens. A woman volunteer from Cos We Care then went to a Faithworks free food event and tried to collect all copies and destroy them. She also urged individuals to turn in their copies so she could destroy them.
 
The irony is that most murderers, drug dealers and thugs in the city know the women’s shelter location and couldn’t care less. Domestic violence shelters are so yesterday and do little more than offer exploitative women a chance to play the victim card. Of course, there are gross exceptions, but these are the minority that nevertheless are paraded in the media during the government grant application season.
 
*
 
Rumour has it that a barista coffee van has been funded to give away free coffee outside the Hutt Street Centre at 3:00pm on the last Sunday of each month. How long it will be funded to provide this service is anyone’s guess.
 
*
 
Playford Council has officially endorsed Cos We Care and gave them a food wrapping machine, double gazebo and a three-year license to give away food in Fremont Park carpark No. 1 every Saturday from 7:30am to 8:30am. No I.D. needed as Cos We Care doesn’t collect data for the government’s Eternal Shame File.
 
*
 
“He couldn’t get over his mother dying. He went over to Thailand and bought a vagina and tits and looked like his mother. He wore the same clothing she’d worn. He took his mother’s name. Prior to his mother’s death he was normal. Didn’t care when his father died.”
 
Anonymous talking about a Port Adelaide man who went strange.
 
*
 
The Housing Trust are investigating graffiti painted on the Council footpath in front of a local dealer. The message read: “Julie Mann is scum.”
 
*
 
Megaphone Man has taken up horticulture. He’s cutting down bushes and small trees so he can get a clear view of people moving from the area of Sue Koumidis’s house towards his car that has had its windows smashed on multiple occasions, and on one occasion Julie Mann was sitting inside.
 
*
 
A reliable welfare insider said that at least one N.D.I.S. employee known by him/her is having sex with a client. Another employee sexts messages back and forth with a client. This information comes from a reliable source.
 
*
 
In the manner typical of the secretive and paranoid South Australian government, the police prosecutor at Port Adelaide won’t provide details to the victim of the conviction and sentencing of Julie Mann over various vandalism and illegal car use charges. Even though the enquirer is the victim.
 
*
 
A member of a teenage gang that used to beat up homosexuals in the earlier 1980’s said that Richard Kelvin was “Not innocent by a long shot. He sold his body.” Kelvin was tortured and murdered by Bevan Spencer von Einem and his gang of gays.
 
*
 
Earlier this year, Housing Trust C.E.O. Michael Buchan announced they were spending many millions of dollars renovating their rental properties.
 
Since then, a few hundred apartments have been fitted with security screens, Perspex windows and password touchpads. Were these the improvements? No doubt renovating units torched by tenants or their enemies would have been classed as improvements.  
 
*
 
Anglicare say they welcome the South Australian government’s commitment to build new “social housing”, but Anglicare itself has just purchased an apartment block in Keswick. They’ve used money to buy something already existing, which is no  improvement in the actual amount of housing stock for the underclass. It merely consolidates the Anglicare empire. They should have used the money to buy land and build new units.
 
*
 
Underclass people from time to time come across church people who walk around the tables at free food events asking each diner, “What’s your story?”. They listen for three minutes then ask the next person, “What’s your story?”. They have no idea how painful this is as each person asked doesn’t necessary want others around to know his or her life history. Free food joints are plagued by blackmailers, fraudsters, thugs and violent psychopaths. Anything can trigger them.
 
You can tell these church people that they’re acting wrongly, but most are too insensitive to understand the words.
 
Early 15 November 2020

Money wasted on “entertainment”
From The Night Talker

“Why nobody actually really needs the entertainment industry and if it all disappeared tomorrow, nobody would be any worse off........

“Governments want you to believe that (paid) entertainment is necessary, and that as taxpayers we need to do everything possible, to keep this industry alive. We need to pay, pay pay, for festivals, and cultural events and sport events, and food tasting events and the list goes and on and on and on.........
 
“Guess what? It's a lie folks? Yup......an outright lie. We will all continue on, as we did before, if every single entertainer on this planet, suddenly died from some mysterious ailment. Granted, life would be a tad more dull or boring, but its not an essential condition to remain alive. We would just continue on. (Some inventive boffo's out there, would no doubt create their own entertainment and good for them, if that were the case)
 
“In fact, if anything our budget would probably be in better shape because we are now not spending money bolstering up the likes of the Fringe or Feast Festival, or the Tandanya Centre, which boasts something like 30 paid employees and consists of nothing more than several half empty rooms, full of (let's face it) rather mediocre and somewhat lackluster indigenous art/Knick knacks and or memorabilia.)
 
“By all means we need our government funded museums and art galleries and places of cultural significance. Everything else we get rid of, and or its a user pays system. (You’re an entertainer great, you pay YOUR OWN WAY! No more 100.000K grant so that some simpleton can sit naked in a bath full of baked beans, reading Shakespeare?
 
“(Seriously, this actually happened some years ago. A fringe performer got a grant for $100,000 to sit naked in a bath full of baked beans reading Shakespeare?) I mean WTF? We can't house people, or find money for free school lunches or provide home care or the elderly and or disabled, but we have money for this???? GET ANGRY! VERY ANGRY!

The Night Talker
Early 15 November 2020

 Future Directions for Homelessness video
 
Minister for Human Services Michelle Lensink (dyed hair), Michael Buchan of the Housing Trust (dyed hair) and Ian Cox (no hair) talk about the new direction for homeless services.
 
The video has received less than 200 views since September. Not even the bureaucrats in the homeless industry have bothered watching it. The video has value due to Buchan’s speech that could be used in lieu of a bedtime story. His voice would put any kid to sleep.
 
Ian Cox does much better despite not saying anything anyone could understand. At least he speaks with enthusiasm, but those glasses, ugh. He should have got a free pair from the Hutt Street Centre free glasses day.
 
Why didn’t these speakers actually say something that we can understand. They use meaningless sentences that convey little more than soft threats.
 
The video has received one like and no dislikes. Please help these unfortunate people and give them a “like”. And buy Ian some new glasses.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKciyAND6QE&feature=youtu.be
Video best viewed at night when you’re having trouble sleeping.
 
Early 15 November 2020

(above) Sticker on a post in a homeless camping area in Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

 Lois Lane’s free Saturday food event
 
Lois appears to have lost weight. She works at least six-days a week for Faithworks. As well as working without pay, she donates money to Faithworks.
 
That thin greedy Chinese woman arrived late when they let whoever hangs around grab almost as much as they want. She enlisted others to carry the stuff to her car. The white Aboriginal preacher got less because of her. Maybe she needs it or deserves it.
 
Faithworks operates its food system like a McDonald’s franchise via Foodbank. Churches and benevolent groups join Faithworks upon agreeing to a monthly donation to the church, service fees for certain Foodbank items and a delivery fee.
 
This is fair for Faithworks because Foodbank charges them service fees for some of their donated grocery items, which means Foodbank sells food donated to it.
 
By joining Faithworks, the franchisees don’t have to join Foodbank and Faithworks makes their ordering system simpler. But the franchise holders have to make up for spending money on their franchise and buying grocery items (as a condition of getting the free fruit, bread and vegetables) from Faithworks who pay Foodbank for it. The franchise holders then sell the old groceries, but give away the other stuff. Faithworks at Blair Athol do this. A.D.R.A. does this. Heart and Soul does it. Even Foodbank does it at their retail outlets. It’s all against Foodbank rules, but the charges are described as service fees.
 
But in the case of Lois Lane (Welcome) at Elizabeth Downs, she gives everything away even the stuff she has to buy. And she isn’t rich. Her son is disabled. Her house is a little rundown. Her car is stuffed. That’s why Lois Lane’s service is different from nearly every other free food outfit.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.

Early 14 November 2020

The Professionals real estate agents
 
The Professionals were the rental agents for a group of decrepit units. They took the prospective tenants to the Pennington property near Port Adelaide. The lease was signed. The rental agents departed. A truck arrived and the furniture was brought in on multiple sack trucks, those two-wheeled trolleys used to move fridges.
 
The new tenants had plenty of pot plants, in fact, they had little more than a chair, an electric jug and coffee, and the rest was pot plants. A caretaker came in every so often to water the plants.
 
Every three months, the Professionals arrived to inspect the property. Before they arrived, the removalists would take away the pot plants then after the inspection bring them back. The Professionals never asked difficult questions about the lack of furniture.
 
Early 14 November 2020

From the anonymous contact page

Ever notice
Those DRUGLY become UGLY
Those DRUNK become MUNK
Ever notice...
Fu**in Boozers
Buncha Loozers
 
Anonymous
Early 14 November 2020
​

(above) James Williams in white and the crew in 2016 preparing the Magdalene church hall Saturday 6:00pm free meal at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide. Next dates are 21 Nov, 5 Dec and 12 Dec. They don't require I.D. or collect details for the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Latest Adelaide Zero Project CBD homeless count

Homelessness in the Adelaide CBD is dropping so quickly it’s as if the Adelaide Zero Project imported one of those vote counting machines from the U.S.A. then turned the dial to reverse.
 
The Actively Homeless number has dropped from 214 to 198. This includes the Rough Sleeper number dropping from 129 to 107. However the Actively Homeless – Other number has risen from 17 to 32.
 
What we don’t know is how precautions against spreading the virus has affected the data collecting effectiveness by various agencies  whose figures are used to determine the total figures. Or how the absence of the annual “Connections Week” last May has failed to make the usual boost in the figures. Or how the reduction of services from places like the Hutt Street Centre has affected patronage by homeless people.
 
Whatever, if the numbers drop much more the Adelaide Zero Project will be able to say they’ve halved the city homeless count as promised.
 
But who is the Adelaide Zero Project? We know they have 40 “partners”, but who are the Board of Management? What is their budget? And who funds them?
 
https://www.dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/
 
Early 13 November 2020

The Salisbury Ark going indoors
 
After many false-positive rumours spread by Adelaide Homeless Journal, the Lutheran Ark church is serving its monthly meals indoors. The next dining experience is Saturday 28 November when invitations will be given for the Christmas Dinner on Saturday 19 December. Doors usually open at 5:00pm, but it might be wise to phone them for more precise information.
 
The expected diners are fairly normal people including Stormy Summers’ right-hand man, Mick and Denise, Cambodian Jenny, Shuffles, Old Val, Lisa, the doctor’s son, Margaret and the Virus Lady. The Magnificent Marten promises to make an appearance providing staff give him a table to himself.
 
With luck, there won’t be any takeaway-only nights ever again though the vegetarian meal last month was just perfect. During the virus Plandemic we were supposed to leave the property with the takeaway containers, but we stayed in the parking area.  After watching us eat outside the church, the staff began providing a serviette and wooden disposable fork with each container. Instead of being nasty to us, they were sensitive, observant and kind.
 
Lutheran Ark Salisbury
Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark) cnr Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury.
Ph 8281 2976. Indoor dining from about 5:00pm one Saturday each month. The next date is November 28 where invitations will be given for their December 19 Christmas dinner. Nice place.

Early 13 November 2020

(above) Sweden with no lockdown during the first wave had 6000 Covid deaths this year, but the overall death rate from all causes is on track to be similar to that of 2019. And the second wave surge appears to have a lower death rate per 1000 infected than previously. For another statistic click on image. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Jill Rivers has a new job
 
Jill’s strength is that she makes contact with clients. Other Anglicare employees mimic friendly behaviour, but the shark behind their smiles is apparent. Jill is different.
 
Rather than projecting her own demons within onto others and blaming them for what she doesn’t like about herself, she instead uses her understanding of herself to empathise with others.
 
This was apparent with her work at St Bede’s free breakfasts in Semaphore. Anyone looking at a statistical database used to apply for next year’s government funding wouldn’t see this, but it was clear to those present at the Semaphore breakfasts.
 
Can this understanding and skill be taught to other Anglicare employees and volunteers? Of course, in the right environment when those in leadership positions have the insight to discern quality in others.
 
What is Jill’s new job? Who knows? Anglicare has announced her new position in a language few understand. They said,
 
“Jill has now been appointed the Coordinator of Emergency Assistance as part of the Social and Financial Wellbeing program for AnglicareSA. Jill will work with emergency assistance teams across our sites in operational and people leadership.”
 
Early 12 November 2020

Kilburn Fred’s Van
 
The tables were set up badly. Too close together so chairs couldn’t be pulled back. And a few were left empty as client numbers haven’t returned to their pre-Covid peak.
 
Rudi apologised for opening late, but said they’d been behind. Someone said, “Who’s behind?”
“Are you ready for Grace?” Rudi shouted as if about to deny it. He said Grace and nearly everyone bowed their heads. Soup kitchen people are very religious because most are near death. We are a lifeboat of souls facing our deaths while acting out our silly worldly games when they no longer matter.
 
One man hadn’t been there for two weeks due to a sore tooth. Shannon wasn’t there after passing out at an election party. Old Raelene said she was forced to get a police clearance to sing at a nursing home.
 
One muscular diner is a volunteer at another soup kitchen patronised by crims fresh out of the slammer. He said he does what he can after breaking a series of bones and getting a 15% swelled brain in a motorcycle crash. He said he’s had to break up a number of fights at the other soup kitchen and got in a few hits himself.
 
I spent part of the evening following a man around the dining room and foyer. He told jokes and when people laughed I leaned forward and looked into their mouths. Nearly everyone has missing teeth. No plates, veneers or implants for them. I stopped when one person looked at me strangely.
 
Orange Sky Laundry removed their silly Covid exclusion tape and things were more normal. Their customers were Arabs who join a crowd of women and children in the playground area. Most avoid Fred’s Van.
 
A volunteer or maybe a neighbour got angry when some ex-homeless old men asked him if he was looking for cans in the rubbish bins. He said he was making sure the right things were in each bin. One of the ex-homeless men was thin and his hands shook. His fly was partly undone. He went into the dining room and talked about the most effective way of drinking methylated spirits. Other than that he was normal.
 
The volunteers served vegan sausages, more for the Moslems who only eat Halal meat. A woman from Grange and myself who don’t eat meat benefited from this. The other food was terrific and the staff interactive.
 
I wonder if the volunteers appreciate their good luck in getting this window into suffering humanity.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sit down meals have resumed. Not so good takeaway bags at end of meal. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Orange Sky Laundry free washing. Meals improving. Good toilets. Decent Catholics.

Early 12 November 2020

That Mexican cooks decent food
 
The takeaway bags ran out at Fred's Van Salisbury. They were expecting 30 diners, but got over 40. Old Val complained she lost $10 somewhere. Has she begun to lose her marbles like the rest of us? The CMAX Kid was there with his godmother. They used to smack each other hard, but have stopped. He’s looking healthier at last. He went a bit haywire after doing a $5500 CMAX anti-depressant drug trial at the South Australian Medical and Health Research Institute (SAMHRI). Now they know what happens to a person dosed up then cut off cold turkey style. Adelaide guinea pigs.
 
Diners complained about the pizza being cold and not cooked enough. Lisa spent most of the meal collecting food for MS Jason who wasn’t looking well. Fred’s Van put salt and pepper sachets and an expensive serviette in their bags containing cutlery. Someone is watching and thinking well.
 
The former right-hand-man of Stormy Summers took a plate of food to the old man in his car who is too frail to walk into the hall. A cook named Raf prepared kidney beans and mushrooms into a Mexican dish. It was incredibly good. We need more Mexican volunteers at Fred’s Van.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accuse each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags variable in quality from no good to so-so.

Early 12 November 2020

(above) New donation bins imported from Canada at Modbury Savers, which is owned by an American hedge corporation that leases the Red Nose logo from a dodgy Melbourne "charity". But Savers do recycle clothing in Australia and send much of it to Africa. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) The the padlock cover has been strengthened over the older bins. Thieves have no respect for Savers and couldn't care less if they're recorded by the spy cameras. Savers wouldn't dare ask the police to prosecute as a lengthy trial would expose their modus operandi. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Free Christmas Hampers
 
A short list. Please email your discoveries to whitmorederelict@protonmail.ch
 
After a bumper year of welfare payments and free food, Christmas has arrived with bitter cheer. Many joints have ceased offering free hampers while the St Vincent de Paul Society said they’d filled their quota at Elizabeth within days of taking names. Other areas served by Vinnies may be better placed, but it is imported to strike immediately, not tomorrow. This is also time to enquire about free Christmas lunches and teas.
 
Adelaide Day Centre

32 Moore Street, Adelaide. Ph (08) 8232 0048.
Sisters of Mercy. Romero.
Free Christmas hampers. No residency requirements, you can live anywhere in Adelaide. Home delivery in most cases.
Phone and give basic details. They will phone back for more information such as why you want it and how many people in household. “We don’t want your life story. We don’t grill you,” the receptionist said. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper place.

 
Playford Community Fund Elizabeth

Windsor Building, Elizabeth shopping Centre, across road from library.
Ph (08) 8255 1599  from 10:00am Tuesday to Friday. Centrelink or refugee card required. Free hampers via Foodbank. Should live in Adelaide’s northern suburbs.

 
Marion Life Church of Christ

887 Marion Road, Mitchell Park. Ph (08) 8277 0304. Hampers cost $10.00 and only available to those who got free vouchers from them during the year. Must live in the Marion area and a bit beyond it. Centrelink card showing address must be shown. Or a good story.

 
Salvation Army Marion

Corner of Morphett & Sturt Roads, Seacombe Gardens.
Ph 8377 0001.
This is where it gets weird. They don’t do hampers, but will give you a referral to Marion Life where you get a hamper for $10.00 without having to qualify to Marion Life rules. Marion Salvos may also give Christmas gifts to clients.


Playford Salvation Army Elizabeth East

39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. Ph 8255 8811. Free Christmas hampers. Phone them and they’ll email you a complicated application form. Or knock on their door and they’ll help you apply. I.D. required, which may include driver’s license or Centrelink card. They might want a story. They’re flexible so if you don’t fit their criteria you may still qualify.
 
St Vincent de Paul

Phone 1300 729 202. They said they’ve reached their free Christmas hamper quota for the Elizabeth area, but a few orders might be taken if you live in other areas. And you never know because things often change so if you miss out phone them next week to see if anything has changed. Also, they have Foodbank purchase vouchers so they might give you one of these as compensation or a gesture.

 
Fred’s Van

Coordinator Teresa Branch said they don’t expect to give out hampers this year at Fred’s Vans across Adelaide, but most Fred’s Vans have a nice Christmas party for regular patrons so now is the time to become a regular patron though it might be too late.

 
City Salvos (Adelaide Congress Hall)

277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. Ph 08 8223 7776 
Free Christmas hampers for those in the Adelaide CBD and Norwood Corps area.
Phone City Salvos and put your name on their list. Not sure of the process.

 
Noarlunga Salvation Army

186 Elizabeth Road Morphett Vale. Ph (08) 8384 6014.
Phone to put your name on the free Christmas hamper list and someone will call you back. If you don’t have a phone then visit in person. Probably for people in the southern suburbs of Adelaide.

 
Foodbank South Australia

377A Cross Road, Edwardstown. Ph (08) 8351 1136. They’ll put you through to Dot, but don’t call her Dotty Dot.
Foodbank doesn’t give away hampers for Christmas, but they supply charities and agencies with the products. If you phone Foodbank, they will tell you where you can get a free Christmas hamper in your area. Sometimes they give bum steers, but this is an important referral joint.  

 
Anglicare Elizabeth

91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth (near the police station).
Ph 8209 5400.
AnglicareSA isn’t giving away free Christmas hampers this year. However, at Elizabeth there is a Foodbank store within the Anglicare building so Anglicare might give you a free purchase voucher if you have the right story. And if you have an Anglicare “worker” for homelessness or financial counselling, etc., they can arrange a hamper from somewhere else.

 
Magdalene Centre Adelaide

82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434.
An old lady said they don’t give away free Christmas hampers and then she hung up the phone. A real conversationalist.

 
CareWorks Church of Christ

114 Henley Beach Road, Torrensville, Adelaide.
Ph (08) 8234 5828.
They serve the western suburbs, but don’t do free Christmas hampers. However, they might give you a chemist voucher for prescription drugs.

 
Lutheran Community Care

309 Prospect Rd., Blair Athol. Ph (08) 8269 9300.
They give free Christmas hampers if you live in the Blair Athol and Prospect and surrounding suburbs. They require a Centrelink card to show your address.

 
Lifepoint Church Modbury

Corner of Milne Road and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North. Ph Julie on 0403 865 740.
Free Christmas hampers for those who attend their fortnightly free coffee and free food event. Or their women’s group. Next free food event Thursday 10:00am 12 November.


Gawler Hope Chapel Food Truck

Corner of Myall and Britton Streets, Gawler West.
Phone 0430 085 748
They haven’t announced any free hampers or presents for this Christmas after three Fred’s Van Elizabeth clients gate-crashed last year’s event and knocked off all the presents.

 
UnitingCare Wesley Bowden (UCWB)
77 Gibson Street, Bowden. Ph 8245 7100 or 8245 7139.
9:00am to 2:00pm Monday to Friday.
Bad news. They lost government funding and have only 70 purchase vouchers to give away as Christmas hampers. And these are only for people who have used their services during the year. And have a least three people in the household including one school age child. That’s narrowing it down.

 
Port Adelaide UnitingSA

They do free Christmas hampers.
Ph 8440 2200 and ask for Sandra.

 
UCare Gawler

10 Tod St., Gawler. ph 08 8522 4522. 
Free Christmas hampers for those in Gawler area. Phone or visit 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday to put name on list. Centrelink or other residential I.D. required.

 
Good Shepherd at Para Vista

388 Montague Road, Para Vista
No Christmas hampers.
They do continue their free Monday meal at 6:00pm until 13 December.
 

Enfield Uniting Church (Stevo's)

No Christmas hampers.
Last breakfast/lunch is Tuesday 15th December. 10:00am – 12:00pm, but you must register.
Last emergency food giveaway Tuesday 22th December. 10:00am – 12:00pm.
corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target). Ph (08) 7120 7837. They only answer their phone on Tuesday mornings.
 
This isn’t much of a list. Please email your discoveries to whitmorederelict@protonmail.ch
 
Early 11 November 2020

Do the media lie to us every day?
 
We’ve all heard the media describe claims of electoral rigging in the Uniting States as being without substance. Below is a link to a slow-moving discussion between an aged code writer and an aged journalist.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leuQz9mAL5A&t=7s
 
Early 11 November 2020
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Readers help requested for compilation of free Christmas meals list

Can anyone tell me what is happening this year as far as meals for the homeless and or disadvantaged in Adelaide. I know last year there were Meals provided by Jock Zoffronillo and Jamie Oliver's Kitchen in the CBD? What is happening this year? (I have clients that want to know) Is Westcare or Moore Street providing any free Christmas lunches and what about the Hutt Street Centre and the Salvation Army? Are the Sikhs cooking meals?

Any information would be appreciated.

The Night Talker
 
Editor: I will compile a list of free Christmas and pre-Christmas meals and welcome contributions from readers. Hamper list published in a few hours though it isn’t comprehensive.
 
Late 10 November 2020

(above) Little by little the Salisbury Council under Gillian Aldridge cuts away at this tree's canopy that once totally enclosed the area below. It was a haven for homeless people seeking solitude and privacy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

(above) But now the area below this tree back of the Salisbury Waterwheel Museum is a surveillance engineer's delight. What is done to the homeless is being doing to everyone else as well. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

“AJ” on the rampage at Global Care
 
The joint was hopping with Afghans, kids playing basketball and ferocious tough men playing indoor soccer. The Salisbury Council lets them use the indoor courts for free and apparently the Global Care church uses the facilities for free as well.
 
But the star of the show was “AJ” (Allan Junior). He was running back and forth through the stadium viewing area shouting that the chicken patties were pink inside. Two weeks in a row, he shouted.
 
The preacher who runs the show confronted him so “AJ” shouted louder that he was intruding into his space. They argued for 20-minutes until the security guard ― who also sells doughnuts  ―  told “AJ” to leave.
 
“AJ” sat outside with Bill’s extended family and it seemed the preacher had called the police. “AJ” tried to go back in to use the toilets, but the guard told him to stay out. “AJ” then urinated in a public area and this is what the preacher told the police on the phone.
 
“AJ’s” friends told him he was acting badly and that he should leave before the police arrived. “AJ” refused and two officers did turn up. They were the same two that checked on me when I was under involuntary Covid quarantine after The Virus Lady’s swab came up positive. She was really sick.
 
Anyway, the police told “AJ” to leave and not return for 24-hours. They know he’s excitable, but not violent. “AJ” was jubilant and said, “I can come back next week.”
 
Shuffles said she liked the place, but the “AJ” incident “took the edge off”. Others said the deciding factor was “AJ” creating fear amongst the children meaning the Afghan children. But another preacher the following week said things were much calmer than years before when they had frequent fights and arguments.
 
Global Care BBQ
Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (back of Aldi’s and Salvation Army) Phone (08) 8289 0556.
Cnr. of Martins Rd and Kings Rd, Parafield Gardens. 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Free coffee, sausages, patties, bread and sauce. Soft drinks $1.00. Much improved. Frightening at first.

10 November 2020

Salvation Army’s intimidating application for free Christmas hampers

Thank you for your enquiry about Christmas Cheer assistance with The Salvation Army Playford.
We care about your health, so this year we are introducing a new way for you to tell us your details so that we can register you for assistance. This will be a three-step process.
Step One
Click on the link below and fill in the form. Please do this as soon as possible, so that we can organize one of our staff to call you back and finish your registration process.
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=0MXWT4ui9kOCme9QiUcELer0a8ExZ0JHoaKEH4j7McVURTZWNUFUUEhCQkg3NDY0Wkg4SkZKNkc4TC4u
Things you need to know to make sure your form is completed properly:

1. Include the details of a current phone number (We need to call you to finish off your application).
2. List every household member, including children and partner.
3. Make sure you click the submit button so we get the form back. You can click to get a copy of your form. That way you know it has been sent properly. Send the form back as soon as possible so we can finalise your registration.

Step Two
We also need to see some ID with your name, your address and your family members names (partner and children). If you could please send that to us by emailing us back that would be helpful. Without this information we may not be able to finish your application. The best sort of ID is your Centrelink Card. Your Medicare Card and car license will also give us the information we need to see.
Step Three
Once we have received your information, a worker from The Salvation Army will contact you as soon as possible to finish your registration. We will ask a few more questions to make sure we have everything we need; and tell you when you can come to collect your assistance.
It is really important that you answer our phone call. (Our number may come up as a private number). If we can’t talk to you, we can’t finish your registration; so won’t have you on our Christmas Cheer list.
If you are worried about filling in the online form, please contact us on 8255 8811.

10 November 2020

(above) There are good days and bad days at Northern Communities of Hope. Free food every Friday at 9:00am sharp on the corner of Heytesbury Road and Pritchard Street, Devoran Park. They don't collect personal information for the government's Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Christmas Hamper list published
​on Wednesday

Bad news on free Christmas hampers in Adelaide.

St Vincent de Paul has filled its quota for the Elizabeth area and Fred’s Van is not intending to provide hampers this year.

The Magdalene Centre and AnglicareSA including Elizabeth Anglicare aren’t giving away hampers this year. Those with “workers” will be helped to find another agency.

The Church of Christ Care Works aren’t doing hampers this year.

The good news is that the Adelaide Day Centre is giving hampers to everyone who calls and they don’t record your personal details on the Eternal Shame File.

In contrast, the Salvation Army requires a huge amount of documentation including your kids’ names.
​
A list of places where you can get free hampers will be published here by 10:00am on Wednesday. 

​9 November 2020
​

Rings the bells
 
The official Christmas hamper season has begun. It is time to begin ringing charities to arrange your Christmas hampers. A list wil be published in Adelaide Homeless Journal next fortnight.
 
Early 9 November 2020

Lois Lane’s free food at Elizabeth Downs
 
“No wonder he’s single,” a woman remarked as The Magnificent Marten held up a pastry rolling pin and told a man it would be useful to him if he plans to get married.
 
Two Asian people were hanging around the front of the queue. They weren’t oriental or Indian or Arab. The man tried to grab one of the TV’s near the front gate. Clients yelled at him and Lois Lane told him to leave. He didn’t seem embarrassed. Others said the couple have a market stall and a shop at the Elizabeth South shopping centre.
 
Lois Lane actually bought the TV’s for $100 via a donation to Faithworks where she works for free 6-days a week. Two old men got them. One nearly bust a piston carrying the big one so The Magnificent Marten helped him to his car. I helped the other man. He has an adult disabled son named Peter. Lois and the woman who commented on the rolling pin also have disabled adult sons though the rolling pin lady’s son is sub-genius. Both women are planning their lives to protect their sons after they die. Over half of those at free food venues are caring for other people.  
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.

Early 9 November 2020

Some more money saving hacks
The Night Talker

Public dental hospitals are currently issuing "Provider payment numbers to dental patients, so they can access a private dentist within their local community at a low cost, and or in some instances, at no cost.......Ring the Public Dental Hospital nearest to you, and ask for a PROVIDER NUMBER to see a private dentist. If you contact the HUTT STREET CENTRE DUTY NURSE, you will get dental treatment for free! (This is a negotiated agreement between Dental Health SA and the Hutt street Centre.) Remember crying, (big hacking sobs, no little sniffles and a good story, always helps.)

The REES (Reigning in Energy Scheme) is still operating and being funded by the state government. It provides free energy and water saving devices for households. You can apply by going to www.REESSCHEME.SA.gov.au and or googling REES'S SCHEME in South Australia.

Metropolitan and Regional Councils all have low cost passenger transport services, and some have low cost personal/domestic assistance. (e.g. Salisbury council offer a $7.00 an hour service for home, garden and or personal care.) Most councils are BLEEDING MONEY, so ring and ask to speak to the person responsible for the passenger car service. (They all have this available) If they give you the run around, threaten to ring Leon Byner on 5aa or the Minister for Local Government.) That will usually change their attitude quick smart, and you will get what you want. Make sure you plan the longest trip possible (e.g. a day trip to Monarto Zoo or Victor Harbour) Go hard or go home!

Different Supermarkets have different days of the week, that are discount days. Ring and or just ask what day of the week, you can use your concession or pension card. This can save you as much as 20% on the total cost of a shop. Worth considering if your need to reign in your spending. A number of supermarkets also offer discount petrol vouchers as well (e.g. Drakes) so you can save as much as 4 cents a litre on fuel, which is also helpful;

The Smith Family, continues to operate the "Learning for Life" savings program. This is a savings program whereby if you save $500.00, the Smith Family, will co-contribute $500.00. Go to www.smithfamily.org.au/learning for life savings program, and apply via the website and,

IAG Insurance in conjunction with Good Shepherd Microfinance offers very cheap Home and Contents Insurance and Car Insurance (around five dollars a week) Just google IAG low cost car insurance/house and contents and the website will come up.

Good luck.

The Night Talker
Early 9 November 2020

(above) James Williams, Ms Christopher, unknown person and The Ghost Who Walks at the Magdalene Church hall side window in 2016. The Saturday 6:00pm meal service opening dates are 7th Nov, 21 Nov, 5 Dec and 12 Dec at 26 Moore St, Adelaide, entrance from back door. James had inoperable throat cancer when the photo was taken.

On the Street
 
A client at the Beacon of Hope free lunch cut his own hair. He did a much better job than another client who used dog clippers. The first man catches the bus on Heytesbury Road, Davoren Park where that 49-year-old woman randomly lit a teenage girl’s hair on fire in the bus seat in front of her.
 
*
 
A Salvation Army insider described their security system where every movement of every person inside the building is monitored by a mysterious “outside” security company.
 
Their client interview computers are connected with a police data base that tells the interviewer the personal history of the client. For example: record of violence, theft, child molesting, etc.
 
Anything of significance in the interview is recorded on the Salvo’s Eternal Shame File along with everything given to the client. Dangerous matters are sent to the police as most Salvation Army employees are mandatory reporters.
 
*
 
One of Steve Bevington’s employees is praising him in emails sent from Community Housing Ltd. Steve founded and controls Community Housing. He chose a clever name to mimic the generic term, “community housing”.
 
How Steve’s “non-profit” is any better in South Australia than any other oppressive public housing organisation or department remains to be seen? They teach people to build houses in Timor East.
 
So who is sending emails praising Steve Bevington for becoming a finalist in the Victorian Australian of the Year? It isn’t clear. The return email is comms@chl.org.au .
 
*
 
There was a moment of bad feeling at the Beacon of Hope when clients discussed American politics. One man got up and left when another laughed about Joe Biden rarely leaving his basement. We all agreed that Trump was a compulsive liar.
 
*
 
Chris Burns replaced Ian Cox as C.E.O. of the Hutt Street Centre. Upon taking over he said he was “humbled” upon taking the position. We all need a laugh.
 
*
 
A client showed me the single emergency food pack given away by the Playford Community Fund in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It was scungy. Old bread, Nutella snacks, two-minute noodles, unhealthy easy-cook pasta pouches. Junk food.
 
*
 
Megaphone Man has special authorisation to park as close as he can to his front door in his Housing Trust complex. That is due to his bad heart. If those tormenting him knew this, they might shy away in shame.
 
Meanwhile, the Neighbourhood Watch people run into their house whenever he approaches them.
 
*
 
The owner of the shooting-up room at Semaphore Park was walking up and down Pelican Place comfortable in the fact that the magistrate had lifted the intervention order against Julie Anne Mann, 58. Within hours of the lifting of the order, rusty railway spikes were placed in Megaphone Man’s driveway. Stones were also thrown at his front door by another neighbour.
 
*
 
Food contaminants described as “Bugs, ants, maggots, snot,” have been placed in meals at the Adelaide Women’s Prison this month. Guards appear indifferent.
 
*
 
An N.D.I.S. employee was reported as saying, “We can’t stop it because they don’t get screened. People come straight from overseas, with no people skills, they get like an ass**** until they get found out.” This was in reference to an intellectually disabled woman saying her N.D.I.S. worker had stolen her tablet computer and some cash. 
 
*
 
The 11th of November is International Men’s Day. It is also Remembrance Day.
 
*
 
Megaphone Man’s doctor suggested he exercise more often. She turned her screen around so he could see some poses she suggested. He said he had no need of exercise as his partner would be returning home in a few weeks and that would give him plenty of workout time.
 
He has placed five car jacks underneath his bed to prevent it caving in. One on each corner and a big one in the middle. He said, “That bed is going to get some mileage.”
 
*
 
An ex-friend of Nick was knocked down in Rundle Mall at about 10:30am on a day last week. She’s about 70 and in bad health, but has a few enemies because she collects excessively large amouns of food from Fred’s Vans for her lazy relatives.
 
*
 
Jesse Gunter of the League of Homeless Gentlemen was the star of the show at a recent Friday Fred’s Van in the city. He took off all his clothing excepts his underpants then put on a see-through nurses uniform of the type strippers use. He put on a Red Cross nurse’s hat then queued for the food as if he were a normal person.
 
*
 
There was a fight at Fred’s Van last Sunday at Elizabeth. A dog broke its leash then growled at a white woman. A man sitting under the gazebo made a critical comment. The two men began punching each other so the Covid Marshall phoned for the real police. A black woman on Ice began yelling at Kat for some reason. A black fella man said you shouldn’t get involved in anyone’s disputes and shouldn’t say a word, not one word to anyone on Ice. He’s the black fella that exercises strenuously twice a day. He’s worth listening to.
 
8 November 2020

(above) On some weeks the takeaway bags at Elizabeth Fred's Vans are good. On other weeks they are not. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Northern Communities of Hope
​at Davoren Park

Five of us waited as the side door opened. There was a rush for the old vegetables and bread, but just two of us were interested in the box of sports drinks so I got four bottles.
 
After that, we waited by the kitchen door and one by one were called in to collect whatever they had in the freezers. I got five packets of soya schnitzels from South Africa, 500 grams of butter, but gave the whole chickens, frozen sliced meat and other stuff a miss. They’d had tofu, but it had sat there for so long they’d thrown it out.
 
Things weren’t so good the next week.  Ten Davoren Park people were there. They were some of the most disillusioned, isolated and disadvantaged people I’ve seen in Adelaide. They talked about Panamax and paracetamol as being like Tic Tacs and lollies. They talked about heavy painkillers and about a friend overdosing on them. A man said he’d fallen asleep in the bathroom. He’s the guy who expects millions of dollars from a French woman dying of cancer on the internet. Obviously, the money hadn’t come through.
 
The prescription drug addicts were fat, but the heroin and Ice druggies had absolutely thin thighs and buttocks. They reminded me of a MyAgedCare government contractor from Resthaven that visited me five years ago. She got real nasty when I badmouthed drug addicts.
 
There wasn’t much in the freezers this week and only vegetables and bread on the tables in the hall. The cook said she had forty people for lunch, but had little supplies. “If I can’t make something out of nothing I shouldn’t be here,” she said in good humour.
 
Northern Communities of Hope
Corner of Pritchard St. and Heytesbury Rd., Davoren Park. Free takeaway, meat, milk, fruit and vegetables at 9:00am to about 11:00am on Fridays. Free. No I.D. or registration required. Good place. Free food ranges from terrific to no good. Lunch served at 12:00 noon costing four dollars.

6 November 2020
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Port Church full house at Largs North
 
Guests arrived earlier in anticipation the building would reach the 100 Covid limit long before meal serving time. They were right. Our crowd got the last four seats with Tom and Melva and the woman who got trapped in a freezer when she bent over and fell in and couldn’t get out.
 
Mathew gave the inspirational speech. He works full-time for the Salvation Army, but is part of Port Church. He said we were the church’s biggest group. “Free food,” a cynic whispered across the table. Mathew said it was a privilege and honour that we were there. An onlooker could have call us an inspiring gathering as many of us would gladly kill each other in different circumstances, but remain civil and polite at the Port Church.
 
I missed the disabled people and the gossiping social workers that used to go there. The latter had wild stories of cruelty and mismanagement that exemplifies the ferocity of a modern society.
 
The takeaway bags contained nothing rotten. Some of the contents appeared to have been purchased by the church from a supermarket.
 
The Port Church at Largs North
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church). Meal and takeaway bags of food.
5:00pm every Wednesday during school terms. Everything free. New clothing given away. No I.D. or registration requirements. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. Ice Dealers tried to establish a presence, but they were defeated. Nevertheless, they lay dormant like a virus.

6 November 2020

(above) Julie Anne Mann getting out of a taxi. Her skills in dealing with magistrates and the police has been underestimated by many. Her next court appearance is near the end of November on the charge of allegedly stealing stuff out of Megaphone Man’s car. Her legal skills should not be underestimated. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2020).

Clown Prince Wayne
 
The Prince only plays the clown. He does it so well some think that is him. But it is not. He collects free food and goes shopping for invalid neighbours in his block of social housing units. The person who appreciates his clown behaviour the most is Au Jung, who spent time in a Korean Buddhist monastery.
 
The Prince was talking to Liz over at Anglicare. She said they’re not even thinking of reopening the Food Barn and expect it might not open until next March.
 
The Prince knows Anglicare C.E.O. Peter Sandeman. He says Peter drives a modest car, lives in a modest house and behaves modestly.
 
6 November 2020
 

Seventh-day Adventist at Elizabeth Park
 
Toko was there after an absence. She operated the food service for years. So was the 79-year-old worker entering his second childhood. He’s okay. Perhaps only ten people turned up for the free food. I thought I’d arrived late upon seeing so few waiting on the chairs.
 
Grant was unhappy with an older woman who’d grabbed six packets of doughtnuts at another free joint. He whispered to Woody about a new free joint he’d discovered. He doesn’t want it to be mobbed by the riff-raff including the doughnut lady who drives a superb car.
 
A man had a trolley with broken rivets replaced by nuts and bolts. The dislodged screen sides were held together with wire. He was the man who cut his hair with dog clippers.
 
The free food included masses of bread and pastries, some not great, but passable fruits and vegetables. The groceries included refrigerated salmon pieces, eggs, custard, meat meals, catering bags of frozen soups and dahl.  
 
The doughnut lady went into the park and picked up a strange screen someone had dumped. She seemed guilty about it, but I thought she was clever making use of something that would end up in the rubbish.
 
Seventh-day Adventist Church at Elizabeth Park
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays. Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp, even earlier. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some excellent groceries. Health Care Card required. Raffle system determines who is served first and gets the best stuff.

6 November 2020
 

(above) Bringing light to the dark zone. Garfield Loveday (holding the ladle) and his team in the Magdalene hall kitchen in 2016. The evening meals resume Saturday, 7 November at 6:00pm at 26 Moore Street, Adelaide. See photo below for more dates.

(above) The Moore Street free meal has recommenced at the Magdalene hall at 26 Moore Street, Adelaide. The big names in the homeless scene go here. Free. Everyone welcome. There might be a Covid register, but they don't collect names for the Eternal Shame File. (Thanks to the photographer on the street for this image.)

South Australian Welfare hacks
The Night Talker

Free Phone
 
I have attached the online http address/link to the free Telstra Assist, incoming call only, phone line. Once you apply and are approved for this service, Telstra, will mail you out a free telephone. The link is;

https://www.telstra.com.au/consumer-advice/customer-service/priority-assist

I also know that some of you, wanted me to re-write some of the free concessions/and other money saving hacks that you can get here in SA, with application links. So here they are;

SA Post- Concession card

This is a free card you can get from SA Post, if you have a health care and or blue pension card. It allows you to get discounts from SA post such as cheaper stamps, and discounts on mail box rental and mail re-delivery. The link to apply is;
https://auspost.com.au/content/dam/auspost_corp/media/documents/MyPost-Concession-Account-application-form.pdf .

DCSI Transport Concession Card


DCSI SA will supply you with a low income transport concession card. This enables you to concession rates on any public transport service in SA. Please note however, that I am NOT a hundred percent sure, if this still applies given that the SA Public Transport System has been sold to a private provider for the next eight years? However, if you still wish to apply for a concession card, go to https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/care-and-support/concessions-and-grants/concessions  and fill out the online form.

Bowel and Bladder
 
Yearly payment. (CAPS) This is a yearly payment that continues to be paid for persons with physical, mental or behavioural issues, that prevents them from adequately controlling their bowels and or bladder. This payment is administered by Medicare, and pays a yearly amount of $604.00. Each year the amount rises. It is a simple one page form that your G.P. fills out and then you upload or mail back to Medicare. The link is;
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/continence-aids-payment-scheme-caps

Mobility Allowance (Centrelink) 
 
So long as you do not have an active NDIS plan, you can apply for a Mobility allowance. This payment entitles someone who cannot use public transport for physical mental and or emotional reasons. It provides a fortnightly payment of between $99.00 and $134.00 directly into your bank account. Just google, mobility allowance online and the application form will come up. Please note that as with all Centrelink payments, some eligibility criteria applies.

Centrelink Speech impediment
 
Cleft lip/harelip, speech impediment payment. If you and or your child is unfortunate enough to have this malady, you may be entitled to a payment. Just google Centrelink cleft palate/harelip payment and the application form will come up.

DCSI SA Heating/Cooling Payment
 
If you require heating and or cooling in your home, because of physical, mental and or emotional reasons, then you are entitled to this payment. It is also a good payment to apply for, because the payment is backdated from the time your doctor and or specialist, diagnosed your condition. (So in some instances, you could be back paid for decades) Go to https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/care-and-support/concessions-and-grants/concessions  and fill out the online concessions form. Once approved, you will get a one off payment and then you will be entitled to quarterly payments of around $59.00 a quarter.

Centrelink medical equipment payment
 
If their is a certain device you need that can be deemed essential (e.g. orthopedic shoes, mattress, insulin pump, back brace/medical truss/artificial stump/crutches etc etc,) then you may be entitled to a one off, yearly medical equipment payment. The payment is around $159.00 a year and you can access the online link by googling "sa medical equipment payment application.

Disability Parking Permit (worth its weight in gold)
 
The South Australian, Department of Motor Vehicle Registers (DMVR) can provide you with a low cost ($35.00 for five years) Disability parking permit, if you and or a child/children have physical, mental or emotional issues, that means you cannot walk long distances and or in a wheelchair etc. This parking permit, is valid in all states and or territories (you can take it on holiday with you interstate) and will provide free parking in any designated disability parking space with no time limit, and double the time limit, where their is one. (e.g. if the park is for two hours, then you are entitled to four hours.) Very useful, if you travel a lot and or living out of your car/van etc.

Lower vet bills
 
If you have an NDIS plan approved Therapy Pet (Like Piano Player Wayne has) you are entitled to lower cost treatment at participating vets. You simply need to contact vets in your district and or ask your NDIS case manager to do this on your behalf. There are also a number of lower cost vets in Adelaide, if you need the services of one, with most offering payment plans and cheaper services (such as lower priced euthanasia and desexing) The list I have includes the following;
* Yorketown Road Vet Service- 99 Yorketown Road Elizabeth East Phone-08 8287 0122
* Blakes Crossing Vet Service-41 Village Terrace Blakes Crossing (24 hour a day/night service) Phone-08 7231 3000 and,
* Smithfield Vet Clinic-Corner Queen and Anderson Walk Smithfield, phone- 08-82541000.

There are others out there, that may also be cheaper, always ring around and be firm about what you can afford and not afford. (e.g. some vets are really good and keep costs to a minimum etc) and others are just looking to put their kids through private school or make payments on their new Audi- through you of course)

School free breakfast/lunch clubs
 
At Public (and some Private Schools) All current public schools (both at kindergarten, primary and high school should either be running their own B and L club or be linking in with other providers, to provide this to school aged children. Contact your child's school directly to be put onto this program. This program is not means tested and unless their is some very specific reason as to why your child is excluded (e.g. they are an extreme risk to other children or have some kind of dietary need that the school cannot adequately cater for) your child/children should be able to be enrolled into this program. It provides a hot breakfast, (e.g. milo, toast, spaghetti, boiled eggs ect for breakfast and sandwiches and fruit (or something similar) for lunch. B and L clubs were originally set up for children who were on the free school card list, but since Covid-19 went great guns in April, ALL children MUST be included (where applicable) If your school wants to play "funny-buggars" threaten to contact Leon Byner and or the Minister for Education. That usually lights a fire under the school social worker and or principal, and your child will be enrolled within minutes of the complaint going public.

Free PRIVATE SCHOOL
 
St. Mary Magdalene's Primary School Elizabeth 82, Fairfield Road Elizabeth (phone-08 82256164) has been offering a completely FEE FREE education for any child/children in the Elizabeth and or surrounding areas for some time. (Due to low enrolment numbers) This is a small, but very clean private school, that is offering this for some time. Contact the school directly on the phone number provided. You also don't need to be a practicing catholic to send your kids to this school.)

The Covid-19 Hardship payment
 
If you have suffered financial hardship because of Covid-19, you may be entitled to a one off, hardship payment. Just google, Covid-19 hardship payment (SA) and follow the links. Please always remember to say YES to all questions. Saying NO anywhere means you won't get any money!

Free financial counselling/debt relief
 
And support to access other services. The Salvation Army continues to run the excellent FREE Telephone counselling Counseling service (1800-007-007) Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and or leave a message for a return call, outside of these hours. A registered financial counsellor can do the following;
* Freeze any debt or payment (So long as its not a criminal matter, which is before a court awaiting sentencing)
* Re-negotiate payments with private and or public entities (such as car yards, zipay and or Centrelink)
* Organize to get concession payments and or the REES/EEPS (emergency electricity payment on your behalf) and link you in with other providers for free and or low cost practical support such as supermarket vouchers/clothing vouchers, petrol e-cards, rent and bill payment (where and when applicable)

PATS (Patient Transport Scheme)
 
Will make co-contribution payments towards transport costs for persons having to travel a minimum of 100km to seek urgent and or ongoing medical and or psychiatric treatment. Go to https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/Public+Content/SA+Health, and fill out the application form. In a similar vein, "most" metro, regional and or remote councils have some kind of free and or low cost passenger transport car/bus and or van, that you a ratepayer/dweller can use to access hospital, dental, medical, psychiatric, parole, prison or supermarket visits. There is some criteria, but it is usually not that that strict. There may be a small co-payment required (e.g. six dollars for example for a return trip) which includes a driver, fuel paid for by the council and assistance with shopping, pushing wheelchairs and help with children and or other family members. If the council refuses to assist you, or wants to play musical chairs with you, just threaten to contact talk-back radio and or the Minister for Local Government funding or Disability or Equal Opportunity. eg. a good story and lots of crying always helps. (I know of one Indigenous family, that got their local council to drive them from Salisbury to Roxby Downs and back, all in one Weekend, so they could go visit a recently released (ex prisoner) family member. (A journey of more than 750km) Councils are bleeding money, so hit them for everything they are worth baby and finally,

The Centrelink TAL (Telephone and Internet-Co payment) Centrelink can make co payments towards your telephone and or Internet. Google Centrelink TAL payment. Conditions apply (as per usual, but it doesn't hurt to check it out.

If there are any concession payments I have missed and or any of you out-there are aware of any (legal) save money/cost of living hacks, then PLEASE LET US HERE AT AHJ KNOW! Knowledge is POWER!

Keep up the good fight.

The Night Talker.
4 November 2020
 

Anti-poverty Network forum in Salisbury

​The Great Leader has returned from Sydney. Pas Forgione has returned from The Big Smoke where he conducted surveys of Job Seekers for the Australian Council of Social Service.
 
He will be present along with the Mayors of Playford, Gawler, Salisbury, Port Adelaide and the Deputy Mayor of Prospect for a forum on poverty and the reducing amount paid to those on the Job Seeker Allowance.
 
Pas Forgione said on ABC Radio Adelaide that the recent increase of Job Seeker Allowance didn’t mean that the extra money was going on drugs and alcohol. He said it went on food, medical, dental and psychiatric treatment and glasses. He said that Anti-poverty Network campaigner Rita, from Munno Para, used the extra money for insulin. Before the rise she’d been skipping some of her insulin shots, he said.
 
Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge got a little carried away when she said some people “didn’t have a table or a chair to sit on.” She added that, “I want them to have the dignity and respect they deserve.”
 
But welfare advocates asked Gillian years ago if she could arrange a single shower room for homeless people in Salisbury. The Council then spent $43 million building The Citadel “Community Hub” building that doesn’t have a shower for homeless people. An employee told me that homeless people asking about showers were told to go to the Hutt Street Centre in the city.
 
The “forum” will be on Thursday at 1:00pm at the Twelve 25 Club in the Salisbury Institute building at 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). Playford Mayor Glenn Docherty will be there. He might be asked why they spent $8.1 million on the Kickback parking station that sits empty day and night, month after month. He’ll have a good answer that will sound reasonable.
 
4 November 2020

Voice of the Living
 
Direct from our Protonmail account
 
Hi there,
 
“Having just read your interesting piece on the diabolical machinations in regards to the “services” & “housing” etc offered to people with “mental health”🙄 issues etc (read: at the receiving end of multiple levels of violence & attempting to “live” in shitty Sick Building Syndrome joints etc offered as community “housing”)...
 
“I agree Australia, We Have A Problem. Just one part of the huge fun (read: further headF***) going on right now, is that of rapidly changing department names. Also giving you phone numbers that are leading you directly to something totally different to what you asked for. Interestingly, even Poisons Information Centre do that. Wouldn’t you think there is cause to be a bit more careful? Nope. Possibly even getting poisoned isn’t urgent enough either. Nothing to see here folks.🤭🤫 🙈🙉🙊
 
“Of course the Massive Hoax system referred to as “mental health” is just one way of ensuring inconveniently poor people get killed off. Or anyone at all, that has a difference of opinion from that of the mainstream status quo. (Whatever the hell THAT is currently being arranged to be.😳 All part of the lightning fast Rules Of Engagement changes. Let The Games Begin - where The Rules may change at any moment. Lack of knowledge of The Rules bring severe penalties.)
 
“And. (Woe betide methinks, if you’ve been involved in protests & signed petitions on behalf of any “radical” orgs like The Wilderness Society. Those “greenies” just get in the way of psychopaths trying to make a few more billion dollars today.)
 
“There is A Law. That is: Slave your guts out shut up & pay us lots of tax, put up with exorbitant rents for shitty places in the private sector, diabolical interest rates for houses you try to buy which banks can snatch up at any moment. Then when you’ve been driven down nearly into the ground, you can pay rent in public “housing” to an “authority” which is definitely gonna kill you bc of toxicity level of it all - both the rental units & the department itself. The latter of course, will lie to your face about any complaints you make, as the former continues to kill you more every day. Etc.
 
“F*** illegitimate “authorities” I say. (For sure, of course in a non-aggressive way. Stay nice. Apparently government departments don’t have to put up with “abusive” or “disruptive” behaviour. Only allowed to BE abusive OF you. While possibly smiling. Coldly.🥶 We all know now that standing up for our rights is terribly “disruptive”.
 
“Apparently.) Totalitarianism? What totalitarianism? One has to wonder, that as for any conspiracy “theories” about governments trying to kill people, I would say we have overwhelming evidence that it’s fact. Just saying. Pardon the ramble My brain has become scramble (And definitely gone quite bonkers now) Ok👌 😊✌️ Random Dying Person Still Paying Rent In Unlivable Place Even Tho Not There - And Nowhere To Go But A Coffin I Figure.”
 
Name supplied.
4 November 2020

Good news for homeless campers
 
The sleeping and camping disruptions from the Adelaide 500 car race have been solved with the government cancelling it. Thousands of people milling about and noisy cars made it hard to sleep.
 
The losers in the decision are the druggies at the Hutt Street Centre. They worked 12-hour shifts erecting the grandstands and fences. The drug dealers at the labour hire companies also lost their customers. How else could unfit druggies work long shifts at physically demanding jobs?  Crystal methamphetamines are the answer. Other losers are the naïve Hutt Street Centre social workers. They proclaimed the labour hire companies as heroes for employing homeless people. They also congratulated themselves for somehow being involved. Other losers are the street beggars who made a killing from the race fans.
 
3 November 2020

St Bede’s Semaphore free breakfast approaches its near best

The Venerable Ruth Mathieson has taken up an active position in the St Bede’s free breakfasts. She’s the Covid Marshall and takes her position seriously.
 
Staff took photographs of what some thought was a disappointingly small crowd, but one diner said he’d counted forty, which was good. The meal was served to each person at the table to reduce diners from getting too close to each other or to kitchen staff. Something like that.  
 
The food included eggs, toast, toasted cheese and ham sandwiches, cereals, milk and coffee. The meal was served in the larger hall to better “socially distance”.
 
It was like something out of a plague movie where everyone outside the zone was acting normal, like the people two-hundred metres away at cafes on Semaphore Road. However, the atmosphere inside the plague zone was jocular.
 
A homeless American with a dog kept telling people he was an American. Staff were handing out special homeless packs to people genuinely homeless.
 
Free fruit, vegetables and bread were displayed at one side of the hall.
 
And rather than being angry at the changed circumstances, patrons appreciated the table service. Instead of having to walk to the counter they could simply order from their table and extra volunteers on duty would serve them. One man kept saying, “The same”, when asked if he wanted anything else. And rather than disappearing quickly, some diners stuck around, enjoying this new regime. Open containers of food leftover was put into a bag and thrown into the rubbish bin at closing time.
 
The local St Bede’s church and Anglicare have done quite well.
 
St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tuesdays 8:30am to 10:00pm. Closed Wednesdays. Free breakfast. No I.D. or registration required. This represents Anglicare following Victorian and New South Wales virus regulations instead of South Australian rules used by Fred’s Van and others. When it gets back to normal they have table tennis, free clothing and hairdressing, but not yet.

3 November 2020

From the Anonymous Contact Page

"The conscience of a people is their power."
-John Dryden
 
3 November 2020
 

(above) The box cover holding a free phone given to The Night Talker by Telstra including free installation and no monthly fees. But it can only receive calls or phone emergency numbers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Correction on Anglicare Social Workers comment
Re: the elderly man with a 12k (?) Electricity Bill
The Night Talker

“I am not doubting that the elderly man with the astronomically high electricity bill, managed to get a 150.00 dollar foodbank voucher from ANALCARE, but I seriously doubt he seen by an Anglicare ‘Social Worker’.
 
The reason being that Social Worker's don't work in the area of emergency assistance. The workers are all volunteers. Some are retired, and some do it because they have too (WFTD) and or mutual obligation (so they can keep getting paid Job-Seeker payment) (This is the case at Foodbarn as well).
 
“I was working as a trainer three days a week at the Hope Church, last year for A.C. and I needed a social worker for some of my students. Anglicare told me they had no-one?
 
“I think that out of all of A.C. [Anglicare] staff in Adelaide, (regardless of where the office is located), less than 5% would be qualified social workers. Qualified social workers as a rule, don't apply for jobs with A.C. because the pay is rubbish and so are the working conditions and perks. (e.g. there aren't any, unless you count, being able to leave at the end of the day) (You can get paid three times as much working for DCP, or DCSI and or the NDIS, and do half as much work) The only Social Workers who end up working for A.C. are the completely rubbish ones (e.g. the ones who are unemployable elsewhere.)”

The Night Talker
2 November 2020

The rise and fall of the
​Anti-poverty Network

 It started out nice. Their catch-cry for their conferences was they were run for the poor by the poor. They had multiple branches and operated from places like the exclusive Clayton’s Uniting Church in Beulah Park. You got to know the right people to get in there. Not just anyone gets room space there.
 
They had protests outside Job Network contractors that were short and sharp and no problem to anyone. Their speakers were safe bets, welfare gatekeepers that blocked dissenting opinions. Academics and public relations officials from huge welfare contractors were fine. Those who worked at street level for homeless service groups without paid employees could attend, but were encouraged to keep their voices muted.
 
The speakers at their conferences are the types who form publicity logjams where money meets poverty. Like Casandra Goldie of the Australian Council of Social Security (ACOSS). She knows her subject and speaks to the media like a professional. She also sucks the oxygen from the air when the media need a token voice for the poor, she jumps in with their inoffensive prepared message. She has little to say except that more taxpayer money is needed for the poor and for herself and ACOSS.
 
But Cassandra and her peers say little about savage case management contracts, N.D.I.S. workers being unvetted with some little more than criminals or that non-profits and the government housing bodies keep accommodation empty while people are homeless. Or that bureaucrats siphon off the cash designated for “homeless services”. And data collecting and reducing independence are the primary aims of homeless services.
 
And the same goes with the Anti-poverty Network of SA. They say little about Housing Trust and Community Housing units and houses being left empty for months, even years. All quiet on that front.
 
The Anti-poverty Network spent years convincing local Councils to pass motions urging the Liberal federal government to raise the Jobseeker Allowance. The government knocked the stuffing out of the Anti-poverty Network by raising the allowance even higher than the Invalid Pension. Sick people with medical expenses got less than healthy younger unemployed people. The Network was lost in making a logical response. What could they say? Were they grateful? That wouldn’t sound right. It left them an ideological wreckage unable to recover even after the dole was dropped to near its previous low point.  
 
And then we come to the inevitable disputes within the Anti-poverty Network and their secret meetings to expel dissidents and deal with breakaway branches, if you could call them branches. More like someone’s phone number.
 
And finally, as it always happens, the bright sparks having established their credentials at manipulating the poor then jump ship for paid jobs, careers in welfare or allied services. Like market garden escapee Pas Forgione moving from the Anti-poverty Network to ACOSS. And the result is the Anti-poverty Network becomes another dead wreck in the consciousness of underclass self-determination.
 
It's a repeat of the process within the Unemployed Workers Union in Adelaide. It roared during the late 1970’s then by 1981 lost its direction due to internal disputes. It’s leading lights who jumped ship included Des Lawrence who became a paid staffer with The Greens; David Arkins who went straight from the Marxist cause to working for the Commonwealth Employment Service and eventually Centrelink; and Chris Hanna, lesser involved, but who became an MP and later Mayor of Marion.
 
Meanwhile, the others became homeless, collected cans, got sick and died or shuffled off into obscurity. The same is happening with those 50-year-olds in the Anti-poverty Network. They’re unimportant collateral losses floundering without Pas who jumped the sinking ship. Others set up their own independent branches and one person even registered the trade name.  
 
2 November 2020
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(above) Forage Supply Company of Adelaide has designed and built a prototype of a living pod for homeless people. The projected community of pods resemble cararvans in a park with garden space and a communal area. Click on photo to read article in Indaily.com.au . (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) But is the bed long enough and could the thin ladder be a problem for long-term homeless people who often have balancing, phobia and physical disabilities? Same with the chair. It is too high and too cruel looking. It should be low and soft. Lighting should be subdued as homeless people have a high frequency of epilepsy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) The pods may seem cheap and humiliating, but after being homeless a long time, people often prefer a tiny living area amongst their own social group instead of being placed in a run-down unit or house in a junkie-ridden suburb. The key to such a pod cluster being workable is its location and management. Will the lives of its tenants be respected? (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Moore Street reopens next Saturday

The Reverend Stephen Clark of the Magdalene Church on Moore Street said the Saturday Meal is resuming in the hall next door. He said he believed there would be indoor dining though only thirty are allowed in the dining rooms. Others would be served outside and there would be takeaways. Stephen said he didn’t know the dates, but that they were printed on the door of the hall.
 
Another person informed Adelaide Homeless Journal via the Anonymous Contact Page that the meals would be started on the 7th of November and then on Nov 21st, Dec 5th and Dec 12th. This is such good news because the Magdalene is arguably the most liked indoor free food joint in the Adelaide CBD.
 
Magdalene Church Hall (opens 7th November)
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church).
It starts on the 7th of November then on Nov 21st, Dec 5th and Dec 12th then stops for Christmas.
6:00 - 7:00 pm Saturday. Free. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Takeaways and books.
Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Grinder. Excellent volunteers like Garfield Loveday and quality young Anglicans. Toilets used by druggies. Some violence. Beautiful old church.
 
1 November 2020
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On the Street
  
The invalid man with the $12,000 electricity bill went to the Magdalene Centre in Gilbert Street, Adelaide. He wanted a food voucher for their stale food shop.
 
One of the battery of Anglicare social workers he had to go through asked him, “Are you ashamed,” of his electricity bill, which was only $10,000 then. The invalid man responded that he was proud of it.
 
Anglicare gave him a $150 voucher for stale food and $100 for their Op Shop. An employee in the stale food store demanded if he’d fiddled the voucher as they usually didn’t give any for such a high amount. The food in the store was so cheap he went out with three shopping trolleys full.
 
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This is the season for signing up for Christmas Hampers at the real charities and the so-called non-profits posing as charities. Don’t leave it until December.
 
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Sue Koumidis’s sister paid a visit to her house last week. Sue and Julie Mann were out. The sister pulled up the roller door that gave a view to the backyard. An observer said it was full of stuff. Julie does go through neighbours’ rubbish bins at night so perhaps that is where the stuff originated. And perhaps some from Megaphone Man’s car and other neighbours’ properties.
 
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Asian women are the best customers of Salvo Stores and Op Shops in general. They snap up cultural artifacts to sell in China along with trolley loads of designer clothing. Strange since most of it comes from China. It’s like Chinese sailors visiting Adelaide rush to the department stores to buy down quilts made in China.
 
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Why does the Salvation Army advertise for services they no longer offer? They’ve been advertising their Wednesday and Saturday DUO programs on their recorded messages that callers hear while waiting to be put through to the right person. They had also advertised at the Ingle Farm Corps about that excellent night coffee van in the city run by Jo Hodges and Old Bob that a City Salvos officer had stopped years ago.
 
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Anglicare services at St Bede’s in Semaphore have had a regime change. The Venerable Ruth Mathieson of the Anglican Church is taking a more active role as Covid Marshall and the breakfast service is taking a different tone.
 
It’s hard to measure quality in welfare services, but it seems that this strict disease-control policy is damaging what is arguably the best free meal service in Adelaide.
 
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A litigant in the South Australian court system is afraid of making a complaint against an official in the Courts Administration Authority for fiddling the computer files for fear that the official will further fiddle the files. The person has no faith that the Parliamentary investigation into the Authority by figures like Frank Pangallo will make any difference.
 
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Have you ever wondered what qualifications employees have who work in the Job Active (Job Network) joints? The general manager at Kadina MADEC has Certificate 3 in childcare while another employee had experience working in Hungry Jacks.
 
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The Housing Trust is installing safety rails in Megaphone Man’s shower due to his wobbly leg where a police officer kicked him.
 
Megaphone Man has no hard feelings and says it was a very interesting evening. And the police are now on Megaphone Man’s side in the battle against Julie Mann and the expelled members of the Semaphore Cartel.
 
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Diners at Fred’s Van are saying that Bronwyn Plate may close down Nanna’s Free Food Basket as she has a terminal illness. It would be difficult to replace her skills as bringing together a disparate group of drug addicts and others to operate a decent free food venue is a big challenge. We hope she recovers.
 
1 November 2020
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(above) Sue Koumidis at Semaphore Park. A security camera truck was parked in front of her house earlier this week. Perhaps Sue is concerned that her wife's smashing of neighbours' car windows will bring a similar response to her car. Or that the Cartel will blame her wife's rampaging for attracting undercover police walking the area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

From the anonymous contact page

"Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance."

― Henri Bergson
 
Status Quote
Early 31 October 2020

Fred’s Van Salisbury
(We've lost something)

Wheelman Wayne wasn’t there. His two cars and trailer have disappeared from his house. His backyard of fence-to-fence tyres have mostly gone. An industrial bin sits where one lot used to be. Another casualty. People don’t last long in the free food scene.
 
Another old man sat in his car while a friend took a meal out to him. He wasn’t fit enough to walk the 40-metres to the dining room.
 
A woman spoke sadly of having worked hard all her life then her adult son leads a wasted life on drugs.
 
Shuffles had some health scares during the week. Close calls, but she was moving about as if nothing was wrong. She doesn’t feel sorry for herself about anything. The front of her car is held together with black plastic tape.
 
Most of the regulars have not returned from pre-Covid. Takeaway bags were in short supply. The meal was nice and the vibes from the heritage building rejuvenating to a degree. The druggies were pensive. The Virus Lady wasn’t there. Marten the Magnificent has stopped coming due to fear of the virus. There is still a feeling in the hall of something being lost.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St,  Salisbury(next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accusing each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags much improved.
 
Early 31 October 2020

Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sunday
 
Four or five diners were debating the nature of music, electricity and reality. An Aboriginal man said humanity added an extra quality to the earth that without us would be “raw”. He steamed up the debate when he said a bowl on the table will be seen seven billion different ways by seven billion people.
 
The man who got bitten by Dan’s dog said the doctor figures his Achilles tendon wasn’t damaged. The victim was more worried about whether he’d screamed like a girl when the dog’s teeth sunk into the tendon area. He kept saying, “I hope I didn’t scream like a girl.”
 
Another man said a French woman on the internet was leaving him millions of dollars that he’d use to help homeless people. He also said he found two beef steaks on a park bench and was going to give them to homeless people, but they were rude so he didn’t. He’s also moving to Sydney to move into a mansion owned by a homeless man who is building a shack in a park by cutting down trees. He said he may fly to Sydney in a stolen helicopter.
 
A homeless man was there, but the nuttiness of the situation was too much for him and he fled the scene. This is nearly always the case. The homeless people need a quiet atmosphere as they’re already tense and exhausted and fearful.
 
Another man was angry that someone had intercepted his cigarette butt collection schedule by moving into his territory. He stood by the interloper’s bicycle and said he’d slash the tyres if he had a knife. He said he’d call me when he needed to be given a lift to his Job Network joint interview. I said, “No,” and he became slightly angry with me.
 
A friend of the non-slasher asked me if he’d ever told me what trade he’d worked in. “Many times,” I replied.
 
Grant moved into his new rental house in Hillbank. It was built by the father of Glenn Shorrick of the Little River Band. Grant went to the Beacon of Hope lunch after he moved in then upon returning discovered he’d been robbed.
 
The older couple who live in their red car were there. They rented a place for 11 years, but the landlord kicked them out and rented it to people who would pay more.
 
The lunch was simple hamburgers with a vegie-burger alternative, rice and meat sauce with a non-meat alternative, coffee and ice-cream and dessert, but no sauce, salt or pepper. The takeaway bags weren’t much good. Some weeks are winners, others are losers.
 
There is a problem of inadequate seating dictated by Covid rules and this creates bad feeling and desperation. Perhaps Fred’s Van could operate an extra day each week to make up for it.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station).
12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. Indoor and outdoor dining. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Much improved takeaway bags plus takeaway from kitchen meal surplus. Nice crowd usually. Orange Sky laundry from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Wednesdays.

Early 30 October 2020
 

Kilburn Fred’s Van free evening meal
 
The first clients arrived at 5:00pm, two hours before start time. One client said she looks forward each week to going to Fred’s Van. It is her main night out.
 
Orange Sky arrived at 5:15pm with four operatives. They were happy and added to a festive atmosphere. Their first load went in at 5:33pm. Clients with five loads included some Arabs or Kurds plus a disabled eastern European woman with a nice car. Orange Sky ribboned off an area around the van. Contact with clients was discouraged by placing their chairs inside the cordoned area with the volunteers facing each other rather than outward to the clients.
 
When the Oz Harvest van arrived, an Orange Sky operative helped unload, but like most free places, clients are discouraged from helping due to government and insurance regulations.
 
Rudi wasn’t there and thus no prayer, which disappointed some diners. The woman who used to do rude stuff with car salesmen on Main North Road was there. Gaavin was there with his new wife who replaced his cutlery-filching former missus. Two members of the Crony Gang from City Salvos made a surprise visit. Rosalee was there from Lifepoint.
 
A new client in her seventies said her house and farm buildings and fences were burnt to a crisp in the Cudlee Creek fires last summer. She lives in a shipping container on the land that she won’t sell. She secretly tipped part of her meal into a doggie bag.
 
About fifty diners were present, mostly old people and there weren’t any children present. The government seems to have neutralised the crazier diners that use to turn up. They were interesting. Two died.
 
The meal included good bread and margarine, very nice salad, pasta and bolognaise sauce, ice-cream and canned fruit plus coffee, tea and cordial. The Wine Centre has stopped supplying soup. The staff seemed nicer than before. The food tasted better. The takeaway bags were horrible, mostly rotten vegetables. It was a relaxed and normal evening with a lot of goodwill.  Orange Sky laundry finished packing up to leave at about 7:50pm.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Sit down meals have resumed. Not so good takeaway bags at end of meal. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Orange Sky Laundry free washing. Meals improving. Good toilets. Decent Catholics.
 
30 October 2020

Lois Lane’s free food event at Elizabeth Downs

Cambodian Jenny had been in the queue, but got tired and went into her car and slept. She appeared unhappy. Her daughter was not with her. She tried to regain her position in the queue, but because she hadn’t put her bag on the footpath, others wouldn’t let her re-join and she was told to go to the end. An old man was especially nasty to her. She voiced no complaint, but was so unhappy. Few of us can see through her aggression. She lacks subtlety and hasn’t the sneakiness of Asians and non-Asians who camouflage their greed.
 
Lois Lane repeatedly told those waiting to “socially distance” while AJ (Allan Junior) placed an “X” every two-metres. He’d been to Cos We Care at Fremont park and said it had improved greatly.
 
There was less stuff than usual, but plenty of clothing. It was marked in sizes and a whole bag had to be taken. You couldn’t open the bag and take out what you wanted. AJ took a bag of Size 1 for his daughter. His son has diabetes at three-years-old.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise took a box of dishes and cutlery. He said his huge bookshelf holding his dishes fell over and broke most of them. Denise gave her trademark sceptical smile.
 
A white Aboriginal family took everything leftover including a few crates of Eggplants. All good quality. They take it to Port Augusta and the APY lands as part of their mission to save souls.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.

29 October 2020

The illusion of deflation
 
The government and media say we live in a deflationary economic environment. This means that prices are dropping rather than rising. Apart from petrol, this might come as a surprise to most people. Have electronics and food dropped in price? Hardly.
 
What contributed to the deflation concept is child care dropping from very expensive to free. But that was while childcare places were reduced and for the majority who don’t use childcare the price reduction was meaningless. And now that free childcare has ended, the inflationary spiral is acknowledged.
 
We live in an inflationary economy due to the government pumping much more money into the economy chasing only a little more goods and services. They do this from overseas borrowings using mortgaged government assets and from printing billions of dollars electronically out of thin air. The result can only be high inflation unless economic production rises dramatically.
 
And for those getting near zero interest on their cash life savings in an inflationary environment, this means government policy is reducing the value of these savings. It is destroying their savings.
 
But the mainstream media and even the Australian Broadcasting Corporation will continue to promote the deflationary myth or, at least, say last quarter’s inflation burst came off a low point. The corporate media do this because they require advertising money from corporations that thrive on government stimulus programs. And the ABC, well, they need government patronage though they’re unlikely to get it.
 
29 October 2020

(above) Legal preliminaries over decision to continue or cease intervention order preventing Julie Mann from going within 50 metres of Megaphone Man's cars were made last week. The Port Adelaide Magistrate revoked the order. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) Julie Ann Mann (left) and Sue Koumidis on the beach at West Lakes. Julie later slammed the blue SUV in the background into a Stobie pole near the Bartley Tavern. (Photo reproduced under license).

Julie Anne Mann’s victory in Port Adelaide Magistrates’ Court

Julie Mann got the magistrate last week to revoke an intervention ordered prohibiting her from being within 50-metres of Megaphone Man’s house, car or person.
 
The Port Adelaide police prosecutor put forward a weak response to Julie’s lawyer’s request to lift the order. This was despite multiple reports of Mann breaching bail and intervention order conditions.
 
While claiming German heritage, it is believed Julie used her Aboriginal DNA to secure a secret hearing and get the positive result.
 
As for the charge of breaking windows of cars and entering them, she apparently got a six-month good behaviour bond. And for using Sue Koumidis’s car without permission and smashing it into a Stobie pole, she apparently got a $5000 fine.
 
These penalties haven’t been confirmed because the Port Adelaide police prosecutor, apart from making a verbal statement, refuses to provide documentation to confirm the actual charges and penalties.
Megaphone Man went to the Port Adelaide police station and after a spirited argument was told to get out of the station or be arrested.
 
Julie Mann has scored an impressive victory, but still faces charges for multiple thefts of goods from private cars. Her next appearance in the Port Adelaide Magistrates’ Court is the 24th of November.
 
However, the magistrate revoking the intervention order has given her a new lease of life knocking on doors and spreading her message against Megaphone Man and rallying the drug dealers and addicts to torment him further.
 
28 October 2020
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If the Night Talker had a hammer

"If i had a hammer, I'd smash the establishment;"
If i had a hammer,
I'd use it in the morning.......
I'd smash the job network providers to schrott und shreck,
I'd smash the Centrelink computers which issue out the robodebts,
I'd smash up all the poker machines,
And all those dumb Gen Yers's and the f******** stupid memes,
I'd kill all the greedy politicians too (except Jackky Lamby cause I like her)
and make the slum landlords eat their own poo...
Then i'd take them out the back and ***** them in the head too,
Cause the only good Capitalist is one that is dead.....(make good fertilizer to use in the Kibbutz)
Tovarich (Comrades) rise up against these neo-liberal, free market parasites,
For too long we have lived without
Now there is no doubt,
Instead of losing, we will be gaining,
For the times, they are in indeed changing..”
 
The Night Talker
28 October 2020

From the anonymous contact page

“Monster Brother was crossing Grenfell Street clutching track trousers with one hand while in company of drug dame.

“So much of his posterior was bare-ass naked that almost exposed CRACK that would have totally cracked everyone in sight.

“Really quite sad...But good for a laugh just the same.”
 
The Spy
28 October 2020
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The Welfare insiders rumor file…
The Night Talker

“Rumor has it that staff at a certain country primary school, have been sneaking buttered toast, boiled eggs and jugs of Milo to homeless/transient persons who wait around the back of the school each morning, around 6am when the staff start putting together breakfast for the 80 plus student, who attend the Breakfast and Lunch club each weekday.

“Management have allegedly stated that any staff caught passing food to the "transients" will be instantly sacked. Rumor has it that the Management of the school, along with the School Chaplain are unhappy there is even a breakfast and lunch club to begin with, as they believed that the school chaplain (in conjunction with the Uniting Church in the area) were more than capable of dealing with the odd "hungry/dirty/truant and or smelly child." "Counselling and prayer solves pretty much all issues, so why we must now feed all the kids, each school day, like we are some kind of socialist collective, is beyond me?" (Quoted by the welfare insider)

“The welfare insider also stated the school (aka the 71 year old School Chaplain, who appears to have a major say in every facet of the school) hates the "Scruffy van" which is (allegedly) run and funded by the Country Socialist, People's Party resistance alliance (e.g. Commie Kev and his retired lawyer Sister Angela from the Enthos Centre, who is also connected to Jesus of Dublin and his followers) and stated that if she saw the "Scruffy Van" anywhere near the School, she'd ring the cops......

“Meanwhile the homeless/transients continue to hang around the school in the morning and then head off back into the scrub or to sit under the shade at back of the bowling club....At night they go through the metal bins at the back of the Service stations.”

The Night Talker
27 October 2020

Horse Trader Steve saves
​Orange Sky Semaphore

It looked like another dry run for Orange Sky Laundry at Fred’s Van on Sunday evening. Horse Trader Steve and his missus saved the day by bringing in bags of laundry. Then another couple arrived with more.
 
The positive loving conversation the Orange Sky people say they perform was tempered by a client talking about a Dark Web video he’d watched of a Rottweiler devouring a woman alive. He laughed in a wild manner while recounting the video that kept a few people awake that night in despair of the dark aspects of humanity.
 
One man asked if Orange Sky washed laundry from people with incontinence. An Orange Sky operative said they would. He said he’d bring some in next week. When an SRF man arrived, the incontinence speaker shouted that the SRF man filled his pants. The SRF man denied it, but other lodgers shouted that he did.
 
An Orange Sky worker said she’d worked at Club X in Hindley Street about thirty years previously. A diner said he’d been there when she was there, when he was twelve. He said one side of the building was Club X and the other side a gay bar.
 
The Fred’s Van meal was described as below average, but the chicken was fried perfectly. And the man dying of bowel cancer was looking better than usual. Other clients were complaining of sore teeth. Another diner was there after trying to commit suicide the previous day. The Anglican Priest snuck by after the church service not wanting to get tangled up in our web of Hell.
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. or registration required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Free. Sit down meal in the main hall. Much improved. A bit rushed.
Slightly rough and dangerous customers. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Some rude stuff.
Occasional tipping over of tables and fighting, but usually calm. Free Orange Sky Laundry.
 
27 October 2020
 

(above) This huge Anglicare nursing home activity building at Elizabth East was used for many purposes including computer classes for women in their 70’s and 80’s. They were kicked out five years ago when Anglicare told them it was to be demolished to make way for a carpark. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) But after being vacated, this Anglicare building has sat unused for years right next door to a nursing home and retirement complex. Meanwhile, old people live in their cars in Elizabeth and other suburbs. They are at free food venues, the back seats loaded close to the roof with blankets and quilts. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Why were the old women kicked out of the Anglicare activity centre at Elizabeth East?

Some government department funded Anglicare to issue a group of aged tenants each with a tablet computer. A professional teacher taught them to use the tablets at $5 a class. This was about five years ago.
 
The mostly elderly women in their 70’s and 80’s used the classes both to learn to use the device plus as a social occasion. They met in the huge “Activity Building” at Anglicare’s retirement and nursing home complex on Halsey Road, Elizabeth East.
 
One student, then 86-years-old and going blind, and living at another group of Anglicare retirement units, had enough sight to see an enlarged screen. The classes went well and the students liked the male teacher aged about 38.
 
Then Anglicare kicked them out of the activity building saying that it was to be demolished to make way for a carpark.
 
The class moved to St Catherine’s Anglican church Midway Road at Elizabeth Downs. But the church staff were unfriendly and charged high rent for a room that brought the cost of each class to $18 plus transport to and from the church. This predictably resulted in some students leaving and the classes became uneconomical and were cancelled. This was about five years ago.
 
Just last week I was driving by the nursing home complex and decided to see what had become of the “Activity Building”. Had it become a parking area or redeveloped?
 
Well, it hadn’t been demolished. It was still standing. It was empty. Weeds grew in front of the dirty windows. The reception area and visible rooms were dusty and empty except for rolls of lino and a dozen fire extinguishers. It appeared to have been empty for years. So, what was the rush to kick out the elderly computer students?
 
I visited a group of Anglicare units for the aged further down the hill where the blind woman lives. She is 91 now and so blind she couldn’t recognise me until I spoke. Half the units in her complex are also empty, some for over 18-months. Neighbours have begun dumping shopping trolleys out front of the empty units. Like the Activity Centre, these units have also been designated as awaiting demolishment.
 
Isn’t this gross mismanagement? Who can one complain to? Anglicare is no longer a charity, but a heavily government-funded corporation with salaried executives and hundreds of employees. Its complaints process is more a smoking-out-their-enemies process.

The Anglicare juggernaut surges forward, but to where we don’t know. And it seems that filling retirement units and utilising activity buildings aren't a priority. 
 
26 October 2020

(above) Each Housing Trust office has a fleet of cars to drive refugees, disabled people and disabled drug addicts to view vacant properties. Other Australians don't get a ride because they aren't offered vacant properties. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

 Cheap dental insurance no waiting time
The Night Talker

“Top level private Dental Cover through " AHM Dental Lifestyle extra's)

“AHM (Adelaide Health Management) is offering top level Dental cover (Lifestyle Extra's) for $10.10 cents a week. (You can pay weekly, fortnight or monthly straight out of your bank account or via Centapay.
 
“I don't know who this company is, but I did some googling myself because i need dental cover after i was told by the Gov Dental clinic at (Wallaroo) that due to funding cuts, my next appointment wouldn't be until 2025! So i ended up finding out about this dental cover from AHM. I checked out where their clinics are.
 
“They are in the Adelaide CBD, in Salisbury, Just off the Parade at Norwood and in Kadina. They are also one of the only private health providers that have no wait times for dental treatment (most of other providers make you wait between 2 and 12 months for dental treatment, after you join up)
 
“Basic dental treatment is covered up until the $800.00 mark and you get two free visits a year (scale, clean, x ray, Fluoride treatment and examination) Major dental work is covered up until the $1800.00 mark. After that 70% of the cost is covered, you pay the remaining 30%.
 
“There is also cover for emergency treatment at as an outpatient at a public hospital, should a dentist not immediately be available. Just be aware, this is for dental cover only, plus a few extras like replacement reading glasses, eye exams once every two years and you can get a couple of visits a year to a chiro and a podiatrist.
 
“That's about it. Its very basic extra's cover, but at just over $10.00 a week, its probably the best value dental cover out there and unlike other Private Health Insurers, (who try and bundle their extras on top of (very expensive) hospital cover at every flaming opportunity, AHM have not done this. (There extra's cover is listed entirely separately from other insurance on their website)

“The website details can be found at www.ahm.dental lifestyle extras.com.au .

“Check it out yourself. Unless you are lucky enough to have gotten onto the Dental foundations Freebee scheme (which seems to have completely stalled since Covid-19, launched itself) and you don't want to go down the path of the Public Dental Health System (which is basically just about pulling out teeth) then this might be for you.”

The Night Talker
26 October 2020

From the anonymous contact page

"Each Housing Trust office has a fleet of cars to drive"

"disabled drug addicts"

"to view vacant properties. Others don't get a ride because they aren't offered vacant properties."

Plenty fully ENABLED Drug Addicts and ESPECIALLY Drug Pushers Dealers at HellRiot Lodge GILBERTON, almost as if they were forcibly and DELIBERATELY moved in to vacant spaces.

A Real Hell Hole

HELL I AM HERE
 
Anonymous
26 October 2020

(above) In the era of social media most of us fools have exposed ourselves to the degree that the details of our lives are a commercial product owned by social media corporations. But the smart people have remained elusive and invisible and their names appear in very few data bases. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

On the Street
 
A friend of Dion and Trent Jefferies  says Trent might have gone to Queensland.
 
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An Adelaide man was so unhappy he was planning to attempt suicide. He called every mental health joint he could think of, but couldn’t get through to any of them. He ate some pills, but luckily woke up in the late afternoon of the next day.
 
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Three soup kitchen people had all been associated with the State Emergency Service (SES). The woman amongst them remembered working with Andrew Tenant searching for the body of a woman. It later turned out Andrew had killed her and was pretending to be searching for her.
 
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Salvo Warehouse employees discovered an old friend on their sorting table. It was a deformed sports top in Size 6 that has been doing The Vicious Circle of Salvation Army Op-Shops for the past two years. It was either washed too often or worn by a woman requiring a Size 12 because it had become horribly misshaped.
 
It won’t sell so is returned to the Warehouse then moved to another store. But some staff think it is a prank and the garment is moved around the system by a secret cabal of pranksters working within the Army. Staff should autograph it or install a tracker device to create a map of this garment with a life of its own.
 
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The outer hall doors and floor-length Perspex windows at the back of the Gloucester Housing Trust apartments in Elizabeth shimmer in the sun and wind.
 
The Trust is replacing glass with plastic as it replaces the few remaining decent tenants with drug-crazed fiends. But being so easy to pop out of its frame, the Perspex makes the password touchpads somewhat redundant.
 
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An older man and woman rented a house for 11 years, but left after the landlord wanted a much higher rent. They now live in their car and attend Elizabeth free soup kitchens. This is despite plenty of Anglicare and Housing Trust units sitting empty for months, even years.
 
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Salvo Stores managers have had trouble with work-for-the-dole conscripts who put crumpled, wrinkled and ripped clothing with missing buttons on the racks.
 
But it isn’t lack of attention that causes this because if they see something good they snap to attention and say, “I want this,” and put it in the back room.
 
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A prisoner at the Adelaide Women’s Prison was sexually assaulted by another prisoner who later offered a Nicorette to perform a certain distasteful deed. The assault was viewed on camera, but the guards did nothing.
 
The ongoing tragedy is connected with the dispute between Megaphone Man and the Julie Mann/Nanna’s Free Food Basket crowd.
 
To add to the mix, at least two prisoners were “locked down” over verbal abuse against the “terrorist” Zainab Abdirahman-Khalif. Zainab tried to leave Australia on a one-way ticket to Turkey and had nasty Islamic State content on her phone. That’s all it takes.
 
She’d previously served two-years before being released on appeal, which was reversed by the High Court. She has another six-months to serve.
 
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Megaphone Man says Julie Mann threw a brick at his car as he drove over her television lying on the verge in front of Sue Koumidis’s house. The TV had a hole in the screen and had been thrown out. Megaphone Man made a point of driving over it each time he went out.
 
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It is obvious the 38-year-old soup kitchen man is sick. It’s his heart and lungs. He’s no shirker, but some weeks see him in bed angry at his body for letting him down.
 
Meanwhile, the Australian government spends over $1 billion annually to operate the Job Active network that pushes troubled people into inappropriate job interviews that only waste employers’ time. The money would be better spent supporting productive and sustainable manufacturing industries, not useless and destructive employment services.
 
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Garfield who worked at the Magdalene Church Hall for the 6:00pm Saturday meals said the Anglicans were planning to reopen the service in the park in Hindmarsh Square. He said only certain churches would be allowed to prepare the food.
 
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A Salvo store got a donation of an opened box of sanitary pads including one used.
 
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The man who owns Hackney Lodge also owned Lindy Lodge in Woodville Park where Hanson Road prostitutes rented motel rooms by the hour and where you could buy ammunition confiscated by police from gun owners.
 
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A homeless man found 42 televisions in a rubbish bin back of a foreign student apartment block near UniSA. He has now moved into a Housing Trust apartment block reserved for drug addicts. His problem is that he doesn’t have a TV. He said, “I might have to buy one.”
 
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The Hare Krishna’s got just one client at their free vegetarian soup and food meal on a recent Friday at Hurtle Square, near Crazy Cottage. He was “The Rabbit” who said that for the regular diners it “hasn’t gelled that they [the Krishna’s] have changed the day.” The Rabbit filled up two large bottles with soup. Next time he hopes to get a box of cake if no one else turns up. But The Rabbit is a generous man and has told friends and strangers alike that the Krishna’s are a good place to go.
 
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A tradesman went to a house of a government call-centre employee. He finished the job quickly because the stench of rats and dog faeces was overpowering. The government employee seemed not to notice the filth though at one point she’d retreated to sleeping in her car. He drove off then stopped and jumped out of his car fresh air. He said he washed his clothing as soon as he got home. Meanwhile, the dirty woman sounds fresh and reasonable on the phone.
 
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Prisoners at the Adelaide Women’s Prison have bleeding sores and wounds on their bodies. They say they can’t get treatment due to doctor appointment rationing. They’re given band-aids. It was said that, “…exposed sores…wounds and there’s people in there with hepatitis and all that shit…if you’re bleeding it’s not good for you or everyone around you.”
 
25 October 2020

(above) The Kickback blue tennis courts in the upper right. No tunnel, no grandstand, not suitable for international events, not close to a high school. Not used, virus or not. $10 million of Playford Council kickback money down the drain. Who benefited from this showcase disaster funded from the sale of Council land and debt left for the millennials? (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Dan's dog bites "G"
 
Homeless Brett arrived after the doors opened. Rumour has it he got a house thanks to the Salisbury Council who were sick of him smashing the library windows at night. He’s on methadone, but also has trouble managing his “medication”.
 
“G” was walking around with one foot bare. It had three tooth bites on one side of his ankle near the Achilles tendon and three tooth bites on the other side. Dan’s dog bit him. “G” went to the Lyell McEwen hospital because that el cheapo medical centre on Phillip Highway wasn’t taking any more walk-in patients that day.  
 
The local Aboriginals have set up tents and sit around a campfire at night across the road from Pittman Park. Being indigenous, they can light campfires.
 
Garfield was serving the meal, but Sharka and Shane have been absent. Old Val was a little too frisky. The druggies’ main table was empty except for one druggie who felt conspicuous and left. They’re a reasonable crowd and are left alone by the police. More like medical patients. And we let them be and they let us be. In fact, things don’t seem right if they’re not there. Lisa collected lots of extra food and gave it to the 70-year-old man who can do 200 push-ups a day. That ubiquitous American was there who seems to turn up everywhere.
 
The takeaway bags were no good, but the excellent meal included Quiche, garlic and cheese bread, really good salad, chips, good meat loaf, trifle, peanut butter cookies, very nice pasta. The cutlery was handed to diners wrapped in a serviette. There was a Covid register that depended on honesty.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire Street, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accusing each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags much improved.
 
24 October 2020

Dominic Perre syndrome
 
From the anonymous contact page
 
“You can go online and get all of the stuff to make drugs and have it physically delivered to your front door via Australia Post or whatever. But the moment you get all of the stuff to set it up, they’ll give you maybe a month and then hit you half-way through.
 
“You’ll have eyes on your house 24-hours a day. But the way these people operate is they get on their mates to get something, they get somebody else to get something, you know, they don’t go through the same channel twice…they [the police] don’t know who is part of the ring. That’s why you’ll never get rid of the drug problem.”
 
Name and address supplied
24 October 2020
 

(above) Homeless people from the mid-north should come down to Salisbury and protest 24/7 against the Housing Trust keeping houses and flats empty for months, even years at a time. They could bring Housing Trust C.E.O. Mike Buchan back to reality from the hand-wringing self-righteous executive he believes himself to be to the vile self-serving protector of institutional maladministration who lacks the courage to stand up to Michelle Lensink and the Deep State. (Adelaide Homeless Journal).

In praise of proper drug dealers
 
From the anonymous contact page
 
“There are proper drug dealers, right? They keep to themselves; they don’t make any problems, right? I don’t care what they do, I see them, I wave, shit, you know, they don’t cause me an ounce of trouble. They’re professional drug dealers. They don’t want to cause attention to themselves.”
 
Name and address supplied
23 October 2020

Don’t say you don’t want
 The Night Talker

“My welfare insider informant friend, was given this information by another friend, who works as a "counsellor" for a job network provider......

“A Job network participant complained to his case manager that he did not want to be put into a job as a service station attendant, because he is afraid someone [might go] off their head on Ice, and desperately needing money is going to come into the servo, where he is working with a loaded shotgun and shoot him dead. His case worker replied, ‘Don't be stupid, since the Covid-19 supplement has been abolished, crackheads don't have enough money to purchase a gun, your more likely to get stabbed with a screwdriver and or beaten to death with a tyre iron, but I doubt anyone is going to shoot you.’
 
“Later that afternoon, the participant got an SMS, telling him he had an interview for a job with an OTR franchise, later on in the week.

"True story."

The Night Talker
 
23 October 2020

Free takeaway ham and salmon
​at Fred’s Van Elizabeth

“I’ve got one of them,” a Housing Trust tenant told a friend under the gazebo outside the café. Milk, smoke first thing in the morning. Next  morning a smoke, looking over fence.”
 
Another diner knocked over a coffee onto a serious drug user who takes pride in his appearance. He was not amused, but told the clumsy fellow it was alright.
 
A retired 80-year-old pilot who flew in Vietnam and the United States was there. He lives in Kilburn. He said three boys prepared during a night earlier this month to torch a car on George Street, Kilburn. They’d brought a can of petrol. There was soon a commotion with cries of, “He’s going to burn us,” coming from the boys. The car owner had overpowered them and tied at least one to a tree before pouring some petrol on the ground. The police arrived and the boys were released, a lesson well taught.
 
A cheerful woman told a friend her newest baby was nearly a year old and then she pointed to her stomach and said, “got this shit that’s coming out in four weeks”.  She held the outside baby lovingly.
 
Just thirty diners were there and this included 8 or 9 children under six. Shuffles, 72 and the Aged Care Worker, about 42, were missing after having a fight there the previous Wednesday.
 
The food included tasty creamed (scalloped) baked potatoes, sausages and gravy, a lettuce and egg salad, a carrot salad, corn-on-the-cob, cordial, water, coffee. The takeaway bags contained all good stuff including packets of cold ham and salmon. It was a pleasant lunch and not too rushed. But no salt, pepper, vinegar or tomato sauce.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station).
12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. Indoor and outdoor dining. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Much improved takeaway bags plus takeaway from kitchen meal surplus. Nice crowd usually. Orange Sky laundry from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Wednesdays.

23 October 2020

Lois Lane on the warpath
 
Lois kept admonishing us to keep 1.5 metres apart and stay single file on the footpath outside her front yard. “AJ” (Allan Junior) marked “X” every 2.5 metres, which complicated things.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise talked about being framed for hitting someone with an iron bar. An elderly client gave Lois and myself plastic containers of cooked vegetables. The Magnificent Marten emerged from a building site. He is seen less and less these days due to the Covid. He, the Virus Lady and myself had Covid last Christmas, we claim.
 
Ethnic people getting the free food included Moslems, Chinese, a German, a Latvian, an American and people from heaps of other places. The volunteers appeared to be all born-in-Australia Australians. They were Annie, Rene, Trevor, the old man smoking cigarettes, “A.J.” and Lois Lane.
 
The free vegetables were either fresh or quite good. Each person could take six bottles or cans of drinks and some got 10-litre casks of spring water. It’s an easy-going place providing each person realise that some weeks are excellent and others just good.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.

23 October 2020

From the anonymous contact page

“Almost 100 years since 7 MILLION MURDERED in Ukraine and mass cannibalism. Most people in Ukraine are descended from cannibals thanks to $oviet$ removing all food from the "bread basket" of West Asia. I am Witness to Chernobyl 13 years before it happened. ‘What goes around comes around.’” Just like 911.
 
The Rundle Spy
23 October 2020

(above) Coat left at secret "remote" suburban homeless camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Pilgrim free coffee lounge
​partially reopens

The Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge has reopened for six hours a week. This is every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10:00am to 12:00noon. At last. This is where you can meet some of the big names of the homeless scene including Tatts and Angel. And the Monster Brothers.
 
The Sunday meal in the church hall is still cancelled and might not be back until Christmas or the New Year.
 
Pilgrim Church Lounge City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (back of church). Near King William St and Victoria Sq.
Ph (08) 8212 3295. 10:00am - 12:00 noon. Mon, Wed, Thurs. Free coffee and biscuits. No I.D. or registration needed. A pleasant mix of conservative, homeless and feral clients and staff. Nasty little toilets, but at least they are clean.
 
22 October 2020

The Beast that eats
 
“Vulnerable mental health clients are coerced into signing up onto ‘Back on Track’ programs with horrendously bad job network providers like APM, Max employment, Salvos Employment Plus and Sureway. Most will spend years doing Work-for-the-Dole and never be employed anywhere. This will go on until they can claim the Aged Pension or die. Whatever comes first.”
 
The Night Talker
22 October 2020

 The life of the Kill Box Lady
 
Anglicare is trying to get rid of the neighbour on the other side of the wall of the Kill Box Lady according to the Lady’s daughter. The neighbour bangs on the Kill Box Lady’s shared wall and is a throwback from when the Housing Trust managed the group of single floor semi-detached units.
 
Meanwhile, Ken Little, whose lawn was burnt by the same ex-Housing Trust tenant, sold his lawnmower to the Kill Box Lady’s daughter for $120 including a 20-litre jerry can of petrol. The daughter is a semi-chain smoker so she gets a neighbour to fill her new lawnmower. Ken Little has since bought a battery powered mower.
 
The 91-year-old Kill Box Lady, who is an Army Salvationist, got rid of her air fryer as she has been losing weight and doesn’t need to lose weight. She needs a fatty fryer. But her problem with food is that the Kill Box Lady is nearing death and her organs are shutting down, but her Carer keeps buying food that makes her sick.
 
Major Gratten of Arndale Salvation Army recently went tits up and broke his elbow, wrist and ribs, but is recovering nicely.
 
22 October 2020

The Smith Family
The Night Talker

“It is alleged that the origins of the "Smith Family" Charity, goes back to 1928 and a Cold Chicago morning where an abandoned baby was found in the back row of a picture theatre by a cleaner. Knowing that the baby was going to be handed over to the welfare and placed in an orphanage, the cleaner wrote a note, wrapped up a $2.00 dollar bill into the note (his pay for that day) and put it inside the child's clothing

“The note read, " please give the child my blessings and tell me the money came from the Smith Family.

“Whether or not the cleaner's last name was Smith is anybody’s guess? But out of this small act of kindness, it is believed that the Smith Family Charity emerged. Another bit of trivia that, the (teenage) cleaner was apparently a cousin of the infamous (allegedly) murdered (Transport Union of America, or Teamster's) Union Boss, Jimmy Hoffa.”

The Night Talker
22 October 2020

(above) Silkscreen-style posters have begun appearing in Salisbury and other Adelaide suburbs. Marxist believers operate a Scruffy food van in Port Wakefield and other mid-north towns. Their ideology might seem attractive in a society where good Housing Trust and Anglicare units and houses are deliberately kept empty while people live outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) Communist Party posters near the Salisbury Institute building where St Vincent de Paul operates the Fred's Van free meal on Sundays at 6:00pm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

How do bureaucrats stay sane when they act so insanely?

The intellectually handicapped woman aged about 60 is on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (N.D.I.S.). She has a Carer who takes her on Sundays from Elizabeth to the Salvation Army Corps church service at Arndale. The car and Carer cost the government at least $250 for the three-hour stint. There are two empty seats during the trip every Sunday.
 
The woman’s 90-year-old mother is also a Salvationist. She wants to go with her daughter in the car to the Arndale Corps church service rather than the Playford Corps at Elizabeth East because no one talks to her there.
 
The daughter asked her N.D.I.S. Carer, who asked at head office where a bureaucrat said, “No.” The mother cannot join her daughter in the N.D.I.S. funded car. The Carer will drive to Arndale with two seats empty each Sunday. However, the mother may hire a taxi that can follow behind the N.D.I.S. car with the same procedure used coming back.
 
Early 21 October 2020
​

Blind woman isn’t one to
​speak up for herself

The 91-year-old blind woman said she wasn’t one to speak up for herself. That was after I told her Megaphone Man was getting $80,000 of renovations to his Housing Trust unit after the Trust received six noise complaints about him and his megaphone.
 
The blind woman said she doesn’t want to buy a megaphone despite another tenant offering to take her to Jaycar where he’d buy one as well and they could spend their nights shouting at druggie neighbours across the road.
 
The blind woman was a Salvation Army captain in England. She didn’t get any big salary or big pension upon finishing that period of her life. That was before the officers got big money. Now, she is 91 and blind and stuck in limbo in a group of retirement units, half of which are empty and all due for demolition.
 
She sits alone nearly every day. Anglicare promised a transfer to an area of her choice. That was twenty months ago. She wants to be within 10kms of Blind Welfare at Gilles Plains. This is the range within which Blind Welfare will pick her up each day to go to their blind activity centre. But Anglicare have ignored her. Left her alone in her blindness.
 
Perhaps there are logistics preventing a move. But Anglicare rarely communicates with her or the other tenants. When an Anglicare employee does speak to the tenants, it’s in a paranoid manner that gives away no information.
 
Early 21 October 2020

Anglicare financial counselling
The Night Talker
 
Helpful numbers:
Anglicare Financial Counselling helpline (Elizabeth) number
1800-759-707- ASK FOR STEVE! (He is the best)

Assistance available
Financial counsellors can do the following;
1) Freeze bills/ accounts until an equitable resolution can be reached
2) Negotiate for lowered payments and or to reduce and or remove interest on payments, if in economically disadvantaged and or a crisis situation
3) Organize an EEPS payment (Emergency Electricity Payment Scheme) of a payment up to $400.00 off an electricity bill)
4) Provide support on where to get assistance in regards financial literacy and
5) Provide support on where to get practical assistance (e.g. food/clothing/e-cards/vouchers/school cards/uniforms etc.

The Night Talker
Early 21 October 2020

(above) Vandals burnt this bench at the Rotary Lookout at Hillbank near Elizabeth. After being alerted by the Council garbage collectors, Playford Council sent a team in a big truck through the locked gates to look at it. Another team drove up a week later to place tomato stakes and danger tape around it. Two-months later the easy job of installing six new planks has not been done. Playford Council administration must be corrupt. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Megaphone Man hits gold with
​the Housing Trust

Megaphone Man was overjoyed when the Semaphore Park Housing Trust manager told him there’d been six phone complaints about his loud music and shouting through his megaphone at night. They were from private numbers, but she described the complainers so he could identify most of them including Julie Mann’s associates.
 
He may have been mildly disappointed when she said she planned to do nothing about the complaints. Nor did she tell him to stop using the megaphone. He advised that she get one. “Now she thinks I’m a full-blown nutbag and that’s exactly what I want her to think.” He referred her to his “support worker” so they can bang their heads together.
 
Amongst other things, Julie Mann and her associates have tormented Megaphone Man by repeatedly smashing the windows of his car and stealing items. He says, “I promise I’ll [get] 100% even with them. If I have to live on tippy-toes then I want to see [these] people dancing. Right at the very end I’m going to pull the cork on the lot of them. I’m building them up to watch them fail. I know it sounds evil, but it’s true.”
 
He also got rid of Arab neighbours by playing loud Islamic State music.
 
So, how has the Housing Trust reacted to his behaviour? They’ve allocated $80,000 to build new fences around his unit, repair the roof, replace windows and doors, repaint the building and renovate his laundry, bathroom and kitchen. They’ll also provide him with a place to live during renovations and money to pack up and store his furniture and other belongings.
 
Megaphone Man hates drug dealers and junkies, but realised from the druggies’ casebook that the worst tenants get the best results from the Housing Trust while quiet and good tenants are treated like dishrags. “If you’re loud and obnoxious, you get recognised, if not loud and obnoxious you become a door mat,” he said
 
20 October 2020
​

Anglicare knocks stuffing
​out of blind woman

The 91-year-old blind woman living in the Elizabeth retirement units says Anglicare has “knocked the stuffing out of me”. She just found out via the building engineer that Anglicare plans to put people into the empty units in her complex.
 
Anglicare told her 20-months previously the units were to be demolished. She has become more afraid of moving with each month passing as her tiny window of sight disappears, her physical strength ebbs and she doubts her ability to adapt to a new unit.
 
She had expected to be transferred to one of the Anglicare complexes near Campbelltown, Gilles Plains or Pooraka where she’d come within the 10km pick up radius by Blind Welfare (Gilles Plains) for their daily social events at Gilles Plains.
 
But Anglicare has been indifferent to her situation of being stuck alone in her retirement unit in the half-empty complex nearly 24/7 and with the threat of eviction and transfer hanging over her head month after month.
 
20 October 2020

(above) Cerebos Fountain won’t disclose where the 80% foreign content of its tomato sauce is derived. The best its spokesperson could say was that it was sometimes sourced from “Asia”. China is by far the largest producer of tomato products and much of that is produced by Uighur Moslems in forced labour camps. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

The rude saga of the Anglicare retirement units

A woman not connected to the Elizabeth retirement complex told a tenant that Anglicare was sending someone to the units the next day. She was right. A building engineer arrived to inspect the empty units. He said Anglicare was moving in new tenants. This was despite having kept most of them empty for over a year pending demolition of the complex. Anglicare hadn’t told the tenants of its change of plan or even that the building engineer would be arriving the next day so how did the woman who doesn’t even live near the units know? She said someone “around the corner” told her.
 
Six Anglicare employees visited the tenants 20 months previously to say they’d be transferred within 12 to 18 months as the property was being redeveloped. One of those employees visits every six-months to say what a wonderful job he’s been doing searching for new accommodation for the tenants, mostly without success. He blocked emails from one tenant and speaks only in generalities.
 
A 91-year-old blind tenant has for the past year been giving away pieces of her belongings and packing others in boxes in preparation for the move. A 93-year-old tenant says she’s given up. Another very unhappy tenant loaded up his packing cases in preparation for the transfer that never happened. He said unpacking his stuff and ripping up the boxes made him “really happy”.  He even claims Anglicare’s transfer plan was a deep state psy-op to mess with their minds and that he no longer believes a word they say. He said that realisation also made him “really happy”.
 
19 October 2020

Slight rise in Adelaide city
​rough sleepers

According to the Adelaide Zero Project, the number of rough sleepers in the Central Business District and surrounding parklands has risen from 117 to 129. The Temporarily Sheltered number has dropped from 79 to 68 reflecting the expulsion of people from the Covid-19 free hotel and motel rooms. The “Actively Homeless Other” number has dropped from 22 to 17. The total Actively Homeless number has dropped from 218 to 214.
 
The problem with these figures is that the Adelaide Zero Project doesn’t say what organisations specifically supplied them. And what didn’t. Nor can it account for the leakage between the city and surrounding suburbs. For example, it doesn’t account for the indigenous people who moved from the city to a large park near Elizabeth where they’ve set up tents and light a fire each night. Nor by those who headed for suburbia in response to the Hutt Street Centre, Westcare and other groups withdrew services.
 
In other words, those slackards who collect and compile the statistics should be given nail guns and made to work on public housing projects.
 
https://www.dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/
 
19 October 2020

John Alicajic writes
 
"Ok I started writing a long email I’ll leave it , the issue is housing , I am 54 yrs old I did the skid row scene for years I can’t return to that bye . I’ve spoken to , to many people I’ve asked an MP to request hutt st [Hutt Street Centre] return the funding they got to do nothing for me I could forward you the email that took a year to send hutt st think there sacrosanct or just act confused than hang up housing sa said go there I filled out and signed forms for there funding I had my mother sitting there at this meeting , look if I said everything too long you’ve suggested I think I post somewhere else let’s see yrs of problems that aren’t resolved not sure I am relaxed enough to complain about useless services bye .

John Alicajic
 
Editor: Please always consider Adelaide Homeless Journal first when you want to post comments about housing and homelessness. Thanks for your comments so far.
 
19 October 2020

(above) Finding a place to sleep in Adelaide requires a knowledge of when and where buildings will be unused and free of guards. It may mean sleeping three shorts periods every 24-hours. Living on the streets of Adelaide requires great skills. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Looking for Army veteran Paul Wood
Kate P.

“Hi, I'm looking for an old friend of mine named Paul Wood, who is ex-army and i can't seem to find him at what i thought was his old address with his mother, a new person has been living there for 1 year.
 
“So, being ex-army and not having lost his driving licence before i knew him, and if his mother passed away and he was perhaps struggling, i thought he may have fallen through the gaps and become homeless as many men do sadly. He would be about 55/56 now and has grey/blue eyes, did have brown/blond hair and about 6 foot 4 inches tall he may still be quiet fit/solid as he was running for fitness and still had his Army look, but that may have changed slightly.
 
“Do you or anyone know if this sounds familiar?”
 
Kate P.
auskapet1@gmail.com

18 October 2020

On the Street
 
We often hear on the street that Street-to-Home or the Hutt Street Centre has gotten some veteran homeless man a place to live. But is this the right language? The offer of housing may come with the option of involuntary committal to a psychiatric ward for evaluation. And the so-called “housing” may involve a supervised living arrangement with weekly “sniff tests”.
 
*
 
United States President Donald Trump used hydroxychloroquine yet still got the virus. So, was the Magnificent Marten of soup kitchen fame wrong when he recommended drinking  Quinine-containing Tonic Water every day? No, he wasn’t. He said Tonic Water would help your body fight the virus because the Quinine thinned and oxygenated the blood. Covid-19 symptoms include strokes and breathing difficulties. But it doesn’t prevent you getting the virus or cure it.
 
*
 
“It is as it is,” a St Vincent de Paul volunteer told a diner at Fred’s Van Semaphore when it was pointed out that the fried chicken was inadequately cooked and pink inside.
 
*
 
The Playford Council has worked out a new method of making the $8.1 Kickback parking station appear less empty. They’ve begun counting each parked car as four cars so that 28 vehicles inside at the peak of the day reduced the 343-capacity station to having just 221 spaces left according to the digital sign at the entrance.
 
*
 
Julie Mann got a $5000 fine for illegal use of a motor vehicle and smashing it into a Stobie pole plus a six-month good behaviour bond. Her next court appearance in late October will include multiple charges of breaking into Megaphone Man’s car. However, the court situation isn’t clear due to the prosecutor being reluctant to disclose full sentencing details.
 
Meanwhile, Julie’s partner, Sue Koumidis, is driving a brand-new Nissan Pulsar to replace her ruined SUV.
 
*
 
Guards at the Raytheon weapons factory at Tech Port out near Pelican Point are touchy about visitors. A man and woman parked in front of the building at night, had a smoke then went to the back entrance and had another smoke. The guards became quite agitated. It’s the smiling dignitaries from foreign governments and their Australian spies they should be worried about and not local identities.
 
*
 
A Sunnydale resident who moved to One Care at Woodville West said it’s very nice there. But a visitor said wait until you see people defecating on the floor, then you’ll return to Sunnydale SRF at Semaphore.
 
*
 
The dealer who runs the shooting-up room is laying low. He hides his car in his garage rather than leaving it in the Housing Trust carpark. He is nervous after his customer vandalised Megaphone Man’s car.
 
The small carpark near his privately owned house and the Housing Trust complex is now empty for fear of vandalism. Except for a car owned by a woman working for a government psychiatric unit and who purchased a Housing Trust unit. A neighbour warned her to park elsewhere. He said, “You haven’t lived long enough here to understand.”
 
*
 
“I’m not going to stop. They (Sue Koumidis, Julie Anne Mann and the local dealer) virtually cannot move sideways…they know I’m not going anyway and anything they do to me I can use against them.”
 
Megaphone Man
 
*
 
Clown Prince Wayne was right all along. He said the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth was closed because its opening policy in South Australia was being dictated by the Victorian branch of Anglicare.
 
A diner at St Bede’s Anglicare in Semaphore said they’ve adopted the same strategy for their free food service as used in Aged Care joints interstate. That’s why they have mostly closed down at Semaphore and give takeaway only despite South Australia not having community transmitted cases of the virus for months.
 
*
 
A student dentist extracting a wisdom tooth told her 21-year-old patient that there was risk of his lower lip going permanently numb after the extraction.
 
She then tried to insert the needle into his mouth, but missed and injected his lower lip.
 
He said the next few days were “hectic” trying to determine whether he could feel his lower lip normally. It turned out okay.
 
*
 
Homeless Angela was telling foreigners outside the Elizabeth shopping centre to “go back to your own country”. She honed in on a young man accusing him of being a Canadian and all his denials couldn’t change her mind.
 
Meanwhile, a real Canadian slunk into the shadows and adopted an unconvincing Australian accent popular in the 1970’s.  
 
 
*
 
UnitingSA Chat and Chew was worried they’d be swamped with diners for their free fortnightly meals after other free joints closed down for the virus. It didn’t happen. Last week they got just five diners at their free BBQ, according to the sausage cook.
 
*
 
The Rabbit usually lives outside and has a franchise for four streets around Light Square including Hindley Street. He says there are 450 police exclusively on Covid duties.
 
The Rabbit saw Police Commissioner Grant Stevens on Hindley Street and asked him why it was illegal to dance at a nightclub or smoke the water pipes, but okay to go to the brothel next door for a “blowie”. Grant replied: “We’re working on it.”
 
*
 
George the Elder said a cleaner told him the long multiple hallways that go to the toilets in the Elizabeth shopping centre are designed to confuse people and send them to another area of the centreand thus maximise their exposure to other shopfronts. It doesn’t affect George as he isn’t interested in anything unless it has a price tag that reads, “Free.”
 
18 October 2020

The Village Prison 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osNmf_zmSyE 
18 October 2020

(above) When searching for a homeless camping spot in suburbia, it is important to get off any tracks and find a difficult to access area such as a steep gully. Using multiple approaches will reduce yourself from creating easy to follow trails. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Accuser told to get out
​of St Paul’s Church

The man who owns a dog and drives a white van burst into St Paul’s Church Op-shop yesterday and accused Megaphone Man of harming Nanna’s Free Food Basket and other accusations. The man said Nanna herself had said Megaphone Man was “affecting our business”.
 
He shouted so loudly that volunteers told him to get out whereupon he went outside and punched the wall and cursed the church. Megaphone Man laughed the whole time telling him he appreciated the feedback. He said it was priceless.
 
Operatives at Nanna’s Free Food Basket are enemies of Megaphone Man who is established at the church for reasons including that he is nearly their best customer of the Op Shop.
 
Early 17 October 2020

Correction in your story:
​ "Punch up at Salisbury Job Prospects."
The Night Talker

“I have no doubt that this incident happened, (Punch-up at Job Prospects Salisbury 16 October 2020), however, your comment about Centrelink cutting off people's payments is incorrect.
 
“The authority to cancel someone's payments (and or reinstate them) this is for persons on the Job Start Australia Program (JSA) receiving a benefit that requires mutual obligation contributions (e.g. Job seeker and or Youth Allowance) is now exclusively carried out by Job Network Providers.
 
“This has been the case since July 2018. So when a person registered as active with Job Network Provider, gets their benefits cancelled, its not Centrelink that has cancelled their benefits but their Job Network Provider.
 
“Yes Centrelink is the agency that makes the payment into the person's bank account, but it is the JSA who contacts Centrelink and asks them to cancel the persons benefit.
 
“This as you can imagine has given the JSA's an enormous level of power, when they are already well known to bully, harass and undermine their clients. I am not surprised when I hear about JSA clients going off their "trubbies" every now and again and to be honest, I am surprised that up until now, a client hasn't gone completely "postal" and turned up at their Job Network Providers office with a high powered, fully automatic rifle (aka shades of Martin Bryant- Port Arthur Style) and let loose on everyone inside-so to speak.
 
“DO NOT THINK FOR ONE MINUTE I WANT ANYTHING LIKE THIS TO HAPPEN, but the reality is that if someone is already "mentally unwell," repeated contact with the average JSA, could only make things worse, in fact a whole lot worse. )
 
“My own experience of JSA staff are that they appear to be chosen, based on how rude, aggressive/hostile, lazy, unskilled and belligerent they can behave towards their clients. Most (female unfortunately i have to say) staff, that i have had to deal with, are exactly this, but when you add grumpy, disenfranchised and post-menopausal, you are dealing with persons who should never ever be allowed to work in a front line environment, with vulnerable unemployed persons. Needless to say, I have no doubt we are going to hear more stories like the one, that i have just commented on.”

The Night Talker
17 October 2020
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Did Oz Harvest make a mistake closing service?

There were eight people waiting outside the Elizabeth Grove Uniting Church yesterday for the Oz Harvest van. Some arrived by bus to find the parking lot empty except for disappointed clients.
 
Oz Harvest stopped the service four weeks previously citing similar venues available in the area, dwindling client numbers and dwindling supplies. Not wholly true.
 
Heart and Soul operates on Wednesdays, but can require 90 or more minutes in the queue. Beacon of Hope gives away very little free groceries, but concentrates on an excellent light lunch. Neither of these places matched Oz Harvest fast service of good quality products.
 
17 October 2020

(above) Six Housing Trust apartments in the Town Central complex at Elizabeth were torched last week. The Trust had installed touchpads on the outer doors, but that didn't stop the arsonist. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) The hallway with three burnt-out apartments on each side. It might cost the Housing Trust half a million dollars to renovate them. Tenants' consensus view is that drug dealers and addicts on Chinese drugs were responsible for the fires. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) The Housing Trust installed Perspex doors and windows to stop drug addicts and dealers collecting debts from smashing through. But this made the building more susceptible to fire. One resident threw a mattress from a window during the fire. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) A Can Collector resident managed to get his cans and other items out of his Elizabeth Town Central unit. Other residents are fearful of further arson attacks after multiple fires were set in one week at the complex. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) Three fires were lit during a single week at the Elizabeth Town Central Housing Trust complex. A mattress was burnt outside on one occasion, two rubbish bins on another and then the big fire that gutted six apartments. Slow-moving disabled residents in upper units of the other buildings are fearful of further arson attacks. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) The Anglicare Food Barn building with its red roof visible from the window of one of the burnt Town Central Housing Trust apartments. The Food Barn has been closed for over six months despite other "non-profits" reopening their free meal services. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Punch-up at Job Prospects Salisbury
 
A man later described as off his head on drugs burst through the front door of the Job Prospects employment service in Salisbury, near where homeless Brett was sleeping. He was angry at having been kicked off Centrelink payments.
 
The man grabbed the keyboard from the reception desk and threw it across the room. The female staff ran into the “safe room” leaving another patron using the Job Search computer alone.
 
The intruder punched the client who jumped up and hit him so hard it ripped the skin on his fist. The madman fell to the floor. The client put his boot on his throat and told him not to “try that again”. The madman jumped up and ran through the front door as the police rushed in. They roughly grabbed the innocent client and handcuffed his hands behind his back. The employees came out of the safe room and told the police they’d got the wrong man. The police called for support and they surrounded the creek bed back of Centrelink where the madman had fled.
 
The Job Prospects staff told the client he didn’t have to apply for jobs for two months: they’d do it for him. He pushed the ripped skin on his hand back into place and it is healing.
 
Note: The hero of the story then discovered he’d been kicked off the dole. Centrelink said he’d missed an interview. He said they’d never sent him an email or message with an appointment time. After three hours sitting in the Centrelink office, they reinstated his payments.
 
16 October 2020

Salvo Warehouse conversation
 
Two Army employees were perplexed when they saw an extreme example of the Vicious Circle last week.
 
Used goods are routinely sent back from the stores to the warehouse when they don’t sell. It’s a time-consuming activity for store staff to pick out the non-sellers, remove the price tags, bag them up and send them back. Stores often get the same items sent back to them months later. That’s called the Vicious Circle.
 
Two stores were identified as bi-passing this routine and sending back bags from the warehouse unopened and thus saving them the labour of putting them on the racks and later packing them up for return.
 
These two stores have suffered financially as they’ve sent back unopened new stock and left old stuff on the floor. The practice hasn’t been officially condemned, but advice has been given to two managers to lift their game or they’ll be out in the cold like the manager of the Windsor Gardens store.
 
16 October 2020

(above) The Housing Trust is removing asbestos from lucky winners in the Semaphore Park Cartel area.

Froth and bubble in Rundle Mall today

“Food bank has its RAA-logo $100000+ eat-a-while-from-my-cans "charity" food van in the centre of rundle mall today (wed 14) to fri 16 oct.

“About a dozen gals in purple people eater uniforms stand around plastic tower can-in-hand hoping for coin donations that seem to only trickle in at best.

“More donations coming in via public plastic bags and cardboard containers of food being put on table in front of purple RAA-logo $100000 food display van.

“Some of the stuff donated does not look nutritious. in fact is industrial quality mass production chemical chaff and gunk such as uncle tobys sulfur cereal plastic packed food bars, nasty instant msg noodle cups for boiled water, sulfur chemical cordial, msg crackers, heavyweight canned goods mostly waterweight.

“Do not like to disappoint but food bank is receiving the bottom of the barrel in quality food donations and is probably giving out even lower quality.

“Drop by central rundle mall adelaide cbd and have a look for yourself.”

P.D.
Editor: I wonder how many paid employees work for FoodBankSA? The Night Talker suggested over seventy. Oz Harvest reputedly has six. Cos We Care has none. 

15 October 2020

Correction

“Was mistaken or miss taking ?

Re: Froth and bubble in Rundle Mall today

RAA Food Bank $100000 van was nowhere to be seen in Rundle Mall today Thursday 15 Oct even though FB gal said they'd be around.

Perhaps not enough donations the previous day or she meant they'd be in some other part of the city...? Sorry about mistake 'er miss taking...
 
16 October 2020
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Avondale Housing Trust Apartments Elizabeth

The Street-to-Home psychiatric outfit pays up to $5000 establishment costs for each homeless person moving into accommodation. They bought a used washing machine for one new tenant last month at the Avondale Apartments. He put it in the laundry room behind the apartments. It lasted two days before it was stolen.
 
The Housing Trust is buying more machines for the laundries. The Trust is also installing touchpads on the outer doors to prevent access to those not authorised by the tenants in each building.
 
Meanwhile, the new tenant said his arrival was met by initial hostility by the occupant across the hall. After the unit had been renovated, drug dealers broke in and used it as a business centre. The new tenant said that for the first two weeks he’d received a constant flow of addicts looking for product. He let one Ice woman stay in the unit, but she wrote on every wall in every room. But he wasn’t worried as the Street-to-Home money would cover the damage, but he didn’t expect any problems with the Housing Trust.
 
He ”misses the old life” and goes to the city for days at a time, but says, “it’s not the same”.
 
As to the multiple renovated apartments kept empty, he says the Housing Manager told him the Trust says it is more economical to keep units empty than install homeless tenants. Sort of similar to a hospital that better manages its budget if it remains patient-free.
 
15 October 2020

Remembering the preacher at St Luke’s Whitmore Square

She was 18 somewhere around 2001. St Luke’s was packed, standing room only. The girl said she felt a message of warning as she prayed. A dark force had entered the church. A woman walked into the church. She wore perfect make-up and hair. She coughed then sneezed then walked out.
 
The preacher spent three hours telling the packed house that he was a direct representation of God. His name was Allan Davies and he’d been responsible for inspiring a full house and teams of volunteers raising money at sausage sizzles.
 
Sadly, the money went on a house, a boat and motorcycles for Allan Davies who eventually was charged with fraud and went to prison.
 
The 18-year-old girl left the church along with nearly everyone else, totally disillusioned. Almost twenty years later, she says she can never return to the church. She has long-since found her place in another church and Allan Davies is merely a bad memory.
 
St Luke’s has had a wild history with a derelict burning the church to a shell in the 1980’s. And many of the preachers appear unstable. But it continues like a battered ship in a storm.
 
15 October 2020

John Alicajic lives
 
“Hi I don’t know you but I don’t care I am going to send you a leaked email from unity housing the ceo is Mathew Woodward he runs a fiefdom I eventually lost my housing by asking them the authorities for help treat this as gossip have a laugh the homeless industry is a joke it’s perpetuated on Human misery there funding etc Woodward was standing with lensink on the tv breaking ground somewhere I’ve highly likely while asking for help become a victim of gossip I’ve seen it , it’s complicated hutt st did nothing for me after receiving funding they would have been back grounded by unity that I am a troubled person or nonsense after being a tenant for 20 yrs bye .
 
“I had 80 videos police reports wrote to ministers for 9 yrs ok there mocking me then how to handle the minister , bettison and lensink current housing minister claim either don’t care or this has been taken care of , once you lie to a minister wouldn’t that be a stain on your reputation apparently it’s cool and I am in and out crisis care got me a hotel Wednesday on Henley beach road I am not travelling well I need housing people like this gossip I know it bye I won’t bother you.” 
 
John Alicajic
15 October 2020

(above) Homeless camping requires months, even years of experience to get right. It is both psychological and practical. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Deep State doesn't want to waste surgery on old people?

A soup kitchen man said it took three years on the waiting list to see a bone specialist at the Lionel McEwen hospital. The diagnosis was damaged knees requiring knee replacements, not the simpler arthroscopy. Eighteen-months later, another doctor kicked him off the outpatients list and said his knees appeared fine. Observing the old man walk doesn’t give that impression.
 
This same man took nearly five years on the waiting list to get an appointment to see the Ears, Nose and Throat specialist. The preliminary appointments were with an audiologist and MRI scan. When the specialist finally met this patient, he told him everything looked okay and he was discharging him as an outpatient. All this was done without a single physical examination or questioning.
 
A bureaucrat in the government health administration had earlier sent an email to doctors telling them to avoid putting old people on elective surgical waiting lists.
 
The Prime Minister said this wasn’t right. The South Australian Premier wobbled around on the subject, but the order from the Deep State bureaucrat stands.
 
14 October 2020
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Homeless man remembers working for Adelaide lawyer Pam Cleland

“I used to do some jobs for Pam Cleland cleaning the carpets in her office and then I got to meet her gardener. He told me of all the dirty little parties they used to have up there, all the homosexual parties.
 
“Occasionally, I’d be called up to clean a carpet that got flooded by the creek overflowing, one of those creeks that come down the hills. She had a beautiful little tea house on the creek, half on the creek, Japanese Tea house, had a little iron fire and glass all around. It was a beautiful spot.
 
“The gardener told me all the little things they’d get up to…they got salacious pieces of [court] transcript to do with sexual things and one would stand up and read to the audience and they’d all have a laugh and a giggle ― ‘and he stuck his big penis into me’ ― and they’d all go, ‘Hooray’.
 
“Dame Roma Mitchell was there. She was a lesbian.
 
“Pam Cleland used to come around to Solomon’s on Gouger Street. She’d come around in a big Jensen Interceptor, pomme V-8, we used to marvel at this car she had.”
 
14 October 2020
 

(above) Areas surrounding abandoned quarries can be good places to set up one of your homeless camps. Cliffs and fences warn off bushwalkers while fossickers are likely to respect your site. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Orange Sky Laundry avoids washing at Fred's Van Semaphore

“Orange Sky volunteers did nothing,” said a diner at Fred’s Van who added, “All they did was stand around yacking and not one piece of clothes got washed. And I said to them, ‘Can you please leave a note on the notice board here so that people can at least know that you’ll be here?’ They didn’t.
 
“They are using, you know the sunglasses that have the built-in camera. I saw this woman lean over and she goes “click” and the other lady says, ‘Did you get the shot?’ She goes, ‘Yeah’.
I said, ‘You don’t get paid enough to do that.’
They said, ‘Oh, what,’ and gave me a dumb look. I kid you not, they think we’re all stupid. They took a picture of Janet and a Fred’s Van volunteer.
 
“They really do a non-service,” the diner said then continued, “The whole thing they [Orange Sky] were talking about, the whole thing while they were there was big-noting themselves for all the help they give people at the AngliPrison.
 
The diner described the other diners as “stoned, pissed, medicated, you know.” Inside the dining room a man with a black eye kept saying, “What are you looking at? What are you looking at?” We were looking at him because he was saying it angrily. He left early.
 
“The families going there with little kids, ah, I wouldn’t be taking young kids there, especially with random people there you don’t know. But even the mothers, you could tell they were on something as well. They wouldn’t pass the piss test.”
 
Editor: Thanks to the diner for supplying details of his experience of Fred’s Van Semaphore.
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. or registration required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Free. Sit down meal in the main hall. Much improved. A bit rushed.
Slightly rough and dangerous customers. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Some rude stuff.
Occasional tipping over of tables and fighting, but usually calm. Free Orange Sky Laundry 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
 
13 October 2020

From the anonymous contact page

Tanks much for arson coverage material.

Few in general public realize just how much EXTREME DANGER
there is for "normal" people living in "Public Housing".

Pity the elderly, women with children, the disabled and innately frail...Really, there should be some sort of Holy War to root out, cut up and let rot the wrongdoers.

Burn Buggers Burn
(in return for their burn)
Tanks
Tanks much
 
13 October 2020

(above) Julie Mann's court appearances at Port Adelaide. One matter has been adjourned to later this month. Guilty plea entered for others. Details of sentence on Friday. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Derrance Stevenson talked of freezing a corpse to disguise time of death

A Hutt Street Centre client remembers as a young man he got drunk at the Meadows Technicolour Fair rock festival, south of Adelaide, in 1972. He drove around the parking area in someone’s car and was charged with illegal use.
 
A friend referred him to defence lawyer Derrance Stevenson. The defendant met Derrance at his office in his house in Greenhill Road, Parkside. This was the house with the Bedouin-style roof.
 
It isn’t clear how many visits the young man made to Derrance’s house, but on one occasion the lawyer talked about freezing a body when having to bend the body to fit into the freezer. The young man said Derrance said the problem was freezing the stomach which would be insulated by the victim’s legs. Freezing the stomach would take much longer than the rest of the body.
 
Little did either man know that seven years later Derrance would be shot in the head then his body folded to fit into his chest freezer at this very same house.
 
12 October 2020
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Beacon of Hope Elizabeth free lunch
 
Homeless Angela told Tracy she shouldn’t be there because she’d arrived in a car. She kept it up until Tracy went and sat in Grant’s car.
 
The Beacon church people are kind to Angela regardless of not being able to make money out of her via rehab. Angela has used up all her personal assets and is slipping into alcoholic dementia. This Christian church tries to pick up the pieces of broken lives.
 
Oz Harvest stopped their Elizabeth Grove Uniting Church free food event on Fridays, but continues to donate to the Beacon of Hope. The Beacon has stopped their third Saturday of the month free food event because everyone hated it and stayed away. Instead they give smaller amounts away every day via tables in front of the kitchen so staff can ensure certain clients don’t take too much. The Beacon clients tend to be more druggies, desperadoes and eccentrics while the Uniting Church crowd were vaguely normal.  It has all worked out well.
 
Severely disabled people and their Carers plus volunteers from the Boomerang Op Shop have lunch in the restaurant section of the church while the freebee crowd eat from the trailer under the verandah.
 
A tribal woman with big thick arms swore at other clients one day last week so Alistair the Chef drove her home. He’s a real cook.
 
A disabled man staying at a friend’s unit in the Housing Trust Gloucester Apartments says they were raided by “Aboriginals” and he lost everything except “two consoles”. He’s on Anglicare’s category 1 for housing, but was told it takes six-years. He should come to our Anglicare units some of which have been empty for over a year.
 
Free meal diners talked about dentists. One person recommended going to Malaysia for treatment by Sydney trained dentists at a fraction of the cost. Another diner said he’d paid $13 for an X-Ray and tooth extraction in India. A private dental surgeon in Rose Park told me she charges $2000 for an extraction and sleep anaesthetic.
 
Mr Rock Solid said an African church pastor had refused to marry him and Rosie. A church member said, “I’d advise you to leave.” Mr Solid talks sort of spooky at the best of times.
 
Neil fixed the support legs on the food trailer. Diners give their ten-cent cans to a school kid who comes to the Beacon whenever he can. A retired nurse told us the reason many young women can’t have children easily is because of hip malformation caused by tight jeans worn during their teenage years.
 
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth free lunches
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) 
ph 08 8255 2467. Nice salad rolls, soup and meat pies 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. Frequently free bread and vegetables out front. No I.D. or registration required for Eternal Shame File. Served from outdoor trailer. Good atmosphere. Top quality staff. One free takeaway strangely flavoured coffee per client available from restaurant counter. Optional $7.50 restaurant meals.

12 October 2020

(above) An abandoned camp in the hills above Adelaide. Simple as it seems, it takes a rare person to sit in the bush alone even this close to metropolitan Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

(above) This camper knew enough to cover wood with a tarp during the wet season. And to put galvanised iron over the campfire to keep the base dry and stop cooking pots from getting black. The hills facing Adelaide have enough secret areas to cater for a thousand homeless people, but few can face their existence alone, even for a few hours. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

On the Street
 
During the week, an elderly couple were in the Wallaroo Foodland talking about whether they would have mince on toast or boiled up marrowbones for dinner. They were standing in front of the pet food fridge.
 
Later on, they were searching through the vegie scrap bin that sits on the outside wall of Foodland as you drive out through the exit. They walked off together in the direction of the jetty/bakery, on foot.
 
The Night Talker
 
*
 
A woman in an Aged Care Facility in Adelaide “wandered around” the nursing home at 4:00am dusting and setting plates on the dining room tables. Staff wanted her to be sedated to stop her from this wandering.
 
Another employee talked to the old girl. She’d been a shearers’ cook and had gotten up at 4:00am each morning on the job. Now, as she had gone into senility, she was re-enacting her working career and doing no harm. The proposed sedation was cancelled.
 
*
 
The Beacon of Hope Church of Christ at Elizabeth have been giving wayward Aboriginal children fried chicken for lunch at no cost, and for which they are not funded by the government.
 
*
 
“You’re not the first,” a police officer told Megaphone Man. Apparently, Julie Anne Mann has emboldened her drug dealer and addict associates to target other people as well.
 
 
*
 
“Get off this line. I don’t want you anywhere near me,” said a woman to George the Elder at the Communist free lunch at Whitmore Square last month.
 
*
 
A man in the drug scene said the motorcycle gangs have officially disbanded, but they’ve broken into fraternities that each claim a portion of Adelaide, one of which is the area around the Hutt Street Centre.
 
Members have been friends since childhood and retain strong inter-family bonds.
 
*
 
A man used Trend Micro to search the dark web for instances of anyone using his identity. He said Trend Micro found 400 instances where his personal details had been collected from various sources then put together to form false identities.
 
*
 
The Housing Trust has installed security mesh over the back windows of some units at its complex behind Elizabeth Anglicare. They’ve also put touchpads to control who gets past the outer doors of each building. Only the residents know the password.
 
The Housing Trust has gone to this expense because half the tenants are criminals on Home Detention and wear tracker ankle bracelets. Sadly, these security features don’t protect tenants from arson attacks.
 
The Trust had previously installed hugely expensive electric iron front gates to allow or stop entry of cars onto the property. They are controlled by a password also, but are frequently jemmied by drug dealers.
 
*
 
A small alcoholic woman tries to maintain a brave face at Elizabeth free food venues. She tries to engage in normal conversation. She likes to fit in and be respected.
 
But the next day she’s back on the juice and off her head. But she still tries. She won’t give up despite suffering Korsakoff Syndrome from which there is no return.
 
*
 
The Lutheran Ark at Salisbury is maintaining their takeaway-only service once a month because having people inside requires too many Covid regulations and risk of fines. We underclass clients are like Kangaroos or cats and can’t be easily ordered into social distancing. We’re too far gone.
 
When we sat outside last fortnight, a band inside the church played beautiful religious music.
 
*
 
A big Adelaide drug dealer claimed to have got a light sentence due to placing money with certain figures in the justice system.
 
*
 
A man said he heard two gay men “going hard at it” in a toilet cubicle at the Chinese government financed Port Adelaide Plaza shopping centre. He alerted a security guard who called the police and the two men were “dragged away”. The man said, “They want us to accept them, but they act like trashbags.”
 
*
 
A free food venue client has become so successful at getting stuff for free that he gives some of it to his social worker who passes it on to his other clients.
 
*
 
Megaphone Man says his life has calmed down. He said, “I stopped all that wacky stuff. I’ll do it again if the sh** happens again.”
 
*
 
A large TV with a hole in it was outside Sue Koumidis’s house. It appeared as if someone had poked it with a chair leg or fist. A driver in the area drives over it each time he goes by.
 
*
 
An aged soup kitchen client has ten university degrees and one doctorate. He is working on a second doctorate and is a perpetual student. He hasn’t run up a huge HECS debt because he’s so bright that he gets scholarships. While having an ultra-high I.Q., it is doubtful whether he has worked a day in his life. When he speaks, none of us know what he is talking about.
 
*
 
George the Elder said that fishing in the gutter on a rainy day resulted in numerous catches, especially near a pub.
 
*
 
Guards at the Elizabeth shopping centre pushed a drug addict away from the back of Woolworths while a beggar sat outside the Coles entrance doors. Druggies from the ended free hotel room scheme in the city have returned to Elizabeth.
 
*
 
The baby feeding room at the Elizabeth shopping centre has a microwave that can be used to heat up cold meat pies from charities. But you have to be quick as the guards are quick on the scene. Shoppers don’t realise how much they are surveiled.
 
*
 
The Christies Beach Church of Christ say they won’t be resuming their cheap evening meals on Tuesdays until next year. They have been giving away tomato soup and bread on Tuesdays, but have stopped until next school term. Very few clients were impressed by the soup and the church had trouble giving it away.
 
*
 
A man had an automatic gel blaster gun at a soup kitchen. He was the fellow who hid the real gun used in a shooting at Smithfield 15 years ago.
 
Gel blasters range in quality from toys to mildly offensive weapons. They shoot softened gel capsules, but can be converted in something more dangerous. Some cost more than a real AK-47 rifle.
 
That was Squeaky Bed Randall’s problem. He was sitting next to two men in a pokies joint who were carrying these toy gel blasters. Police searched the two men and thought Randall was with them so he got search as well was subsequently charged with selling drugs.
 
American teenagers who legally carry military assault rifles over their shoulders and six-guns on their belts can’t believe these toys are illegal in Australia. What happened to the Australia of yesteryear?
 
11 October 2020

Short video about Avondale Apartments at Elizabeth
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjqKOOpWcCk
 
11 October 2020
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Lois Lane’s free food at Elizabeth Downs
 
Lois said she gets nearly as many free customers in one hour at Elizabeth than they sometimes get at the main Faithworks store at Blair Athol in a whole day. They had 46 clients at one point the Sunday before last, but many of these were collecting for their families. Most clients got 10kgs of free vegetables and groceries. Others got up to 40kgs and needed help taking it to their cars. Very few were regulars doing the rounds.
 
The Almighty Bruce made a flash visit. He’s the boss of Faithworks and the sub-genius organiser who has kept it going through the Plandemic while the big-money government-funded charities reduced their homeless and underclass services. How did Bruce manage it while the big-money charities collapsed like a house of cards?
 
A police car went by and Lois strictly enforced a two-metre Covid distancing though Preston acted as if he were on a Conga line. The unpaid workers were Annie, Rene, Trevor, Lois, a new woman and the perpetually exhausted old guy who sits in the van.
 
Attendees included Mick of Mick and Denise, Devoid, the Magnificent Martin, the Virus Lady, the man with ten uni degrees (true), but everyone else were new people not doing the rounds. A Chinese woman took all the celery while a Moslem woman took very little. I myself got a little greedy.
 
Mick of Mick and Denise was so hungry that he shoved stringed beans with extended stems into his mouth.
 
“AJ” handed out copies of the free 31-page Adelaide Homeless Journal free food guide. He does it well and avoids giving it to ‘free food guide hoarders’. Some people will hoard anything and have 30 or 40 copies.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.

11 October 2020

(above) Orange Sky Laundry at Fred's Van Semaphore at the St Bede's Church yesterday. Homeless people prefer less onlookers when washing their underwear. Being so public adds another degree of humiliation to their lives. Orange Sky didn't wash a single item yesterday according to a Fred's Van diner. This is despite homeless people living in the area knowing of the free service. (Image published with permission October 2020).

Kirsty searching about Tracey Barret death and Family Murders

 Kirsty Zee
kurtlyz@me.com

“I’ve been reading your page, which I think is great by the way. I spent time on the streets when younger. I didn't know of many services.

I’m actually just after some information in a couple of cases, which I think you can help with. I’m not asking for evidence or testimony or anything, just for personal research & I don’t wish any disrespect to anyone, just I think this is where my answers will be.

Case 1 - Family Murders.

“I wanted ‘confirmation’ on witness ‘Mr B’ - doubt has been thrown around that we are not speaking of Mr Colin Bland…confirmation would be good as the R v [David] Szach is no longer available on the internet and it’s listed in there....also wouldn’t mind looking at anything you know on Darko Kastellan as he is a relevant player - just protected..

“Over and above that case, I have another case that people may know about or know who I am talking about.

Case 2 - Tracey Lee Barret 04/05/99 Heroin OD in city:

“On the 4th of May 1999, my friend Tracey Lee Barrett passed away from a heroin overdose. I know she was active in Hindley St, as in jumping blokes in alleys for $$...

“She had a son at that time aged 3, who was at home with her partner Sam.

“My understanding is that PERHAPS that night she took more than she should have, but kind of ‘knew’ it was too much. I don't know 100% if he was found at a bus stop (thinking Franklin St terminal)…I have nothing much to go on at all so mainly guessing game.
 
“If you know of or have heard about this at all, no police, nothing, I just want to know what happened to my mate: Can you also let anyone know who may know anything, her son was taken into state care after her death, but turned out real good. He is an accomplished chef. Sam unfortunately never got over Trace and is still stuck in 1999, cannot move on and has a huge smack habit.

“No judgements, nothing, just want to know.”
 
Kirsty Zee
kurtlyz@me.com
 
Editor: Big Footy has a huge page about Adelaide’s unsolved murders  https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/the-family-murders.983092/
 
10 October 2020
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The welfare system would collapse if clients began telling the truth

I worked in welfare as an assessor for a church-based group that helped disabled people with household maintenance and moving house.
 
There was  an academic from the University of Western Australia who wanted us to move her furniture from an incredible house on the Uni grounds to another place. Nothing about her indicated poverty and she didn’t appear to need our help except as free removalists.
 
Part of my assessing job was asking intrusive questions of applicants. I’d ask if they had any friends or relatives to help. Didn’t they have enough money? Were they physically unable to do the work? The answer was always “No”. But what bothered me was their unwavering smiles through what would have made me writhe from shame or anger.
 
Later, when I became a derelict, I tried a few government-funded church charities in Western Australian and South Australia and despite my obvious desperation and terrible health they refused to give me anything.
 
My problem was honesty. I was also upbeat. I hadn’t yet learned that carefully placed lies were the currency for getting help.
 
Nothing has changed today. I still see people with good cars, their own house and who travel overseas regularly come out of charities with multiple gift cards for chemists, supermarkets, petrol and even motel accommodation for their visitors. Some so-called desperate and homeless people wear party dresses to interviews asking for free motel rooms then party again that night before returning to their room at 3:00am.
 
Yet genuine desperate homeless people who don’t spin tales of desperation get nothing. And many of these aren’t even on the dole.
 
Government-funded charities need clients who lie. They hate clients who tell the truth. Charities need stories of sexual abuse, violence, drug addiction and mental illness to juice-up their statistics used for next year’s funding application.  
 
It’s like FoodbankSA saying they serve 100,000 hungry people a month in South Australia. Who believes that? Adelaide journalists know it is a lie; bureaucrats know it is a lie; Foodbank knows it is a lie.
 
If you watch Foodbank clients pick up food you see that most are obese. Some can hardly move. Their unnatural hunger is fuelled from unhealthy stale Foodbank food overloaded with kilojoules, but deficient in nutrients. And many of these so-called hungry South Australians go to ten Foodbank outlets a week and say they’re collecting food for five or ten relatives so the 100,000 is more like 10,000.
 
But Foodbank has to lie to justify further funding and donations. If they said most of their clients were fraudsters, and that Foodbank food was ruining the health most of the others, well, they would be denounced by their donors, the government and especially other charities for the crime of telling the truth.
 
So, if you’re exhausted, frightened, hungry and ill, and a charity tells you to piss off, then the reason is most likely that you are too honest.
 
10 October 2020
 

(above) This Paris Creek milk was a week before the Best Buy date when it was given away by Fred's Van Gawler. This means it was nearly the same age as milk then sold in supermarkets. Paris Creek is a generous supporter of Fred's Van. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

The Rabbit today
Part 4
 
The Rabbit is back an Denron Metals at Thebarton as a customer. He’d been banned for life for an unspecified offence, but the manager after seven years has allowed him back. Some staff are against it, but The Rabbit tried to appease them by saying, “You don’t have to like me, you just have to deal with me as a customer.”
 
Denron was a great loss for The Rabbit as it is within walking distance from the Adelaide Central Business District (CBD), but now he is back, sort of.
 
The Covid police were late in putting The Rabbit into a hotel where he stayed for eight weeks. After being released, so to speak, he moved into a Housing Trust complex occupied almost exclusively by drug dealers and arsonists.  
 
But The Rabbit maintains his old lifestyle and spends days and nights in the city collecting cans and scrap and enjoying what Hindley Street offers to anyone with money.
 
He says he can move back and forth to the city, but admits, “I miss the old life.”
 
9 October 2020 

​Salvation Army news
 
The Army at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide refer to themselves as City Salvo Church in their recorded message, which is what Piano Player Wayne said is heresy. He said William Booth didn’t want the Army to be a church.
 
The City Salvo recorded message also advertises the Do Unto Other Wednesday and Saturday evening programs despite them having been shut down six-months previously. The phone receptionist was disinterested when informed of this.
 
The receptionist was also unaware if the Norwood Corps had shut down or not and made little effort to find this out.
 
City Salvos are trying to rent out Adelaide Congress Hall to bring in more money.
 
On the positive side, the ramshackle Playford Corps on Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East continues to give away bags of old fruit, vegetables and bread on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:30am to when they run out, which is about lunch. No I.D. required unless you want the deluxe package.
 
9 October 2020

Homeless man on Don Dunstan
 
“I went out with a woman who worked for Ken Storen, another homosexual big name in Adelaide. He ran homosexual nightclubs so I got to clean the carpets in there. She would tell me all the gossip about Don Dunstan (Premier of South Australia), that he was a screaming queen and was getting too bold…he didn’t resign because he was sick. He was virtually forced out because they [his party M.P.’s] were about to vote against him.
 
“Later on, he got married to a woman, but that the rumour was that it was a sexual change type of situation.”
 
True name and address supplied.
9 October 2020
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(above) Life Church at Ingle Farm gives away free fruit, vegetables and groceries in small amounts every second Thursday. No I.D. or registration required. Best to phone first on (08) 8262 6475. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

Aged Care worker has fight with 72-year-old at Fred’s Van Elizabeth

Shuffles, 72, accused a 42-year-old Indian Aged Care worker of taking too much food at Fred’s Van on Wednesday evening. The Aged Care worker grabbed Shuffles’s arm so tightly it left a bruise. She is also accused of pulling Shuffles’s grey hair that looks like a small animal on top of her head.
 
But further investigation by the Virus Lady said it appeared that Shuffles jabbed the Aged Care worker in the stomach where she has an untreatable cyst or something like that. But a qualified nurse who worked in Aged Care, and who is also a Fred’s Van client, said, “I have my issues with Shuffles, but an Aged Care worker pulling the hair of a 72-year-old isn’t right.”
 
Tim broke up the fight with a gentle judo chop to the Aged Care worker’s hand.
 
The Aged Care worker tried to get Shuffles’s full name from the Covid Marshall who wouldn’t give it. She wanted to report Shuffles to the police.
 
Shuffles isn’t talking, but the Aged Care worker and her husband are upset over the incident. Her black toe is still infected two months after someone stepped on it during the rush to grab the takeaway bags.
 
No one is starving. This strange rush for stale food seems more a sport or a psychological necessity than a physical necessity.

​And to be fair, the Aged Care worker wasn't at work at the time. She was at Fred's Van. 
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station).
12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. Indoor and outdoor dining. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Much improved takeaway bags plus takeaway from kitchen meal surplus. Nice crowd usually. Orange Sky laundry from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Wednesdays.

8 October 2020
 

The Rabbit on scrap
Part 3
 
The Rabbit knows the scrap business. He also knows who throws out what and knows the best time to pick it up in the Light Square area. This may seem a joke to those not initiated into homeless survival techniques, but it allows a person to earn an actual living while not having a car and being homeless.
 
The Rabbit has worked in scrap all his life. He worked for Royal Park Salvage at Wingfield using a cutting torch to open domes from the Port Pirie lead smelter.
 
But even this was too much for The Rabbit. He wore a respirator, but when he cut through he’d get a face full of lead dust and couldn’t breathe. He lasted six months and gave it a miss.
 
He taught his son the business and the boy made a deal with a garbage collection contractor. The boy would check glass and paper domestic recycling bins for organic matter and put a warning sticker on those containing it. This would alert the truck driver to not touch it and drive on. In exchange, Tyson would be given exclusive access to the recycling bins.
 
The Rabbit taught his son well.
 
8 October 2020

Above Majestic
 
A deep state conspiracy two-hour documentary. Can these people be believed?
 https://www.bitchute.com/video/aBX3V2TnfVal/
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 8 October 2020
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Beacon of Hope free lunch
 
The homeless woman on drugs living outside and couch surfing at the Avondale Apartments was physically sick and losing weight. This was before the virus.
 
Welfare sent her to Scotty’s Motel then to a motel in North Adelaide and then a drug rehab joint. After that, the Housing Trust via Street to Home put her into a renovated formerly burnt-out semi-detached unit in the western suburbs to get her out of Elizabeth.
 
She returned to the Beacon earlier this month. We didn’t recognise her at first as she had gained weight and no longer had the look of death. She was beautiful.
 
She is also pregnant and went in labour too soon so doctors stopped it. The boy is large and will be induced slightly early as it is too big for the mother. The cheerful woman showed us a miniature pair of Nike sandals for him.
 
Yet she seemed vulnerable. How does someone who has lived most of her adult life amongst drug addicts change her social milieu? We hope the best for her.
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth free lunches
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) 
ph 08 8255 2467. Nice salad rolls, soup and meat pies 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. Frequently free bread and vegetables out front. No I.D. or registration required for Eternal Shame File. Served from outdoor trailer. Good atmosphere. Top quality staff. One free takeaway strangely flavoured coffee per client available from restaurant counter. Optional $7.50 restaurant meals.
 
8 October 2020

(above) Playford Council closed this free graveled parking area after its $8.1 multi-story carpark was finished. The Council has tried all kinds of tricks to get drivers to park in the out-of-the-way $8.1 surveillance monster, but that failed. The black carpark building behind the trees should be called the Kickback Building. (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2020).

 Brian Tape at Dead Man’s Pass
 
Brian had been living near the toilet block on High Street, Gawler before being forced out. He moved to Dead Man’s Pass on the Little Para River. The Gawler Council took away his tent, clothing and bedding as rubbish.
 
UCare gave him more blankets and the Council say they will return his tent and bedding. How will they do that if it had been deemed as rubbish?
 
Only homeless people know the feeling of returning home and finding it gone. He and other homeless people had already suffered when the Council closed the free shower rooms at the Visitors’ Centre. There is now limited access.
 
Brian Tape said he’d been “gobsmacked” by people coming up to him and giving him food and drink. He said the problem was those “higher up”. Brian has established himself further as Gawler’s premier homeless identity. But he’d better be careful as the Gawler Mayor is mouthing words about “helping” him.
 
Thanks to the Night Talker for alerting Adelaide Homeless Journal.
7 October 2020

The Rabbit of Hindley Street
Part 2
 
An aspect of The Rabbit is his good nature despite living years in laneways and in the parklands across from the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.
 
He liked the latter location because it was frequented by nightclub patrons drinking and throwing their cans on the grass. On a good night, The Rabbit could collect 2000 cans worth $200. He’d been banned for life from the closest recycler so a friend cashed them in. When the Plandemic went operational and the nightclubs closed, he concentrated on the student accommodation blocks where retreating wealthy Chinese students left everything you could dream of.
 
7 October 2020
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Semaphore Hostel (Rudd’s)
 
From the anonymous contact page.
 
“The chances of people going to these places is 90% have heart or diabetes problems cause they don’t have a choice [of what they eat] so they have to settle for sh**.
 
“I used to see people at Sunnydale have their insulin needle then given sugary buns and doughnuts to eat. Their eating is fully in their carers’ hands and if you’re under a lot of heavy medication you don’t know what you’re doing.
 
“At Semaphore Lodge (Rudd’s), they come out at 7:30pm and put a tray of sh** in the lounge room. And they come out with this watered-down Black and Gold coffee…and they [the residents] go in like blowflies.”
 
Name and address supplied.
7 October 2020

(above) Housing Trust units in Elizabeth. September 2020.

The Rabbit is alive and well

​Part 1

There were times after his wife’s death that The Rabbit would be sick and out of money and spend days half sleeping in the rain under bushes in the parklands.
 
But he recovered and obtained a franchise for four streets around Hindley Street and Light Square as a homeless recycler based in a laneway behind an historic hotel.
 
His territory includes the student housing apartments near the University of South Australia Hindley Street campus. He says Chinese students throw good computers in the rubbish bins when they leave including one still turned on. When a student block was being renovated he found 42 good televisions and 14 security cameras tossed into the rubbish bins.
 
But The Rabbit is more than a scrap collector. He’s a renowned party boy who takes advantage of all what is on offer in Hindley Street.
 
6 October 2020

Salisbury Fred’s Van superb
 
A man sitting on the concrete said he’d been on the Housing Trust waiting list for 32 years, since he was 18. I felt like a junior having been on it just 22 years. A third person waiting for the doors to open wondered why refugees got accommodation right away.
 
Old Val was upset. A guard told her to get out of the Salisbury shopping centre. A friend of One-eyed Steve told her she must have done something wrong. That got Old Val going. She repeated her denials five times, poking the other woman who complained to the Covid Marshall. Old Val kept poking her then sat at another table and read a celebrity magazine.
 
The CMAX Kid appeared better than last fortnight. He yelled at a few people, but they weren’t offended. He means no harm.
 
Salisbury’s two leading shoplifters arrived late. They weren’t particularly welcome as they’ve used so many people. There were some extended stares between tables that made me edgy.
 
An old diner said her organs are collapsing and that food takes 24-hours to be digested. Her boyfriend has gained 10kgs from a stomach ulcer medication.
 
The meal included excellent pasta brought in from a restaurant, superb creamed sliced baked potatoes made by the Covid Marshall, large servings of sliced roast beef, baked cheese balls, horrible boiled frozen vegetables, hot dogs, a rich creamy cake for dessert. It was a wonderful meal like being in a good restaurant.
 
One client complained there wasn’t any salt or pepper. I’ve gotten used to it, but cut the Salvation Army out of my will for not providing salt and pepper with their meals at Adelaide Congress Hall.
 
Review for Sunday 27 September 2020
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station).
6:00pm Sunday. The meal is served inside the hall. The quality is excellent with much of it baked at the volunteers' homes, but the actual session is too rushed. Dirty toilets. Not too much fighting between rival gangs, but old people frequently accusing each other of being greedy.
Free. No I.D. required. No data entry into the Eternal Shame File, but huge government cameras in the foyer and dining room. Orange Sky Laundry no longer there. Takeaway bags much improved.
 
6 October 2020

(above) Picnic shelters are usually no good for us living outside due to hostile housed people. But at night they can be a quiet refuge for an hour or two before you head for your camp further in the bush. The trick of accessing services is timing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Does Orange Sky Laundry
​add to the resource pool available
to homeless people? 

Is Orange Sky Laundry a self-congratulatory Ponzi scheme designed to appear an improvement in the lives of homeless people while actually reducing it? On first glance this seems a ridiculous claim.
 
Orange Sky Laundry operates two laundry vans in Adelaide each equipped with two washing machines, two driers and a powerful quiet petrol generator. Each shift requires cleaning of the truck, setting up and packing up the hoses, chairs, mats, filling and emptying the water containers, and a return trip to the home depot.
 
Two or three usually unpaid volunteers will wash and dry a homeless person’s laundry without charge. But do they get many homeless clients?
 
One van turned up at Fred’s Van at Semaphore on Sunday the 27th of September. The crew reportedly included a paid employee. A Fred’s Van client confronted them on not giving notice they’d be there that day. He said he asked them, “Are you mentally retarded? There’s no one here. Did you advertise?”
 
They appeared not to get any customers on that shift. That wasn’t too unusual. They didn’t get any customers on a summer day I’d seen them just before the Covid outbreak. This was despite me telling fifteen homeless people camping in cars at the beach of Orange Sky’s presence at Fred’s Van. Two campers said they preferred to use a laundromat in Queenstown, the one with the faulty machines.
 
Orange Sky park their laundry van outside St Bede’s church hall next to a busy footpath along busy Military Road. It’s also where diners queue until the doors of the hall open for the Fred’s Van evening meal.
 
Living outside without proper showers or toilet access results in extremely dirty laundry. The loading and washing process is done with dozens of strangers watching the unusual event of a bright orange van with volunteers wearing bright orange clothing and sitting on bright orange chairs. No one already suffering the humiliation of homelessness wants the extra humiliation of having their dirty laundry shaken out before being put into the machine.
 
Another problem is limiting the amount of washing done for each person. A homeless person might want all his or her clothing and bedding done at one go, but the service is doled out as if to boost the statistics.
 
It might have cost $100 to prepare and deliver the $100,000 van to St Bede’s and getting no customers. This is not uncommon.
 
We then come to the busier locations such as the St Vincent de Paul shelter at Whitmore Square in Adelaide and the AngliPrison in Port Adelaide.
 
Orange Sky provides the service at Whitmore Square that the St Vincent de Paul shelter should and can provide to both residents and nearby homeless people. It would be cheaper than bringing in an orange van and involve less public humiliation.
 
The new AngliPrison building on Dale Street in Port Adelaide hasn’t any laundry facilities for its prisoners. How absurd is that? So, Orange Sky fills that gap, but again it seems silly for Anglicare not to install a few washers and driers in the recently built prison building.
 
Orange Sky gets laundry clients at its other locations, but from my observation gets very few homeless people. Instead they get housed people going there for other reasons. Or church and welfare agencies taking their washing to the van as reverse charity. Something is wrong with the Orange Sky Laundry service model.
 
Monday: Church of Christ (Free 79 Centre) 379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol (near the IGA) 11:00am to 1:30pm.
Monday: Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. 388 Montague Road, Para Vista. 5:30pm to 7:30pm.
Tuesday: St Vincent de Paul, 28 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Wednesday: Fred's Van Christie Downs, 13 McKinna Rd., Christie Downs. 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
Wednesday: Fred's Van Elizabeth, St Vincent de Paul Centre, Langford Drive, Elizabeth. 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
Thursday: The AngliPrison (The Arches), 77 Thomas Place, Port Adelaide. 5:30pm to 8:00pm.
Thursday: St Vincent de Paul, 28 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 9:30am to 12:30pm.
​Friday: Marion Salvation Army, 155 Sturt Road, Seacombe Gardens. (corner of Sturt Road and Morphett Road. 10:00 – 12:00 noon.​
Saturday: St Vincent de Paul, 28 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 9:00am to 12:00pm.
Sunday: Fred's Van Semaphore, 200 Military Road, Semaphore (St Bede's church hall near corner of Military and Semaphore Roads. 5:00pm to 7:00pm.
 
5 October 2020
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Musical heresy in the Salvation Army
From Piano Player Wayne
 
“William Booth had meetings, not church services…so what developed over time was for the morning service ― it was a Holiness Meeting ― and the Salvationist Meeting was in the evening. So, what happened over time is that the Holiness Meetings has gone out the window because of creeping heresies, that no one has been prepared to call out. The Holiness Meetings has been replaced by a Happy Clappy Assembly of God service, which does nothing for anybody’s’ souls.
 
“The Hillsong stuff doesn’t pass muster in terms of real authentic worship. It’s a [theatrical performance] and there isn’t any Holiness in it at all. It’s a false doctrine of song. The Salvation Army tune book and song book are practically eternal. They will last forever, but the Hillsong stuff espoused by Nathan Casey and his cohorts at Ingle Farm. I give it four years and they’ll be gone, leaving a smoking ruin.”
 
Piano Player Wayne
5 October 2020

Re: Piano Player Wayne and the Heresy that is the current Salvation Army Church....
The Night Talker

P.P.W. I got news for you.....there is practically no difference (now) between HILLSONG CHURCH AND THE SALVO's. Both are ROLLING IN THE MOOLAH (in direct contradiction to the teachings of Christ our Lord and savior who was born poor, lived as a poor man and died penniless), and an affront to Christians who continue to follow the radical original teachings of William Booth and other similar evangelical stalwarts of the 19th and early 20th Century.
 
“William Booth stated, "that you will find the true meaning of God's eternal love in the faces of the poor you provide service for without reward or remuneration, not in the idle twaddle of the rich."
 
“Blessed are those who hunger and search for righteousness, for their reward, will be a seat at the table of our Lord." (Matt 5:6)  
 
“Now we have both religious entities who appear to worship the (satanic) "Doctrine of Prosperity.
 
"The love of money is but the root of all evil; " (Timothy 6:10).
 
“These satanic entities include our current Prime Minister, SCUMMO MORRISON and the current American President, Donald (666 Mark of the Beast) Trumpf. (The proper spelling of his last name).

“(Revelations: Chapter 55, 12:16) The days of reckoning are coming, and we are all just sitting around doing nothing......If our Lord and Savior came back to Earth in the guise of a human, I am sure he would be carrying a can of petrol and a box of matches, TO BURN DOWN THE ESTABLISHED ORDER, IN RAGE OF WHAT WE HAVE DEVOLVED INTO!!!

“P.S. I WOULD BUY FRONT SEAT TICKETS TO WATCH HILLSONG AND ALL THE OTHER DISGUSTINGLY RICH PARASITIC RELIGIOUS ENTITIES, BURN INTO OBLIVION.

"Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord." (Leviticus 19:18 EVS).

The Night Talker
5 October 2020

St Bede’s Semaphore on Tuesday afternoons

“People were pushing in, everyone was trying to push in. People who rocked up were incredibly well dressed, but terribly bad mannered…they didn’t care about any rules (social distancing); they just wanted something to eat.
 
On their first Tuesday event, two staff gave away hot pies and pasties, bread rolls and pieces of cake in separate bags, all takeaway only. This Covid Safe strategy seemed a little strange considering that a hundred metres away on Semaphore Road, most cafes and other businesses were operating almost as usual and here we were as if we all carried the virus.
 
Anglicare is planning a Tuesday breakfast to replace the currently defunct Tuesday and Wednesday morning dining room breakfasts.
 
One client said it will be modelled on a hospital breakfast. Two diners will be allowed in the dining room for twenty-minutes using disposable plates and cutlery. They have to stay in the seats. Then another two can go in for twenty minutes. Or diners can get takeaway versions and do what they want. Something isn’t clicking upstairs at Anglicare Supreme Command if this is the new regime, according to one diner.
 
St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfasts
Still closed until further notice. 200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road).
Closed on Wednesdays during the Covid era, but open on Tuesdays from 5:00pm to 5:45 pm. Takeaway hot pies, pasties, bread and sugary buns. No I.D. or registration required. They are rumoured to be planning to reopen in late October with a takeaway breakfast every Tuesday morning. This is a shadow of its former glory and it falls behind Fred’s Van, Port Church and other meal places. Nevertheless, St Bede’s have very good staff.
 
5 October 2020

From the anonymous contact page

Many Ishes 'mong 'em?
If so, what Ish, what Ishes?

Irish
Yewish
Danish
Polish
English
British
Finnish
Flamish
Scottish
Cavendish
Cockneyish

Whatish? Whatishes?
 
Etty Mobbo
5 October 2020
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(above) Oz Harvest has ceased their successful free food handout on Fridays outside the Elizabeth Grove Uniting Church. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

On the Street
 
A nursing home woman’s pride was her long grey hair done in plaits. A Care Worker would  plait her hair until the manager told her each patient had just 15 minutes each day to be toileted, showered and dressed and that didn’t allow enough time to do this woman’s hair.
 
The manager solved the problem by cutting off the resident’s plaits and selling them to a wig manufacturer. The old patient was crushed and deteriorated and began sucking the ends of her cut off hair in her mouth like a baby.
 
*
 
Jesse Gunther pushed his way to the front of the queue at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place last week. He performed his martial arts kicks and punches in the air then shouted repeatedly: “I loves you all. I loves you all.”
 
*
 
That thin Salisbury man with part of one leg missing got a brand new three-bedroom Housing Trust house at Paralowie. He’s the fellow who sits in a wheelchair outside bank ATM’s and asks for money. He also begs near the Adelaide railway station in the city where the Celebrity Can Collector played his bongo drum before he died.
 
The kitchen sink and bathroom handbasin of the new house already smell of vomit from his heroin addiction. Friends say he’s trashing the joint and coughs phlegm everywhere.
 
His drug-addicted friends have little sympathy for him. They say you can use drugs, but you should maintain your morals nevertheless and not use everyone around you.
 
 
*
 
A doctoral student wanted to include in his research hamburger meat that didn’t go rotten after it was treated with “Pure Light” from the hands of Mahikari practitioners.
 
The student had seen examples where it had delayed the decomposition of raw hamburger meat. The University of Adelaide instructor refused to allow the experiment as part of a thesis saying it would give the university a bad name. Reputation was more important than the truth.
 
*
 
A retired successful business woman now attends a free soup kitchen. She has stopped washing and lives with her dogs and cats. She gets huge amounts of free food for her animals or simply hoards it while homeless people wait at the end of the queue.
 
*
 
A normal man with a druggie friend were looking in the wardrobe of another male druggie at Elizabeth when they found a secret compartment. It contained dildoes, high-heeled shoes and plastic false breasts. The owner appears perfectly normal and masculine, but needs to raise money for heroin.
 
*
 
Salvo dissident soldier Piano Player Wayne says Japan is the least corrupt Salvation Army in the world. They publish who puts what in their offerings.
 
*
 
A formerly homeless man says he feels anxiety when he opens a window at night before going to bed. He says the cool breeze triggers his fear at nights from ten years of homelessness.
 
*
 
An insider says Playford Salvation Army give away bags of fruit, vegetables and bread at 9:30am on Tuesdays and Fridays. Another insider says the officers might revive the free BBQ once they get off holidays. He added that the new heaters have been installed in the building.
 
*
 
 
“Can you get me on? Can you get me on?” a drug addict in Rundle Mall asked a man getting off drugs.
 
*
 
A major drug dealer and another person said that sentences can be reduced by placing money in the right places within the Court and Judicial system in South Australia. The two sources don’t know each other.
 
*
 
Jesus of Dublin was seen walking from Port Wakefield to Dublin.
 
*
 
A heroin user said drug addicts talk of nothing, but drugs. They talk of various drugs and how to use them and what they do and where to get them. They shun non-drug users who have no value except from which to extract money.
 
*
 
A woman with a very good nose at a free food venue said her nose used to be longer, but her husband used to bite it when he got anger and it became lopsided. She went to a plastic surgeon who cut off the wonky part and remoulded the rest. The result was a stunning success. A perfect nose.
 
The husband won’t bite that because she got rid of him.
 
4 October 2020

Re: Dirty stuff at Sunnydale SRF

From the anonymous contact page

“Some years ago when I was working as a Support Worker at ********** ********* with a number of residents from Sunnydale whom the then manager had kicked out because of their recalcitrant behaviors and dirty habits.
 
“I was told by one of the former residents (a retarded middle aged man, whom we shall refer to as "P") that he had raped a "three year old" and been taken to the Holden Hill Police Station for questioning after this alleged incident happened) Every time staff drove him past this particular place, he would repeat the same story.
 
“I am pretty sure that my (then) employer and "P's" family knew of his unnatural interest in small children and what he had allegedly previously done. S,o what did they do? They placed him in rental accommodation, in the Western Suburbs, next door to a young family!
 
“I'm not saying that Sunnydale is at fault for this, (even though i don't think much of this facility, it remains a dirty, substandard place to live, the management have the right to invite and or remove who they want from their accommodation.)
 
“P.S. for those of you who think I am being unduly harsh and or critical of intellectually disabled persons, might want to be reminded that the absolute worst child abuse/murder in this state, remains the one committed by the retarded Riley Brothers (Kevin and Jim) who abducted, raped and murdered, seven year old Shaun Philips in 1988.).
 
“Both still remain in Prison, having tried unsuccessfully to gain parole on a number of occasions. The truth remains that being mentally deficient increases a persons risk of committing certain offences, not the other way around.
 
“In days gone past, we used a more common sense approach. (e.g. had stricter rules and regulations around maintaining these kinds of people in society) Now nobody gives a shit, until something really terrible happens. Sexual urges in people who have no capacity to control them (in the normal sense of the word) is dangerous (particularly for children and or other vulnerable persons) and needs to be dealt with properly.
 
“Seriously, Sunnydale needs to think very carefully about supplying "unfettered" all you can watch Porn, to their residents. They have a duty of care, to maintain a healthy and normal environment, for their residents. This is clearly not happening! What happens when a client gets tired to watching XXXX rated Porn and decides they want to act out what they have been viewing? I'd hate have a young family living near this place!”
 
Name and address supplied
4 October 2020

Park Terrace Gilberton Housing Trust
 
“Homeless living with criminals...
criminals security...criminals justice system...
criminals administration...will it ever end...will it ever STOP...
at a place other than HELL ?

example : a Home.”
 
The Rundle Spy
4 October 2020

(above) Public toilets in little-used parks in the Adelaide Hills face zone stay open 24-hours and are relatively clean. But homeless people should avoid all public toilets used by drug injectors and those filthy Exceloo bunkers in the city that are crawling with disease microbes. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Life Church Ingle Farm free food
 
It was a rainy day and I was screwy in the head. Like when you’ve had a migraine and every flash of light or sound is like thunder through your brain.
 
I hid my car down the street then wobbled up to the church giving everyone under the verandah of the church screwy sorts of glances.
 
They had about ten fruit and vegetable varieties, energy and sparkling water drinks plus seven or eight grocery items including pasta and 1kg sealed bags of Salsa made in the U.S.A.
 
The staff were polite and didn’t ask questions. I felt no humiliation except fear that I would be discovered for whatever. There were only about ten clients waiting and they were served in the five-minutes I was there.
 
The next session should be Thursday 8 October 2020, but it is best to phone first to ensure this is the date.
 
Life Church Ingle Farm
61 Baloo St., Ingle Farm Ph (08) 8262 6475. Free fruit, vegetables, bread and some groceries every second Thursday 4:00pm - 5:00pm. Best to arrive early. No I.D., registration or residency requirements. Not much on offer, but the people are nice and it’s worth it if you live nearby.

3 October 2020

Heresy in the Salvation Army
Piano Player Wayne
 
“The heresy that is now on offer at the Salvation Army Corps,” Wayne says, and adds, “I say Corps because we are not a church and never have been. William booth did not want a church because there were enough churches out there already.
 
“William Booth wanted an army that went out there and saved people from worldly destruction…let’s get that clear.
 
“To call us a church under the doctrine laid out by William Booth and his very immediate successors is heresy, which we as Salvationists have to guard against.
 
“Heresy crept in during the late 70’s, early 80’s when they introduced a few praise and worship songs. Up until 1985 most Salvation Army Corps around the world would not use Praise and Worship. We had our own song book; we had our own way of doing things that was us.
 
“Because we were an army and not a church we did things differently. We were the alternative to church. So why would we want to turn ourselves into something when you could get the real thing just down the road. It turns us into something we are not.
 
“William Booth…said we will be the alternative to church; we will not be a church. We will have some of the same tenets in common and we will have a few things are central to our faith as believers and Salvationists, but we will not call ourselves a church.
 
“We will be different because the churches back then, just like now, didn’t offer anything different that actually saves people from their destruction because William Booth actually wanted an army of people that actually went out and did things so to call us a church under what William Booth and his immediate successors laid out is a heresy.
 
“Just like the music that is currently on offer at Ingle Farm and a lot of other Corps is an absolute heresy because why would you want to turn yourself into something that you can get better down the road. A classic example of this is Nathan Casey at Ingle Farm Corps and his cohort of flunkies. Sunday after Sunday after Sunday, Hillsong, Happy Clappy. Bring back a Council on Music because the current lot of music is Hillsong, blah, blah, blah.
 
“[It is] hard to pick, but I think it began in the mid-1980’s. It was very gradual and very subtle at first, but over time it became larger and more clearly evident that the best way to destroy a fortress is to destroy it from within like what Lenin said how Communist could take over governments of nations.
 
Piano Player Wayne
3 October 2020
 

Night Stalker is Right (again) :

From the anonymous contact page

"...prudent advice,
NEVER, EVER HAND OVER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS! ONLY HAND OVER SCANNED AND OR PHOTOCOPIED DOCUMENTS!"

He know...He know...Hee haww...Hee haww..
 
Anonymous
Editor: It's the Night Talker. The Night Stalker operates from a different part of Adelaide.

3 October 2020

(above) Junk left outside the Playford Salvation Army provides work for work-for-the-dole people for whom the Army is paid to conscript. But one could still expect the crooked Playford Council to pay the Army for disposing rubbish that otherwise would have been collected by Council contractors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

​ Dirty stuff at Sunnydale SRF

Sunnydale Supported Residential Facility in Semaphore has installed large smart televisions in every room along with a high internet speed.
 
A visitor said, “You walk into Sunnydale and all you hear is “ugh, ugh, ugh,” coming from the rooms from residents watching pornography on youtube. “The workers couldn’t give a sh**.”
 
And then staff bring out a trolley of aged sugary white flour pastries to residents most of whom suffer from diabetes caused by psychiatric medication.
 
2 October 2020
​

Why did the Salvation Army slow down during the Plandemic?
Piano Player Wayne

The Salvation Army closed down many of its food services while a much smaller group called Faithworks and even smaller groups like Our Street Family Matters and Cos We Care continued.  Piano Player Wayne says this shows, “…how fat and lazy the Salvation Army has become. The Army doesn’t want to work anymore…the Divisional Commander wouldn’t come running unless you had a cheque for a billion dollars.”
 
2 October 2020

Park Terrace, Gilberton Housing Trust
 
From the anonymous contact page

“Had someone(s) furiously banging on door yesterday, perhaps related to recent submissions and postings to this site about malfeasance in homeless housing administration.

“Have noticed can often be the case that government and/or development syndicate officials will acquaint themselves closely with crims and/or kooks in homeless housing and use these as tip-offs and surveillance of legitimate homeless tenants such as elderly and non-offensive folks.

“Then when these erroneous administrative officials need to check on someone, they consult with their crim / kook informants about the whereabouts of the targeted tenants.

“Not worth answering the banging on doors when crims are waving about firearms and there seem to be "bodies in the barrels" associations between various crims and kooks in area.

“Too risky.

“Hint: always take note of what is going on at the same time administrators and others are buggering with legitimate tenants. is there savage screaming, profuse profanity, or is an administrator accompanied by their crim kook stooge(s) ?

“If so, then no go...no go answer door or comply with buggery. Never let yourself be a willing victim or naive gullible person in the face of official malfeasance.

“Your life is too valuable to be mixed up with the wrong mob, criminals and criminals control mob such as government molesters and arresters.

“Life’s too short to put up with a human deviationism.”
 
Anonymous
2 October 2020

(above) Sittin' in the morning rain at Playford Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. The Corps can't properly manage its donations. They need a late night and early morning presence. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Housing Trust falsifying history
​of forced transfers

The South Australian Housing Authority (Housing Trust) has a dirty trick to disguise the fact they are kicking out tenants in order to knock down the buildings.
 
They demand tenants sign “Request for Transfer” applications. This creates the illusion for the historical records that many tenants ask for transfers and get them when the reality is that these are involuntary transfers, often to lower quality housing.
 
The truth is that thousands of evictions occur, but are recorded as transfers. These involuntary transfers and evictions also create the false illusion that anyone asking for a transfer gets it quickly.  The irony is that those wanting a transfer find them nearly impossible to get. Even when neighbours operate crystal methamphetamine kitchens next door and the fumes move into other units and houses.
 
The C.E.O. of the Housing Trust, Michael Buchan is deception personified. He may not even know that his job has required him to continuously deceive others.
 
1 October 2020

To HSA/SAHT tenant who allegedly had a document stolen
The Night Talker

Some prudent advice, NEVER, EVER HAND OVER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS! ONLY HAND OVER SCANNED AND OR PHOTOCOPIED DOCUMENTS! If they need to be verified, then you get a J.P.(Justice of the Peace) to stamp the copies as original as verifiable copies of the originals. (This will cost you nothing) Even better just email copies. Why are you handing originals to someone, over a counter? This is 2020, not 1918. Get with the program!

The Night Talker
1 October 2020
​

Big Al’s gesture
 
The Chef at the Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth named Big Al told homeless Angela to get out of the restaurant section as she was coughing and spluttering and putting customers off their lunches. And perhaps muttering unsweet nothings.
 
She joined us under the verandah roof for the free lunch. Big Al brought some blankets and a carry bag from the Op Shop and gave them to her. Angela lives outside near the Playford Council $8.1 million carpark that sits mostly empty day and night.
 
1 October 2020
​

From the anonymous contact page

"Nasty husbands bites wife's nose that was too long anyway"

Could Ya please send him around to have a nibble of the FrankenNose Bros ? (Frankeinstein Monsters twins)
 
The Rundle Spy
1 October 2020

Thanks fer askin' Dey did fix da main recent leak that was floodin' out da place, but NOT the leak in the shower above where those above perhaps have STD's that will never please.

Being unwilling unintentional recipient of their staph, syph, gongreeah, ebola, HIV AIDS, chink mink virus was never welcome.
 
 The Rundle Spy
1 October 2020

(above) The first fire began in the shed at this house near the Beacon of Hope free lunch place at Elizabeth. The fire crew extinguished it. The next fire began at the back of the house. The fire crew extinguished it. The third fire began in the ceiling. The fire crew extinguished it. "Now we're homeless," a man from the family of Nepalese appearance said. Where are they now? (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Inappropriate food for homeless
​at Fred’s Van Gawler

To be fair, there was just one person that might have been homeless at Fred’s Van Gawler last Thursday. The other six clients have homes. The food included thin sandwiches, frozen takeaway meals and no hot coffee, not even warm coffee on the cold and windy evening.
 
Those living outside prefer cooked hot food, hot coffee and plastic cutlery. When the frozen food suits those with homes, the homeless clients respond by staying away. And so the progression towards a Fred’s Van that caters for the housed and not the homeless moves forward. The primary focus should be a person sleeping outside.
 
One of the only seven clients that turned up last Thursday is quite wealthy, but she refused to move from the serving counter until she obtained at least 18kgs of prepared takeaway meals, pies and pasties and anything else she could grab. The one man who might have been homeless stormed off muttering, “F*** off you p****ers.”
 
We talked about heating on this cold evening. One housed man said he couldn’t afford heating, but was happy enough wearing blankets around the house. But his tone of voice changed when we talked energy politics. He said the “brainy people” have sold our gas to the Chinese who sell it back to us at seven times the price.
 
We seven clients were served by four pleasant volunteers in the Lion’s Club Rotunda. But the staff should keep a sharper eye on equity though this may cause anger at first. They should also provide hot and not frozen food with plastic cutlery to attract homeless people, the more deserving clients. This wouldn’t require much more than shoving a few plastic containers in the microwave.
 
Fred’s Van as an organisation might also advocate for the homeless by urging the Visitors’ Centre to make their showers more easily available. Those Council goons have reduced services for the vulnerable in the middle of the Plandemic.
 
Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van
Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre)
Thursdays 6:00pm. Soup, hotdogs, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread.
Under the Lions Rotunda during wet weather. Clients and staff more polite than in the city. No I.D. or registration required. Usually, really nice.
​
30 September 2020
 

Norwood Salvation Army Corps closed down

The word came down from Head Office in Adelaide to close down Norwood Corps.
 
They knew Major Anderson had no stomach for the task so they moved him on and appointed Major June Purdy.
 
Aged Army soldiers didn’t know what was happening and wondered why she started the job by shutting down the components of the Corps including the innocuous friendship club.
 
The truth was she was there to kill the historic Corps. This contemptuous treatment of the soldiers wasn’t new. One soldier named Piano Player Wayne said, “Management has not stood up for soldiers over decades.”
 
The Army tried to change with the times, but that led to mixed results.  The young recruits were intolerant of the attitudes of the old soldiers’ who responded by staying home. And the young didn’t want to make the historical sacrifice of being a soldier, of giving a large portion of your life to helping others.
 
Head Office told the soldiers and friends of the defunct Norwood Corps to find another Corps. The old hands went for a meal at the Robin Hood Hotel then went home to cry and linger in a state of depression. A hundred years of Salvationist history gone in a flash.
 
30 September 2020

Correction about "Pat" (S) the former Librarian at Gawler School
The Night Talker

Mrs. S, (if she is still alive) was/is a lovely lady, but if this is the same lady (lives in a suburb outside of Gawler, she was never the school librarian at Gawler (public primary school, formally the old Gawler High School) she was a high school teacher at the current Gawler High School (which is on Barnett road at Evanston Gardens) from 1966 until her retirement somewhere in the mid 1990's.
 
I should know because I went to that school in the early to mid-1980's where Mrs. S. taught Australian History and Social Policy studies. The school Librarian at that time, were Mrs. Rosenzweig and the library aide was Ms. Houlihan. I believe (that all of the older staff members, transferred across to the "new" school on Barnett Road at Evanston Gardens when it opened in 1966 and the former Gawler High School because Gawler Primary School)
 
My memories of the "new" school on Barnett road was that it was a cheaply built, cold in winter, noisy as and hot as hell in summer, bitumen and concrete monstrosity, that was slapped together by the (then) Steele-Rudd, State Government. Less than twenty years later (early 1980's) the school had serious structural issues (one side of the school was leaning precariously) which caused windows to jam, leaking roofs, and doors not closing properly. Unfortunately the design was used in several other public schools (Gepps Cross Girls High, Northfield High, Clearview High etc, with similar results.
 
Personally I am surprised it is still standing?) Meanwhile the original school, appears to remain unscathed and in a much better condition structurally. Goes to show that post-modernism did not always have good outcomes.

The Night Talker
30 September 2020

(above) Julie Mann attempted to "friend" Megaphone Man on Facebook despite an intervention order against her. She faces multiple vandalism charges in the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court. Her anger against Megaphone Man appears the product of manipulation by a third party. (Photo used by Adelaide Homeless Journal under legal license).

Beacon of Hope stops free food Saturdays
 
The Beacon of Hope Church of Christ has stopped its free food giveaways on the third Saturday of each month. They weren’t getting many takers. Potential clients were going to Lois Lane’s free food event instead.
 
Lois Lane gives away free groceries, fruit, vegetables and bread every Saturday morning at 10:00am at her Elizabeth Downs house. She had planned to open on Sundays every third week of the month so she didn’t rob the Beacon of its customers. The Beacon didn’t give away enough stuff. Not worth the trip there so Lois was trying to help them and told her Saturday clients that every third week of the month she’d open on Sunday instead of Saturday.  
 
Bruce Kurtzer of Faithworks stuffed things up by sending out alerts to his $5 app subscribers that the last third week of Sunday at Lois Lane’s had been reversed back to Saturday. This was after Lois had spent weeks telling us the opposite. Bruce sent out his poxy alert on Friday. He did this because he wanted Lois to attend a church meeting on Sunday and not be occupied with her free food event.
 
Bruce’s intervention meant Lois had to work both Saturday and Sunday on the third week of September as well as Monday to Friday at the Faithworks store in Blair Athol. She was exhausted and also disappointed because on Sunday she had very little to give away. Bruce made a boo-boo and in any case that horrible app excludes people who are phone illiterate and these are the type of people most deserving.
 
Bruce stuffed that one up, but generally he’s a terrific organiser and has built up Faithworks from nothing and kept it going right through the Plandemic when the big-name richer charities closed down.
 
From now on, Lois Lane’s giveaway will be every Saturday while the Beacon of Hope has called off their third Saturday of the month giveaway and will instead give away bread and some groceries free during their free high-quality lunches from Tuesday to Friday. It worked out well for all concerned.
 
Elizabeth Downs Faithworks
58 McKenzie Road, Elizabeth Downs (close to Main North Road). Saturdays 10:00am to 11:00am. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, groceries, bottled drinks, knick-knacks, clothing and sometimes hot soup. I.D. not required as they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. Friendly. Very good place.
 
Beacon of Hope Elizabeth free lunches
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth (near where Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death) 
ph 08 8255 2467. Nice salad rolls, soup and meat pies 11:30am to 12:30pm Tuesday to Friday. Frequently free bread and vegetables out front. No I.D. or registration required for Eternal Shame File. Served from outdoor trailer. Good atmosphere. Top quality staff. One free takeaway strangely flavoured coffee per client available from restaurant counter. Optional $7.50 restaurant meals.

29 September 2020

From the anonymous contact page
 
“Once knew CBD homeless barefoot dwarf who gave horror tale of waking up with hypodermic syringe hanging out of his arm in a "shared accommodation" scenario. Some PUSHER was probably trying to make him into a cash-paying client addict.

"God Damn the PUSHER": Lyrics from Steppenwolf song.
 
The Rundle Spy
29 September 2020
​

Park Terrace Gilberton Housing Trust
From a tenant
 
“True Testimony.

“HSA (SAHA) Housing SA were furiously trying to evict me for being an innocent tenant in a shit pot full of crim scum, wackos, kooks, etc. because I would not "move on" so they could sell the joint off to syndicate developers.

“SACAT (SA Civil Admin Tribunal) had sent me full set of letters of various grievances made by HSA (SAHA) Housing SA, which I would present to various agencies to demonstrate the perilous plight I was in.

“One of those letters was really BITCHY, complaining about how various and many tenants at our place were fully ignoring and avoiding our HSA / SAHA appointed Bugger Housing manager (Ana Rita ) and her name was cited on the letter, to include usual first name and surname.

“This BITCHY letter about our avoidance of the BITCHY manager was obviously stating the REAL SITUATION behind my attempted eviction : HSA / SAHA BITCHY Staff were deliberately trying to evict me, a tenant of many years good standing, for not complying to the wicked witch(es) and especially the evil crim tribal witch bitch across from me who (on alcohol and ice) would scream out VIOLENT VULGAR VICIOUS VERBAL Abuse at me from her balcony, a balcony warfare rather than trench warfare.

“Anyway, in going to these various agencies to present my case, to try to escape eviction by the HSA crims in the government, they would look through these letters and then pass them back to me.

“Some of these agencies included the WELFARE RIGHTS CENTRE (Pirie Street Adelaide CBD), the SA Ombudsman Office on Currie Street (CBD), TIAS Tenants Information Advisory Service, and the Housing Legal Clinic located at SACAT (also Pirie Street).

“On one of these visits, and probably the "WELFARE RIGHTS CENTRE", there was a piggy looking lady who quickly grabbed the documents away from me to examine them.

“My eyesight is not so sharp and quick as before, as so probably by sleight of hand, the BITCHY letter was removed from the assortment and NOT returned to me.

“This would have been a letter of INCRIMINATION of the HSA SAHA complaint against me, it would have portrayed the real reason for eviction : an super-egotistic HSA management who did not want me and others showing our tails to the BITCHY WITCHY woman officer.

“BE FORWARNED : there are CORRUPT officials in HSA SAHA and also probably the organisations that are supposedly set up to help the down-and-out keep out of difficult situations.

“Lesson to be learned : GUARD YOUR DOCUMENTS AND SANITY CAREFULLY WHEN DEALING WITH UNDERHANDED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WHO WILL PROTECT THEIR OWN KIND WITHOUT REGARD FOR THE PUBLIC.

“SAGOV will try to remove anything of yours to better serve the Development Syndicate and their overpaid underachieving under-delivering jobs in the "public service".

“P.S. I believe it is POSSIBLE that the WRC (Welfare Rights Centre) piggy lady was, in fact, a HSA Housing administrator named "Julie Berry", and so was a double-agent doing a dirty deal.”
 
Editor: Did they fix the leaking from the flat above and repair the hole in your ceiling?
 
29 September 2020

(above) Renovations on the torched unit in the Avondale Housing Trust apartments on Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Nathan Clarke was stabbed to death last year in the building behind. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Ice user disagrees with the judge who gave the meths cook a light sentence

A sometimes-homeless Ice user said there was something wrong with the two-year sentence given to a man involved in a meth manufacturing lab while Dominic Perre got six-years for cannabis to which he pleaded guilty.
 
The meths man claimed he was still traumatised after being injured in a Royal Show accident. Dominic Perre is also charged with murdering Geoffrey Bowen and injuring Peter Wallis in the National Crime Authority bomb blast in 1994.
 
But the crystal methamphetamine and heroin user said the sentencing was wrong and that the meths cook had been in the business for years and should have gotten a higher sentence while Perre a lower one. Another man in the homeless scene added that Ice is 100 times more dangerous than cannabis.
 
Perre has been in the drug business for decades and was the subject of entrapment on drug charges by the police after the National Crime Authority bombing and his subsequent arrest for murder then release after the prosecutor withdrew charges.
 
On one occasion, the police took lab equipment and precursor drugs to his property and showed him how to make chemical drugs. They said goodbye and returned a few hours later to charge him with manufacturing an illegal drug.
 
Both homeless scene men discussing the matter said one or more people in the court system had the right connections to get the meths man a light prison sentence while Perre got six-years non-parole for a cannabis operation. This latest sentence comes after Perre was rearrested on the NCA murder charge.
 
One man said there is a review mechanism to deal with complaints against the judiciary, but the final authority can be the judge you’re complaining about. Like when child molester Judge Peter Liddy was the final authority over complaints against the police for not acting against child molesters.
 
Of course, none of this reflects on the actual judge who dished out the sentences. It reflects on the public perception of the judicial process.
 
The Ice user also said that appointing Supreme Court Judge Ann Vanstone to the office of Commissioner of the corruption commission I.C.A.C. was pointless. The Ice user said she knew everyone in the justice system and they knew her and she’d never seriously investigate them. The Ice user said she’d aim for little people to make it appear she was stamping out corruption in high places.
 
Meanwhile, Dominic Perre’s wife has gone anorexic from worry and appears like a wizened girl. And we’d have to doubt Dominic’s grasp of reality to be involved in any drugs when he was watched 24-hours a day and subjected to annual harvest season raids on his house. Each year police arrived with a swat team, machines that see through concrete and sniffer dogs. 
 
28 September 2020

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
 
The takeaway bags ran out. The Café and gazebo were full so diners were sitting on the concrete outside.
 
Torrey was yelling about human parasites who go to free food joints. Then he talked about inabilities to digest certain foods due to not having the gut enzymes to do so. He said that eating other foods contain the necessary enzymes will allow a person to digest that which couldn’t previously be done. He agreed certain foods for certain enzyme deficiencies can be prescribed as medicine.
 
Another client commented that, “No one is good looking, here.”
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station).
12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. Indoor and outdoor dining. Quality homemade meals. No I.D. or registration required. Much improved takeaway bags plus takeaway from kitchen meal surplus. Nice crowd usually. Orange Sky laundry from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on Wednesdays.

28 September 2020

(above) Being homeless is like being in a zoo except zoo animals aren't hated as much. It is important to discover little hideouts where you can be out of the public gaze. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

On the Street
 
 
Oz Harvest has cancelled their free food giveaway at the Elizabeth Grove Uniting Church despite getting more clients than every other free food service in Elizabeth except Heart and Soul.
 
*
 
A northern suburbs Salvation Army Op Shop female salaried manager aged about 45 was sacked for “stealing”. The Salvation Army has advertised for a new manager. The crucial quality they’re looking for in applicants is the ability to “keep their hands out of the till”.
 
 
*
 
Why did Captain Laurel Cummins scratch her face while delivering a sermon at Adelaide Congress Hall in 2015? Was it because she was wearing Chinese manufactured clothing with an itchy component in the cloth or dye? Or was it little bugs in Adelaide water that were causing skin irritations? We may never know the truth.
 
*
 
An old man at a soup kitchen talked about taking a woman to various addresses. She was looking for someone. Later he discovered she’d been searching for Ice. She’d implicated him in her addiction. He doesn’t use drugs and doesn’t like being set up. But he’s a lover of women and will fall for it every time.
 
 
*
 
Clown Prince Wayne said the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth will be closed until next year. He said his hands are tied due to orders from Anglicare in Victoria. The Food Barn dining room is full of boxes though the rest of the joint is operational.
 
*
 
An ambulance was sent to Anglicare Elizabeth last fortnight for someone suffering chest pains. Neil told us this. He has an app on his phone. Each time an ambulance screams down Main North Road, past the Beacon of Hope, he checks his phone and tells us the reason.
 
*
 
Horse Trader Steve was heard telling his entourage that vinyl records were a worthwhile trading item. A one-dollar Op Shop classic rock album is worth thirty dollars. An unpackaged copy of Their Satanic Majesties Request, a failed album from the Rolling Stones in 1968 with the 3D cover can sell for thousands.
 
*
 
Mr Rock Solid carried a cup of soup in each hand. He told me to “have a go” at him. I considered punching him in the gut until he told me he also fights with his feet and head. It’s hard to tell when he’s joking. It pays not to punch tough men with a reputation for violence.
 
*
 
Elizabeth druggies are concerned about inflation in the drug scene. They blame the virus and recent major raids on Adelaide dealers. An Ice 8-ball can cost $800 to $1000 when it previously sold for $400. One user is doing drug use surveys with government departments who pay in cash and supermarket gift cards. She converts these to drugs.
 
*
 
Rocks thrown through windows at the Avondale Housing Trust apartments is so common that one tenant has decided to live permanently with boarded up windows. The Housing Trust is happy with that. The cheap chipboard also slows down Molotov Cocktails.
 
*
 
A client at the free food event at Elizabeth Park Seventh-day Adventist Church said one week they gave away10kg boxes of frozen prawns. Health regulations forbade the Adventists from repackaging the prawns into smaller amounts so they gave away whole boxes.
 
A few days later there were ads on Gumtree advertising cheap frozen prawns in the Elizabeth area.
 
*
 
An Adelaide Casino patron said the upgrades have been finished, but the joint is “dead like a cemetery”. The patron added that he “don’t know how they’re surviving”.
 
*
 
Associates in the scene report that Squeaky Bed Randall has a hard side and that he’s more enmeshed in the drug scene than previously reported on these pages. Squeaky Bed Randall has enemies.
 
*
 
Some tenants at the Housing Trust Avondale Apartments won’t go to the Beacon of Hope free lunch due to embarrassment of being seen at a charity, fear of associating with the bad crowd from Avondale or fear of meeting drug scene enemies.
 
*
 
A school teacher with thick ankles turned up at the Beacon of Hope free lunch at Elizabeth and asked a boy why he wasn’t at school. Professional women suffer terrible health. A government call centre woman sleeps in her car because her house is full of animal waste and bugs. She can hardly move due to her obesity, but she sounds good on the phone and her brain is still operational.
 
*
 
You’ve read it many times here, but another veteran soup kitchen man with a reputation for greed explained how he delivered the food to different people without charge.
 
There are food hoarders who collect it to rot on their back porch, but most of those who get more than they need share it with others, sometimes for favours, other times from a sense of wanting to help others. Very few understand this.
 
 
*
 
Remembering the good old days at Centrelink (then named Social Security). Waiting clients smoked cigarettes and talked to others free from guards and blaring televisions. It was another world.
 
*
 
A Heart and Soul client doesn’t mind waiting for an hour or two in the queue. He says he has nothing better to do. He said the “Wogs” grab far too much and sell it. He said they’ve been caught. Personally, I’ve never seen the foreign crowd being greedier than anyone else.
 
A younger client said the staff are “vicious” and that the Heart and Soul vehicle firebombing was a fundraising tactic.
 
Editor: Anyone one distressed by words used in this post can call Lifeline
on 13 11 14.

27 September 2020

(above) People waiting on Wednesday for Heart and Soul free food to open on Philip Highway at Elizabeth South. Some wait for up to two-hours as those at the end of the queue get very little. A quicker distribution system should be devised. (Photo deliberately blurred. Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Gawler Fred’s Van
​small number of clients

The eight or nine clients included an old man with gout who hobbled up the ramp on crutches at the Lion’s Rotunda in Pioneer Park. Diane wouldn’t sit down on a folding camp chair because, she said, “I couldn’t get up.” Pat the Volunteer was there. She’s in her 80’s. She was the Gawler school librarian where Grant was a student. Grant gets huge amounts of food and gives it to others. Old Max was there. He’s in his 80’s and worked as a taxi driver until his late seventies.
 
There were just 8 or 9 clients and half a dozen volunteers who were happy to see us. The food included soup made by school kids, hot pies from a bakery, apple crumble in takeaway containers, sandwiches, coffee, bread, litre bottles of fresh Paris Creek organic milk and a little fruit.
 
Everyone was polite. Gawler is the politest of the Fred’s Van groups. Fred’s Van is one of the heroes of the free food scene. They stayed with us during the Plandemic.
 
There service is too quick each Thursday. They should stick around a little longer. We like their company.
 
Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van
Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre)
Thursdays 6:00pm. Soup, hotdogs, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread.
Under the Lions Rotunda during wet weather. Clients and staff more polite than in the city. No I.D. or registration required.

26 September 2020
 

Piano Player Wayne on the rampage
 
Piano Player Wayne says the Salvation Army has been so desperate for officer staff that they’ve brought Major and Mrs Beeson out of retirement from Victoria to work at Ingle Farm Corps. They’ve also employed Nathan Casey, the son of a former Commander, to work at Ingle Farm, but that hasn’t increased the number of young soldiers. Soldier Piano Player Wayne said Nathan is a “snake in the garden.”
 
There is also a question of leadership. Wayne says the current “leadership is not giving leadership and [the] Corps [are] not allowed to do what they need to do.” And that the Red Shield Appeal “prostitutes those in uniform.” That is what Wayne said.
 
There is also the issue of who leads the Army. Wayne says there are 400,000 uniformed Salvo soldiers in Kenya compared to perhaps 70,000 in the U.S.A. and U.K. and perhaps 10,000 in Australia.
 
See the inspiration page  https://others.org.au/news/2016/12/01/chief-of-the-staff-leads-historic-meetings-in-kenya-west-territory/
 
26 September 2020

Leaking ceiling at Gilberton
​Housing Trust

Homeless housing ceiling was profusely leaking many litres precious water per hour, perhaps related to sub-standard contractors busily wrecking premises above.

After nervous hours and anxiety HSA / SAHA finally got in plumber contractor to temporarily stem the flow.

Same ceiling has been leaking for 15 years and HSA / SAHA tried eviction to remove leak complainant but thankfully some chaps from this blog attended SACAT to show court crooks that others beyond complainant had some interest in miscarriage of justice.

Thanks again homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com

The Rundle Spy
 
Editor: Has the leaking ceiling been fixed?
26 September 2020

Night Stalker is right
The Rundle Spy

Fringe makes us Whinge... Cringe...a tainted Tinge of total Binge.

Fringe Festival was much better 30 years ago and before: Participants and admirers were often of the resistive whinging cringing underclass... dissatisfied with mainstream tin-hat conformist herd-mentality society.

Someone find us a time tunnel... time machine where we can go back and live in Adelaide in a bygone blessed age where even the homeless were all the richer for living a quality life.
 
The Rundle Spy
26 September 2020

(above) Home improvements are crucial to maintain moral when homeless and camping outside. But they should be subtle and not encourage destructive behaviour by government agents. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Why I hate the fringe festival

The Night Talker
 
I apologize if what i am about to write, offends some of you, but OMG, I HATE THE FRINGE FESTIVAL! In fact, I hate most things that have festival on the end.....Usually because they are some government welfare sponsored event that costs way more to run than they make, caters to the weirdo (aka fringe) element, (e.g. transgender-pansexual, asexual, drag queens from Liberia (or something like that?) and is rarely free or cheap to attend.
 
Never mind those Muppets on 5aa (Gooding's and his BBF Pemberthy), who spend every morning on their show, spouting how good these festivals are, they aren't generally affordable to the masses.
 
A single ticket (including the Bass reservation charge) will set you back around $90.00 for a single event. Post Covid-19 and the majority of the population are saying a prayer, if they haven't (yet) lost their job or their accommodation, and or are (not at this stage) afraid of picking up the phone, because it might be the bank, credit union, or building society, asking them when they are going to start paying their mortgage, personal loan, credit card and or car repayments again.
 
So putting money aside, so you can attend the Fringe Festival (and or any other festival for that matter) just isn't a priority. Working out how you are going to pay the rent, put half reasonable food on the table and or pay your mortgage next fortnight and whether you have enough money left over, to pay your kids school canteen lunch fees, takes precedence. My personal viewpoint is that the state government advertises and encourages these Festival's so the population is bamboozled about where money is going.
 
Look i have nothing against performers. (I think art is great) but not at the cost of essential services. When the government has dealt with the housing crisis, provides funding for a free and or minimal cost, hot breakfast and lunch for every child in an education setting from the ages of 3 until 18, fixes up our roads, sorts out the horrorfest that is aged care system, lobbies to raise the payment rates for unemployed, the disabled and the aged, lowers electricity and gas prices, fixes up the mess that is ramping and the public hospital health setting and gives tourism a much needed boost, then we can have AS MANY DAMN FESTIVALS AS YOU LIKE! NOT FLAPPING BEFORE!

The Night Talker.
 
Editor: Anyone one distressed by this post should phone Lifeline on 13 11 14.
25 September 2020
 

The Doctor not finished yet
 
ShelterSA isn’t finished yet. They’re advertising for a Non-Executive Director Volunteer, preferably a non-white Australian and probably especially not a white Australian man.

The unpaid position requires skills in Housing policy, legislation and service delivery, Advocacy, Politics, Public relations, Accountancy, financial management, Human resources and Strategic planning. This means, effectively, a non-homeless person.

Meanwhile, The Doctor’s arch-enemy, Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink, is planning to form another homeless alliance including all the crooks who siphon off money for themselves instead of spending it on housing.

Do we need another “Alliance”? What about the Adelaide Zero Project? Isn’t that an alliance with 40 “partners”? And that Round Table alliance down south? And all the other alliances.

They’d better fire up the fleet of government-funded cars to deliver the crooked bureaucrats to this next round of the new “Alliance” meetings. But the Minister ought to hoof it on her own two feet as she’s been putting on the beef recently. She’d better wear her Homypeds to protect her feet from the thumping mass above.
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The ShelterSA job position:  https://www.seek.com.au/job/50607203   
 
25 September 2020
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From the Anonymous Contact Page

“Man Oh Man! Julie Anne Mann...”
 
25 September 2020

Housing Trust at Gilberton
 
Via the Anonymous Contact Page

"HSA (SAHA) Public Housing wreckers sprung a major leak loose in the place yesterday. Water dribbling down from ceiling since then. A change from intermittent waterfall over past 15 years to steady rain. Buckets full of H2O. Ah... ohhh....Drowning?"
 
The man on the street
 
Editor: If you’d torched the joint, the government would have given you a newer better apartment. Or if you were a drug addict owing a drug debt and your dealer torched your apartment, the government would have rewarded your fine behaviour with a newer, better unit.  

25 September 2020

(above) Gun clubs at abandoned quarries offer good places to camp because they're mostly unused. But you could be woken from the noise on Sunday mornings and be careful of high shots. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Oz Harvest brings in film crew
 
No one said anything when the thin white man with a girl’s haircut set up his camera and tripod. No one said anything when the plump woman with him interviewed the old Salvo volunteer man on an invalid scooter. But there was consternation when the camera turned towards us in the queue. More like anger. Two people told the camera couple to back off and they did. But they’d already got some footage.
 
The three Oz Harvest volunteers and employee at least were doing something useful. They served 42 customers in 26 minutes with 34 minutes still left at their scheduled spot at the Elizabeth Grove Uniting Church. Their new insulated truck has a refrigerator unit to keep the products cool.
 
There were whole watermelons for the first twenty clients in the queue. The bags were smaller than usual as they have been at other free food venues.
 
Elizabeth Grove Oz Harvest
Uniting Church, corner of Fairfield Road and Harvey Road, Elizabeth Grove.
Fridays 11:00am to 12:00pm. Free. I.D. or registration not required. Nice groceries and vegetables. Nothing rotten. Fast service without lengthy waiting in the queue.
 
24 September 2020

Remembering old Joe
​of Baptist WestCare

Joe couldn’t resist a rort no matter how small. As a volunteer, he sold the two-dollar yellow disks exchanged for a meal at WestCare on Wright Street, Adelaide. He kept some of the money for himself. An observer watched him to it for months. Joe was quite rich so he didn’t need to do it. This must have been fifteen years back.
 
One day his doctor told Old Joe he was dying. He was going downhill fast. A street man saw him in the State Bank in King William Street. It’s now called BankSA.
 
Joe was stuffing a huge amount of cash in his backpack. He must have prearranged the withdrawal because it filled his whole backpack. Joe went out of the bank and then to his sister’s house. He gave her the money.
 
Two-weeks later, Joe didn’t turn up at WestCare. Authorities broke down his Sturt Street Housing Trust unit door and found him dead on the floor.
 
24 September 2020

(above) When living outside it is important to avoid areas of vandalism as homeless people are frequently blamed and subject to their camps being "cleared". (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Heart and Soul long wait in queue
 
That old guy on the invalid scooter was near the end of the queue at 11:30am when I went to the Beacon of Hope for lunch. I returned at 12:50pm and he was still at the end of the longer queue.
 
A Bhutanese woman said she’d arrived at 10:30am. She was at the end of the queue at 1:00pm. She said they’d waited in the yard of the Masonic Hall, but were told to go to the end of the queue on Phillip Highway. I stood behind her. She said others accused her and her friends of being greedy. They didn’t realise there were women from three families in one car.
 
We signed the Covid-19 register then got into the hall at 1:50pm, but most of the free fruit and vegetables were gone, but there was plenty of bread. I got a decent lettuce, old oranges and lemons. It was also interesting talking to the Bhutanese women.
 
Heart and Soul effectively distributes free stuff, but they shouldn’t have kicked out that old man on the bicycle and Mick of Mick and Denise. They should review the expulsions and not let injustice fester.
 
Heart and Soul free food
Morphett Vale Community Hall, William St., Morphett Vale 12pm Tuesdays.
Para Districts Masonic Centre, 77 Philip Hwy, Elizabeth South. 12pm Wednesdays.
Western Suburbs 10am every Friday at Heart & Soul Group Warehouse, 30 Fourth St Wingfield.
No I.D. or registration required. Often more free stuff available than you can carry.
Lengthy waits in queue. www.heartandsoulinc.org.au .

23 September 2020

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Re:"lambasted romance books. They got so many and most were unsellable or too leud for a " ... "organisation to sell"

From giggle translate: Scots-Gaelic leud = width
So these books would be too wide "for a " ... "organisation to sell"
Aha !
 
Editor: Good point. My wrong spelling. Should have been “lewd”.
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23 September 2020

(above) The Ingle Farm Baptist Church gives away free food every Friday from 12:00 noon to 2:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Their room is through the library doors at the Ingle Farm Recreation Centre, 58 Beovich Road, Ingle Farm. (Adelaide Homeless Journal September 2020).

Correction: St Bede's Anglicare Semaphore breakfast
​still staying closed, but Fred's Van at St Bede's is open on Sundays.

Mug’s breakfast, Men’s breakfast,   and Salvo Unley lunch have reopened

Things are getting back to normal though most free food joints practice social distancing and have Covid-19 Marshalls. The four services below have reopened.
 
Marion Life men’s breakfast at Mitchell Park
Corner of Marion Rd and Alawoona Ave, Mitchell Park. (entry from Mary Street).
ph 8277 0304. Free breakfast for men only on 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at 9am. George the Elder says there is no shortage of food there. No I.D. or registration required. Could be a bit better if there were a couple of women there. Slightly grumpy men.
 
Mug’s breakfast at Marion Life
Corner of Marion Rd and Alawoona Ave, Mitchell Park. (entry from Mary Street).
Phone (08) 8277 0304. Best to phone first. Coffee, biscuits and cakes every Monday from 9:30am to about 11:30am No registration, I.D. or donation required. Free or a tiny donation. Closed on public holidays. You’d have to be a mug to think this is a breakfast.
 
Salvation Army Unley
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839. Situation constantly changing so it is best to phone first.
Lunch every Monday at 12:30pm. Donation requested and one-dollar is acceptable. Food served in plastic takeaway containers, but eaten in the dining room. Hairdresser gone, but not forgotten. Never crowded.
 
Early 22 September 2020
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Salvo Op Shop Managers’ Meeting
 
A Head Office rep turned up.
 
The invited group talked about avoiding the syndrome called “The Vicious Circle” where items not selling are bagged and sent to the Salvo Warehouse for distribution to another shop where they have to be repriced. Not so rarely, the same unsellable items will turn up a year later at the shop that sent them away. This is called “The Vicious Circle”.
 
The invited group continued the same conversation from last year about the expense of disposing unsellable donations. These include dirty bedsheets pulled off someone’s bed and not washed. And dirty underwear, half-used boxes of incontinence pads, women’s sanitary pads, stinking shoes, jigsaw puzzles with pieces missing, broken toys, busted electrical items good only for their PVC and copper cords, blenders with food still in them. And the big ones: dirty mattresses and padded lounge chairs. One store representative lambasted romance books. They got so many and most were unsellable or too leud for a Christian organisation to sell.
 
What they didn’t discuss was the use of supermarket and department store shopping trolleys. They’re used to move products and rubbish inside and outside of the store. When they wear out they’re taken back to the stores and new ones taken. Perhaps it could be described as an unofficial donation from the stores.
 
Nor did they discuss throwing sharp expensive kitchen knives straight into the recycling bin.
 
There was whispering about one manager absent after being dismissed over accusations of “stealing”.
 
Early 22 September 2020

Soup kitchen conversation
 
Three of us talked about geology and blasting. The retired geologist explained the various types of copper production and a company in Burra that produced a copper solution used in Japan to dip vehicle bodies into to stop rusting. “That’s why Japanese cars don’t rust,” he said.
 
We moved onto blasting at quarries. He recounted a blasting gel that wouldn’t explode if you kicked it or dropped a match into it. But when a certain electrical current was introduced it went bang. He remembered a powder monkey friend trying it out for the first time. The monkey suggested they hide behind a shed as he hadn’t worked with the gel previously. He used too much. It blew car-sized boulders over their heads towards the carpark. “Your insurance doesn’t cover blasting,” the powder monkey said.
 
Another man with us talked about everyday chemicals that were components of explosive compounds. That was the shocking part of the conversation.
 
A third man who has a relative in law enforcement, but who had himself gone into drugs said that Ice is easy to make, but that 80% of cooks had burns. He said the best precursors come from China.
 
When I re-entered the homeless and soup kitchen scene 13 years ago I’d carried a belief that I was more intelligent and capable than most other clients of these places. How wrong could I have been.
 
That prompted me to ask the retired geologist ― who is a wheeler dealer yet dirt poor ― why he doesn’t use his multiple hobby jobs, Centrelink payments, extra charity payments and the free food scene to become rich. He said he didn’t want to get vertical and horizontal wrinkles over his face. He said happiness is the most important asset and he likes how he lives.
 
Second Editor
Adelaide Homeless Journal
Early 22 September 2020

Doctor claims Covid vaccine injection will be an electronic barcode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywuCRVJVDqs&feature=youtu.be

24 August 2020
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Plandemic video  
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3ijgEwv0nWTZ/
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Real fake news dressed up as lamb
 
Meet the Eternal Shame File data entry employees at the Hutt Street Centre in a warm and cuddly puff piece by Indaily.
 
https://citymag.indaily.com.au/culture/meet-the-caseworkers-of-the-hutt-st-centre/

15 August 2020
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Is this torture?
 
Comparing the Amnesty definition of torture with lockdown.
 
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NHFm0fZkW8c0/
 
9 July 2020

Decent Dennis from Our Street Family Matters
 
https://www.facebook.com/Our-Street-Family-Matters-2156252847934163/
 
8 June 2020
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Outsource you next mass demonstration
 
https://www.demandprotest.com/
 
7 June 2020
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Rosanne Haggerty’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool at the Hutt Street Centre
(permanent post)

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

www.predatorsandfriends.weebly.com 
The story of Sherri Robinson
and Tony DeKort

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

Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c

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The Decent Man

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

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

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