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Read by two homeless people avoiding homeless services in order to protect their optimism and ability to survive.

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Older Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019

(above) Dunes and pristine beaches devoid of humans on the Great Australian Bight at Eucla on the South Australian and Western Australian border. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Sand and dust storm at Eucla on the Great Australian Bight. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Camping along the Trans-Australia railway line on the road to Rawlinna. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Poverty store in such a beautiful town. The Foodland supermarket sells fabulous and expensive food. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, 2024.)

(above) The poverty and despair of Ceduna Food Bank contrasted with big spenders at the Foodland supermarket. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The Oz Harvest free supermarket at Hindmarsh doesn't offer very much and you wait forty-minutes in the queue. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) The key to offering the best produce is getting it straight from the supermarket throwaway area to the distribution point in one hour. it isn't clear if Oz Harvest manages to do this at Hindmarsh. And the quantities are embarrassingly small. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Gateway Baptist Church. Not bad except for the three-dollar charge. Most other Hands and Feet food is free from other churches who pay the Hands and Feet organsiation three dollars per client from their own funds.

(above) A clump of daisies in the desolation of the semi-arid woodlands in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024)

(above) A once busy highway near the Kalgoorlie radiation zone being overgrown by bushes and trees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Coming soon: Church@ParaVista changes format; Gawler Salvation Army free breakfast 7 days a week with a fatal flaw; Church man says their children's program never recovered after "that Covid thing"; Gospel City still going strong; Free storage lockers for homeless people at Salvation Army Gawler; Tea Tree Mayor uses alias in attempt to "friend" homeless critic on social media; Richard's Religious group plan free BBQ in Modbury; Orange Sky coming to Tea Tree Salvos; Baptist Pathway at Modbury wouldn't let disabled client use toilet; New preacher at St Bede's;  Homeless people maintain the careers of numerous researchers coming to the same useless conclusions.
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On the Street

A client outside Baptist Welfare in Wright Street said Mark Arstall has graduated to attacking “old people” and robbing them. And that if he returns to Adelaide he’ll go to jail for three months for shoving and threatening an old man on a walking frame inside the Hutt Street Centre. And will get beaten up by inmates who don’t approve of attacks on old people.

And if he does return, any court case will involve half a dozen other old people arriving on walking frames and wheelchairs with their Carers to testify against him. So he could be in the slammer for years.

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An elderly man and a friend in the homeless scene invested a few hundred dollars into Bitcoin and Etherium some years ago, but for the life of them they can’t remember the passwords and can’t find a way to recover them.

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A homeless man in Port Augusta wants to buy a car, but says the Housing Trust will kick him off the high-priority Category 1 housing waiting list due to his finding a safer place to sleep – his car.

This is how the Homeless Industry cripples people by punishing them for the slightest self-improvement of their lives.

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“Stab me, stab me,” a courageous homeless man told a group of thieves carrying a machete and knives. He moved closer to them while they backed off. He invited them to return to the darkness of the creek bed where he camped.

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WX 5 steak at $89.95 a kilo sold across the road from a homeless camp near Prospect.

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Outback safety tool

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EwJvFxw8aHs 

Early 13 September 2024

(above) To get fresh bread at the Western Food Hub in Hindmarsh it is important to either be there when it arrives or know what shelves have the good bread and what have the pre-mould specials. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Garbage and faded sign at the Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Grill’d in the city

​From the anonymous contact page

Its a different atmosphere at Grill'd [Rundle Street] free food every first Tuesday of the month at 530. There's chit chat vibrancy energy you don't see anywhere else, perhaps maybe nanas in semaphore park or the filthy Freemasons on Friday in the port , back in the day.

The food is unhealthy, it is a dangerous addictive poison marketed as if not. You do get a dopamine rush and you don't get genuinely full but you have a good time doing it. What goes up must come down, so expect the dopamine low. Staff make the vibe, its infectious.

They think they're helping , but not us. They're helping a decadent evil predatory system produce propaganda and keep us amused. They should talk to us. Everything is a meeting of two people and we're not meeting them, we're meeting a manufactured personality for marketing purposes. But then why would they talk to us? Their illusion their leaders have created will be blown.

If you're told what to say
How to act
What to do when dealing with a vulnerable person, then you're nothing but a programmed and dangerous zombie.

Jacob’s Well (anonymous)

Grill/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of month 4:30pm - 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. Street people are amazed something like this happens. Many big names in the homeless scene go here. Normal people not allowed in during this time even if they are willing to pay. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jacks. Professional staff.

Early 12 September 2024

(above) The joy of a dry track between Stations in the Outback before it turns to a half-metre of soft sand. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Strange psychology of the human mind​

Have you ever wondered why someone who has done you wrong – and generally harms everyone they can – retains a ferocious hatred of you while you believe they should feel guilty rather than vengeful.

For example, crystal methamphetamine addicts in the homeless scene forever seek revenge for something done against them when to maintain their lifestyle, they constantly harm others.

The answer to this question may be in Joe Scott’s video below, but you’ll have to pay attention to get the answer. Starting at 19:00 minutes is interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TYuTid9a6k

Early 11 September 2024

(above) This is the complete pantry food range at Western Food Hub that gets over a hundred people a day. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Not worth a donation​

The Western Food Hub appears to be leaving the game of free pantry items. Their shelves are often empty except for sample-size outdated sugary sauces. And one client says they’re demanding a donation for these items. However, the rotting and rotten vegetables are still free. The bread is also free and this is often day-old if you visit as it arrives from the supermarkets.

The Western Food Hub has lost clients to the Oz Harvest free supermarket two streets over at 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh where their vegetables are old and horrible, but not actually rotten.

The volunteer staff at the Western Food Hub have improved enormously with some of them actually liking what they do. And the pastries and meals are often of high quality when made by Tanille Rogers and a woman named Sue.

We often see six or seven people wearing green aprons arrive with almost fresh sausage rolls, scrolls and other pastries. They’re from a local bakery.

Clients include an interesting Japanese-speaking bus driver who had an argument with an elderly woman and her adult daughter about their dog entering the rotting vegetable room. He said it spreads disease, but she argued that it wasn’t a big deal.

Big Ron was there, but doesn’t see or hear much these days. The Right Honourable Grinder was there, just out of the slammer and looking healthy and expecting to go back into the slammer depending on the quality of his new lawyer.

My visit was worthwhile in getting a cheese scroll from the green apron people, filling my water can and talking to a few interesting people.

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

Early 10 September 2024

(above) Thousands of interesting rock formations south of Lake Carnegie (salt) near the Little Sandy Desert in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

Visiting Oz Harvest free supermarket

I liked the yellow and black tape and stickers bearing images of their trucks and vans. It’s plastered over their repackaged ageing food. And the building is painted in the same startling colours.

It looks impressive until you see the clients waiting for forty-minutes in the weather in a fenced-off corridor resembling entry to a sheep dip. The so-called supermarket is a thin hallway where staff hand out tiny amounts of meat and vegetables.

Some of the building is devoted to the “Nourish Academy” where volunteers are trained similarly to extra-friendly Woolworths employees. Not everyone appreciates this exaggerated behaviour, but for the odd suicidal client, a friendly demeanour can be life saving.

Most of the building is devoted to sorting donated food and loading or unloading their truck and van. Space is at a premium since Oz Harvest vacated its spacious warehouse in Bowden.

Oz Harvest’s delivery system is often straight from a supermarket to a point of distribution. For example, they pick up from Modbury Aldi and drive straight to the Tea Tree Salvation Army. Very efficient and the stuff is less rotten.

Unlike that unpleasant outfit called Food Bank, Oz Harvest don’t require I.D. and don’t record clients’ names and birth dates for the Welfare Industry’s Eternal Shame File. And you don’t need a Case Manager or Support Worker.

The distribution to clients at their Hindmarsh building last week was orderly and fair unlike some places where the doors open and the most rapacious people grab huge amounts of the best stuff while the meek get very little.

On a day last week they offered frozen meat, weird vegetarian fake meat (I liked it), frozen potatoes for chips, rolled oats, dried Barlotti beans, wilted green leaves (not rotten), wrinkly capsicums, questionable mini-tomatoes in tiny amounts, high-quality Vittoria biscuits, cake, weird tea, one tiny can of Coke and bread.

We had a forty-minute wait outside and one hour and ten minutes after opening time they’d already served 88 people with 24 more in the queue. It was a relatively friendly situation, but most clients were nervous as the joint has just opened. There was just one person who could be identified as homeless. ​

Oz Harvest free supermarket Hindmarsh
Free supermarket. No I.D. needed. Just walk in. 27 Manton St, Hindmarsh. Ph 08 7007 0080. Tuesdays 10:00am - 2:00pm; Wednesdays 3:00pm - 7:00pm; Thursdays 10:00am - 2:00pm. Not very good and there is a long queue, but at last it’s safe and orderly.

Early 9 September 2024

(above) Desolation, despair and shortage of water, but plenty of wood for nice campfires during the dark night of the soul. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Overlooking the Great Victoria Desert and the prohibited zone of the Jindalee over-the-horizon R.A.A.F. base in Western Australia. "We see everything," a guard told a tradesman down on the plain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

On the Street

​A worker at Food Bank on Port Road at Woodville ate food in a slurping manner while standing amongst the food tables. She wiping her mouth with her hand and without washing her hands or wearing gloves handled the fruit and vegetables.

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University of Adelaide free food program

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/news/news/list/2024/08/22/src-food-pantry

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The man who brought drugs into Kalgoorlie in the 1990’s served decades in prison and upon release returned to the town and currently operates a drug rehabilitation joint.

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A woman came into Kalgoorlie Salvation Army last week wanting to work as a volunteer to “get away from the drugs and alcohol”.

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The preacher at Port Church gave his usual speech about safety saying there were male and female toilets and that they should be used appropriately. He was referring to a man who used the female toilets two months ago.

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Aboriginals in an outback community near Kalgoorlie paled when a Baptist preacher staggered into town while having a heart attack. They’d cursed him and he was supposed to be dead. He’s now in his nineties and in good health.

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One man from a group of vagrants stole Kevin’s bicycle from The Haven food and religious meeting at St John the Evangelist Anglican church in Salisbury. Kevin loses one bicycle each year. He can’t collect welfare because he saved too much money during his working life and doesn’t have the mental energy to invest his savings to preclude them from Centrelink deeming.

But at least his new $800 bicycle has four locks.

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Aboriginals lit a huge fire near their tents in Pittman Park at Salisbury during that cold spell last month. They’re sensible because they camped in an area difficult to access by fire trucks.

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Does anyone remember the white man with a bad heart being predated upon by a professional gambling addict Chinese woman. Well, he finally dislodged her from his life.

But now people at Salisbury are giving him money thinking he’s a homeless. He’s not a beggar, but last week someone even gave him a bottle of wine. He received it graciously despite not drinking alcohol.

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A client at the new Oz Harvest free “supermarket” wasn’t impressed by the unnatural familiarity of volunteers who behave as if we’re their old friends.

One client commented, “Yeah the ridiculous rations I’m not going back there in a hurry!! It’s sad & depressing thru could at least offer free water for waiting in line! The volunteers have been ‘programmed’ don’t like it so impersonal.”

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Martyn Campbell resigned his position of Commissioner for Consumer Affairs and plans to enter the private sector. One of his jobs was “cracking down on illegal tobacco…” I bet there’s a story behind his resignation.

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Poor Lani’s power bill was $889.04 last quarter. Her air conditioner and lights stay on 24-hours a day even during the period while she was locked up in a psychiatric ward. She remains incarcerated in a psychiatric institution while her house has been further damaged by “friends”. She returns home with a Carer every two days to feed her cat. Some open food packets are left on her shed roof, but rats are good climbers.

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Ice addicts are dangerous to be around because their egos are under chemical siege and to maintain their sense of self they need to create enemies in others...and harm them.

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The N.D.I.S. now funds cleaning supplies for its clients saying these are crucial to maintaining good health. But these cleaning supplies include some rather interesting chemicals that can be transformed into other substances.

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Minister for the N.D.I.S. Bill Shorten is resigning from Parliament next year. Bill says he’s leaving on a high note. This gentleman must be delusional to think this. The N.D.I.S. is possibly the most expensive, the most corrupt and most useless government entity in the history of the Australian federation.

8 September 2024

(above) Another cave overhang in the Giles Breakaway 50 kms north of Laverton in Western Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2024.)

(above) Travelers may believe they're in the middle of nowhere, but look around and there may be a surveillance mast watching your every move. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Fremantle homeless fringe benefit

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness October conference at Fremantle in Western Australia involves twenty-five organisations and businesses, many of whom are government funded “non-profits”.

It’s not money down the drain, but an excellent investment in using social/psycho control methods on the most vulnerable group in Australian society. What they discover in manipulating and controlling us will later be used on the general population.

This mechanism of control monitors and restricts tenants’ use of their own money and assets then controlling our minds with “medications” and getting us used to accepting insane tenancy and rules of living so we stop questioning their “directives”.

There won’t be a word against the crystal methamphetamine dealers and junkies that leave human minds permanently damaged. No speeches about dealers and thugs infiltrating and controlling clients at homeless services ‒ and even some employees. Nothing about governments discouraging police from making arrests.

The following groups contain many wise and compassionate people posing as our friends, but somehow becoming our enemies. One mechanism is treating every homeless person as a psychiatric patient willing to surrender their dignity to the welfare system. Any person living outside who objects is classed as “wanting to be homeless”.

Groups involved in the Fremantle summit are: Australian Alliance to End Homelessness; Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness; RUAH; St Patrick’s Community Support Centre; MICAH Projects; Social Futures; Neami National; Accord West; Vinnies Good Works; St Barts; City of Fremantle; AnglicareWA; Salvation Army; Housing Choices Western Australia; Mission Australia; Lottery West, Government of Western Australia Department of Communities; CS Net; ShelterWA; Org Code; Community Solutions; Simon Community Scotland; Uniting.

https://aaeh.org.au/australian-zero-homelessness-summit-2024

​7 September 2024

(above) Hope Community Centre in Kalgoorlie maintains a free bread and pantry items box for travelling nomads and homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Increased deaths due to Covid policies

​From the anonymous contact page

It was said here years ago the covid scam would hit the underclass hardest and designed to do so. It was said in many places ànd by some qualified to do so.

Well, here's the data showing that prediction came true.

"All of our observations can be coherently understood if we interpret that the covid-period socio-economic, regulatory and institutional conditions induced chronic stress and social isolation among members of large vulnerable groups (individuals afflicted and co-afflicted by poverty, obesity, diabetes, high susceptibility to bacterial respiratory infection [inferred from pre-covid-period antibiotic prescription rates], old age, societal exclusion, unemployment, drug and substance abuse, and mental disability or serious mental illness), which in turn caused many of these individuals to be more and fatally immunocompromised, allowing them to succumb to bacterial pneumonia, at a time when a documented national pneumonia epidemic raged and antibiotic prescriptions were systemically reduced; in addition to possible co-morbidity from COVID-19 vaccine challenge against individuals thus made immunocompromised, under broad and hastily implemented “vaccine equity” programs."
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from https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=116&name=2022_08_02_covid_period_mass_vaccination_campaign_and_public_health_disaster_in_the_usa

Covid was a class war. Never forget who got richer. People like the ceo of Vinnies.

Vinnies favourite pedophile protector ****** ******* made sure protests in Adelaide got nowhere..
Anonymous
6 September 2024

(above) An expensive dirt road being reclaimed by nature in the outback. Change is the only permanence of life and despair while being homeless is not permanent either. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Plenty of new and old remembrance markers are seen along the roads and tracks north of Kalgoorlie. In the early white settlement days, people were buried near where they lived. And today, animals are also remembered such as the above. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Kalgoorlie Salvos struggle

​The Kalgoorlie Corps of the Salvation Army struggles. They have a few accommodation rooms, but these have remained empty for years due to mould, a leaking roof and asbestos. And no money to rebuild.
The main building is quite nice though the shower cubicle could do with an upgrade. The old top loading washing machine available to clients is superb with lots of water unlike the Orange Sky van across town at the Church of Christ. (Though Orange Sky has three washers and three driers.)

The Salvation Army electric clothing drier doesn’t produce heat and trips the ovens in the kitchen.

The Salvos serve lunch every Tuesday at 12:30pm in a nice dining room with takeaway food freezers and fridges that are filled by Second Bite amongst others. There are racks of free clothing and occasional kitchen appliances free to anyone.

The Salvos serve free coffee and snacks every day of the week. The regular clientele are Western Australian, but still friendly to “eastern staters”. When my American accent was strong in the 1970’s they were more friendly, but now my speech resembles that of an “eastern stater”. Joking aside, they are pleasant and non-threatening with some staff living outside.

Paid staff include two Majors and a civilian employee, the latter who served for years as an unpaid employee. And maybe another person in the office.

There are adequate toilets in the hallway with another in the shower room.

Last year there seemed to be more elderly prospectors while this year there has been an influx of N.D.I.S. clients and their employees. Regardless, there are many interesting people who visit the Corps every day or so, people who may appear to have lived uneventful lives, but certainly haven’t.

What I especially liked about going there was the lack of fear. There aren’t any drug dealers operating from the joint. This lack of fear contrasts to the Church of Christ’s homeless service closer to the main shopping centre where I felt nothing, but fear due to the whiteness of my skin.

But the elephant in the room is the decrepit state of the Corps building while Kalgoorlie produces huge wealth, most of which goes to Perth and foreign shareholders plus the well-paid fly-in, fly-out workers in the mines.

Yet you see ambulances parked amongst trees treating tribal people and at Boulder camp where people live tents below the huge slag mountains formed from excavating the Super Pit. This contrast of wealth and income can signify only discord now and in the future.

Early 5 September 2024

(above) Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub free tomatoes appear okay in a photograph, but upon inspection they're vaguely cooking tomatoes only. And use plenty of herbs and spices to mask the stench. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Puddle Jumpers carrots at Hindmarsh Western Food Hub are okay, but the celery is rotting. And would you feed these decomposed mushrooms to any human being?

Oppressed homeless man interview

Woody and Skip have produced a new video since they moved from under a tarp outside Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps to a flat in the Salisbury-Elizabeth area.

You might notice in this video that the homeless man can’t articulate words properly. This along with closing eyes is a symptom of psychological and physical oppression. I’ve seen it for decades amongst people without a place to live. And they often never recover normal speech or eye contact again.

https://youtu.be/iyrEFM8JdWk?si=W0v2Bu4pmOipag

4 September 2024


Wise homeless man interviewed 

with Woody, Skip and Jack

Homeless Chat by Woody Skip... today we Interview Jack who has been Homeless for over 29+ Years (youtube.com)

​4 September 2024​

(above) Overlooking the edge of the Great Victoria Desert and an isolated RAAF base. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Dark night of the soul on a sunny day. Isolation is mind cleansing if you have the right attitude. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Another one bites the dust

​The Brougham Uniting Church has ceased its free food handout on Wednesdays due to renovations of the historic church. The foundations need reinforcing and a crack in the south wall repaired.

They don’t know how long this will take especially if they find new problems that could take years to fix. Until then their free food service is cancelled.

Cancelled until further notice
Uniting Church North Adelaide free foodBrougham Uniting Church, 193 Brougham Place, North Adelaide. Ph 08 8267 2657. Free slightly old vegetables, groceries, bread Wednesdays 11:30am to 1:30pm. Usually decent staff. Beautiful church building. No I.D. required, but they want name and phone number, but you might live in a cemetery or another no fixed address and not have a phone.

Late 3 September 2024


No C.H.A.T.S. this Friday

The C.H.A.T.S. free breakfast this Friday is cancelled as the outfit has something happening at the Royal Show. They should be back the following Friday on the 13th of September.
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C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other free stuff. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Inadequate toilets. No hot water in hand basins. Secret clothing room downstairs of quality clothing and they’ve even taken orders for delivery the next Friday. High quality volunteers.

Late 3 September 2024

(above) Alcina is a credit to humanity giving her time to produce quality food for a bunch of desperadoes and disabled people at the Osborne Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Another exceptional unpaid volunteer preparing for the onslaught of ravenous diners. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Adelaide's Homeless Industry statistics

From the month of June to July 2024 the Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands dropped from 210 to 200. Not bad, eh? The actual Sleeping Rough number rose from 178 to 179. The Temporarily Sheltered component dropped from 29 to 15. The Actively Homeless – Other rose from 3-6.

The slight improvement of a reduction of 10 seemed due to an extra 10 people kicked off the homeless list from the previous month. This was called “Moved to Inactive” and that was an increase from 25 to 35.

Another statistic they published was that homelessness was down 183. This was called “Functional Zero Modelling to Functional Zero in 2025 commenced in July 2022. Current shortfall against modelling minus 183.” Yeah, you figure out what this means. I couldn’t.

What isn’t clear is whether the Pitjantjatjara mob camped in the no-whites-allowed area by the West Terrace Cemetery are “rough sleepers” or “temporary sheltered”.

Another unclear definition is whether those sleeping in their cars are considered “rough sleepers” or something else. Most car sleepers avoid the Adelaide CBD.

Anyway, collecting these silly stats creates jobs for bureaucrats in the homeless industry who would otherwise be unemployed. And their statistics provide fodder for university academics such as “The University of Adelaide’s Dr Joanne Flavel, Researcher in the Stretton Institute and School of Social Sciences.”

She helped publish a study to justify collecting intimate details of the lives of homeless people. She said that collecting the data provides “An accurate profile of homelessness helps in devising appropriate responses to crises that adequately support people experiencing homelessness.”

Good on ya, Ms Flavel, but does it provide housing in any way whatsoever?

https://saaeh.org.au/azp-monthly-dashboard/
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Early 1 September 2024

(above) Rotary donates noodles to St Bede's Church free Tuesday breakfast. Someone marks each container to prevent drug addicts returning them to a store for a refund to buy drugs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) So many bureaucrats, but none to clean up the rotting leaves and water from the main entrance at the Kilburn Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

To share or not to share,
​that is the question

The Victory Church volunteers don’t seem bothered that most of its clients have abandoned their free Friday lunch BBQ in Pittman Park at Salisbury. Less work for them.

And neither do some clients. One told me last week that he and his friends aren’t worried about declining numbers either. He said this leaves more for them to eat.

This is a common attitude and why the Adelaide Homeless Journal faces criticism for distributing the Adelaide Free Food Guide. Many clients want to keep the free services secret.

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

Early 31 August 2024

(above) The road between Erlistoun and Nambi Stations 350km north of Kalgoorlie. No power lines, no internet, no phone, no radio, one vehicle a day, no trouble. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Being nowhere with few external demands resembles the monastic experience of self-discovery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Semaphore Park soup finished

“I'm letting you know that we are no longer running meals on Tuesdays in Semaphore Park. We have closed due to low numbers.
You're doing great work with the directory of services!”

Major Watson, Port Adelaide Semaphore Salvation Army

Second Editor: Thank you. Possibly very few diners turned up because you didn’t make it worthwhile. When Bronwyn Plate operated a free service from the Bower Cottages, she got 80 people and sometimes even more.

Bronwyn gave us a free meal, free bread and free vegetables plus groceries at a price from her strangely popular Foodbank-supplied store. Her problem was, however, the drug dealers who used the joint to service their clients. The second was a terrible conflict between volunteers and diners. But she attracted her clientele with nearly no government funding after first operating from her Housing Trust backyard.

Your Salvo service was okay when it operated from the flower garden, but the last time I went to your evening meal at Bower Cottages there was just MSG soup and dessert. And the table was set for volunteers and perhaps just three or four other diners. It didn’t feel welcome.

What those living outside need in the area are showers and a place to store stuff during the day. But this would go against the powers-that-be who do everything to force the homeless from the area.

The Salvation Army can’t resist these forces because it depends on government funding and has very few soldiers as no one much believes in this kind of religion. 

But thanks for the good times, anyway.

Cancelled

Semaphore Park
Soup, buns and margarine, dessert. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of month from 5:30 – 6:30pm in Bower Cottages, 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park. (near Causeway). Ph 0461 475 273. No tea or coffee. Slim pickings, but a good atmospshere. Very low number of diners. No I.D or registration requirements. Criminal neighbourhood. Salvation Army & Baptist initiative.

30 August 2024
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(above) Sunset at Windarra at the Poseidon Mine near Laverton north of Kalgoorlie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Osborne Community Hall (Taperoo Stadium) Free lunch Thursdays, 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne. 12 noon. No data collection for Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Elderly woman dies

Maria Corbone is dead. She’s the elderly woman in her 80’s who remonstrates against slobs slopping food on the carpet. This is at the Port Church free meal every Wednesday at Largs North.
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Maria wasn’t amused at ungrateful slobs, but would have been even more shocked if she’d known the unsavoury lifestyles of many of the diners.

Maria was the lifelong inspiration to her children, especially a man named Ben. He worked as a physiotherapist and his wife works in a surgical theatre at a major Adelaide hospital. Their family worked hard to establish the Port Church that is part of the Baptist Union. Maria taught Ben something about faith in eternity and human destiny.

Ben has a son who seems okay as well. He plays an important role in the church. Maria could be proud of the family she raised. She was.

Maria had a failing heart in her last years, but was still bossing us around and telling us to get out after the free Wednesday meal. She said her son and others had spent all day preparing the food. She occasionally stopped smiling when she gave us our marching orders, but recovered immediately as we got up.

It’s sad that she’s gone, but everyone goes eventually. Where can we get another Maria? No candidates.
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29 August 2024

(above) Meat and all kinds of stuff at the free Oz Harvest supermarket, 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh. They get more than 160 clients on some days.

(above) Opening times are also written in an Asian language. No I.D. required and no entry into the government's Eternal Shame File. But on closer inspection of the free food, one initially enthusiastic client threw much in the rubbish bin.

(above) Perhaps Puddle Jumpers two streets over doesn't have to worry about the competition after all. Clients can go there every day compared to once a week at Oz Harvest. But we are nevertheless appreciative of Oz Harvest's entry into the free supermarket service.

Piano Player Wayne

​Wayne said yesterday there were five stabbings involving a Muslim gang at the Marion shopping centre. Police locked down the complex and made each person sign a non-disclosure statement and paid them $10,000 in cash before they were allowed to leave.

He said other things as well.

There were no reports in any media about this.

I felt sad.

Early 28 August 2024

Pangalo attempting relevancy

From the anonymous contact page

Oh Franky Franky Franky what are we going to do with you. You demanded police have checkpoints checking Covid vaccine status., here you are involved in criminal factions within sa police having a public spat..

Whatever wacky wade and his wayward hands have done is nothing compared to the hate and drivel you used against people who didn't want the monkey dna. The data shows a massive riae in prostate cancer since March 2021 and a rise in prostate cancers comin out of remission. Shouldn't you be seeking some justice for that?

Oh Franky what a fool you are.

https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/south-australian-police-union-scrutinised-as-sexual-assault-allegation-enshrouds-president/855fb176-f812-469d-9cf1-63c02f1e3934

Anonymous

Early 28 August 2024

(above) The women in the kitchen at Moose (Chat and Chew) in Port Adelaide enthusiastically ensure their food meets expensive restaurant quality. Clients can hardly believe their luck they have such a quality team cooking for them. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

What a guy!

​Bill Shorten is the Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme. He talks about reducing spending on the N.D.I.S., but how can that be when 12% of boys meet the criteria to become clients. And three-year-old children now qualify for the N.D.I.S. so they’ll have their special needs in place to attend special schools and regular schools at the age of five.

The N.D.I.A. has also expanded what can be purchased from a disability package including mops, buckets, soap, detergent, menstrual pads and hundreds of other items as they’re now classed as helping a disabled person maintain a decent standard of living.

The weird part is this funding includes those whom the Public Trustee has sequestered their assets including Disability Pensions thus creating an artificial poverty where the person is forced to save a portion of their incomes and cannot sell their assets.

The N.D.I.S. is one arm of government compensating for the poverty created by the Public Trustee that claims to be helping the involuntary client. You can imagine the numbers of employees required to administer this program. A mop and bucket may cost $50 while the administrative process may cost $500. You might think this an exaggeration. Truth is stranger than fiction. But it’s all a waste of resources that should be used to fund housing, hospitals and the foreign debt.


Early 27 August 2024

(above) Cliff overhang at the Giles Breakaway 400kms north of Kalgoorlie on the desert road to Alice Springs. Those having been homeless in their lives tend to see such places as somewhere to sleep in the future. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) A little cave used by kangaroos for shade and a lookout for dingoes on the edge of the Great Victoria Desert. From here you can hear the yowling dingoes where the bones of stricken beasts are bleached white by the sun. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Poor Lani

Poor Lani has been locked up in Glenside psychiatric clinic for nearly two months. She returned to her Greenacres Housing Trust house with two of her N.D.I.S. Carers. She stood in the driveway not knowing what to do. She was drugged out like a zombie.

Meanwhile, a glazier visited her house one afternoon and repaired two windows that she’d smashed while psychotic. That evening four people of Aboriginal appearance arrived. Two men and two women. A man smashed the kitchen window then walked through the house to open the front door.

More than one neighbour called the police. A single police woman arrived, but the four intruders had left. She spent the evening talking to neighbours then found one who had video footage of the intrusion.
Another tradesman returned to board up the kitchen window and also the front door that had been left open. For some reason it was hard to lock as the previous tenant’s daughter, Carol from Centrelink, had locked her demented mother inside each night to stop her wandering the streets.

Another trades person arrived, but couldn’t enter the building as the front door cover had been attached with security screws that were difficult to unscrew. This required the original installer to return and remove it.
Anyway, the plumber arrived next and decided he wanted a piece of the board that had covered the front door. He cut off a section and threw the rest in the front yard that had been poisoned haphazardly by a paid professional gardener possibly straight out of an institution himself.

There still was the problem that the front door couldn’t be locked so a locksmith arrived to fix things. But the lock was of special construction that required a social worker to visit with the original key.

And so Lani’s Carers drive her from Glenside to her house to buy cat food then feed the cat. But is the cat still there. Lani is too bombed out on psychiatric drugs to make decisions. She doesn’t appear to know where she is and her Chinese Carers don’t care unless it involves money for themselves.

Poor Lani, what a life. The house will now cost at least $60,000 to repair after which she or her less-than-welcome visitors will again smash it up. Or she’ll be transferred to another place with 24/7 Care Workers that will cost the government a fortune.
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Early 26 August 2024

(above) The blue area is the taped over serving window no longer used as someone keeps breaking it upon discovering the joint isn't open as advertised. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Most free food in Adelaide's free food scene is unhealthy and makes people sick. But occasionally we get good stuff like the above from ONE Life church free food service at Parafield Gardens. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

On the Street

Homeless people built a big fire near their tents in an isolated section of Pittman Park in Salisbury during a recent cold wave.

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A diner at The Haven’s Friday evening meal across the street from the Salisbury police station got a surprise when someone stole his bicycle from outside the Anglican Church.
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He’s the one who can’t get welfare because he worked too hard during his life and saved too much money. His new bicycle cost $800 and has four locks.

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An old man on an invalid mobility scooter keeps getting gifts from strangers who think he’s homeless. Last week, a middle-aged woman gave him an Aldi’s card as he was leaving Coles supermarket in the Para Banks shopping Centre at Salisbury. Strangers frequently offer him money that he accepts while someone offered him a bottle of wine that he declined.

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Doctors prescribe puberty blockers with nasty contrary indications to 13-year-old children who haven’t made up their mind if they want sex change surgery. These are the same drugs forced on teenage Aboriginal tribal girls who have too many children and also to sex offenders being “chemically castrated”.

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Have you noticed that Ice addicts accuse others of being police informers, paedophiles and mutts? This is because their sense-of-self and self-respect are so diminished by the drug that they struggle to maintain their ego and survival instinct. They maintain their ego from accusing others of what they fear about themselves or what has been done to them.

Add that to reduced remorse and reduced inhibitions to violence, then we have a particularly dangerous human being, and this includes women. They are terrifying people.

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The Pilgrim Uniting Church in Flinders Street in the Adelaide CBD is closed until October for renovations. Then they’ll close again in mid-December for holidays.

Sure, they provide an excellent free service, but haven’t considered how closing an essential service affects those who depend on it. They’re undermining their own mission.

But desperate homeless people have exploited this closure by returning to the lane way where they sleep day and night.

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A man moved his accounts to the People’s Choice Credit Union because he said banks steal your money. The Credit Union has now changed its name to People’s First Bank.

The man went into a branch and told an employee, “I hate the word “bank” because banks steal your money.” The employee said, “I’ll past that information on.”

Early 25 August 2024

(above) That night's space reserved by a homeless person outside radio station 5AA at Hindmarsh Square. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Full schedule to end of year will be published next week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Will David Washington flip Dunston?

David Washington from Indaily is the new Executive Director of Don Dunstan Foundation. In his opening article he said, “Over the coming months, we will be shaping our agenda for the coming years, focused on some of the biggest challenges to justice and equity facing our community…”
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This is wonderful for all those homeless people living outside or in their cars. Uh, maybe not. Most of them are white and even worse, most are males. They are deemed especially privileged over those discriminated-against well-salaried non-white and non-Aboriginal people owning their own houses and holding upper salary corporate and government jobs. Those poor souls. They need extra protective legislation to stop us homeless people from opening our mouths. 

To be fair, Don Dunstan introduced many civil liberty reforms where prior to him being Premier of South Australia, homeless people like me were persecuted at every opportunity by authorities.

Those posing as Don Dunstan acolytes today are doing the opposite of what Don wanted. They advocate for reduced freedoms and more discrimination against those they dislike, but who are no longer in privileged positions.

https://dunstan-20669149.hs-sites.com/dunstan-news-ddf-august-update?ecid=ACsprvtHJQvu4Oj0fD0gOIHIirtqP-3VCi124CGLDUoXwjkinAPGRzKOrByCk9fUIM_FjBsRj6ux&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9Cn70bbdoYliyrr_40TZk7N_s5FF82uqEvl03DhMcegB25b3ni0zBtwG26G9LNBrMHlI6L_VphMdx0YmDsEDW4Pem4iw&_hsmi=320990974&utm_content=320990974&utm_source=hs_email

Early 23 August 2024

(above) The Hope Grace Church were perplexed when this turned up in their driveway. Was it a homeless person's camp or an act of dumping rubbish? Hope Grace provide a free early lunch at 11am every Saturday at 49 Tait Street, Renown Park. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Hmm, Evelyn is okay

“If they’re not working, no colleagues; and if they are working – which many more people coming to us for help are – they may be too ashamed to share the reality of their situation in their workplace for fear of being judged.”

Evelyn O’Loughlin
C.E.O. St Vincent de Paul
Her house burnt down last year.

Second Editor: Well, not exactly shame. Most working people struggling to pay off the mortgage don’t take kindly to being data mined for the Eternal Shame File. And most aren’t used to rotting and otherwise unhealthy food. However, St Vincent de Paul is one of the better outfits to seek charity.

Early 22 August 2024

(above) By the time you view this image of an extended family's home in the Adelaide CBD's South Terrace parklands, the Adelaide City Council may have thrown both tents and contents into the back of a garbage truck. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2024.)

(above) So many Homeless Industry bureaucrats and so many empty welfare houses. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Why aren’t flu deaths recorded on the Respiratory Infections dashboard?

HealthSA of the government of South Australia lists zero deaths from Covid in the preceding week. Isn’t that good? Sort of a miracle as you’d expect people in their 80’s and 90’s dying from it. But the dashboard does say that 1816 people have died from Covid – or with it – since somewhere in 2020, but the graph hides when they died.

On the same dashboard, the government lists statistics for flu cases, a usually reliable killer of old people. However, there aren’t any statistics for deaths from this affliction. Why not?

There aren’t any death statistics for RSV, which is Respiratory syncytial virus, a type of “cold” with a symptom of difficult breathing. It’s a mandatory notifiable disease. Yet again, there aren’t any death statistics on the page. Maybe it isn’t that serious or is it?

But one can’t help asking why the death rates for RSV and the flu aren’t recorded and published similarly to the Covid death rates.

Perhaps the government and pharmaceutical corporations don’t want us to realise that Covid was never quite the big deal as was claimed. Perhaps the flu and RSV are killing more people than Covid and always were.

https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/wps/wcm/connect/Public+Content/SA+Health+Internet/About+us/Health+statistics/Surveillance+of+notifiable+conditions/Respiratory+infections+dashboard

Early 21 August 2024

Advertising for tenants! Word is after 2 days he turfs them out on the street - Old P is a regular every day for hutt st meals - greed or just evil agenda lonely demented old man with millions but estranged from family & possibly his fortune will end up in the hands of his executors or public trustee… Anonymous

Criminals at the helm​

A homeless rough sleeper with a deadly form of epilepsy had a seizure in the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre two weeks ago. He was taken away by an ambulance and spent five days in hospital with a soaring temperature and low blood pressure. He also has a late stage intestinal condition that verges on terminal.

He was on the priority housing list via the government-funded housing broker called Towards Home, headed by former Emmanuel College school teacher Rohan Feegrade. They kicked him off the list when he fled the Adelaide CBD for the Modbury area after suffering a beating from an Ice addict that left him with permanent brain damage that exacerbates his epilepsy.

His specialist tells him he needs surgery within months for the intestinal condition or it will be too late. The hospital won’t do the procedure until he proves he has accommodation when he is released from hospital.

This scenario is unfolding despite hundreds of homeless data collectors, counsellors, bureaucrats and public relations employees of Adelaide’s Housing Industry. So much money goes on publicity events from the Minister for Human Services, Nat Cook and self-promotion websites and homeless summits from the Homeless Industry.

Early 20 August 2024

(above) Chains and fence to stop homeless people camping outside empty office building in Gawler Place, Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Re: CEO of trillion dollar Vatican subsidiary

From the anonymous contact page
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The quotes in italics are by Evelyn O’Loughlin, C.E.O. St Vincent de Paul advising what to do if we come across a homeless person. The quotes are from The power of community can help tackle homelessness - InDaily . The longer responses are from an anonymous contributor to Adelaide Homeless Journal. Our anonymous contact page is designed so even we can’t identify our correspondents.


Evelyn: Stop and have a chat with someone who is sleeping rough. Ask them what they need – it’s not always food".

What we want is your organisation and you to pay your fair share of tax. Between you and your admin staff how many investment properties do you own? What we also want is justice for all the protected predators in your Vatican business. Your staff including volunteers threaten and call police over the littlest things, mostly provoked by your staff. Your staff are not suited to this work considering the bigotry programmed into them by the bible you bash. What we would like is you and Vatican crooks to get off this stolen land.

Evelyn: “Raise awareness across your networks – online and offline – about homelessness. Knowledge is power."

We will take your advice and raise awareness on how criminal you treat the vulnerable, the gaslighting, the abuse, the political game you play. A recent report on excess deaths across 120 countries in three years from 2020-23 showed 30 million died as a direct result of COVID measures. Half from the " vaccine" you personally mandated on vulnerable people..the rest from lock-downs poverty and incorrect medical interventions. Nobody died more than those in poverty and your business actually profited during this time.

The Vatican made billions, you personally pushed an easily researched experimental gene therapy drug , that killed and still killing millions. You pushed it and one day may hang in the Hague as CEO of a Vatican subsidiary. People starved because you were complicit in illegal Lock-downs and mandates.. nobody got picked on more in those years,than streeties and fringe homeless, by power tripping cops security and retail workers.

You were dead silent about the human rights violations. We won't let you forget or your friends named in mulligan inquiry that Vatican money bought secrecy to.

Evelyn: “Take a keen interest in policy around homelessness/housing and cost-of-living support. What are your local MP’s views?

Be careful what you wish for because our interest is in you in the Hague for crimes against humanity and that will stop a lot of future abuse by your kind.

Evelyn: “Give some of your time and expertise or make a financial donation to Vinnies or another charity supporting people experiencing homelessness.”

Why do we have to donate to vinnies when you're owned by the Vatican, you pay...[no] tax and billion dollar profits rising, trillion dollars assets rising? What do you give? You earn a few hundred thousand get a flash car salary sacrifice flash hotels and food...You first

How much of 2019 bushfire appeal money did you siphon off? Around ten million i heard?

Anonymous
Via the Anonymous Contact Page

Second Editor: I’ve left a sizeable chunk of my penniless estate to St Vincent de Paul for Fred’s Van only. Is this a mistake? I thought their administrative costs were reasonably decent, but those sandwiches at Fred’s Van in the city are disgusting: soggy and nearly empty. And they do rush us out the door at Semaphore Fred’s Van. So many of their clients are scammers especially those living in houses, but they do help some very desperate people. And even drug addicts, psychotics and criminals are still human beings who feel pain.

But you’re right with many of the comments you made.

Early 19 August 2024

(above) Lutheran Welfare on Prospect Road at Blair Athol. Lots of free stuff if you sign onto their data base. White folk still welcome. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Behind the middle door at Lutheran Welfare Prospect there is a space where a person can shelter during the night. But that has sadly ended after someone defecated against an inner door. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Lutheran Welfare installed an expensive locked gate, but didn't clean up the excrement. Strange logic. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

More on Dave

Dave Taylor at Elizabeth showed a certain humanity. Sure, he was in the drug scene and dealt with the most unsavoury people nearly every day. But he had morals and he wasn’t a dealer.

Dave didn’t believe in hotshots. These are lethal or damaging concoctions supplied by dealers to clients who fail to pay their drug debts. Many deaths you hear about are not accidental overdoses, but hotshots of anything from cat litter to battery acid. Straight into the veins and up into the brain.

Debts are a crucial aspect of drug dealing. Dealers and particularly junkies constantly weaken the active ingredient of their crystal methamphetamine or heroin product to maximise profits – and for junkies – to pay for their own drug use.

They also keep a tight clutch on their clients and by allowing credit retain enough leverage to drag them back into the morass. Addicts are usually unable to front a dealer and pay a debt without succumbing to another a purchase, sometimes under threat from the dealer.

But addicts are also constantly looking for purer sources of their preferred substance, but a constantly looming debt makes it difficult to pay a new dealer when they still owe money to their first dealer demanding payment.

Thus, most addicts have debts and when they fail to pay – and they always do – then it’s time for a friendly hotshot with the accompanying stroke, kidney damage or death. Or if they’re lucky, a small beating with a pledge to raise the money immediately by breaking into houses, prostitution or becoming a courier for their dealer.

Dave abhorred the drug trade.

18 August 2024

(above) Towards Home cadres questioning two homeless men in the Adelaide CBD. Of course, the men said they're okay, no problems, because the cadres offered nothing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Dave Taylor's funeral

Dave’s funeral is on Tuesday at 11:00am with Fulham Funerals, 50 Midway Road, Elizabeth East. Phone (08) 8234 0506.

17 August 2024

Evelyn’s advice when you see one of us

“Stop and have a chat with someone who is sleeping rough. Ask them what they need – it’s not always food.
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“Raise awareness across your networks – online and offline – about homelessness. Knowledge is power.

“Take a keen interest in policy around homelessness/housing and cost-of-living support. What are your local MP’s views?

“Give some of your time and expertise or make a financial donation to Vinnies or another charity supporting people experiencing homelessness.”

Evelyn O’Loughlin
C.E.O. St Vincent de Paul

The power of community can help tackle homelessness - InDaily

17 August 2024

Thriving women conference

We're a long way from famine.

​Thriving Women Conference - InDaily ​

17 August 2024

(above) Homeless man's belongings back of St Andrew's Church on Jetty Road, Glenelg. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Dream, dream, dream

“If they don’t have a home, we welcome them into our crisis centres where they have a safe place to sleep, access to nourishing food, information, and advice, and staff and volunteers who really care about what happens to them when no one else does.”

Evelyn O’Loughlin on homeless people
C.E.O. St Vincent de Paul
16 August 2024

(above) Government funded "non-profits" handing out false information to homeless people. They should update it by checking the Free Food Guide - link above. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Oz Harvest free supermarket Hindmarsh

Free supermarket. No I.D. needed. Just walk in. 27 Manton Street, Hindmarsh. Phone 08 7007 0080.

​Open:
Tuesdays 10:00am to 2:00pm
Wednesdays 3:00pm to 7:00pm
Thursdays 10:00am to 2:00pm

Puddle Jumpers over on Port Road will have to lift their game.
And Foodbank charge money and want personal details for the Eternal Shame File. 

Street View of free supermarket 

ABC Video of free Oz Harvest supermarket 

Early 15 August 2024

(above) Dog's grave near the Hannah radiation zone north of Kalgoorlie. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Re: no regrets about death

From the anonymous contact page

During the Covid years she was responsible for mass censorship and persecution of anyone who didn't want to become part monkey through the mRNA forced gene therapy program that saw the biggest wealth transfer ever to upper class, to her. On her platform so much hate towards anyone who wouldn't take it, including allowing videos of violence against those who rejected the monkey DNA. She the modern day Joseph *******. Her crimes come with the penalty of D****.

Currently today YouTube and google promoting N***ideology and violence towards Palestinians ( and many others) she amassed a 775 million dollar fortune being an obedient genocidal maniac. Millions thrown into poverty and homelessness. She's up there with best of them, Stalin, Hitler, pol pot,... However there's a few active ones above her. She is responsible in a large way for Clive Palmer tripling his 6 billion fortune in less than 3 years during covid.

Operation warp speed wouldn't of worked without her, it was at warp speed we turned fully fledged fascists. Slow drift up until 2019 school strike for climate, then bang killer blow on all the hopes and dreams of kids. Future pulled right out under their feet. She had kids and one didn't survive the onslaught on them ( primarily). He died of drug overdose in college, something that has skyrocketed since the attack on young peoples future and freedumb.

This is a conversation not to many want to have. The mRNA free community filled with flat erf trolls denying the environmental catastrophe the military industrial complex has caused through its business of endless war. It was the same people who made the bio-weapon and the ***** shot who faked 911 to invade Afghanistan and control 90 percent of the opium market, needed for the engineered opioid epidemic.

Nearly all Major river systems shut, nearly 3/4 of old growth forests destroyed, over half the planets animals extinct in your lifetime. All essential to the management of the varied Eco systems that provide life. The children didn't have a future before Covid and they have been dealt a near fatal blow, forcing them to rely and conform to the billionaires and generals.

It really is true, the longer it goes before any justice for C****, the more likely the mRNA monkey people will kill or maim anyone they're told to. ​

Anonymous

Second Editor: Her family would have been under intense pressure over the past few years. They would be blamed for everything wrong with tech. We're all feeding the beast by supplying content. Time for a tech rebellion. 

​I apologise for the ridiculous censorship. 

Early 14 August 2024

(above) Port Adelaide Enfield Council is too mean to provide a easily useable water tap at Kilburn Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Ah, but the 4-way tap key from Bunnings works a treat. Too bad about some drug addict leaving a needle in the drain and that lightning rod always makes me nervous. But water is water. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

On the Street

The Homeless Industry has begun a new scam called the Port Adelaide Zero Project operated by overweight women and couple of old men. They will soon announce incredible progress in housing homeless people in the Council area while nothing will actually change.

So far, the Council’s homeless unit has placed some homeless people into psychiatric rooming houses and onto psychiatric medication so they run or peddle down the streets with silly grins on their faces.

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Good-natured Ali Clarke has joined the radiation bandwagon by telling her audience to get breast checks via X-rays that pump radiation into their bodies. Ali is a heroine, but the powers-that-be wouldn’t call her that if she asked why so many women get breast cancer and why so many youngish, healthy women are dropping dead.

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Old Neeta phoned Meals-on-Wheels at Port Adelaide last week. She asked why they hadn’t delivered that day’s lunch. She didn’t really care as her freezer is brimming with meals-on-wheels meals. She just wanted to talk to someone.

Her doctor took her off a certain drug and now her mind has improved giving her a brief reprieve from being locked up in a nursing home.

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The formerly homeless N.D.I.S. man said his annual package rose from $60,000 to $80,000 because he lives in a unit. He said they pay less money to disabled people when they’re homeless.

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An ex-friend of Peter from Black Forest said his newly beloved, a man called Omar, possibly doesn’t exist. No one seems to have seen him. Peter continues to phone radio station 5AA where he is one of the phone-in stars. But talk of his upcoming marriage has tapered off.

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Guards at an RAAF base told me I was trespassing on Commonwealth Property last week. I pointed to a fence and said I was on the right side. As they left, one guard said they were going to get someone to come back. It seemed a good time to make an exit. At least they were friendly unlike one of two guards at a mining site who told me in no uncertain terms to “F**k off or I’ll call the coppers.” That seemed a good time to make an exit as well. The damage the mines are doing to the land is breathtaking.

Second Editor on the road.

Late 13 August 2024

(above) A pillow case of wine, rawhide and a white towel sitting in a tree on Montague Road. I didn't drink the plonk or remove anything. When you're homeless, it's crucial to maintain the highest integrity. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

The danger of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness

The Australian Zero Homeless Summit begins on the 16th of October, 2024 in Fremantle, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

What it’s about is anyone’s guess. They bill it as The Summit that will ”...facilitate the opportunity to hear directly from communities around the world that have ended homelessness or are making significant progress towards this goal.”

How many times have we heard this while nothing ever changes except more careers are forged from Homeless Industry funding?

One subject at The Summit will be the Australian Homelessness Vulnerability Triage Tool (AHVTT), a new version of that indecent VI-SPDAT 20-page interrogation questionnaire forced on homeless people in the Adelaide CBD. There’s even a training session on how to ask the questions?

Why would anyone need training to ask a few questions? Well, the questions arouse such antagonism that the soft questions are asked early followed by the nasty ones. The tone of the interrogator becomes increasingly threatening as clients become more offended. It’s similar to a frog thrown in hot water. It jumps back out. But put in warm water that is gradually becoming hotter, it fails to respond to the threat until it becomes lethargic and too weak to jump out. Same methodology with the questioning. It’s crucial to become threatening at the right time. Too early and the homeless person runs away.

But what are they aiming to achieve? So far, it’s an exercise to extract personal information from homeless people that they wouldn’t even tell their best friends. It includes surrendering privacy firewalls to other aspects of their life for inclusion on a single database. This is accessible by many strangers working in the homeless industry. But what is their long-term aim?

They aren’t bringing in Rosanne Haggerty whose company, Community Solutions, designed the first version, without a reason. They aren’t going to soften the interrogations forced onto homeless people under threat of withdrawal of housing.

No, they’ll be working on further enhancements such as putting homeless people’s DNA coding, Covid injection data, life expectancy status and social credit rating into an Artificial Intelligence algorithm. Such data collected by the Homeless Industry will be added to predict the homeless person’s future behaviour such as criminal acts or lifestyles that may cost the government money, health expectations, life expectancy or even criticism of the government. And if you don’t measure up to what the A.I. algorithm believes constitutes a worthy citizen, your freedoms and access to medicine and housing will be reduced. You may even be offered a voluntary end-of-life service such as that already happening in Canada. We’re on the road to eugenics and less-than-voluntary euthanasia and the smiling cadres of the Adelaide Homeless Industry are part of it.

Meanwhile, back at street level, the homeless person won’t associate answering distasteful questions and signing a few pieces of paper – or even a tablet screen – with what happens later. Nor will the employees performing this act be fully conscious of the consequences. They will be young and naive or older and cynical, the latter who hate themselves and are addicted to their screens and junk food. To them, making vulnerable people sign unfair documents will seem fine enough. ​

You might think this is paranoid fantasy, but read the fine print of all those documents that homeless people are forced to sign – or perhaps it’s you who make them sign these documents.

12 August 2024

No regrets about death

From the anonymous contact page
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She rented out an office to a couple of geeks who would start google, when they brought YouTube in 2014, she become ceo of YouTube and thats when that platform changed, censorship really kicked in, search engine changed. She died last week age 56 with 4 living children, one died of drugs this year. She was worth 765 million despite only being an employee, a ceo, a marketing manager. She died of a turbo cancer, many suggested caused by mRNA therapy. She perhaps the most powerful censorship tool there was in hiding the vaccine deaths and lies.

​The stupid idiot chose suicide by chemo, when she could of cured her cancer easily. Her own platform YouTube full of information about that. Her name is not important, pieces of s*** like her deserve no respect, she was complicit in the murder of millions.

Anonymous

Second Editor: I was thinking the same thing: the promoters became the victims of their own propaganda. Yet she was once young and had hopes for the future. She got caught up in an ideology until she became a pawn herself.

12 August 2024

(above) A civilisation is failing when people in a city such as Adelaide sleep the streets while there are plenty of empty houses and apartments. And the Puppet Premier, Malinauskas, smiles and promotes football as if MK Ultra has shifted the neurons in his brain. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeway vegetables

Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church (Inside Greek church building), 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Barista coffee 10am to 12:00 noon. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton, ping pong, billiards. 

Provided by Gideon and Vika Misajo and Chin Falam people from Burma, and others using a Greek non-orthodox church. Sixteen nationalities amongst workers and diners. A refreshing crowd.

​White fellas welcome. Personal information not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.

They welcome everyone regardless “...of ethnicity, culture, wealth, gender, mental health, physical ability, languages and colour of our skin. Hope Grace Church allows all people to grasp how width, length, height and depth the love of Jesus Christ.”

11 August 2024

(above) Homeless person's sleeping area in the Adelaide CBD; Plenty of empty Housing Trust units and houses in Adelaide; plenty of private rentals kept empty in Adelaide; plenty of Chinese investment apartments kept empty in Adelaide; plenty of homeless service joints kept empty 75% of the time in Adelaide, hordes of homeless industry executives raking in huge salaries who do nothing in Adelaide; plenty of people desperate for housing in Adelaide; . (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Remembering the old days

It was the month and year that South Australian Puppet Premier Peter Malinauskas was born. Eleven of us from the Unemployed Workers Union in Gawler Place – across from where Fred’s Van serves food every evening – went to the Commonwealth Employment Office in Grenfell Street. At 5pm we refused to leave until the government agreed to raise the dole by twenty-dollars a week.

Twenty minutes after closing time we were arrested. The trial lasted a year and we got $25 fines with $28 in court costs. Lawyers Ralph Bleechmore and Peter Wade represented us without charge.

One of the eleven, Mick Picard from Peterborough, elected to serve time in Adelaide Gaol rather than pay the fine. The magistrate said, “It’s a sad state of affairs when someone like this goes to gaol.” The day after he was locked up, I ran towards the gaol wall with a big ladder while shouting his name. Guards rushed out. We managed to withdraw without being arrested. The next day I was inside Adelaide Gaol, also for refusing to pay the fine.

Among the eleven were David Arkins, who after the Unemployed Workers Union collapsed, went to work for the same agency that had us arrested. After the government dissolved the Commonwealth Employment Service, he worked for Social Security, then Centrelink until his retirement.

Another of the eleven was Desmond Lawrence, a shy man with epilepsy who became a paid staffer with a cold stare with the Greens Party in the South Australian Parliament.

And, of course, Mick Picard who lived in a rooming house in Wakefield Street next to that cinema that showed dirty movies and operated by Ric Marshall. Both buildings were demolished to make way for the Catholic Church headquarters.

Others of the eleven were Neil Bartlet whose mother dropped him off at an orphanage when he was eight, saying she’d return, but never did. He had heart trouble and elected to die in his forties rather than have surgery.

There was also a one-armed man who became an alcoholic. And Brian Jupe, a lonely man who was worried his cat would starve if he ended up in prison.

Kris Hannah didn’t join us in getting arrested. He was studying law and described us as “leftist adventurers”. He later served numerous terms as a Member of Parliament with the Labor Party, The Greens and as an independent. He is currently a popular Mayor of Marion and a Unitarian Minister. ​

The Unemployed Workers Union collapsed two years after the arrests in late 1982 though Desmond Lawrence and Neil Bartlet tried to revive it at various periods. Neil let me use the office in 1987 while I was preparing a publication about homeless services in Adelaide. Neil had secured a derelict government building on Wright Street with free electricity after approaching the Minister of Housing, Terry Hemmings, for whom Hemmings Park in Gawler Place is named and where Fred’s Van serves evening meals. Terry later became the dishwasher for the St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore and currently supports it financially.

Early 10 August 2024

(above) The Caiguna Blow-hole on the Nullabor Plain. A narrow tunnel with 60 kmh wind. Some say it comes straight from an opening in the cliffs of the Bight, others say it's part of a large cave system. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) You may verge on heat stroke on a summer day, but after an hour in the Caiguna Blow-hole, you emerge somewhat chilled. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

Re: cheap tobacco

From the anonymous contact page

Selling contraband tobacco is regulated by the tax office, you get prosecuted for tax evasion. Tax office simply doesn't have the staff or budget to do anything.. Families set up the shop and when busted change name of the one prosecuted and continue trading. Second offence comes with gaol, how they avoid it.

Tax office spends a fortune investigating raiding and prosecuting and achieve nothing. You're right about dodgy politician's but not the way you think. Tax office is deliberate strangled to stop them catching real crooks like Anglicare and salvation army. This is why they're understaffed and resourced.

Anonymous

Second Editor: Thank you. Please send more insights.

Early 9 August 2024

(above) Free menu at Osborne Community Centre at 539 Victoria Rd, Osborne on Thursdays. See Free Food Guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Wonderful food, but they're planning to serve it just once a fortnight instead of every Thursday starting in September. Maybe they'll change their minds. Some idiot diner suggested they charge money for the meal. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Despite most diners eating meat, Osborne Community Centre caters for non-meat eaters very well. (Adelaide homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) They served more meat than this the Thursday before last at Osborne Community Centre. And they don't collection personal data for the Eternal Shame File: first name only and not recorded. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) If you research the free food scene well, you can get one or two healthy free meals at week within a short distance of your camp. The Osborne Community Centre is currently operating at a peak culinary artistic level and with very friendly staff. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

And the beat goes on...​

Marcus Cappo, 20, was found guilty of paying girls between the age of 14 and 16 to send him images of themselves naked then sharing these images with others. He was 18 at the time.

He’s part of Adelaide’s Cappo fish business alongside Monsignor David Cappo though the latter gave his life to the Catholic Church.

Monsignor Cappo was the South Australian Social Inclusion Commissioner alongside David Waterford and New York real estate agent, Rosanne Haggerty. Those were the days when that trio claimed they housed many homeless people every month from the Adelaide CBD. Yet upon visiting the homeless joints, nothing had changed, same old crowd.

In the end, Haggerty ended her Thinker-in-residence job and returned to the United States and began a business called Community Solutions where she developed the intrusive 20-page questionnaire used on homeless people today. This is where housing is denied if a person doesn’t answer questions like have they been molested sexually or worked as a prostitute.

David Waterford eventually resigned with a huge payout from the public service after being caught protecting a child molester. Monsignor David Cappo also disappeared from homeless politics after being accused to protecting child molesters after accusations from a former Catholic priest John Hepworth. He said he’d been raped by three priests in Bendigo from the age of 15. Monsignor Cappo was never charged, but nevertheless resigned his government positions.

Meanwhile, Marcus Cappo has been sentenced to four years in prison despite his lawyers arguing that time in gaol might be detrimental to his health.

After the Social Inclusion Commission collapsed and the Catholics routed, it was revived as the Adelaide Zero Project controlled by Woke Anglicans and university employees. They made the same claims of being able to reduce homelessness in the Adelaide CBD to zero within two years then extended the time period similarly to the Social Inclusion Commission. Oh, and they wanted more money for themselves.

But nothing changed except that even more money previously used on building houses was diverted to consultants, bureaucrats, guards and counsellors with no visible results.

Now we have a homelessness summit in Fremantle in October with the usual suspects attending including David Pearson and Rosanne Haggerty. Attendees will fly in from around Australia and the world and will attempt to stay awake while hearing the same stuff they heard at the last “summit”. After that, videos might be put on youtube and even those attending the “summit” won’t bother watching to glean any details they missed while they were asleep.

And the beat goes on…

8 August 2024

(above) A lizard oblivious to the accomplishments of human technology, gazes over the 70-metre cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

(above) Moving west from the cliffs the slope becomes gentler allowing foot access to the waves pounding against the rocks. Beyond the sea is the ice of the Antarctic. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

More on Nat Cook

From the anonymous contact page

To this day dept of human services still telling vulnerable people including children to take the Covid booster.

Around 10 thousand a month extra pension applications across Australia since those injections begun. Excess deaths still at wartime levels. More importantly violence has increased.

[Despite Sammy D Foundation saying:]

" Our PURPOSE is to end violence by connecting and empowering young people.

Our ASPIRATION is for all young people to live their best life free from violence.
To donate to the Sammy D Foundation click here."

There is a lot of sick shit in this dystopian reality some people see. Nat takes the cake and the whole bakery though or should i say D'oh?. Records tumbling in children removed from parents, which is quite astonishing considering what the Mulligan inquiry uncovered. Who would believe that was 20 years ago? Nought changed. just got worse.

These children removed today, used as pharmaceutical experiments, lab rats. Sex dolls for the ruling class. Sammy d foundation inspirational leader in charge of this shit. They're still asking for donations.

The rates of gender dysphoria amongst victim's of dept child protection is astronomical, mainly due to the sexual abuse and psychotropic medications. Research since 1980s has constantly linked psychotropic medication use in children and youth with gender dysphoria. As soon as stolen kid, ( they are stealing them for the federal money and pharmaceutical kick backs) plays up, they pump psychotropic medications in. You're gonna play up , are you not? If your removed from your family at gun point? (Armed cops present at every theft) Playing up would be a sign of a functioning normal kid, so they pump brain disabling drugs against their will.. Sammy d foundation leader is breaking record's for atrocities against children.

Using her own dead kid so she can destroy as many kids as she can. She's in the number one position in government to kill and ruin as many kids as possible. That's what she's doing. Had senior advisers arrested for child porn.

Name supplied

5 August 2024

Can we believe the inflation figures?​

Australia’s latest annual inflation figure is 3.9%. Isn’t that good? But can we believe it?

Housing is the major cost and prices have risen 14% during the last year while insurance rose the same amount.

Those compiling the figures say the 3.9% represents “underlying inflation (which strips out volatility)” whatever that means.

Considering how many adult children are remaining in their parents’ houses and caravans appearing in backyards, one might think the official 3.9% is a false figure concocted by those whose interest is that inflation appears low.

One item that has dropped in price is tobacco. Foreign smugglers openly import shipping containers of untaxed cigarettes selling them at ten-dollars a packet while the legal version costs $30 to $40. That’s an inflationary drop – we can’t deny that – and lucrative for government officials and Members of Parliament on-the-take.

5 August 2024

(above) Tuesday breakfast was turned into a Christmas-in-July lunch at St Bede's at Semaphore this week. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) Dorothy gave a short speech. She and others spearheaded the effort to keep the free breakfast going after Anglicare Corporation ceased its funding. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) St Bede's don't get government funding and rely on donations. But what makes it a quality free food venue for homeless people is the quality of the unpaid staff and one part-time paid coordinator. Such a group of quality people brought together in one place. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) Dessert from Lindy, another cook at Moose Chat and Chew Port Adelaide free meal for "isolated" people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2024.)

How about some empathy?


From the anonymous contact page

Have some empathy for nat the bat cook please. The sammy d foundation has done some good sh**. She become politically active after her son received a fatal one punch attack. She came in on the end of a lab dynasty of 5 straight terms ànd death hits her in the face again. Then one of her advisors gets done for Child porn, while she shadow minister for human services. Yep, go back and read that again. A politician who was voted in for campaigning primarily for protection of vulnerable children, after successful charity * cough cough " work, key advisor gets done for child porn. You couldn't make this sh** up.

Shes had it hard, now has the hot seat, that once belonged to health ministers during Covid. How they gonna fix the housing crisis if there's still immigration, without killing off vulnerable people? The vulnerable people the sammy d foundation was meant to help? Now Sammy d foundation into protecting ice dealers in ghettos.

Farrrrrrrk

Anonymous

Second Editor: Well, she should get rid of Nicola Spurrier. All those dangerous injections to young people weren’t necessary. The mRNA gene therapy – also known as the Covid vaccine – is more dangerous to young people than Covid. (It might have been useful to some old folk.)

And the statistics published by the government don’t show if those getting Covid and those dying from it have had the injections or not. Or how old they are. It’s all deception from these people. Nat Cook should realise she’s in politics as should make courageous decisions such as sacking most of the homeless industry.

She could start with defunding a section – not all – of the Hutt Street Centre. They spent all that money building a new facade then still restrict hot showers to six-minutes.

Very early 4 August 2024​

On the Street

Joylene Mitchell and Rotary gave 50 swags to Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army, but these have already been distributed. Who the hell got them? Whatever, the Army needs more.

*

A rough sleeper said the police horse redeployment is a disaster. The government is building new horse barracks at Gepps Cross to make way for the new Women’s and Children’s hospital to be built on the old police barracks site near Adelaide Gaol.

The man who sleeps on concrete said the horses could have stayed there if the hospital had been built on the old brewery site. But the ambulances would have taken an extra two minutes to move from the Women’s and Children’s to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. That’s the logic.

But you have to wonder what two minutes would make when ambulances are nearly always ramped for hours at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

And the horses will have to be trucked in to the city to quell demonstrations, riots and rebellions rather than merely trotted over from the old barracks.

It’s good we have the man on concrete to keep an eye on things.

*

In a discussion about trauma and homelessness, one person said those finding themselves living outside at 40 have a better chance of survival than someone at 20. This is because a person at 40 has memories of a normal life to hark back to while a younger person has little background reference if their childhood offered no goals or self-respect and discipline.

A homeless man said some people can be ruined by just three months living outside. He knows, he’s seen it.

*

Artificial Intelligence algorithms are creating divisiveness because they direct internet users into echo chambres. The algorithm feeds each person news based on previous reading or viewing that reflects their interests.

For example the algorithm might will tell us that Israel is either the new Third Reich or a beacon of democracy fighting the evil Gaza Palestinians in self-defence.

There are two sides of every story, but A.I. directs us to our own echo chambres rather than helping us discover the truth. Our minds are controlled by the internet, now, not next year.

*

A young woman believed to be the Lady-of-the-Lake was seen in the Paralowie shopping centre last week wearing only a shirt and nothing else. She seemed not to think she was doing anything unusual. A witness said observers were sympathetic rather than derisive towards her. A worker in the R.S.P.C.A. store brought her a sheet to wrap around herself. The Lady likes that sort of apparel.

*

A woman told another that it took her two weeks to get into Catherine House. She knew the magic words while more desperate women wait months or never get in because they don’t know the magic words. Four magic words are “domestic violence” and “bad man”.

*

A child was sitting in a free food room playing with a phone. Her mother was outside the doorway talking to other women. Homeless men drank coffee in the room. A Salvation Army employee alerted the mother of the danger.

The mother was ethnic and without the fear that every man is a child molester. But in Australia, men are not considered protectors of children, but a threat to them. And the extreme vigilance of the Salvo employee was an insult to us.

*

A homeless man said the Salvation Army should differentiate between Salvo Stores, Thrift Shops and Family Centres. He says the rapaciousness of Salvo Stores makes the Army appear greedy and stealing from the poor when they are not doing this.

*

Jesse Fransca was previously an Emo who hung out at Hindmarsh Square, first near the building where psychiatrist Jean Eric Gassy shot psychiatrist Margaret Tobin in 2002. (Gassy said Margaret was trying to give him A.I.D.S.) Then across the road near the Pullman Hotel.

Jesse reputedly went insane from drugs and listening to Slade.

*

The government welfare dental service in Adelaide called me for an appointment. I asked for a delay while I was in the Gibson Desert for two months. No luck. The call centre women put me back to the beginning of the waiting list.

Welfare is a prison if you let it be and any movement in your life disrupts the flow of services that others take for granted.



Dave Taylor died last week, cause unknown. He was the invalid scooter man living near the Beacon of Hope Church of Christ in Elizabeth. He went to their free lunches.

He was associated with Michael the Ice Dealer from Elizabeth so one might guess how he died. Michael and Rose lived at his place for two years until relatives changed the locks and gave Dave the new keys.

Michael was livid and found himself without free lodging. He’s the son of Debra Lamb who was murdered by the Truro killers in the 1970’s. The Coroner said at the time that Debra might have been buried alive where her body was found on the mudflats north of St Kilda.

Michael suffers brain damage from crystal methamphetamine. The injury has made him more violent, less remorseful and deluded 95% of the time. In short, he is dangerous. But the story is much murkier than this.

The good part is that his son became a police officer after visiting his father in prison. He decided law enforcement was better than becoming an Ice junkie in the slammer

Very early 4 August 2024

From the anonymous contact page

If you boil the water it might burn your throat.
Lol 😆
I'm just joking with you
What a cool contraption.
Great quality fluoride free water 💧 👌
The whole entire place looks extravagant, it entices me to go travelling one day.
Screw you lol
Temptation is itching at me.
Did you know the best water is alkaline water.
I was thinking if you didn't have water you would've had to drink your own pee!
That's what some people do in the desert

Anonymous

Second Editor: Water from some towns north of Kalgoorlie is from bores filled from rain that fell in New Guinea 10,000 years ago. It flowed under the Timor Sea then down the Sturt Creek catchment then underneath the Great Sandy Desert and further south to Leonora and Laverton. It is wonderful water to drink, no need for spring water.

Scientists walk four kilometres underground at the old Poseidon Nickel mine near Laverton where they take samples from underground caverns. The fear is that contamination from the slag ponds could seep into the New Guinea water.

Very early 4 August 2024​

(above) Water collecting roof on the Nullabor Plain near Mundrabilla in Western Australia, near the S.A. border. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) Water collection from a bygone era. A busy place during the summer when travelers park underneath for shade. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) And the water is life sustaining though it is wise to boil it before drinking. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Is reform possible?

The Adelaide homeless industry is reviewing their twenty pages of intimate questions asked of homeless people applying for housing. They’re working on a new model to avoid the continuing negative publicity from homeless people unhappy about being forced to disclose whether they’ve been raped, are pregnant, have been beaten up recently or were sexually abused. Staff also do the sniff test on homeless people and surreptitiously report on the condition of their skin, all the while maintaining a benevolent smile.

They also demand the client signs a document allowing industry staff to collect details of a client’s criminal, educational, family, medical, psychiatric, psychological, financial and driving record history plus a record of attendance at other homeless joints. They also require permission to obtain other intimate files, the nature of which we can’t imagine.

They then merge this information into a single database so employees at forty other contractors aligned with the Adelaide Zero Project can view it.

There are controls in the distribution, but the fact they do this to already traumatised and vulnerable people is indecent at best. Whether the new interrogation program will be more or less benevolent remains to be seen.

Ian Cox is the government liaison employee for this data collection while David Pearson of Homelessness Australia ‒ with connections to the Don Dunstan Foundation ‒ is the ideological head of this cruel scheme.

Early 3 August 2024

(above) Quality food served hot at the Moose Chat and Chew free late lunch every second Wednesday at about 2:00pm back of 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide for "isolated" people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) The cooks at Chat and Chew take great care in providing top quality food free in Port Adelaide. Homeless man in background. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Nat Cook looking sick

The Minister for Human Services, Nat Cook, appears sicker than ever. Not simply morbidly overweight, but something else as well.

Perhaps it’s the misery of her job that’s ailing this unfortunate woman. Attending media performances renaming facilities for homeless people may fool the gullible public, but Nat isn’t fooled. She knows that housing for homeless people is being reduced in favour of drug junkies, paedophiles, fake domestic violence victims and similarly “disadvantaged” people. She knows that actual homeless people living healthy lives are denied housing.

Nat Cook has led an honourable life working in nursing and holds the title of Associate Professor with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of South Australia.

What can we do to help this suffering human being? It would be hard for her to admit this politics thing was a facade and that she isn't really a Minister in charge of anything and that things are getting worse. 

Facility to be opened for discharged hospital patients experiencing homelessness | Watch (msn.com)

Early 2 August 2024

(above) Every journey has a beginning and an ending including life in the homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

How do they calculate
​homeless numbers?

Adelaide’s Homeless Industry reports that the number of Actively Homeless people in the Adelaide CBD and parklands has dropped from 216 in May to 210 in June 2024. The Rough Sleeper count dropped from 179 to 178 while the Temporarily Sheltered number dropped from 32 to 29.

What The Industry doesn’t say is how they collect the data so we don’t know if it is merely those who register with homeless service joints or is it an estimate of those who go to Fred’s Van and the Magadalene church hall meal on Saturdays or even the Adelaide Day Centre.

The Industry’s homeless statistics appear more a tool for getting continued government funding for the executives and others at homeless joints.

The Adelaide City Council expelling Cos We Care from the city and the demise of “A.J.” Jeffries’ Our Street Family Matters Saturday morning meal doesn’t seem to have forced anyone out of the city, just made it harder for them. ​

AZP Monthly Dashboard – South Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (saaeh.org.au)

Early 1 August 2024

(above) This should be a barrel of laughs.

Sexist biased ABC​

The Housing Trust recently moved a homeless man from Category 3 to 1 then offered him rental housing two weeks later. That was because he did interviews in the media including the ABC.

Someone commented on the ABC webpage that it was amazing that sex offenders were offered accommodation. Someone not particularly friendly to the homeless man told the ABC the comment was defamatory, but the ABC took days to remove the comment.

This is an example of the bias of the ABC against men. You can imagine that the tiniest example of non-Woke language against a woman would have been removed within minutes.

The moral of the story is that homeless men should avoid doing interviews with the media.

Early 1 July 2024
​

The long trek of women with integrity

It isn’t easy for homeless women of integrity. Women get housing if they claim to be threatened by a man or were previously abused by males whether family or not. This factor is more important than having terminal cancer.

Homeless women of integrity who don’t want to spin a false tale – or don’t want to reveal such information to strangers – may never get public rental housing.

So why would shrewd politicians and social workers encourage fake reporting against men? It’s because certain political and social forces want to create an exaggerated view that men are more violent towards women that is actually the case.

Claiming to have been abused as a child also qualifies a person for cheap welfare rental housing. This is due to those same political and social interests wanting to create a feeling in the general population that most men are child molesters.

But who gains from instilling fear and loathing in the general population? Who gains if we hate each other?

Early 31 July 2024

Not dangerous

From the anonymous contact page

I've been thinking hard and probably a little bit too hard, are you in a dangerous area without any light?. ( I could be wrong)
Is that you?.
If so, travel to a more secluded spot.
Find a blindspot somewhere and use minimal lighting on your phone.
If that wasn't you, I still hope you are safe
Stay out of trouble buster haha 😄
And don't let the bed bugs bite

Anonymous

Second Editor: Not dangerous. I’ve spent half my adult life in the bush without serious mishaps. This is in contrast of the Adelaide homeless scene where I’ve been assaulted five times in seven years.

As to bedbugs, they won’t bite in the bush, but they will bite in Domenic Boleno’s rooming houses in Salisbury.

Early 1 July 2024


From the anonymous contact page

Is it remote and dry where you are?
Do you have plenty of water?
And how do you keep it cold?
Are there any facilities nearby where you are?
Oh and one more thing
How do you use a phone out there?
(It is quite remote)

Anonymous

Second Editor: Not too remote. I carry plenty of water. It is cold or warm according to the weather. No facilities. Phones work half the time especially if near tiny Aboriginal communities.

The small towns have everything one needs including excellent free doctors and tiny hospitals plus air ambulance to bigger ones if needed.

It’s safer here than sleeping in a car in Adelaide, but the trick is knowing where to camp. For example, the tribal area of Kalgoorlie is very dangerous if you’re white. But they’ll save your life if you’re lost in the bush. ​

Early 31 July 2024

(above) Those sleeping on the streets of Adelaide take pride in their ephemeral sites. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Welcome to the war zone​

A senior rough sleeper in the Adelaide CBD told us about homeless people affected by trauma. It was like someone suffering a hangover then drinking a bottle of beer to ease the symptoms. It wasn’t logical, but it returned the alcoholic to being drunk rather than sober and sick, the former being a preferred state.

Similarly, the rough sleeper described a popular figure in the homeless scene. This personality had either been a helicopter gunner or a medic or both in Iraq. The story was he’d shot children pointing rocket launchers at him.

When this veteran returned to Oceania, he gravitated to the Adelaide homeless scene around Baptist WestCare, Hutt Street Centre and Whitmore Square.

Eventually, he was offered welfare rental accommodation, but found that a peaceful environment brought on traumatic memories of Iraq.

So like an alcoholic drinking more to ease a hangover, the man returned to the Adelaide homeless scene because it resembled a war zone where someone was frequently trying to harm you and you were trying to avenge a wrong.

This is why, Chris Adams said, it is important that long-term homeless people have a lengthy period of support in their new housing so they can work through those traumas and not end up on the street accruing more.

Early 30 July 2024

(above) On the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. No boats, no swimmers, life before us. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page

Crawling about on all fours:
Any advice for those of us crawling on all fours in the dead of night with no flashlite / torch ?
Can't afford to stand up while moving about since hazards are nearby: could trip, fall, twist ankle etc.
Was thinking of wearing a push bike helmet for protection against head knocks and perhaps improvise some hand and knee pads to protect extremities.
Unable to use light at night due to hostiles such as mobs, youth gangs and predatory authorities.
Particularly problematic when trying to traverse a safe distance for poop, upchuck (vomit) and retrieve distant items.
Easy to arrange a container for piss but other travel events that require distance are troublesome and dangerous.
Thanks for helping us out in a blackspot blindspot dogs breakfast reality.
Elderly homeless in the rough with no drug / alcohol problem.

Anonymous

Second Editor: I hate to say it, but you may be totally insane. But thanks for your message.

Early 29 July 2024
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From the anonymous contact page

Hope you get you desired results
And a sense of clarity
The calmness of the waves
The gorgeous sunset 🌇
Your doing what's best for you.
Enjoy your time ⏲️
Your true purpose
Those photos are so captivating
I've never seen something so beautiful
Have a ripper time
Are you gone for good? :(

Anonymous

Second Editor: Back in a few months. I have some strange “work” to do here.

Early 29 July 2024

(above) The battle of survival in the homeless scene is the Battle of the Mind. Once you realise this, everything changes. (Second Editor on the Road, Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) The narrowing of vision is both a survival response and a detriment for further growth while homeless. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Great Australian Bight, July 24 2024.)

On the Street Sunday

Towards Home agents wanted a homeless man to give them access to his hospital discharge files. He’d tried to get copies himself, but was told he’d have to go through the laborious process of making a Freedom of Information Request.

A Towards Home employee said they could get quicker access to his files – for themselves – once he signed the release form.

It arose that none of this mattered as they kicked him off their rental program because he changed his sleeping place from the city to suburbia – for his own safety. (He’d been assaulted in the city and left with acquired brain damage.)

You wonder what sort of callous or incompetent people work at Towards Home. And part of the house building budget has been diverted to these parasitical gate keepers.

A Towards Home bureaucrat told this rough sleeper – who sleeps on concrete – that he’d have to move back into the city to sleep on the streets then reapply for housing all over again.

But the process takes six-months and the man’s medical condition means he’s at high risk of becoming another casualty on the streets. His death wouldn’t be reported in the media because it would expose the wasteful nature of the homeless industry.

*

Rosanne Haggerty said the key to getting homeless people to answer intimate and impertinent questions is the order they are asked. You start with innocuous questions then work your way into the deeply personal and disturbing demands for information.

It works similar to scammers who borrow small amounts of money from a target then make increasingly larger requests that become demands. When the target rejects further “loans”, the scammer says he won’t pay the loan back unless the target lends more.

With Towards Home and the Hutt Street Centre, it works in a similar way. If the target doesn’t answer further questions then not only will rental housing be denied, but they’ll use the intimate answers already obtained in any way they see fit.

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A sunburnt man obviously sleeping on the ground and carrying his bags was bothered by children mocking him in the Tea Tree Gully shopping centre. “Just because you’re down on your luck, they shouldn’t treat you that way,” he said to us.

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A ONE Life church member named Norman told clients waiting for free food that, “This is not a charity. We respect you for looking after yourselves.”

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Why do church free food volunteers act friendly to homeless people then start talking about Jesus? It’s so annoying and difficult not to be rude to them. They’re not the least inspiring, at least not to me even though believing in something bigger than oneself can be a Godsend to some homeless people.

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A Towards Home homeless client said that government funded business registers people for housing, but does nothing for six months. After that, they move quickly if the person fits their criteria.

Exceptions are women being threatened by men: they get housing very quickly.

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A homeless man recently got housing because he did media interviews and became an embarrassment to the government. Then someone wrote on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that it was amazing that paedophiles get public housing.

This was a lie without evidence, but even after being alerted by a third party, the ABC was slow to remove the comment. They have an agenda and any negative comment against white men is considered the truth.

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Orange Sky Laundry is finally planning to visit Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army with the intention of placing their laundry van in the area. There are competing sites, but Modbury is in a good position to get the shift.

What Orange Sky really needs is a second van to account for breakdowns.

Early 28 July 2024

(above) It takes extreme self-control to sleep on Grenfell Street, Adelaide. The Towards Home data collectors are merely another negative factor this homeless camper must contend with. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Cafe help needed​

A Salvation Army cafe in suburban Adelaide needed help. Someone suggested bringing in two homeless men with brain damage caused by crystal methamphetamine. What could go wrong?

The first man was eager and willing, and in a good spirits perhaps not knowing he had a date with the prison system. His arms flailed wildly when he spoke in words difficult to decipher so they put him in the kitchen. However, diners could see behind the counter and through the door until one refused to eat anything touched by this soon-to-be prisoner.

The second homeless man was appointed as concierge due to his pleasant personality. He made people feel comfortable unless recounting a number of his friends being murdered including one while he was passed out in the next room. But what caused difficulty in his appointment was that when he opened his mouth every sentence was laced with unremitting filth. Customers fled the establishment in droves.

This made cafe management suspect their choice of cafe workers had been sub-optimal so they let both candidates go, in this case back to their tents behind the cafe.

Early 27 July 2024
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From the anonymous contact page

Crawling about on all fours:
Any advice for those of us crawling on all fours in the dead of night with no flashlite / torch ?

Can't afford to stand up while moving about since hazards are nearby: could trip, fall, twist ankle etc.

Was thinking of wearing a push bike helmet for protection against head knocks and perhaps improvise some hand and knee pads to protect extremities.

Unable to use light at night due to hostiles such as mobs, youth gangs and predatory authorities.

Particularly problematic when trying to traverse a safe distance for poop, upchuck (vomit) and retrieve distant items.
Easy to arrange a container for piss but other travel events that require distance are troublesome and dangerous.
​
Thanks for helping us out in a blackspot blindspot dogs breakfast reality.
Elderly homeless in the rough with no drug / alcohol problem.

Anonymous

Second Editor: I hate to say it and please forgive this impertinence, but I fear you may be totally insane. But thanks for your message.

Early 27 July 2024


From the anonymous contact page

Hope you get you desired results
And a sense of clarity
The calmess of the waves
The gorgeous sunset 🌇
Your doing what's best for you.
Enjoy your time ⏲️
Your true purpose
Those photos are so captivating
I've never seen something so beautiful
Have a ripper time
Are you gone for good? :(

Anonymous

Second Editor: Back in a few months. I have some strange “work” to do here.

Early 27 July 2024

(above) When ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens receives food without labeling, they print their own labels so patrons of their free food service know what they're eating. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Kindness to another homeless stranger

A senior homeless beggar in the city explained how he removed his shoes and put dirt on his feet when begging in the Adelaide CBD. He asked for a cup of coffee, but the real aim was to attract cash.

Many people offered him cups of coffee so he was forced to hide them behind his coat and was appreciative of the nearby public toilets.

Others didn’t have time to buy a coffee so they left money.

He placed himself at various locations where there was a guaranteed number of people passing him by of whom a certain percentage would help him.

His reason for begging was to buy semi-legal sedatives, but at least he was genuinely homeless and generous to others unlike those predators who live in houses, but travel to the city each day to beg while pretending to sleep outside. Those are the enemies of genuine homeless beggars.

Early 26 July 2024

Kindness to strangers – Modbury

​A HousingSA tenant brought KFC food, $35 and a quilt to a man sleeping near Civic Park at Modbury. She messaged him at 3:00am saying she’d booked two nights for him at a motel near Golden Grove. No strings attached.

Early 26 July 2024
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The exploited Salisbury addict

From the anonymous contact page

You know the weird thing
I haven't seen corry in about a month..
Just vanished, disappeared nowhere to be found.
I'm hoping for the best he has found a place
The uncertainty of it all is quite worrying.

Early 26 July 2024


From the anonymous contact page

tanks much fer real cliff hangers
​no need to vacation out this website

Early 26 July 2024

From the anonymous contact page

Are you in western Australia if so happy and safe travels
Enjoy your journey.

Anonymous

Second Editor: Yes, a period near the western end of the Gibson Desert should clear the mind and create intentionality.

Early 25 July 2024

(above) The mystery of Lighthouse City Mission at Port Adelaide. They say they're closed until further notice, but have a Friday church service and free meal from about 4:30pm. (Adelaide City Journal, July 2024.)

The kindness of strangers

Perhaps the mechanic and manager of Auto Masters in Port Adelaide felt sorry for me, an old man living in a car and unsteady-on-his-feet.

Anyway, I asked them to check the noise coming from the front passenger wheel. The mechanic with a shaved head and full beard went for a test drive, returned and put the car on the hoist and determined it wasn’t the wheel bearing. The manager said it might be a burred front tyre so they rotated the tyres, went for another test drive and the noise problem was fixed. The work took 43 minutes.

When it came to paying, they said, “No charge.”

That’s Auto Masters at 173 Commercial Road at Port Adelaide, kind to a homeless stranger and opposite KFC.

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Early 25 July 2024
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More kindness from strangers

The whites of my eyes stayed red after my fourth bout of Covid. I went to Trinity Medical Centre in Port Adelaide where a doctor walked me through to Trinity Eye Care in the same building.

Dr Kate Bosland was the optometrist and more than that. She spent forty minutes checking my eyes and prescribed steroid surface eye drops. She didn’t charge me a cent despite keeping a paying customer waiting.

I returned for three more forty-minute sessions, the length of which most doctors dread. She performed all the tests usually done at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Eye Clinic then explained everything she’d discovered. That was the difference, the QEH tells you nothing.

Kate demonstrated that my eyes don’t produce oil and tears to keep themselves moist. She demonstrated a massage technique to get the oil glands in the eye-lids to produce oil.

She prescribed a surface steroid for the redness then a penetrating steroid for my right eye that had become distorted due to an internal swelling. She recommended using fish oil and preservative-free artificial tears.

For four 40-minute sessions, she bulk-billed Medicare meaning after a point she was working for peanuts since Medicare discourages long consultations. That’s why medical doctors prefer 12-minute consultations.

The only cost with Kate was fifty-dollars for imagery.

That’s Kate Bosland and kindness to a stranger.

Optometrists In Port Adelaide | Eye Tests & Glasses | Trinity Eyecare

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Early 25 July 2024

(above) A refugee in her own country, this woman gets moved on every few days by the Salisbury Council anti-homeless squad, often losing her bedding and clothing in the process. Thus, she spends part of her life scavenging the clothing donations left in the rain back of the Salvo Store in John Street. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page​

The two P fellas that attend the daily meals - word has it one has millions in the bank - hence why he can save it for a rainy day??? Can we afford to be greedy on the homeless scene?? But kudos to the chef he’s cooking meals like hutt st is a 5 star kitchen!!!

Second P quite humbly tells me he’s rubbed shoulders & knows the Tanzanian ambassador here in Adelaide & how his son attends hutt st for meals.

Anonymous
Early 24 July 2024
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On the Street Wednesday

Last Saturday, there were homeless people sitting outside the Hutt Street Centre. The building was closed, but the interior lights blazed through the large glass windows.

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Homeless Clive said he went to the dental hospital for work on a tooth. He told them he didn’t want it pulled out, but the dentist performed this procedure before Clive could object. That’s what Clive said.

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Homeless Clive said police told him not to sit at the bus stop next to the Hutt Street Centre and St Andrew’s medical centre.

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Another Hutt Street Centre client said he saw the fat security guard named Brendan banging a client’s head against a car bonnet.

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Another client was banned from the Hutt Street Centre for 6-months after throwing an e-scooter at an employee.

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The Adelaide City Council had temporarily stopped stealing tents and bedding from homeless people camping on the grass on the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street in the Adelaide CBD. It isn’t compassion, they don’t want to be politically responsible for anyone dying in the mud and cold. It’s a depressing area on cloudy days with rain.

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When a homeless man said the parklands are teeming with demon-possessed creatures at night, a fellow homeless friend said, “And we know some of them.”

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A rough and tumble Western Food Hub client said he worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for thirty years in various jobs. His career came to an end when a Vietnamese man objected to him getting too close to his wife. The husband stabbed the hospital worker in the back.

During surgery, it was discovered the hospital worker had lung cancer so one lung was removed. He says he has two years left to live. He gasped as he spoke.

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A soup kitchen client said a police officer friend told him that a certain speed camera was installed on the north-south freeway for the sole purpose of raising money for the government.

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“So you didn’t have any of my roast chicken that took five hours to make?” Sue asked a diner at the Western Food Hub who complemented her for the donated pizza. He said he didn’t know there was any chicken.

Sue and Josephine operated the Hub by themselves on Saturday evening. Two old women not afraid of life. And they make terrific food for meat eaters, homemade with quality ingredients. One of Adelaide’s homeless secrets.

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Veku from the Renown Park Saturday free lunch said it took a year to get used to the quiet of Adelaide after having lived in India. For myself, I found Adelaide too noisy after having grown up in a small town.

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Anyone fitting the isolated persons category – meaning you live alone – should consider the Moose (Chat and Chew) free meal every second Wednesday in Port Adelaide. The cooks are incredible. They’re another of Adelaide’s homeless secrets. See the Free Food Guide for details. ​

Early 24 July 2024

(above) Every so often the Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh surprises us with high quality exotic foods, all for free. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Quiet desperation at Glenelg

Irish Paul had a black eye and extensive bandaging around his left elbow. Wearing a sad smile, he said he’d fallen down.

John Johnson shouted to the compere that he wanted to sing happy birthday, either that or he wanted others to sing happy birthday to him. He’s nearly 80 now and has just retired from working in a sheltered workshop.

John is affectionately known as J.J. by his friends who grew up with him at Minda Homes. He sat with a friend and they both spoke loudly, as usual. Then a third man at their table got angry and spat on the floor. John’s friend told a church volunteer named Ashley – who wore a badge saying his name was Sharon – and who cleaned up the spit then applied hand sanitiser. The spitter yelled at John’s friend who smiled and watched him. The spitter then stormed from the hall. J.J.’s friend said it was the quiet ones you had to fear, not the loud ones.

Meanwhile, Ashley’s slender son pushed around an old man who gave no resistance and appeared to be his grandfather or someone related to his mother, Jodie. It was Jodie’s father who said for years that he was the older brother of Jesus and was told by his psychiatrist to maintain that belief: it was keeping him sane.

The Dragon Lady from Salisbury sat with Horse Trader Steve along with the nymphomaniac and two short men. Outside the dining room, the short man offered to give the upstanding nymphomaniac woman a massage. He held his hands near the lower area of her buttocks. Then one of the short men slapped her buttocks hard. “Have I done something naughty?” she exclaimed in a saucy voice. She’s an accomplished singer and knows how to use her voice, etc.

The homeless man who walks around Glenelg carrying a green sleeping bag couldn’t take the loud chatter of the hall so he mocked others, but without the skill of the nymphomaniac. Then in a confused way, he sauntered from the hall back to the cold concrete of the night.

A few diners using the free Orange Sky Laundry waited around as the machines had stopped working so the volunteers took the laundry to a laundromat and then returned about 7:30pm. That is good service.

P.S. The nymphomaniac is an educated, cultured and kindly woman.

St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Ph (08) 8295 1771.Tues 6:00pm for free three course meal. Social gathering back of church 5:00pm. Tues, Thurs, Fri 11:30am – 2:15pm. Free soup, buns, coffee. No I.D. or registration required except for fortnightly 6 grocery items and hygiene bags. Good bread, old fruit and vegetables weekly. One free PBS prescription at a Glenelg pharmacy each week (50 a year). Good toilets. Good staff. Orange Sky Tues 5:30 – 7:30pm and 11:00am to 1:00pm. Cheap Op Shop.

Early 23 July 2024
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From the anonymous contact page

"Note the horrible blue plastic coffee mugs."

typical foodware at Fred's Van Adelaide CBD
hey ! i got 1 uv dem !
servz mee very well
hor rible

Anonymous
Early 23 July 2024

From the anonymous contact page

"we have a man who was sleeping on the ground in the Adelaide CBD. He has two life-threatening medical conditions and applied for housing via Towards Home. They ignored him for most of the past six-months then asked him twenty pages of intimate questions. They asked him to surrender his privacy rights to his hospital discharge file. During this period he changed his concrete surface camp from the city to Modbury. He did this for his own safety after having been savagely beaten. Upon hearing about this, Towards Home personnel told him he no longer qualified for housing via Towards Home. But they still kept all his personal details on file."

Towards Home ya shame us
even when so many blame us.
Really your title could be Towards Homeless
Shame Towards Homeless shame

Anonymous

Second Editor: Yes, the man may be closed to death within a year yet the system spends $20,000 on a person for “counselling and support”, but will let someone die.

Early 23 July 2024

From the anonymous contact page

“I really hope you are keeping warm
Severe extreme weather alert
It be best if you get some accommodation even for just a couple of nights
That car would be absolutely freezing
I hope you have appropriate bedding
My friend
It's not safe.. especially condensation is not good for you lungs.”

Anonymous

Second Editor: Life goes on, we adapt. Maintaining the health and discipline of the mind allows one to survive most hardships until our inevitable passing. All is well.

What amazes me even after decades in this scene is how kind strangers are while Anglicare Believe Housing ‒ who get paid to be nice, ‒ were so cruel. Such is life.

Early 23 July 2024

From the anonymous contact page

"Senior rough sleeper in city explains why war veterans become homeless in Adelaide; A retired beggar discloses professional secrets; Cafe employs two Ice junkies with bad results;"

never a dull moment
looking forward
thanks for keeping us alive with interest

Early 23 July 2024​

(above) Beautiful Belle's camp on the concrete wheelchair ramp at Sonder unSafe Haven in John Street, Salisbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) The homeless women in the Salisbury Town Centre are booted from one area to another every few days. They sometimes last only a few hours before being forced to move on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Poor Lani

They brought her to the house in Greenacres with the clothing on her back. An infestation of cockroaches resulted in everything at her previous house in Kilburn being sent to the rubbish dump. That was the story, anyway.

Her 16-year-old renovated house at Greenacres is a two bedroom, separate dwelling with a backyard and a verandah built by the previous tenant, that crazy old woman shipped out to a nursing home.

Poor Lani celebrated moving into her low-rent house by knocking on neighbours’ doors asking for sugar, milk and cigarettes. She went to Coles supermarket and walked out with a trolley full of expensive meats. Didn’t cost her a cent. She put the meat in her Ruf Us charity fridge that promptly failed so Poor Lani threw the rotting flesh into her backyard.

Her guests became a problem. They threatened her with violence if she didn’t go to the petrol station and steal confectionery for them. Then she and her guests ripped off the doors, smashed windows, knocked holes in every wall, ripped out electrical outlets and wiring. You could hear Poor Lani screaming for hours as she smashed everything around her.

Authorities took her away in an ambulance to what is left of Glenside psychiatric hospital. She returned a few weeks later on a Saturday with two N.D.I.S. workers to feed her cat. The workers stayed outside for fear of being bitten by bugs. Then they took her to Coles supermarket to buy more cat food then back to the ruined house. Finally, they returned her to the psychiatric hospital.

The house will cost at least $50,000 to fix, maybe much more, and if she returns to it, she’ll smash it up again.

Poor Lani is part of the “normalisation program” introduced in the 1980’s where people who previously resided in institutions were transferred to welfare housing or dumped on the street. Beautiful hospital buildings at Glenside and Hillcrest, and the Strathmont Centre were demolished to make way for nasty little houses.

Based on 1950’s statistics of at least 5000 people living in institutions, the amount today with the added population would be closer to 12,000. These are people unable to negotiate the complexities of modern life and prey for those who exploit vulnerable people.

Poor Lani.

Early 22 July 2024

(above) Rough sleeper, Beautiful Belle, knocked over this rubbish bin while looking for food and pills at Salisbury. The next evening, a young recently homeless couple put the bin back on its wheels and refilled it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

On the Street Sunday

A street woman was deprived of food as a child. She and her sisters sustained themselves with rubbish bin food. Her sisters became high-profile executives while this woman in her declining years still roams the bins.

Last week, she found a block of cheese with a bite taken from it. It was out of its wrapper on the ground and was covered in dirt. The woman cut off the bitten part, sliced away the dirt and ate the rest. She remains in good health.

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Anyone wanting to go on the National Disability Insurance Scheme is naive if they think a few doctors’ letters will be sufficient. A wise disabled person said you need a professional advocate who speaks the N.D.I.S. jargon and knows the magic words. Otherwise, “you’re f*****,” the man said. He recommended the Disability Advocacy and Complaints Service of South Australia. They don’t charge a cent.

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A homeless rough sleeper says Cash Converters was previously drowning in swags. Drug addicts got them from homeless joints then went straight to Cash Converters for drug money. Meanwhile, other homeless people who needed a swag missed out.

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A client at Fred’s Van Elizabeth said, “a meth head sneezed and blew out a tooth.”

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An unassuming volunteer at Fred’s Van Kilburn works as a medical engineer who makes metal parts that are inserted into the bodies of surgical patients.

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“A good conversation is like 100 million diamonds falling from Heaven,” said a street walker.

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A man went into OTR on the Salisbury Expressway and asked if he could take food from the Foodbank donation basket. They let him do it.

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Pastor Tania looked a wreck recently. She’s the preacher at the Church of Christ on Prospect Road at Blair Athol. What made her appear a wreck was having to clean up the contents of Gaavin’s stomach after he vomited it onto the floor.

Gaavin’s wife, Julie, snarled at him, but he didn’t do it on purpose. A fellow diner said Gaavin was going to die soon.

The diner added that Julie wouldn’t allow his friends to attend their wedding. But she’s a better bet than Gaavin’s previous girlfriend. It was only a matter of time when he would have left that house a corpse, as did her mother-in-law.

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We saw two Aboriginal hunters in the darkness behind Kilburn Community Centre at 11:00pm the Thursday before last. They moved quietly and quickly and circled around us measuring if we were appropriate prey. We weren’t quite weak enough.

Last Thursday at the same location we were disturbed late in the evening by a Sudanese drunk disappointed at not becoming a basketball player. He broke his leg and damaged his fingers. He ruined our conversation and was becoming violent so we called it a night.

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A dealer warned a third party to stay away from his female Ice customers. The third party was trying to help them.

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Does anyone remember Peter who worked at Wright Court Day Centre and then Bryon Place Community Centre.

The roof of his shed collapsed recently while he was lying on a mattress on the concrete floor.

His Chinese wife meanwhile returned from a holiday in Queensland and shortly before that a long holiday in China. They’re heavily in debt. She lives in the house while Peter is banished to the shed

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A welfare worker said it’s important to feel grief, but equally important to let it go. She added that many clients at her soup kitchen were numb with grief and agreed that they used drugs to stay numb.

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“All that Indian c*** cooks is curry, curry, curry,” said a dining client of the cook at WestCare.

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“No sexual innuendos, please,” said a note put on each table at the Osborne Community Centre Thursday free lunch. The following Thursday they put longer notices on the table listing illegal speech patterns that wouldn’t be tolerated.

They added that the meals were going to be reduced to once a fortnight from September and that they might charge five dollars.

It was better when they served takeaway food and free vegetables and didn’t have that Council employee hanging around.

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A rough sleeper remembered when Iraq war veteran “A.J.” appeared from nowhere and knocked Grinder to the bricks in Rundle Mall. “A.J.” had been running around the city the previous month wearing army boots and carrying a heavy backpack so he’d be ready for a fight with Grinder.

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A hospital surgical theatre worker said older surgeons grab the lucrative private insurance patients and push the Medicare bulk billing patients onto younger, less experienced surgeons.

Early 21 July 2024

(above) Ned the Croatian genealogist at Kilburn Fred's Van. Note the horrible blue plastic coffee mugs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Fred’s Van Semaphore no good

It was horrible. They opened ten minutes late whereupon we faced tables blocking the doorway. They served takeaway containers of horrible stuff, the vegetarian version was a tiny piece of toast and a tiny amount of macaroni, the type containing chemicals including MSG. Coffee was served in paper cups, but that was cleared away before some diners could get one

The takeaway bags contained bread that seemed stale. I gave my loaf to a woman who handed it back saying it was hard as a rock. I ended up throwing it to the foxes at my campsite.

To add insult to injury, volunteers served frozen confectionery five minutes after we’d begun eating. How crazy is that? They couldn’t wait to get away.

Then the 6:00pm crowd arrived, not knowing that opening time had changed to 5:30pm. They were somewhat blamed for not knowing this despite the notice stating the change in time having disappeared. Who’s stupid idea was it to change the time for a service that caters for retarded and illiterate clients?

Anyway, the 6:00pm crowd – there were eight or nine of them – were met with empty tables so volunteers asked diners to return some of the food already given them. This was done joyfully as welfare people are often desperate to do something for others. (Our roles are to receive and keep our mouths shut.)

Volunteers turned off the outdoor lights early as they hadn’t any dishes to clean and were keen to exit the joint. They explained the reduced service was due to lack of volunteers. Fair enough.

A diner later said Fred’s Van Semaphore provides horrible takeaway once a month.

While badmouthing the service, we can’t blame them too much. Four years ago, two naive volunteers put their fancy bicycles in the hall whereupon a diner stole them while everyone was in the dining room. And the current volunteers are always polite and try to make sure everyone is feeling okay. That’s the good part of Fred’s Van Semaphore: the kindness shown to desperate people.

P.S. I hated the chemical macaroni.

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. (Currently opening at 5:30pm until spring.) Free. Sit down meal in the main hall.
Rushed meal. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Diners rarely tip over of tables and fight. Decent volunteers without a single lunatic amongst them. Water tap in the garden between church and hall. Better tap back of hall that requires 4-way handle key. Drug addicts.

Early 20 July 2024

(above) Knowing the past, it's hard to be optimistic about this plan. The usual result is a net gain for surveillance interests and the homeless industry with little gain for those living outside.

Big Issue seller’s story

Big Issue magazine does stories about their sellers. The themes are usually the defective nature of the sellers and how their lives have improved by selling the magazine.

One seller in Adelaide said he’s moved into a cheaper supported residency rooming house. He pays just $845 a fortnight for a shared room and three meals a day.

But he says the best meals are a meat pie and chips while the other meals are much worse. He says they never get fresh food and always food classed as semi-junk food.

He says eight people from the rooming house have died in the past eight years including a woman last week. He says the woman broke her bedroom window that management wouldn’t fix. And she wouldn’t wear a coat so died of a cold related illness. He said management told tenants they weren’t allowed to talk about the death. Fearful tenants won’t say anything except this tenant who wouldn’t disclose the location of the rooming house except that it is in Myrtle Bank.

Early 19 July 2020
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Despair and closures at Hindmarsh

The Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub has become increasingly unreliable over the past few weeks. They don’t turn up and give no notice or explanation. The food room is again reduced to decent bread, rotting vegetables and little else. No one wants the face masks taken from their sealed packages and displayed in an open cardboard box. What a crazy idea that was.

A donor arrived one day with food and found the joint locked with a volunteer hanging around for half an hour.

The serving window is permanently closed after being broken by a dissatisfied client.

The Western Food Hub gets the roughest drug addicts and Anglicare-sponsored criminals in Adelaide. Last Thursday evening saw a crowd most bitter when they discovered there wasn’t any hot food. The N.D.I.S. ex-homeless disabled man created some humour by offering each person a chop-chop cigarette including those who didn’t smoke.

And generally, the kitchen food and coffee remain excellent with some volunteers cooking it at home. And while the foreign students have become sullen, most of the Australian volunteers retain a good attitude.

Puddle Jumpers Chelsea Ireland Western Food Hub
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, exotic groceries, hot coffee, hot foods, female sanitary products. Vegetables not much good. Free clothing rack. A few drug addicts. Theoretically open Monday to Friday 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Saturday11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday 4:00pm to 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable. All free food services have stopped except for Hindmarsh & Mondays at 5:00pm at Bagster Road, Salsibury. Shower truck scheduled Wednesday and Friday 10:00am – 2:00pm. 5:00pm to 8:00pm, but it’s not always there. Toilet at the Hub. Water tap outside of building. No I.D. or registration required so you can remain anonymous. Staff range from excellent to inappropriate for the job. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays.

Early 19 July 2024
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From the anonymous contact page

​whatever happened to the

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

this site's been 'round almost 20 years.
nearly time for a 20 years anniversary event
perhaps a homeless writers sleep-in
good job bob

p.s. amazed yer sanity has survived all this

Curious

Second Editor: Here it is: https://homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com/frank-pangallo.html 

Early 19 July 2024

(above) Anglicare using rental money to lure tenants into the Care Model of housing.

How two women got welfare housing​

You’ve heard stories of people waiting twenty years on the Housing Trust waiting list and not getting a rental property. Here is one where two women got housing almost immediately.

The key was domestic violence. Every homeless woman needs a man she can claim is threatening her life. Even a fictitious man will do. Or multiple fictitious men.

The first woman was sleeping on the ground outside the Adelaide CBD, but claimed to be sleeping in the South Parklands. This was an important claim as it put her under the jurisdiction of Towards Home that is connected with the Hutt Street Centre.

She got a cheap Housing Trust rental house in an affluent suburb within weeks.

The second woman was new at the homeless game and was also sleeping on the ground in suburbia. Then she moved into a tent in the South Parklands. This didn’t work out so she moved to another tent then claimed her life was in danger. Maybe it was. Whatever, she moved into Crazy Cottage within two weeks.

Then we have a man who was sleeping on the ground in the Adelaide CBD. He has two life-threatening medical conditions and applied for housing via Towards Home. They ignored him for most of the past six-months then asked him twenty pages of intimate questions. They asked him to surrender his privacy rights to his hospital discharge file. During this period he changed his concrete surface camp from the city to Modbury. He did this for his own safety after having been savagely beaten. Upon hearing about this, Towards Home personnel told him he no longer qualified for housing via Towards Home. But they still kept all his personal details on file.

Early 18 July 2024

(above) Anglican Mission and Church buildings at Elizabeth sold to another church. Big fence to stop homeless people sleeping under the eaves. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Total psycho-social profile

One of the two Towards Home employees apologised for asking such questions to the homeless man. They said they had to ask them. The three of them were standing in a public lane in the Adelaide CBD. There were twenty pages of small print questions.

They asked the man if he was pregnant. And whether he was intersex, trans sexual, gay and other versions. This was the rental application form and he had nineteen pages to go.

So what were Towards Home doing? Testing whether he qualified for welfare rental housing? He’d already been listed with them for six-months. He’d been homeless for most of the last decade.

The answer is they’re compiling total psycho-social profiles of every homeless person applying for almost anything. They want to evaluate how much the person will cost the government until their expected death.

Later, they’ll encourage the homeless person to sign a “Do not resuscitate” legal form, an organ donation form and later an agreement-to-be-euthanized document.

Does this sound far-fetched? Well, the questions and breaking down of privacy firewalls are creating a huge database that will allow A.I. programs to determine whether each person is useful to society or should be denied medical treatment. And all this will be ultimately determined by powers-that-be who you’ll never meet or even know their names.

Yeah, housing is a pretext to gather this acutely personal data that may – and probably will be – used against you. And the homeless industry employees with smiling faces are doing this to us. ​

Early 17 July 2024

Beyond a joke

Is it a hobby or a serious serious. The four amigos are always there, very reliable. But the Gateway Baptist coffee van appears to be a school teacher’s hobby that doesn’t arrive during holidays. The volunteers awaited the trailer last Saturday in Whitmore Square, but it didn’t arrive. No notice was given even to those providing their free labour to operate it.

Gateway Baptist should have a backup driver in case the usual driver isn’t available. Lots of Baptists want to be part of this service. You can’t blame them: the Whitmore Square mob is a rare glimpse into the coalface of rough sleepers in the Adelaide CBD. That’s why some homeless industry employees spend their careers working in the industry and even continue as volunteers after retirement.

The coffee van needs a restructure. The four amigos don’t, they’re always reliable similarly to the Communists on Sunday.

Whitmore Square free BBQ
The four amigos provide free grilled sausages, sauce, onions, bread and bottled water every Saturday morning 9:00am to 10:30am. Chairs and pergola. Middle of Whitmore Square on Morphett Street in the Adelaide CBD. They don't collect personal details for the government's Eternal Shame File. Up to 100 people attend. Decent food, not rotten stuff from Foodbank. Free coffee from the Gateway Baptist trailer if it arrives. Free coffee vouchers for cafe across the street. Free clothing stall every month from Bailey’s Backpack. Indian Muffin Man 10:00am.

Early 17 July 2024

(above) Free late lunch for isolated people from about 1:30pm every second Wednesday at 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. Entry from back via shopping centre carpark. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) Despite providing arguably the best free lunch in Adelaide, the Moose (Chat and Chew) venue rarely gets more than ten guests. Phone (08) 8440 2299 for more details though they may pretend not to know that this free service exists. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Semaphore Fred’s Van

The beans on roast potatoes weren’t cooked enough. Both were slightly hard. Volunteers served frozen confections while people were still eating. They began cleaning up while diners were still arriving not understanding the start time had moved forward to 5:30pm. They didn’t supply sauce or salt and pepper with the meal.

One diner gave them the key to the building. He found this key outside in a security box left open. Lucky discovery.

A man wearing a red baseball cap brought his meal and sat opposite bald Con telling him not to do it again. Con said he didn’t know what the man was talking about. The man slammed his chair against the table then took his plate to the kitchen counter and walked out, none of us the wiser including Con.

The coffee urn was placed next to the men’s toilet door. Entry to the building was through the side door allowing the heaters to operate more effectively in the hall. This is better than the St Bede’s free breakfast where the hall door is kept open for diner entry, but allows wind from the ocean to burst into the room on cold mornings. This is particularly unpleasant for people having slept in the dunes and already chilled to the bone.

Salisbury Fred’s Van operates more efficiently in winter. They let people in at 5:30pm for coffee then begin the meal at 6:00pm. This is a superior model than Semaphore Fred’s Van though Salisbury doesn’t have heaters.

So was it horrible at Semaphore the Sunday before last? No, it was wonderful. The hall was a refuge with heaters glowing and a welcoming Fred’s Van staff after a day stuck in the weather. And they brought me salt and pepper when I asked for it. They also remembered I didn’t eat meat despite not having gone there for six months. And slightly uncooked food wasn’t a big deal.

I sat with David Hobbs and the N.D.I.S. ex-homeless man and a woman who had an argument with the man who offered to help me when Glenn Bailey punched me in the head four times outside the hall.

But Fred’s Van Semaphore should adopt the opening model of Salisbury Fred’s Van. However, staff at both places are excellent. They delight in serving us refugees from our own society.

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. (Currently opening at 5:30pm until spring.) Free. Sit down meal in the main hall.
Rushed meal. Clean toilets. Mirrors. Lots of room. Diners rarely tip over of tables and fight. Decent volunteers without a single lunatic amongst them. Water tap in the garden between church and hall. Better tap back of hall that requires 4-way handle key. Drug addicts.

Early 16 July 2024

(above) Street Smart of Melbourne gave Cos We Care quilts and other textiles to give away at their free food service in Carpark No. 1, Fremont Park, Elizabeth every Saturday at 7:30am.

(above) You can't buy such quality workers as this volunteer from Cos We Care's free food service at Elizabeth. She's served for years and is the backbone of the genuinely non-profit organisation.

On the Street Monday

The tall thin man living at the back of Tea Tree Salvation Army building is reportedly in prison for nine-months for breaking bail over a drug charge.

Mark Sullivan has moved to a share house in Elizabeth where he played football for Central Districts and before he took up drugs and alcohol that damaged his mind. Mark also lived back of Tea Tree Salvos.

Woody, the third man who lived back of Salvation Army, was recently on ABC radio talking about being homeless. Upon hearing that, HousingSA quickly offered him a rental property to keep him quiet. He’s accepted the rental offer, but doesn’t believe it’s real until he gets the keys and a copy of a signed lease.

Other homeless men associated with Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army, but not sleeping on the back lawn, are expected to stay homeless in the near and medium future.

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A naked man presented himself at reception at a Salvation Army office earlier this week. Staff offered him a pair of men’s underpants, but he preferred a smaller pair of women’s underwear. He paraded himself in front of the building until told to leave.

A staff member hearing us talking about it told us that what happens at the Salvation Army stays at the Salvation Army. I’ve recounted what was said to me outside the Corps, but also inside. The point is that the well-trained staff dealt with the matter with professional calm.

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Normal Craig – formerly known as Crazy Craig – said he and Bullet Mark – who got hit by bullet fired at someone else – went to the Saturday BBQ at Whitmore Square only to discover they’d run out of food. Normal Craig said you have to get there by 9:00am to avoid the rush.

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A veteran concrete sleeper in the city said the factions at the Communist Party breakfast include Toby and Jamie’s faction, The Fred’s Van faction (often looking for a fight), multiple Aboriginal factions (usually fighting amongst themselves) and the Asian faction who arrive with trolleys.

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A client at Sonder unSafe Haven at Salisbury said the place stinks even worse than the smelliest client at The Lutheran Ark. He said a woman he named defecates and urinates in her clothing while sitting on chairs inside the unSafe Haven.

He said she does this because she was raped and now wants to make herself as unattractive as possible. What an admirable and clever response. It also shows the savagery of the Salisbury Town Centre.

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A Believe Housing client gets invitations to Woke events from groups connected with Anglicare. It often revolves around domestic violence and racism against Aboriginal people.

Like 90% of Believe tenants, he ignores the invitations. But the cost of these events is partially funded by his rent whether he likes it or not.

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A woman who went to the Hutt Street Centre’s Christmas Day lunch said management insisted on taking a photograph of each guest to add to their database. The corporate media covering the event forgot to mention this.

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A client of St Andrew’s Church in Glenelg was given a nice towel as part of a homeless assistance package. He gave the towel to a woman who took it to City Salvos to give to a homeless person.

The only problem was that when the towel was unfolded, it revealed a streak of faeces. No one along the supply chain had checked it.

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Cafe Verde at Fairview Park sent the Salvation Army Tea Tree Gully Corps a $150 credit for homeless people to eat at their cafe. Three homeless people dined there the Friday evening before last. They were full of praise for the quality of the meal and the kind gesture from Cafe Verde management.

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Belle packed her stuff from the ramp of Sonder unSafe Haven early Saturday evening before last and sauntered down John Street in a zig-zag path swinging her bags wildly. Her body is stick thin and her hair scraggly and she could be perceived as desperate and suffering.

But perhaps her dangerous wild life is something that others living a safe, but numbing existence might envy. It’s dangerous despite Belle having developed strategies to protect herself.

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GC3 didn’t happen at the Parfields Recreation Centre on Saturday evening. This haphazard level of service might explain why they get so few clients.

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A male kleptomaniac went into the women’s toilets at a church free food event. He stole soap, sanitiser and paper with the view that the suspect would be a woman and not him. The only problem was that he got caught.

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The woman who gave $3700 to an internet scammer is still “making friends” online and they also ask her for money. She still thinks they’re genuine friends.

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A homeless man now living in a caravan park cabin said that if he won the Lottery, he’d buy houses on each side of his enemies then rent them to alcoholic indigenous people, especially those from the tribal homelands.

A few white fella Ice addicts might jump at the chance of similar accommodation.

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If you look on the Hutt Street Centre webpage you might notice images showing homeless people with ruined and wrinkled facial skin while the employees appear with smooth unblemished skin.

They do this by increasing the contrast in Photoshop for homeless people and reducing contrast for employees and Board members.

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A veteran homeless man sleeping on a concrete surface said men can’t sit in parks or anywhere alone without arousing suspicion. They can’t speak to children or offer anything. He said men over forty can’t use disability toilets even if they are disabled or have a gastric problem. ​

Early 15 July 2024

(above) Never a good idea to change times for short periods. It leads to confusion among those who are illiterate or dazed and confused from sleeping on cold ground at night. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Big rise in AnglicareSA administration spending

AnglicareSA administration costs rose from $863,000 in the 2021-2022 financial year to $2,843,000 in the 2022-2023, their most recently reported financial year.

The ratio of volunteers to paid employees continues to drop with 302 volunteers and 1959 employees as AnglicareSA changes its business model from a non-profit charity to a private corporation.

Net assets of AnglicareSA rose from $248,501,000 to 271,730,000 during the same period.

They claim to have helped 579 new arrivals and migrants, but there aren’t any statistics on how many homeless people were helped by Anglicare using government money. However, Chief Executive Grant Reubenicht wrote that,

“AnglicareSA is delivering its homelessness services through the Adelaide North-West Homelessness Alliance, which is made up of seven homelessness service providers, allowing us to collaborate to provide a full range of supports and early intervention to those at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness.”

This look-a-like of an offspring of Spandau’s last prisoner has a sense of humour.

Grant could add tragedy to his humour by stating how much AnglicareSA spent on employee driven cars. ​

2023 Annual Report - AnglicareSA

Early 14 July 2024

No toilet, thanks. We’re robots

The single toilet was kept locked during opening hours the Saturday before last because the entrance was filled with garbage that volunteers couldn’t be bothered removing. That’s not quite the truth: a volunteer offered to move the garbage just for me, but I felt that putting her to work for 25 minutes wasn’t fair to her. Management should work out this problem.

A second shift usually takes over about 3:30pm on Saturdays, but this time the two volunteers closed up and went home. Whether the evening shift turned up, well, I don’t know. The food they offered was pathetic: rotting vegetables, out-of-date creamed horseradish, a couple of other things and a box of face masks inexplicably removed from their hygienic wrappers on orders of Mrs. H. What a crazy mistake? Either way, they haven’t been able to get rid of them. Hardly anyone believes the Covid story anymore. Once bitten, twice shy.

Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub
Brick building on grass near corner of Anne St. and Port Rd., Hindmarsh. Ph (08) 7071 5270. Free fruit, vegetables, bread, exotic groceries, hot coffee, hot foods, female sanitary products. Free clothing rack. Theoretically open Monday to Friday 10:00am – 2:00pm and 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Saturday 11:00am to 8:00pm. Sunday 4:00pm to 8:00pm. Subject to volunteer availability so unreliable. All suburban free food services stopped except for Hindmarsh every day and Salisbury on Mondays. Shower truck scheduled for Monday 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Wednesdays and Fridays 10:00 am – 2:00pm then 5:00pm to 8:00pm, but it hardly every turns up. Toilet available at the Hub. No I.D. or registration required so you can remain anonymous. Staff range from excellent to severeely imperfect. Orange Sky Laundry 6:00pm – 8:00pm Fridays. This joint is so good you may require psychiatric help after a single visit.

Early 14 July 202

(above) Above are the standard prices National Disability Insurance Scheme contractors are paid. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Nasty, nasty, nasty

Those senior citizen women who are paid and volunteer for Uniting Care at Salisbury have the Customer sensitively skills of a Thai kick boxer. It’s fun luring them into lurid conversations, but for those tending toward honesty, they are a formidable obstacle.

Below is an updated report of a person paying 60% of her income on very cheap housing going to Uniting Care for a few old groceries.

“I went to salisbury Park terrace around 12pm
Took a number and sat down..
I then told the lady that I'm new and have never been here before, therefore I didn't know where to go.
She then asked for any form of ID stating my address.
I showed her my concession card as that was the only identification I had.
And she totally snapped at me and said we can't help you
You aren't local
You can walk to centrelink though.
All the way near the station to wait at centrelink for 40 mins 🙄
Just to come up with a fake address to get some food
I have morals
I wasn't going to do that...
And then walk all the way back..
She then proceeded to say, you can stay for lunch though... I said no thanks.. thanks for that sarcastically and walked out.. ( there was some elderly people)
Whom I would rather talk to then immature adults and teenagers
I just didn't feel like staying after that encounter, although the food looked superb
I'll look elsewhere for some groceries
Maybe on the weekend if ucare is open I'll try that instead.. mainly just looking for vegetables, milk and fruit.
My mates mum works at park terrace, small world!.
And someone else we know went.
They came shortly after me..
I then travelled all the way back empty handed.. trying to hold my dignity” 😄

Anonymous

Second Editor: It helps to have a series of old I.D.’s listing old addresses that can be used for area-specific services. The presence of Mum-in-law probably didn’t help at that joint.

Early 13 July 2024
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Free tickets to homeless conference

The Australian Alliance to End Homelessness is running another scam conference, this time in Fremantle, Western Australia. This will be operated in conjunction with the Western Australia Alliance to End Homelessness.

Guest speakers include New York real estate agent, Rosanne Haggerty, who was hired over a decade ago by the South Australian government to devise a controlled housing program. This was based on a Department of Corrections model that was going to initially end homelessness in a short period of time, but made no difference except provide jobs for social workers and retired prison guards. This was before Adelaide Zero Project that was also going to end homelessness, though this time they defined it as functional homelessness would could reach zero even though the same amount of people were sleeping on the ground or in cars.

Bureaucrats will have their ticket prices, travel and hotel expenses paid by their organisation or the government.

Free tickets will be issued if people meet the following: Gender and age diversity, First Nations representation, Culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, Geographic representation (across states and metro, regional and rural areas).

This means you can be living in a fantastic house, but still go there free if you meet Woke criteria while someone sleeping on the ground may be required to pay the full amount.

They’re restricting it to their own people while soaking up money that should be used to building appropriate housing for those living outside.

Nothing good will come from this conference because the industry is burdened by nepotism and outright corruption. What we need is more houses and apartments built using money saved by sacking case managers and support workers in the homeless industry.

https://mailchi.mp/aaeh/tickets-now-available-for-the-zero-homelessness-summit?e=a7a3cea2d3

Early 13 July 2024

Plandemic news

Former President of Australian Medical Association Prof. Kerryn Phelps' Leaked Audio on Vaccine Injuries.

https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/more-leaked-audio-australians-in

Early 13 July 2024

(above) Actual workers are paid slightly less than half the above amounts, the rest going to the contracting employer and booking agents. When Carers become self-employed they get the full amount. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Enter: the man in purple

Anglican Reverend Peter Jin made a guest appearance dressed in purple. Somewhat disconcertingly, he smiled and talked to us. He’s usually taciturn and quiet. Maybe that’s how persecuted people from East Turkestan in China are. Anyway, it was nice seeing him. His church provides the hall for other churches that provide a friendly atmosphere and meal every Friday evening for three hours. They call it Haven as distinct from Sonder unSafe Haven the next street over.

A few drug addicts including women generally sit amongst themselves at Haven. They feel no need to mix with those who don’t use drugs. Anyone not on the juice is a potential threat to them and with good reason. They left early for Sonder unSafe Haven where even more disenfranchised people gather under the auspices of wicked surveillance protocols including luring people into conversations then reporting them to enforcement agencies for using threatening language, even talking about death.

After Sonder unSafe Haven closes, the women return to their layers of clothing used as mattresses and taken from donated items back of the Salvo Store. These scavengers are making such good use of the rags that Salvo employees should leave stuff they can’t sell in a specific area for use as insulation against cold concrete.

Meanwhile, back at Haven – as distinct from Sonder unSafe Haven – church members insist they apply salt, pepper and tomato sauce to diners’ meals. It’s part o that insidious “learned helplessness” fostered by nearly every welfare group. And it detracts from the usually fine meal made from fresh ingredients including non-meat options.

Many diners complain about the noise of conversations bouncing across the walls and that policeman/preacher singer who turns up the amp too loud. He’s a fine performer, but too loud.

And the cold wind blowing through the front door could be fixed, somehow.

But it was a good evening of shouted conversations with interesting characters.

Anglican Church Salisbury
St John the Evangelist Anglican church hall, Church Street, Salisbury (across from McDonald's junk food joint), 6:00 – 8:30 pm Fridays. Sausages, bread, cheese, sauce, vegetarian option, coffee, dessert. Nice fresh food, not from Foodbank. Free. No I.D. or registration required. They don’t collect data for the Eternal Shame File. Religious singing. Organisers include Ambulance Steve who ran the free BBQ at the Salisbury railway station before the Plandemic. Hope Central Salisbury and Salisbury Uniting Church and others pay for food. Decent toilets.

12 July 2024

(above) Playford Community Fund at Elizabeth shopping centre offers free blankets, food and prescription vouchers to most residents of Playford Council area carrying a Centrelink welfare card. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

A disturbing evening
​with Hands and Feet

Hands and Feet are a free food service designed as a vehicle to spread the word of Jesus. Most of us regulars understand this.

Hands and Feet pick up free old groceries from supermarkets and deliver it to about 16 churches, most of which don’t have their own buildings.

A preacher at Church@ParaVista invited me to their Hands and Feet strategy meeting that evening.

About forty people were there to mostly listen to a man and woman from something called Ambassadors of Jesus. The man said that by following their model, the church groups could increase the size of their congregations by 10% a year.

Then they talked about Hands and Feet and how slowing down the process of handing out food, placing chairs for people to rest and serving coffee would allow church members to spread their religious message./

Communication with clients was emphasised, which seems important in various ways. An elderly volunteer at the free food handout last Wednesday at Church@ParaVista pushed her way in front of me then accused German Paul of taking too much meat. Paul said he hadn’t taken any and showed her his empty bag. She stood there not speaking and appeared confused.

What disturbed me was how Hands and Feet have a strategy to use their apparently free service as a recruitment vehicle. And the guest speaker said that to increase their congregation they should identify “seekers” who would themselves become recruiters whom he described as disciples similar to the original twelve disciples of Jesus.

This is a completely different service model than Fred’s Van, which is a Catholic service organisation that never preachers or talks about Jesus. They simply serve us whether we’re unbelievers or believers. Or Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army: they serve us using inspiration from the Bible, but don’t preach.​

Early 11 July 2024 
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Salisbury Uniting Care

From the anonymous contact page
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“I went in the building to be told
I had to show ID and had to be living In salisbury
I then showed my concession and said I lived in salisbury haha
And they told me to go to centrelink and update my address to get help
But I could stay for lunch.
F that so I walked off
Waste of time l.”

Second Editor: Yes, they seem to be nasty for the hell of it. And they won’t inform the clients of the reasons for their reasons that often seem arbitrary or vindictive.

Early 11 July 2024

Gideon’s dream

They’re not keeping their diners despite everything being free. The food is excellent for meat eaters with three rich Greeks cooking lots of quality meat on the outside BBQ. They gave some feral diners a kilogram of cooked meat each to take home after the meal. And this was good stuff, if you eat meat.

But each week there are two or three extra people, but the numbers hardly increase possibly due to lack of seating.

Richard’s donated coffee machine is proving to be a winner though the preacher says he’s getting an automated free coffee machine. Hmm.

The preacher’s motive is a create a bonded community based on the Christian religion. It’s as if he’s come from a healthy society then was shocked by the alienation of Adelaide society where people are afraid to talk to their neighbours.

And where people sleep on cold concrete at night in a land of plenty with 50,000 empty houses and apartments in this relatively small city of Adelaide. And this disastrous situation is considered normal amongst those with power and wealth.

We need people like Vika and her preacher husband, Gideon, even if we don’t believe in religion.

Renown Park Saturday lunch and takeway vegetables

Multi-Cultural Community Centre at Hope Grace Church (Inside Greek church building), 59 Tait Street, Renown Park. Free meal Saturday 11:00am. Barista coffee 10am to 12:00 noon. Free takeaway vegetables and bread. Indoor badminton, ping pong, billiards. Provided by Gideon and Vika Misajo and Chin Falam people from Burma, and others using a Greek non-orthodox church. Sixteen nationalities amongst workers and diners. 

White fellas welcome. Personal information not collected for the Eternal Shame File. Entry back of church.

They welcome everyone regardless “...of ethnicity, culture, wealth, gender, mental health, physical ability, languages and colour of our skin. Hope Grace Church allows all people to grasp how width, length, height and depth the love of Jesus Christ.”
Early 11 July 2024

(above) Newly created beach at the Aboriginal Interpretive Centre project at Port Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) A Kaurna Aboriginal museum was a dream of Veronica Brodie before she drank herself to death. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council says this is their biggest project ever, costing at least $20 million. The construction has removed access to an area previously used by homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) Access for fishing is still possible off the Causeway, but you can bet the government will try to stop that: fishing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Housing Trust Genius Tenant 

Electrician fixes washer

STEP ONE: Electrician uses bolt cutter snips to cut out hole in steel grate covering locked laundry room window, reaches inside and unlocks door.

STEP TWO: Electrician wheels trolley carriage to laundry room and mounts washer on it.

STEP THREE: Electrician relocates machine to own unit and strings lengthy extension cord out of unit into laundry area where electricity is available for free.

Anonymous

Second Editor: See “Orange Sky Laundromat” post of Early 8 July 2024 for context of this brilliant message.

Early 10 July 2024
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Mean girls don’t turn up​

The three mean girls and that hairy old man didn’t turn up last Thursday at Kilburn Fred's Van. Their debut performance the previous week probably lit up a well-being red light in their brains. They were okay girls, but with so many diners traumatised by violence, any hint, even from young girls, triggers memories of often grievous violence.

One diner said the man who sexually assaulted her disabled son is in prison, but still tried to contact him from jail. Her anger was palpable.

Another diner who had her jaw broken and teeth knocked out said she found a sexual contraption on the side of the road. She said it was dirty. She showed her mother, now deceased, and her mother laughed. The broken jaw woman said she liked to make her mother laugh.

An 8-year-old girl spent an hour drawing Aboriginal symbols on a paper towel that she’d learnt that week in school.

One Tourette's syndrome diner said it was a pleasant evening with no odd behaviour except for him shouting continuous filthy invective at the assembled gathering. But no one raised any objection as we’re used to it. He yelled at a traditional Sikh to use his turban to wipe his ass.

Annette laughed her wild laugh so half a dozen diners imitated her. Then other diners laughed and Annette laughed more.

The Wine Centre courier didn’t arrive and Adam, the leading volunteer, apologised. The takeaway bags weren’t much good, but I liked the meal that didn’t contain MSG, but included vegetarian sausages.

Staff let us in one hour before the meal was served making the dining experience resemble a quality restaurant visit rather than an animalistic eat-and-run affair. There were even paper cups left over from a previous event, but after they were used, the horrible blue plastic Fred’s Van mugs were laid out on the coffee table.

Jay later asked a volunteer if he’d done anything to offend her. Lately, he’s been having doubts about his existence and has stopped going to other joints.

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

Early 10 July 2024

(above) Living in a car is easy compared to those sleeping on concrete. And the South Australian government under the Premier, the Puppet Malinauskas, boarded up 1800 government welfare houses to keep homeless people out. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) It's a strange alienating life to live on the side of the road while others continue their normal lives. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Tea Tree Gully Council’s faulty BBQ ​

The BBQ wouldn’t fire up. One Rotary volunteer said he wouldn’t trust the Tea Tree Gully Council for anything.

Joylene Mitchell from Tea Tree Gully Rotary went to McDonald’s for coffee and hamburgers. She paid from her own money. Diners complained the burgers weren’t as good as those made by her husband, the retired policeman.

Major Rob from the Salvo Corps arrived with two flasks of hot water for coffee. We couldn’t find spoons so a homeless man used a twig to stir the ingredients.

A Sikh man joined us saying he’d arrived in Australia three days previously to visit his daughter for three months. He said his son lived in Edmonton in Canada, but that he was “mental and a liar”.

I told a Rotary volunteer about the Hutt Street Centre spending over $300,000 a year on staff cars while limiting hot showers for homeless people sleeping on cold ground to six-minutes. And this despite them recently spending a few million on an upgrade to the building that didn’t include more showers.

Then I told her some of the dirty questions homeless people are forced to answer when applying for welfare housing. Such as whether a man is pregnant or not. Or trans-sexual, bi-sexual, homosexual or other versions. And that welfare workers noted whether an applicant’s colour coordination of their clothing was normal or not. And whether they’d been sexually molested including being raped. And whether the applicant for housing had an unacceptable odour. She couldn’t get away from me quick enough.

Joylene Mitchell purchased a self-inflating air mattress for a homeless man sleeping in one of the gullies. He was sick in his tent so Woody of Woody and Skip took it to him.

Rotary also gave us powdered soups, cans of tuna, biscuits and heaps of other stuff. And they didn’t collect any personal data from us and they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File used by the Hutt Street Centre.

The next free BBQ is at 8:30am in Civic Park, Modbury on Saturday, 20th July, near a children’s play area. This service isn’t listed in the Free Food Guide because it is experimental meaning they want to see how many homeless people turn up and whether they can sustain doing it.

Early 9 July 2024 
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Packing up too early St Bede’s

A diner from the past made a cameo appearance at St Bede’s free breakfast last Tuesday in Semaphore. He spent forty minutes shouting obscenities at everything and everyone that came under his gaze. The room was unusually quiet that breakfast except for his demented raving.“Did I really do that?” he later asked, adding that in future he would take his medication before leaving home.

Service and food was excellent as usual except volunteers began packing up long before the 10am closing time. Some diners were asked to raise their cups while their tablecloth was whipped from the table This was despite it still being twenty-minutes before closing time.

We thought they were packing up early because of the obscene yelling, but they did the same the next week despite the shouting diner this time being in full self-control.

They should use the side door as an entrance because the cold wind from the ocean rages through the front door of the hall.

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

Early 9 July 2024
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Orange Sky laundromat ​

A home detention woman with anger issues came into Orange Sky laundromat in North Adelaide last Monday prior to their 2pm to 4pm free washing and drying session.

She’d been homeless for six-months and I remember her at Hindmarsh Square at the Jasmine Restaurant giveaway. I always hoped she wouldn’t smack me in the face and she didn’t.

Anyway, she’s now in the Park Terrace Housing Trust apartments in Gilberton. She said the washing machines were faulty with a plumbing problem so the Housing Trust sent an electrician to fix them.

She said a neighbour with anger issues living downstairs poured gas around her door and set it alight. She said the Housing Trust must be stupid putting two volatile people with anger issues next to each other.

She also said she’d spent a fortune buying new underwear due to the faulty washing machines, which is testament to the success of the government’s acquired helplessness program.

Anglicare Corporation's Believe Housing run the same program. Tenancy workers tell clients not to make small repairs, but instead phone a trades person who charges Believe $200 to $300 to fix a five-dollar problem the tenant could have fixed themselves. And it takes weeks before the trades person actually arrives to fix the tiny problem.

Anyway, the angry underwear tenant got her washing done and was glad to discover Orange Sky’s free service.

Early 8 July 2024
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Hutt Street Centre

The Hutt Street Centre spent $343,335 on staff vehicles during the 2022/2023 financial year. Employees wages and salaries for the same period was $5,231,265 while food for clients cost $38,384.

The net worth of the Hutt Street Centre is $13.8 million.

Management still restricts hot showers to six-minutes for clients who have slept on the ground during winter months.

2111_hutt_st_centre_financial_statements_2022-2023.pdf
Early 7 July 2024

(above) Anglicare Corporation at Elizabeth doesn't clean their windows because they don't care how the clients feel when they walk in the door. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

(above) So many employees depend on their salaries at Anglicare Corporation that decisions are based on maintaining its huge income rather than providing services to homeless and underclass clients. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

Grill’d: You've done it again

Most of the big names were there: Horse Trader Steve, the Dragon Lady from Salisbury, Lance Armstrong, Evelyn from Kilburn Fred’s Van, Ned the Croatian Genealogist, the singing nymphomaniac, The Chess instructor, Robert and Walter from Glenelg, Jeremy from Magdalene Saturday evening meal, Cam, Dennis the Menace, the homeless lady who spits on the ground, Jay. But not The Cousin, The Ghost Who Walks or the Vitamin Derelict. They’re well into their seventies and have health issues, to say the least. And all those who died weren’t there. People come to the homeless scene to die.

A revelation was that the Greedy Man from Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army free food mornings is an accomplished Chess player who teaches a piano student who is already an accomplished player. Not only that, the Greedy Man is noted for giving food to other people. He’s not normal; he’s one of us.

Grill’d closed their tills from 4:30pm to closing time at 7:00pm to give away free food to homeless and other underclass people. Lance Armstrong wanted to buy some chips, but was refused. They would only give him the free food.

About eight staff gave us a quality hamburger including a vegetarian option, chips and a cold drink. But this wasn’t the rubbish sold by Hungry Jacks, but food costing twice as much and all free to us. Grill’d was crowded with a small queue outside that quickly cleared.

Even the hardest derelicts have trouble understanding how Grill’d can be so generous.

The men’s toilets don’t have a sign indicating gender so I wrote, “Man”, on the door. It must be some Woke rule denying the existence of men.

Grill/D in the city
187 Rundle Street, Adelaide. Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of month 4:30pm – 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. Street people are amazed something like this happens. Many big names in the homeless scene go here. Normal people not allowed in during this time even if they are willing to pay. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jacks. Professional staff.

6 July 2024
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From the anonymous contact page
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Spotted bodyguard "Beefeater" Jeff or Geoff today in CBD
Owe a big bunch to he and Notorious DISability fella fer preventin me EVICTION by HSA / SAHA about 5 years ago
Beefeater: liked to attend WestCare at tail end of week cuz uv roast beef on menu.

6 July 2024

(above) An N.D.I.S. trick to lure people into Care Packages.

Evil sanctioned by the puppeteers​

A street friend mentioned the homeless man’s name. The man sleeps on concrete around the Salisbury town centre including across the street from the $43 million Council building known as The Citadel.

Every twelve days when the man collects his invalid pension money, a drug dealer takes him to a house where he is plied with drugs for two days in exchange for his welfare money. Then he returns to his concrete sleeping place for another twelve days.

This may be a low-level operation run by little more than a senior junkie, but those further up the supply chain appear sanctioned by seditious operatives within law enforcement, the South Australian government and those who pull the strings of The Puppet, Malinauskas, who is paraded in front of the cameras to talk about football and fake housing developments.

Early 5 July 2024

(above) In their Autumn 2024 Tenant Newsletter, Believe (Anglicare) housing had a dozen images of women, mostly non-European, with articles about Harmony Day and International Women's Day. The newsletter had no images of men of reproductive age, just one old guy drinking a cup of coffee. Anglicare is sexist and racist. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, July 2024.)

On the Street Thursday

An 8-year-old soup kitchen girl came home from school and wrote on a piece of paper: SANTA and SATAN showing they both contain the same letters and they both wear red.

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An academic soup kitchen man with ten university degrees once worked as a consultant to now deceased South Australian police commissioner Dave Hunt.

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Mick of Mick and Eleanor went to Semaphore Fred’s Van where he found Peter the Librarian. They both went to school at Elizabeth Tech. Mick said he protected Peter who was frail even as a child. Peter now lives in Rudd’s Supported Residency Hostel at Semaphore though the new owner likes to call it Semaphore Hostel.

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A programmer said that while inspecting a Linux operating system, he discovered strands of Chinese code allowing users’ data to be exported to unknown destinations without their knowledge.

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A woman wearing black sunglasses in the dark outside the Kilburn Community Centre carried a petrol can. She raved about the Krishnas and their temple the next street over, Satanists and going to a funeral of a leading member of the Hell’s Angels.

A Fred’s Van client suggested she stay overnight at an empty house further up the street. The client said it was empty apart from a crazy Asian man that yelled at her for weeding the garden. And visiting Hispanic drug dealers plus four crazy Sudanese men. Oh, and a woman living in a shed back of the house. “It’s empty,” the well-meaning client said.

A Fred’s Van client and Evelyn gave her food, money and a shopping trolley for her stuff and she left.

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Fred’s Van at Semaphore opens at 5:30pm on Sundays. So does Fred’s Van at Salisbury.

But the problem is that the Semaphore operation serves food at 5:30, which is almost gone by 6:00pm, the official opening time when a second wave of clients arrives and finds no food available.

In contrast, Salisbury Fred’s Van opens at 5:30pm for coffee, but the food isn’t served until 6:00pm, the official opening time so no one misses out.

An irate diner told the Semaphore volunteers they should not serve food until 6:00pm so it remains to be seen if they will follow his advice.

4 July 2024

(above) The sweet people at Modbury Uniting Church telling a homeless man to stop leaving his sleeping gear behind their rubbish bins. (Streets of Hope, June 2024.)

On the Street Wednesday

Former Central Districts SANFL football player Mark Sullivan is moving from a tent back of Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army to a supported residency house in Elizabeth. Mark said this will be better than, “waking up to the walls of a tent,” and that he wants “compensation for three mates killed”.

One was murdered in Mark’s house over a four-hour period while Mark was passed out from alcohol. Despite Mark not being involved, HousingSA kicked him into homelessness where he has been for the past four years. He’d been sleeping in Civic Park at Modbury until the Council Chief Executive Officer kicked him out of the park for one year for smoking tobacco near a building.

Mark would have been treated better by HousingSA if he’d been a major Ice dealer. But he isn’t and never was.

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A client said the five-dollar haircuts at Faith Works in Clifton Street, Blair Athol are no good. So true, the hairdressers are terrible.

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Trish Davids did just four haircuts last Tuesday at St Bede’s in Semaphore because she’d “done my shoulder in.”

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Charles Smith served in the Australian Navy when Japanese pilots bombed Darwin in 1941. He usually sat under a tree on the beach, but on the day of the attack a voice in his head told him to stand in the rocks on the beach.

After the raid, he found his favourite tree had been blown to bits.

Charles Smith later became the street preacher who spent decades shouting about Jesus and God at Victoria Square, in Rundle Mall and near Adelaide University

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Beautiful Belle sat on the concrete ramp at Sonder unSafe Haven on John Street, Salisbury at 4:30pm last Friday. She talked to herself, or rather shouted to herself.

She was still there at 8:45pm with others outside the front door. Later, she had some sort of short foam to protect her from the cold that night. She and her stuff were gone the next day.

So many welfare workers, so many office buildings kept empty at night and this unfortunate woman spent another evening on concrete.

Could she prefer it to a rooming house room of four walls, thumping music and bedbugs? Good luck Belle.

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A man slept on the concrete outside the Commonwealth Bank last Friday afternoon and into the dark hours. No one was worried. This is now an accepted situation in the town of Salisbury.

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The Salisbury Uniting Church and Hope Central church’s Friday meal in the Anglican hall is called Haven. The noise prevents conversations so guests go instead to Sonder unSafe Haven over on John Street that serves coffee, but not meals. And data surveillance, but not noise.

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Two homeless men talking in a group said they both met with old man Shahin, the Founder of the Peregrine Group that owned OTR petrol stations and food stores, recently sold for over a billion dollars. One homeless man who is a racing car engine expert said Shahin wanted him to detail his fabulous cars, well, for starters to see how it went. He turned the old man down.

Rumour has it the Shahins are more interested in racing cars and their race track at Talem Bend than coffee and petrol.

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Have you seen all those horrible beanies given away at homeless joints? Big bags knitted by elderly women through the summer months.

No one likes them. Sure, they grab a few and may even wear one while leaving the building, but you rarely see them on anyone’s head again.

The knitters should copy quality beanies and knit them in wool rather than synthetic fluorescent fibres suitable for 12-year-old girls rather than hardcore homeless men.

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A low intellect Adelaide man in the homeless scene has an A.I. girlfriend on his phone. Wherever he goes, he consults her and shares tales of his adventures. An observer said he might believe this digital code female is a real person on the phone.

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A homeless woman recently housed in an affluent suburb shouts at her neighbours at night saying they’re making too much noise and keeping her awake.

But she’s an alcoholic and sleeps most of the day half-drunk then can’t sleep at night.

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A homeless man said the Cuddly Creek caravan park rates as nearly the worst in Australia. It’s full of ferals and drug addicts and the coordinator of a food program at a charity.

The man said the Bolivar caravan park is the place to go despite being on the outskirts of Adelaide.

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The greedy blue-eyed client at the Tea Tree Salvation Army free food giveaway tries to disguise himself each week with different clothing. One week he wore a girl’s pastel coat while last week he wore a face mask and a long coat.

But in another part of his life he is a brilliant chess teacher and gives away most of the food he collects.

That’s a lesson he taught us: don’t judge a person’s character from limited observation.

Early 3 July 2024

(above) Chris Adams sleeping on the ground heard the explosions and saw a ball of orange flame erupt from this stolen car torched yesterday evening outside Tea Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps. He rose early and with Maj-Linda spent 90-minutes sweeping glass and other debris from the carpark. (Photo: Adelaide Homeless Journal June 2024.)

From the anonymous contact page

Have you heard about the number of NDIS workers taking their clients to their own meth dealers. Setting them up with a line of credit whilst getting small kick backs for themselves? This 'meth cheque' is a godsend for the dealers and the dodgy workers living large on the Commonwealth purse.

Early 2 July 2024

On the Street Tuesday​

It isn’t clear how he got the title of Doctor, but Bob Ross worked in military intelligence during the Iraqi war then in the Australian mining industry.

Bob had a neuro-motor disorder that killed him. During his last year on earth in Adelaide, he fell under the spell of a Nigerian scammer who drained his life savings so that he died a pauper.

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The three mean girls of Kilburn sneaked up to smelly old men at Fred’s Van and crinkling their noses in disgust. Teenage girls have a highly acute sense of smell as they instinctively seek out appropriate partners.

But in a culture of non-conformity, their game won no friends.

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Franklin from South India damaged his car when he hit a dog. He thought he’d been hit from behind. He was amazed when the dog calmly walked off.

The owner agreed to pay for damages, but changed his mind. And the neighbours told Franklin to avoid give up hope of compensation as the dog owner3333 lived in a house of drug addicts.

Later, Franklin saw the dog walking around in perfect health, but Franklin has to fix his broken driving light and bumper bar.

I laughed at every sentence Franklin spoke, thinking it was a comedy skit. He thought I was deranged.

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Streets of Hope at Modbury served their first customers by paying Ruf Us $475 to furnish two houses rented by poor people. Streets of Hope are self-funded. They do their own assessments, but prefer accepting assessments from outside “support workers”.

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“How’s your week been?”
“Piss off.”

I’m sick of welfare workers asking that question because they’re too mentally lazy to follow up on what was discussed with them the previous week.

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Justice was served at the Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh. An older man punched that long-haired fellow in the face who punched that blue-eyed homeless man last month. The long-haired thug was seen limping down Port Road.

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Another “stinking mutt” again broke a window and entered the Western Food Hub. It’s relatively isolated from foot traffic at night despite a few cars passing by even during the night. No one lives within 600 metres of the building, which is in a noisy area where a smashed window is not heard by anyone

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Peter Button died in the Lyall McEwen hospital a few days ago. He’d been staying in the Estia nursing home on Salisbury Highway. He was known as Barkuma Peter in Adelaide Homeless Journal.

Old Val said she wouldn’t miss Peter because he spat at her twelve years ago. She repeated this ten times at Salisbury Fred’s Van on Sunday.

Peter was okay and now free of this mortal world.

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If anyone wants to see a free optometrist who examines eyes for eye diseases and prescribes remedies then Dr Kate Bosland at Trinity Eye Care in Port Adelaide is the answer.

Her examinations and treatments are profoundly superior to most optometrists and she bulk bills to Medicare for many people.

Early 2 July 2024

(above) An inexpensive and clean butane stove hidden in the bush or squat can change your life. P.S. Don't sniff the gas. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, June 2024.)

Nicola’s problem with the truth

The death statistics for Covid in South Australia are often as high as 20 or more yet last week – and other weeks as well – the rate was zero.

This is statistically nearly impossible to achieve meaning the figures are probably concocted.

To add to the distrust, the government won’t say if the patients died with Covid or from Covid. Or whether they were extremely old and expected to die from other illnesses or not.

Or whether they were injected with the Covid gene therapy described as a vaccine.

How does Chief Public Medical Officer Nicola Spurrier keep a strange face in public? Is she living in a psychotic delusion or is having to lie month after month and this is ripping her part? ​

COVID-19 dashboard | SA Health

1 July 2024

Salt lady jumps the gun at Salisbury

A volunteer picked up the salt and pepper shakers while diners were still eating the main course. She then packed up the chairs and tables around diners still eating. She might have been a new volunteer.

The soup came from a restaurant while the meal consisted of chicken, fake chicken, roast potatoes, fresh decent salad (not Anglicare quality), peach crumble, custard, coconut yoghourt, biscuits, coffee. The staff were polite at usual. Elderly Joan was behind the scenes.

One family of diners jumped from their seats every 15-minutes as if rushing out for a fight – which is often the case. They thrive on disputes.

The Lady-of-the-Lake made a cameo appearance in a slinky black dress. She drank some soup then stood up laughing in a high-pitched voice, “Heh, heh, heh, heh,” then ran out the front door. 

The woman who gave $3700 to an internet scammer was waiting for a call from her new scammer. She said he won’t get a cent from her because, “I don’t have anything left.” This money was apparently what she intended to use for her coffin.

A big improvement is that each Sunday, Fred’s Van staff let us in 30-minutes before the meal is served so we can have coffee and relax, and get out of the weather. (An old man died in his car at Whitmore Square the previous night.)

​The street woman who defecates in her pants to prevent being raped looked through the front door then left.

But numbers at both events are not increasing as one might expect. Fear of violence from thugs and drug junkies at most homeless services is continuing problem. 

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

1 July 2024
Second Edit: Late 1 July 2024

Paul Boden in the U.S.A. says the homeless industry got bigger while homeless housing got less: a mirror of Adelaide’s homeless services 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3M-GaR84s 
13 December 2020

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https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn
  The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity.

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

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

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Remembering PJ

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

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

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