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The richer it becomes the less useful the Hutt Street Centre is to those living outsideThe challenge of finding a shower never ends for homeless people. I phoned the Hutt Street Centre last week asking if I could use their showers without signing onto their database.
The operator passed me to a supervisor with an Irish or Scottish accent who said they’d want to know why I was homeless and where I was camped and my full name. When questioned what permissions for them to collect and share data I would be giving them, she said everything was confidential unless I was a threat to myself or others. In that case, everything they knew about me would go to the government. She didn’t mention that all data goes onto the government’s central database, anyway. Nor could she understand anyone wanting to remain anonymous. She asked if I was a Visa overstayer. When it appeared I wouldn’t be signing any permissions form, she suggested contacting the Port Adelaide Council or Visitors’ Centre then didn’t wait for me to say I’d done that and there aren’t any showers for homeless people in that area. She suggested I use the showers at Henley Beach South, but couldn’t remember where they were, then said I “walk up and down Henley Beach and check all the toilet blocks.” She suddenly recollected using them in a blue toilet block opposite the Henley Beach Hotel. “I’ve used them myself,” she said. I found the toilet block the next day on the beach opposite the hotel, but it didn’t have any showers. And as to the Hutt Street Centre showers, this paid employee said, “If you don’t want to answer questions go somewhere else.” The result is that food and shower services offered by the unfunded Daughters of Charity beginning in 1954 were superior for those wanting to keep their poverty confidential than those offered by the current Hutt Street Centre with its $6.5 million annual budget that is being raised substantially this year by the new government. 30 April 2022 How can someone help
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