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(above) Another homeless camp near Port Adelaide while government welfare housing remains empty and reserved for battered women and refugees.

(above) A homeless man's bedding in the bush near Outer Harbour in Adelaide. Finding somewhere to store bedding during the day is nearly the most important aspect of living outside, and something the homeless support agencies make sure they don't provide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal circa November 2018).

(above) A vacated shelter on an unused carpark rooftop in Adelaide. So many Australian citizens live outside while government and government-funded housing corporations keeps welfare housing empty. (circa November 2018)

Coming Soon: Lifepoint Church Modbury meal review; Todd taken away by men in white; Anglicare gossip says Food Barn getting knocked down; Christies Beach Housing Trust; Free coffee at Playford Salvos at free Friday lunch; Belinda does her first meal at the Food Barn; Dump truck of dirt dumped in front of Salvo joint; Urine put in Salvation Army donation bin; Anglicare demotes workers by The Night Talker; Lesbian humps leg of Gaavin Wanganeen's sister; Who put porn in cook's mail box?; Joy of plastic cutlery; A child's first drug dealer; Clown Prince Wayne's nudist tale; Belinda's first hurrah; On the street; Piano Player Wayne's lament; Oz Harvest; The Port Church and loneliness; Major Purdy; Riviera Hotel, Puddle Jumpers, Scavenging Success by the Night Talker. 

Salisbury Fred’s Van
 
Jason with MS has returned to Fred’s Van in Salisbury riding a new steed. It’s his new mobility scooter from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (N.D.I.S.). It replaces his rubbishy three-wheeler that had the tendency to suddenly switch to full speed at the most inopportune times.
 
It went amok inside the Salisbury Institute during a Fed’s Van meal.  Another patron drove the faulty machine back to Jason’s house.
 
But this helpful patron has had his own problems. He thought strangers planned to stab him, but ended up being taken away by the men-in-white. A friend said he’d been smoking too much marijuana. This is a shame because his reaction to Jason’s scooter going out of control in the dining room was superior to that of anyone else.  
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building at 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (in the Salisbury Institute building next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, main meal, dessert, coffee and takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded, but quite good.
Late 19 November 2018

Cheap or free furniture for people moving into new house

Salvation Army Warehouse

83 Research Road Pooraka
phone: 08-82625251
email: corp.inglefarm@aus.salvationarmy
Opening Hours: all day Saturday (9am-4pm)
​Salvo social workers may give a $400 credit voucher.

​Containers of Hope

Phone: 0413279753
Explosives Rd Edinburgh SA 5111.

Good Luck.
The Night Talker.
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Gutter statement

In a new low of turning the normal into the weird, Anglicare’s gutter cleaning contractor sent the following no-reply text message to tenants:

“Hello, We are Gutter-Vac, contracted gutter cleaners for Anglicare Housing.

“Please be advised that we are commencing annual gutter cleaning soon.

“You do not need to be present however we will knock on your door prior to commencing. Please note that should there be any unaccompanied minor under 17 present, we will not be able to proceed.”
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19 November 2018

Working together
​at the Food Barn

The former heroin addict asked three elderly woman where he could get a food hamper for Christmas.

They told him about the Playford Fund in the Elizabeth shopping centre. One woman said she got a double bed, furniture and electrical goods from them.

The former heroin addict doesn’t appear an ex-addict. He lacks the haggard appearance or sneakiness of current and reformed addicts.

The scar on his head is from a car smash and after neurosurgery he became addicted to pain killers then spent his $300,000 compensation money on heroin. He attempted a return to his trade, but due to the car smash can no longer make the fine calculations necessary.

This 29-year-old has been clean from drugs for three years and faces the challenge of re-establishing his life as a disabled man.

Like him, most people in the Anglicare Food Barn are decent folk, but all are wary of the predators within the culture.
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Anglicare Mission
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Free Orange Sky Laundry from 11:00am to 1:00pm on Thursdays.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
19 November 2018

Christmas hamper season
​nearly finished

It is too late to apply for most Christmas hampers. Some charities allocated their hampers in the first week of registrations.

According to one client, UnitingSA in Port Adelaide are so cheap that their applications for hampers are actually raffle tickets. The winners get hampers; the others get nothing.
St Vincent de Paul are reputed to be giving either hampers or money.

Anglicare requires the completion of a two-page application form while the Playford Community Fund ask, “Do you really need it?” That is a difficult question for honest people.
The Housing Trust offers free food hampers for those undergoing psychological treatment in their “support” program for people who have moved from living outside to living inside.

My once in a lifetime hamper put me off. It was the “Hamper from Hell” from the Adelaide Central Mission in Pitt Street. A box of stale processed food.

The Salvation Army seeks donations to pay for their hampers. They’ve jumped on the politically correct bandwagon. Their latest mailbox drop has images of a woman with a split lip, black eye and facial abrasions along with a boy with a cut under his right eye.

It may be an effective fundraising approach, but it is inaccurate. Most people seeking hampers are simply poor. Some woman know that the abused woman routine works well at charities so they use it.
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Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
​19 November 2018

Simple money saving hacks
from the Night Talker

“Foodland/Drake Supermarkets have pensioner discount or markdown days. (Check with each individual supermarket, as they are independently owned so the days might vary). I know the Drakes Supermarket I go to in a small country town near me, has a 20% discount for pensioner/low income health care card holders, every Wednesday. (This is on your entire shop not individual items).

“Foodland also issue Fuel Vouchers for any shop over $35.00. This gives you 4 cent a litre off your petrol purchase at service stations, that accept these dockets. Sometimes people leave these dockets behind in returned trolleys or drop them on the floor. (I collected four last week) so collecting them this way, is also a good idea. Also try and fill your car up, on the cheapest day in the fuel cycle and avoid doing this during the most expensive days of the cycle.

“Most supermarkets have mark down days (usually at the end of the week). If you cannot or will not BIN DIVE, this is the next best option. The Woolworths I go to, does this each Friday and the Drakes supermarkets usually do it on a Monday.

“Some perishable items (milk, meat, cheese, yogurt etc) can be marked down as much as 75% There are also often permanently marked down items on shelves (usually at the back of the store) in larger supermarkets. (This is NEVER openly advertised by ANY supermarket). Sometimes these items might have damaged packaging (e.g. pet food kibble ripped open) or end of line products, that have nothing wrong with them at all) they are simply not going to be replaced, in the next stock run.

“I actually wait till they go in the bin out the back (which is what eventually happens, if this stuff is not sold within a certain timeframe) But regardless, you can save yourself a lot of money, if you look for these discounted items.

“If you need emergency assistance (food, fuel, bill payment, clothing etc) try doing some walk in visits, to country or outer metro area charities/community support agencies. (Most have websites that you can google, for times they are open and what they can offer) I do this occasionally and have NEVER ever been turned away.

“Unlike city based charities/agencies, country or outer metro based agencies seem to not have the same stringent rules/requirements that their sister based cousins have.

“A good story often helps (e.g. just moved here or stranded, passing through, etc, etc) so think of something, whilst you are driving up. You will also need to have a current low-income health care card on you.

“I have received everything from fuel cards to clothing, to food and one off bills paid, at varying times. Yes, you do have to talk with someone, but I have never been refused and treated far more kindly and with more generosity, than when I have asked for the same assistance in metro a reas. (and more often than not, been refused)

“Look for agencies/community groups and or charities that do regular free and or low cost meals. Sometimes these places are well known (e.g. such as Fred's Van or Chat and Chew) but sometimes, this is not so well known. A small country town near me, does $7.00 dollar lunch/dinners six days a week at their community centre and a $5.00 community BBQ (all you can eat) every second and third Sunday of the Month.

“This is NOT advertised outside of the local newsletter. Many churches/church groups do similar things (e.g. a free community meal after Mass or Service) ADRA at Queenstown and Elizabeth do this each Sunday after their church service. (Provide a free meal for anyone walking in from the community) It is something to think about, if you are doing it tough and or counting your pennies.

“If you are with a Job-network provider, force them to assist you (wherever and whenever possible) These agencies get several thousand dollars per client and generous tax payer subsidies from the government for supposedly assisting you. A few fuel cards/supermarket or store e-cards, are not going to set them on the path to financial ruin. Bang on about you having to live on $20.00 bucks a day (which is the actual reality for people on Newstart payments) until they get so sick of you, they hand over what you need. Threaten to ring the Job-network Ombudsman's office or Leon Byner (of 5AA radio fame), if they refuse to assist you.

“Also, make sure you get these lazy parasites to pay for ALL your police clearances and other related checks and short courses (e.g. first aid, child safe environments, manual handling, white card, etc) that most people need to gain employment) DO NOT pay for these items yourself! You do not get enough Money on Newstart allowance as it is, so there should be no logical reason as to why you should be forced to pay for these clearances and or training.

“Also accept any free training that is out there and make sure you are getting every payment and or allowance you are entitled to (Find a good case worker/social worker to assist you, if you cannot do this yourself) and, buy yourself a $25.00 "clothes airer" from Cheap as chips or Bunnings and use that instead of a dryer. (And or use the dryer only in an emergency) This will save you considerable money on your electricity bill, as dryers along with electric heaters and air conditioners, are some of the worst offenders, when it comes to costs associated with your quarterly electricity bill.

“If you have an electric water storage heater, turn this off for three days of the week. The water in the storage unit will stay hot enough for a ten minute shower, each day for the next couple of days. Turn it on again for 12 hours and then turn it off again and repeat the process.

“Your electricity bill will be lower as your water heater is not constantly re-heating each time you turn on the hot water tap. In really hot weather you can turn your water heater off for up to a week at a time, because the water in your pipes going to your house will be so hot, they alone will give you enough hot water for a reasonably warm, five to seven minute shower (This is what I do, during heat waves). If I need some hot water for dishwashing, I get some out of my hot water kettle and pour into the sink.
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“During heat waves, cover all your windows on the inside with sheets, that have been "wetted down" This will cool the inside of your house considerably. Try to minimise the use of an air conditioner to one room (if you must use one). At night, open up your house and let as much heat escape as possible. This is more effective than running an A/C around the clock. If you have an A/C make sure that the filter is taken out and cleaned regularly (most are foam re-useable that you wash, dry and re-insert) and serviced as per its running manual requirements. If you are in a rental property, the land-lord or tenant management/utilities officer is responsible for any maintenance. If they do not do this or refuse to assist, report them to the complaints officer at the Residential Tenancies Tribunal. This will force your land agent/strata manager or maintenance officer to do the maintenance that is required of them. Also be mindful that you cannot be evicted for asking for this kind of service, regardless of what your land-lord/or agent might tell you. 

“I hope this information helps.”

The Night Talker
19 November 2018 

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Comment
Re: Foodland Drake Supermarkets have pensioner discount or markdown days

Great Scoop !

Also: Steal Yerself Rich by Abbie Hoffman

The Rundle Spy
​19 November 2018

More free food places

Mary's Pantry

Anglican Church Hall Wallaroo (opposite the Wallaroo Primary School)
Wednesday and Friday 10.00m-12.00 midday
Drop in, no appointment necessary
Food, clothing, blankets, toiletries, hygiene products, diapers, petrol vouchers.
Financial Counselling
Coffee/tea/biscuits.
Requires that you have a current health care card. Nobody turned away but a good story often helps.

Beacon Emergency Services

C/-Blackwood Church and Church of Christ, Shepherds Hill Road Blackwood
Ph 0410 002 909
Every Wednesday 9am-1pm
Drop in, no appointment necessary

Supermarket Vouchers/Bill payment service
Financial counselling/food/blankets/hygiene products/tea/coffee/biscuits/chat
Need to live locally and have a current health care card. No other ID required.

ADRA (Seventh-day Adventist)

5 Light Crescent Mt. Barker 5251
Phone: 08-83912223
email mtbarker@opshop.adra.org.au
Monday to Friday 9am-5pm

Bill payments, petrol vouchers
food, diapers, furniture, counselling, assistance to families (women) fleeing domestic violence situations.

19 November 2018

(above) The Activist Vegetarian is distributing leaflets for the Anti-poverty Network's seminar in Devoren Park next Saturday, 17 November at 2:00pm.

Free meal client numbers down says George the Elder

George said that the free meals “get better and better” every week at City Salvos on Wednesdays as the number of guests “goes down and down”.
 
He says numbers at many Salvo places are decreasing especially at the free Marion Salvo meal on Fridays. He said just eleven people were at the Unley Corps donation meal on a recent Monday.
 
Similarly, the free Blokes’ Breakfast at the Marion Life Church of Christ is having trouble. George says there are more volunteers than clients. He says the volunteers urge the remaining clients to “bring your friends; bring your relatives”.
 
The dining room at the Food Barn in Elizabeth is nearly empty on Fridays when they serve a mish-mash of whatever wasn’t eaten from Monday to Thursday.
 
Note: Details of these free meals are in the Free Food Guide page of www.homelessadelaideaustralia.weebly.com
17 November 2018

Why do druggies speak 
so differently?

Earlier this month, I watched two druggies speaking to each other outside the Salvation Army at Kilkenny.
 
Instead of articulating their vowels and consonants clearly, their speech resembled a long moan as they waved their arms in the air while swiveling their heads in all directions.
 
I thought their speech was due to brain damage from drugs and loss of teeth, but possibly it was habitual. Druggies rarely listen to each other for more than five or six words so communication is more effective through groans, shrieks and moans, and sounds of threat or submission.
 
Speech therapists and psychologists must find the subject fascinating, apart from the tragedy of decent people destroying themselves.
17 November 2018
 

From the anonymous contact page
 
“When one finally gets housed in community housing with the help of an agency, is there an organization or organizations that can assist with household items and whitegoods?”
 
Editor: Most large charities offer purchase vouchers for furniture from their Op Shops. White goods are harder to obtain for free. Try to avoid getting a loan to buy the stuff. Free is much nicer.
17 November 2018 

Foodbank, food staples that are unhealthy and making us sick...
from the Night Talker

“I think most people would have heard about Foodbank and what it does. Recently, Foodbank in SA was threatened with losing more than half its funding (this was however reversed today).
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“What less people know about, is the staples (the main food products that Foodbank, supplies to charities. These staples include, White, rice, white pasta and White bread. Great you say. Well, actually, not so great.

“To anyone with a half decent understanding of nutritional science are all food products, that should be limited in anyone's diet. Primarily because these are highly processed foods which are high is starch, salt, sugar and simple carbohydrates (as opposed to complex carbohydrates, fibre, minerals and vitamins. (White or Durum wheat pasta is especially bad for us as is White Rice) as it is highly processed, lacks fibre and actually causes our blood sugars to spike (e.g. is a high Glycaemic Index Food) People who eat large quantities of these foods, gain weight, are often nutritionally deficient in other areas, and at risk of developing Diabetes.

“It is a well-known mantra that one of the healthiest changes you can make to your diet is to change white to brown (white rice to brown rice, white bread to brown bread, white pasta to wholemeal or Spelt pasta) and red meats to vegetable based proteins (e.g. lentils) and red meats to white meats and or oily fish. (Which contains essential fatty acids and Omega 3 oils).

"So, although I am not knocking Foodbank as a valuable service to those in need, I am critical of the service this organisation is actually providing. Providing food to needy persons is one thing, providing the same food that is going to make a lot of people eating it unhealthy, is something else altogether.

“It is alleged that Foodbank gets around $800,000 dollars a year from the Federal Government. Well perhaps it is time, that some of that money is spent on working out a more nutritionally appropriate way to assist persons in need. (e.g. employing a Nutritionist or two) Feeding Jam and Vegemite sandwiches to schoolkids (on processed white bread) and endless bowls of pasta to anyone that attends a free food meal venue, is not good enough. (This is the main meal I see at virtually every food charity that is supplied by Foodbank) Asides from being unhealthy it is generally not that tasty and soon becomes extremely monotonous.

“I cook tastier meals from items I have gathered from bins. So Foodbank, I am glad you kept your funding, but now that you have, lift your game and come up with some healthier alternatives.”

The Night Talker.
17 November 2018

From the anonymous contact page


From the anonymous contact page

Re: clothing collection 

Disappearing charity donations in Adelaide / Norm Barber
Barber, Norm
media Name Book/pamphlet | Earth Friend Press | 1991
Available at S Australiana Books (361.7 B234) plus 1 more
Items
LOCATION Call No. Status
S Australiana Books 361.7 B234 ONSITE STORE
SA Ready Ref Books 361.7 B234 CHECK SHELVES
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Anonymous
17 November 2018

What is the go with the SA Anti-Poverty Network?
from the Night Talker

“I am a pretty level headed person and try to see viewpoints from both sides of the fence (where and whenever possible) I however have some trouble trying to work out, what the SA Branch of the Anti-Poverty Network is about, and what is their main focus.
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“I visited both their main home page and their face book page, and apart from some short blogs/comments, I can't really get any sense that much is happening at all?

“I am all for discussion (discussion is what makes the world go around and people sit up and take notice) but there has got to be more, than just discussion?

“What happens between meetings or for those persons who need urgent or ongoing practical assistance? (e.g. food, fuel cards/ grocery vouchers, free meals, showers, clothing, etc etc) Not much good talking to someone about the next meeting, if they are cold, hungry, miserable and or all of the above?

“Even if you hold meetings, all you are going to get is people turning up for a free feed or to get out of the cold and or heat for a while. (Not that that, in itself is a bad thing) it should not be the only reason that people attend your meetings?

“I would have thought that being an organisation that has an active anti-poverty stance (as your name suggests) you would be actively working on practical, anti-poverty initiatives. This makes more sense than endless meetings in the hope that the Government is going to raise the newstart allowance by $50.00 a week (guess what, even if they did that, people would still be poor!).

“I am not suggesting that I have all the answers (as clearly I do not) but I do believe that practical assistance needs to go hand in hand with any kind of political rhetoric. Political rhetoric doesn't feed people, or pay any bills, or get issues with Centrelink addressed.

“Practical advice and support does. I would love to hear a reply from someone associated with the SA anti-poverty network. So please reply to me and the readers on this site and tell us what you do and how you can be of benefit?

“We are all struggling together. Is it not time that we all support and network each other, rather than sit in separate little enclaves. The information I have gathered and continue to gather, is free to all or anyone who needs it.

“Maybe it’s time your organisation, thought in a similar manner? If you read my previous contributions on this site, you will see, where I am coming from. If you have valuable information to share, that may be of assistance, then share it. Do not simply keep it to yourself.”

The Night Talker
16 November 2018

From the anonymous contact page

RE: Second Bite starving ​Gospel City Church

“Not sure I believe this...... BUT if the H&S chick gets her husband into second byte then they may as well change their name to H&S as they are the mob that will get everything. Good by food help for anyone else.”

Name and email supplied
16 November 2018
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They lie; you lie: the Salvo game

Four people approached the front counter of the Salvation Army building, adjacent to the Arndale shopping centre.
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Three were in their forties and one nearly seventy. The employee told the oldest person they no longer gave away bags of food. She aimed him for the free food room where eight loaves of repackaged white bread lay on a table.

The other three applicants, including two druggies, went into another room and emerged with double bags of groceries and vegetables.

The difference was that they were hooked up as regular clients so could be claimed on annual claims for government funding. The other was not. Need was not relevant.

And this is the sickness within the emergency welfare assistance industry. Less assertive and more knocked down people miss out while priority is given to professional beggars and drug addicts who live more affluent lives.

Salvation Army Kilkenny
14 Arndale Street, Kilkenny (near Arndale shopping centre). 
ph (08) 8445 2044. Monday to Friday 9:00am to 12:30pm then 1:15 pm to 3:00pm. Free fruit, vegetables and bread. No I.D. Or registration required. but if you want better stuff then they require an interview.
16 November 2018

How Mrs Hammond saved
​Colin Ackerman’s house

Colin lived with Jose and their two uncontrollable children at 21 Inverway Street, Ferryden Park. It was a semi-detached three-bedroom unit with a huge back yard.
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Mrs Hammond was the tenant in the other half of the building. She was the busybody who knew everyones’ business.

She was furious when the Housing Trust built a porch and renovated the bathroom and kitchen on Colin’s side of the building.

Yet it was Mrs Hammond who got the Trust to improve Colin’s house. The government was knocking down the neighbourhood for redevelopment, but because she’d bought her unit from them, they couldn’t knock down Colin’s half. So to keep his dwelling on par with the new redevelopment, they renovated it.

Sadly, Colin later killed himself. He was tormented by self-doubt and said that once he’d been put on an anti-psychotic drug, “All spirituality ended”.

And when Mrs Hammond died, both sides of the house were destroyed and replaced with a few of those “no back yard” specials.

16 November 2018

(above) This New South Wales based church is running a clothing collection campaign in Adelaide. It isn't quite clear who actually gets the clothing or where they are based.

(above) Church 4 Life seeks donated clothing in Adelaide, then sells it in Africa. It isn't clear what they do with the profits, if any.

Church 4 Life donation clothing

An Australian-African Christian church put leaflets in mail boxes late last month? The church asked for old clothing. Fair enough, but who are they?

There was a mobile phone number on the leaflet. When phoned, a woman explained they were a “Newcastle based company. We just distribute the flyers here and collect unwanted clothes and shoes and everything.

“We don’t sell anything in Australia…Church 4 Life is a charity organisation…very poor clothing goes to landfill [and the rest] goes to poor countries where it’s needed most.”
She said they have an office in Salisbury, but didn’t give the address. She asked if I wanted to drop the clothing off at the office. “Yes,” I said, whereupon she responded with, “All the time the office is not opened. It’s not open and accessible to the public at the moment.”

Church 4 Life have two locations in Newcastle, New South Wales and operate a free lunch once a week on Wednesdays at 32 Sixth Street, Booleroo.

14 November 2018

The Food Barn

​The man at Fred’s Van Elizabeth who broke and then set his finger was at the Food Barn.

The skin in the crook of his left elbow was split, revealing a section of raw flesh. It was 1cm by 4cm and looked as if it needed stitches.

He spoke coherently like a movie actor portraying a shell-shocked World War 1 soldier in a trench.

Two men nearby had large red sores on their backs and legs. A woman at the end of the table was red in the faced and laughing strangely.

The druggies table was empty. Nor were there many patrons, some having gone to the free Friday Salvation Army BBQ in Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East.

Salvation Army Elizabeth East
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. ph 8252 7196
Fridays 11:00am to 12:30pm. Free. Decent toilets.
Barbecued sausages, onions, vegetables, sauce, homemade soup and bottled water.
No I.D. or registration required.
Free vegetables and bread from 9:30am to 10:00am. Quite good. No coffee.
Free fruit and vegetables available intermittently in Op Shop. No I.D. needed.
Better bags of groceries and gift cards require interview via appointment with current I.D. not necessarily a Centrelink Card. No appointment needed on Fridays.
Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
 
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
14 November 2018

(above) An observer says Oz Harvest workers were seen picking up bakery goods from Baker's Delight in St Clair, then putting them into private cars. The observer gained access to the Oz Harvest warehouse and discovered the organisation doesn't stockpile food like Food Bank. This means Oz Harvest food is less stale than Food Bank, which is losing half its government funding.

Anglicare demotes employees

from the Night Talker

​“Anglicare workers may well become clients, if Anglicare gets their way....

“On ABC radio earlier this week, it was stated that up to 48 currently employed Anglicare employees in the disability and mental health field, have effectively lost their jobs. They allegedly have until Friday to accept new roles that pay up to $300.00 a week less.

“Anglicare states they can no long afford to continue to subsidise these employees and the only alternative is to employ them at a substantially lower rate. This is allegedly because the NDIS does not provide enough funding to cover the cost of qualified staff.

“Funnily enough, Anglicare did/does not appear to have any funding issues when they purchased seven brand new Camry Hybrid sedans, late last year. Nor do they appear to have any problems funding the yearly wage of their current SA CEO, which is believed to be in excess of $300,000 a year.

“One has to also ask, how much it costs Anglicare to fund the plethora of volunteers that provide the majority of services at Anglicare Elizabeth and other sites throughout South Australia. (Not much I imagine, considering that volunteers draw no wage) and let us not forget that as a registered Charity, Anglicare pays NO tax. (That's right folks, absolutely nothing!)

“So why the sudden funding crisis? One cannot tell me that providing one main meal a day, (as cooked by volunteers, using donated foodbank food and running a (reasonably meagre food barn) is sending this agency broke? (Pull the other one, it plays jingle bells!)

“Perhaps it has something more to do with senior executive wages, and the massive Taj mahal of a head office in North Adelaide, that requires copious amounts of money to keep it open. I think this is a more plausible reason for the sudden fiscal meanness than anglicare is showing towards it staff.

“If this devolution of job roles goes ahead, Anglicare staff who remain, may well have to ask for emergency financial assistance themselves, as a loss of up to $300.00 dollars a week of disposable income, will hit most average income earne rs hard. Especially at this time of year (Christmas and new year)

“Personally, I find this behaviour reprehensible and I hope that staff leave this organisation and find more suitable employment. However at the end of the day, it will be the clients who will end up suffering the most.”


The Night Talker.
14 November 2018

Centrelink’s Robo Letters

From the anonymous contact page

“Dear Homeless

Could Ya please inform us about

ROBOLETTERS ?

Are ROBOLETTERS meant to intimidate frighten and terrorise us.

And for what purpose ?

Perhaps to have us vacate our homeless public housing and return to rough sleeping ?

Perhaps to enforce in us a sense of SOCIALIST superiority over us as Underclass lower caste untouchables ?

Or perhaps just to sadistically BUGGER the hell into us, so we suffer as much as possible and eventually are ejected and rejected from the government / socialist handout lists?

What gives ?

What is their game plan Ya think by serving out all these ROBOLETTERS ?

Thanks for any accurate hint as to what all these ROBOLETTERS are good for or meant for.”

14 November 2018

The Elizabeth manhole burglar

It was the fourth time the 74-year-old woman had been broken into. The burglar came through the roof tiles then stole money and cartons of sugar-free drinks. The old girl remained asleep.

Previously, burglars had stolen her two mobility scooters. Her four-wheel machine was never recovered, but the three-wheel was recovered at Munno Para where someone was riding it around a roundabout. The machine was ruined.

Police and welfare authorities have promised to beef up her security including reinforcing her manhole cover making it more difficult for the burglar on his next attempt.

Meanwhile, another old girl in an Anglicare retirement unit was having a shower. She looked up and noticed her white ceiling had become stained. She got dressed and went outside and saw that four heavy ceramic tiles and too cemented capstones had been removed from her roof. Was it the wind or the Elizabeth Manhole burglar?
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13 November 2018

(above) An elderly tenant of this Anglicare retirement unit in Elizabeth discovered that four tiles and two capstones had been removed from her roof. Was it the wind or had the Elizabeth Manhole Burglar struck again?

Second Bite starving
​Gospel City Church

There was outrage about the reduced amounts of free food supplied by Second Bite to Gospel City Church. One church member talked about visiting Second Bite to complain.
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However, another person said that “you can’t just go and complain. It’s for free. If you complain they’ll cut us off.”

Meanwhile, rumour from another soup kitchen is that Eman Rahim’s new husband will be manager of the Second Bite building within the Coles Warehouse at Edinburgh. This would mean that Heart and Soul could access supplies from there. So the rumour goes.

13 November 2018

Busker wants action

​“The problem with this country is that the federal and state governments are too soft on crime. If they’re not going to be tough on crime, then why have the laws. It’s just a waste of time.”

Celebrity Can Collector
Busker at Adelaide Railway Station
​13 November 2018

Moving from shed to Housing Trust

“I wake up in the morning and use a real toilet, have a real shower. It’s heaven, mate. Beats living in that shed.”
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Fearless Phil, Edwardstown
13 November 2018

Daniel the Chef
​leaves the Food Barn

Daniel, 39, has quit his job at the Elizabeth Anglicare complex. He left Friday. Kevin and his missus bought him a huge chocolate cake.

Daniel didn’t want to leave, but his job had been reduced to half-time. “I’ve got a family to support,” he said to diners at the front table.

His job was divided been the Food Barn and the Way Café, but the café has been going bust and will be shutting its doors at the end of December.

Daniel has found a new position with Southern Cross Care in Port Adelaide. He lives near Kent Town.

He hopes to return to the Food Barn when the job goes back to being full-time. He said he likes the people; he likes the job and says he tries to make it fun for everyone. The mood at the Food Barn is usually superior to similar venues.
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12 November 2018

Oz Harvest

Oz Harvest employees were seen collecting baked cooks from Baker’s Delight at St. Clair shopping centre. They were using private vehicles rather than one of the huge yellow and black Oz Harvest vans.
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12 November 2018

Major June Purdy

A source within the Salvation Army said that soldiers were annoyed when Major Purdy tried to extract extra donations from them beyond their weekly tithing.

Without providing proof or corroboration, the source says she is also rude, a thief, bossy and tells lies. The source says she’s going to France for a holiday.

The source says the officers don’t allow soldiers to do anything unless the latter are part of a clique. The source says many soldiers are “well and truly cheesed off”.

What goes on in the Salvation Army would provide an excellent basis for a comedy musical.
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12 November 2018

Nanna’s Free Food Basket

Mr Plate has heart disease and he required his heart spray recently after working too hard at Nanna’s, who is his wife.
One observer said he’s got too much on his plate.
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12 November 2018

(above) Suicide Prevention bags recently given away at a free underclass meal. Anyone in the homeless scene will be constantly asked if they're intending on self-harming, or have had the thought pass through their mind. Being asked this continuously is like being assaulted.

(above) Free vegetable shelves outside the Anglicare office at 60 Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove. Anyone can add or take items from the shelves 24 hours a day.

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Discontent increases in food queue

An older man expresses increased bitterness each week about the reduced food available at Playford Salvation Army in Elizabeth East.

He says the amounts available are decreasing and that “a Nazi barks at you for taking too much”.

He recently asked for a white ticket allowing a special bag of food or a supermarket gift card, but was told he had to go through the stale food queue first.

He says there is insufficient food for the amount of customers.

He was previously on the disability pension (DSP), but gave it up in an attempt to return to the workforce. This failed so he tried to return to DSP, but discovered he could get only the much lower single payment NewStart for himself, and nothing for his Chinese wife.

It was suggested to him that the answer is going to ten free food venues each week and taking only the non-rotten food. He turned away while saying he was so tired, but he was actually dispirited and bitter.

Salvation Army Elizabeth East
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. ph 8252 7196
Fridays 11:00am to 12:30pm. Free. Decent toilets.
Barbecued sausages, onions, vegetables, sauce, homemade soup and bottled water.
No I.D. or registration required.
Free vegetables and bread from 9:30am to 10:00am. Quite good. No coffee.
Free fruit and vegetables available intermittently in Op Shop. No I.D. needed.
Better bags of groceries and gift cards require interview via appointment with current I.D. not necessarily a Centrelink Card. No appointment needed on Fridays.
10 November 2018

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(above) Head Space offers free food to people 12-25 and who are clients of this Catholic operated psychiatric service in Port Adelaide.

Celebrity Can Collector unhappy with the government child sexual abuse apology

“After sorry, you get underpaid. You have active conspiracy committed against you and you get treated like a peasant.”
This is what the Celebrity Can Collector said from his Adelaide railway station busking pitch last week.
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He is annoyed with journalist Tory Shepherd, saying she wrote about the abuse of children in government and church institutions, but when he contacted her, “She wanted nothing to do with me.”

The Can Collector says the compensation given to him by the government was not enough. He’s spent $800 getting a psychologist’s report and says the new federal government application for compensation is 43 pages.

The Can Collector has a good opinion of Rachel Sanderson. We’ve both seen her over the past few years at numerous homeless-style soup kitchens. She listened to us and didn’t lie as much as other politicians.

The Celebrity was a child resident of the Wyndana/Glandore Children’s’ Home along with the Regretful Can Collector and Bluey where some boys woke up with grey-haired male employees in their beds. 
 
Victims can obtain copies of the National Redress Scheme application forms by phoning 1800 737 737.
 
10 November 2018

(above) A card pouch that sticks to a phone given away by the HepatitisSA lady at the Anglicare anti-poverty week event at the Food Barn in Elizabeth. She said the idea of druggies near the Hutt Street Centre jabbing each other with bloody syringes was a fantasy.

How to annoy a welfare bureaucrat

If you want to annoy a welfare bureaucrat, ask what services her so-called non-profit government-funded organisation offers.

She will reply with weasel-words that could mean anything. Ask what her words “actually mean” then watch how she pulls her clothing higher over her breasts then looks around for help as if you’re a sexual offender.

These bureaucrats are torn between wanting to be frank and open, but needing to be cagey to protect their jobs. They’re victims, too, living and working a big lie that reduces our dignity in the name of increasing our dignity.

But be careful when you ask questions. If the bureaucrat becomes agitated, she will enter a file note under your name, reading, “client became aggressive”.
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10 November 2018

Bruno
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“Haven’t seen Bruno for years, slobbering across the road like a beached whale.

"I’ve seen him locked up in Port Adelaide, bludging money off people, police put him in a dog box,” said the Celebrity Can Collector last week.

However, Bruno is back in Semaphore. He’s regained his massive weight.

10 November 2018

Weaponised electric heater

​A mixed-race indigenous man said he was reduced to eating at Fred’s Van Elizabeth because he’d let visitors use his tiny electric heater over winter. His power bill was $1000.

“They had a baby so what could I do?” he said.
10 November 2018

(above) The Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth regularly serves free fresh organic slices from the All Natural Bakery in Pooraka, South Australia. The product is fresh and not from Food Bank or Second Bite.

Man and woman living in fear

The woman married to the man blinded in one eye by two druggies living next door continue to live in fear.
The druggie couple were put in the AngliPrison in Dale Street, Port Adelaide, but have escaped, according to the blinded man’s wife.

The wife and blinded man live in fear as they have no extra security for their Housing Trust unit or police protection. They cannot sleep at night.
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9 November 2018

Kerrie hauled away in ambulance

Kerrie from Hindmarsh Hostel was taken by ambulance from The Port Church social meal the Wednesday before last.
Kerry was sanguine through the whole business in the same way she is to life. But underneath, she is ultra-sensitive and takes things hard.

Kerrie is also a patron of St Bede’s in Semaphore where her presence is appreciated.

9 November 2018

Food bank food and expiry dates

from the Night Talker
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“As a seasoned bin-diver (I have now been bin diving for more than three years) I know that most food products, are put into bins by supermarket staff, before their expiry date or just approaching expiry.

“So even if this is the case, Foodbank should not be handing out food that is three to six months (or sometimes more) out of date. The best by date allows a short window of time (in most cases) but up to six months is actually putting people’s health and safety at risk.

“On top of this, making charities and individuals pay for produce that is well past its expiry date, is morally wrong. As I keep banging on, bypass these corrupt entities and go straight to the source.

“I went bin diving last night and EVERYTHING I reclaimed out the bin was IN DATE. (Some items were even cooked that afternoon and still hot, when I got to them).

“Nobody was around and there was MORE than enough for anyone that needed food (I only take what I need and leave the rest for others that might come after me) I got two whole roasted chickens (hot) a bag full of savoury and sweet buns/pastries. A couple of excellent red bell peppers, a handful of cherry tomatoes (still in packaging and good quality.) A full unopened bottle of dishwashing liquid. A three litre bottle of Adelaide Hills, Full cream milk (in date) a bag full of ham offcuts (pet meat) and a packet of bratwurst (pet meat).

“So the night was good and very productive. Like I said, bypass the corrupt food banks and go straight to the source. You will be better off and NOT disappointed!

“Good Luck.”

The Night Talker.
9 November 2018

(above) Coles in Adelaide, South Australia donates packaged food to Second Bite who transfer it to various churches and charities.

(above) Why is food donated from Australia's supermarkets so old by the time it reaches the underclass. Supermarkets routinely get rid of products long before they reach the Best Before date. Is there a conspiracy against the underclass?

Barbecues back at Playford Salvos

​The popular barbecues have replaced the winter soups on Fridays at Elizabeth East Salvation Army.

Patrons prefer standing outside rather than sitting in the morbid waiting room where depressed and anxious people await interviews for bags of food, bed sheets and other stuff. Their gloom permeates the atmosphere.

Salvation Army Elizabeth East
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. ph 8252 7196
Fridays 11:00am to 12:30pm. Free. Decent toilets.
Barbecued sausages, onions, vegetables, sauce, homemade soup and bottled water.
No I.D. or registration required.
Free vegetables and bread from 9:30am to 10:00am. Quite good. No coffee.
Free fruit and vegetables available intermittently in Op Shop. No I.D. needed.
Better bags of groceries and gift cards require interview via appointment with current I.D. not necessarily a Centrelink Card. No appointment needed on Fridays.
9 November 2018

St Paul’s closed on
​Melbourne Cup day

Two men arrived to discover St Paul’s charity shop and free coffee service closed.
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When one returned the following week, a church volunteer said they closed for the Melbourne Cup. “We thought there had been a gas leak or a murder,” the customer said.

“No such luck,” a male volunteer said.
St Paul’s Port Adelaide free coffee

1 Church Place, Port Adelaide (behind Farmer Joe’s)
9:30am to 2:00pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Free coffee and either good or horrible biscuits in the hall.
 
9 November 2018

New free lunch in Modbury
 
“Lifepoint Cares Modbury
Lifepoint Church
231 Milne Road, Modbury North. ph 8395 0888
Free Community Lunch
Thursdays 8th & 22nd November
Thursdays 6th & 20th December
11:30am - 1:30pm
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"Complete a form on how we can help. Chat with a team member to access some fresh and long-life groceries. 
No ID or Centrelink card required.”

8 November 2018

Homeless in city up five
 
The Adelaide Zero Project says that those living “rough” in the city area has risen from 148 to 153. This includes only those registered with the larger druggy joints so the real number is higher.
 
8 November 2018

Chat and Chew
 
Stephen was running behind time. The singing stopped. He was under pressure, but the mood in the kitchen remained harmonious and friendly.
 
Ross, Vince the Younger, Old Bill and Carmel set up the tables in the shrunken dining room. They put clean metal cutlery on the clean tables. They added a serviette to each clean glass.
 
Outside, near the plastic grass, Bernie tried to sell his brother’s $30 elastic belt. Lance didn’t like it. Nor did anyone else and Bernie couldn’t get rid of it for $10.
 
The dining room was less crowded than usual due to increased competition from Nanna’s Free Food Basket at Semaphore South and The Port Church at Largs North. The Chat and Chew venue is also too crowded so those with reduced mobility cannot easily move about. Children under 16 are prohibited.
 
The reason given is that the “social meal” is for “isolated” people and those with children are deemed not isolated. Others believe the reason is fear of child molesters among the clients, but UnitingSA employees say this is not true. Central office management is paranoid about insurance liabilities and funding risks.
 
Neeta was there along with The Cousin. They are both 67 and born two days apart. The Cousin lived in Ferryden Park, next door to suicide victim Colin Ackerman of the Schizophrenia Fellowship. Neeta was cast out as a child by her mother. She had a stroke that left her voice shrill, but in conversation it was The Cousin who dropped the clanger when he shouted “Nut Case”.
 
The beautiful rice and vegetable meal was served in giant black bowls. Stephen the Cook is sensitive to presentation. All the staff are that way. That’s what makes Chat and Chew a superior event.
 
However, patrons were concerned about the rice that had been billed as fried. Diners who couldn’t boil an egg became instant experts who analysed and criticised the rice for ten minutes. Dessert was crisp hot apples with reconstituted sultanas. Pitchers of cordial were brought to the tables by Ross.
 
Diners at our table talked about epilepsy, dementia and migraines. A man aged 49 and diagnosed with first stage dementia feared for his future. We said, “Don’t worry. You won’t know it’s happening once you go gaga.” A man with epilepsy from the Plymouth Brethren said minor seizures left him refreshed, but major seizures left him ruined.
 
As we left, Ross and Old Bill wiped the chairs and tables so that the next users would find them clean and fresh.
 
Chat and Chew  (UnitingSA)
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2220 (entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area).
4:00 pm to 6:00pm. Coffee at 4pm. Meal at 5pm.
 (Every second Wednesday). Free. Much improved. New cook.
Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways. No children.
Dates for 2018 are 21 November and 5 December.
8 November 2018

​Elizabeth Food Barn

The elderly Christmas decorations on the free table near the Way Café entrance were snapped up.

Down the hall, past the horrible toilets, the Op Shop woman was somewhat hostile when The Cousin and another man asked if the clothing was for sale. She said it wasn’t and that we should get a voucher or have an interview, something like that. She is old school where enquiries are barely tolerated. In other words: beggars shouldn’t be questioners.

Clown Prince Wayne stationed himself in the Food Barn, subtly frowning at diners scraping food from their plates into the rubbish bin. Waste is anathema to this real leader of Anglicare Australia who tolerates Peter Sandeman with good grace.                                                                                         

The Clown Prince is the man to watch. The Food Barn serves multiple meals, not concurrently, but one after the other. The worse is served first at 11:30am when the desperadoes rush through the door. Usually better versions are served at 12:00 noon. Wayne knows if the second version will be superior, or not. He is the man to watch.
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The coffee lady, Lynette is sister-in-law to Steve Knowlands, the popular financial advisor who hides out behind a dirty door next to the druggies’ table.  
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Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
8 November 2018

Opinions replace facts

Journalists in the mass media have adopted opinion writing over factual reports. Opinions are easy to change day by day while facts are more objective and less easy to manipulate. Writing opinions takes little energy while fact finding requires intensive effort.

​8 November 2018 

Dental Foundation locks out unaligned homeless

The National Dental Foundation of Australia has locked out homeless and other underclass people not linked into “a charity”.
 
Its spokesperson said that anyone wanting pro bono dental treatment must be receiving a “support program”. She mentioned financial counselling as a form of support, but would not give the names of charities that offered ‘support programs’.
 
This new policy means that homeless people who don’t drink alcohol or abuse illegal and legal drugs, and who refuse to sign up for a “support program”, will be denied free dental treatment by volunteering private dentists. 
 
Meanwhile, druggies who have ruined their teeth from Ice, and have signed up for multiple “support programs”, will get this free top quality dental treatment.
 
However, the bottom line is that private dentists generously offering this free dental treatment is a minor miracle.
 
7 November 2018

(above) Catholic Care is contracted by the government to provide psychiatric services in Port Adelaide. They gave away pens at an Anglicare anti-poverty week event, but the strange shapes inside the pen were not conducive to smooth thinking.

Meat eaters raid another vegetarian barbecue

​Meat eaters wanted a change of menu last week at the Plymouth Brethren’s Rapid Relief free barbecue at UnitingSA in Port Adelaide.
 
They grabbed the dozen non-meat hamburger patties leaving none for real vegetarians and vegans.
 
Diner numbers were down on previous barbecues. The Brethren didn’t bring coffee, salt or pepper. What’s the use of bringing two expensive barbecue and refrigerator trucks then leaving behind important, but inexpensive extras?
 
The Night Stalker acted perfectly normal, which cowed Lurch from mimicking the Stalker’s filthy invective. Bad Maria was there as distinct from Good Maria who was absent. Lance was there, but I forgot to ask him if he’d sold his belt. Minh from the Mekong was there. He got hit by a car and suffered a broken arm and shoulder injuries. The driver sped off. Minh didn’t bother with the police.
 
Small bags of fruit and bread were offered on the racks inside the front door of the Family Centre. There were uncharacteristically two trolleys of brand new woolen blankets. People could help themselves.

​The UnitingSA toilets were kept locked. They’ve been commandeered by the dozen employees who now have three rooms of toilets in the small building, leaving none for the clients that often number forty at one time.  
 
Rapid Relief Team (Plymouth Brethren)
Hosted by UnitingSA Port Adelaide (Back of 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide)
11:00am to 1:30pm. Fresh hamburgers and water. Sometimes coffee. No I.D. required.
Last Tuesday of every second month. In December it is on the 19th.
7 November 2018

Anglicare discovers new way of avoiding being frank and open

An elderly tenant phoned Anglicare to ask why four units in her group of sixteen have been left vacant. She asked if an employee could visit the tenants and explain what is happening.
 
The employee wouldn’t agree to a meeting, but said the units were being kept empty for “maintenance issues”, but didn’t elaborate.
 
Previous lies justifying keeping the units empty were that tenants might decide to return or that no one wanted to rent the empty $142 week one-bedroom units. 
 
The rent includes free unlimited water and grass cutting and attracts $61 rent assistance, leaving a net rent payment of $81 a week.
 
The remaining elderly tenants fear that druggies may squat in the empty units.

7 November 2018

The Opportunity Games

​Peter from Semaphore SRF proudly wore his 1st place medal won at the Opportunity Games in Exeter last month.
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David Hobbs also won medals and wore his Opportunity Games shirt to St. Bede’s drop-in-centre. Both men were pleased with their involvement.
7 November 2018

(above) A message from a unit in the Housing Trust complex in Park Terrace, Gilberton to the residents of Adelaide Clinic, a private residential psychiatric clinic for the rich next door.

Meat eaters raid vegetarian food at The Port Church

Vegetarians were served first at the churches Wednesday social meal. This prompted certain meat eaters to feign vegetarianism then grab the imitation meat patties. This resulted in real vegetarians missing out.
 
When the meat dishes were being served, these temporary vegetarians reverted to their carnivore nature. One of the meat eaters was a woman who stole cutlery from St Bede's Drop-in-Centre during a period when the bulging donation tin also went missing. 
 
The Port Church
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church Hall)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dinner, used clothing, fresh fruit and vegetables
“Open to All & All for Free”. No I.D. or registration requirements.
Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. No Ice Dealers.
5 November 2018

New boss for Skylight

​Paul Credlin of UnitingSA has won the role of Chief Executive Officer at Skylight.

Skylight originates from the Schizophrenia Fellowship formed by Irene Towler and others in the early 1980’s, and which originally occupied a rented room in Hutt Street, Adelaide.

The Schizophrenia Fellowship absorbed the Glenside Hospital based Manic Depression (Mood Disorder) Prevention group after its C.E.O., a Canadian-Indian (Indigenous) man was sacked on a harassment charge.

The combined group adopted the unfortunate name of the Mental Illness Foundation of South Australia (M.I.F.S.A.) before finally becoming Skylight.
5 November 2018

Volunteer guards against
​noodle bandits

The Regency Park Rotary man delivered 30 boxes of two-minutes noodles last month to St Bede’s drop-in-centre at Semaphore. As he and two volunteers brought in the boxes from his car, another volunteer guarded the store room.

The guard initially stood in front of the open door then increased security by closing the door until the rest of the noodles were brought in from the car.

Another diner said this unnecessary paranoia was because, “They’re afraid of us.”

5 November 2018

Greg Pattinson’s hoarding problem

Greg is the C.E.O. of Food Bank SA. He said on ABC radio that Food Bank had a three-month reserve of supplies.
This might explain why much of their food is three-months past the Best-Before date. Do they keep their supplies sitting in that hot shed for three months before sending it out?
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Greg should attend a course for people with hoarding issues. It might help both himself and us.
5 November 2018

Housing Trust at Park Terrace, Gilberton

“Am Elder Abuse Victim at HSA Elliott Lodge
GILBERTON

Discovered unlocked inner door upon arriving home.

Probable HSA Bugger Burglar here.

Please help protect.”

Editor: Sorry, no help coming. Forget the police. You must defend yourself despite that being illegal in South Australia.

5 November 2018

(above) Free African seasoning given away at a soup kitchen last week.

(above) Anglicare's free produce and plants shelves outside their office in Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove. It is left there at night for better privacy and easier access.

(above) One of the ideas behind the Sharing Cart outside the Anglicare offices in Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

On the Street

A stocky sweating woman shouted from the counter at the Food Barn that one of the girls accused of burning the buildings in Munno Para West “learnt arson from their father, himself an arsonist.”

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An employee of UnitingSA said the aim of the organisation was to maintain hope in people who felt they had lost everything.

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That old Liamsans security guard no longer works at the Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth. A diner said he was transferred elsewhere after sitting on a female patron who had turned violent.

The old guard was well-liked and was no pushover. When I suggested he was too old, he punched me in the sternum.

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An older migrant man said he was number 78 in the food queue at the Friday Elizabeth East Salvo food queue. This wouldn’t be a bad position at City Salvos, but at Elizabeth Salvos it is terrible because they have much less food. The man used to arrive early and stand in the queue for an hour, but has recently been made to do “voluntary” work to collect unemployment payments. He still laughs about it though his wife does not.

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Peter Lyndon-James of Shalom House, a Perth drug rehabilitation establishment, said that Food Bank played a major role in their success.

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The Clued-up Drug Dealer is back in the vicinity of the Hutt Street Centre. It isn’t known if management will re-install him as their front-of-house laced dope dealer.

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The Housing Trust last week phoned a man in his fifties. They told him to get out of his unit as they were knocking it down.

At Fred’s Van, he told us he’d been there 19 years and had been a perfect tenant. He said the Trust had recently spent $6000 renovating the kitchen. He said he won’t move. “Let the cops come and get me,” he said.

“They’re going to make money out of you,” an Aboriginal man told him.

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The Skala bakery is supplying Nanna’s Free Food Basket with free bread. A volunteer said it is freshly baked and not old product.

See the Adelaide Homeless Journal ‘Free Food’ page for more details.

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George the Elder said that six Aboriginal women were threatening a small woman at Fred’s Van in the city. She left to preserve her health.

George said that when an “American Aboriginal” (Native Indian) arrived, the same women touched him and treated him like a saint.

George said he isn’t going to Fred’s Van at Gawler Place, Adelaide anymore because of the queue jumpers who arrive late then are served first.

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A visitor to a Supported Residential Facility was surprised to see a carton of Hungry Jacks half-price discount vouchers. He wasn’t getting any delivered to his mail box.
He made enquiries and discovered they didn’t deliver to people behind in their electricity bills. His bill has reached $5000.

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“It was ripping off roofs; it sounded like a monster,” an Aboriginal man said of a machine knocking down welfare housing near his place.

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Men should not comment on the health or happiness of children at soup kitchens. There is such a paranoia of child molesters that the appropriate behaviour is to treat them as invisible.  

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The library workers at the surveillance-friendly Port Adelaide library have adapted well to their new environment. Rather than resembling librarians, they have developed that contemptuous glint commonly seen in security and prison guards.

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There was a fight at the Jasmine Restaurant free meal in Hindmarsh Square earlier this month. Either druggies or people expressing the bitterness of their life. Or a bully finding a victim. The police arrived.

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Bread supplies have improved at Adelaide free food venues, but the product is less fresh than before.

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A patient at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital woke up in a bed of blood. He felt sore in his lower intestines and believed he’d been raped.
 
He’d forgotten that he’d been brought in with internal bleeding so bad that he spent weeks in a coma.
 
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A bully volunteer at Nanna’s Free Food Basket is eating himself to death on the sugary food he gets as a reward for working without pay.
 
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A rumour being spread by defecting volunteers at Heart and Soul is that its accountant is being investigated for fraud. The investigation has nothing to do with Heart and Soul.
 
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An elderly man at a free soup kitchen in Elizabeth said he was four years into a seven year wait to see an ENT specialist doctor at the Lyell McEwin Hospital about an ear problem. But his sense of achievement was pierced when a woman told him that a friend had been on the waiting list for ten years.
 
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Heart and Soul volunteers are being charged $80 to become volunteers. This is cheap compared to some organisations.
 
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A public housing tenant wanting to get rid of his Arab neighbours pounded loud I.S.I.S. youtube videos through their shared wall. Soon they were pounding on the wall. Then they moved. 
 
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The Salvation Army at Elizabeth East has given an elderly “volunteer” a hammer. His job is to smash up worthless donated items so they fit more economically in the industrial bins parked at the back of the Citadel.
 
The man is forced to do this work as part of the “mutual obligation” clause in his NewStart unemployment payments contract.
 
 3 November 2018

George the Elder
at the shower truck

George the Elder, in his eighties, found himself having a shower in the One Voice shower truck outside the Salvation Army’s Adelaide Congress Hall in Pirie Street.
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The problem was that he was still wearing his underwear. He asked himself: “Is this telling me something?”
3 November 2018

The Food Barn

The man who spat in the face of a 75-year-old diner has turned over a new leaf. He goes out of his way to help people. One diner said he’s always been like this.

He showed an old lady a secret wave she should perform if being “stalked” and he was in the vicinity.

Another diner at the next table said he’d been kicked out of Cash Converters when he became angry at their plan to sell an item he’d pawned and couldn’t redeem in time.

A woman in her seventies and pushing a walking frame left the dining room tired and in despair. She returned five minutes later wearing a bright smile after spotting an Anglicare worker delivering a tray of chocolate doughnuts.

Lunch on the Friday of Anti-poverty week was fried meat patties, sausages roasted in water (English-style), an excellent fresh salad (containing nothing rotten), a high quality potato salad, Coleslaw and an egg salad.

The tampon machine is not broken, but requires that Button A be pressed to activate the machine then Button B to make it pump out a packet of tampons.
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Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
3 November 2018

James Williams gone

From the anonymous contact page

“James Williams has passed away. Hutt Street doing his memorial service in the Parklands shortly. Dedicated volunteer at Moore st. Will be missed.”

Il Ho
2 November 2018

George the Elder doesn’t believe
in giant chickens

George doesn’t believe the huge chicken steak he was served at a soup kitchen came from a giant chicken.

He says the chickens are hammered together using chicken glue creating the illusion the steaks are from giant chickens.

2 November 2018
​

The Salvation Army in Elizabeth
 
From the anonymous contact page

“Playford Salvos - We are here to help you. 

“I keep hearing people complain about agencies asking too many questions just for you to access food assistance. So I thought I’d share some knowledge with you all. 

“What can you get at a Playford’s Salvos without having to answer any questions? 

* You can access our weekly produce market. 9.30am every Friday (except pub holidays). No need to show ID, but we do ask that you get help as a family / household and not several people from the same house. We also as that you please bring a bag. 

* You can obtain a “Client Pays” Foodbank Food Hub Voucher. These use your own money but allow you entry to shop at the foodhub several times over the life of the voucher. You can ask for these at reception. You will need ID for this but no interview is necessary.

* Food in our foyer on a Tuesday- We receive a donation of mainly fruit and veg plus some bakery items on a Tuesday morning. You can walk in and grab a few items with no questions asked. Please only take what you need and allow us to share with others. 

All other assistance requires an interview. Why? 

1) We are government funded. They ask us who we have helped (in general terms) and we must be able to answer this. 

2) Our auditors like to be able to see that we have helped others and not just hidden the money away for ourselves. This is why we ask you to fill out and sign a form showing what you have received. 

3) If we don’t talk to you about what is happening, how can we best help you to get back on your feet? How can we lobby for change? How can we advocate for better systems if we have no evidence to back it up? These are just a few reasons why we ask you questions. 

“We are always open to feedback. If you feel we have done something great, please tell us. If you have a suggestion for something to be done better or differently or new, again please tell us. If you are unhappy about something we have done, please tell us. 
No we don’t ‘like’ bad feedback, but we do need to hear it or nothing will change. 

“Hoping this helps in some way to understand how you can come to us and get the help you need.”
 
Sharyn from the Salvation Army
 
Full name and email contact supplied
2 November 2018

Message from a Salvo client
 
From the anonymous contact page

“Dear precious playford salvo,

“You may need to stop being so worried about people getting things ‘so wrong’ and think more about why they have it so wrong.
 
“Maybe it is because of the impression people get when they walk in those (dirty) front doors. Maybe what people see isn’t what you want them to see, but yet that IS what they see / hear / feel.
 
“Maybe instead of being so upset you should be more worried about looking inside your church and fixing the impression that is given to us outside. 

“As for the minister being available to chat with, I am yet to find a time where he is there and not grumpy. So no I don’t plan on talking to him and I am not surprised if others don’t want to either.”
 
Sincerely,
The people you are here to serve. 
 
First name supplied
2 November 2018
 

Is data privacy being upheld
​ at Heart and Soul?

From the anonymous contact page

Comment
“Re Heart & Soul data collection. 

“I hope they are abiding by privacy regulation! 

“Notice how when you go somewhere like Salvos or doctors (where they keep data on you) they have a lovely document for you to read telling you what they do with your info? Seriously the Salvo one is super annoying but - that’s because legally they have to tell you if they share your info with anyone else.

“Hope those H&S chicks are doing their job properly otherwise they can be in big trouble for breaching your privacy. 

“We might be beggars, but we still have a right to privacy and to know who our information gets given to. Even if it goes to the govt they can’t do that without first letting you know that will / might happen.”
 
SS
2 November 2018

In response to "Parent's Next" 

from The Night Talker

“I am sorry to hear about the issues you have written about and hope that the matter has been sorted. I am assuming that you were breached by your Parent Next Provider, whom I am assuming is a job network agency?

“If this were to ever happen again, you have the right to appeal any breach and also request the services of a qualified social worker (either through your job network provider or centrelink) You can also phone Crisis Care (4pm-8am) 7 days a week, on 131611 and request assistance with purchasing nappies or other requirements for your infant. Birthline (08-84318196) and Genesis Pregnancy Support (08-83524044) can also provide material support as can most charities (e.g. Anglicare, Centacare, Uniting Care Wesley etc).“Just be mindful to request the services of a qualified social worker otherwise the chances are, that you will end up with an untrained worker.

“Finally, don't ever purchase nappies or other products from a chemist (unless it is somewhere like a Chemist Warehouse and you know them to be cheaper than the supermarkets).“The vast majority of (independent chemists) put up their prices of items within their pharmacies by at least 20% above what you will pay in a supermarket.

“From clients I have spoken with, the cheapest supermarket to buy (disposable) nappies from at the moment is Aldi's. Even cheaper is buying a packet of 25 cloth nappies (Swan-skins) Also try not to purchase pre-made baby food. It is incredibly expensive and nowhere near as healthy as making your own.

“Just a quick one as well. Places like the Salvation Army can provide you with a $50.00 supermarket card/voucher, in times of genuine need and also give away food on certain days. (The Elizabeth Vale Salvation Army does this on a Friday as does Salt Church during the week) Check out the free food and welfare assistance guide on this site. It will tell you where you need to go. 

“I hope this information assists you.
​
2 November 2018

(above) A Housing Trust semi-detached house scheduled for demolition in Elizabeth, a suburb of Adelaide. When the government announces a "housing renewal project", it disguises the fact that the number of replacement Housing Trust units will be less than those knocked down.

(above) Another semi-detached scheduled for demolition. If the land isn't sold, then the new units will have minimal ventilation, minimal grass, and no eaves to lessen the summer heat. This represents social devolution.

(above) After tenants are evicted, the Housing Trust waits for the windows to be smashed then covers the shattered glass with plywood or chipboard. This is not stupidity, but a choreographed plan to give multiple parties a "piece of the action". There is no fear the "homeless agencies" will voice an objection because they're paid to keep their mouths shut.

(above) "The glassies are there every week," said a Housing Trust tenant about the constantly smashed windows in the Elizabeth units. Burns for Blinds was contracted to install outdoor blinds, but the quality was so cheap and nasty that they began falling apart within months. These units originally housed English working class immigrants, but with a permanent 5% unemployment rate, they have become underclass housing.

The semi-Benevolent Society

​The Society has taken over the Wyatt Foundation’s welfare housing. They had hundreds of their own, and then switched to corporate takeover mode.

Their rental procedure is a competitive process similar to real estate agents inviting dozens of applicants for a single property.
​
They charge 60 to 75% of commercial rent, which leaves a two-bedroom unit in Firle at $220 a week, which does not seem that benevolent.

They help old and disabled tenants move in and using government funding have hired Tim’s Delivery Service to deliver charity furniture from Ruf Us to new tenants. Whether this continues is not known.

They claim to be Australia's oldest charity and founded in 1813. They used to operate from an old house near Victoria Square in Adelaide, but have expanded interstate.Their Adelaide offices are at 1/34-40 Bennet Avenue, Melrose Park and 28B commercial Road, Salisbury. Phone 1800 236 762. 

31 October 2018

“So corrupt”
 
A worker in the free food network said that homelessness is so corrupt. He referred to the double-dealing, faking the statistics, nepotism and seeking salaries that are endemic to this service industry.
 
Another worker said that many organisations giving away free food via Food Bank, Second Bite, Oz Harvest and from other donors, offer the best stuff to their volunteers before the doors open.
 
One small group that collected from Second Bite stopped on the highway and sold from their truck, until they were caught.

31 October 2018
​

Housing Trust units at Gilberton
 
From the anonymous contact page

“Am FANATIC about security...locking, latching everything all times.

“Recently noticed inner Public Housing door unlocked upon returning "home" (hell).

“Could be that HSA keeps secret keys to get into tenants spaces.”
 
Anonymous
31 October 2018

(above) Back of the Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth. The Holy Cross church next door used to provide a Sunday evening free meal, but numbers collapsed after Fred's Van began their better Sunday lunch. There was also concern about being attacked while leaving the Food Barn in the dark during winter. It's sad that their meal and music stopped.

Home visits too dangerous
​in Elizabeth

St Vincent de Paul sends welfare workers to applicants’ homes to assess their suitability for assistance in the form of supermarket gift cards.  
 
Not so in Elizabeth. Too dangerous. With most of Adelaide’s ferals dumped in Elizabeth, the odds of welfare workers being attacked skyrockets.
 
Instead, St Vincent de Paul requires applicants to visit the “Conference Centre” at the back of the Op Shop complex, near the Elizabeth railway station.
 
30 October 2018

Paedphile Peter Leith
 
Still no word on Peter Leith, the man who raped Ki Meekins as a child.  
 
Leith and former Adelaide’s children’s TV star, Ric Marshall, were both convicted of child molesting in its worst sense. Leith may get parole and be placed in welfare housing in the Elizabeth area.
 
Apart from being a child molester, Ric Marshall also hired the thug who beat up Peter Goers after the film critic panned Marshall’s play at the John Edmonds theatre in Halifax Street. Peter Goers fled to Turkey for three years then returned to become a presenter on ABC radio Adelaide.
 
30 October 2018
 

Elizabeth Sunday Fred’s Van
 
The unpaid cooks began preparing the food on Saturday. They finished cooking Sunday morning and served the free lunch to anyone who turned up.
 
The main course was a tasty hamburger stew appreciated by George the Elder. He cannot swallow pure meat so hamburger and silverside are his only options.
 
The rice was cooked so the grains were separate rather than stuck together like glue at Fred’s Van Kilburn. An elderly cook provided homemade dahl for the non-meat eaters who numbered one. The salad was fresh and composed of good vegetables rather than the rotting vegetables served at some other soup kitchens.  There was also an egg and carrot salad with fruit and ice-cream for dessert.
 
There was plenty of takeaway food, but most was rotten though that didn’t stop many clients, most of whom are habituated to eating Food Bank-style food.
 
One diner said a he’d owned a business and a large house until having a stroke last year, upon which his wife left him. He was at Fred’s Van with two women who treated him well, and a boy in agony from an infected tooth.  
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t  rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays.
30 October 2018

Agony and cognitive payments
 
From the anonymous Contact Page

“Homeless should be PAID for head work that goes on all night in the brains and minds and souls and hearts of homeless who endure the long uncomfortable painful nights.

“In Winter, a night of darkness can go from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. the next day (14 hours).

“In this expanse of agonizing "night time" we often have countless thoughts, memories, plans and strategies IN MIND and Soul to further recount and reconnoiter our next day or next week or month.

“We should be PAID Double or Triple time, especially in compensation for all our hard-earned thought work and oft-time worrisome consideration.

“Headwork / Spiritwork EXISTS and has been practiced in Australia by traditional ancestral spiritual People for Tens of Thousands of Years. Even Modern Practitioners can be seen lying around as-if-asleep in the daytime, while their transcendental minds souls and concerns of headwork and heartwork are busy elsewhere, doing REAL WORK wishing and dishing out Psychic blessings for others elsewhere.

“We DESERVE to be PAID for our Intentions and Concerns in Action, even while in thought and soul. Homeless Carers deserve a Fair Go.”
 
Anonymous contributor
30 October 2018

(above) Junkies sleep in the old petrol station across from the OTR on Grand Junction Road, Rosewater. Drug addicted prostitutes operate in the laneway back of OTR. The big dealers that supply the small dealers use their profits to buy properties in the area. This is at the expense of destroying the lives of those susceptible to the illusory and temporary pleasures of Ice and heroin. Meanwhile, Adelaide's fake rehab industry profits by treating the casualties.

Manhole bandit strikes again
 
The Elizabeth manhole bandit struck again last week. He removes the tiles of Housing Trust roofs then crawls down through the manhole cover in the ceiling.
 
His latest victim was a white woman in her seventies and who relies on an invalid scooter. She is severely ill and consumes nine types of prescribed pills for breakfast.
 
The robbery has shaken her confidence as it happened while she was asleep.
 
Last month, another woman in her seventies said she’d asked Anglicare to fortify her manhole cover to prevent such an intrusion. Anglicare declined. Both women are diners at the Food Barn in Elizabeth.
 
Also, last week a younger man in the Food Barn told the first woman that if she was being stalked and she saw him in the area, she should give him a special wave to indicate she needed help. He moved his hands to show her this special wave.
 
The police are useless so it appears the local dealers and diners at the Food Barn will try to catch and punish the Elizabeth Manhole Bandit.

29 October 2018

Quentin Kenihan’s Dad
 
Quentin’s dad, Geoff Kenihan, lay on the carpet of the Writers’ Centre in Pirie Street at the feet of the young Liz Templeton. It was mid-afternoon and he’d been shouting for the past hour that he wanted sex. Liz occasionally glanced down at him with an expression ranging from demure to bemusement.
 
She was using the latest import of technology, a Mac Classic computer with a tiny black and white CRT screen and which required its applications to be reloaded each time it was turned on.
 
The problem was an Adelaide Fringe event that resulted in 20 slabs of beer left on the floor that Geoff felt a duty to “get through”. His job as an Advertiser journalist had come to an end and he was working freelance.
 
Geoff managed to get himself into a chair by the time his teenage daughter arrived with Quentin, who was then about 15-years-old though still with the body of a large 4-year-old. Quentin was already an egotistical brat and yelled at his father for not picking him up.
 
After an hour, Geoff staggered with Quentin to the industrial lift next to the Greenpeace fundraising room, then down to his rusting white van parked in the laneway. It had an elevator at the back door and Quentin swore blue murder at his father for handling him roughly. The boy had already suffered over 50 breaks in his tiny fragile bones. Even sneezing could break a rib.  
 
Geoff said later that the burden of being responsible for Quentin took its toll.  
 
Geoff was a decent fellow who along with his wife bestowed on Quentin the gift of courage and ability to confront those with power. Quentin was twelve when he challenged Prime Minister Bob Hawk to a debate about licensing invalid scooters. Hawk backed down, but phoned Quentin privately, accusing him of seeking publicity for himself. They were both publicity seekers, but Quentin won that battle and the licensing of invalid scooters was never introduced.
 
And Geoff? He continued freelance journalism in a lessening spiral until he was destroyed.  Most journalists end up ruined after spending their working lives seeking the truth then find promoting half-truths.

29 October 2018

Night Talker Hoarding

From the anonymous contact page

“Interesting how human society makes the word "hoarding" sound like whore-d-ing.

“Some of us inturn refer to Public Housing as PUBIC Hosing.

“Those of us who extravagantly collect are not "whores" or hoarders...

“We are COLLECTORS, members of traditional hunter-gatherer society who know WASTE is a CRIME

“And what better way to prevent crime than to store up on what is wasted, that it may be used agin, and agin and agin.

“I remember when a couple good-hearted fellas set up trestles in Rundle Mall a few decades ago and piled the trestles high with all sorts of worthy items deliberately JUNKED by major retailers, WASTED by commercial Criminals.

“Within a few moments the cops were called to prevent the display of proceeds of Human Waste Crime.

“Fortunately, Ian Gillfillan, a local MP stepped in, to prevent the WASTE exposers from being arrested or fined for fashion parading this stream of Human Commercial Waste.

“WASTE IS A CRIME.

“Collectors are continuing the traditional ancestral ways of hunter-gatherer Society.

“We are NOT an Human Economy - We are a Society.
We are NOT the property of Human Services - We are Free People - Private Citizens.

“And Bugger-off ALL Buggers.”

Anonymous 
29 October 2018

(above) Relationships Australia gave bad advice saying Head Space in Port Adelaide gave away free food to anyone who turned up. This was a bum steer discovered by The Night Stalker and another man who arrived at Head Space one afternoon last week. Head Space is for 12-25 year-old clients and effectively a women's psychiatric centre. However, to avoid a confrontation with the renowned The Night Stalker, staff allowed the men to help themselves. The canned corn had a Best-By date of January 2018 though the Bio-dynamic Farms camembert and butter was in-date and excellent. Note: Bum steers and humiliation is part of being poor.

Peter Lyndon-James’s
​Shalom House

​Many of those in the audience at Peter’s Lyndon-James’s three-hour lecture at Gospel City Church in Munno Para last Monday might have been surprised. Many had expected a tearful evening listening to tales of young men and women laid low by the scourge of crystal methamphetamine(Ice).
 
But, no. Peter Lyndon-James talked about the dark force that must be expelled from families of light. This dark force was anyone addicted to drugs, particularly crystal methamphetamine. He said it was the evilest drug ever to hit the face of the earth. And he should know. He was a major Perth dealer and user of the substance.
 
Thus, Shalom House, Peter’s drug and alcohol rehabilitation establishment in the Swan Valley outside Perth operates as a strict boot camp. Participants must be totally committed and already hit rock bottom.  
 
Rehabilitation for the addicts includes coming to terms with their pasts, reconnecting with families (if they are healthy), working and getting off Centrelink payments. Also, paying off debts, but not those owed to drug dealers. Being rehabilitated at Shalom House includes shaving of the head and removal of all piercings.
 
Another rule is that men must not piss on the ceramic rim of the toilets. He said this is disrespectful of women and that such respect is part of rehabilitating oneself. During the break in his lecture at Gospel City Church, he checked their toilets. Improvement needed, he said.  
 
Admission to Shalom House is no easy feat. For example, when an Adelaide addict phoned, he was told to phone again in two weeks, then again in a further two weeks. After more run-around, Shalom House phoned one morning and told him to be in Perth that night. No excuses accepted.
 
Peter told us that healthy families should cast their crystal meth addicted members from the family home before they poisoned the others. The family should warn extended relatives not to help the addict because offers of food and rest would only extend a lifestyle that caused misery and supported a criminal network. Peter says the addict should hit rock-bottom as soon as possible because only from there can true rehabilitation begin. He implied that most drug rehab joints merely extend the misery caused by the addicts.
 
He’s correct there. Success rates at the government-funded rehabilitation joint at Glenside Hospital in Adelaide has a nearly zero per cent success rate. And it involves three full-time employees per 24 hours for each patient.
 
Peter’s claim that an addict will poison his or her healthy family is paralleled at the Hutt Street Centre and Baptist Westcare where the drug dealers and junkies currently spread their sickness onto homeless people seeking help.
 
Shalom House operates with 100 paid staff and volunteers over 14 sites and doesn’t receive government or corporate funding. Most workers are ex-addicts. Peter said that he accepts from every hundred applications just one person to work at Shalom House, even without pay.
 
He says that each time he learns a new aspect of operating Shalom House, he teaches it to others so there are five on the staff able to fill his role, if necessary.
 
Shalom House currently houses 140 patients, mostly men plus a few families. He refuses admittance to people who haven’t hit rock bottom and are not totally committed to getting off every drug, including beer.
 
Peter hates religion, but believes God is the light within and which is in constant battle with darkness, which in this case is drug use and its attendant evils.
 
Yet he isn’t a ‘lock ‘em up and throw away the key’ type of man. He told the audience that mandatory prison sentencing for drug addicts with an ounce of crystal methamphetamine is wrong. He said one ounce is a normal amount purchased by junkies who sell to fund their own addiction. He said that putting such addicts amongst more evil prisoners will spread the darkness and the addicts emerging from prison will carry and spread this darkness to others. As an example of remorseless inmates, Peter held up his knee and mimicked hitting it with a hammer. He said that some prisoners would do this to someone and suffer no remorse.
 
And Peter Lyndon-James isn’t any pussy-footing academic or social worker. As a child, his family fell apart when his father slept with their 15-year-old babysitter. His father disappeared and his mother lived with various men who raped and beat her to a pulp, which Peter witnessed. He said a child shouldn’t have seen his mother covered in blood and put in numerous perverted sexual positions.
 
As a nine-year-old, he became an inmate in a boys’ prison from where he graduated to small crimes then onto becoming a major crystal methamphetamine dealer in Perth. And we could tell this was true. Peter’s speech is slurred from brain damage caused by crystal methamphetamine, which makes Shalom House even more of a miracle.
 
Peter Lyndon-James told the audience that he has been married 28 years and says what sustained him was his wife’s parents being kind to both of them throughout their drug ordeal.
 
An older woman in the audience noted this contradicted Peter’s earlier assertion that addicts should be thrown from the family home. Peter couldn’t deliver the complex response to this apparent contradiction and talked about the Bible, upon which some of audience walked out.
 
However, the woman forgave him because the larger picture is his successful drug rehab program. She was right. Shalom House should be the future response to the crystal methamphetamine epidemic because the current models of law enforcement, prevention and rehabilitation have clearly failed.
 
27 October 2018

(above) Peter Lyndon-James is reputed to have 140 participants at his drug withdrawal campus in the Swan Valley outside Perth. And it costs the government practically nothing.

Elizabeth soup kitchen woman last week

The old woman at the soup kitchen said she’d never had cancer. It had been a brain tumour. Surgery took 12 hours. She was in hospital for three months then twelve in a nursing home.
 
Her husband looked after her. He’d brought the money into their marriage. He began “spending it like water” when they finally left the nursing home, that is, until she put a stop to it.
 
Then he got sick and on his dying bed, he asked that she not waste their assets. She didn’t.
 
She told me she hasn’t touched any of it and will leave it to the government. I asked why she won’t leave it to charity, such as the one running the soup kitchen we were at. She looked around us and said, “What, and these bums getting it.”
​
25 October 2018

(above) Second Bite vans at their warehouse on Duncan Road, Dry Creek. Second Bite is supplied by Coles and Aldi. Second Bite gives away everything for free including frozen and grocery items. The manager at Second Bite at Dry Creek is somewhat temperamental.

From the anonymous Contact Page
 
“I find it puzzling that you can 'know' and write all about what goes on in Playford Salvos yet get it so wrong time after time.

“I'm sure that the Corps Officer would appreciate the chance to set the record straight about so many things you've written about the Corps within your very informative but often misinformed, blog.

“Why don't you go knock on his open door instead of getting info from secondary sources. Good journalists always go for Primary source info over secondary 'hearsay'...but that's if they’re interested in finding out the truth of matters. 

“Truth...as they say, can be hard to find but that's because people prefer sensationalism nowadays...knowing that it doesn't engender outrage at the givers of assistance if the real truth is told...and what keeps the blog going.?
 
“Followers who like to be told that all is not well in the Welfare system/s that they attend...yep...not always perfect I concede but if given the truth it may come with a bit of understanding how hard it can be in this arena...but so many helping and doing their utmost to see people better served in the community...rather than the few who may just sit back and type blogs with suspect information.... if you get my drift. 

“So...knock on a door...ask the person who knows what's going on...not depending on stories passed on to you. 

Cheers mate.” 
 
Name and email supplied
 
From the Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer:

Been there, done that for thirty years. Thousands of phone calls. Hundreds of emails. Hundreds of personal visits. Hundreds of letters. The responses were: We didn’t receive your letter; the person you seek is out of the office; put your request in writing, or, how dare you turn up and expect us to speak to you. Actual interviews gained were choreographed pantomimes of evasion, humiliation and discouragement.
 
Exceptions to the above were David Secomb of WestCare, Ian Cox of the Hutt Street Centre, Paul Nicholas of the Wright Court Day Centre and others, but that wouldn’t be the case today. Clients of welfare centres are far more reliable for information than paid employees with vested interests. And most volunteers are forced to sign legal contracts agreeing not to disclose what they see happening in their work.
 
As to Adelaide Homeless Journal getting it wrong, why don’t you send your corrections of errors on this webpage? Accuracy is important. 95% of corrections and differing opinions are posted here, usually under the posting of what the correspondent says is the inaccurate report. Thanks for taking the time to write.
 
25 October 2018

Anglicare’s free Food Bank vouchers
 
Anglicare Elizabeth offers six “emergency” food vouchers a year for people having trouble with their finances.
 
Applicants must have a Centrelink Health Care Card. Appointments for that day are taken by phone from 9:00am and are gone by 9:15am. It is a competitive process.
 
Anglicare requires that applicants produce a little story. This will be excruciating for new people, but old hands know the magic words and can reel them off in their sleep. 
 
Anglicare employees might ask how you spent your previous fortnight’s welfare money and do you have lots of expenses this fortnight. Bringing a few receipts will help.
 
Lots of people applying for “extra assistance” have genuine needs such as life-threatening illnesses that require expensive medications and disability aids.
 
Those with illnesses who get NewStart payments have an even harsher life, especially if they pay private rent.
 
Generally, those who suffer the most are those unable to negotiate the complexity of the welfare system, or who cannot face the humiliation. Also, those who refuse to use drugs, which excludes them from cheap welfare housing.
 
People with self-respect and who tell the truth are also at a disadvantage. And anyone who refuses to collect Centrelink payments is treated as mentally deficient.
 
Anglicare’s phone number is 1800 061 551.

25 October 2018

(above) Anglicare in the Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth provides free lunch Monday to Friday at 11:30am and free breakfast from Monday to Wednesday at 9:00am. What they really need are a couple of decent showers for people living outside. And to fix the busted tampon machine.

Anti-poverty network
 
The Network attempts to ligitimise itself in the eyes of welfare and political authorities. You can’t blame them for that. Their strategy is to play it safe and not offend those with power. This will come at a cost until they become so self-censoring that they become irrelevant.
 
One of the first temptations at conformity will be resisting bribes. The government or a large government-funded charity will offer to slip them a half-salary to an approved employee who will keep a lid on dissent, and the truth of what is happening.
 
25 October 2018

Gospel City changes times
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para has changed its Thursday free food opening time from 1 November 2018. The new time is 10:00am, one hour earlier than previously.
 
Gerry the Elder said this is to streamline the Thursday and Saturday times.
 
They gave away Second Bite Brussels Sprouts last month that were mouldly.
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para (formerly Life Church)
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am - 11:00am
Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time.
​
25 October 2018

A convenient untruth
 
“It’s everywhere,” people say when someone complains of Ice addicts wreaking havoc on their neighbourhood.
 
But it isn’t everywhere. You don’t see stick-thin addicts walking the streets of Stonyfell, Springfield and Beaumont. When people in the richer suburbs begin destroying themselves on drugs, they gravitate or are sent to Elizabeth, Devoren Park, Hackham West or the Housing Trust units at Gilberton.
 
25 October 2018

Pressure mounts on Pam
 
Pam’s tenancy officer told her to get rid of her cats. She may keep Gracie, Pinkie and Ginger, but the rest have got to go including the one with three kittens.
 
Meanwhile, Dean the Dresser was drinking alcohol at her house then suddenly “went off at her”, then stormed out.
​
25 October 2018

From the Contact Page

“Great Diabetic Discourse given by Night Talker.
We want more (less)
We want more (less)
Thanks.”

25 October 2018

(above) Filthy lounge chairs dumped outside the Salvation Army in Elizabeth East. This was a calculated attack. In a statement of contempt, the assailants brought floor sweepings to dump outside the building.

(above) The Salvation Army has reaped scorn from the underclass by running government work-for-the-dole programs that often result in the underclass losing their welfare income. Somewhat ironically, the Army has enlisted an elderly work-for-the-dole man to chop up the furniture below so it will fit into their rubbish bins.

Riffraff barnstorm Head Space
 
Two elderly men walked into the Head Space psychiatric unit on St Vincent Street in Port Adelaide last week. They asked for free food.
 
Psychiatric staff and clients, all women, were stunned at the intrusion. You could hear a pin drop.
 
Staff nervously directed the men to racks in the kitchen where they liberated BD-farms camembert and butter plus a range of elderly canned foods.
 
Head Space is restricted to people aged 12 to 25, but Relationships Australia hadn’t known that.  Relationships Australia in Port Adelaide had given one of them a bum steer. But the two men appeared either pathetic or deranged lunatics that Head Space staff decided to appease.
 
Getting bum steers is part and parcel of being in the underclass. Head Space hasn’t worked out their criteria on who gets their free food.
 
Head Space (Head Lice)
78 St Vincent Street
Port Adelaide. Phone 8215 6340.
24 October 2018

Food Bank cancels Port Wakefield
 
A correspondent reports that Food Bank has cancelled its deliveries to the old Baptist Church opposite the primary school at Port Wakefield.

24 October 2018

Heart and Soul data collecting
 
Heart and Soul have commenced on-going data collection of clients’ personal details. A Health Care Card and registration is required to access both their ‘past the Best-By date’ food for sale and the free stuff.
 
Eman Rahim enters your personal details into a database that will be sent to either Food Bank or the government. Another woman ink-marks your hand using a rubber-stamp. The primary reason is to collect data for ongoing funding.
 
Eman appears happy in her job, but for how long?  The unpleasant truth will eventually sink in that the government is reeling in her good intentions like fish on a hook. Instead of helping people only, she will find herself delivering her clients to the government’s eternal database.
 
Heart and Soul free food
Queenstown Community Centre on Mondays from 6.00pm at 67 Spring Street. Queenstown.
Para Districts Masonic Centre on Wednesdays from 7pm at 77 Philip Highway, Elizabeth South. (except 30th October & 13th November when markets will be held on Tuesday)
Two Wells on Fridays from 11:30am at Two Wells Uniting Church, 34 Gawler Rd, Two Wells.
Hackham West on Saturdays from 12.30pm at Hackham Primary School, 50 Glynville Dr, Hackham West.
 
They require a Health Care Card and registration that includes an ink stamp on your hand and your details entered into a mysterious database. Addresses and times change frequently. Phone 0411 962 337 or www.heartandsoulinc.org.au or register for email or facebook updates. It is wise to arrive early on first visit.
24 October 2018

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Comment on Heart and Soul

"From what I've witnessed it's both.
Collecting tickets then again in line with reaching in front of others to grab food.
It's a lot more organized than other food places. 
Puddle jumpers is chaos. With each family member including kids grabbing whatever they can."

24 October 2018

Parents Next
 
From the anonymous contact page.

“In reply to the story about the single mother [Martin Meffert?] going missing and no checks from Centrelink. With the introduction of Parents Next there is no way this will happen.
 
“My youngest is under 1 year old and because I missed one of my obligations my payments were immediately cut. Nothing as humiliating as having your payment declined in the chemist while trying to buy medicine and nappies.
 
“I figured they wouldn't want my sick child at playgroup and my payments were cut. So I had to drive to Elizabeth With my crying child to prove she was in fact sick before my payment was made.
 
“I understand Parents Next would be good for some but I was already attending this playgroup, so all it means for me is extra meetings with my kids in tow and having to remember to report every fortnight.
 
“Not really sure how this is getting me job ready? But it will certainly stop people taking others income unless they plan to suddenly take on all of their obligations.”
​
​Name supplied.
24 October 2018

Alana, Queen of the cubicles
 
A former security guard was at Anglicare Elizabeth getting financial advisor, Alana, to fix up automatic deductions for gas and electricity.
 
He said she was a top worker and that Anglicare tried to do its best for its customers.
​
24 October 2018

Anti-poverty week at Elizabeth Anglicare

The police parked a patrol car in front of the church then turned on its siren to impress three or four kids present. But rather that attract people, the police presence discouraged many of the usual clients, for obvious reasons.
 
A woman from a television station stood next to a camera mounted on a tripod. It pointed towards diners sitting at tables in the barbecue area. She wanted to video and interview a man, but he refused. He said he was “under protection”.
 
There was more tension in the air. Anglicare C.E.O., Peter Sandeman, was on the prowl. He can smell a media camera within 500 metres, but it was when he caught sight of the lens that he really went wild. He ducked and weaved through a crowd that sensed his intent and stepped aside. The wise among them know never to stand between a camera and Mr Peter Sandeman.
 
Meanwhile, the man “under protection” was being questioned by his minder, some sort of parole officer or social worker. A woman next to them was offended for the man, that his personal affairs were being discussed in public. But that’s the nature of welfare bureaucracy these days: bureaucrats insisting on meeting clients in public areas to discuss very personal issues.
 
The barbecue food was served outside because welfare bureaucrats had taken over the Food Barn. Due to their presence, it was somewhat of a dead zone so Anglicare bureaucrats dragged in clients from elsewhere to build up the numbers.  
 
The bureaucrats included the Tenants Information Advisory Service who didn’t have any coffee mugs to give away. Two Centrelink employees stood behind a table not knowing what to do. I asked a question of Head Space and was pounced on with a short lecture on how to access their psychiatric services. That’s the problem with government psychiatry. It’s like a used car yard where one tiny question prompts a barrage of irrelevant information. Welfare Rights were at the next table. They lost most of their funding despite being – or possibly because – they produced results on minimal government funding.
 
The HepatitisSA lady naively gave away key rings with a whistle and a weak red light. What a joke. A real druggy like Robyn the Junkie smacks someone in the face, zaps them with a Taser then turns on her shrieking duress alarm supplied by the Hutt Street Centre. Then, as the police arrive, she bursts into tears and loud crying to portray herself as the victim. What a class act!
 
There was a free hairdresser in the private rental advisory room while the front desk lady issued vouchers for articles of new clothing from a van parked at the back of the building. But these were semi-secretive offers that only the initiated clients saw. Dependable clients who support Anglicare by going there every day and building up client statistics.
 
A band comprising of very old people played near the busted tampon machine. Two police women stood to one side. One was small and smiled innocently while the other was large and barely restrained herself from kicking the testicles of each passing male.
 
A woman in the band used the words “not just a pretty face”. But her face resembled a round of failed chemotherapy. This previously would have sent me running for the hills, but now left me in awe. Many elderly women hide away in front of televisions with blister packs of medication, but she faces life on the full.
 
I walked into the Way Café where they serve free breakfasts three days a week. For the Anti-poverty week celebration, it had been commandeered to offer free tea and scones, but also for a kids’ activity area. The old women behind the counter gave me hostile glares so I backed out the door and fled the scene.
 
That was a mistake because the next day at Fred’s Van, various diners said it had been an excellent celebration, much better than the previous year. Nevertheless, many were offended by the TV camera. An elderly woman who once worked in nursing said she didn’t want people to know she went to Anglicare. But she was impressed seeing Peter Sandeman in person.

Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.

22 October 2018

Hoarding
 
from the Night Talker
 
“In response to hoarding, a nice little earner for social workers.

“I am sorry, but normally I enjoy reading what is put up on this site and in turn, have made a number of written contributions myself. (Which most of you, would be well aware of) But the most recent article in relation to Hoarding, is so misguided, it verges on the pathetic, it is also HIGHLY OFFENSIVE!

“I am a qualified social worker (and have been for some years) I am also qualified in other areas (criminology, community sector management, training and assessment, mental health, disability and counselling) so I think, I have some ability to discuss psycho-social and other related mental health conditions, that affect certain individuals.

“Hoarding, is defined as a mental health condition and it is also a very complex disorder, where there is no instant solution of medical treatment/cure. However, your comment about hoarders living a long life, is not correct. Many hoarders begin hoarding because at some point, they have become socially isolated and socially immobile (e.g. they won't or can't go out) Usually this is a combination of mental health and physical issues, that tends to start around the age of 50. (Few identified hoarders are under the age).
 
“This inability to seek assistance affects their physical health because most hoarders will not have regular health check ups or seek assistance, when ill (this includes visits to dentists or other health professionals such as optometrists and audiologists. A decline in eyesight, hearing and dental health, then adds to whatever other health problems they already have. Then combine this with family members who stop visiting because the hoarders home has become a tip (e.g. a rubbish bin with a roof and windows) and you have a very unsafe, unhealthy and detrimental environment.
 
“Now add children, animals and or other family members to this mix and you have a completely untenable, living situation. More often that not, people who have passed away in their homes without anyone noticing (and been there for sometime in a deceased state, are or were hoarders in their later life.) 

“Furthermore, you clearly have not done any research into this subject matter because if you had, you would have realised that in the first instance, a notification of hoarding (be it by police or DCP or SAHT) has to be investigated by a Registered Health Inspector and NOT a social worker! (This is been the case in this state, since 1900!)
 
“All health inspectors now come under the Local Government Act and are employed by Councils. There role is to inspect a property and make a determination as to whether what they have viewed, violates codes in regards to health and safety within the community. If this is the case, then the Inspector (and or inspectors) must send written notification to the owner in regard breaches (this is not an automatic process) If children and animals are involved, then respective agencies must be contacted under mandated notification and respective animal cruelty legislation (e.g. child protection and the RSPCA).

“I have been inside of homes of hoarders where there has been the following; dead and dying animals, starving/abused children, human and animal faeces, vomit, mice and rats, fleas/bedbugs, flies, rotting rubbish, overflowing toilet/s sump oil poured all over the floor, piles of newspapers almost touching the ceiling, thousands of cans, drink bottles filled with urine, thousands of magazines (so many, they blocked out the sun coming through the windows) and so on.
 
“I want to make one final comment, collecting and hoarding are two distinct and different things. Collectors will prize what they collect and (usually) make every effort to collate, and store their collections, in a neat and ordered way. They will also change their collection from time to time and buy and swap, as they please.
 
“Hoarders on the other hand, hoard for the simple reason they can and often what they hoard, has no intrinsic value or useful purpose (e.g. 5000 plastic bread labels are just that) Hoarders more o ften than not, leave items to rot and decay where they have been placed (inside and outside of the home) and cannot get rid of items, they are collecting (They mentally cannot do this).
 
“In the case of animal hoarding, there is no real love for the animals (seriously, how does one divide time and affection between say 200 cats and or 75 dogs?) They see the animals as possessions and collection as their right, as owners. Anyone that has worked to clear homes after notification of animal hoarding, will tell you that the animals rescued, have "always" been in appalling condition.

“Oh and I just want to add, where you actually think that money can be made from hoarding as most hoarders hoard rubbish (and I literarily mean rubbish) (e.g. everything from rotting rubbish, to tin cans to mouldy old newspapers) The removal of these items costs thousands of thousands of dollars (which us taxpayers often have to pay) but I have not heard of one single social worker getting rich from this stuff? If that was the case, then I would have been a millionaire, several times over by now.”

The Night Talker.

Editor: The Night Talker was responding to “Hoarding: a nice little money earner for social workers” posted on 12 October 2018 

​22 October 2018

(above) The 89-year-old Kill Box Lady last Friday moved to a Housing Trust property with an invalid ramp. The property was recently taken over by Anglicare. She said an Anglicare employee said that her old unit (pictured above) would not be filled with a new tenant.

(above) This retirement unit in the same group of 16 as the Kill Box Lady has been empty for six weeks.

(above) This unit in the same group of 16 was vacated four months ago by its 90-year-old tenant. Anglicare initially said it was being kept empty in case the old girl wanted to return. However, this story didn't seem true as her furniture and possessions had been removed with days of her departure.

(above) This unit in the same group of 16 was vacated six months previously. Anglicare said they couldn't find anyone to rent it despite it costing $142 a week less $61 rent assistance and including water and grass cutting. A neighbour said the 16 one-bedroom units were to be demolished and replaced by 23 two-bedroom units. The elderly tenants are been kept confused by Anglicare's cult of secrecy. Anglicare should be open and respectful to these senior citizens, despite them being poor and living in Elizabeth. Meanwhile, two elderly women tenants have each spent $500 over the past six weeks improving their gardens.

People their own worst enemies

​from the Night Talker

“People their own worst enemies, despite charities assistance.

“I stood near what appeared to be a middle aged lady, at a Heart and Soul event in Elizabeth South, earlier this year. The lady spoke in angry tones about how her G.P. had chastised her for not following a specific diet and exercise program, in light of her diagnosis of Insulin Dependent Diabetes.
 
“Trying to look as incognito as possible, I glanced across at her and saw that she was morbidly obese, had a very unhealthy skin tone and her feet and ankles were swollen and covered in diabetic ulcers. Listening further, she told her companion that she could no longer feel her feet (this is a sign of diabetic neuropathy, where the excess sugar in the blood, begins to corrode and damage the veins in the lower parts of the body and what Piano Player Wayne has).
 
“Clearly this woman was also in quite a lot of discomfort as she constantly moved from one foot to the other, to relieve the pain, radiating from her lower limbs. 

“I lost track of her after my own ticket number was called and did not see her again, until I had collected my produce and headed for my car. Whilst I was walking back to car, I passed her once more.
 
“She was carrying two five litre containers of "hokey pokey" ice-cream, several packets of chips, and poking out the top of the shopping trolley she was pulling with her free hand, were a couple of tins of condensed milk. Her (equally obese and unhealthy looking companion) was carrying similar items.
 
“Both were animatedly discussing the caramel, Sunday deserts they were going to make, once they got home? I seriously had to bite my tongue to stop myself from verbally shouting at both of these individuals. (It is after all, about individual freedoms and individual choice) But at the same time, "blind-Freddy" could see, ice-cream and condensed milk, is the last thing these individuals needed and their ability to make sound judgement choices about healthy eating is just not switched on.
 
“They furthermore were spending whatever money they had (both were clearly poor) on unhealthy rubbish, when they could have got as much vegetables and fruit they needed, free of charge. That coupled with some chicken or lean mince (which they could have purchased at the venue, at a reduced cost) would have made an excellent, healthy tasting (and low cost) meal, that with some foresight, could be stretched over a couple of days.

“The food might be free, but the health costs associated with eating this kind of low fibre, high sugar, high fat and salt content food, comes at a VERY high price to taxpayers and the Health System, which has to run diabetes and obesity clinics 24/7, to try and cope with the every increasing number of patients, diagnosed with poor lifestyle management, related diseases.

“Food for thought.”

The Night Talker. 
20 October 2018

Housing Trust at Mellor Court, Gilberton

from The Rundle Spy

"Housing Trust replaced its tenants at Mellor Court in Gilberton with prisoners fresh from the slammer, druggies straight from detox and others subject to Home Detention. The result was increased violence, drug overdoses and thefts in both Mellor Court and surrounding streets. Was replacing the original tenants a political trick to get local home owners to urge the government to sell off the Mellor Court units?"

“Such an excellent expose' and question !

“Really, we want the "political trick"sters to be shaking in their pants (as residents subject to terrifying trepidation often do).

“SHAME HSA SHAME
SHAME Developers SHAME.”
 
The Rundle Spy
20 October 2018

Ziph Law

From the Anonymous Contact Page

“Can "Ziph Law" be used to explain how someone was shown

1. 911 swoop on Pentagon (28 years prior to 2001)
2. Chernobyl nuclear disaster (13 years prior to 1986)
3. Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger (13 years prior to 1986)

BEFORE these events happened ?

web search:

"Black Pearl 911 in 973"

P.S. Was also shown initial part of 32 year vacation in DownUnder (OZ) 13 years prior.

Inshalla...
Inshalla...
Inshalla...

Law of the Boomerang:

"What Goes Around Comes Around..."

just like 911.”
 
Anonymous contributor
20 October 2018
 

Cure for Hepatitis C at Anglicare
 
From the Contact Page

“There is finally a cure for Hep C. Anglicare Elizabeth has Free Fibroscans and the federal government has made medication which stops Hep C in its tracks on the PBS and wants 20,000 people to take up the offer so if you have Hep C ring Anglicare Reception on 82094500 and make an appointment with the liver care nurse Lucy. She attends Anglicare the 2nd Friday of every month from 10.30am - 2.30pm.”
 
19 October 2018

Martin Meffert murder at Terowie

​by the Night Talker
 
“Centrelink needs to be more accountable to the whereabouts and or general safety of it's disability and single mother recipients, so horrific stories like the one below, do not continue to happen......

“In the news, we hear of yet another Murder that has happened in South Australia. Martin Meffert, a mentally challenged 23 year old, and DSP recipient, went missing from his "cousins" house in Terowie, sometime in 2005.
 
“Martin allegedly had the mental capacity of a small child, was physically frail and was estranged from family and friends, due to challenging behaviours and a transient lifestyle.
 
“It is alleged that his cousin (who was 16 at the time) murdered Martin and then with a female accomplice, was alleged to have continued to draw out Martin's intellectual disability pension from an ATM in Peterborough for the next 13 years! (I would love to see the file on this particular individual at Centrelink and ask what kind of checks and balances were being done, in regards what processes were put in place to validate that $136,000 in payments, was actually being paid to the right person!).
 
“In chillingly similar circumstances, teenage unwed mother Karly Peirce-Stevenson left the N.T. home of her mother and (defacto) step-father for a transient lifestyle, with her infant daughter in tow.
 
“Estranged from her mother and remaining family, she moved around Australia in a hand to mouth fashion, being evicted from numerous caravan parks and temporary accommodation sites, before making the fatal mistake of enamouring herself to 47 year old unemployed pervert and serial wife-beater, Daniel Holdom.
 
“It is alleged that sometime in 2007, Daniel murdered Karly and her illegitimate 3 year old daughter. After the murders, it is alleged that Daniel Holdom and an older female accomplice, began withdrawing Karly’s unmarried mother's pension.
 
“In all it is believed that they managed to withdraw in excess of $100,000. (This went on from 2007 until 2017, when Police were finally able to piece together the circumstances surrounding the death of Karly and her daughter, and subsequently arresting Daniel Holdom and his female accomplice.)
 
“Until that time, there were no red flags raised by Centrelink and I assume no requirements for Karly to present herself in person to a Centrelink branch. (Any of this, would have alerted Centrelink staff to the fact that something was up). 

“This amazes and saddens me, because if there had been some simple checks and balances put in place, their would have been a much quicker response to the disappearance of Karly, her daughter and Martin Meffert.
 
“Sadly, nobody reported Martin missing and in Karly's case, her mother reported her missing a week after she failed to phone her, but then withdrew the missing person's report shortly afterwards, stating that this silence was in line with her daughter, overall transient nature, anti-social behaviours, coupled with a disinterest in remaining in touch with her family.

“Perhaps centrelink raising alarm bells on recipients who fail to contact them after a certain amount of time, may not have saved either of these persons, both were adults (at least chronologically speaking) and both had choice and control over their own lifestyles, ― however badly they turned out ―but a simple voice biometric system would have alerted Centrelink, if the recipients of these payments were (at the time) required to call or login at least once every couple of weeks.
 
“As well as this, a simple risk assessment, would have put these two recipients at the top of the list, in regards vulnerability and or inability to make sound judgement choices. (aka it would not take a genius to work out that if they were to go missing, few people (if any) would alert authorities to this.

“What is more disturbing, is this is not the first time, that this kind of opportunistic murder/s has happened in South Australia. The "Bodies in the Barrels" serial murderers carried out the exact same acts as mentioned above. They continued to withdraw the disability pensions of their victims for years after the murders had taken place.

“As I said, Centrelink, you need to be held accountable, that payments are going to the right people and put checks and balances in place to ensure that as time passes, this is still happening. Those recipients on newstart, sickness benefit, youth allowance and carers benefit are all required to either report fortnightly or respond to requests, for further information or present themselves physically to a centrelink office if requested to do so. Some kind of system that requires DSP and aged pensioners to check in (even if its just to verify they are still alive in the most basic circumstances) needs to be happening as well. This will I believe go someway to preventing what has already been explained above.”

The Night Talker
19 October 2018

Gospel City Church free food
 
Jean broke her arm at midnight. She fell. Her bones are weak from chemotherapy. She doesn’t feel sorry for herself. Her husband, Harry the Dogger, said it was lucky she’d been dressed. Jean smiled at that. They face their decline with dignity.
 
Gospel City hadn’t had bread or pastries for two weeks, but last week got bread. They pulled doughnuts from the freezer. They still had boxes of frozen prawns leftover from the previous week. Fruit and vegetables were in short supply. Some weeks, it seems hardly worth driving to Second Bite at Dry Creek to pick it up.
 
Gospel City Church at Munno Para (formerly Life Church)
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm. Saturdays 10:00am - 11:00am
Health Care Card or a good story required. Free.
Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Best to arrive before opening time.
19 October 2018

(above) Anglicare's free food shelves left outside 24/7 at 60 Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove (next to the demolished Elizabeth Grove shopping centre). No registration required, just help yourself.

(above) The 89-year-old Kill Box Lady has moved out. Anglicare wouldn't install a ramp for her. However, Anglicare had no problem rushing a technician to other tenants with TV reception problems. The technician climbed onto their roofs, removed tiles and replaced aerials. No problems. No expense spared. No charge to tenants.

Paracetamol debunked as a treatment for Hepatitis C

from The Night Talker

“Re: reply to comment that taking one paracetamol tablet a day reduces the symptoms of HEP C?

“Paracetamol (or acetaminophen N-acetyl-P amino phenol or APAP) should NEVER be used by people with compromised livers! This medication has well known toxic effects in "anyone" who overdoes on this drug (without fairly prompt medical treatment, overdose victims will die within a week, from complete liver failure).
 
“In patients with diseases of the liver (HEP A, B, C, Cirrhosis of the Liver, raised liver enzymes etc) this drug is NOT recommended because one of the effects of liver damage (aka a compromised liver) is that a key enzyme that is usually present is missing. This enzyme is needed to break down the paracetamol, so it can harmlessly be excreted out of the body via urine and sweat. In patients with compromised livers, this no longer happens and taking paracetamol on a continual basis may result in this drug reaching toxic levels within their bodies.

“Finally anyone who tests positive to any kind of Hepatitis but especially HEP B and C needs to seek prompt and ongoing medical treatment to prevent long term liver damage and everything that comes with this medical condition. There are effective medications out there.” 

The Night Talker. 
18 October 2018

Opaque Anglicare
 
An Anglicare employee explained why a unit in our group of 16 has been vacant for six months. She said no one wanted to rent it.
 
This one-bedroom unit rents for $142 a week and this includes water and grass cutting. With rent assistance for those on a pension, the price drops to $81 a week.
 
That no one wants to rent this clean unit with a split-system air conditioner is unbelievable. Especially since Anglicare has a huge waiting list of people desperate for housing.
 
Another unit has been vacant for over three months. Anglicare said this unit was left empty in case the former 90-year-old female tenant might want to return from her nursing home. That the unit was emptied within days of her departure, and her furniture dispersed, makes this reason appear another lie.
 
A third unit has been empty for seven weeks.
 
The fourth unit was occupied by the 89-year-old Kill Box Lady. She moved last Friday to an Anglicare unit in another suburb. An Anglicare employee was quoted as saying of the Kill Box Lady’s unit, “We aren’t going to fill it.”
 
A rumour being spread by a Housing Trust tenant across the road is that our 16 units will be demolished and replaced by 23 two-bedroom units.
 
If this is true, then Anglicare has a responsibility to tell us, especially the two tenants who have spent five-hundred dollars over the past six weeks improving their gardens.
 
The problem of Anglicare, and most other government-funded housing corporations, is the cult of secrecy. They’re hiding something from us. What could it be?
 
18 October 2018

New Anglicare free fruit and vegetables

Small amounts of fruit and vegetables are left on the racks outside the Anglicare office at Elizabeth Grove. Supply is refreshed intermittently. Remaining food is left out overnight, but is usually gone by sunrise.
 
There are no requirements to register or ask permission to take it. Amazing.
 
Anglicare free food
60 Fairfield Road
Elizabeth Grove
(next to the demolished Elizabeth Grove shopping centre)
17 October 2018
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S.A. Housing Trust at Gilberton

“Great coverage of Hell Hole known as Elliott Lodge. Could name and shame and blame but won’t. Enough shame and blame will accorded by Law of Nature (Law of the Boomerang).
Death sentence given (me) a few years ago has not been carried out... yet...”

“Trepidation is a common symptom borne by victims of HSA policies enacted at Elliott Lodge on multiple occasions. Also, there can be weakness in the knees, inability to stand or move while under attack / duress.

Has to be experienced be believed.

Hell on Earth at the Elliott Lodge is REAL...

REAL HELL.

Name and address known.
17 October 2018

Heart and Soul versus Bin Diving

​From the Night Talker

“Another reason to seriously consider BIN DIVING as a viable option...…(Heart and Soul now want ID)

“After reading the blog recently in regards Heart and Soul, now want everyone using their service to present ID (go figure?) because of alleged rorting?
 
“I concur with the most recent reader who has written, how will they know as to whether 71 or 7 have been twice and I will go further, that ticket number 7 is not living in the same house as ticket number 71, who might well be living in the same house as ticket number 12 (you see my point here?).
 
“Honestly, it is humiliating enough to have to stand there and wait and wait, and wait, for your number to be read out and then file through for old vegetables and have to pay for out of date produce (that's if you get into the building early enough (e.g. you are not ticket number 499).
 
“This organisation runs its venue like a kind of demented game show, where the only prize at the end of a long (and very uncomfortable wait) is some ageing fruit and vegetables and some out of date groceries?)

“Another reason to seriously consider BIN DIVING. It is less intrusive, asks for no ID, does not require any tickets and you decide when you need something (e.g. you can take it or leave it) 

“On a final note, I wonder once again, who gets best/first dibs on the produce that is delivered as the quality of produce at practically all charity venues, appears to be seriously diminishing. The amounts also seem to be getting smaller and smaller.

“Perhaps like Foodbank and other food charities, the majority of funding is going to pay for staff and surrounding infrastructure (e.g. shiny new vans and colossal warehouses) and not going into purchasing and or distributing foods and other items to persons in need.”

The Night Talker.
17 October 2018

Blueberry conflict at St Bede’s
 
The sliced fruit platter looked more beautiful than ever. However, there is always trouble in paradise. A large man from the Semaphore Hostel grabbed the blueberries. He doesn’t refrain from pushing and shoving, but The Night Stalker stopped him.
 
He retreated to the hall and was about to play table tennis, but one player refused to play with him. He was further crushed.
 
One of Tom’s teenage relatives sat with him. So did Jayne, the new volunteer. They played cards. The large man felt a little better. He had grabbed the blueberries for a disabled elderly woman. However, because of the discord, staff have instituted collective punishment and there will not be any blueberries in future.
 
The blueberry man also works at Bronwyn Plate’s Free Food Basket at the Bower Cottages. Stifled by regulations, most charities find it difficult or impossible to engage SRF disabled people as volunteers. However, Bronwyn has broken that barrier.
 
Meanwhile, Liam offered to trade a lighter to Old Len, 80, for a smoke. Len gave it to him, anyway. Another man paid Len 35 cents for a smoke. Smoking at soup kitchens has become fraught with difficulties.
 
The two-minute noodles have run out. The storeroom was empty. Nor did the Food Bank vegetables arrive. However, Farmer Joe’s at Port Adelaide donated credit for the purchase of top quality food to use in the kitchen.
 
Jill Rivers is on two weeks holiday. A work-for-the-dole woman took charge. She’s a steady terminal.
 
The donated clothing was horrible. Nothing good coming in. Good for an “oil change,” the Night Stalker said.
 
Review for 3 October 2018
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road).
8: 30 - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bacon and eggs, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, cereals, slices of fruit, biscuits. Tea, coffee and Milo. Free clothing. Toilets. No I.D. required. Takeaway noodles, crackers, fruit and vegetables. Table tennis. No billiards: they sold the table. Ice dealers not tolerated.
17 October 2018

Nanna’s Free Food Basket

Eighteen people waited for the opening bell in the free fruit and vegetables section. Shane Whelan collected the dollar donations. Bruce was disappointed there wasn’t any bread.
Clients were disappointed at the reduced variety in the Food Bank sales section.

In the dining room, a zonked out Ice Comrade wanted one of Anne’s chocolate bars that she’d purchased in the Food Bank store. She said, “No.” He said, “That’s not very friendly…fat woman.”

He’d been hiding behind the cars earlier, possibly smoking cannabis, laced with Ice by his dealer to ensure a repeat customer.

Anne and most of us in the room have been going to similar soup kitchens for the past twenty years. We gave the Ice Comrade the cold shoulder ― especially The Night Stalker ― and he soon left.

The thick pea and ham soup was burnt. The cook had forgotten to stir it every minute. The potato salad and Coleslaw tasted rich. There were also barbecued hamburger patties and sausages. Dessert was jelly and canned fruit. Quite good.

There is a diabetes drug that creates atrocious bowel gas. A volunteer walked through the dining room waving a hat. Was she commenting on the stench? No, she was looking for the owner of the hat.

Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm.
Soup, coffee and meal served free.
Behind the Bower Cottages that are on the west end of the Causeway.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale.  No registration or I.D.
16 October 2018

Was Benevolent Mark expelled from City Salvos?

Rumours abound that Mark was kicked out because he’s too rich. He is not. He owns a unit, but his sister puts twenty-dollars a day into his bank account. Mark suffered an accident in childhood, but is fully coherent.
 
The second rumour is that he’d shouted at a woman who suggested he was spreading the flu. That was after he’d coughed.
 
Mark is sensitive and takes things to heart. If he’d been a violent Ice dealer, he’d be welcomed with open arms. Maybe he is still welcome at City Salvos.
 
Salvation Army Adelaide City
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street)
Monday to Friday. Free bread, fruit, vegetables and cold meat pies.
Some people take the cold meat pies to the Pilgrim Lounge for reheating.
No I.D. required.  Just walk in and take what you want. Theoretically 9:00-11:00am, but the best stuff is gone by 9:30am. Better stuff available if you sign up for an interview.
 
Wednesday evening program from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. Free. Currently, free haircuts. 
5:00 pm Tea, coffee, cordial, water.
6:00 pm Small meal, small dessert.
7:00 pm Occasional band performance.
 
Every Saturday
5:00pm Coffee, milo, tea, cordial and water
6:00pm Main meal and dessert
7:00pm Church service (voluntary)
8:00pm Games, table tennis, quiz, barista quality coffee, sweet buns, pizza at 9:00pm
Occasionally swags and blankets for those sleeping outside.
Fascinating high quality and dangerous guests and staff. Closes at 11:00pm.
Drug dealers outside. Some inside.
16 October 2018
 

(above) As with Mellor Court, the Housing Trust has replaced most tenants of Elliot Lodge in Park Terrace, Gilberton with those with drug and violence issues. The police and ambulance are called a few times a week. Life for the remaining non-issue tenants has become nearly impossible.

(above) Another day, another glass repair job at the Park Terrace, Gilberton Housing Trust units. This is the result of the so-called "Ice epidemic" and the government's 1980's "normalisation" policy of putting Glenside and Hillcrest hospital patients into public housing.

(above) Within this turmoil at the Park Terrace Housing Trust units, there are excellent tenants whose superior levels of kindness and tolerance can melt the arrogance of the rest of us.

Jason's mobility scooter
becomes Kill Dozer

Orange Sky Laundry were missing in action. They usually sneak through the carpark back of BankSA then through the gates into the courtyard. Such haphazard service is one of the demoralising experiences for people living in the homeless scene.
 
The volunteers cut cakes and warmed elderly pastries in the kitchen. When alone, one kitchen worker couldn’t resist testing a hot doughnut.
 
The takeaway free food room was virtually empty and without bread. It’s getting worse each week.
 
The queue in the dining room formed differently this week, giving slightly easier access to the coffee cart operated by two men of Catholic Vietnamese appearance. The meal included heated sausage rolls, roast chicken in an esoteric orange sauce, mashed potatoes, fresh salad, flavoured pasta, cake, custard and ice-cream. Everything was top quality. Respectful quality.
 
An amusing aspect was the volunteers once gain wearing gloves to serve the food in the hall, but not in the kitchen. Even the doughnut eater was in bare hands, which wasn’t really a problem for anyone.
 
Jason sat quietly in the dining room. He’d almost got himself killed riding his three-wheeled mobility scooter across an intersection. It has a nasty tendency to lock itself on full speed.  
 
After the meal, when he proceeded to negotiate the machine through the diners, it again switched onto full speed. It bucked like a bronco as Jason, who suffers MS, hung on for his life. The machine smashed into tables then bounced off the wall then into a set of chairs stacked against the wall. The tires screeched like an invalid burn-out on the Salisbury Institute hall floor.
 
Other diners grabbed him off the machine. He was shaking and said he’d never get on it again. A diner named Todd drove it home while Jason got a lift with another diner. The Horse Trainer lady gave Jason some sandwiches as a parting gesture.
 
Tricky Mick told Jason he’d give him a ride to Fred’s Van each Sunday until he got his new scooter.
 
At home, Jason said he’d gotten a big allocation from the N.D.I.S., but there was a delay getting approval for a four-wheel scooter.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building at 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (in the Salisbury Institute building next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, main meal, dessert, coffee and takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Orange Sky Laundry from 4:30pm to 6:30pm.
14 October 2018

From the Anonymous Contact Page 

"Why don’t Heart and Soul do what the Elizabeth Salvos did and get some bollards and create a queue? I remember the stampede that almost killed a worker on a Friday morning before the minister went and got some bollards to make people line up."

Name Supplied
15 October 2018

Free coffee and biscuits
​
The elderly women at St Paul’s Anglican church Op Shop at Port Adelaide offer free self-serve coffee from 10:00am to 2:00pm from Tuesday to Friday every week. The biscuit tin contains old and horrible, and fresh and homemade biscuits. There isn’t a nasty donation tin within sight. The elderly women are cultured and educated.
 
The atmosphere is quiet though last week two men paced through the racks of women’s clothes to confront another man about computer repairs. They threatened legal action and as they left, one said, “Have a bad day.” 
 
St Paul’s Port Adelaide free coffee
1 Church Place, Port Adelaide (behind Farmer Joe’s)
9:30am to 2:00pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Free coffee and usually biscuits in the hall.
14 October 2018

More on One Voice cold showers

“In response to one voice shower van....cold showers.

“The LCD temperature display you have spoken of, will NOT adequately heat the water, if the gas flow (e.g. gas jet) is set too low. The water is heated by going through a pipe that is heated by a gas flame. This process has NOT changed since gas heaters were first put on the commercial market for sale to the general public, in the 1920's. You cannot set the temperature higher, if the gas jet is set too low to heat the water going through it.

​"This is not a problem of the unit, (which you have stated is virtually new) This is the driver/operator deliberately not turning up the gas as the behest of his superiors to essentially save money. If you go around the outside of the van, you should be able to find where the gas bottles are located. This is the source of the problem. Not enough gas going into the system to adequately heat the water for the showers.”

Good Luck.

The Night Talker.
14 October 2018

How to pick higher status people in welfare charity magazines

If you’re ever having your photograph taken by a welfare industry photographer and you’re holding a coffee cup, then get rid of it. Hide it, throw it in the bushes, smash it on the floor, whatever. Just don’t have your image taken while holding that albatross.
 
Coffee cups are given to charity recipients in photo shoots to show they are of little consequence. Others in the photograph will be described by their full names, but you with the coffee cup will be given a first name only, like a dog or a cat. They’re called fluffy or woofy.
 
Rotting teeth are another problem. Don’t smile broadly and show your horrible welfare teeth. When the photographer says, “Smile” or “Cheese”, remember, it’s a trick and you should remain tight lipped.
 
14 October 2018

​On the Streets of Adelaide
 
“This was my fifth winter on the streets,” said the 50-year-old woman leaning against the picnic table under the soup kitchen gazebo. The eyes widened of a man who has lived outside as long. He hadn’t realised she lived outside, but others had seen her on the footpath in front of the Flinders Street bus station or in a nook at the Central Markets.
 
She talked about Hep C and emphasized that one paracetamol tablet a day reduces the symptoms of Hep C in some people. “Saves their lives,” she empathised, as if we weren’t listening.
 
She added that the critics of the Hutt Street Centre were newcomers and that “We were there first.” She also said that some critics of the Centre included clients who didn’t want to help themselves. 
 
“You get some of the worse people and some of the best people at the Hutt Street Centre,” she said.
 
*
 
A 63-year-old man does not use drugs, but he’s really sick. He said at a Fred’s Van said he’d not left the Gloucester Units in Elizabeth for eight days. His arthritis was too painful and he was depressed.
 
“We had seven overdoses during one-month last year,” he said. He’s tried for years to escape via a transfer to “anywhere”, but the Housing Trust doesn’t do transfers. He’s doomed until the units are knocked down and the residents shipped elsewhere.
 
*
 
A 70-year-old woman at the Food Barn said she asked her landlord, Anglicare, to install locks on her attic cover of her rental unit. She fears druggies will pull off the tiles and enter through the roof. Anglicare refused her request.
 
*
 
A 50-year-old man from the Riverland was eating lunch at Fred’s Van. He moved to Elizabeth to be near the Lyell McEwin Hospital. He’s got a bad heart. His new neighbours told him the tricks to getting free stuff, but he isn’t willing to go through the welfare humiliation to get it.
 
13 October 2018

(above) The Freemason's Hall on Philip Highway at Elizabeth South comes alive every Wednesday evening at 7:00pm with Heart and Soul's free food giveway. But things have changed and they now require I.D. with name and address. The question is whether they will add clients' names to an eternal data base.

(above) Some clients arrive at the Freemason's Hall 90 minutes before opening time and sit on the verandah.

Confused about Heart and Soul’s data collecting

From the Anonymous Contact Page

Comment

“I am a bit confused by Heart and Soul new rule to ask for ID showing address. How is that going to fix people shoving? And are they going to keep a record of who came or are they just checking to see if you live in the right location for the service? And how will they remember that number 1 and number 70 were from the same address? (so coming twice).

“Confused and worried about rules that mean nothing.”
 
From Anonymous
 
Editor: A critic of Heart and Soul suggested that the real reason is data collection in preparation for applying for a new government grant. The collected names and addresses might also go to Food Bank who also need them for grant applications.
13 October 2018

Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday
 
A pleasant well-spoken older man moved to another end of the bench. He couldn’t swing his body to the right to face the table so he moved to the other end and swung his body to the left. A stroke had left part of his body paralysed.
 
Another older man was subdued after a stranger driving a car had tried to “run me down” while he was walking to Fred’s Van. He wasn’t going to bother with the police, but he was worried.
 
A blue-eyed man, aged about 28, favoured his right hand. He didn’t remember doing it, but one finger had been broken. He said it had faced one direction so he grabbed it and pulled it straight. It was swollen, the skin broken, and black and purple.
 
A few diners appeared to be living outside, but weren’t carrying backpacks. The key to living outside is to appear not living outside.
 
The meal was hot dogs, spaghetti bolognaise, egg salad and fresh salad. Dessert was fermented buns with custard and ice cream. The buns were left untouched by many diners. The fresh salad ran out before every diner was served. An older woman asked us if we wanted the uneaten portion of spaghetti on her plate.
 
The takeaway bags ran out before everyone got one despite an old man ensuring that no one got more than one. Some diners didn’t bother to make an attempt. Others immediately poured out the contents and gave what they didn’t want to others.
 
It was a sad and pleasant lunch on a warm day when the volunteers didn’t give us the “bum’s rush” after the meal.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays.
13 October 2018

(above) A soup kitchen client is adamant that this pipe is not for sewerage ventilation, but for generators used to power the secret city underneath Elizabeth, South Austalia.

A hard word from Heart and Soul
 
“Hello Everyone,

“Starting tomorrow, and every free food market thereafter, you will need to show ID that has your name & address BEFORE entering our free food markets.

“NO ID, NO ENTRY..!

“We are so sick of receiving messages like this:


"’The last few weeks when trying to get a ticket I have had my feet stepped on, trollies jammed into the back of my heels, two people actually put both their hands on my shoulder and arms and forcibly pushed me aside so they could get their ticket before myself. This can be classed as an assault. Also people have realised that no one is collecting or monitoring tickets once they have been called out so people have just been joining the line or cutting in with friends.’”

“This behaviour is NOT TOLERATED & moving forward, if we see this happening, you will be banned from attending ANY of our free food markets.

“We will be starting a new ticket entry system tomorrow, it will be slower than normal, however it will shine a light on those people that cant seem to follow rules.

“It will not be in anyones best interests to heckle or harrass the volunteers at the door.. you will be asked to leave!

“If you have any issues or enquiries, pls msg me. However, please DO NOT message me about the NO ID rule, it is a rule that is NOT negotiable & your message will be ignored.”
 
From the Heart and Soul facebook page
 
Heart and Soul free food
Queenstown Community Centre on Mondays from 6.00pm at 67 Spring Street. Queenstown.
Para Districts Masonic Centre on Wednesdays from 7pm at 77 Philip Highway, Elizabeth South. (except 30th October & 13th November when markets will be held on Tuesday)
Two Wells on Fridays from 11:30am at Two Wells Uniting Church, 34 Gawler Rd, Two Wells.
Hackham West on Saturdays from 12.30pm at Hackham Primary School, 50 Glynville Dr, Hackham West.
 
They require I.D. and registration, but addresses and times change frequently so ph 0411 962 337 or check  www.heartandsoulinc.org.au or register for email or facebook updates. It is wise to arrive early on first visit.
 
12 October 2018
 

Hoarding a nice little money earner for social workers

Hoarding is a health improving activity. That’s why hoarders live so long. They might not wash and spend all their waking hours collecting useful and useless junk, but they so often live to old age.
 
There is also money in hoarding. That’s the problem. Not that the hoarders make money from it, but social workers destroying the lives of hoarders they catch.
 
The social workers set up a change of events leading to a final visit from the police and removalists taking everything to the rubbish dump. It’s a great chance for baby social workers to make a name for themselves.  
 
Hoarding is a newly defined mental illness regardless of the fact that it keeps many hoarders sane.
 
But “clearing” a person’s back yard, his or her house and shed creates hundreds of hours of meaningless paid work.  Just think, multiple visits by social workers, housing managers, the police and finally the junk removalists. It’s a nice little money earner with the result an empty house and scraped yard. Throw the owner or tenant on involuntary medications and you’ve got heaps of medical treatment and a funeral. One death from a broken heart. So be it.  
 
Hoarders collection junk for a reason. It’s a life sustaining hobby for them. It also serves a utilitarian purpose.
 
A man with twenty bicycles is labeled a hoarder despite the fact that he uses them as parts to maintain two or three operable machines. That he has solid reasons to refuse to throw them into landfill or a Chinese-bound container then buy a new model is beyond the understanding of the anti-hoarding industry.
 
The man collects them for economic reasons and if it becomes an obsession when why should the social workers interfere. Their reason is money and control. The welfare industry need reasons to justify their salaries. The local Council needs reasons to justify its bureaucracy.
 
The media joins the hysteria by highlighting absurd levels of hoarding to reinforce the justification of bureaucrats targeting lesser levels.
 
12 October 2018

The Night Talker on UCare
​at Gawler

“In response, to possible allegations of corruption at UCARE Gawler and possibly other food related charity outlets.

“The Bible tells us, that Jesus was nailed on a cross, between two thieves at Calvary. But I don't think, that Christians are meant to take this as a literal meaning to thieve or behave dishonestly? Perhaps someone in a position of authority, needs to tell this to UCARE volunteers staff/ Foodbank or anywhere else, where the rumours are currently flying, about allegations of graft, corruption and or thieving. I am sure, that one of the ten commandments that Noah brought down from the mountain top after his commune with God stated the following, " Though shalt NOT steal, nor shall they covet thy neighbours goods or property!"


“Perhaps these Christian based charities, need to go back to Sunday School or Introductory Bible Studies (101) the handbook for beginners.

“Yours in bewildered disgust,

The Night Talker.
12 October 2018
 

Ghost in new hospital
 
A patient says he heard two nurses in the New Royal Adelaide Hospital discussing the reluctance of surgeons to operate in a certain theatre. They said it was haunted.
 
The patient says a number of people last year killed themselves in the mental health section of the hospital.
12 October 2018

Roast Natalie
 
Natalie and her husband provide a roast for everyone on the first Wednesday evening of every month at City Salvos. Doors open at 4:30pm.
 
Wednesday evening program from 4:30 - 8:00 pm. Free. Currently, free haircuts. 
5:00 pm Tea, coffee, cordial, water.
6:00 pm Small meal, small dessert.
7:00 pm Occasional band performance.
No I.D. or registration required.
12 October 2018

(above) The Housing Trust replaced its tenants at Mellor Court in Gilberton with prisoners fresh from the slammer, druggies straight from detox and others subject to Home Detention. The result was increased violence, drug overdoses and thefts in both Mellor Court and surrounding streets. Was replacing the original tenants a political trick to get local home owners to urge the government to sell off the Mellor Court units?

(above) Good parking spaces at Mellor Court Housing Trust units, but with so much crime within the complex, no one feels safe parking anywhere except in front of their units.

Jenny Hallam’s suffering
 
Why does Jenny Hallam suffer police prosecution ― or even what could be described as persecution ― for the manufacture and distribution of medicinal marijuana?
 
Her product has possibly saved the lives of people with the deadliest forms of epilepsy and eased the pain of those with cancer. Often with better effect than the pharmaceutical equivalents.
 
Yet the small-time dealers of the type of marijuana that sends people into gaga land, or even pushes them toward schizophrenia, operate with near impunity.
 
As do the sellers of pharmaceutical opioids at bus stops and the back of Cash Converters pawn shop at Port Adelaide.
 
Who at the top of the power structure gains from this corruption?
11 October 2018

The mobile shower van
​
from The Night Talker

“Unless the mobile shower van has a VERY, VERY LONG EXTENSION CORD that it uses to plug in its (electric) hot water system, I suspect that the van runs an LPG powered Hot water unit (which works in exactly the same way as your home gas hot water unit, only it runs off of Propane bottles (aka Liquefied Petroleum Gas or LPG) instead of piped Natural Gas.
 
“So, there actually isn't a thermostat per say. In order to heat more water more efficiently, all that needs to be done, is that the operator needs to go to the bottle and or bottles and open the gas valves at the top, to release more gas through the pipes into the heater.
 
“The reason (I suspect) that persons using this service are getting cold showers is generally because of one or two things. Either the gas flow is too low, or the jets in the heater are blocked and or corroded so that an effective flame cannot be had and therefore the water cannot heat (the water passes through the heated pipes and comes out at varying temperatures. (So, to save money on not having to replace the gas bottles, the operator is simply not turning them up enough, to adequately heat the water going through the pipes of the heater and into the van.)

“I grew up in the country, outside of the major towns and the only way that we could have a hot shower was through the use of a gas water heater, connected to bottled gas.
 
“When I was in the army cadets and then the reserves we used wood chip, fed water heaters to heat water for showering and our mobile kitchen. Nobody had an electric water heater connected, because the water was so alkaline, it would eat away the electrical heating elements in under 12 months.

“Next time, any reader of this site has a shower at this van, ask the driver/attendant to turn up the gas in the bottles. If he refuses, then just leave. (You can get a better quality/free shower at the Gawler Tourist Centre) What is the point of running a free service for persons, if you choose not to run that service well?” 

The Night Talker 
Editor: The One Voice shower van is brand new with digitally controlled thermostats. Hope Church operates the van and is based at the Gilberton Chapel in Gilberton and its main church at 1013 South Road, Melrose Park. When it comes to providing a decent shower service, they seem to have no idea what a person who has slept on the ground overnight requires.
11 October 2018

Elizabeth Food Barn versus St Bede’s at Semaphore

​Anglicare operates both St Bede’s in Semaphore and the Food Barn in Elizabeth.
 
St Bede’s provides fresh and fried foods; the Food Barn specialises in boiled food.
 
St Bede’s has salt, pepper, sauces and serviettes on each table while the Food Barn has these only on the crowded front counter.
 
St Bede’s has horrible toilets as does the Food Barn.
 
St Bede’s doesn’t have a free tampon machine while the Food Barn has a tampon machine though it is frequently inoperative.
 
St Bede’s is open for two meals a week while the Food Barn has eight. St Bede’s serves up to 40 people each sitting while the Food Barn serves 100.
 
St Bede’s provides takeaway fruit, vegetables and two-minute noodles that diners can take from the counter. The Food Barn does not, but instead hosts a Food Bank franchise that requires a scheduled interview to access.
 
St Bede’s has table tennis. The Food Barn has not.
 
St Bede’s’ has the odd disciplined drug user inside the building, but none dealing on the premises. The Food Barn is half drug users.  
 
St Bede’s doesn’t have a security guard, but the Food Barn does. They hire a professional highly paid Liamsans guard.
 
St Bede’s doesn’t have ancillary services though the resident social worker occasionally helps individual clients. The Food Barn complex has plenty of extra services such as visiting Hep C experts, housing advocates, financial advocates such as Steve Knowall, Food Bank and many other services.
 
11 October 2018

More on Peter Lyndon-James

From the Contact Page

https://98five.com/rehab-founder-tells-addicts/

"He describes Shalom House, a self-funded, 70+ resident live-in facility located in WA’s Swan valley, as “a men’s rehabilitation centre for men with life-controlling issues — anything that stops a person from living a normal life”."
 
"“We run (Shalom House) on the smell of an oily rag.”

And it’s quite a tightly-run “oily rag”.

“The men are not allowed more than a day’s worth of facial hair — as for the hairdo, it’s ‘two on top, one on the sides’,” he said."

When referring to a lady protecting her son from going to jail, Peter said: “If she’s trying to stop him from getting arrested well then, gee, if I were a cop I’d arrest her. She needs to be thrown into rehab. She’s stopping him from getting help”.

“If you touch the hotplate, you get burnt,” he said.

While Peter’s no-holds-barred approach may come across as harsh to some, he said he’s in his line of business because he cares for people.

“I tell people what they need to hear. Not what they want to hear.”

Shalom House founder Peter Lyndon-James"

Shalom ???
Shalom !!!


Anonymous
11 October 2018

Free Sunday lunches
​at Fred’s Van Elizabeth

The tables are too close together in the dining room. This is a problem in most underclass free soup kitchens including the Food Barn, St Bede’s and Fred’s Van Salisbury.
 
One-third of diners suffer mobility and obesity problems and have trouble getting into a chair. Management place the chairs so close together that many are inaccessible so their placement is counterproductive.
 
Luckily, at Fred’s Van Elizabeth, some inspired designer set up a gazebo outside that seats another 25 people. There are also some boxes that diners can sit on. Diners at other free food joints aren’t so lucky.
 
On a day last month, they served sausages and pure meat kebabs grilled outside. The vegetarian option was vege-patties. The salad was made from fresh vegetables, not Food Bank muck. The creamed pasta was no good as it had been left in the hot water after cooking. The ice-cream was that horrible cheap stuff, but the lemon cake and vanilla slices were fresh and normal.
 
One elderly diner said that no matter how much he eats, he remains hungry.
 
Takeaways were somewhat sparse with no bread, which has become common at free food venues for some strange reason.
 
The number of diners was down from last week to perhaps sixty, but the general mood was excellent. The volunteers clearly welcomed the challenge and did not panic when they ran out of clean plates.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays.
11 October 2018
 

Ziph Law and the enigma code

A man at a soup kitchen explained Ziph Law where communication follows similar patterns whether between humans, animals and even insects. He says that applying Ziph Law allowed the English codebreakers to break the Enigma code used by the German military during World War 2.
 
As charity volunteers pack up the tables and leftover food into their chilled van, he tells me how this same Ziph theory is used to change analogue CB radio to digital sound.
 
He says the algorhythm based on Ziph Law turns the noisy analogue sound to crisp clear dignital language by seeking out the sound  pattern of human verbal communication then erasing the rest.
 
This is not something he’s simply read in a book. Rather, he has has used noise clearing technology in his own sound engineering career and continues to practice the skill in his Housing Trust flat in Elizabeth.
 
This man probably has an IQ beyond 95% of the human population yet he  collects cigarette butts from the street and will probably be using soup kitchens for the rest of his life.
​ 
10 October 2018
 
 ​

Homeless Connect
​at Whitmore Square

“Our Expo will be held Wednesday October 17th, see you there!” 

​[10:00am to 2:00pm] 

Sorcha Walshe
Stakeholder Engagement Officer
Shelter SA
10 October 2018

Horowitz’s Hell
 
Professor Michael Horowitz is not amused at his new consulting rooms. The government didn’t include a diabetes unit in the new Royal Adelaide Hospital so he works out of a ward.
 
“There’s the bed; there’s the toilet,” he told a patient last month.
 
The patient said the self-service system couldn’t book him in as it didn’t recognise that the multi-billion dollar hospital had a diabetes clinic.
10 October 2018
 

Cos We Care’s new freezer
 
As part of their development plan, Cos We Care have purchased a 20 foot freezer that goes down to Minus 28°C.
 
10 October 2018

Pam’s Dresser
 
Stroke victim and basketball coach, Peter, is leaving Pam’s Care. He hired her as a Carer, but she proved useless. She spent too much time at the house of sex maniac, Dean the Dresser.
 
Peter’s tenancy officer is getting a removalist to move Peter’s stuff back across the parking lot to his unit. The officer is also arranging Home Care to supply a washing machine and microwave oven for Peter.
 
Dean says he’ll “thump the crap” out of Peter if Pam loses her Carer’s allowance. This seems likely as Pam cannot even care for herself, let alone Peter. She spends most of her time with Dean who doesn’t want her associating with anyone except himself.
 
Pam is a friend of Alan and Joylene Whitehead
 
10 October 2018

Desert black folk gone
 
A camper near One Tree opposite August Towers says that the Aboriginals who used to camp on the grass have gone.
 
Most of the white fella campers have been expelled from the Adelaide CBD parklands, and have retreated to city footpaths and doorways.
 
9 October 2018

Fred’s Van Elizabeth
 
Each of us arrived through the gates bearing our own version of disappointment. This was the perfect recipe for conflict, but we’re experts in managing our open wounds.
 
As we waited, the alcoholic one-eyed former motorcycle rider ran into Kate. She was sitting on the concrete with her back to the wall, in the exclusive world of Kate. She jumped aside quickly in reflex mode as the motorcycle rider, now reduced to a bicycle, touched her legs with the front wheel.
 
As the front doors opened, we rushed through like wild animals. New volunteers don’t understand why we do this. It is quite simple. There are never enough takeaway bags for everyone to get one. The last third miss out.
 
This same behaviour is evident when they serve the meals from the counter: the real fear of missing out. And the lunch is no longer the old Elizabeth Fred’s Van muck, but included this day was minestrone soup with ham, quiche with a different name, a fresh salad with dressing and pasta in a cream sauce. Dessert was custard, baked tarts and canned fruit.
 
The wonderful display of salt and pepper shakers from last week had been reduced somewhat, possibly from theft. The number of clocks has also gone down, a mere five or six compared to the previous nine. At least, this week, they displayed the correct time.
 
A new diner named David was amazed that anyone could get such a meal free. He was in his mid-fifties and rode a racing bike. He tried to commit suicide by chocolate. That is all he ate for months. He said it gave him a heart attack. He said he told the hospital doctor that he wanted another one. He said his mother, aged 95, had been raped in a nursing home near Noarlunga.
 
An Asian man sat at the table with his head in his hands. Ironically, he was a Carer for elderly Peter who dresses in a suit. Another diner, a worn out woman, aged 40, held her right hand over her bowed face. The other diners ignored her. Her story would be typical.
 
George the Elder found a pink Fitbit while taking a shortcut across a school playground after the teenagers had gone home. George can no longer negotiate street names so he follows the natural lay of the land. He didn’t know how to use the Fitbit. Or what it was for.
 
He had arrived late for lunch because he “couldn’t find a bus going his way”. George can no longer understand bus timetables, but is a brilliant survivor and grabs any bus going in his direction and then hopes for the best. He is plain smart and a credit to humanity.
 
His friend, Mel, said she didn’t go to the Church of Christ meal on Tuesdays at Morphett Vale because she didn’t like the people or the pushy donation collector. 
 
Just three members of AJ’s family were there. They mostly go to Faith Works at Salisbury Plain Influencers Church. AJ is in hospital. He knew he’d end up there.
 
One person said the sleepovers at Adelaide Congress Hall had not happened this winter because of “that scumbag”, meaning Major Geoff Waller.
 
I asked Kate if she was okay after the bike rider had nudged her. She couldn’t remember it happening. She’s like George the Elder, but for different reasons.
 
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays.
9 October 2018

Bronwyn’s free food kitchen

The imposing pushy gentleman volunteer from last week was exiled to holding the new extra-large one-dollar donation tin for fruit, vegetables and bread. This was a suitable role for the good-natured man. The previous donation collector is rumoured to be working on a recipe to turn unwanted rotting fruit and vegetables into a powerful wine. Similar to that produced by Yatala Labour Prison guests.

I didn’t look at the free vegetables, but there appeared to be plenty of cauliflowers. The excellent bread was Baker’s Delight, which is often baked the day before.

The soup was terrific apart from being burnt. Someone hadn’t stirred the base of the pot frequently enough. They also served chicken cacciatore and lamb ragout. They weren’t burnt; they were perfect. The ragout was nearly pure meat though the Night Stalker said it wasn’t ragout, but Jalfrezi curry.

The first two courses were followed by home baked scones with cream and jam plus four kinds of cake brought out by old men from a secret back room. There was also self-serve coffee.

The dining room was overcrowded so some diners ate outside. It was all free and a credit to Bronwyn Plate, Dora, Shane and others. There was no personal data collecting.

Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:30pm at least.
Soup, coffee and meal served free.
Behind the Bower Cottages that are on the west end of the Causeway.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale.  No registration or I.D.
9 October 2018

Kill Box Lady moving house
 
The 89-year-old Kill Box Lady is moving this Friday to another unit, this one without steps. It’s a Housing Trust unit in Elizabeth recently taken over by Anglicare so she will be with the same tenancy officers. Home Care will handle the arrangements.
 
Anglicare previously offered her a unit in Salisbury, but this was unsuitable as it brought back too many bad memories of her son being decapitated at the station by a freight train.
 
The Kill Box Lady’s daughter says that Anglicare isn’t replacing departing tenants. The remaining tenants are being kept in the dark, but a dodgy Housing Trust tenant across the road says Anglicare plans to knock the complex down and replace the 16 one-bedroom units with 23 two-bedroom units. No more grass and flower beds.
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9 October 2018

(above) Food given for two-dollar donation at the Ferryden Park Lutheran Church on Fridays at 6:00pm. Price includes coffee and sandwiches. See Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food guide for more details. Note: the milk was given five days before the Best-By date.

Anglicare service failure
 
George the Elder found the Elizabeth Food Barn shut last Friday. The complex was shut for “renovation”. For some reason, they didn’t begin the work on Saturday when the place was closed anyway.
 
“We put notices up every day this week, okay?” a peroxide blonde told another person arriving to find it closed. Upon hearing a submissive grunt, she offered an overnight pack of food.
 
George the Elder, in his eighties, is illiterate so he couldn’t read the closure signs. He usually goes to Marion Salvos on Fridays, but they’ve closed for two weeks. So he went to Clayton’s in Beulah Park and liked it.
 
Meanwhile, Salisbury Anglicare is closing in November. Volunteers say the Anglican diocese is kicking them out. The volunteers wouldn’t say anything further and laughed harshly as they said, “The workers are always the last to be told…we’re not allowed to say anything.”
 
The Food Barn has reopened this morning.
 
Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
8 October 2018

(above) The squat cream-coloured Port Adelaide building on the right is where UnitingSA employees have locked the public toilets to prevent clients from using them. The AngliPrison is the tall grey building on the top right. Most businesses on Dale Street, Port Adelaide are government-funded prison and welfare joints. On some afternoons, two-thirds of customers in the Port Adelaide library are drug rehabilitation and Offenders Aid people.

St Bede’s drop-in-centre
 
The mood and service have nearly returned to the high level of two years ago. The colouring book has returned to the tables. The free clothing ― while not as high quality as previously ― is set upon the stage. The laptops are still hidden.
 
The sliced fruit platter is of the highest quality with the ingredients bought from a shop and not that rotting rubbish from Food Bank. The leftover bread is offered to clients on Wednesday, just before closing. Volunteers get what is left over from that. Some “volunteers” are on the dole and poorer than the clients.
 
The limited amount of free takeaway fruit and vegetables are of moderate quality, but better than most Food Bank depots. Plastic bags are left next to the boxes. The 2-minute noodles are grabbed quickly as most SRF diners don’t know how to cook. Most can manage to pour hot water into a Styrofoam cup, but not all due to shaking from medications.
 
Table tennis is back in full swing. Former Minister for Housing, Terry Hemmings, dropped in last week. His presence always lifts the vibes. Because Anglicare and most other charities have become more insular, it is rare to get impromptu visits from outsiders. However, Terry worked for years in the kitchen and isn’t an outsider.
 
The Bede’s Bazaar people have improved. They previously stood at the front counter and glared at us, but have become subtler. They wait to set up their wares until after we’ve left at 10:30am. At first, we laughed at them for being so old, but now we treat them with the respect they deserve for raising money to keep the church providing Anglicare with free rent.
 
The soup kitchen donation tin remains empty. Sentiment has not recovered from a big theft followed by sending some of our donations to Cambodia from where its violent Prime Minister sends his relatives to private schools in Australia.
 
The dining room is too crowded. With the warm weather, it would be good to have a table set outside.
 
Last week, Janet had breakfast while sitting on her walking frame outside because a one-legged man sat at her table. He did no wrong and himself had been displaced by a mobster’s thug on a mysterious mission. The thug sat with his back to the wall and watched us through reflective yellow sunglasses. Always an unsettling experience because no one knows who he’s come for.
 
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road).
8: 30 - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday.
Bacon and eggs, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, cereals, slices of fruit, biscuits. Tea, coffee and Milo. Free clothing. Toilets. No I.D. required. Takeaway noodles, crackers, fruit and vegetables. Table tennis. No billiards: they sold the table. Ice dealers not tolerated.
8 October 2018
 

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Soup kitchen couple ask for refund
 
A soup kitchen man and woman drive a Jaguar in perfect condition. They sent $300 to the U.S.A. for magical pills guaranteed to remove toenail fungus.
 
However, the pills’ efficacy was sub-optimal, meaning they were useless. And their side-effects included sapping the energy and making the old couple depressed.
 
They’ve returned the remaining pills and asked the Americans for a refund.

8 October 2018

Church drug rehab

​from the Night Talker
 
“In response to Born Again Christian's help break the drug and or alcohol cycle....

“I am cynical whenever I see Evangelical church groups move into the drug rehab/counselling sphere, although I am not suggesting that Government funded organisations are a whole lot better (to be honest).

“Few (if any) of these counselling Pastors have any valid qualifications to speak of and most, simply present a front, so they can actually go about the business of proselyting (aka trying to convert those silly enough to come along to these sessions).
 
“I have no problem with the idea of faith being a cornerstone in someone's life (Faith can be a very powerful force) I do however have a problem, when this kind of evangelicalism seems to be focused on the most marginalised and disadvantaged persons within our communities. (aka let’s go down to Davoren Park or Munno Para or Smithfield, but ignore drug taking in the richer suburbs (What you say, it happens there? (yeah it does?)


“Bruce Kurtzer (aka Influencers Church Muppet) is a classic example of someone that just, needs to shut up and go away!) The seventy or so minutes, which he spends, screaming at his audience 
before they get anything (usually ageing vegetables and a handful of out of date, Kinder surprises, if you’re lucky) could be better spent setting up a stall where people in need could access trained workers (social workers/case workers, financial counsellors, tenancy information officers, volunteers from centrelink, etc to help with issues ranging from debt/insolvency, to being unable to complete necessary forms, to having issues with their job network providers.
 
“That is I believe, real Christianity in action. Jesus was not just reactionary he was PROACTIVE. He went out amongst the people and made things happen. He did not just hand out a few "kinder surprises" and then bugger off in his expensive four-wheel drive, as soon as the meeting was over. He saw what needed to be changed and he did his best to change intolerable or untenable situations.
 
“He did NOT tell his followers to go out and commit the following acts; thieve, undercut others, pass judgement or display excessive amounts of arrogance or intolerance. Finally he had no expensive church, was paid no wage, walked everywhere and owned nothing except the clothes on his back, his sandals and his staff (which the Roman soldiers who tortured and crucified him, stole from him) Even then he asked or tolerance and forgiveness and stated that you do not judge, unless you want to be judged yourself....

“Seems not a lot of these kind of behaviours are being displayed in current Christian based charities.

“Makes you wonder?”

The Night Talker
​8 October 2018
 

(above) This site near the Mile End railway station was one of the best Adelaide CBD homeless camps, and one of the last. The Adelaide City Council and Zero Homeless Project have colluded to expel people from the parklands, forcing them into city streets and doorways. This has increased the visbility of homeless people without increasing their numbers. It's all politics.

(above) Stuff left at the site of the Mile End homeless camp. This crowd appeared not to be drug addicts or alcoholics. Some homeless camps have children for whom their parents are often afraid of losing.

This week at the Hutt Street Centre
 
Mick the German had some trouble and the police were called.
 
Chris the Christian was kicked out. He’s great when sober, but makes a nasty drunk. He’ll hit anyone saying hello to him.
 
The Star Group took take away the fellow who punched a tourist in the face then ran into the Hutt Street Centre building. Phil Donato denied hiding him from the police.
 
Patrons couldn’t leave the building as staff had deadlocked the front doors. There would have been a rush to stash drugs under the furniture.
 
Things didn’t slow down on the weekend as there was a punch-up inside the building on Saturday at breakfast.
 
Trent Jefferis is in jail. For him, that might be good, especially if he’s in the hospital section. Trent is extremely ill physically.
 
7 October 2018

(above) If you're living in your car and have enough petrol to drive north then the free Rocks Reserve north of Gawler and near Balaklava might be for you.

(above) While technically not a camping ground, no one will be too worried if you stay there for a few days.

(above) Bush etiquette requires campers not to set up camp near the picnic area or toilets.

New free bush homeless
​camp area
from The Night Talker

“Very discreet camping ground, with freely available drinking water, excellent toilets, bins and covered eating areas.
 
“For those persons who might need somewhere discreet and private to stay in a housing crisis, (e.g. forced to live out of your car or van for instance) the rocks reserve, 15 minutes out of Balaklava, may tick all the boxes. I have known about this place for a while, but have been unable to go there until now, as the dirt roads leading to the reserves are only for dry weather (or you have a four wheel drive)
 
“I went there today with my two dogs and aside from being a stunning location  (see attached photos) it is only infrequently visited by the odd local, as far as i can tell. So for anyone that needs a safe and discreet place to stay, i would strongly recommend this site. So long as you parked away from the main park site and even if someone challenged you (e.g. council staff), you could always leave and come back after dark.) I severely doubt this would happen) as the wakefield regional council, only has one inspector and knowing the numpty personally, the only way you could get him away from his desk or two hour counter lunch at the local pub, is at gunpoint. (The site is also not locked, nor the gate up to where the toilets are)
 
“To find the site u need to drive out of Balaklava heading south (towards mallala and two wells) (past the cemetary) and then turn right onto the dirt road which has the brown sign that says THE ROCKS RESERVE. Then follow the BROWN signs along the way It is roughly a 15 to 20 minute drive, depending on road and weather conditions.
 
https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Rocks+Reserve/@-34.1674521,138.5185517,482m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xf21b4435e9266b76!8m2!3d-34.1655162!4d138.5147063
 
The Night Talker
7 October 2018

Adelaide homeless scene bread shortage continues

Fred’s Van Elizabeth hadn’t any bread to give away today as was the case last week. Yesterday, Gospel City in Munno Para and Cos We Care in Elizabeth had such limited amounts that they stationed personnel to watch it to ensure no one took more than one loaf.

Gospel City usually has unlimited amounts. There was a similar problem at Nanna’s Free Food Basket in Semaphore South earlier this week.
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7 October 2018

More on Bread
 
From the Rundle Spy

FREE BREAD at Magdalene Assistance Centre 82 Gilbert Street Adelaide CBD starting 8 October 2018.

There is Contradictory info coming from Anglicare regarding FREE BREAD from an Anglicare official at the MAC front desk:

FREE BREAD give-out times are now up in the air because some bread suppliers / gatherers are now unavailable.

Proposed times to give out FREE BREAD will be about 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday to Friday in afternoon after client queue is emptied.

However, all this remains uncertain.

Initial info was submitted honestly from reliable source in MAC Anglicare.

Sorry for any mixup.

Pray for FREE BREAD

Better than Dead.
 
The Rundle Spy
7 October 2018

George the Elder gets
​Centrelink robo-letter

George the Elder got a Centrelink robo-letter in the post. It was part of a routine batch of 10,000 sent out by Centrelink claiming clients owed the government money.
 
Many who received the letters do not owe the government money, but are unable to understand the complexity of the system to be able to adequately respond. They accept the hit and lose part of their income despite some of them not owing any money.
 
George the Elder is such a victim. He received a letter from Centrelink stating that he owed them $1000.
 
George is in his eighties and despite working all this life is functionally illiterate. He was unable to prove to them that he did or did not owe them anything. He lives alone. He avoids social workers.
 
He told Centrelink he’d repay it at $5.00 a fortnight. He anticipated a scornful response, but they accepted his offer.
 
The money was deducted for a few fortnights then stopped long before the fictitious debt was repaid.
 
George the Elder hasn’t a clue what happened. He even believes he might have been a victim of a foreign scammer pretending to be Centrelink. Centrelink’s robo-letter program does resemble the techniques used by Nigerian scammers.
 
6 October 2018

Food Barn lunches declining
from the Night Talker

“Possible reasons as to why Services at Anglicare Food barn/Hope Kitchen, continue to decline....

“An…source…told me that drastic measures have been taken, to cut the cost of providing free lunches via…[Food Barn]…since the inception of the new breakfast menu, that began a few weeks ago.
 
“These cuts include no food or clothing items being left out in the front foyer to take as you please, poorer quality meals served at lunch time…
 
“What are the possible reasons behind such drastic measures? …. stated to me that, since Anglicare Elizabeth purchased two late model Toyota Camry Executives, in late 2017 at the combined cost of more than $70,000, they have decided to subjugate the cost of the vehicles (which I have been told, are almost exclusively used to drive truant and anti-social Indigenous children and adolescents to school and or youth court and other extended family members to wherever they want to go around Adelaide and or the state, at no cost whatsoever to the clients).
 
“Anglicare (for reasons unknown) had allegedly decided to foot the bill for these services, which no doubt probably cost them hundreds of dollars per week (at a minimum). These vehicles, can be identified by the logo on the rear lower bumper, which shows the handprint of an Indigenous Child.
 
“In contrast, staff and other non-indigenous clients, must use their own cars and foot the cost of fuel, entirely out of their own pockets.


“So it appears we have a situation, where disadvantaged clients are now being assisted at different levels (see earlier blog re UCARE) with some disadvantaged clients, appearing to be more worthy of assistance than others, whilst others who are disadvantaged are exploiting those with even less than they have.


“It is a sad, sad world out there.”

The Night Talker
6 October 2018
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(above) Former shot boss, Peter Lydon-James will be at Gospel City Church at Munno Para on 22 October, 2018. Faith based drug rehab joints often have a higher success rate than the expensive government outfits. One preacher at The Ark in Salisbury said that after stopping drugs, some people kill themselves, but having a belief in God gives them a larger focus. This is the argument the church crowd offer.

Diabetes and Obesity clinics merged at new Adelaide hospital

The Cousin was shocked when he entered the new Royal Adelaide Hospital diabetes outpatients’ clinic and discovered it had merged with the obesity clinic.
 
“Incredible,” The Cousin said, “You would actually have to see it to believe it. Big swollen puffy feet, shoes that looked forced on them, awe, Christ, incredible. Most of them seemed to be women. I felt out of place because I’m half the size.”
 
“There were two seats not taken,” The Cousin added. “I sat on one. A woman came in. She saw the seat next to me. She came over and sat down. Whoosh, all the air came out of the seat. I could feel the air.
 
“She just sort of leaned back and ‘creak’. I knew straight away what happened.” The Cousin recounted his conversation with her.
 
“Uh”, I said.
“Oh, I broke the chair,” she said
“I think you did,” I said.
“I don’t think I should lean back anymore,” she said.
“Oh, don’t worry about it. You’re up against the wall,” I said.
 
“Later, on the tram, all I could see was fat people,” The Cousin remembered.
 
Name and address supplied to Adelaide Homeless Journal
6 October 2018
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Sherrie Robinson breaks intervention order

Serial predator Sherrie Robinson broke an intervention order lodged against her by the relatives of “Bernard”. He’s the elderly autistic man who works at Wesley Social Enterprises (WSE) on Port Road, Alberton, near Kat Lee’s new Food for the Community store. A magistrate in the Port Adelaide court ordered that neither Robinson or Bernard is allowed to communicate with each other.
 
Robinson allegedly told Dean Morris, another worker at WSE, that she’d seen Bernard and his nephew riding their bicycles past her house. Dean passed her comment to Bernard at their sheltered workshop where Bernard arrives two hours early and drinks coffee in the staff room. Bernard was crushed upon hearing that Robinson was back on the scene. She’d already been seen hanging around at lunch near the entrance of WSE.
 
Robinson is a gambling addict and has a history of scamming disabled men out of their pension and work money. Bernard is a simple man and easily influenced and she got him for many thousands of dollars. He’d recently renovated his kitchen from money no longer lost to this predator.
 
Bernard’s older brother was livid upon hearing that Sherrie Robinson was back. He took Bernard to the Port Adelaide police station. Bernard said he hadn’t ridden past her house. He wanted nothing to do with her. His nephew drove a car; he didn’t ride a bike.
 
Bernard’s protectors all thought Sherrie Robinson had moved from her Rosewater Housing Trust house as the joint appears empty. Her accomplice, Tony de Kort, has not been seen. He’s previously acted as her “muscle” when her disabled male victims baulked at supplying her with their invalid pension and sheltered workshop earnings. 
 
5 October 2018
 

Free plumbing
​for certain disabled people

from the Night Talker
 
“Free plumbing service provided by SA Water for persons on DSP or who have obvious "issues."

“If you are on a DSP and struggling to pay for a plumber, SA Water has a service that will assist you free of charge. It does however require that you sign up to SA Water's program, that requires you enrol in "lifestyle counselling" which includes (compulsory) telephone therapy sessions with an SA Water Social Worker and regular telephone sessions with a financial counsellor. If you agree to this, SA WATER will arrange for you, free plumbing for "domestic" purposes.

“The service is called SA Water (SPECIAL CUSTOMER PROGRAM). You need to be on a low income/centrelink benefit, (preferably a DSP) and have mental health, a brain injury, aggression issues, or be anti-social. Multi-agency involvement, (e.g. involvement with Police, Corrections, Debt Crisis Help line, Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous, Families SA or Centrelink Debt Recovery Unit will automatically put you on a one to one priority service listing.


“This service can be accessed by ringing up SA WATER and stating that you want to be put onto the SPECIAL CUSTOMER TEAM. You will then be transferred to a SA Water Social Worker, who will determine how needy, angry and/or gaga you are.

“This is not a joke. A client I work with who has a TBI, has been on this program for over 12 months. How long it will run for before the government cuts it out, is another matter altogether?”

The Night Talker.
5 October 2018

Sexual pensioner leaves nursing home
 
Six months previously, a 71-year-old man vacated his retirement unit in an Elizabeth Anglicare complex. That was where he’d hosted women who could be found slumped on his doorstep at all hours, waiting to exchange cigarettes for sex. However, he thought the time was right and moved into a nursing home.
 
Why the nursing home wasn’t to his liking is unknown, but for some reason he left to get married and has rented a house from L.J. Hooker.
 
Why he didn’t move back to his cheap rent Anglicare unit is also unknown. It has been left empty since he left. Perhaps his new wife would be disturbed by his cigarette girlfriends knocking on the door at all hours. Or the reason was that Anglicare is emptying the complex in preparation for demolition and rebuilding.
 
5 October 2018

(above) Scavengers nightly pilfered clothing left outside the donation bin at the Playford Salvation Army Corps in Elizabeth East.

(above) Officer Dale Allan installed spy cameras, but the thieves pulled out the camera focused on the donation bin. They left the other one.

(above) Officer Allan removed both camera cables. Note: the reflection on the window is from a light fitting.

(above) With no visible cameras, underclass scavengers recommenced their nightly raids on the donated clothing.

Salisbury Fred’s Van no good
 
It was horrible. There was practically nothing in the takeaway food room. Not even bread. A short man named Long told me to take only one half-sized cob of corn. He spoke as if I was taking more than that. They never let us forget we’re beggars.
 
Two men from FWT, a men’s motorcycle group, arrived to say they had a barbecue to raise money and wanted to give the cash to Fred’s Van. That threw the volunteers into a panic.
 
The volunteers rushed us through the meal in the main hall as if we were animals in a feeding station. The coffee cart was blocked by the queue so the coffee lady stood idle most of the time. Not enough chairs and tables had been set up even for the usual sized crowd.
 
The meal wasn’t too bad. Hot dogs followed by a nice chicken stew. The vegetarian option was quiche (chicken babies). They do that every time.
 
Not everyone liked the food, “I’m not eating that garbage,” one man said when he saw the bland cheapo hot dogs.  Another said, “No,” when he gazed across the tables and couldn’t see anywhere to sit. 
 
The staff wore gloves while serving the food, but hidden in the kitchen they did everything with bare hands, including put margarine on tiny slices of crisp bread. It reminded me of Ian the School Teacher at St Bede’s who smeared vegemite on his hairy hand then scraped it off and put it on a piece of toast for me. I never let him serve me anything again.
 
Most at the meal didn’t get coffee because by the time the queue blocking the cart had diminished, the women serving had pissed off back into the kitchen.
 
Cameras recorded our every move, observed by someone hiding in another room. Has our society become so paranoid that no one is trusted with anything? It’s not as if the cameras protect us. They’re always ‘out-of-order’ after any incident management doesn’t want to acknowledge.
 
Before the diners had finished eating, Team 4 volunteers began dragging of chairs across the floor. Especially that tall old white fella. No wonder the underclass eats and run. Who wants the added humiliation of being shuffled out of the room with your mouth still chomping. Charles Dickens would have loved the joint.
 
Also weird was the Orange Sky Laundry van. It had been parked at the back from 4:30pm to 6:30pm, where no one could see it.
 
However, the highlight of the evening was a volunteer who adopted the postures and facial expressions of Lady Di, Prince Charles’s dead wife.
 
Fred’s Van Salisbury
Salisbury Institute building at 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (in the Salisbury Institute building next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, main meal, dessert, coffee and takeaways. Free. No I.D. required.
4 October 2018

Corroded Housing Trust water heater
 
An elderly disabled tenant of the Housing Trust units near Fremont Park in Elizabeth said his last electricity bill was over $800, for just himself.
 
He said the culprit was a corroded water heater that continuously leaked hot water. He told the Housing Trust repeatedly to fix it, but they refused.
 
This man once worked as a tradesman at the Holden car factory. He will visit financial advisor Steve Knowland at Elizabeth Anglicare for assistance to pay the bill.
 
Steve’s secret office is through that dirty door next to the druggies’ table in the Food Barn. Steve has a good reputation.
4 October 2018
 

In response to UCARE Free Food

​The Night Talker

“I am not sure, if you are a client or a UCARE worker/volunteer, but the information you have supplied (be it willingly deceptive, or you just do not know any better) is pretty much wrong.

“Not anyone can apply for a centrelink health care card. There is actually really strict criteria, around the application process. You must be in receipt of a centrelink benefit and you can ONLY apply for one online (I have no idea where you got the information from, that you can just ring up (Clearly you have not had to contact Centrelink for anything, for a VERY LONG TIME).
 
If you are not on the phone waiting in queue at 8am on the dot, all you will end with, is a busy signal. Even when you do get through, the average wait time before a Centrelink Customer Service Officer, answers the phone is around 48 minutes).
 
“If you can have your query resolved in within 90 minutes, then you are actually doing quite well. Also your comment about Centrelink does not put addresses on Health Care Cards, is not true either. Names and Addresses are clearly printed on Health Care Cards (it is on mine) Furthermore, Centrelink will NOT accept a P.O. box as a valid residential address. Even if someone is homeless, they must offer the actual address of a registered agency (e.g. Anglicare or Uniting Care Wesley or Baptist care) where they are being supported and formally nominate an employee of that organisation, as their correspondence nominee.
 
“Finally offering food items at 9.30am, does little to assist those persons, who for whatever reason cannot be there as soon as the door opens. All this does is give opportunistic locals, the ability to get free produce at the behest of those persons who do not live nearby, but might more badly need assistance.
 
“[And], none of this explains the fact that less and less items are being handed out to people in genuine need despite their being good evidence to support the notion, that UCARE continue to receive donations at a generous level from surrounding businesses.
 
“Where is this going and or not going and why are staff and or volunteers (allegedly) taking advantage of this generosity for their own benefit? As I stated before, it appears that disadvantaged persons are taking advantage of even more disadvantaged persons (e.g. the rumour is that allegedly UCARE work for the dole volunteers, are taking the majority of the daily donations for their own personal use?)

“Can someone tell me differently?”

The Night Talker
 
Second Editor: My mistake. I should have said that Centrelink will send out a Health Care Card that does not show the client’s address providing the client already has a card with his or her address on it.
 
Also, I was thinking of DSP and Aged Pension people and not those on the much lower value NewStart. My mistake again. Thank you for correcting my error.
4 October 2018

Pam’s sex maniac Dresser
 
Pam’s dresser, Dean, has ordered her not to invite anyone to her house, and to spend less time on her phone talking to her friends.
 
He is also insanely jealous of Peter, the basketball coach for whom Pam acts as a professional Carer. Peter has had three strokes, but is still active.
 
Peter pays Pam for her professional services, but since Dean has become her Dresser, she has begun ordered Peter to go out and buy the groceries.
 
4 October 2018

(above) Free food from Heart and Soul. They have a clear delineation between what they're selling and what they're giving away. This prevents scenes of humiliation for clients.

(above) One of numerous folk messages left by indigenous people in Port Adelaide. Mobsters control the prostitution and drug rackets along Grand Junction Road in Rosewater and across to Hanson Road in Woodville Gardens.

Disappearing teeth
 
The woman from the Australian Dental Health Foundation phoned a patient to enquire about his new partial dental plate installed by their private pro bono dentist.
 
It was a difficult call for the recipient. How could he comfortably explain his new teeth had disappeared. Had his new chompers fallen into the rubbish at the Semaphore church soup kitchen earlier that day?
 
He spent the afternoon tipping over rubbish bins and going through the muck.  Sadly, his teeth have not yet been located.

3 October 2018
​

Welfare water by One Voice
 
A loyal customer humbly suggested the hot water in the Adelaide One Voice mobile shower van was not hot. A volunteer obligingly turned up the heat from 34°C to 37°C, that is, body temperature. Most home showers are set at least 50°C.
 
No one can accuse One Voice of false advertising. They say they provide “warm” showers. But why? People sleeping outside like hot showers because they’ve been chilled by the cold ground or concrete.
3 October 2018
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Adelaide homeless scene
​bread shortage

There has not been free old bread at Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sundays for two weeks. There was none at Gospel City Church at Munno Para last week. Fred’s Van at Salisbury hasn’t had any for two weeks. Cos We Care has been in short supply for weeks.
 
The newly relocated Mary Magdalene Centre will restrict its ‘no-interview’ free bread to later in the day rather than at 9:00am when it moves to Gilbert Street. UCare Gawler has also had a reduced supply though clients attribute this to volunteers stealing it for friends.
3 October 2018

Will Mrs Telstra discover the new Royal Adelaide Hospital?

“The Telstra woman, if she ever claps eyes on the hospital and she does the rounds of the unisex toilets, she can collect a big bag of toilet rolls. There’s a supply sitting there on the shelf [in every room].”
 
Name and address supplied
3 October 2018

Salvo service failure
 
“It’s not right,” Melody from Fred’s Van Elizabeth said when explaining the Salvation Army Marion has cancelled their Friday lunch for the 5th and 12th of October.
 
She had a point. Service continuity is crucial in business. It is even more important for Army clients because they haven’t a similar alternative.  
 
Of course, none of this matters if one operates on the maxim: “Beggars can’t be choosers”. But the Salvation Army doesn’t follow this maxim and this service failure should not be allowed to happen again at Marion Salvation Army.
 
Salvation Army Marion
155 Sturt Road, Seacombe Gardens (corner of Morphett Road and Sturt Road near the Marion Shopping Centre). ph (08) 8377 0001. Free, though ominous donation tin on table.
Thick soup, soggy biscuits, bun with margarine, instant coffee on Fridays at 12:00pm
You can get there at 11:00am and sit and have a coffee in the foyer. Shower van outside from 10:00am to 12:00noon. No I.D. or Health Care Card required.
2 October 2018
 

(above) Cutana Court at Munno Para. Royal Park Salvage uses the "Asbestos Removal" red herring to explain their destruction of recyclable wood. Yet no government regulated precautions were taken for disposing of this so-called asbestos hazard. The man operating the smashing machine didn't even use a three-dollar dust mask over his face.

Baptist WestCare hosts franchise
 
WestCare will soon host a Food Bank store. Instead of handing out gift cards for supermarkets, clients will instead get a Food Bank card. The means a reduced range of items available and that will be much older food. Most of what Food Bank sells is subsistence related.
 
People currently seeking “emergency assistance” must visit Baptist WestCare at opening time. The first eight are chosen and the others told to return the next day. This leaves shy and disabled people to fight it out with streetwise druggies and derelicts.
 
If you find yourself next to ex-bank robber, Grinder, then you’ll be alright. But if your competitor is Mrs Telstra, then expect no mercy.
 
WestCare is at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide near Whitmore Square.
2 October 2018

(above) The Port Church at 47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North has stopped its free Wednesday meal for the next two weeks.

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Gawler UCare free food
 
Gawler Uniting Care say they continue to supply bread and vegetables at 9:30am each day. They also supply slightly better stuff if clients provide a Health Care Card showing an address within the Greater Gawler area between Willaston and Kudla.
 
Anyone living outside could claim to be sleeping in the Willaston Cemetery or another area within the district. Centrelink also provides Health Care Cards that don’t show your address. A simple phone call gets one: no questions asked.
 
An employee said the Wednesday lunches have been stopped and appear either Wednesday, Thursday or Friday depending on what supplies they have obtained. The containers of hot food will be on the counter, if available.
 
Like most free food services, they appear to be continuing as a shell outfit, but what they actually give has drastically reduced. This is according to two clients not known to each other.
 
UCare Gawler (Uniting Church of Gawler)
10 Tod St., Gawler.   ph 08 8522 4522
No residency requirements. Health Care Card required. 
Open 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday.
Good day-old bread and limited pastries. Small bags of onions, potatoes and carrots.  Boxes of self-serve oranges and spinach. Variety changes every day. Best stuff gone within an hour of opening. You can go there every day.
2 October 2018
 

(above) Anglicare applied abrasive paint to the porches of its pensioner units near Marion. This was to help prevent aged tenants slipping when it rained. The same vintage of Anglicare units at Elizabeth got an inferior paint job.

(above) Meanwhile, the same type of Anglicare units in Elizabeth with similarly infirm tenants also got their porches painted. But for them it was red paint that becomes slippery when wet. Why?

Roxy of Cutting Edge in Tanunda
From the Night Talker

“Amazing kindness and all round great day at the Cutting Edge, Hair and Beauty salon Tanunda.

“I just want to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Roxy and her team of dedicated staff, who made the day for many disadvantaged persons today, when they cut, shampooed, dyed and blow dried for free. There was also an amazing and very generous spread of goodies put out for customer Having recently lost my job (as of last Friday) getting a free hair cut so I can go to job-interviews looking presentable, means the world to me. I am pretty sure that all the other clients that were being serviced felt the same way I that I did.

“Despite hard times and some very sad stories in our newspapers of late, it gladdens me to see such kindness still exists. I actually feel like a new person and have been totally invigorated by the experience.
 
The Night Talker
1 October 2018

Corruption at UCare Gawler?

from The Night Talker

“Can someone please update me on the current status of UCARE Gawler?

“I have a friend on a DSP in a country town just outside of Gawler, who tells me that UCARE have told him (point blank) they no longer assist anyone who lives more than 12km outside of Gawler and even those persons living in Gawler will be heavily scrutinised to see whether they are "worth" assisting. My friend said, he has not seen a Wednesday free meal at Ucare Gawler either, since it was disbanded back at the end of 2016 (Does anyone else know differently?)
 
“He now has to go to the Gawler Community Centre to have a free weekly midday meal. He also stated to me that UCARE no longer offer free financial counselling and what they do give away (bread, vegetables and some dairy products, are so limited in number, that unless you are waiting at the front door right upon opening time, there is little chance of you getting anything?
 
“I find this concerning because insider information (from a person who works at Gawler Foodland which is next door to UCARE) stated to me that there is a n almost daily supply of good quality food, groceries and other non-edible items that cannot be resold and are as such, kindly donated to UCARE Gawler.
 
“There is also rumours that a number of local Bakeries continue to donate high quality bread, cake, sandwiches and rolls on a daily basis and have done so for a number of years. Even more concerning is knitted items (including blankets, beanies, socks, scarves and mittens) are being donated on a regular basis by knitting groups in Gawler and surrounding suburbs? So? where is all this produce going? (Your guess is as good as mine?) Obviously not to clients in need?

“If this is the case and volunteers (and paid staff are getting first dibs) shame on you UCARE! Jesus said, ‘It is better to give than to receive!’”

The Night Talker
 
UCare Gawler (Uniting Church of Gawler)
10 Tod St., Gawler.   ph 08 8522 4522
No residency requirements. Health Care Card required. 
Open 9:30am to 3:00pm Monday to Friday.
Good day-old bread and limited pastries. Small bags of onions, potatoes and carrots.  Boxes of self-serve oranges and spinach. Variety changes every day. Best stuff gone within an hour of opening. You can go there every day.
 1 October 2018

Otto the Preacher at DUO
 
Otto sits across the table from Benevolent Mark. He talks and talks while Mark listens.
 
Otto complains loudly about clients smoking outside the main doors before opening time. Some people are sick of his talking. One person “tore strips off him”. We await to see if this will quieten him down.
 
Last week they served chicken steaks. George the Elder described it as chickens hit with a hammer until they became steaks. He said the meal was good and “more than I could eat”.
 
George the Elder added that the number of diners seems to be gradually decreasing.
 
Salvation Army
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide (close to Hutt Street) Every Saturday
5:00pm Coffee, milo, tea, cordial and water
6:00pm Main meal and dessert
7:00pm Church service (voluntary and appreciated by some)
8:00pm Games, table tennis, quiz, barista quality coffee, sweet buns, pizza at 9:00pm
Occasionally swags and blankets for those sleeping outside.
Fascinating high quality and dangerous guests and staff. Closes at 11:00pm.
Supervised Saturday sleepovers during the winter. Drug dealers outside. Some inside.
1 October 2018
​

MAC to do a GILBERT

Magdalene Assistance Centre is moving from Whitmore Square to

82 Gilbert Street
CBD Adelaide

The new location appears to be a ground-level glass office building.

It is about 7 minutes walk southeast of the current location.

Relocated operations will commence 9 a.m. Monday 8 October 2018.

Free bread will only be available at the tail end of their operations day (perhaps around 12 noon), a BIG CHANGE from the current time of 9 a.m.

MAC will continue to operate in Whitmore Square until Friday 5 October 2018.

References:
https://stmarymagdalenes.weebly.com/magdalene-centre.html

https://anglicaresa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/Christmas-Donations-2018.pdf  
The Rundle Spy
1 October 2018

Change of dates at Heart and Soul Elizabeth South

The usual Wednesday free food event at the Masonic Centre in Elizabeth South is changed to Tuesday on the 30th of October and the 13th of November, then back to the usual Wednesday.

Heart and Soul free food
Queenstown Community Centre on Mondays from 6.00pm at 67 Spring Street. Queenstown.
Para Districts Masonic Centre on Wednesdays from 7pm at 77 Philip Highway, Elizabeth South. (except 30th October & 13th November when markets will be held on Tuesday)
Two Wells on Fridays from 11:30am at Two Wells Uniting Church, 34 Gawler Rd, Two Wells.
Hackham West on Saturdays from 12.30pm at Hackham Primary School, 50 Glynville Dr, Hackham West.
 
They don’t require I.D. or registration, but addresses and times change frequently so ph 0411 962 337 or check  www.heartandsoulinc.org.au or register for email or facebook updates. It is wise to arrive early on your first visit.
1 October 2018

“Expiry food for expiry people”
A Fred’s Van client talking about out-of-date food given or sold by Food Bank to poor people.
1 October 2018

Bowden-Brompton Uniting Care free barbecue

Not sure of the details. Just October 10, 2018 at lunch.
Posted 1 October 2018

(above) Kat Lee’s ‘Food for the Community’ store that she rented in Rosewater. It was torched last week, soon after she left and moved to 135 Port Road, Queenstown. A witness allegedly saw a person leaving a silver-coloured car then entering the building at 6:30pm on the evening of the fire. A short time later, the building was ablaze. Police are investigating as the owners had at least one other dilapidated building go up in flames after it was deemed untenable.

(above) The building at 117 Grand Junction Road, Rosewater had no power during Kat Lee’s rental. She relied on power cords coming in from elsewhere. The walls were salt damped and the building virtually untenable. The fire started after she’d left and disconnected the makeshift power supply.

(above) The view onto Grand Junction Road, an area dominated by prostitution rackets, drug dealerships and illegal weapons. The nearby ‘We Never Close’ OTR food and fuel station is used by all concerned.

​On the Streets of Adelaide
 
George the Elder feels dizzy when he rolls over in bed. He has crystals in his middle ear. He should visit a special physiotherapist who will bang his head back and forth to dislodge the crystals. Or they may dislodge naturally.
 
*
 
A drive was speeding along the Port Expressway. He was going way past the speed limit. A police car swiftly closed the space behind him. The driver thought he was done.
 
But the patrol car zoomed past him. The speeding civilian driver then gave chase to the police station in Hanson Road. He challenged the officer who told him he’d been rushing to the toilet.
 
*
 
“The government is the one you have to watch out for,” said a diner at Nanna’s Free Food Basket at Semaphore South.
 
*
 
A 70-year-old woman at the Food Barn said she had $20 a fortnight for food after she paid other expenses. She rolled a cigarette as she spoke.
 
How easy to blame her, but if tobacco was less taxed, she’d might be able to purchase plenty for food.
 
*
 
A rumour in the Salvation Army is that officers are being sent out from London to take over Adelaide Congress Hall.
 
*
 
“Not pasta again,” a younger woman at the Food Barn said in despair.
 
*
 
A man sitting down for lunch at Marion Salvos on Friday said, “I thought how stupid I was for coming here when I saw the meal.”
 
*
 
Northern Weekly Messenger journalist Kaysee Miller said that demand for free food each Friday at the Elizabeth East Salvation Army has doubled over the past twelve months. Army Officer Dale Allan said they cannot keep up with the demand. Like most free food venues, the amounts clients can take has been reducing steadily over the past twelve months.
 
One client of subcontinent extraction would agree. He said last Friday he was allocated just one chili. “One,” he emphasised as he smiled. “But the bread was good.”
 
*
 
The Adelaide City Council wants to build a “two-level sports pavilion and 150 bitumen car spaces over Golden Wattle Park on the corner of South Terrace and Sir Lewis Cohen Drive. This is where Emma Hines’s body was found in 2016.
 
There should be a plaque remembering Emma, her own worst enemy, but also a victim of the drug dealers at the Hutt Street Centre.
 
*
 
When developers knock down housing and replace them with higher density housing, they are required to pay money into a fund to create increased park and playground space.
 
However, suburban councils such as Salisbury, Playford (Elizabeth) and Port Adelaide-Enfield collectively receive less than half of what their developers contribute.
 
The rest of their share goes to planting $10,000 saplings in the Adelaide CBD along with laying down bitumen over the surrounding parklands. An example is that expensive redevelopment of Marshmallow Park where the western desert mobs hang out, but who are being displaced by those living in high rise apartment buildings.
 
*
 
The free tampon machine at the Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth has been inoperable for some time. This forces people to visit the busy front counter to ask for them. A special humiliation reserved for the underclass and women in illegal immigrant camps.
 
The Barn tried to make up for it by giving away mismatched wine glasses. They were less popular than the size 13 leather shoes they’d previously given away.
 
*
 
Heidi was furious that someone leaked information as to the location of her new Supported Residential Facility. She returned to St Bede’s looking for the culprit. Heidi is no shrinking violet and reputed to attract the eyes of men, which drives their women mad. But an intimate friend of Heidi says that in a domestic setting, she is completely the opposite of her aggressive public persona.
 
*

A white-educated man at a soup kitchen said the media promotes the statistic that more terrorist acts are committed by non-Moslem men in the United Kingdom than by Moslems.
 
But, he adds, “Just 7% of the population are Moslem,” so the ratio for them is much higher.
 
*

Anglicare does three-monthly Lifestyle Inspections of an elderly women who cannot bend down or walk more than fifty metres.
 
Her shed is crammed with the belongings of her daughter living elsewhere. The Lifestyle Inspector calls this, “Hoarding.”
 
The elderly woman is getting a loan to pay for a skip to be placed outside her home. Her daughter’s stuff will be sent to the rubbish dump.
 
29 September 2018

The Tropical Diseases clinic

​From The Night Talker

Health outcomes within our poorest suburbs.

“In the Outer North of Adelaide, one local public hospital, discreetly runs a 24 hour a day, seven day a week clinic, quaintly referred to as " The Tropical Diseases Clinic."
 
“All but the dumbest clutz knows that there are no tropical diseases circulating around Adelaide, and most people in the outer northern suburbs (e.g. Elizabeth, Salisbury Downs, Munno Para, Smithfield and Evanston Gardens as an example) are too poor to be able to have any kind of extended holiday anywhere near where they could even remotely catch a tropical disease.
 
“So, by now you have gathered, that the "Tropical" part is simply a cover for the more overt name of Sexual Diseases Clinic." Yup it’s the good old STD clinic and by all accounts it's seats are always full.
 
“Insider information from an RN who works there is Chlamydia tops the list, followed in short order by Gonorrhea, Herpes, Genital Warts/HMP virus, PID (Pelvic Inflammatory Disease) and even occasionally that really big nasty from way back, Syphilis and its newer but ultimately terminal cousin, HIV.
 
“The last two, (which are the nastiest, are thankfully quite rare) although there appears to be an increased incidence of these diseases amongst persons coming from the Y.P. lands and other remote Indigenous Communities.)
 
“Modern mercies have done away with horrendous pre-antibiotic treatments which included the use of toxic chemicals (everything from Mercury, to Potassium Iodide (Condi’s Crystals) to Silver Sulphide Solution and a hundred other (generally completely useless) quack remedies, that were sold either by mail order or from door to door by salesmen.

“Still the diseases of poverty and disadvantage are quite distinct from those of our more affluent cousins living in more "cashed up" suburbs. In our outer North here in Adelaide, it is not unusual to see women as young as 23 with stage 4 cervical cancer (90% of these cancers have been discovered to be attributed to the HPV (Human Papilloma Virus) caught from infected male partners) whilst it is not uncommon to see patients at young as 35 diagnosed with alcohol induced brain damage, sclerosis of the liver or COPD (Smoking induced emphysema.)
 
“Children as young as ten are being directed to the clinic next door (The Bariatric Clinic) with morbid obesity issues, whilst prescriptions for ADHD and AHDD (Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Hyperactivity Disorder) are flying off Chemist Shelves, despite it being common knowledge, that most of the aberrant behaviours that these so called diagnosed children are displaying, can generally be traced back to poor parenting, questionable mother/child relationships, chaotic single parent households, a lack of an appropriate or healthy male role model, and or living and being schooled in dysfunctional/aggressive and poverty stricken environments.
 
“In more affluent households, child psychologists and developmental educators and paediatric occupational therapists would be employed, to assist these children. In the poorest suburbs, this kind of assistance, is simply not an option, so the cheapest way around any unsettling or disruptive behaviour involve something out of a bottle or blister-pack.
 
“Whilst the real issue (drugs, alcohol, promiscuity, (e.g. mums a tramp and dads a violent, no hoper) poor relationship choices/domestic violence and or lack of suitable opportunities, is never really touched upon or dealt with.) 


“These are just some of the realities that people face, who do their best to survive the daily grind of living, in some of our poorest, most challenged and disadvantaged suburbs.”

The Night Talker. 
29 September 2018

(above) Wasted top quality planks of wood during the demolition of the Housing Trust units on Cutana Crescent, Munno Para.

(above) The government didn't allow anyone to salvage wood from the Housing Trust units in Munno Para. Everything was smashed: floors, window frames, door frames, staircases.

(above) Gone, gone, gone at Cutana Crescent, Munno Para.

Anglicare free breakfast
​in Elizabeth

The fifteen initial customers were the same old crowd from the Food Barn. Breakfast was toast, canned beans, canned spaghetti, wheatbix, instant coffee, tea and Milo. The coffee was cheap instant stuff, but more horribly, they used low-fat milk.
 
We sat in the café at front of the complex and not in the Food Barn. The friendly Chef stood behind the counter.
 
A few Anglicare volunteers trickled in amongst three preachers. One was a woman with good lips and expensive hair. Another was a Haiti-born electrical engineer with good teeth who spoke three languages and is Squadron Leader and chaplain in the 24 Squadron of the R.A.A.F. The third was a white fella with slightly crooked teeth and who spoke like Stewie in Family Guy.
 
A few more diners arrived after that.
 
This breakfast service runs only from Monday to Wednesday from 9:00am to 10:00am. It is a good addition that would be made more popular if they installed two showers for homeless people to use. That’s what the car sleepers need more than food. Showers attract the real homeless.
 
Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
28 September 2018

Vegetarians of convenience
at Port Church

Jackie’s white husband works at the Salvation Army at Arndale and went to school with the Night Stalker. He announced that vegetarians would be served first.
 
Expecting to do the ‘walk of shame’ alone, I was surprised to see a long queue stretched behind me. Theresa from Semaphore Road announced that she’d been a vegetarian most of her life. A little boy said he was a vegetarian when he wanted to be.
 
After Theresa finished her vegetarian meal, she renounced vegetarianism and joined the meat eaters queue.
 
The food included a green salad with brown rice, potato salad, another salad made from canned beans and corn with dressing, sausages, vegetarian patties with the texture of meat, chicken, bread rolls, coffee plus icy poles and a wide range of pastries for dessert. There was a variety of sauces and salt and pepper.
 
Six months previously, it appeared this social meal would be overrun by drug addicts and dealers using the venue as a front to conduct their business. This didn’t eventuate, but since then we’ve been overtaken by self-centered monsters called children. Us regular old folk, none-believers have faded into oblivion, but the atmosphere is positive and non-threatening.
 
The takeaway food included Vicks vapo-drop lozenges. Theresa ran for them as she’d developed a sudden cold. She has a fine sense of humour and wide knowledge of what goes on. The trick is to steer her away from negativity.
 
The church crowd also gave away excellent asparagus, decent corn, onions, good spinach, celery, bread, fruit, Cruskits and Coles cordial in date. It came from Second Bite and Food Bank. What was surprising is that the Port Church takeaway food is relatively fresh when other charities give away rotten vegetables from the same sources.
 
It might be that The Port Church is non-corrupt whereas other organisations siphon off the good stuff for the volunteers and employees then give the rubbish to the clients.
 
The Port Church
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church Hall)
Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dinner, used clothing, fresh fruit and vegetables
“Open to All & All for Free”. No I.D. or registration requirements.
Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. No Ice Dealers.
28 September 2018

(above) The aged tenant of this Elizabeth Anglicare unit moved out six months previously. He took his furniture and an air conditioner fitted to the kitchen window. The unit is empty and doesn't require renovation. Anglicare continues to keep it empty despite having an extensive waiting list of people desperate for housing.

(above) The 90-year-old tenant of this Elizabeth Anglicare unit optimistically installed an expensive ramp. But her health rapidly deteriorated and she was shipped out to a nursing home. Her furniture was removed. The unit does not require renovation yet has remained empty for over two months. Anglicare Lifestyle Inspectors go vague when asked why they keep it empty. Maintaining such an opaque policy creates a feeling of hopelessness amongst other tenants who have friends desperate for independent retirement housing.

Chat and Chew
​(UnitingSA Port Adelaide)

​An elderly diner at our table told how she’d discovered a blow-up life-size doll in her garage. She took it to the hospital where she worked. She leant over the bathtub and struggled to keep the leaking doll under the water, but it kept bobbing up and hissing.
 
When other nurses caught her, she said, “I’m trying to find the hole.” After drying it off, they dressed it up in a nurse’s uniform.
 
It eventually found its way back to the woman’s house and became part of a garage sale. A little boy saw it and wanted to buy it for his Mum. They sold it to him for fifty-cents.
 
Changing the subject, another diner at the table said her boyfriend couldn’t perform in an intimate fashion. He blamed her. When he got a new girlfriend, he had the same problem. He blamed her for that, too.
 
As we talked, most at the table were enlivened by the conversation, but one woman went blotchy in the face and appeared about to collapse. Sexual trauma is the key trauma for women in the psychiatric system.
 
The meal was roast chicken from Coles, pasta, chips, boiled frozen vegetables, sarsaparilla cordial and a pleasant dessert included reconstituted sultanas with canned fruit and custard.
 
The man blinded in one eye after being attacked by Ice neighbours said both assailants are now in remand.
 
Chat and Chew  (UnitingSA)
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2220 (entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area).
3:00 pm to 6:00pm. Coffee at 4pm. Meal at 5pm.
 (Every second Wednesday). Free. Much improved. New cook.
Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways. No children.
Dates for 2018: 26 September, 10 and 24 October, 7 and 21 November, 5 December.
27 September 2018
 

A chilling appraisal of the National Disabiltiy Insurance Scheme
From The Night Talker

“What you need to know about the NDIS.

“The NDIS (or national, disability, insurance scheme) is a corporate arm of Centrelink, which is the largest department within the Department of Human Services (Not to be confused) with the Department For Human Services (which was until recently DCSI, or Disability and Social Inclusion)

“Those persons who meet the criteria for admittance onto the NDIS scheme, automatically have their information sent across to Centrelink/DHS, where it is cross referenced for any payment integrity issues. Furthermore, certain payments that were being paid by Centrelink and or DCSI, will automatically be cut off, upon information being received that the applicant has applied to get onto the NDIS scheme (e.g. this includes mobility allowance, bowel and bladder payment, heating and cooling allowance, medical equipment payment and certain carer payments and or allowances.) This cut off threshold does "not" take into consideration that it may take another six to twelve months for a participants plan to actually be approved. (Or in some instances, even longer)

“My advice for person's considering applying to get onto the NDIS scheme. Unless you are profoundly disabled or in chronic poor health, and really have no other choice, think before you sign on the dotted line, because once you do, your ability to remain independent and do what you will with current payments, will simply no longer exist.
 
“You will along with any funding provided, have to resign yourself to the fact that your lifestyle (including your financial choices and spending habits) will be scrutinised for the rest of the your life (or however long you remain on the scheme. The scheme itself is not a bad idea (in fact, it is in my opinion quite revolutionary) where it falls down (badly) is that it is managed by a team of highly paid, sycophantic, bullies, whose notion of reality is severely warped (to put it mildly).
 
“Only those persons who have the ability to advocate for themselves and scream the loudest (or have strong support from someone else to do this) will ever get anything remotely worth wanting out of this scheme.
 
“For those participants who are unable to do this, the most they will get out of this scheme is some fairly mediocre levels of funding, and lots of invasive type behaviours from the staff who manage it.
 
“Essentially your life will no longer be yours to keep private. You will be required to engage in a high degree of compliance, regularly updating the powers that be about everything that is happening in your life.”

"The choice is yours."

The Night Talker
27 September 2018

Burns for Blinds
 
A resident says that Burns for Blinds got the contract to install outdoor blinds on the Housing Trust units across the road from Fremont Park in Elizabeth.
 
The idea was to reduce heat from the sun during the summer months. Those units facing the bulk of the summer sun were the priority targets.
 
However, Burns for Blinds installed blinds on windows covered by trees or not facing the summer sun. Then they ran out of contract money so installation stopped. Some units facing the summer sun missed out.
 
A resident said that did not matter. “They were rubbish. A bit of wind and they’d flip over.”
 
The man added that one day while walking around the units, he saw a fountain of water. Thieves had ripped the outside copper piping running from the hot water heaters.  
 
26 September 2018

​Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sunday
 
The new clear salt and peppershakers allow diners to see if they are full or empty. They have large holes that don’t get clogged. They are on every table. This is the opposite of Fred’s Van at Kilburn or the Marion Life Men’s breakfast.
 
One table last Sunday was occupied by the Food Barn crowd, possible to protect the exiled Beverly Brooks. The Gawler crowd sat at another table. AJ’s insular family was at a back table. Torrey’s crowd was at the front table. One table was unoccupied while George the Elder and a botanist were at my table. City Salvo refugees occupied another table.
 
However, most clients stayed outside under the gazebo or in the sun. Setting up the outside tables and providing decent salt and peppershakers shows the Fred’s Van management and volunteers are thinking on their feet, like professionals.
 
Lunch was quiche, pasta bake, corn, salad and apple tart with cream. It was attractively presented and with a pleasant taste that did not resemble anything from Food Bank. These Sunday lunches are better than the Wednesday evening meals.
 
George the Elder said he used to be a vegetable grower. He used DDT. He fed his unsaleable vegetables to his rabbits that promptly dropped dead.
 
Like most free meal venues, the tables in the dining room are too close together to be suitable for physically infirm and disabled people. This is the same at Chat and Chew in Port Adelaide. There is also a problem facing disabled people of getting food from the counter.
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff doesn’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and peppershakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays.
26 September 2018

Peter Leith may be released
 
Ki Meekins was removed from his mother at the age of five, then at six fostered to a vicious paedophile and his wife. The wife ignored the screams as her husband raped the little boy.
 
When Ki was 13, a social worker in Adelaide handed him to Peter Leith, who flew him to the east coast. There, Leith and Adelaide children’s television host, Ric Marshall, regularly raped the boy, Ric first, then Peter. The abuse was so violent that when Ki went into the backyard swimming pool, the water around him turned red.
 
Leith and Marshall took him to a compliant doctor who diagnosed hemorrhoids. Ki was put into a Catholic school where the priests kept an eye on him.
 
Decades later, Ric Marshall was sentenced to 25 years home detention in a house on Greenhill Road, Adelaide. Leith acted as his Carer until he, too, was convicted and jailed.
 
But now, Leith may be eligible for parole. It is expected he will be put in a house in the “northern suburbs”, which usually means Elizabeth, where they send the deviants.
 
For Ki Meekins, he remembers the many government attempts to prevent the case coming to light. And the social worker whose career was not affected from giving him to Leith and Marshall.
 
Ki called his experience, “Red Tape Rape”.
25 September 2018

Musician accused of being
​a stupid diabetic

From the Contact Page

“Piano player Wayne has no one but himself to blame for his infections in his feet. He does not look after his diabetes consuming foods high in sugar and blames everyone but himself for his situation. When he is given good advice he ignores it.
 
“There is a blood test that the diabetic specialists do which tells them how your blood glucose have been I know that Wayne's 3 monthly test have been eleven when they should be below seven. He will have bit by bit of his feet cut off till he has no legs then death he has had this explained to him by the medical professionals but thinks he knows better.”
 
Anonymous
25 September 2018
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Marion Life Men’s Breakfast
 
George the Elder fears numbers are dropping and the breakfast might be cancelled. Perhaps 15 men attended last week.
 
Last week, the salt and pepper shakers were clogged and unfilled. Early arrivals found the water for coffee not hot. They served sausages, scrambled eggs, coffee, toast, diced tomato and onion stew.
 
The doors open officially at 8:00am, but they were packing up by 8:25 and by 8:36, we’d been ushered out.
 
There is a certain disengagement from the staff. They are friendly enough, but avoid eye contact and resemble James Nash House guards rather than church volunteers running a breakfast soup kitchen for alienated old men.
 
It is still nice if you live nearby, but not worth a bus trip or drive.
 
Marion Life Church of Christ men’s breakfast
Corner of Marion Rd and Alawoona Ave, Mitchell Park. (entry from Mary Street)
ph 8277 0304. Free breakfast for men only on 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month at 9am. No registration, I.D. or donation required.
Dates for 2018 are 28 Sept, 12 and 26 Oct, 9 and 23 Nov, 14 December.
25 September 2018

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

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

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

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

Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

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

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The Decent Man

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

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

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