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Updated 17 September 2022, but needs more entries.Invisible People videosUnemployed Workers Union Rights GuideSouth Australian Alliance to end homelelessness monthly homeless statisticsOlder Adelaide Homeless Journal 2006 to 2019
(above) Homeless campers near the Adelaide CBD. They dislike government employees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Cheap mosquito repellant appears a bargain when compared to the expensive brands. But spray some in an enclosed space such as a car and you'll gasp the difference. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).
(above) Stealth homeless camper in Adelaide Central Business District. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Poster near homeless camp at Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Troubled homeless sleepers come and go in this space behind the State Administration Centre. Yet plenty of welfare housing kept empty for long periods. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Tent near Hutt Street Centre. Dozens, even a hundred engagement officers haven't made any difference in the homeless statistics. All they've done is redirect money from housing to case managers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Nature reclaiming the poisoned pathway ploughed through an indigneous camping area in the Adelaide CBD South Parklands by Lord Mayor Sandra "Call me Sandy" Verschoor's storm troopers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Amputee Piano Player Wayne naked three hours at Royal Adelaide Hospital after dispute with nurses over removal of his bedding he'd brought in from home. (Permission granted by Wayne to publish image).
(above) Is it art or a manifesto on a footbridge crossing the Torrens River at Hindmarsh? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Homeless man sleeping on the corner of Gawler Place and Wakefield Street. Shopping trolleys are in short supply for street people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Corporate psychiatric contractor for the government, Sonder, wants to medicate homeless people as mentally ill for being "mildly anxious and depressed". 99% of homeless people are anxious and depressed. It goes with the lifestyle and isn't an illness. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Victory (Adelaide Life) church took images for church publicity of clients at their free Thursday meal at Para Hills library, but when a client did the same, a church boss told him not to return. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
Coming Soon: List of Christmas Day free breakfast, lunch and supper venues (first report 1 December 2022); Port Adelaide Council engagement employee delivering free coffee to people sleeping outside; Port Adelaide Enfield Council fines homeless camper despite Mayor saying they wouldn't; Skylight; Free food joints working out their Christmas holiday opening and closing times; Grill'd another winner; Colostomy Bag activist.
On the Street
Department of Human Services Minister Natalia “Call me Nat” Cook was vociferous against former Minister Michelle Lensink for keeping welfare housing empty. But now “Call me Nat” is doing the same.
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The cook was absent so the two remaining Moose employees made hamburgers for their dwindling clientele at UnitingSA in Port Adelaide. The burgers were as good as Grill’d hamburgers in Rundle Street. One client even brought a cask of wine.
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Drug dealers no longer choose Port Church as their distribution point. The unofficial guards and ex-users turned to Jesus puts them off. This is terrific as those previously wanting to murder me are now forgiving. It’s a powerful church.
Second Editor
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Chef Wayne said a Chinese nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital tried to put Mayonnaise on his back having mistaken it for anti-itching cream. You wouldn’t want the nurse working at Grill’d.
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An older man recently at Fred’s Van Elizabeth eats little food and spends little money. He lives outside and avoids getting close to anyone. Each fortnight he uses his Aged Pension to fly to another city or regional town.
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The group rostered to do the Magdalene Collective free Saturday meal didn’t turn up yesterday. Wendy Forward’s husband, Michael, ordered Domino’s pizzas for 80 guests. They came in three batches and included non-meat options.
Michael may get reimbursed or he may not. Wendy has for years brought fresh flowers for each table every Sunday.
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A patient at the Royal Adelaide Hospital heard someone gulping a liquid drink. He turned around and discovered a man drinking hand sanitiser.
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A 30-year-old sub-genius alcoholic and drug taker did a test to measure the age of his brain. The answer was 46.
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Someone should help those lost souls working for the Towards Home Alliance. They wander about looking for homeless people to “house”, but keep discovering their prospective clients have fled.
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The Clink Cafe last Thursday for lunch at Semaphore Uniting Church was sadly devoid of many female felons. The food was greatly improved from the previous week and a young homeless man and an older homeless woman played the piano. The lunch is by one-dollar donation though Shar may try to hit you up for a dollar raffle ticket.
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A famous retired AFL player visited the C.H.A.T.S. breakfast last Friday morning and was crowded by fawning women.
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There isn’t a scheduled pre-Christmas party this year at St Andrew’s at-the-sea church in Glenelg. The preacher is leaving next week amid some controversy. She isn’t very religious, but seems okay.
The real estate agent’s wife left earlier this year. She was terrific at her job and her husband provided the money for soup at the Tuesday evening free meal.
Last Tuesday’s meal was troubled because each time someone got up from the table, the preacher removed their chair. Some felt unwelcome, but the place was still packed with diners.
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The Cottage Kitchen is moving from their storefront on St Vincent Street to the Uniting Church on Commercial Road, both in Port Adelaide. Management changed its name to the CK Hub when it became an N.D.I.S. contractor. But the money was like poison as the group transferred its free services for anyone to only those on N.D.I.S. packages.
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The young woman who spent her nights walking and singing around the Salisbury Citadel has disappeared, probably taken to a Care Home. Will this stop her singing?
Early 13 November 2022
(above) Stuff left by family camping in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Anglicare keeps properties empty and reserved for "special interest" groups. HousingSA simply leaves their houses and units empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Sikhs refuse Catherine the Doctor
The Sikhs at Hurtle Square now refuse to serve Catherine the Doctor. Three weeks ago, she threw a container of food back at them saying it was “poison”. This was irrational because the minute before she’d wanted multiple containers. She pulled out her phone and took images of the Sikhs and anyone who backed them including The Ghost Who Walks and the Colostomy Bag Activist. She followed them around the park while the Activist and one Sikh posed behind the tables and smiled at Catherine.
The elderly English Sikh said they won’t give her multiple meals as she lives in a gated community and doesn’t need them. He discovered this while driving her home one evening. He said his wife cooked the food that day after working night shift. A client walked Catherine home earlier this year and she showed him three houses she owned.
Catherine dresses exquisitely. She wears different clothing almost every week. She also has courage, but calls the police when people criticise her including two Vietnamese men who resent an obviously wealthy person taking food provided for homeless and underclass people.
Catherine is Vietnamese and in her seventies or eighties. She says she practised as a doctor before taking an early retirement. She says she was wealthy as a child. She had guards take her to school for fear of abduction. Then came the war and the family lost nearly everything.
She gives medical and life advice to homeless people. She says she helps young people find direction in their lives. Critics says she operates a rooming house and charges tenants $400 a week feeding them with food meant for the underclass and homeless.
How long she’ll last is anyone’s guess. We see such characters come and go in the homeless scene. She’s neither bad nor good, but a problem and perhaps an inspiration.
12 November 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Re: poster by homeless Camp in Hindmarsh
You should of left your own. The person who wrote it obviously doesn't know of this page and how you've played a part documenting society selling its soul. Some people like you have been warning society for years and years and years. The author never listened. Now plays a know it all. Thinks they're clever. They're not, hey? They still don't listen to the likes of you.
They have they're own recently awake boys club. Membership requires at least one form of bigotry. Racial religious l, class, flat earth. Etc. Believing global warming is fake is mandatory for membership.
(Many predators who once targeted the fringes of the homeless scene have flocked to the anti-microchip community.)
That is what we really are. Anti-microchip and the process used to get it in us.
The Beast
12 November 2022
(above) Clever tribal person uses plastic corflute as mattress on wet ground. Politicians should donate them to homeless people after each election. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).Government infiltrates C.H.A.T.S.
at Port AdelaideBeware of strangers bearing gifts.
Rose Darling announced that the Port Adelaide Community Engagement (P.A.C.E.) group had sponsored that morning’s breakfast by donating $350. A woman stood next to her saying we were “beautiful people”. I didn’t feel beautiful. And who was this P.A.C.E. group?
A woman from P.A.C.E. had trouble explaining who they were. A C.H.A.T.S. volunteer said they were volunteers from multi-departments or something like that. It was an answer that said don’t ask questions.
Rose Darling introduced the Council’s “Engagement Officer” to me. His name is Nathan March. I waved him away. Now, I understood. The Council was using C.H.A.T.S. to identify homeless people via a fake charity called P.A.C.E. The “Engagement Officer” is similar to the Salisbury Council’s Compliance Unit that stole my tent and bedding. Nathan March did the intelligence work on a man named Chris who slept in his campervan in the carpark at Largs Bay. Another Council employee named Brenton Thomas wrote Chris a ticket issuing a fine. Soon after, Chris and his van were gone.
This ”Engagement Officer” is a middleman between the homeless people and the Homeless Connect agency, which are also go-betweens between homeless people and welfare corporations managing government housing. And C.H.A.T.S. was being subverted to get homeless people off the street. Isn’t that good?
Not exactly. State government policy is to assume that all homeless people are mentally ill. Anxiety and depression are a mental illness according to the government’s psychiatric contractor, Sonder. Everyone who is homeless suffers anxiety and depression. It’s an adaption to the dangers of living outside in a predatory society. It drops when a homeless person gets housing.
The “Engagement Officer” is an intelligence officer hunting down “mentally ill” homeless people and putting them into psychiatric joints such as Terra Firma in Pirie Street in the city or rooming houses controlled by Supported Residential Facilities like Sunnyvale in Semaphore. They nailed Gerry who was camping on the beach at Largs Bay. He thought he was going there for a few weeks of rest and recreation. That’s what the Sunnyvale manager said. Gerry is ex-Army and accustomed to following orders from authority figures.
Bringing the P.A.C.E. crowd into the free breakfast at the Masonic Hall two weeks ago set the alarm bells ringing. Another good place at risk of being subverted by strangers bearing gifts.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady and The Bald Guy. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff. No hot water in hand basins in toilet rooms.
Late 11 November 2022
Last report on Christmas Hampers
Late 11 November 2022
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Lutheran Care Works
114 Henley Beach Road
Torrensville
Phone (08) 8234 5828
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Not sure.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
No Christmas hampers or Christmas community lunch planned.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to St Mark’s clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale
Phone 8289 1866. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to Kings Baptist clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Late 11 November 2022
(above) The Harms death tree at Port Adelaide. The relatives remember. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours). (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2022.).
Strangers using their shower
Rooming house tenants in Salisbury wondered why strangers were walking into the house, sitting in their kitchen, eating their food and using their shower. One left with the washing machine.
The answer was with Dominick Boleno, the owner of the house. He’d put a message in the Salisbury Council toilets saying homeless people could use the showers at one or two of his rooming houses.
But this wasn’t an act of kindness according to one tenant who said Boleno was in trouble with the Council health department for renting rooms in houses infested with bedbugs and in one case, a house without water. Letting homeless people use the shower was making amends.
Meanwhile, Boleno’s father is allegedly stealing empty drink cans from tenants who spend the days and nights collecting them from rubbish bins to pay the high room rent. One tenant said he had to threaten Boleno Sr. with a plank of wood as the old boy insisted on taking his cans. The old boy said he had a right to them.
Other tenants in the Boleno family houses are drug addicts fighting addiction then released from prison on parole and placed in rooming houses inhabited by addicts and dealers.
But the Salisbury Mayor, Gillian Aldridge, says Dominick Boleno is a lovely man and his tenants are lovely people.
Early 10 November 2022
(above) The Salvation Army now requires those applying for free stuff to phone their central Call Centre then pick up stuff from the Corps of their choice. Exceptions are City Salvos and Playford Salvos at Elizabeth East where the system remains the same. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).N.D.I.S. okays disabled clients
to hire prostitutesA National Disability Insurance Scheme Plan Manager gave the okay for a client to hire multiple sex workers that would be paid through his annual disability package.
The client says he’s looking forward to lots of sex plus taking his sex worker to his other disability programs to show other clients he has his own sexual escort at hand.
A veteran in the disability industry said this isn’t an unusual situation and that it provides sexual equity for disabled people. Another person said it also applies to old people on My Aged Care packages.
Below is a slightly redacted response from the sex industry to the N.D.I.S. client’s enquiry.
"Hello **********,
"Thanks for your referral request.
"COVID-19
"We appreciate that people with disability often need time to plan for accessing sex services, so during the COVID-19 pandemic Touching Base will continue to provide referral information so people with disability can investigate their choices.
"We encourage clients to follow up-to-date public health advice.
"Be aware that sex workers may be slow to respond to enquiries during this period.
"Sex workers and brothels will be using varying degrees of social distancing and other measures to avoid risks of COVID-19 transmission for themselves and their clients.
"Resources for people seeing a sex worker for the first time
"Before we get to the referral options, to prepare for a client for their 1st time having an appointment with sex worker it may be helpful to review the publications Touching Base has available and see if any of them would be suitable?
"These resources are designed to help explain and normalise the process of seeing a sex worker, manage client expectations and enable them to be aware of what may be involved (e.g. Consent issues, a genital check by the sex worker before the service and using safer sex practices etc).
"Booklets about seeing a sex worker
"Please follow the links below to access more info and an order form if you think the booklets below might be useful.
• Tony sees a sex worker
• Anna sees a sex worker
• Seeing a sex worker – a guide for people with disability
https://www.touchingbase.org/clients/booklets-people-disability
"Let them know it will be your first time seeing a sex worker or trying sexual activities with someone else. Then the worker will know to guide you through any experience they choose at a pace that suits you.
"REFERRAL OPTIONS
"We do only have two sex workers on our referral list for Adelaide at present.
"Lexie ********** - 40's
Website: http://www.adelaideescort.net
Email: *******@gmail.com
0468481801
"Cassandra ************- 54
Email: ***********@gmail.com
Ph: 0444******
Tours to Adelaide
Scarlett (40)
http://www.scarlettbwilde.com
********@scarlettbwilde.com
043*******
"When you introduce yourself please let them know you got your their contact details from Touching Base. Let them know about your disability and the services you are after.
"If you have no luck through with these workers, for information about other sex worker options - the sex industry in South Australia is resourced by an organisation called SIN, The South Australian Sex Industry Network. They have previously run workshops for sex workers interested in working with clients with disability. SIN may be able to put you into contact with other sex workers in SA who offer services to clients with disability.
"SIN's office hours are Tuesday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Ph: (08) 8351 7626
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.sin.org.au/
"Further information on how to find local sex workers is available in our FAQ section of our website http://www.touchingbase.org/clients/faqs .
"Let them know it will be your first time seeing a sex worker. Then the worker will know to guide you through any experience you choose at a pace that suits you.
Also tell them in advance you will need a invoice/receipt.
"Pricing and Costs
Touching Base doesn't handle any aspect of prices or costs as they are too variable between workers/brothels and also vary depending on the services sought. This is something the client and worker sort out between themselves.
"There is nothing wrong with a client with disability respectfully asking if any discounts are available, but it must not be expected that sex workers or brothels will offer a discount to their professional services.
"Before you contact any sex worker you may like to also read this 10 Tips for Clients resource:
http://www.touchingbase.org/clients/clients-%C2%BB-information-and-resources
"We do hope this information assists.
"Finally, we would be very interested to be provided with information about the outcomes so please feel welcome to let us know how it goes."
Kind regards,
Kandi
Referral List Officer
Early 9 November 2022
(above) Somewhere in the Adelaide CBD. Social workers blame homeless people for being homeless, but won't say a word about hundreds of government-owned welfare houses kept empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).
Updated report on Christmas Hampers
Posted early 8 November 2022
Act quickly as most hampers are allocated within a few days of opening.
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Yes, to clients of their Para Hills Thursday evening meal and the Friday morning Pittman Park. See Free Food Guide for more details.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Not sure.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
No Christmas hampers or Christmas community lunch planned.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to St Mark’s clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale
Ph 8289 1866. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to Kings Baptist clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Early 8 November 2022
Excellent free summer menu
at Pilgrim ChurchHi again
This week is the beginning of our summer menu for Sunday Night Tea at Pilgrim Uniting Church.
Instead of soups we will offer cold meats and 4 different salads, fresh bread, fruit, cake and the usual tea, coffee and cordial. The exception is Sunday 20 November when we will have the last of our lasagne nights (thanks to sponsorship from outside Pilgrim Church).
Many thanks for publicising free food in the city 😊
Carol and Peter (coordinators)
Editor: The ham, salads, beetroot, beans, fresh chopped fruit platters, cake, chocolate rolls, coffee, apples and cordial were excellent. Fresh and bought from stores, nothing from Foodbank. Even that drunk woman throwing hand sanitiser at diners didn’t dampen the event. And the team leader at Fred’s Van across the road was asking about the new menu and number of diners.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New summer menu includes cold meat, four kinds of salads, bread and margarine, fresh chopped fruit, cakes, tea, coffee and cordial. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
Early 8 November 2022
Kindness and wisdom
in the homeless sceneThe young black fella with the fuzzy hair fronted up to the white fella. “Look at yourself, look at me,” he admonished the older man. The black fella was last seen in despair outside the Pilgrim Church with his face buried in his hands. But now he was shaping up to fight the white fella.
Another indigenous man had been taunting those walking along Pulteney Street at Hindmarsh Square where the Jasmine restaurant and a church charity provides a free meal every Thursday evening.
But he’d picked the wrong guy in the white fella with a scarred face from massive burns who was a client as well. This older white fella eyed him defiantly and set in chain a situation where the fuzzy-haired man felt a kinship obligation to join the argument.
The white fella’s face was scarred red and wearing a red jacket didn’t help offset this or his blazing blue eyes. And he wouldn’t back down. His defiant stare had spooked the black fellas and that’s why one of them told him to look at himself: an old out-of-shape combatant against the muscular young black fella. No contest.
One of the white charity workers told the white fella man to leave even though he’d not started the argument. This got him snarling more than ever as he moved a finger’s distance from the charity guy’s face.
Then Catherine the Doctor stepped in with psychological advice. “Get out of it, Catherine,” someone warned.
Then something changed. The fuzzy-haired black fella went up to the burns man and said, “I love you,” and tapped fists. The white fella was stunned and turned away and walked up Currie Street with no concern about getting a meal from the Jasmine Restaurant.
The boxes of meals arrived with two Jasmine cooks and in the flash of a seizure, we'd dissolved into anonymity and you wouldn’t know we’d been there.
Early 7 November 2022
(above) People steal the best stuff from the recycling cabinet outside St Bede's Anglican Church at Semaphore. The Jim Carey look-alike organiser says that is a form of recycling. Perhaps better than pulling apart electrical components for metals. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
Stormy Summers’ former bodyguard has moved into a nursing home on Salisbury Highway. How the mighty have fallen. And whatever happened to Stormy?
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The revolutionary urinator says he was videoed 200 times last month. He said he wanted to be well known, but not this famous.
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A man urinated into a Farmer’s Union two-litre Ice Coffee bottle on a city street. He wore shorts that slipped too far down. He stood between the door and his car and looked pedestrians in the eye.
Later he poured two full Ice Coffee containers into the gutter. Those walking by weren’t impressed. No one was impressed. Even the revolutionary urinator was disgusted.
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The Café is closed at Ti Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps. The popular employee shot through. It will open in the future. They still have a free coffee and chat group every third Wednesday of the month from 10:00am to 12:00pm where you can meet some incredible homeless people. It sounds silly to say, but it seems a privilege to meet such people.
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A man apologised to a singer at Fred’s Van Salisbury on Sunday. She’d said she’d made heaps of money outside Adelaide railway station with a young bodyguard man.
The person apologising thought the man was her pimp and she was a sex worker. But she is an accomplished singer and earns money from busking.
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A smirking N.D.I.S. agent appeared at Chef Wayne’s bedside in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He carried a contract. It reduced his package from $600k a year to $70. Wayne would move into a house in Para Hills, but the smirking agent wouldn’t give the address. He said Wayne would find out when they arrived. Wayne ripped up the contract and broke the agent’s pen in half.
The agent responded saying Wayne would have to stay in the R.A.H. until March next year.
Chef Wayne, aka Piano Player Wayne, said there are no words to describe how awful the N.D.I.S. bureaucrats are. He said they’re reducing his Care hours and pocketing the money.
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Chef Wayne said one of his new N.D.I.S. Carers didn’t know the difference between a can opener and a pizza slicer. He said they’re offered jobs if they move to Australia and discover they’re allocated Caring jobs even though they hate the clients and haven’t the appropriate skills. But he likes his Nepalese Carers. He says they’re astute and kind.
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Another N.D.I.S. client says his Care Worker refuses to work and spends hours fiddling with his phone while relaxing on the client’s couch. The worker comes from an affluent Indian background and sees the client as white trash. And the firm that hires the worker is Indian so they don’t listen to the white trash client when he complains.
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Wayne said one of his new N.D.I.S. Carers didn’t know the difference between a can opener and a pizza slicer.
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John Johnson is still angry about being locked in the toilet last year at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea in Glenelg. The doors of the corridor are locked at both ends from the outside so John was trapped. How he eventually got out is unclear, but he remains disturbed by it. More so than when he was locked in a walk-in cool room overnight at the Minda complex.
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A volunteer waiter spilt soup on a diner the Tuesday before last at Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg Uniting Church. The diner didn’t say anything.
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“I love her already,” said a man recently released from prison after seeing a stranger deliver six large bags of chocolate to the Jasmine Restaurant free meal in Hindmarsh Square on Thursdays.
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A volunteer said they identify homeless clients to the Towards Home Alliance press gang that visits St. Andrew’s church at Glenelg. But the Minister said they don’t pass any information to Towards Home or anyone.
Volunteers don’t understand that while the press gang may benefit some homeless people, they also destroy the lives of others. That’s why the press gang act sneaky instead of sitting behind a little table and saying they have cheap units for rent. They’re peddling a rehabilitation package that involves “medication”.
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The first Clink Lunch at Semaphore Uniting Church at Exeter went quite well. We tried to sneak in without giving a donation, but the Verger stopped us short.
The Clink ladies said they served toasted cheese and gherkin sandwiches, but there was any pickles in any of them and apparently no cheese, just a little margarine. The soup was better according to other diners.
The big disappointment was the lack of criminal gals on location. And those elderly women serving the food denied being criminals.
The church minister works for both the Department of Corrections and the Seeds of Infinity group as well as the Uniting Church. God save us all.
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“You’re not going to bag me for not wearing shoes,” a homeless man said to Catherine the Doctor at Fred’s Van last Thursday. Catherine was giving him health advice.
He is another of those semi-genius men who never found a vocation and ended up pushing a shopping trolley in the streets.
6 November 2022
(above) One night stand in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Would storage areas for homeless people reduce such waste? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Dracula’s sister’s revenge?
Staff at the St Vincent de Paul charity shop in Elizabeth forgot to lock their rubbish bin. It contained donated stuff they couldn’t sell, but they still didn’t want anyone else getting it. That’s why they lock it. They want it buried in landfill.
But the lid was open so amongst others at the Fred’s Van event behind the shop, Radio Damian and Dracula’s Sister rummaged through the bin. Damian got a woman’s handbag so he looked through the pockets searching for valuables.
This triggered Dracula’s sister. She wanted it and believed she owned it because she had set her beady eyes on it. That’s her version of ownership. On hard rubbish days she joins men scavenging piles of furniture and other good stuff thrown out. Despite the men providing the car and petrol, she claims everything by dint of setting those beady eyes on it. Dracula’s sister is a hoarder. You can imagine how this embarrasses Dracula. They come from a long line of blood suckers, but all she wants to do is load her unit with stinking rubbish. Then she claims the man in her ceiling sneaks down at night and steals it.
But Radio Damian wasn’t having any of it. It was his woman’s handbag because he got it first. So Dracula’s sister screamed like a banshee wolf. It was eerie like hearing a vampire in the forest. She said she’d steal everything he owned. Radio Damian is a little strange himself. He carries a blaring boom box radio wherever he goes then places it next to people having quiet conversations and walks off.
Anyway, the following week he was off his chops and shouting at a police officer’s wayward father. Radio Damian said he was sick of people saying he stunk. This was at the Beacon of Hope free lunch in Elizabeth. The officer’s vagrant father kept his cool at first, but began shouting back. Big Al emerged from the kitchen and ushered the police officer’s father outside. He’s been banned for life, but gets back in occasionally.
Damian’s problems weren’t over with Dracula’s sister, either. Someone robbed his shopping trolley of his birth certificate and other I.D. This had happened before and a member of Parliament had purchased him a new certificate, but this time the answer was no.
There is no proof it was Dracula’s sister. She has many wonderful points. But no one should rob a homeless man’s shopping trolley.
Early 5 November 2022
(above) The single toilet at the children's playground at Outer Harbour is locked or out of service nearly half the time. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).
(above) A faulty design compounded by inadequate flush water means this toilet is frequently blocked and requires repeated expensive maintenance. Someone must be getting a kickback. (Image blurred. Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022),
Citadel news from Salisbury
Two Somalians had their hands inside a woman’s sleeping bag as she slept on the concrete outside Westpac bank at Salisbury in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. She’s the 35-year-old who dresses in gowns and wears gloves and a face mask.
This is across the street from the $43 million Salisbury Council offices known as The Citadel. Authorities told the woman to move away from The Citadel as she’d been having sex with Matt and numerous men day and night and citizens were complaining. And with Matt arrested and in prison, she’d become especially vulnerable.
Anyway, a white fella phoned the police about the two Somalians. The police acted quickly and surrounded the white fella’s car and demanded Identification. Luckily, a security guard from the Hong Kong contractor walked by and said the white fella was okay.
The police found the two Somalians, but let them go as they were “from a different culture”. And – though this wasn’t discussed openly – the white woman was a drug addict, insane and with a cooked brain.
Late 4 November 2022
Updated report on Christmas Hampers
Late 4 November 2022
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
One Anglicare outlet is the Magdalene Centre City joint at
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Left message. Will get back.
Wynn Vale Baptist Church
Phone 8289 1866. Phone next week from 8 November.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone next week from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
Awaiting reply.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Awaiting reply.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Late 4 November 2022
(above) Professional mixed-race Aboriginals cleared the ground before setting up camp in a perfect spot for safety and privacy in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Bottled water and gas cannisters in the city parklands. It is crucial not to take stuff lying around as it might not be discarded. homeless etiquette should be followed strictly. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Early report on Christmas Hampers
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children.
Playford Community Fund
Offers hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Offers Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
This is a preliminary list and will be updated in three or four days.
2 November 2022
Another slight drop in
Adelaide CBD homeless countThe Actively Homeless count in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands has dropped from 234 to 226 from August to September 2022.
The Sleeping Rough number dropped 178 to 155. These theoretically include those people sleeping behind the State Centre Parking station in Gawler Place where Fred’s Van sets up each evening. They sleep on cold filthy concrete without mattresses amongst rubbish bins, but at least they’re out of the rain.
The Temporarily Sheltered number has risen from 32 to 43. These include that crowd who sit on the park benches in front of Sunny’s Backpackers on the corner of Morphett and Franklin Streets. Has anyone actually seen real backpackers at that horrible joint?
The Actively Homeless – other number has risen from 24 to 28. These include those who have dropped out of site including leaving temporary and permanent housing.
The newly identified number rose from 14 to 25 with eight not yet completing the degrading homeless triage interrogation.
The Toward Home press gangs have been increasingly visible in the city and Glenelg areas. It isn’t clear if they actually help people get housing or that homeless people go invisible in fear of them. This is because Toward Home is more about control via psychiatric drugs and control of welfare incomes than actual housing.
A weakness in these statistics is that the Salvation Army – who are a component of Towards Home – won’t list from where or how they collect the data.
One thing that has become apparent is that homeless people have displaced those with rooms and flats from Fred’s Van and the Magdalene Collective’s free services in the city. That might be seen as a good result as those living outside are more desperate.
https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/
2 November 2022
(above) Much of the millions spent on the Hutt Street Centre renovations went for surveillance purposes. Homeless people slept behind the opaque iron fence so it was replaced with a Perspex barrier. The water tap was removed years previously. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) West Terrace cemetery employees removed the Sisters of Mercy slabs and began digging as other staff closed the gates for the day. Rumour has it that the bodies of homeless people lie under certain slabs after seeking places to sleep. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Four Sisters of Mercy bodies were lowered into the graves then covered with dirt. But what happened to that of Janet Mead? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Strangers using the shower
Dominic Boleno’s rooming house tenants in Salisbury discovered strangers walking into the house, sitting in their kitchen, eating their food and using their shower. One even departed with the washing machine.
Dominic Boleno Junior put a message in the Salisbury Council toilets saying homeless people could use the showers at one of his rooming houses. This wasn’t quite an act of kindness as Boleno was in trouble with the Council health department for renting rooms in houses infested with bedbugs and in one case, a house without water. Letting homeless people use the shower was making amends.
Meanwhile, Boleno Senior was discovered stealing empty drink cans from tenants who spend days and nights collecting them from rubbish bins to pay the high rent for the rooms. One tenant said Boleno Senior said he had a right to take them, but changed his mind when confronted by an angry tenant holding a plank of wood.
Tenants in the Boleno family rooming houses tend to be those using drugs or dealing them. Others are on parole for drug offences and trying to stop using then placed by the Department of Corrections into rooming houses inhabited by drug addicts and dealers.
But the Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge says Dominic Boleno is a lovely man and his tenants are lovely people. She urged me to move from my tent into one of this lovely man’s lovely rooming houses. When I declined, her Compliance Team and other Council employees hid in the bushes waiting for me to leave for the day then stole my tent, bedding and camping equipment.
She phoned later in regret that they had acted so quickly.
Second Editor
31 October 2022
(above) Nature reclaiming a vacated homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
“I don’t want to be a dealer. I’ve got a place to live. I don’t want to lose it.”
A homeless drug user recently having obtained housing pressured by welfare housing neighbours to supply them.
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“Time to feed the animals.”
A soup kitchen client waiting for the Pilgrim Church to open.
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Three Towards Home Alliance employees have been hanging around St Andrew’s Church-at-the-Sea. They try to get homeless people to sign treatment and rehabilitation contracts. Two outside men now avoid St Andrew’s to avoid them.
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Red Geronimo has returned to The Ark. He’s gained weight and is uncommunicative. Before his disappearance, he was chain smoking and laughing wildly outside the OTR on Salisbury highway. An OTR employee brought him a free coffee and then he disappeared.
Another Lutheran Ark diner threw rolls of toilet paper onto Salisbury Highway and watched cars drive over it. He’s fine and dandy and without legal problems because he understands the nature of strategic withdrawal.
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HousingSA via the South Australian Civil and Administration Authority obtained an eviction order against Mick of Mick and Denise. It was for last Thursday. Mick said he’ll hang himself if evicted, but then changed his mind to the option of returning to living under trees in the city parklands. But he’s older and sicker than before and that lifestyle would be more difficult. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours).
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Some clients call the Hutt Street Centre, Slut Street. This slur is appropriate since it’s joined its mortal enemies in the Towards Home Alliance. Hutt Street Centre has surrendered its principles set down by the Daughters of Charity and its Board and employees crave power and money. Break through the superficial layer of kindness and you’ll find vipers writhing in unfulfilled satisfaction.
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That young woman living on the concrete outside the Salisbury Community Hub (The Citadel) spends her nights singing and talking to herself while walking the streets of Salisbury City.
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Christmas Hamper season fires up on Tuesday 1 November. There will be a rush of applications and within ten days the books will be full. Interested people might consider spending Monday phoning every place listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide. We hope to have a list here by Wednesday or Thursday.
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The colostomy bag activist is taping clean bags onto power poles and bus stops around the Adelaide CBD. His aim is not clear.
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Revolutionary urinators have been active in the Adelaide CBD drawing attention from offended citizens. What can anyone expect with the removal of public toilets that is a form of locational curfew?
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A man released from Port August prison said he wasn’t impressed when someone told him he’d try to be good. The ex-con said you’re either good or bad; trying to be something makes no difference.
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A white woman snarled at a mixed-race Aboriginal man at an Adelaide CBD soup kitchen last week. She said, “There’s the rapist, there you are. You put your hand up my…when I was sleeping.” The man ignored her then denied it.
When she left, another white women rapped her knuckles on the table until it shook saying “chicks” shouldn’t make accusations without everything being “black and white” otherwise it demeans those who were raped.
She said she was raped on the streets and spent two years trying to obtain a conviction, but the perpetrator was acquitted. She said it was heartbreaking. She later apologised for making a scene in the dining room, but that wasn’t necessary.
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A Glenelg parking inspector woke up a woman sleeping in her car and gave her a parking fine. She was in a no-parking-at-night area. An elderly woman from St Paul’s Lutheran church spoke up for the homeless woman and the fine was rescinded.
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Two men in housing who don’t know each other and are facing homelessness have been talking about hanging themselves. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours).
30 October 2022
(above) Free food at Ridley Grove Uniting Church Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 noon. No I.D. or registration required. Quality varies from good to not good. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Homeless campers not welcome at Ridley Grove Uniting Church. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Starvation Army
It was travelling back in time. A few older people and drug addicts have died in the past five years, but most are still alive. Hardly anyone noticed I’d been gone except a small drug addict lady who alerted her Fraternity. But we’ve got a truce of sorts: I won’t mention them and they ignore me.
Old Bob was missing. He’s the compere. His knee replacement surgery went wrong.
Tad from Port Adelaide advised anyone who would listen that Satanists were everywhere. The laughing woman talked about rude sex saying a man had given her twenty dollars and a ride home, then acted rudely. Army staff weren’t happy with her thirty-minute shouting description and asked one mam did he want her to stop? He didn’t. She said she put her mother’s name and phone number on Facebook advertising a rude service. The police arrived the next day.
Christian sang in the corner. Same as five years ago. He’s improved and gave the Benson Room a good feeling. Staff served coffee. The joint is open from 3:30pm according to an Army magazine. The meal is served at 6:00pm giving patrons time to rush to Fred’s Van at Gawler Place. The Army Do Unto Others (DUO) team also operates an addiction meeting at 6:45pm then Bible study at 7:30pm. Someone said a foot doctor was there earlier.
The Baby-Faced Drug Addict has changed. Instead of being zonked out in the disability toilets, he walked around normally. Maybe he’ll reach old age.
The meal was pasties, pies, mashed potatoes, gravy, string beans and a small container of mouse that few ate, but The Man from Peterborough ate seven.
It was an inspiring gathering and a credit to those organising it. And more time to relax and less food than other joints. Pushing junk food has become a problem. Some myth about people going hungry. Malnourished of vitamins from dead food, sure, but not lacking carbohydrates.
Salvation Army Adelaide City
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Monday to Friday. 9:00am to 11:00am for vegetables, bread, free hot coffee and cakes. Best to arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal 6:00pm on Wednesdays, entry 5:00pm for coffee. Increased groceries if you sign up for an interview and provide a Centrelink card. Water tap in back lane available 24/7.
29 October 2022
Oznomadic
The World's Tilting. I was having a "Fat Butt" in my "Brass Pipe". I get told that I'm "Smokin'a Crack Pipe.". Police Arrived, I offered them my "offending item". An old brass toker, 4 inches long, a pot pipe that I smoke tobacco from. So I'm walking away. With my Pipe. People, "Crack Pipes " are Glass not Brass.
29 October 2022
Mr Doughnut
From the anonymous contact page
I had three communists take me out to lunch one day. We had pork and fish and rice and spices with vegies. We had chop sticks and wine. F****** good Tucker. Let’s have more communist lunches and vodka.
29 October 2022
(above) To survive the politically constructed shortage of housing in South Australia, one person places a caravan in a strategical position and lives there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2021.)
(above) When eventually threatened by authorities, this camper simply moves the house on wheels to another location. Very clever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Doors closed
From the anonymous contact page
“What has happened to salvos? Dropped in today to put my name down for yearly hamper to find doors were closed with a sign on door saying to phone for support. I could see people inside but they did not open up. I tried the number on the door and it said it was not taking anymore phone calls- wt?????? Stuck by covid or cost cutting is my question. I will post an update on food parcels voucher do you want something I don’t smoke and Christmas if I find out 2moro. Following for details on other places I can register this year so I don’t miss out again. Cheers.
Second Editor: They’re putting into place a Statewide Call Centre where most requests for service will be via the phone. The Call Centre sends their orders to the local corps who serve the clients with blankets, gift cards, food, etc. Employees at Corps level who previously evaluated requests for assistance are being deployed elsewhere such as Elizabeth East and City Salvos where they’ll still process client interviews in person. It might be wise to ask the Call Centre not to record conversations.
28 October 2022
Respectful anonymity
Unlike the Playford Community Fund where employees speak through slits in the Perspex, the elderly woman at St Paul’s Lutheran church in Glenelg asked me to sit in a comfortable chair at her desk. She asked if I’d like a bottle of water.
She wanted to view my Centrelink card, but said if I didn’t have one that would be alright. She held a clipboard with an application form then said the information doesn’t leave the church property. It’s kept on paper and very year they destroy all their welfare records. This means clients’ personal details are not sent to the Eternal Shame File.
St Paul’s Lutheran fund their free food program via profits from their Op Shop on the same property. They don’t get government funding so don’t have to betray their clients’ confidentiality. How different from the big money homeless joints. It had been a bad night in the car so this kindness was emotionally overwhelming.
The two women at St Paul’s go through a checklist of thirty or forty pantry items plus toiletries and vouchers for the Op Shop. They take the list into the back room and emerge with bags.
This sort of kindness and respect deserve the same back.
St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Phone 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:00am -2:00pm. Choose pantry items and toiletries from a list of forty items. Centrelink card requested. They don’t send your personal details to the Eternal Shame File and destroy their paper files each year. Polite and kind.
28 October 2022
Best value quality restaurant (Chinese)
Chef Wayne says the Kung Fu restaurant in O’Connell Street, North Adelaide is the place to go. He recommends the sweet and sour pork with rice or the beef in black bean sauce, both with rice or noodles. Once again, he recommends buying the takeaway packs of beef or pork without the rice that is easy to cook at home. He says the added spring rolls and prawn crackers are worth dying for, which seems a little close to the bone considering Wayne’s lengthy residency in Royal Adelaide Hospital.
But he gives the Kung Fu only 9 out of 10 as the sweet and sour sauce seems a little too sweet and the beef contains too much garlic. But Chef Wayne admits this is his subjective opinion.
Once again, the cheapest way to buy it is in takeaway packs of either the pork or beef with sauces while cooking the rice at home. He says everything is cooked fresh every day and that everything on the menu is worth trying. He says the rice, crackers, spring rolls and either beef or pork costs about $55.
28 October 2022
(above) Camper in Salisbury area. The Compliance Unit will attempt to put him in a high-rent rooming house full of drug users. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Communist Sunday lunch
The communists served food, but were preoccupied discussing politics amongst themselves and others. “You’re still going to vote Labor,” one communist told a woman after explaining how the Labor party would betray her interests. But the Labor woman showed more interest looking into the eyes of another communist talking about music.
The communist with compassionate eyes and a nasty tattoo on the side of his forehead told another that helping a family required understanding each member to determine how best to serve them. True, no point giving them stuff they can’t use.
The toothless Eskimo Lady with thin legs and a wizened face had dressed herself in little girl’s clothing, as usual. She’s a survivor and unlike many of her colleagues might live to retirement age.
The Australian Communist Party no longer has a camp stove with boiling water, but rather a taped-up insulated jug. They don’t realise how a flame and steaming water positively affects homeless people on a glum rainy day.
The server was reluctant to serve even the hot coffee from the insulated jug. He said the heat would melt the cups. The meals were good, but cold. They should realise homeless people want hot food. Cold food is okay for those with ovens at home, but not if you’re living outside. Cold food demeans the communists’ excellent service.
But in the balance, this unfunded group provides an oasis on a Sunday while the big money Hutt Street Centre building on the other side of the CBD lies locked and empty.
Communist Party City
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. Phone 0418 894 366. 11:30am - 1:30pm Sundays. Free. No I.D. required. The Community Union Defence League provide free clean used clothing and an excellent lunch on the grass. This includes hot food, takeaway packs, coffee and biscuits for two hours. Homeless and underclass welcome. Food and coffee sometimes cold. Real homeless-style diners. Lois Boswell & Don Frater not welcome.
26 October 2022
Chef Wayne reports from
the Royal Adelaide HospitalBest value quality restaurant (Indian)
The Gordon Ramsay Report from Chef Wayne, aka Hairdresser Wayne, Piano Player Wayne, R.A.H. patient Wayne. The human version of a Rubik’s Cube.
As the third most senior patient at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Wayne has plenty of time to think about food. He likes good food so he gives the hospital caterers 1.5 out of 20.
Wayne says you’re what you eat so “rather than the junk at these agencies” people should dine on food from the North Indian Diner on Hindley Street, near Bank Street. Their spicy food ranges from hot to not hot. Wayne says they prepare the food on the premises from scratch. This includes the sauces. “People can trust me on this because I’m a fussy bastard,” he says from his hospital bed. He gives the North Indian Diner 9.5 out of 10. Their score fails to make 10 out of 10 as the chicken pieces aren’t cut small enough and the lamb pieces cut too small.
Wayne dined there with Omo, his white cat. Omo would sit on the table and occasionally take a bite from the meat dishes. But Wayne says the most economical way of buying the food is in takeaway packs. He says to buy the lamb or chicken separately and cook the rice at home. Each pack costs about $40, Wayne says.
26 October 2022
(above) Until recently, Mick spent months living in this car - including the hot months - up to 23 hours a day at North Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Someone smashed his windscreen so he placed bedsheets on the outside of the front and back windows. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) While Mick spent those months in his car, plenty of HousingSA units and houses remained vacant and reserved for special interest groups, or just kept empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Does this note left in his car resemble something written by a government employee? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
A ruthless welfare corporation
Have you ever wondered what happens to those contracts you’ve signed at welfare agencies? The ones where they force you to give them permission to collect and share information with anyone they please. Do they continue to do this after you’re long gone.
I wrote two letters to Anglicare Chief Executive Grant Reubenicht saying I’d rescinded all permissions for them to collect and share information about me. I can require this legally as they evicted me from the retirement units at Elizabeth so I’m no longer a client.
Grant never replied. Why should he? But he delegated two employees who said they’d work on it. There was no further word on whether they’d inserted file notes saying they no longer had the legal right to collect or share my personal details.
I wrote a third letter to Reubenicht asking for confirmation. He never replied. Why should he? There’s no legal obligation for him to reply.
I decided to make a Freedom of Information Request of my file to see if they’d done it. This is where they supply a copy of everything they hold on a person. It’s free if you have a Centrelink card. Anglicare Corporation promised to provide Freedom of Information Requests to tenants and ex-tenants similar to that of government departments. They did this as part of the deal when HousingSA transferred over 1000 housing units for Anglicare Corporation to manage. But once the contracts were signed, Anglicare removed information from their website on how tenants and ex-tenants can access their own files.
Why did they do this? Anglicare ceased being a charity and became a corporation under former Anglicare church Reverend Lyn Arnold after he left politics after the State Bank lost three billion dollars.
As a corporation, the Board and executives of Anglicare are now required to maximise profits and growth rather than act on a moral basis. Sure, the AnglicareSA website displays images of clients acting pathetic and grateful, but the reality is different. They claimed two years ago to have 1200 employees and 600 volunteers, but have revised this to 1800 “hardworking staff and 300 dedicated volunteers”.
Unpaid volunteers have little place in this growing corporation. It discourages applicants with courses indoctrinating them to use gender neutral language. Anglicare Corporation prohibits volunteers from talking to clients out of hours even if they’ve gone to the same schools and grown up together.
While not following any religion, this appears to be the Anglican Church’s imagery of the Biblical Beast subsuming individual dignity and natural decency in its quest for worldly power.
Second Editor
Adelaide Homeless Journal
24 October 2022
Gourmet baked beans on a budget
By Chef Wayne aka Piano Player Wayne
“Better than a bridge blown up in the Crimea and more bang for your buck. You’ll need four kilos of baked beans. Heinz are better,” says Chef Wayne on using canned beans as a base for this recipe. His instructions are:
Start by washing three kilos of baked beans of their sauce or gunk as Chef Wayne refers to it. Allow to stand and dry. Slice six to nine onions, not diced. Then two red or yellow large capsicums sliced. Two or more whole rashers of bacon finely chopped. Two whole jars of tomato passata (pureed tomato). Two cans of Italian diced tomatoes. 500 grams of Western Star butter.
Put everything in a pot except the beans. Add half a cup to a cup of macadamia Sun Coast Gold oil. (Wayne says it stops the butter from burning). Melt the butter and vegetables together on a high heat, stirring for five or six minutes. Once the ingredients are coated in butter and oil, take the pot off the stove, turn the heat down low ― keep pot off stove for five minutes if using an electric stove ―, then place pot back on stove. Simmer for one hour, stirring every five or six minutes. Keep lid on pot and sweat vegetables as they braise.
Add jalapenos freshly diced. Add one cup of real maple syrup. Be aware maple-flavoured is not maple syrup. Add baked beans that have been washed of sauce (gunk). Add tomatoes canned and passata. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Allow to simmer for ten minutes, occasionally stirring. Add one teaspoon of salt or more. Add final kilo of baked beans still in sauce (gunk).
Optional extra is one can of creamed corn. Eat with bread from the Skala bakery stall at Central Markets.
24 October 2022
(above) Small notice on window of Enfield Uniting Church where homeless people sleep. That's the problem: public toilets have been removed or are closed at night as a social control mechanism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
“Magain real estate are running ads on tv using the homeless. Truly bizarre.
From the anonymous contact page
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A person owning seven houses and business properties and who visits free soup kitchens was invited to a weekend BBQ. Each guest brought some food. This person brought an apple containing a worm hole then ate three plates of fine meats and salads. The host had a word to him afterwards, but without effect.
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Pilgrim Uniting Church and the Baptist Church, both on Flinders Street in the city, are renting sections of their buildings to lawyers.
Gateway Baptist Church in Albert Park bought a warehouse to use as a church as the old-style church buildings bring back too many bad memories to people harmed by churches, according to a parishioner.
The Michigan Minister at St Andrews-at-the-Sea church in Glenelg gives a prayer before their Tuesday evening meal that doesn’t mention God, but rather something about us being loved.
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Why would the Salisbury Council Compliance Unit confiscate then dispose of the tent, bedding and camping equipment of a 71-year-old homeless man camping in The Paddocks park when they allow public masturbators to operate there year after year next to the children’s playground?
And why do they allow the drug addicted prostitute to wash herself in the children’s water fountain after servicing clients around the Council offices?
There is a reason. These are clever people, that’s why they’ve gained power over our lives. They don’t adopt these policies without having a reason.
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A Puddle Jumpers shower truck driver said he agreed that anyone “dobbing them in” should be stopped from using the shower truck and food hub services. “Dobbing in” means speaking and writing about their mismanagement.
The driver said two people defecated in the shower truck two or three weeks ago and they had to clean out the tanks. Were they banned?
As to Puddle Jumpers not letting clients use their toilet, the aged volunteer said clients could go across the road to the hamburger joint. That’s Nordburger. No wonder people defecate in the shower truck then wash the effluent down the drain.
I used the truck last summer and smelt fresh faeces, but could find no evidence. Now I understand the evidence was washed down the grate into the collecting tank.
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The free monthly BBQ at Arndale Salvation Army is in doubt as two employees are being transferred as the Army adopts a centralised welfare allocation system.
Instead of meeting with an employee at a particular Corps, applicants for food parcels, supermarket gift cards, money for prescriptions and power bills will be required to phone the central Call Centre.
And will the interrogators feel braver to ask more intrusive questions and will everything be recorded?
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After spending a year getting Megaphone Man evicted from his Housing Trust unit, his N.D.I.S. contractor neighbour and her husband have sold their unit. They paid $195k for it three years ago then sold it three months ago for $400k.
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“I’m exhausted,” said Rose Darling of C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide at the end of at their free Friday breakfast the week before last. Rose had just recovered from Covid. Staying home for a week had been disappointing. She’d planned to get lots of work done, but was too exhausted to do anything.
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Orange Sky has missed more sessions on Wednesday evenings at Elizabeth than they’ve attended according to a disappointed client. But the Sunday sessions have been more reliable, he said. The problem is the one load per client rule. That annoys clients who then see the machines sitting idle.
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Spanish Tony, 78, hasn’t been well. His hands are shaking and he’s in pain while at Fred’s Van in the city. He says his health is 50/50.
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Peter from the Pilgrim Church said at their Sunday evening meal that I could sleep in their carpark at night. They lock the boom gate when they leave, but cars may exit at any time.
It’s an exclusive parking area, but is plagued by surveillance cameras and lack of public toilets.
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A man who talks dirty about women is furious about a man whom he says talks dirty about women. He was ferociously angry while stating this so we didn’t bring the obvious to his attention.
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A man said he walked Catherine the Doctor home as she showed him the houses she owned.
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We were disturbed at our carpark homeless camp at 4:45am last Friday as government agents flooded the area while a strange contraption was installed outside the military establishment.
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The free hairdresser at City Salvos was swamped with clients last Wednesday evening. She started at 4:00pm and is scheduled to be there every month.
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The Chief Messenger of Infinity has bought an SUV. He gave his car to one of his wives. It was plastered with Infinity messages. His new car has personalised number plates: “SoSo”, but no Infinity messages.
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The man with gangrene creeping up his legs finally made it to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He delayed it for two weeks as he didn’t want to spend $55 on a taxi to take him there. He finally found a charity worker to take him. He doesn’t like the word, “stumps”.
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Hope Chapel at Gawler said they have no plans to restart the food trailer this year. Another client said someone vandalised the trailer. But why should a small church have a professional food trailer and leave it sitting idle?
23 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Re:"South Australia government has put three National Socialists in the Remand Centre on Grenfell Street. One has been there two years and claims letters sent to him by friends and relatives are not getting through."
Had a post office box for UFO mail and sometimes no mail would come through for weeks or months.
Then a whole big bunch would show up in the box from much earlier dates circled by a rubber band.
Remember, ASIO spies on UFO club in Brisbane, probably Adelaide UFO club too.
23 October 2022
Whatever happened to…?
Remember Gerhard, the man camping 2 metres past the highwater mark at Largs North beach? He’s living in a SRF rooming house at Rosewater and subject to numerous health interventions.
And Raymond, the retired hitman who lived in the abandoned St Joseph’s nunnery then under the Largs Bay jetty? He’s living in a Care home in that vicinity.
23 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
You should be following this bro. Serial killer who targeted predominantly homeless. Drive by shootings. Everything about this case doesn't fit into the narrative. Gun laws in California worked. So he went black market. He was pretty smart but then he should of been aware he was being followed, if he was as smart as they say.
Interesting case considering the history of adelaide.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/police-suspect-in-serial-killer-slayings-used-ghost-gun/987e34d6-18ce-4c7c-ae55-d3972d057c9a?ocid=Social-9News
23 October 2022
(above) Homeless people connected to the Eternal Shame File get a $500 credit at Ruf Us in Wingfield when transitioning to a room or house. The grant covers used furniture, beds and large appliances and delivery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 20022.)
Mary’s Kitchen slipping
There weren’t enough chairs and tables set up. Each extra table was brought out when diners found themselves standing in confusion and with nowhere to sit. This has resulted in diners pushing to be amongst the first 30 in the door to sit at tables already set up. This creates unnecessary anxiety for all concerned.
The prayer wasn’t religious. Something about us being loved. How many clients at soup kitchens believe that? Some are desperate and despairing and appreciate hearing about eternal life and happiness whether it’s true or not.
The meal was fine including an excellent no-meat alternative, but they sabotaged their effort by not putting vinegar, tomato sauce, salt and pepper on each table. These are inexpensive items.
John Johnson was the life of the hall. He asked for tomato sauce and got the kitchen’s complete supply that equated to 15ml in a glass bowl. He was angry remembering how last year he’d been locked in the church toilets by volunteers. He also lost his keys last week and five-dollars this week. In his youth, he took a shortcut across the Adelaide airport runway before they tightened security. Now he’s 77 and still works at Bedford Industries.
Apart from these gripes, the church stages nearly the best social meal in Adelaide. And it’s free and without our personal details put into the Eternal Shame File.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items on one of these days. All free.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
22 October 2022
Catherine the Doctor at Fred’s Van
“Nice rings,” a young Aboriginal man told Catherine as he opened her cloth and metal shopping trolley. “Big house,” he adds and says she shouldn’t be here. “I shouldn’t be here,” she agrees, but in a different way.
While we waited in the queue for twenty-minutes, she demonstrated exercises to fix my knees that a surgeon said needed “replacement surgery”. But the surgery can fail and leave you in pain, Catherine said in her difficult to decipher Vietnamese accent.
She worked as an obstetrician and gives advice to homeless people on both medical and life problems. She’s on the buses until 10:00pm delivering soup kitchen food to families who spend their whole salaries on mortgages leaving nothing for food for their children.
But despite being popular, this 70 or 80-year-old is the butt of bad opinion. They say she has three houses and an apartment and operates a rooming house where she serves food from free soup kitchens.
Catherine grabs too much. She takes five times what hungry derelicts take. She also warns soup kitchen clients to seek education whether in universities or on the job training. She says some building workers get $200 an hour and she knows this from building her own houses.
Catherine the Vietnamese Doctor warns that Australians are letting foreigners boss them around especially Indian and Chinese people. She says that worries her.
And as she leaves Hemmings’ Courtyard, the Life Christian Centre people wave her goodbye as if farewelling a celebrity. Perhaps she is one. And the homeless men and women with their large dirty bags blend into the dirty concrete as they disappear into invisibility.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. It is important not to become involved in others' battles or even to look certain people in the eye.
22 October 2022
Whatever happened to…?
Remember Gerhard, the man camping two metres past the high water mark at Largs North beach? Sunnydale SRF staff came to his tent and offered him a place in a SRF rooming house at Rosewater where he was subjected to numerous health interventions.
And Raymond, the retired hitman with terminal cancer who lived in the abandoned St Joseph’s nunnery, then under the Largs Bay jetty? He’s living in a Care home at North Haven.
22 October 2022
(above) Anglicare Thread Together offers free new clothing that otherwise would have gone into landfill. The phallic representation seems unnecessary. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Oct 2022.)
(above) The Army at Parafield Gardens has racks of bread in their foyer. Anyone can take a few loaves without having to ask anyone. But rumour has it that this Corps along with others is closing down soon though staff deny it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
From the anonymous contact page
What example do you want us to follow sir? You said Boswell and Fraser [Frater] set an example we should follow, which one? Both told us about the safe and effective MRNA therapy that was never safe and effective. How much money did they receive for this? Pathological liars involved in the deaths of thousands and suffering of many more. Are you telling us we should strive to be them? It’s not summer and you're already cooked (joking)...
Read the study below, they always knew. And yes you should Always check first with your government health advice just to see what lies today..
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/one-serious-adverse-event-per-eight
20 October 2022
Chef Wayne’s Recipe of the Week
aka Piano Player Wayne
KFC Soup
Put one bucket of KFC Original Recipe chicken pieces into very large pot. Cover chicken with water. Bring to boil then simmer for one-hour. Strain resulting mix through colander. Add grated and chopped onions, celery, carrots, sweet potato, turnip, broccoli, zucchini and cauliflower to strained mix. Add six OXO chicken cubes and seasoning as desired such as chilli, garlic, ginger, coriander, etc. Bring to boil then simmer for three hours then mash everything then add chicken pulled from bones.
The Chef says KFC is fantastic as a base. Also chicken flavour Pringle chips can be used as a base. Preservatives in chips and KFC help preserve the food.
20 October 2022
(above) Click on image to direct social workers to location of a homeless person, or yourself, or send them on a wild goose chase. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)The kindness of Lois Boswell and Don Frater to a strangerLois Boswell and Don Frater were unloading groceries, well, at least one of them. This was outside their home near Whitmore Square. A homeless woman approached them. She’d been knocking on doors. Residents rarely answer to such people knocking on their doors. Too many ruffians in the area. But Don and Lois were outside their house. Big shots in the South Australian government.
The sunburnt woman was about 60. She’d been treated for a medical condition in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. They discharged her at 7:30pm one evening. They provided her with a Uber. Go to the Hutt Street Centre, they’ll provide food and a place to sleep. That’s what the hospital said.
Bad news. The Hutt Street Centre was dark and empty and locked when the Uber driver unloaded her. Two street women drank energy drinks in front. They gave the hospital woman a smoke. She smoked it then extinguished it in one of the street woman’s drink. That got things going. They shouted and screamed at her. She offered to buy them another. That didn’t help so she fled.
She slept two nights in the parklands in absolute fear. This was the first time she’d been homeless and at her age it was a massive shock. Along the way someone stole all her stuff in the parklands so she was really in trouble.
In her wanderings, she discovered Michael’s filthy car at North Adelaide. He’d lived there for months, rarely leaving the vehicle until he was taken away. It was empty so she moved in. One rainy night a man knocked on the window and insisted she take his coat. He later brought groceries.
It hadn’t always been this way for this exhausted and grieving woman. She’d worked at a normal job for most of her life, but lost it and her relationship and found herself without a place to live.
Then she saw Don and Lois unloading groceries. They were sad themselves. It had been three years since Numan Mohamed stabbed to death their friend, Kim Chou, in their house.
The homeless woman wanted to charge her phone. They took her in and served her a meal and gave her money saying that cigarettes were very expensive. Later, Lois arranged the woman collect $3000 backpay from Centrelink. And five days in Scotty’s Motel, then another couple every once in a while via a support worker.
She used the $3000 to buy a car that she sleeps in. Much safer than on the ground or in doorways.
Her face wears the fatigue of despair and desperation and she speaks in a shaky voice. But she has landed a work-from-home job in the technical industry. She’s no fool and has worked all her life. This is the beginning of her new life: working from her homeless home.
But the key to the story is the kindness of Lois Boswell and Don Frater to a stranger who asked for help. And the stranger who was worthy. They’ve set an example for the rest of us to follow.
Late 18 October 2022
(above) Free purchase cards obtained by one person in a week. Others can't bear the humiliation of going to a single charity even though most are government funded. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)Salvation Army reducing
decision making at Corps level
from the anonymous contact pageYour "Anonymous" person on the 12th [October] is correct.
However, unlike your picture of the PG Salvos where you claim in your comment, "rumour has it that this Corps along with others is closing down soon" again I have to correct your inaccurate information that has been given to you.
None of the corps centres are closing and if you just ask them. It is going to a call centre model and the best bit is. It will be in Adelaide!
Apparently most centres that have their pantries can still help with parcels but its either e-vouchers or pick up vouchers after a phone interview. Some workers around the traps confirmed that they have been doing it in NSW and QLD for years now.
I hope they don't get rid of Alison and Elanor. But get rid of the absent fat minister at Elizabeth East.
Anonymous
Editor: Staff at suburban Corps say their knowledge of each client will be irrelevant and subservient to decision making based on file notes and statistical entitlement.
Oh, and I phoned Parafield and they said they weren't closing down. Thanks for correcting my assumption.
Early 17 October 2022
Few takers for COVID shots
at Fred’s Van KilburnThe front man for Fred’s Van announced that he thought he had to make a statement and we could make of it what we wanted. He said the Covid Injection team were available for injections though he didn’t say where.
Two injectors had already met us in the foyer. The Italian Stallion jumped at the chance to get No. 4, but others were silent. Two old men loudly recounted stories of vaccine disasters. The injectors ignored them; they’d been trained to ignore dissenting opinions. They left the foyer and we didn’t see them again.
The free vegetables were horrible. I later cooked the stinking broccoli. Maybe the heat would kill the germs that make vegetables decompose. It didn’t and I got sick. The bags contained half-thawed refrigerated seafood. That range bells of alarm in some diners’ ears. There was plenty of bread and potatoes in bags that no one wanted.
The meal included Wine Centre soup consisting of a strange mix of vegetables blended together. It was hot. I had two bowls. The spaghetti Bolognese disappointed some diners, but there was an agreeable non-meat option.
Staff numbers were low so the milk and cordial ran out despite fewer diners than usual. The Fraternity were there with one man telling a woman not to talk in the dining room. That suited everyone fine.
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.
Early 17 October 2022
Father entertains child https://www.bitchute.com/video/04y9PwO6JOew/
One lucky three-year-old kite flyer
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PdOtEFppP9FO/
Early 17 October 2022
(above) Port Baptist Church at Woodville Bunnings raising money to provide free Wednesday evening meals to homeless and underclass people at Largs North. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
The Anglicare employee who played a key role in evicting a 70-year-old Australian citizen from a retirement unit due for demolition has been given an award for compassion.
While half the units in the complex scheduled for demolition had been empty for up to three years, Anglicare had placed a dozen refugees straight off the plane from Afghanistan into the units. The employee got them permanent housing within three weeks. That’s why he got the compassionate award.
The old male Australian citizen has been homeless for eight months.
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A diner at City Salvos said a free hairdresser will be at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide this Wednesday from about 5:00pm. There should be a huge rush for this service. Coffee is served at 5:00pm and a free meal at 6:00pm. Despite the food not being so great, they still get up to 100 diners, according to an insider.
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Anglicare pledged to adopt the government’s guidelines for Freedom of Information Requests. This was when the government leased them over a thousand HousingSA units and houses to manage.
Since then, they’ve removed all mention of such a pledge from their websites. Where is their Freedom of Information Request page? Will it magically reappear?
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The comical homeless man has recovered from a bad Ice trip he experienced last week. He was raving at the Pilgrim Church on a Sunday then spent a few days lying on the ground in Hurtle Square, but has recovered to his previous state, sort of.
The nice thing about him is that he has retained a friendly manner despite a terrible life.
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A vinyl record fair was held in the Anglican church hall at Semaphore two weeks ago. They got 1000 attendees and every seller sold out of CD’s and vinyl records.
This is in contrast to the vinyl fair five years ago when on the following Monday we discovered the rubbish bins overflowing with vinyl LPs, CDs and DVDs.
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An elderly Baptist charity worker talked to three old men about the COVID injections. Two of the men said they’d never had them while a third said he lost 30% of vision in one eye after the second shot. He added that his doctor wouldn’t record it as a vaccine injury.
The charity worker began the usual government/pharmaceutical corporation viewpoint, but her voice strained when the 30% blind-in-one-eye man told her of presentations by David E. Martin. In these, Martin cites studies claiming the virus was an artificial creation and the vaccines were designed to destroy our immune systems and make us dependent on further shots. He asked rhetorically, “Why do those having had five injections keep getting COVID?”
Readers should check the websites of pharmaceutical corporations and HealthSA for the official truth.
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The pleasant woman from Elizabeth wasn’t happy at Fred’s Van last week. It wasn’t because Child Protection took her baby at birth last year though that didn’t help. The problem was another woman stealing $160 from her handbag. The alleged thief got a smack whether she did it or not.
But the fact that the money was missing kept the pleasant woman storming back and forth in impotence until she disappeared down the street.
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A man swore at volunteers handing out the Jasmine Restaurant free food at Hindmarsh Square last week. He growled “Fu** you,” continuously for ten minutes. As they packed up and were ready to leave, he approached them and asked in a submissive voice, “Can I have a feed?”
He later stared at me and made guttural sounds of threat. I was frozen in fear until realising he has Tourette's syndrome and isn’t necessarily threatening.
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There was a larger than usual crowd on the last visit of the Adelaide Day Centre soup van until next year. Over forty people clamoured for the last soup at Hurtle Square so there weren't any takeaways. There was a sense of mourning.
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Old Nieta was lonely on Thursday as Welfare’s reduction of Carer visits hit home. She woke up early feeling anxious. It’s merely a matter of time before her health declines and she accepts their decision to force her to move from her two-bedroom house into a nursing home. They reduced her hours to reduce her health.
Welfare is also trying to reduce her disposable income. They got her to receive two meals a week from Meals on Wheels even though she dislikes the food and cannot afford them. “$10.50 a pop,” she said, then added that she’s got another welfare joint partially paying for them.
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Piano Player Wayne can’t get a prescription filled as his chemist won’t deliver to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the hospital won’t prescribe the same skin medication. He’s trying to attract the attention of the media as he’s been stranded in the R.A.H. for eight months, he says.
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The Semaphore Uniting Church begins their Thursday lunches at the church on Semaphore Road, Exeter on the 20th of October at 11:30am. But they won’t be free as planned, but require a Gold Coin donation, which means only a dollar.
The meal is prepared by prisoners on parole and supervised by guards to ensure they don’t spit in the food. But the church Verger says any thought of sabotage is ridiculous as the kitchen staff are both positive and supervised.
Early 16 October 2022
(above) Grass growing over campsite in the CBD south parklands near where that homeless woman's body was found earlier this year. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Albert Park free barista coffee
The Baptists purchased a huge warehouse with a generous carpark on Jervois Street back of the corner of West Lakes Boulevard and Port Road. They offer quality free coffee and buns with no strings attached although one church member was collecting donations for a quiz night last fortnight.
The ferals haven’t moved in so the church members are relaxed and friendly and merge with the guests without preaching anything.
The men’s toilets have a visible urinal area so women passing by the opening door can see the men in profile at the urinals. A board covers the genital area, but it is still undignified and typical of feminist influence on toilet design.
The Baptists have purchased the warehouse from their own money and are still paying it off. That’s commitment to the cause.
Gateway Baptist Church
6 Jervois Street, Albert Park. Ph (08)71236494. Free barista coffee and sugary buns every Friday 11:30am to 1:30pm. No I.D. or registration required. All welcome. Relaxing and spacious.
15 October 2022
(above) C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide offer a few nice items along with their decent breakfast at the Masonic hall on Friday mornings at 9:00am. See free food guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Soup could have been a little warmer
That’s what an old hand at Mary’s Kitchen said. He was the one who saw the blood inside Steve’s unit at the Kingslea Apartments after Steve’s missus cut his throat then killed herself.
The government responded by replacing the other tenants with Home Detention people. The whole joint.
A migraine raging through my neurons so I avoided eating in case it contained MSG that triggers migraines. Who wants to extend the stroke or epilepsy symptoms of a migraine?
The preacher lady at St Andrew’s Church is leaving and of her next job she said it will be “Not another church.” She said her contract had ended and that was why she was leaving. And that the church likes to bring in new people, something like that. Not many of the self-absorbed diners responded to her announcement.
Despite cold soup, the joint wasn’t lacking in clients. Staff repeatedly set up new tables and chairs to cope with the influx. At last eight homeless people were present including one who found sitting in the crowded hall overwhelming so staff took his food into the courtyard. That happens when you sleep in doorways.
The Towards Home Alliance pair weren’t at the meal, but the woman of the two had been there for the soup lunch. Judging by the continuous presence of homeless people obviously suffering from excessive wind and sun, their recruitment campaign hasn’t been successful. Maybe if they simply rented rooms and units without the psychological add-ons, they’d have more takers.
I didn’t do anything crazy, but felt the mild mania that comes with living outside. Immersed in such a wild life makes acting normal in a crowded room a huge challenge. Other homeless people at the meal suppressed their anxiety with cheap red wine. Whatever, this homeless life brings a changed state of consciousness as everything takes on a charged atmosphere reminiscent of military battles.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 14 October 2022
(above) Prime location Housing Trust apartments on Greenhill Road, Eastwood in process of demolition. Deemed by gov't as too good for welfare people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Some apartments had been kept empty for years despite the huge waiting list of homeless people looking for accommodation. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The new development will include some welfare units, but they'll be more cramped than this one. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The powerless and excluded are not without their symbolism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Graffiti is the response of those erased from history. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Many welfare people who led crippled lives after abuse in children's homes haven't forgotten the role of Adelaide's churches. And how strange the government placed notorious child molester Ric Marshal under house arrest next door to victims of child abuse on Greenhill Road, Eastwood. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)Puddle Jumpers positive feeling
at Hurtle SquareThe unpaid staff at the Monday food delivery at Hurtle Square clearly like what they do. They like the clients and they effectively distribute bread, cooked pasta meals, the odd grocery item and plenty of almost rotten vegetables.
Of the four volunteers last Monday, one worked as a Samsung promoter, another a Vodaphone manager and a third works in the school canteen at Urrbrae.
Catherine the Doctor was cautioned not to take so much. She later complained there were so many free food places listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal free food guide that she didn’t have enough time to visit them all. Catherine is currently the most educated person in the homeless scene.
Volunteers were in no rush to get it over and leave like with Fred’s Vans volunteers. This allowed those fearful of the initial crowd to arrive later and access what was left. Volunteers also offered extra stuff to those who waited towards the end for a second lunge. After nearly 90-minutes, they drove to the Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh where they unloaded what they had left.
The Monday giveaway at Hurtle Square was a pleasure to attend. And the volunteer staff set the tone for a friendlier than average meeting between often fighting clients.
Puddle Jumpers Hurtle Square
Free fruit, vegetables, hot food at Hurtle Square, Adelaide on Mondays. 7:30-8:00pm, but they usually stay later. No I.D. or registration required. No questions asked. Similar to Adelaide Day Centre soup van and Fred’s Vans. Puddle Jumpers is one of the best new participants in the free food scene and they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. They have 750 volunteers and zero paid staff.
Early 13 October 2022
(above) The Hutt Street Centre is good at self-promotion, but doesn't mention excluding homeless people who won't join the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The Daughters served bread and soup at the back door and didn't require names and dates of birth. The Hutt Street Centre today is a different beast with nuns replaced by lawyers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Huge government funding required them to record names and birth dates of anyone using their showers. Homeless people who want to remain anonymous aren't allowed to use the showers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Some Salvo centres closing down
From the anonymous contact page
Anonymous Please - To the person asking about the Salvos closing you are indeed right. I was told last week by the site on ****** ***** it will be my last appointment as they were moving to a call centre. When I asked for the number they went quite and said they did not have it yet. One man went to go get the number but was told he was not allowed?
They could not tell if I could still come for day packages, showers or free bakery. Guessing this call centre will be interstate or overseas like the new Australia. Anyone have an insider with knowledge if this will be all Salvos if I travel.
Anonymous
Editor: Thank you. I will follow this up further.
12 October 2022
Comment on the Squealer Page
from Di Dum
“That squeeler page? What would happen if people entered locations in quiet areas free from prying eyes and then waited for the goons to come? Surprise them?
“I've seen some sick sh** in homeless industry, but that takes the cake. At least the secret police in Nazi Germany didn't pretend to be something they're not. Street to home and such are nothing but Gestapo and the homeless today's gypsy's jews and disabled.”
12 October 2022
Via the anonymous contact page
Hi.
I just saw on this website a claim that the Drop In Care Space put a wheelchair ramp and pot plants on it veranda in order to stop black peoples sleeping there. Is there a source for the claim that the reason for the wheelchair ramp and the pot plants is to stop black people from sleeping there? I suspect that the reason for the wheelchair ramp is to make the Drop In Care Space wheelchair-accessible.
Name and email supplied
Editor: Their main entrance is off Hanley Street. The shopfront door is rarely used so the ramp seems non-functional except as a deterrent against people sitting in front of the front door. I’ve never seen anyone enter the front door, always from the side street. But I could be wrong.
12 October 2022
Cold comfort no problem
at Moore StreetTeam Leader Wendy announced from the back door that the ovens wouldn’t fire up. The soup was okay, but the oven food would be heated on the burners. Service would be slow. No one complained. Some were happy. No rush, then. Still, too bad Vince Focarelli had to close his restaurant and leave the country. His back door was forty-metres from the Magdalene hall. We could have used his ovens.
We talked about The Gorilla. He collected cans until he died two years ago. It was near the time when Filthy Phil, Bluey and Donny the Can Collector died. All four were victims of child molesters at the Glandore Boys’ Home and subsequently became can collectors and shoplifters.
The hall wasn’t crowded as staff had assembled six large tables with chairs in the main lane and a line chairs in the back lane. The staff were university students studying agriculture, medicine and dentistry.
Cambodian Jenny criticised Catherine the Doctor for greed. Jenny is Chinese and unsophisticated while Catherine is Vietnamese and sophisticated. They’re both personable people.
The Ghost was previously the life of the party, but these days sits silent and alone even at crowded tables. His contemporaries have died and the rest withdrawn to nursing homes, medication and TV.
The meal included three types of soup, a main course of meat, carrots and rice with the vegetarian option being a superior lasagne. Dessert was apple pie, bread and butter pudding or chocolate cake, all with ice-cream.
But there wasn’t any tomato sauce and the pepper grinder failed to grind so no pepper. The soup could have been hotter. Salt was from a single container for the whole room. Why do they miss the fine details?
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
12 October 2022
(above) Lifepoint Church at Modbury now records how many cups of coffee are consumed by each morning tea participant. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Ms Nat Cook
Minister of Human Services
Level 8
Riverside Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide. 5000
[email protected]
Dear Ms Cook,
Would you please send me the addresses of the approximately 2000 HousingSA units, flats and houses that are empty as of this week?
You criticised the former Minister for Human Services about leaving good accommodation empty so I would like to analyse the list of currently empty properties to determine if you have operated differently.
I would also appreciate a list of HousingSA properties sold due to an inability to find tenants for them. This seems incomprehensible considering the high number of people living in cars along the beach suburbs and those on the waiting list for public housing.
Yours sincerely,
***********Name, address, email and phone number supplied.
Sent on 25 September 2022
Posted on Adelaide Homeless Journal 10 October 2022
(above) The Code Blue racket resembles those free trial offers on the internet where they require your credit card number. Code Blue requires signing away your privacy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
Cos We Care’s free food giveaway in Fremont carpark No 1 at Elizabeth returned to a quiet environment yesterday after last week’s violence. The clash was between people who knew each other plus two Cos We Care volunteers who bravely tried to intervene.
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Hutt Street Centre employees have changed from the previous generation. Where they once blended in with the clients both in dress and personal modesty, they now wear bright uniforms and display the fixed smiles of dominance.
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A homeless man said he was surprised when discharged onto the street after being in a coma during a five week stay in the Royal Adelaide Hospital for a spinal infection.
The publicity put out by the homeless industry gave him the impression that recovering patients who were homeless were given respite in temporary accommodation.
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Homeless people are staying at the Detox Centre at Whitmore Square while pretending to be affected by drugs. They don’t pretend to be drunk as the breath test would catch them out.
One such person said she won’t be able to stay there forever and, anyway, it’s not a nice place to sleep.
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St Bede’s at Semaphore now keeps an Attendance Register. Names were collected theoretically for the coffee delivery from Copenhagen on Semaphore Road, but that’s been subsumed into a reset of being used as an Attendance Register, either for Anglicare or St Bede’s Anglican Church, or both.
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Old Nieta went to the Cottage Kitchen and Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) when she had more mobility. She’s now facing difficulties. Welfare wants to move her from her two-bedroom HousingSA house to a Care Home where they take 85% of her income.
She’s resisting their pressure so they’ve reduced her My Aged Care help from about ten to six hours per week. This will cause a deterioration in her physical condition that will be used to justify a Guardianship Board order forcing her to move.
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Puddle Jumpers reduced their opening hours from 5pm to 9pm each evening to a new closing time of 8pm. They didn’t put a notice on their door of this change so clients experienced a few weeks discovering the door locked and lights out. They’re now intending on resuming the 9:00pm closing time.
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Those alcoholics below homo hill constantly bare their arses while urinating in the carpark. Why don’t they use the bushes on Homo Hill where their drinking pals are based? They’re almost as bad as those slappers at The Paddocks park at Para Hills.
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The late rains have been a bounty for those living in tents in the Adelaide CBD parklands. The lush growth of bushes and grass has provided extra camouflage.
Early 9 October 2022
(above) The LGBTQI Drop-in Care Space at Whitmore Square placed large pots plants on either side of their front door and a disability ramp to discourage tribal black people from sleeping and drinking there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Government squealer page
Here is a link to the government’s squealer page where concerned citizens can report homeless people. This officially is designed to help homeless people get help, but what about the 211 people officially sleeping rough in the Adelaide CBD tonight? It hasn’t helped them.
There must be another reason for the squealer page. It does create employment for those roaming the city documenting those sleeping outside. And who is putting fake locations on the squealer page to send the bureaucrats on wild goose chases?
https://www.streetconnect.sa.gov.au/home/launch
Late 7 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Mary Mags Dinners will have more tables set up outside on Saturday nights with the longer days
www.marymagsdinners.org
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
Late 7 October 2022
(above) Where Gary "Gazza' de Blassi slept for years at West Terrace Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)William’s Wardrobe
at Fred’s Van CityTwo women brought a car full of old clothing and toiletries. A sign on the door said “Clothing Adelaide’s Homeless Community”, something like that.
William's Wardrobe is named after a popular homeless scene man who killed himself.
One women gave Spanish Tony, 78, a dressing gown that he didn’t want. He wanted razors only, but can’t speak clearly since his strokes.
A film crew from Sydney was doing a promotional piece on William’s Wardrobe, but didn’t want to know about resources billed as helping the homeless end up with the bureaucrats. We can expect no help from the likes of them.
An old man raved about Homo Hill and that the women and film crew should go there. But the film crew were suddenly tired and hungry and non-communicative. They’ll misrepresent us saying we’re doing well and the Wardrobe Women are gifts from Heaven.
Another diner shouted “c***s” at a police security patrol entering that building where the bureaucrats worked overtime last month to move invoices from one department to another to make it seem the government made savings where they said they would.
Fred’s Van itself ran out of takeaway bags, but had enough sausages with the last one being a non-meat sausage. How things have changed for the better if you don’t eat meat.
I felt a pang of anger seeing non-homeless people grabbing huge amounts while the homeless crowd hung back. They must be hoarders or collecting for others who either don’t need it or are reluctant to visit free food joints.
But the strongest impression was the despair of one man living outside who has suffered catastrophic burns.
6 October 2022
(above) A pair of trousers placed to dry or to mark someone's territory in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Grill’d better this time
Some clients dined inside, but got takeaway packs to eat at tables in case they had to make a run for it. Diners included a disparate group of street people from various other places. No one did anything gross though the Traffic Manager derelict wanted tomato sauce instead of the Beerenberg-style relish. They had six types of non-meat hamburgers in either vegan or vegetarian versions.
Some diners kept to themselves saying nothing to anyone and after eight months homeless I feel the same way and have to force myself to converse.
Staff stood at the front door to prevent normal people from entering so we were within our own culture. At 7:30pm closing time, eight or nine staff sat down for a meal, but left the closed-to-everyone-except-street people sign blocking the door. They didn’t kick out the three or four of us left including George who previously resided inside a MacDonalds junk food joint.
One diner said we were blessed having such a free service. It does seem incredible. The joint was hopping, but not overwhelmed as most people were at Fred’s Van as they’re too socially polarised to be able to venture down Rundle Street, which is slightly upmarket.
The staff all appeared under 30, while nearly all the diners were over 50 including one at age 77.
A man was sleeping on the concrete footpath in front of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra building this evening. Another was in front of the police station, both on Hindley Street.
Grilled/D 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide
Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Best to arrive before 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jack. Reserved for street people and the soup kitchen culture, which includes clients of Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and similar places. No questions asked.
Early 5 October 2022
(above) Homelessness is a primal experience at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
City Fred’s Van on Saturday
No wonder Fred’s Van reinstated their Saturday evening free food service on Saturdays in the city. Despite Moore Street going full steam, nearly 40 clients still attended Fred’s Van at Gawler Place. There were at least three newcomers: two white fellas and an African man who asked directions.
Diners included more marginalised and homeless people than those who go to Moore Street. Thin Gabby from her homeless camp was unrecognisable in cloth covering her body, arms and face. Similarly dressed to the homeless Uni academic living in a squat. Gabby had just got out of the watchhouse and was wary of anyone and everyone.
The Traffic Manager from Port Adelaide got a brand new blanket. He swears obscenities at the black fellas and they laugh back at the crazy white fella. He talks filthy language to everyone with good humour, but it isn’t nice. No wonder he manages traffic at roadworks. No one needs to hear him.
Three homeless men said they were as broke as Brokeback Mountain, something no one wanted to think about. Tony, 78, moved around talking to people. He’s more relaxed now that the scissor-wielding psychopath from Baptist WestCare has moved to Semaphore.
The vegetarian option came in a plastic container wrapped in foil. It was hot despite having been in transit for 30-minutes, a credit to Fred’s Van. It was white rice with a cheese-sugar sauce. Not so good, but nicely presented. The sandwiches had lots of filling and better buttered than usual. Only a tiny section on one corner wasn’t greased and had gone soggy.
The sounds were the most significant feature of the gathering. Everyone spoke normally with no anger or sounds of violence. Times have changed, but complacency can be fatal.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by Life Christian Centre, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van.
4 October 2022
Assaults and continuing threat
at Cos We Care Elizabethhttps://7news.com.au/news/adelaide/charity-volunteers-brutally-attacked-while-trying-to-hand-out-food-in-elizabeth-park-in-adelaides-north-c-8426234
https://www.facebook.com/coswecare/
Cos We Care City
Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. Either outside St Andrew’s medical centre or on the grass. 7:30 - 9:00am Sunday. Free. No I.D. or registration required. Clients include genuine homeless people. Hot food and coffee, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing. Occasional yelling and screaming and surprisingly pleasant extras. Also on Saturdays in Carpark 1, Fremont Park, Yorktown Road, Elizabeth from 7:30 – 9:00am. They operate a school free lunch program and supply food to domestic violence victims. Operates totally on unpaid volunteers.
4 October 2022
(above) Covid testing station next to homeless campers at West Terrace Cemetery. One guard had his face completely covered. Other staff stood around with nothing to do. Money should instead be spent building apartments for those living outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Piano Player Wayne hits new milestone
Wayne today achieves an 8-month occupancy in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. That’s $3000 a day, most of the time not getting medical treatment, but simply waiting for approval of a support plan from the N.D.I.S.
They tried to move him to a six-room house at Elizabeth with entry buttons on every door. Wayne and his 25-year-old Nepalese Carer said this wasn’t good enough so they’re building a special house for him at Gilman near Port Adelaide.
Wayne says there are 150 patients languishing in the R.A.H. while awaiting transfer to suitable housing. And a total of 300 in Adelaide’s hospitals combined.
Wayne said, “You couldn’t make this sh** up. There are days when I think I’m going mad.”
He said the R.A.H. lost his shower chair and foot-pads for his wheelchair then said he hadn’t arrived with them. His Carer pulled out a photo of Wayne next to a hospital worker with them. Wayne says she doesn’t miss anything.
But Wayne’s mind is still active and critical. He says Queen Elizabeth in the days before her death told Princess Anne to go after Megan Markle with a carving knife.
3 October 2022
Pilgrim on Sundays in the city
Ros said we can park cars in the exclusive Pilgrim Church carpark. The boom gate opens at 4:30pm then closes at 7:00pm, but an exit is still allowed after that.
Old Mel said all free hairdressing has stopped in Adelaide since the Plandemic, but that isn’t fully true. She says things then gets angry if disputed.
Young Mel ate half a bag of Twisties and didn’t say a word the whole session. That was a relief.
Robyn from Hutt Street Centre sat at the back of the hall alone. It was nice to see her, like seeing an old friend, but she might think we are still mortal enemies. I hope not. She’s a fantastic manipulator, but like many leaders she is more alone than others. She spoke to no one.
The man who for the past twenty years says he wants to die is now the fourth oldest person in the soup kitchen scene. A friend is going overseas and might bring back poison for him.
A good-natured man said he’s been in the Royal Adelaide Hospital 34 times this year with fluid in the lungs and heart and everywhere. He says it’s quite frightening not being able to breath. He was in a car smash after giving the driver a drink of Fantasy. “I wouldn’t change a day of my life,” he said.
The goofy homeless man arrived dragging his bedding along the ground. He yelled about anything to anyone or nobody. A Pilgrim Church volunteer suggested he seek medical treatment as he wasn’t breathing normally. He didn’t hear a word of that.
I forgot to count how many were there, but the number wasn’t much above 35. The shame was staff packing up within 30 minutes of us arriving. They spend so much time producing the food then sabotage their excellent efforts by making the meal time too short. Still brilliant.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
3 October 2022
(above) Those who manage the Eternal Shame File triage interviews take note of dress sense. Out of fashion clothing can ring the warning bell: deviant or "unprogrammed. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
Are the rumours about Catherine the Greedy correct? She pushes into queues and takes huge amounts of free food. Critics say she operates a rooming house and serves old food to her residents.
But Catherine claims to be a retired doctor who took an early retirement. The 83-year-old admits her relatives compete with each other to see who can become the richest, but she takes her scavenged food to families with children and mortgages. That’s what she told us.
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Rumour has it the Chief Messenger of Infinity is banned from Baptist WestCare for allegedly taking home damsels-in-distress who went to WestCare for help.
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A man said the Hutt Street Centre banned him for life for allegedly assaulting his missus. He lived with her for years. She was a professional ballet dancer and has a poster signed by Rudolf Nureyev. Then she got on the juice.
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A man remembers from 2006 when he and his homeless comrades caught two Adelaide City Council employees sneaking around their camp during the night. They chased the two intruders. One homeless man carried a machete.
But the intruders returned the following week and when the homeless men returned to their camp, they discovered everything they owned had been slashed with knives.
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Diners solidly backed the Adelaide Day Centre soup van volunteers last week when a regular client called one of them a “Piece of Sh**”. She’d grabbed his arm when he tried to take three extra blueberry muffins. Children from St Mary’s school near the Archbishop’s House had baked them for homeless people. The hulking blueberry fanatic said the elderly volunteer could have damaged the tendons in his wrist. “Tendons are very important,” he said.
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Ruffians at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place showed an old man to the front of the queue last week.
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ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens gave each free food client eighteen 200-gram packets of Organic Brie last week.
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Anthony is the unsung vegetarian hero. He’s spent years asking for non-meat meals at free food joints. He’s suffered the disdain of certain staff and volunteers. But other places accepted his requests so we non-meat eaters now have an adequate choice of food.
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ONE Life church members wouldn’t allow Cambodian Jenny’s five children into the healing service so she sat in the cafe waiting for the free meal. When it arrived, she complained it was inadequate. One boy was so hungry he ate chocolate with the wrapping still on then vomited it back up. One church member was apoplectic with rage.
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A letter was sent to the Minister of Human Services, Natalia “Nat” Cook, asking for the addresses of the 2000 empty HousingSA units and houses. A flick on a keyboard should produce the details easily sent by email.
One homeless man said an Aid will put the request in the trash without the Minister evening reading it.
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An older woman with a little girl’s voice was dizzy and confused at Mary’s Kitchen last week. She’d left her wallet and phone at the Glenelg Family Practice and couldn’t remember the number.
A homeless man called the doctor then passed his phone to her. They had it. A St Andrew’s at-the-sea church volunteer took the woman to the practice to retrieve her phone, then took her home.
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The ferals in the HousingSA complex behind the empty Anglicare Food Barn building complained to the police. They were disturbed by the singing and dancing at the Lutheran Church across the street. They wanted something done about it. But maybe the story is incorrect. One resident said it was the Arabs making a noise with one man threatening to cut his girlfriend’s throat.
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Lutheran Cornerstone Housing has taken over the Youth With a Mission building at Elizabeth. Lots of craziness, now.
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A diner at the Soup Van said he believed his digestive system was shutting down and that he would die. He added that he’d had a Domino’s family pizza for lunch. He failed to garner much sympathy.
Meanwhile, Life Christian Centre provided pizzas at the Friday Fred’s Van in Gawler Place, Adelaide.
Even the Communists provided Domino’s pizzas for last Sunday’s lunch.
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That old woman who phoned the police last year complaining soup van diners weren’t keeping 1.5 metres distance was at it again. She didn’t call the police, but nevertheless complained that patrons at the soup van weren’t far enough apart. She is probably insane though appears normal.
Early 2 October 2022
(above) An obvious homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Most are so secretive that even homeless people don't know where each other camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)Largest ever crowd
at C.H.A.T.S. Port AdelaideEighty-two people turned up for the C.H.A.T.S. free breakfast yesterday, but Rose Darling saw none of it. She got Covid, probably picked up from visiting that foreign country, New Zealand, earlier this month.
There was a discernible disappointment amongst the regulars at her absence, but her sister, Lee-Ann, yells almost as well. The crowd included perhaps one-quarter new people most of whom were hugely unsophisticated. Just the type of marginalised clients preferred by the Darling sisters.
The Verger from Semaphore Uniting Church phoned me four times as I’d lost my phone in my car. Living in a car means it’s nearly full to the roof and finding things is a constant challenge. He cut his hand pulling the phone from between the seats and his blood spilt on the concrete in front of the Freemasons’ Lodge.
The food was good, but could have been hotter. Volunteers face a chronic challenge of maintaining it at ideal eating temperatures. Not as bad as the Seventh-day Adventist church at Elizabeth Park where a woman spends all day preparing a different national cuisine each month then staff serve it cold. But it is a problem that needs attention in the form of multiple hot plates on the serving tables.
Volunteers had difficulty yesterday dislodging three old men who wouldn’t leave at the end of the breakfast. They were networking about other places to visit. The old man who lives on a boat said he hadn’t a clue that such services existed until this week.
And Rose, will she be back next Friday? Rumour has it that she works too hard even in retirement. But the crowd demands the return of the Queen.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Community Help and Togetherness
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
1 October 2022
From the Anonymous Contact Page
Where ave u bin roondle spy? Missed your misandry like a whole in the head. Good to see your back, but now your back its not so good anymore.
Asada
1 October 2022
HELL I AM HERE
Thursday 22 September 2022
Day of official mourning for Queen (England Scotland etc)
Day of official gangland tribal fighting at HellRiot Hotel, 40 Park Terrace, GILBERTON.
Affray started with LOUD BASHING BANGING EXPLOSION type sounds from group of 6 units.
Since this group of units is drug-related, immediately other unit groups took notice and came to investigate and challenge.
Main antagonist medium tall solid build black African taking on the world for arguments sake.
Soon other tenants were racing to grab and pick up chairs from surrounding area, place sticks in hand and take aim at offender.
Chair used as weapon and slammed upon one combatant. Sharpened sticks pointed menacingly at times.
Soon THREE (3) SAPOL (police) utes (utility cage trucks) show up at which point all involved had lost stomach to fight, and situation defused into peace and quiet.
Such is homeless hell in a once affluent suburb of inner city Adelaide hosting several prison hotels, non-asylum wards for insane / criminally insane.
HellRiot Hotel ("Elliott Lodge") GILBERTON
P. S. 1/2 dozen gangers/tribers involved. Not enough injuries to warrant ambulance but sometimes offenders do not want attention ambulance would bring to drug scene.
The Rundle Spy
1 October 2022
(above) Funerals are a major reason visitors camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) The Wonga granny's funeral is over so the campers have moved on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Last soup van delivery on Monday
Staff at the decrepit Adelaide Day Centre soup van said their last night will be Monday then not again until the first week in May. While their van is old and small, their soup is high on nutrition and taste.
Last night, two homeless people got blankets and sleeping bags and clothing from the van along with an ice-cream container of soup. One diner said his stomach hurt because he’d eaten a family size pizza for lunch then chased it with a can of Coke. He said he didn’t want to end up like another diner with a colostomy bag. “All is not lost,” said the bag man upon hearing this. He was happy as he’d found a fine leather coat at a bus stop. Who finds coats at bus stops?
Early 30 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Has the Salvos closed? Been calling all week with no answer
Alias Alias
Editor: Not sure what section you mean? The City Salvos DUO Wednesday meal happened on Wednesday. They never got back to me about a coffee van on Hindley Street.
There is a rumour most suburban food services are stopping in October at Salvation Army Corps in Adelaide with the exception of City Salvos and Playford at Elizabeth East.
Early 30 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
"Let's watch MP Nat Cook cheat the homeless out of housing" Duz Nat Crook an Miss Shell n Sink wear the same pair of pants?
Rundle Spy
Early 30 September 2022
(above) Deaths by suicide at homeless camps happen. An example is the cleared Port Adelaide camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Man moves into “women’s shelter”
It was a nightmare cooked up in hell. What better way to create discord than to turn a block of apartments into a refuge for battered women then later bring in men involved in domestic disputes.
How clever was that in generating a “need” of clients that required government funding to contract “Care” operators?
Our new tenant was filled with hope when the Lutheran Cornerstone Housing manager told him his new unit in Elizabeth would be repaired and cleaned before he moved in. And he was good to his word except for a couple of boarded-up smashed windows and tiny amounts of glass fragments in each of the rooms.
Otherwise, it was beautiful, except perhaps for the floor lino chewed up by the previous tenants’ large dog. Cleaning the walls and ceilings of splattered blood was perhaps another unfortunate omission, but otherwise this tenancy has proved to be a serene experience for our new tenant.
Except for delays in getting the hot water working as Elizabeth ferals had stolen the copper pipes. And the faulty wiring that the electrician worked valiantly to repair except perhaps for dropping a light fixture then suggesting to our tenant that he didn’t really need two lights in the lounge room.
But once the faulty plumbing was operable our new tenant had a wonderful hot shower until interrupted by the minor problem of the man and woman in the next unit – also diversity tenants – screaming and smashing each other. He fixed that problem quickly by running from the shower naked and banging on their door then politely telling the woman tenant with black eyes to shut up.
Our new tenant has retained a positive frame of mind and is hugely grateful to Lutheran Cornerstone Housing for placing him into such an apartment. “You’re lucky,” the housing manager said.
And in an effort to harmonise with the lifestyles of his neighbours, our new tenant has ordered his N.D.I.S. worker to sweep dust, debris and dead insects from his apartment into the common entry area shared with his neighbours.
Early 29 September 2022
Oznomad Oznomadic
“Being Homeless?.......that very first night and the fear!. The truth is that there's many ways back to normality, you just need to "Attempt" being normal. Yes many people have pre-existing or now post existing mental health conditions.......best get out of "the life" while you still have a life.”
Early 29 September 2022
(above) Homeless man a few minutes before going to bed at Salisbury. You can find the hidden homeless in Salisbury at night by listening for the rasping coughs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Bedding of homeless people outside the Salisbury Council $43 million Citadel. One homeless girl works at night out of the St Augustine Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)Toward Home Alliance
at Mary’s KitchenThey discreetly scanned us from the front of the historic hall. The Main Man was tall and soft with a second chin developing. He stood next to a younger and shorter woman. They glowed with purpose.
The Main Man walked down the side of the hall behind a U-shaped row of diners spread out to stop us contaminating each other with one particular disease. The Uniting Church at Glenelg subscribes fully to the deadly virus theory and its required restrictions.
He stopped near a man glowing not with purpose, but with gratitude. “I’ll be grateful to you for the rest of the life,” the diner told the Main Man. “Just doing my job,” came the reply. The diner had been on bail subject to finding a semi-permanent home within six weeks.
The man and woman were from the Towards Home Alliance collecting some nice overtime working nights at Mary’s Kitchen in Glenelg where four or five diners were homeless.
But it isn’t like a previous era where homeless people would be fast-tracked into a welfare unit. Requirements now consist of answering a savage triage questionnaire to determine how worthy one is as a client. If you’re doing too well at being homeless, you’re excluded, but they still keep a file on you including your answers to intimate questions.
And the fast-track has been reduced to six-weeks in the St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter at twenty-dollars a night then a transfer to a seedy rooming house or quasi-hotel. Like Wright Lodge near Whitmore Square where residents pay at least $65 a night and agree to pay $1000 if steam from the shower sets off the smoke alarm.
And further progression to welfare housing requires undergoing various social, psychological and medical treatments deemed necessary by government contractors such as the Toward Home Alliance.
No, it isn’t easy anymore despite the more intense rhetoric by the homeless corporations proclaiming how desperate are the homeless and what wonderful jobs they are doing helping us unfortunate wretches.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg.
Phone (08) 8295 1771. Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member. Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated. Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 28 September 2022
(above) Power, money and control over others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Marion Council evict Vitamin Derelict
The enemy amassed four sheriffs, three Marion Councillors, two police officers and a locksmith while evicting the Vitamin Derelict from his deceased brother’s house late last week.
The Derelict kept a cool head throughout and even hired a videographer to record the incident. He got his opponents running around trying to catch his two cats as they’d didn’t want to risk locking them inside and gaining the ire of the R.S.P.C.A.
He is also locked out of his warehouse due to an unpaid psychologist bill from ten years ago. The psychologist has been in a bad mood ever since the Vitamin Derelict made it clear he wasn’t paying it. And it has risen to ten times the original amount with additional legal costs. The government has attempted to auction the Vitamin Derelict’s warehouse to pay the bill. He thwarted their attempt by arriving during the auction and shouted that any buyer would face severe legal problems.
Meanwhile, the Vitamin Derelict in his mid-seventies has managed to bed down temporarily at a friend’s house.
Early 27 September 2022
Richard’s Religious Revival
“This is embarrassing,” said the 35-year-old woman as she twisted and turned and fell on the ground. A young revival man with clear skin moved closer to her as she moved away. That made her furious and after twenty-minutes she withdrew from the religious encampment on Whitmore Square.
A man played guitar and sang then a preacher from the Elijah’s Challenge group spoke about growing up in Bosnia during the war and coming to Australia as a refugee then losing hope and selling drugs at work despite living a normal life. He was about to kill himself then was inspired to find Jesus and everything improved. Another man had an even more incredible story.
The whisky lady insinuated herself back into the encampment whereupon four or five members of Elijah’s Challenge held their hands over her and asked Jesus to call out the devil within whereupon she snarled in a devil-like voice and ran away.
The three-hour encampment contained two-dozen soft chairs, tables, hot water, BBQ and a public address system that fitted into a white trailer. This was the trailer stolen by housebreakers a few years ago while being custom built in the factory. The gang waiting until it was finished then stole it on Christmas Day. They painted it blue and for the next week used it to move stuff they stole from houses. The church people put its picture on the Web, which prompted the police using the Star Group and a helicopter to arrest the gang.
Richard’s Religious free Friday BBQ at Whitmore Square
Free BBQ and free blankets and sleeping bags every month about 4:30pm at Whitmore Square, Adelaide. It isn’t clear what Friday they’ll be there. Richard worked previously at WestCare.
Early 27 September 2022
(above) Free Oz Harvest food from Woodville Gardens Uniting Church Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 noon. They don't require I.D. or registration. Worth the visit. See Free Food Guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Junk talk from Rohan Feegrade
It shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the Towards Home Alliance conference booked out early. Held in August at the Rydges Hotel Skylight Room on the corner of West and South Terraces, it was a fine opportunity to avoid a day’s work while still collecting a salary.
The usual suspects included Ian Cox, Neil Willmett, Carmel Williams, Heather Holst and David Pearson. Remember David from the Adelaide Zero Project about ending homelessness in one year, then two years, then three years and then he disappeared. Well, he’s back in the game.
The spectacular view included the area of the homeless camp south of West Terrace Cemetery. Had any of these conference attendees been down there?
Another spectacular view were the one hundred and twenty Towards Home Alliance and homeless industry employees present. What do they actually do for a job? I’ve never seen any of them at Fred’s Van or other street food services.
Chief Executive of Toward Home Alliance, Rohan Feegrade, announced their goal was to end Adelaide CBD street homelessness by 2025. This extended the deadline by another three and a half years. Feegrade added a qualifier of “street homeless”. This escape clause allows them to put homeless people into hotels for a few weeks then declare “street homeless” eradicated.
What they didn’t do was provide videos of the conference. Why tell homeless people what they’re cooking up for them?
Looking at these Towards Home Alliance employees, each eating up a generous salary, it was easy to imagine them dismissed and the money spent on builders to construct vandal proof housing for the roughest of those living outside. And building more public toilets and showers for homeless people. Homeless industry employees sacked could at last find useful work keeping the amenities clean.
https://towardhome.org.au/huttstcentre-joins-alliance/
Early 26 September 2022
(above) Homeless man in northern suburbs sleeps in an arrangement of cardboard boxes resembling a coffin. He has a radio and thermos of hot drink in the morning before packing up and leaving before the stores open.
(above) School children jeered the disciplined and quiet homeless man on this day. An observer said they weren't from a Christian school, but from a Centrelink school.
(above) The homeless man flattens his cardboard box shelter and stores it behind a recycling bin where he picks it up that evening.
On the Street
The Chinese-owned Port Plaza shopping centre now instructs a black African woman to enter the men’s toilets without notice and walk behind the men urinating.
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An Emergency Department patient in the waiting room at the Lionel McEwin Hospital observed their treatment of a woman. This patient said the woman had arrived bleeding from a domestic violence incident, but was sent back home untreated and with a paper towel against her wound.
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A man didn’t lock the door on the disability toilet room at the Para Banks Shopping Centre. A cleaner walked in as he was lowering his pants. “Do you mind, I’m trying to have a ****,” he told her.
She called the guard who demanded, “Are you abusing our staff?” The toilet man repeated his statement in a loud voice suggesting the guard and cleaner were a little strange. People outside laugh at the guard who made a quick retreat.
Meanwhile, a 38-year-old guard at the same shopping centre has three girlfriends and appears to be pimping one of them.
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Victory Church (Life Adelaide) has stopped its monthly Saturday free breakfasts as only half a dozen people turned up. Saturday morning wasn’t an effective time or day as N.D.I.S. Carers generally don’t work on weekends, the buses have a reduced schedule and there is little else that can be fitted into the journey to make it worthwhile. It was a good effort, though.
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A soup kitchen woman is leaving her partner for another man who claims to be a woman despite everything about him being a man.
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Janet Hobbs’ husband, Bill, died last week in hospital. He’d been living at the Semaphore Residential Care joint on Lady Gowrie Drive for two years after being kicked out of Rudd’s (Semaphore) Hostel for being too sick. Janet is crushed.
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Staff at the Woodville Gardens Uniting Church made free food clients wear masks as they approached the main doors that were blocked off by two tables. This was despite most inside the church building not wearing masks until the doors opened.
Clients remained about 1.5 metres from volunteer staff inside. Nearly everyone knew this was silly, but we’re used to doing silly things demanded by authority and not questioning them. It’s political and psychological and has little to do with infection control.
The church has a sign in the outdoor waiting area saying, “No sleeping.”
Staff had no meat to give out, the reason being, according to one client, was that “The freezer went fritz and the Old Fart chucked out the meat.”
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Someone smashed a $1200 window in an attempt to break into the Anchor Church’s “Worn Again” Op Shop at Port Adelaide. It’s the fourth attempt so the church has obtained a muscular man who will live on the premises. He’s a former VFL football player.
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A friendly drug addict said the Trolley Man from Fred’s Van in the city was threatening others with a pair of scissors at Fred’s Van Semaphore last week The scissor man is usually ensconced at Baptist WestCare in the city. He’s considered the most dangerous person currently in the homeless scene
25 September 2022
(above) Adelaide Cemeteries Authority knocked down the dignified toilet block used by elderly visitors and homeless alike. The Authority used the land to sell $2 million of grave plots. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) The dignified block was replaced by mini toilets designed to dissuade and humiliate those needing them. This is called hostile architecture and an example of civilisation going backward. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)A refreshing policy
from Adelaide Day CentreA member of the Adelaide Day Centre said they collect very little client data and what they do collect doesn’t go into a computer let alone get sent to the homeless industry’s Eternal Shame File. She said they know some clients only by their first names. She said one of their primary policies is to let people use their place largely anonymously. I’m paraphrasing here.
They give away food and blankets and are the No. 1 supplier of Christmas food hampers. They’re also involved in constructive projects like gardening and art.
Adelaide Day Centre is how the Hutt Street Centre was before it joined the big money crowd.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects. They don’t advertise or seek acclaim. Run by Sisters of Mercy Catholics.
24 September 2022
Good news from Baptist WestCare
A client at the soup van at Whitmore Square said Baptist WestCare has a free doctor, nurse and optometrist available on Wednesdays. The client said they understand homeless issues so are effective at treating the illnesses we experience. The client said his heart is on the blink.
Baptist Westcare Adelaide City
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200. Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Free use of washing machine, line drying (no drier) and three showers for males and one for females. No water timers like at the Hutt Street Centre. Free breakfast 9:00am – 10:30am. Lunch from 11:30am to 1:00pm. $2.50 lunch cooked by a chef or the free meal of soup, garlic bread, dessert and coffee if you haven't any money. Credit available. No I.D. required. Free doctor, nurse and optometrist currently on Wednesdays who understand homeless issues. Open Sundays from 11:30am to 1:00pm for free brunch. No data collection except for free bread, fruit and vegetables in store from 9:00am-12:30pm Mon to Thurs if you buy one-dollar of stale food and have a Centrelink, student or immigration card. Three $45 free vouchers for store available each year if you submit to an interview. Lots of other homeless-style services.
24 September 2022
Worth the journey up the hill
The food gets better and better. The vegetarian meal is difficult to describe, but has a balance of ingredients that makes it filling so the diner doesn’t feel the need to pig out. The soups contain meat with the non-meat version being pumpkin, which is a little boring as nearly every other free food joint supplies pumpkin soup. But this version doesn’t stink. How other joints get the soup to stink may be better to remain ignorant of.
Dessert included cake, ice cream, canned fruit and muffins. The tea and coffee staff were efficient and polite.
The religious message was about two disciples having the courage to call Jesus their Saviour ‒ or something like that ‒ despite threats against their lives. The man telling the story didn’t mention that most of the disciples came to a sticky end. Or whether in the face of unprecedented change, Christians today should take a stand at what could be seen as evil.
The session is somewhat regimented, but otherwise relaxing with no fear of being knifed or mugged like at some free food places.
The compere announced that last Monday’s meal would be an hour earlier at 5:00pm so we could watch the Queen’s funeral. That shocked me as I was thinking he was going to say Hitler’s birthday. What a crazy thing to think.
Lutheran Good Shepherd at Para Vista
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Mondays 6:00pm to 7:00pm, free meal inside church. No I.D. required for meal. Real chef who tells us his soup won a medal at Casablanca. Orange Sky Laundry 5:30pm to 7:30pm Mondays. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Takeaways and supermarket purchase cards might be available from office. Ph 8263 5087 Tues-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly due to requests of the Activist Vegetarian who doesn’t go there anymore.
Second Editor
24 September 2022
(above) Public toilets in Adelaide are filthy, unreliable and humiliating to use. Homeless people are especially vulnerable. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) These disease-ridden public toilets are one of the ugliest inventions ever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Suicide in the homeless scene
“And all the grannies that hung themselves in the trees in the parklands,” a maniacal raging homeless man shouts in the dim laneway back of the Magdalene Church two weeks ago.
Funerals are major events in the indigenous homeless culture. Obituary notices left at homeless camps are quickly removed by government operatives.
Some boys found a man hanging from the railway bridge that crosses the Port River at the homeless camp. They asked a camper to call the police, but he told them to make the call as they’d found the body.
Another hanging victim was discovered where Pigeon and Milat were camping at the same location.
The homeless life can be drab and demoralising from being pushed on ten times a day and even during the night. The key to survival is maintaining an inner sense of existence. This will overcome nearly all external torments and despairs. Dangers to this survival instinct are employees and contractors from helping agencies pushing mind-control drugs. And their databases that project a false reality through which the homeless industry controls us. These are poisons it is wise to avoid.
Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 23 September 2022
(above) Homeless patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are given this slightly outdated leaflet upon discharge. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Big drop in Adelaide CBD homeless
The Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands dropped from 283 to 234 from July to August 2022.
This included the Sleeping Rough number dropping from 211 to 178. The Temporarily Sheltered figure also reduced from 49 to 32 while the Actively Homeless – Other rose from 23 to 24. This could be a reason to rejoice, but let’s first explore the numbers.
There isn’t evidence the reduction was due to the Adelaide Zero Project program. Their placement rate rose from 15 to 17 from the previous month though this number could be irrelevant. A partial explanation was 37 people were “Moved to Inactive”, that is, no longer considered homeless. The previous statistical month included just 13 put into this category. Another factor is that 14 people were “Newly Identified” as homeless compared to 30 the previous statistical month.
So we have an increased number removed from the books and a lower influx of newly identified homeless people. It is difficult to determine whether these disappeared people were housed as the statistics don’t cover that area. All we know is that they haven’t been turning up at certain homeless joints from which the figures are determined.
What we do know is that the reduction makes it appear the annual influx of government grants are paying off or, at least, the industry is making it appear that way.
https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/
Early 22 July 2022
Grill’d should have been better
How can anyone complain about a high-end free hamburger, chips and cold drink? The music was too loud, that’s why. We sat mostly each alone amidst the racket.
Other than the noise, the hamburgers were of such quality that sauce, salt and pepper weren’t required. We just walked in and didn’t even have to say we were Friends of the Salvation Army or St Vincent de Paul. They knew it by looking at us. We have that withdrawn appearance.
Staff denied entry to a few young Asians because they were not Friends. Friends get this free food one Tuesday a month for two hours. Another small miracle.
Ash from the Street didn’t go because she said she felt guilty not being homeless anymore. I was hoping they’d stop me and say, “You don’t look homeless,” but they didn’t.
Grilled/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide offers free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Best to arrive before 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jack.
Second Editor
Early 22 September 2022
(above) Richard's Religious Revival once-a-month last month in Whitmore Square. They're there today, 16th of September at 4:30pm for free BBQ, coffee and witnessing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Adam headbutts Dracula’s sister
Buying a bicycle from Cash Converters at Elizabeth can’t be a smart move in anyone’s language, but the woman who wears corpse-style make-up did just this. More likely her new bicycle would have been stolen or faulty or both.
She discovered the chain rattled against the guard and with a friend of Dr Jefferies’ son tried to fix it outside the Elizabeth shopping centre. That’s when Adam barreled up either on the juice or damaged from it. He offered to help fix the bike then inexplicably gave the chain guard a massive kick.
The make-up lady wasn’t amused and told him so. Adam said if she didn’t shut up, he’d headbutt her. She didn’t so he smacked his head against her face resulting in blood pissing from her nose and over her thick white make-up. She looked more like a zombie than usual.
Two men came to her rescue. They kicked and punched Adam mostly in the body to minimise bleeding and bruising.
Then a black African Samaritan thought Adam was innocently being attacked and came to his aid then complained when the Dracula Lady’s blood got on his shirt. She had nothing but contempt for this Samaritan.
Adam was banged up and went into hiding for a week then reappeared at the Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth where he quickly grabbed some free lunch then disappeared.
Meanwhile, Dracula’s sister has more trouble. A man hiding above her ceiling has drilled holes through which he peeks down at her. He sneaks down at night through the fireplace and steals stuff. She assembled a pile of junk in front of the fireplace, but he replaces it as he retreats back into the ceiling. She knows this because he never reassembles the stuff the way she left it.
Adding to her troubles, she was also forced to turn off the electricity in fear that an ex-boyfriend has fiddled the wiring making it a fire risk that could burn her to a crisp. She asked a university academic from a free soup kitchen to check it, but he said he wasn’t any longer licensed as he’d moved into academia.
So what is the moral of this story? The first is don’t buy anything from Cash Converters. The second is to avoid head butters. The third is that if you mix with certain types of people then you have to expect them to behave as they do. The fourth is especially pertinent to Dracula’s sister and that is to fill the holes with plaster to stop the man in the ceiling peaking down at her.
Early 21 September 2022
Edit: 1 October 2022
(above) Camp near West Terrace Cemetery of people visiting from the desert for Mrs. Wonga's funeral. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Unhappy full house at Para Hills
Victory Church isn’t having trouble attracting clients for its free Thursday evening meal at Para Hills.
But there was dissent last week when a church photographer took images of diners including one man who complained to staff that he hadn’t given legal permission for his image to be taken or used. This was despite the church saying week after week that they aren’t taking photographs.
Another patron responded by photographing church staff, one of which said he wasn’t allowed to do what they were doing. And would he not return the following week. The man who organises the Victory Church Friday morning BBQ asked this diner why he hadn’t been going to the free BBQ. The answer was: “I don’t eat offal.”
Diners at one table complained the chicken was pink inside. A diner at another table said the serving sizes were for children, not adults.
The food came in Cumin Express Indian Pakistani boxes from the restaurant in the shopping centre next to the Para Hills Community Hub. Strangely, church staff denied it came from there so the unpopular diner asked at the restaurant. The answer was, “Yes”.
Victory Church (Life Adelaide)
Pittman Park on Commercial Road at Salisbury. Free breakfast of bacon, eggs, bread and coffee last Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 11:00am. Also, free BBQ lunch every Friday at 12:00 noon. No I.D. or registration required so you can dine with them anonymously. Safe as the drug addicts are still in bed. Life Adelaide also hosts a free 6:00pm meal Thursdays at Para Hills Community Hub, 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills.
Early 20 September 2022
(above) No I.D. or registration required. Free every Sunday at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide.
(above) St Andrew's Church, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Tues, Thurs and Fri :11:30am - 1:30pm. Free fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items once a week. No I.D. required, but they require phone number and name for "contact tracing". Soup, muffin and coffee free during these times. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) RepaySA people working to pay off fines. They're picking up garbage from an Aboriginal homeless camp near the West Terrace Cemetery. The tribal campers can't believe it's happening. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg
Two friendly alcoholics told a man to get away from their huge three-legged dog resting on a mattress back of the church. He moved away angrily saying he wasn’t afraid of the animal. He then regaled others with tales of fighting dogs including knocking one dog unconscious and cracking one of its teeth. He said he made a quick getaway in case the animal was angry when it regained consciousness.
Orange Sky Operatives were engrossed in shop talk about things going wrong with the laundry van and a new app to make reports on their shifts. These are morale problems as well as technical challenges. Three or four people brought their laundry. There didn’t seem to be enough water in the machines to wash the clothing including one machine holding a thin quilt. Why can’t management realise the settings are wrong for homeless people. However, the Orange Sky volunteers were so interesting I was late for the evening meal.
They served sausage stew and tuna mornay, both with a fresh salad, but it was the no-meat minestrone soup that was the hit. The gentlemen around me had three bowls each.
One man pounded the table when I told him the Hutt Street Centre wouldn’t let me use the showers unless I submitted to an intake interview. A former employee nearby said it took only half an hour and would be done to determine if I was in any danger. Yeah, danger from them forming a dossier then using it against me at a later date. This is no joke because the industry is all about power and control.
John Johnson still works in a sheltered workshop at 77 despite talking about retiring seven years ago. He got surgery to fix his eyes and now uses a phone with pride. Catherine the Doctor also graced the room with perfect poise and aloofness while surveying the environment for opportunities. One diner said she could buy the church in flash, she was that rich.
Other diners included the man who lived at the Kingslea Apartments where Steve’s wife slit his throat and then killed herself. Also, Sylvia and Bill from Moose, a woman from Port Church, Ben from Bedford Industries and the foreign man from the Communist Soup Kitchen at Whitmore Square. But not the woman who vomited on the table six years ago or the old man who took 18 loaves of bread then got hit and killed by a Land Cruiser as he walked home. Or Mel who killed herself.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 19 September 2022
(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council purged the riverfront of homeless campers so they moved elsewhere in the Council area. No where else to go despite many good units and houses kept empty by HousingSA and Chinese investors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Pigeon and Milat have left the area under the trees. Pigeon pays rent to Anglicare for a unit. While not totally innocent, he finds their administration so oppressive that he camps outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
A police van was parked last week in front of the Sisters of Mercy graves at the West Terrace Cemetery during a training session for a police attack dog.
An officer ordered the dog to savage the padded arm of another police officer. “Good girl,” the police woman said as the animal snarled and ripped at the arm. The other officer didn’t appear as impressed and moved away quickly in case the dog broke loose and tried to finish the job. Who are the government going to attack with this creature?
Still on cemetery news, rumour has it that homeless people have been trapped and died under grave slabs after seeking privacy at night. One man says he prefers lying on top of the grave stones during cool summer nights as they’re still warm after a hot day.
Second Editor
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A tenant at the HousingSA units behind the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth said he saw a man casually climb up the side of the building to the third floor. He smoked a cigarette as his feet dangled from a balcony.
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A senior church member yelled at others inside the Elizabeth Park Seventh-day Adventist church last week. Volunteers had set aside too much Second Bite food for “deliveries”.
They allegedly sheepishly returned much of the deliveries to the tables for distribution to clients outside the hall.
One client said the offerings had declined in recent weeks though generally everyone is happy with both the church members and what is offered.
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A woman and man last week went into a disability toilet room at the Para Banks shopping centre at Salisbury. After a lengthy stay, they came out and were greeted by a man in a wheelchair saying he wished he’d been inside watching them.
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Hutt Street Centre has joined its alleged mortal enemy, the Towards Home Alliance that grabbed some of its government funding earlier this year. The Alliance itself remains uneasy with the Salvation Army partner wondering how it has become subservient to the smaller and lesser involved Lutheran Welfare.
Some Alliance employees don’t even know the real name of the Alliance and have never seen The Great Leader, Rohan Feegrade.
As to the Hutt Street Centre, they’ll do anything to maintain their dominant status in the homeless industry. Their motivations are money and power disguised by concern and compassion. Claims the Hutt Street Centre has anything to do with the Daughters of Charity should be refuted by the Daughters, if any of them still exist.
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A man new to the homeless scene said he held nothing against another client at Cos We Care in the city who threatened to stab him in the neck. The new man said the other was off his head and not in control of himself.
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A homeless man said he phoned the police after his wife drank four bottles of Whisky over a weekend. Instead of taking away his wife, the police arrested him and he spent a year in prison. The court stopped access to his children. He lost his job in the public service. He was eventually released from prison in his jail clothing and told to find a homeless joint. The case has been adjourned repeatedly over the past two years. His lawyer expects it to be dismissed as there aren’t any witnesses. This is the other side of the Domestic Violence industry not revealed by the legacy media.
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Being homeless sparks new sensitivities such as seeing so many others sleeping in their cars at beach carparks. Even quiet cars in suburban streets at night reveal themselves as containers for people sleeping.
And all this with 2000 empty HousingSA houses and many more thousands kept empty by foreign investors. And social workers paid to make homeless car dwellers think it’s their fault and require them to undergo rehabilitation before housing is offered. How does such insanity prevail?
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Mary’s Kitchen is cancelled this Thursday and Friday due to staff being absent. The Good Shepherd Monday meal is an hour earlier at 5:00pm due to church people wanting to watch the Queen’s funeral on T.V. Who actually watches television?
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That pleasant and homeless whore from Port Adelaide remains on the run after allegedly liberating $10,000 from a client on Hanson Road. I’m glad I refused the handful of $100 and $50 bills she offered me.
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Rumour has it the Salvation Army has a coffee truck operating on Hindley Street on Friday evenings. I phoned City Salvos where an Indian woman said she was in a different department and had no idea about it. The building has about six people in it. How many departments can that involve?
She put me through to the furniture pick-up section at another location who said they knew nothing about it. Then a call to Head Office got the Call Centre who gave me a special number. It was the number they refer those with difficult questions: an answering service that never responds.
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Noisy drug addicts in the HousingSA units behind the old Anglicare Food Barn claimed singing from the Lutheran Church across Wishford Road was disturbing them. The public housing units are largely inhabited by the unfortunate combination of victims of crime and those who commit such crimes. These are the blocks of units where ankle tracking devices are a fashion statement. Travel for these people is in and out of prison or fleeing the state due to warrants.
Early 18 September 2022
(above) Janet Mead, the Sisters of Mercy and the Adelaide Day Centre crowd planted a garden back of empty Adelaide Gaol to provide fruit and vegetables to make lunches for homeless old men and others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A few old men in the homeless culture remember doing time at Adelaide Gaol as a right of passage into lifelong poverty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
C.H.A.T.S. at the Masonic Hall
The tough man with the whispering voice invited us into the foyer as it had been raining. We declined because a crucial component of the Community Improvement and Togetherness free breakfasts is networking. The government’s minions relentlessly change the rules to keep us disoriented so we network hard to stay informed. Isolated individuals are sitting ducks.
A woman living in her car said she ran out of petrol at Outer Harbour. The Western Adelaide Homeless Service kindly gave her a Woolworths petrol card despite there not being any Woolworths stations in the area. She caught a bus with a Jerry can and returned with it full.
There was dissension in the raffle contest as an ex-security guard who lost her ticket two weeks in a row accused the caller of not shaking the bowl enough. Another diner used Liquid Paper to block out his number and replaced it with the number called.
The woman whose parents told her to get out now rents a shed with a toilet and leaky roof for $120 a week. The old homeless man said he sees no light at the end of the homeless tunnel. Frank the Busker discovered he’d been put on the Aspire housing program at the Hutt Street Centre without knowing it. They’d been soaking up government money under his name for months. I warned Frank they’d classify him as crazy as they did with most homeless people. He said, “I am crazy.”
The oxygen bottle man said he’s got Long Covid and suffering lung infections on top of Asbestosis. I told him dying can be a learning process and smiled then remembered I’m dying as well and stopped smiling.
We sang happy birthday to Diane, a crucial volunteer who is quite old. Her face went red, but it was already red along with her arms from recent sunny and windy days.
The C.H.A.T.S. unpaid workers gave away a piece of chocolate upon entry followed by packets of grain bars, liquid breakfasts, cleaning cloths, little bottles of hand sanitiser, shoe laces and two-minute noodles.
Breakfast included chopped fruit, yoghourt, bacon and eggs in muffins, cooked spinach, roast tomatoes, baked beans, cooked mushrooms, sausages, toast and Vegemite, chocolate and vanilla cakes, coffee and tea.
The other giveaway food included bread not as fresh as other places who get day old or even fresher bread from Semaphore Bakehouse or Bakers’ Delight though it was still good. Vegetables included fresh cabbage, decent tomatoes, grapes and another dozen choices. I took very little of these as cooking out of my car has become difficult since the Salisbury Council stole my tent.
Everything went smoothly despite the Darling sisters and Greg being on holiday in New Zealand. Along with them, the only thing missing was a band playing “Let’s Stick Together.”
One problem was staff packing up early. If the place is listed as open until 10:30am then the services should remain open until that time.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
Early17 September 2022
(above) Another tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Negotiating skills are of paramount importance to avoid injury and loss in the city homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A dream come true: a skip of clean cardboard boxes at a Modbury medical practice to construct a makeshift mattress. Avoid the next bin, it's medical waste. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
The Fraternity at Kilburn Fred’s Van
The mood was tempered by an influx of The Fraternity with their Minders. One guard stood with his feet spread out at the front door as if mimicking the prison screw that he might have been. They watched us non-user diners with suspicion, but ignored the Fred’s Van volunteers. These unpaid workers rarely intervene in any controversy, but simply provide the food, the prayer and clean up after we leave.
Another Fraternity member stood in front of the dining room talking seriously into his phone like an executive or police commander.
That’s the nature of the situation where a dollar from southern China costs a thousand here. It’s politics and we’re at war with China as well as our own chemical technology.
Diners at a back table said the meal was the best this year. The non-meat option was excellent. No trace of neuro-toxins such as MSG. The takeaway bags brimmed with rubbishy old fruit and vegetables plus a few grocery items. These are crucial to diners as it allows them to live relatively normal lives despite being from the underclass. It allows them to drive cars or visit better quality doctors. Or to take their grandchildren on short holidays, which is the point: most Fred’s Van clients are over fifty with many of us in our seventies.
Note: The Fraternity will be elsewhere next week as they're continuously on the move.
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.
16 September 2022
Pain and gain at Glenelg
Something wasn’t right driving down the coast road. A section of my mind had gone numb as if a stroke was slashing my mental awareness. The blur of the Ozone Reserve with its outdoor shower flashed by the side window. After parking behind St Andrew’s church on Jetty Road, the truth hit like a sledgehammer: a migraine had struck.
I slept in the car for an hour then staggered into the historical hall and somehow found an empty table. As usual when in a migraine, others sense something isn’t right and avoid me. After half an hour I ordered a coffee and muffin then stared unblinking at the wall for another thirty minutes. Others thought I was on drugs or crazy.
A regular client walked up to me and we talked about Mel who killed herself seven years ago. Her self-doubts had been fuelled by a man who’d gas-lighted her for months. After she died, someone found one of his books in her house. It was about controlling people.
What bleakness she felt near the end yet we remember with affection and regret while others are forgotten.
Anyway, that’s what a migraine does. It crushes the mental ego and puts the sufferer into a primal flow of mind. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
16 September 2022
(above) Seven months after evicting a now 71-year-old into homelessness, his rental unit remains empty. Some units at this Elizabeth complex have been vacant for three years. How would a psychiatrist diagnose the minds of Anglicare executives and Board members? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Homeless woman on the run. She's accused of taking $10,000 from a Hanson Road client. The money lasted a week, but the legacy of her action will haunt her for decades. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Sunday at the Pilgrim
That woman who spat at me five years ago was off her head. She yelled at an older man for twenty minutes straight. She repeatedly ran across the room as if to attack then stopped short.
Men might think: well, it’s just a woman, what is the threat? But women in the homeless scene have learned effective offensive tactics. One is to play the threatened female asking a male to help fend off another man. This can lead to injury and even death. Female drug dealers enlist strong young men to neutralise real and perceived threats. Robyn the Junkie uses this tactic. Another is carrying sharp instruments and being willing to use them in eyes, ears or anywhere. A third is infectious disease. All kinds of diseases are rampant in the homeless welfare scene including sexual and drug resistant infections. Golden Staph is a threat difficult to control with drugs. Yes, women are not powerless in the homeless scene.
The older man was white-faced, but looked her in the eye and said, “And?” That shut her up, but the tension remained in the room.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
15 September 2022
Unexplained deaths around the world
This video examines how European countries with the highest vaccination rates for Covid have the highest increase in death rates. This includes Spain, Portugal and Estonia.
Slovenia, Bulgaria and Hungary have the lowest vaccination rates and the lowest increase in in deaths and in some cases a reduced level of deaths.
The video has not been removed by youtube and comes with a link to the Australian Department of Health.
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15 September 2022
St Bede’s at Semaphore
So that’s the angle,” another diner said when googling the name and finding a wedding photographer. She connected this to the Suzanne Elliot Charitable Trust recycling cabinet at the back of the church hall next to the water tap. But perhaps the photographer is a different person that the benefactor of the Trust.
The Semaphore Bakehouse bread was in short supply so I gave it a miss as there is plenty of bread in the homeless scene. The breakfast itself was fine though after living outside it has become difficult to relate to those living inside.
St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tuesdays 8:30am to 10:00pm. Free good breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they do take names ostensibly for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free fruit, vegetables and fresh bread to take away. Free clothing. Water tap outside that requires special handle from Bunnings. Occasional visits from hairdresser and Thread Together free clothing.
15 September 2022
(above) Homeless campers at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Pilgrim expanding service
“Pilgrim Sunday Night Tea (SNT) news: pasta nights to be held at 5.30pm on the third Sunday of September, October and November - beginning this coming Sunday 18th. There will be beef or roast vegetable lasagnes, salad and fresh Italian bread, plus cake, fruit and drinks as usual. We would greatly appreciate you getting the message out. Many thanks Carol and Peter (SNT coordinators).”
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
Early 14 September 2022
St Andrew’s Glenelg
What a joy to see a few of the old crowd at the Tuesday light lunch. One diner implied forgiveness for past misdeeds when he said, “Everyone makes mistakes." I’d been tormented by guilt for years after disclosing personal details of diners told to me in-confidence.
The lunch included cake, coffee and soup with access to the free food room of fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items. I got celery, two large cans of tuna and a box of Salada crackers. They were good quality.
Diners ranged from drug damaged people to a retired golf caddy. One diner said the Tuesday evening meals had improved dramatically and now resembled a $50 restaurant meal. Volunteers were all new from five years ago as were most of the diners. How quickly things change.
How powerful is forgiveness. I must forgive the feminist who removed the inner door of the men’s toilets.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon.
Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 14 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
The Shopping Trolley Man?...Removes His Victim's By Trolley!.
Oz Nomadic
Early 14 September 2022
(above) Padlock on tent stopped the "funny guys" from doing rude stuff on my bed at The Paddocks park in Para Hills. But it didn't stop the Salisbury Council: they grabbed everything and took off. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
C.H.A.T.S. Port Adelaide
“Seventy-two,” the former roustabout put in a coma for three weeks when younger told us. “Not including volunteers.” This was the first wave; the second wave is smaller and includes those avoiding the mad rush.
Frank the Busker was dressed in flowing scarves, a colourful hat and decorations difficult to describe. He lives outside in the city. Between us sat an AngliPrison day release prisoner wearing a tracking bracelet. He’d been a normal worker until a dispute with his wife landed him in the slammer awaiting trial and being kicked out of his house.
The Darling sisters forgot to buy spinach in their rush to stock up for an extra week while they went to New Zealand for a holiday. No one complained especially the man who insists Rose paid $45k to install the elevator, won an Order of Australia medal last year and put him in a hotel for two weeks at her expense. And that Port Power players serve the breakfasts. He had been homeless, but now lives at Terra Firma on Waymouth Street in the city. It’s hard to get into and administered by Sonder, a privately operated government-funded psychiatric business that dabbles in other welfare programs. Feigning or having a mental illness is a pathway into cheap rental housing.
The C.H.A.T.S. breakfast includes bacon, eggs, chopped fruit, toast, yoghourt, roast tomatoes, cooked spinach (usually), cooked mushrooms, baked beans and chocolate cake. Clients respond to the kindness of the Darlings and the kindness of volunteers with generally positive responses.
The ninety-minute event resembles a carnival show and without traumatising drama and that is what most diners want. The only aspect lacking is the inclusion of the most isolated homeless people. They sit alone behind fast food joints, rubbish bins or where only a few locals know of their existence. The fear of losing their possessions and contempt from others keeps them in their relatively safe and enclosing sphere. They don’t realise that some of us see them as at the pinnacle of homeless status. Us tent and car dwellers, even squatters have it easy compared to them. But with them it is better to deliver necessities than bring them into the fold.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
Early 13 September 2022
Port Church strangely normal
What a job to provide a quality meal for seventy diners. Wednesday’s offering included two fresh salads, Cole Slaw, pasta and sauce, lamb, plant based protein (it used to be called fake meat), bread rolls and a small number of pies. The thin Tablet Lady left the building with dignity when asked to move tables for a family group. She returned later to collect food off the tables for her dog. The nervous Canadian from Vancouver wasn’t there, but I did see this person at Unley Salvation Army on Monday.
We talked at our table about an old man who traded a packet of cigarettes for sex with a morbidly obese woman. And how he is the most educated and skilled person in our group. And of the nature of kindness that can be found in the most unlikely people.
A younger man had to stop himself from crying when saying how generous to the homeless the new Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has been. He said Scotties Motel is now used exclusively for homeless people and their animals. I muttered about the tenants also being animals, but held back.
Nothing much happened and that was fine with me. So many shocks and traumas happen each day when you’re homeless that an unexceptional gathering is both refreshing and exceptional.
The Port Church at Largs North
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church). Meal and takeaway bags of food. 4:30pm every Wednesday during school terms. Everything free. Free new clothing. No I.D. or registration requirements. Healthy food and generous people. Very safe atmosphere. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. Ice Dealers tried to establish a presence, but were defeated. Users still go there, but they’re interesting and worthy. Strange toilets. Open during school terms.
Early 13 September 2022
If you want to destroy the enemy, destroy their mind
https://www.bitchute.com/video/xy7B5rJF3EKR/
13 September 2022
(above) Seven million dollars of government money for a lawn bowling club at Elizabeth while homeless people camp in tents metres away. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A church promoting Hope at a free BBQ at Redwood Park/Ridgehaven. Also, a place to meet notorious felons who changed their ways. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Fear at Fred’s Van City
The shopping trolley man sat alone watching us then sprung to his feet in a rage. He threw off his shirt and punched wildly into the air. No one reacted except by turning away to avoid being the focus of his anger. “He’s the only one I’m afraid of,” said a retired taxi driver from Broome. The 77-year-old can collector was also afraid of him and has lost his trademark smile. No one has faith the police or Fred’s Van staff would be of any use during an assault.
A third man approached and said the shopping trolley man was crazy. The taxi driver said this fellow was beaten senseless 18-months ago after being knocked to the concrete then repeatedly headbutted in the face.
A black African welcomed us to the Life Christian Centre version of Fred’s Van on Friday evenings. We’re getting used to that: African immigrants to Australia are devout Christians who set examples for the local crowd. The Fred’s Van client base is also representative of the general demographic that includes numerous black African homeless people. We’re normal in that regard and being of the homeless culture puts us in a separate stream of society that overrides racial characteristics.
The church crowd served sandwiches and fruit rather than the hot food those sleeping outside wanted. Even the coffee wasn’t hot enough. The insulated plastic vats had reasonably hot water, but that lost some of its thermal power during transit from their church on Angas Street. They should also let the milk warm at room temperature so it doesn’t cool the coffee. I wanted to say something, but feared they’d refuse service like at Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub where they ban critics, even homeless critics while shooting up at the front door presents little problem.
Goodwill was in abundance on Friday evening. Paul and another Casino gambler escorted the old can collector away from Hemmings Park to safety. Why a single homeless man pushing a shopping trolley creates so much fear is that in an insane rage with superhuman strength, he’s likely to commit fatal injuries without knowing what he’s doing.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. It is important not to become involved in others' battles or even to look certain people in the eye.
12 September 2022
(above) Food dumped at an Elizabeth abandoned homeless camp. Food is plentiful in the homeless scene, but housing units remain empty and locked up. The homeless industry is corrupt and its leaders are frauds. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
A friend handed me a flyer for the Aged Rights Advocacy Service in regard to the Salisbury Council stealing my tent and bedding. But an advocacy employee said they exist for those in the aged care system and not for old homeless people.
Second Editor
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Land Cruiser Ralph said he sees people living in their cars for days and weeks and he never see them get out.
This is similar to that car in North Adelaide with bed sheets covering the outside of the windows. Stuff appears and disappears outside the car, but except for one occasion I’ve never seen the occupant. Fear and shame and presenting oneself as a target are reasons for staying in cars without getting out.
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A disabled man was brought in by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth hospital. He doesn’t use drugs yet produced a positive result for methamphetamine. He’d been staying at Port Adelaide Backpackers and is now wary of accepting drinks from strangers, even water or coffee.
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Don Frater’s house in Sturt Street has a sad aura. Don was head of the Covid vaccine program in South Australia and he’ll be in trouble it if turns out the Covid injections killed a few thousand people.
One lucky break was Numan Mohammed pleading guilty to stabbing Kim Chau eighty times in his house. This protected Don and his wife from an open court trial examining what had been going on in their house.
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The LGBTQI white fellas at the Drop-In Care Space thought they’d gotten rid of the tribal Aboriginals from the front of their building at Whitmore Square. They put huge pot plants where the tribal mob sat. The mob relocated in front of their next door neighbour, but last Thursday returned to the Drop-In Care Space where they screamed and yelled with more vehemence than usual. The LGBTQI crowd have a fight that will be difficult to win because the black fellas are incredibly persistent.
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That fat fair-skinned white fella who lays on blankets on Hindley Street appears to be a homeless ring-in cashing in on the positive sentiment toward genuine street dwellers. The ring-ins arrive from home each morning then spread across the Adelaide CBD to beg or busk or pretend to sleep.
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The Freemasons gave C.H.A.T.S. $22,000 to fund their Friday free breakfasts in the Masonic hall then broke the news they now charged rent for use of the building. In the balance, the Port Adelaide Freemasons have done well in hosting C.H.A.T.S. especially during the Plandemic when the big money homeless outfits closed down.
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The Salvation Army published in their monthly magazine the various types of people suffering from the housing shortage. The classifications included nearly everyone except white men who are the majority of rough sleepers and car sleepers in Adelaide.
Why would the Army make an obviously false statement? The clue is to “follow the money trail”. White men are a persecuted group and attract very little government funding. There are also white women in the homeless scene who aren’t drunks or drug addicts. They are just without adequate shelter.
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A homeless man said the slow-cooked roast lamb meal at the Hutt Street Centre two weeks ago was “enough to die for”.
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The Sikh’s free food service at Hurtle Square isn’t much good. The food is cold, some of it straight from the fridge. They offer bottles of cold water on winter evenings, but not coffee. That’s why homeless people go to the Adelaide Day Centre soup van where the soup is hot and rich in flavour and vitality.
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Frankenstein bought another house at Red Hill for $35k. His mother is expected to move there from Elizabeth. What she’ll do there is anyone’s guess as it takes years to be accepted by the farming community surrounding Red Hill.
Meanwhile, Black Gold at Port Pirie got the invalid pension by claiming he suffered from incontinence. Black Gold is reputed to be crazier than Frankenstein.
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I met “the slasher” for the first time in five years. She remembered me, but couldn’t find a reason to pull out her piece of jagged glass and raise it near my throat as we spoke. She has mellowed over the years.
Second Editor
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Puddle Jumpers have instituted a policy of tormenting or outright banning of homeless people who criticise them either at their Western Food Hub or elsewhere.
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West Terrace Cemetery staff waited until closing time when they pulled the stone covers off graves in the Catholic section reserved for Sisters of Mercy nuns. They replaced the stone slabs with sheets of thick plywood, but visitors can still see areas of ruffled dirt. This destroys the illusion created by the polished granite and marble headstones. What happened to the body of Janet Mead who died earlier this year? She was from Adelaide Day Centre and the Sisters of Mercy.
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A health inspector visited the Semaphore Uniting Church in preparation for the opening of a free Thursday lunch service. The inspector listed 35 infringements on the modern kitchen currently used by the Seeds of Infinity prisoner group. Dust on a window sill is an infringement.
The church was forced to pay for the inspection and must make the corrections that are mainly cleanliness issues. But even these excessive rules and regulations haven’t discouraged the plan.
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A Baptist WestCare client said her heart was in knots after Linley May Earl, 62, died in May this year at the Joyce Sneadon Reserve at Port Adelaide. But she is fine now because a shooting star told her Linley had made it to Heaven.
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An employee of the South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance told Adelaide Homeless Journal the new government under Premier Peter Malinauskas claimed they’d made savings in some departments. But the employee said her section had been getting overtime moving invoices to other departments and that there hadn’t been any savings.
11 September 2022
(above) Tenant of this HousingSA house in Elizabeth South put her furniture in the middle of the street during the night. A friend smashed the windows of her house then she told police the neighbour who helped her clean up had done it. She was sent to prison. Ice addict. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Into the maelstrom
Lutheran Cornerstone Housing nightmare
A disabled man faced homelessness due to disputes with neighbours. He was technically homeless living in someone’s back yard then moved to a medical halfway house, then that drug joint called Port Adelaide Backpackers. He left the Backpackers in an ambulance then was released and did the rounds again this time adding Scotty’s Motel and the Sombrero Motel then returning to the back yard. The government paid for the lot.
During this process he had a dozen welfare workers helping him negotiate the revolving door game from one joint to another. Everyone was a winner except himself especially when his huge National Disability Insurance Scheme financial package ran out. His loyal paid workers abandoned him though he wasn’t in as bad shape as those losers at One Care in Woodville West. They sat in their own faeces when their annual allotment ran out a month before renewal. Nevertheless, our disabled man was left without support in his time of need.
The Western Adelaide Homeless Connect joint in Lipson Street in Port Adelaide was his next call. Their previous name was Homeless Gateway, but that had too many connotations with a locked gate barring entry. They required him to contact a dozen housing associations before offering anything. It was a rite of passage despite numerous government funded associations telling Homeless Connect to stop referring clients as they hadn’t any vacancies. But he still had to perform this circus act. Being a white man made it even harder.
UnitingSA had also fed off the carcass of the man’s N.D.I.S. funding. An employee gave him a list of rooming houses to contact. Wasn’t that kind? Another employee drove to his motel and helped phone them. A problem arose when owners said they hadn’t been in the rooming house business for years. UnitingSA had provided a four-year-old list. The employee who drove to the motel and made the calls charged the man’s N.D.I.S. account $300 for this service. No wonder the cash ran out.
Lutheran Cornerstone Housing came to the rescue. They manage a complex of units in Salisbury. The Housing Manager was an unpaid worker himself trying to get better housing for his family.
The tiny units were designed by idealists with no understanding of the levels of distress, disability and outright insanity of their future tenants.
The disabled man could barely move in this unit. Boxes lined the walls and covered his bed. He’d previously lived in a two-bedroom Housing Trust unit. Now he slept on a recliner chair in front of a screen playing instructive youtube videos all night. He is a high-functioning A.D.H.D. man with an intellect superior to 95% of the population. And he mocked those less clever than himself, which included nearly everyone.
One solid door from his unit led to a common room used by other tenants. Our man would arrive home smelling dope smoke that had seeped underneath the door. His fellow tenants pounded on the door asking for food, tobacco, money and car rides to other places. When the man cooked a meal he had a tenant banging on the door saying he was hungry.
The police were frequent visitors and on one occasion used a battering ram to gain entry to a neighbour’s unit who had threatened to kill himself. On another occasion, a neighbour cut his wrists to the bone. A problem these weak-willed tenants suffered was being predated upon by drug addicts using their units to host three day parties.
The Cornerstone Housing Manager had hoped the disabled man would influence the other tenants to amend their ways such as paying rent. This clearly failed. The man also talked to others about the insane behaviour happening in the complex, which contradicted the propaganda published by Cornerstone Housing. It was time for another revolving door transfer. Now, what would be the worse place he could go? Perhaps a women’s shelter that had adopted the diversity program of introducing men as fellow tenants. This is what happened.
Stay reading for the next instalment in two weeks.
Early 10 September 2022
(above) Campsite of 71-year-old homeless man at The Paddocks, Para Hills, a suburb of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal Aug 2022.)
(above) The Salisbury Council Compliance Unit waited until the man was absent to take everything. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
From the anonymous contact page
much gout about ? got Chilblains whilst living homeless roughshod in Adelaide Hills (7 years).
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chilblains/symptoms-causes/syc-20351097#:~:text=Chilblains%20(CHILL%2Dblayns)%20are,on%20your%20hands%20and%20feet .
feel sorry fer old fella kicked and knocked about even when tent mattress living then rug pulled out from under him by council criminal thugs.
does not spell well for those of us in similar situations. prepare for worse times ahead.
might be good to list some worthy departure schemes i.e. Youth In Asia, Peaceful Pill etc.
Second Editor: Life is too interesting.
Late 9 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
"P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e
and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$."
i.e. toe$. no$e one end, toe$ other end.
btw those little bloody toe patches are called chilbains.
Late 9 September 2022
(above) Someone found a use for at least one face mask outside the methadone depot on Langford Drive in Elizabeth. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)The vandals took the handles and the hairdresser went walkaboutMy attempt to arrive clean for a haircut was foiled by someone stealing the shower attachments at Ingle Farm Salvation Army. This didn’t matter because the hairdresser at Unley Salvos didn’t turn up on a Monday and hasn’t been seen since.
Brenton with the glass eye welcomed me then told of free food at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea in Glenelg. No I.D. required, he said. An interesting thin woman talked about being stared at, weight stabilisation and acidity. I mumbled a response to her while staring at the table.
A retired nurse was fascinated by talk of the homeless industry in Adelaide. Like most people, she didn’t realise it was a concrete and electronic jungle of predators disguised as helpers. She asked three times where I was camping then added that she’d had a fall and banged her head.
The meal included a vegetarian version of lasagne and salad with coffee and desert of cake and slices of fresh pineapple. The surprise was the gentleness of both clients and staff. So different from Playford Corps and even worse, Elizabeth Fred’s Van.
Salvation Army Unley
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839. Free quality lunch every Monday at 12:30pm. Dining room service or eat in the courtyard. Free quality coffee. No I.D. or registration required. Hairdresser disappeared, but might return. Pleasant guests, employees and volunteers. Well arranged building. Most over 70. The dishwasher is 92. Coffee and cake on Saturdays from 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Early 8 September 2022
(above) A clever homeless family at this long-abandoned camp used the RAAF base fence as protection on one side and railway fencing for another. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
(above) The family topped their protective fence with barbed wire as this was the most dangerous camp outside the West Terrace Cemetery area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)
(above) What happened to this homeless family is not known. Thousands of adults and children live in government-funded motels on Main North and Glen Osmond Roads. This defies logic because 2000 government-owned public houses and flats sit empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
Moore Street on Saturdays in the city
“I like to see fear in their eyes,” the homeless man punching the air with his fists and feet says as he looks me in the eye. Others move away from the inner section of the laneway leaving me in the front line.
A man in his mid-seventies says he’s glad I’m between him and the fists. The angry man says he’s going to obliterate all dogs, mutts, paedophiles and the woman who stole his dole money and I.D.
Before his rage blossomed, he said he’d been homeless all his life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Another homeless man says he wishes he had a warm bed to sleep in tonight instead of twenty feet up a tree. A third man carrying a swag says the benefit of being homeless is that if trouble starts, it’s easy to move away. A fourth homeless man sits away from us, on the ground. He dislikes chairs.
Dennis the Menace lumbers enters the laneway on his walking frame. He complains of not getting the various supplementary Covid and cost-of-living-increase payments. He cracks a dirty joke and talks of Mr Wilson on the Dennis the Menace TV show of the late 1950’s.
Nearly everyone here tonight is a replacement for diners six years ago. The turnover is incredible though a few tough characters stay for decades. For the others disappeared, their only contact with their past life in the homeless scene is via this website. That’s why reader contributions are valuable.
A Chinese man and woman bring prepared food in large aluminium disposable trays. They’re the diplomats of the government’s white replacement policy. They’re not much different from us. I don’t see what they bring, but of the three choices of main course on the menu, I choose veggie bake. Instead of the usual blown-up quiche this was restaurant quality with fetta wrapped in cabbage and other foods hard to identify in the dim light. One diner from the Crony Gang says it’s the best food he’s ever had at Moore Street on Saturdays.
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
7 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Zorry to read about Knot $ea$ Commy$ $tealing campzite and gear from old partially blind crippled fella. welcome to eternal $hame... vile!
P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$.
AVOID Knot $ea$ Commy$. Juzt like 911 Chernobl, Knot $ea$ Commy$ have plenty more Bad Karma on the way.
Never trust New$...
New$ are the real Knot $ea$ Commy$ Terri$ Fa$hu$ Ray$hu$...
NO New$ iz Good Newz.
ZORRO ZALLAM
7 September 2022
List of external archival sites for Adelaide Homeless JournalMusic played by child molesters who hung out at Veale Gardens
And whose victims are now the old men and women
who attend Fred's Vans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E
A weird version, was it unconscious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UXSdFlVOs
8 May 2021
Paul Boden in the U.S.A. says the homeless industry got bigger while homeless housing got less: a mirror of Adelaide’s homeless services
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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
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(above) Homeless campers near the Adelaide CBD. They dislike government employees. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Cheap mosquito repellant appears a bargain when compared to the expensive brands. But spray some in an enclosed space such as a car and you'll gasp the difference. (Adelaide Homeless Journal November 2022).
(above) Stealth homeless camper in Adelaide Central Business District. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Poster near homeless camp at Hindmarsh. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Troubled homeless sleepers come and go in this space behind the State Administration Centre. Yet plenty of welfare housing kept empty for long periods. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Tent near Hutt Street Centre. Dozens, even a hundred engagement officers haven't made any difference in the homeless statistics. All they've done is redirect money from housing to case managers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Nature reclaiming the poisoned pathway ploughed through an indigneous camping area in the Adelaide CBD South Parklands by Lord Mayor Sandra "Call me Sandy" Verschoor's storm troopers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Amputee Piano Player Wayne naked three hours at Royal Adelaide Hospital after dispute with nurses over removal of his bedding he'd brought in from home. (Permission granted by Wayne to publish image).
(above) Is it art or a manifesto on a footbridge crossing the Torrens River at Hindmarsh? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Homeless man sleeping on the corner of Gawler Place and Wakefield Street. Shopping trolleys are in short supply for street people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Corporate psychiatric contractor for the government, Sonder, wants to medicate homeless people as mentally ill for being "mildly anxious and depressed". 99% of homeless people are anxious and depressed. It goes with the lifestyle and isn't an illness. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
(above) Victory (Adelaide Life) church took images for church publicity of clients at their free Thursday meal at Para Hills library, but when a client did the same, a church boss told him not to return. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, November 2022).
Coming Soon: List of Christmas Day free breakfast, lunch and supper venues (first report 1 December 2022); Port Adelaide Council engagement employee delivering free coffee to people sleeping outside; Port Adelaide Enfield Council fines homeless camper despite Mayor saying they wouldn't; Skylight; Free food joints working out their Christmas holiday opening and closing times; Grill'd another winner; Colostomy Bag activist.
On the Street
Department of Human Services Minister Natalia “Call me Nat” Cook was vociferous against former Minister Michelle Lensink for keeping welfare housing empty. But now “Call me Nat” is doing the same.
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The cook was absent so the two remaining Moose employees made hamburgers for their dwindling clientele at UnitingSA in Port Adelaide. The burgers were as good as Grill’d hamburgers in Rundle Street. One client even brought a cask of wine.
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Drug dealers no longer choose Port Church as their distribution point. The unofficial guards and ex-users turned to Jesus puts them off. This is terrific as those previously wanting to murder me are now forgiving. It’s a powerful church.
Second Editor
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Chef Wayne said a Chinese nurse at the Royal Adelaide Hospital tried to put Mayonnaise on his back having mistaken it for anti-itching cream. You wouldn’t want the nurse working at Grill’d.
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An older man recently at Fred’s Van Elizabeth eats little food and spends little money. He lives outside and avoids getting close to anyone. Each fortnight he uses his Aged Pension to fly to another city or regional town.
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The group rostered to do the Magdalene Collective free Saturday meal didn’t turn up yesterday. Wendy Forward’s husband, Michael, ordered Domino’s pizzas for 80 guests. They came in three batches and included non-meat options.
Michael may get reimbursed or he may not. Wendy has for years brought fresh flowers for each table every Sunday.
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A patient at the Royal Adelaide Hospital heard someone gulping a liquid drink. He turned around and discovered a man drinking hand sanitiser.
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A 30-year-old sub-genius alcoholic and drug taker did a test to measure the age of his brain. The answer was 46.
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Someone should help those lost souls working for the Towards Home Alliance. They wander about looking for homeless people to “house”, but keep discovering their prospective clients have fled.
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The Clink Cafe last Thursday for lunch at Semaphore Uniting Church was sadly devoid of many female felons. The food was greatly improved from the previous week and a young homeless man and an older homeless woman played the piano. The lunch is by one-dollar donation though Shar may try to hit you up for a dollar raffle ticket.
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A famous retired AFL player visited the C.H.A.T.S. breakfast last Friday morning and was crowded by fawning women.
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There isn’t a scheduled pre-Christmas party this year at St Andrew’s at-the-sea church in Glenelg. The preacher is leaving next week amid some controversy. She isn’t very religious, but seems okay.
The real estate agent’s wife left earlier this year. She was terrific at her job and her husband provided the money for soup at the Tuesday evening free meal.
Last Tuesday’s meal was troubled because each time someone got up from the table, the preacher removed their chair. Some felt unwelcome, but the place was still packed with diners.
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The Cottage Kitchen is moving from their storefront on St Vincent Street to the Uniting Church on Commercial Road, both in Port Adelaide. Management changed its name to the CK Hub when it became an N.D.I.S. contractor. But the money was like poison as the group transferred its free services for anyone to only those on N.D.I.S. packages.
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The young woman who spent her nights walking and singing around the Salisbury Citadel has disappeared, probably taken to a Care Home. Will this stop her singing?
Early 13 November 2022
(above) Stuff left by family camping in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Anglicare keeps properties empty and reserved for "special interest" groups. HousingSA simply leaves their houses and units empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Sikhs refuse Catherine the Doctor
The Sikhs at Hurtle Square now refuse to serve Catherine the Doctor. Three weeks ago, she threw a container of food back at them saying it was “poison”. This was irrational because the minute before she’d wanted multiple containers. She pulled out her phone and took images of the Sikhs and anyone who backed them including The Ghost Who Walks and the Colostomy Bag Activist. She followed them around the park while the Activist and one Sikh posed behind the tables and smiled at Catherine.
The elderly English Sikh said they won’t give her multiple meals as she lives in a gated community and doesn’t need them. He discovered this while driving her home one evening. He said his wife cooked the food that day after working night shift. A client walked Catherine home earlier this year and she showed him three houses she owned.
Catherine dresses exquisitely. She wears different clothing almost every week. She also has courage, but calls the police when people criticise her including two Vietnamese men who resent an obviously wealthy person taking food provided for homeless and underclass people.
Catherine is Vietnamese and in her seventies or eighties. She says she practised as a doctor before taking an early retirement. She says she was wealthy as a child. She had guards take her to school for fear of abduction. Then came the war and the family lost nearly everything.
She gives medical and life advice to homeless people. She says she helps young people find direction in their lives. Critics says she operates a rooming house and charges tenants $400 a week feeding them with food meant for the underclass and homeless.
How long she’ll last is anyone’s guess. We see such characters come and go in the homeless scene. She’s neither bad nor good, but a problem and perhaps an inspiration.
12 November 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Re: poster by homeless Camp in Hindmarsh
You should of left your own. The person who wrote it obviously doesn't know of this page and how you've played a part documenting society selling its soul. Some people like you have been warning society for years and years and years. The author never listened. Now plays a know it all. Thinks they're clever. They're not, hey? They still don't listen to the likes of you.
They have they're own recently awake boys club. Membership requires at least one form of bigotry. Racial religious l, class, flat earth. Etc. Believing global warming is fake is mandatory for membership.
(Many predators who once targeted the fringes of the homeless scene have flocked to the anti-microchip community.)
That is what we really are. Anti-microchip and the process used to get it in us.
The Beast
12 November 2022
(above) Clever tribal person uses plastic corflute as mattress on wet ground. Politicians should donate them to homeless people after each election. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).Government infiltrates C.H.A.T.S.
at Port AdelaideBeware of strangers bearing gifts.
Rose Darling announced that the Port Adelaide Community Engagement (P.A.C.E.) group had sponsored that morning’s breakfast by donating $350. A woman stood next to her saying we were “beautiful people”. I didn’t feel beautiful. And who was this P.A.C.E. group?
A woman from P.A.C.E. had trouble explaining who they were. A C.H.A.T.S. volunteer said they were volunteers from multi-departments or something like that. It was an answer that said don’t ask questions.
Rose Darling introduced the Council’s “Engagement Officer” to me. His name is Nathan March. I waved him away. Now, I understood. The Council was using C.H.A.T.S. to identify homeless people via a fake charity called P.A.C.E. The “Engagement Officer” is similar to the Salisbury Council’s Compliance Unit that stole my tent and bedding. Nathan March did the intelligence work on a man named Chris who slept in his campervan in the carpark at Largs Bay. Another Council employee named Brenton Thomas wrote Chris a ticket issuing a fine. Soon after, Chris and his van were gone.
This ”Engagement Officer” is a middleman between the homeless people and the Homeless Connect agency, which are also go-betweens between homeless people and welfare corporations managing government housing. And C.H.A.T.S. was being subverted to get homeless people off the street. Isn’t that good?
Not exactly. State government policy is to assume that all homeless people are mentally ill. Anxiety and depression are a mental illness according to the government’s psychiatric contractor, Sonder. Everyone who is homeless suffers anxiety and depression. It’s an adaption to the dangers of living outside in a predatory society. It drops when a homeless person gets housing.
The “Engagement Officer” is an intelligence officer hunting down “mentally ill” homeless people and putting them into psychiatric joints such as Terra Firma in Pirie Street in the city or rooming houses controlled by Supported Residential Facilities like Sunnyvale in Semaphore. They nailed Gerry who was camping on the beach at Largs Bay. He thought he was going there for a few weeks of rest and recreation. That’s what the Sunnyvale manager said. Gerry is ex-Army and accustomed to following orders from authority figures.
Bringing the P.A.C.E. crowd into the free breakfast at the Masonic Hall two weeks ago set the alarm bells ringing. Another good place at risk of being subverted by strangers bearing gifts.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Kindly staff all of whom are unpaid. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady and The Bald Guy. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff. No hot water in hand basins in toilet rooms.
Late 11 November 2022
Last report on Christmas Hampers
Late 11 November 2022
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Lutheran Care Works
114 Henley Beach Road
Torrensville
Phone (08) 8234 5828
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Not sure.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
No Christmas hampers or Christmas community lunch planned.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to St Mark’s clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale
Phone 8289 1866. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to Kings Baptist clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Late 11 November 2022
(above) The Harms death tree at Port Adelaide. The relatives remember. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours). (Adelaide Homeless Journal October 2022.).
Strangers using their shower
Rooming house tenants in Salisbury wondered why strangers were walking into the house, sitting in their kitchen, eating their food and using their shower. One left with the washing machine.
The answer was with Dominick Boleno, the owner of the house. He’d put a message in the Salisbury Council toilets saying homeless people could use the showers at one or two of his rooming houses.
But this wasn’t an act of kindness according to one tenant who said Boleno was in trouble with the Council health department for renting rooms in houses infested with bedbugs and in one case, a house without water. Letting homeless people use the shower was making amends.
Meanwhile, Boleno’s father is allegedly stealing empty drink cans from tenants who spend the days and nights collecting them from rubbish bins to pay the high room rent. One tenant said he had to threaten Boleno Sr. with a plank of wood as the old boy insisted on taking his cans. The old boy said he had a right to them.
Other tenants in the Boleno family houses are drug addicts fighting addiction then released from prison on parole and placed in rooming houses inhabited by addicts and dealers.
But the Salisbury Mayor, Gillian Aldridge, says Dominick Boleno is a lovely man and his tenants are lovely people.
Early 10 November 2022
(above) The Salvation Army now requires those applying for free stuff to phone their central Call Centre then pick up stuff from the Corps of their choice. Exceptions are City Salvos and Playford Salvos at Elizabeth East where the system remains the same. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).N.D.I.S. okays disabled clients
to hire prostitutesA National Disability Insurance Scheme Plan Manager gave the okay for a client to hire multiple sex workers that would be paid through his annual disability package.
The client says he’s looking forward to lots of sex plus taking his sex worker to his other disability programs to show other clients he has his own sexual escort at hand.
A veteran in the disability industry said this isn’t an unusual situation and that it provides sexual equity for disabled people. Another person said it also applies to old people on My Aged Care packages.
Below is a slightly redacted response from the sex industry to the N.D.I.S. client’s enquiry.
"Hello **********,
"Thanks for your referral request.
"COVID-19
"We appreciate that people with disability often need time to plan for accessing sex services, so during the COVID-19 pandemic Touching Base will continue to provide referral information so people with disability can investigate their choices.
"We encourage clients to follow up-to-date public health advice.
"Be aware that sex workers may be slow to respond to enquiries during this period.
"Sex workers and brothels will be using varying degrees of social distancing and other measures to avoid risks of COVID-19 transmission for themselves and their clients.
"Resources for people seeing a sex worker for the first time
"Before we get to the referral options, to prepare for a client for their 1st time having an appointment with sex worker it may be helpful to review the publications Touching Base has available and see if any of them would be suitable?
"These resources are designed to help explain and normalise the process of seeing a sex worker, manage client expectations and enable them to be aware of what may be involved (e.g. Consent issues, a genital check by the sex worker before the service and using safer sex practices etc).
"Booklets about seeing a sex worker
"Please follow the links below to access more info and an order form if you think the booklets below might be useful.
• Tony sees a sex worker
• Anna sees a sex worker
• Seeing a sex worker – a guide for people with disability
https://www.touchingbase.org/clients/booklets-people-disability
"Let them know it will be your first time seeing a sex worker or trying sexual activities with someone else. Then the worker will know to guide you through any experience they choose at a pace that suits you.
"REFERRAL OPTIONS
"We do only have two sex workers on our referral list for Adelaide at present.
"Lexie ********** - 40's
Website: http://www.adelaideescort.net
Email: *******@gmail.com
0468481801
"Cassandra ************- 54
Email: ***********@gmail.com
Ph: 0444******
Tours to Adelaide
Scarlett (40)
http://www.scarlettbwilde.com
********@scarlettbwilde.com
043*******
"When you introduce yourself please let them know you got your their contact details from Touching Base. Let them know about your disability and the services you are after.
"If you have no luck through with these workers, for information about other sex worker options - the sex industry in South Australia is resourced by an organisation called SIN, The South Australian Sex Industry Network. They have previously run workshops for sex workers interested in working with clients with disability. SIN may be able to put you into contact with other sex workers in SA who offer services to clients with disability.
"SIN's office hours are Tuesday to Friday 9.30am - 5.30pm
Ph: (08) 8351 7626
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.sin.org.au/
"Further information on how to find local sex workers is available in our FAQ section of our website http://www.touchingbase.org/clients/faqs .
"Let them know it will be your first time seeing a sex worker. Then the worker will know to guide you through any experience you choose at a pace that suits you.
Also tell them in advance you will need a invoice/receipt.
"Pricing and Costs
Touching Base doesn't handle any aspect of prices or costs as they are too variable between workers/brothels and also vary depending on the services sought. This is something the client and worker sort out between themselves.
"There is nothing wrong with a client with disability respectfully asking if any discounts are available, but it must not be expected that sex workers or brothels will offer a discount to their professional services.
"Before you contact any sex worker you may like to also read this 10 Tips for Clients resource:
http://www.touchingbase.org/clients/clients-%C2%BB-information-and-resources
"We do hope this information assists.
"Finally, we would be very interested to be provided with information about the outcomes so please feel welcome to let us know how it goes."
Kind regards,
Kandi
Referral List Officer
Early 9 November 2022
(above) Somewhere in the Adelaide CBD. Social workers blame homeless people for being homeless, but won't say a word about hundreds of government-owned welfare houses kept empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).
Updated report on Christmas Hampers
Posted early 8 November 2022
Act quickly as most hampers are allocated within a few days of opening.
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Yes, to clients of their Para Hills Thursday evening meal and the Friday morning Pittman Park. See Free Food Guide for more details.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Not sure.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
No Christmas hampers or Christmas community lunch planned.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to St Mark’s clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale
Ph 8289 1866. Salvation Army at Golden Grove supplying hampers to Kings Baptist clients. Shared data base to stop anyone going to more than one of three places: Salvation Army, St Mark’s and Kings Baptist at Wynn Vale.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Early 8 November 2022
Excellent free summer menu
at Pilgrim ChurchHi again
This week is the beginning of our summer menu for Sunday Night Tea at Pilgrim Uniting Church.
Instead of soups we will offer cold meats and 4 different salads, fresh bread, fruit, cake and the usual tea, coffee and cordial. The exception is Sunday 20 November when we will have the last of our lasagne nights (thanks to sponsorship from outside Pilgrim Church).
Many thanks for publicising free food in the city 😊
Carol and Peter (coordinators)
Editor: The ham, salads, beetroot, beans, fresh chopped fruit platters, cake, chocolate rolls, coffee, apples and cordial were excellent. Fresh and bought from stores, nothing from Foodbank. Even that drunk woman throwing hand sanitiser at diners didn’t dampen the event. And the team leader at Fred’s Van across the road was asking about the new menu and number of diners.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New summer menu includes cold meat, four kinds of salads, bread and margarine, fresh chopped fruit, cakes, tea, coffee and cordial. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
Early 8 November 2022
Kindness and wisdom
in the homeless sceneThe young black fella with the fuzzy hair fronted up to the white fella. “Look at yourself, look at me,” he admonished the older man. The black fella was last seen in despair outside the Pilgrim Church with his face buried in his hands. But now he was shaping up to fight the white fella.
Another indigenous man had been taunting those walking along Pulteney Street at Hindmarsh Square where the Jasmine restaurant and a church charity provides a free meal every Thursday evening.
But he’d picked the wrong guy in the white fella with a scarred face from massive burns who was a client as well. This older white fella eyed him defiantly and set in chain a situation where the fuzzy-haired man felt a kinship obligation to join the argument.
The white fella’s face was scarred red and wearing a red jacket didn’t help offset this or his blazing blue eyes. And he wouldn’t back down. His defiant stare had spooked the black fellas and that’s why one of them told him to look at himself: an old out-of-shape combatant against the muscular young black fella. No contest.
One of the white charity workers told the white fella man to leave even though he’d not started the argument. This got him snarling more than ever as he moved a finger’s distance from the charity guy’s face.
Then Catherine the Doctor stepped in with psychological advice. “Get out of it, Catherine,” someone warned.
Then something changed. The fuzzy-haired black fella went up to the burns man and said, “I love you,” and tapped fists. The white fella was stunned and turned away and walked up Currie Street with no concern about getting a meal from the Jasmine Restaurant.
The boxes of meals arrived with two Jasmine cooks and in the flash of a seizure, we'd dissolved into anonymity and you wouldn’t know we’d been there.
Early 7 November 2022
(above) People steal the best stuff from the recycling cabinet outside St Bede's Anglican Church at Semaphore. The Jim Carey look-alike organiser says that is a form of recycling. Perhaps better than pulling apart electrical components for metals. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
Stormy Summers’ former bodyguard has moved into a nursing home on Salisbury Highway. How the mighty have fallen. And whatever happened to Stormy?
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The revolutionary urinator says he was videoed 200 times last month. He said he wanted to be well known, but not this famous.
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A man urinated into a Farmer’s Union two-litre Ice Coffee bottle on a city street. He wore shorts that slipped too far down. He stood between the door and his car and looked pedestrians in the eye.
Later he poured two full Ice Coffee containers into the gutter. Those walking by weren’t impressed. No one was impressed. Even the revolutionary urinator was disgusted.
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The Café is closed at Ti Tree Gully Salvation Army Corps. The popular employee shot through. It will open in the future. They still have a free coffee and chat group every third Wednesday of the month from 10:00am to 12:00pm where you can meet some incredible homeless people. It sounds silly to say, but it seems a privilege to meet such people.
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A man apologised to a singer at Fred’s Van Salisbury on Sunday. She’d said she’d made heaps of money outside Adelaide railway station with a young bodyguard man.
The person apologising thought the man was her pimp and she was a sex worker. But she is an accomplished singer and earns money from busking.
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A smirking N.D.I.S. agent appeared at Chef Wayne’s bedside in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He carried a contract. It reduced his package from $600k a year to $70. Wayne would move into a house in Para Hills, but the smirking agent wouldn’t give the address. He said Wayne would find out when they arrived. Wayne ripped up the contract and broke the agent’s pen in half.
The agent responded saying Wayne would have to stay in the R.A.H. until March next year.
Chef Wayne, aka Piano Player Wayne, said there are no words to describe how awful the N.D.I.S. bureaucrats are. He said they’re reducing his Care hours and pocketing the money.
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Chef Wayne said one of his new N.D.I.S. Carers didn’t know the difference between a can opener and a pizza slicer. He said they’re offered jobs if they move to Australia and discover they’re allocated Caring jobs even though they hate the clients and haven’t the appropriate skills. But he likes his Nepalese Carers. He says they’re astute and kind.
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Another N.D.I.S. client says his Care Worker refuses to work and spends hours fiddling with his phone while relaxing on the client’s couch. The worker comes from an affluent Indian background and sees the client as white trash. And the firm that hires the worker is Indian so they don’t listen to the white trash client when he complains.
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Wayne said one of his new N.D.I.S. Carers didn’t know the difference between a can opener and a pizza slicer.
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John Johnson is still angry about being locked in the toilet last year at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea in Glenelg. The doors of the corridor are locked at both ends from the outside so John was trapped. How he eventually got out is unclear, but he remains disturbed by it. More so than when he was locked in a walk-in cool room overnight at the Minda complex.
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A volunteer waiter spilt soup on a diner the Tuesday before last at Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg Uniting Church. The diner didn’t say anything.
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“I love her already,” said a man recently released from prison after seeing a stranger deliver six large bags of chocolate to the Jasmine Restaurant free meal in Hindmarsh Square on Thursdays.
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A volunteer said they identify homeless clients to the Towards Home Alliance press gang that visits St. Andrew’s church at Glenelg. But the Minister said they don’t pass any information to Towards Home or anyone.
Volunteers don’t understand that while the press gang may benefit some homeless people, they also destroy the lives of others. That’s why the press gang act sneaky instead of sitting behind a little table and saying they have cheap units for rent. They’re peddling a rehabilitation package that involves “medication”.
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The first Clink Lunch at Semaphore Uniting Church at Exeter went quite well. We tried to sneak in without giving a donation, but the Verger stopped us short.
The Clink ladies said they served toasted cheese and gherkin sandwiches, but there was any pickles in any of them and apparently no cheese, just a little margarine. The soup was better according to other diners.
The big disappointment was the lack of criminal gals on location. And those elderly women serving the food denied being criminals.
The church minister works for both the Department of Corrections and the Seeds of Infinity group as well as the Uniting Church. God save us all.
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“You’re not going to bag me for not wearing shoes,” a homeless man said to Catherine the Doctor at Fred’s Van last Thursday. Catherine was giving him health advice.
He is another of those semi-genius men who never found a vocation and ended up pushing a shopping trolley in the streets.
6 November 2022
(above) One night stand in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Would storage areas for homeless people reduce such waste? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Dracula’s sister’s revenge?
Staff at the St Vincent de Paul charity shop in Elizabeth forgot to lock their rubbish bin. It contained donated stuff they couldn’t sell, but they still didn’t want anyone else getting it. That’s why they lock it. They want it buried in landfill.
But the lid was open so amongst others at the Fred’s Van event behind the shop, Radio Damian and Dracula’s Sister rummaged through the bin. Damian got a woman’s handbag so he looked through the pockets searching for valuables.
This triggered Dracula’s sister. She wanted it and believed she owned it because she had set her beady eyes on it. That’s her version of ownership. On hard rubbish days she joins men scavenging piles of furniture and other good stuff thrown out. Despite the men providing the car and petrol, she claims everything by dint of setting those beady eyes on it. Dracula’s sister is a hoarder. You can imagine how this embarrasses Dracula. They come from a long line of blood suckers, but all she wants to do is load her unit with stinking rubbish. Then she claims the man in her ceiling sneaks down at night and steals it.
But Radio Damian wasn’t having any of it. It was his woman’s handbag because he got it first. So Dracula’s sister screamed like a banshee wolf. It was eerie like hearing a vampire in the forest. She said she’d steal everything he owned. Radio Damian is a little strange himself. He carries a blaring boom box radio wherever he goes then places it next to people having quiet conversations and walks off.
Anyway, the following week he was off his chops and shouting at a police officer’s wayward father. Radio Damian said he was sick of people saying he stunk. This was at the Beacon of Hope free lunch in Elizabeth. The officer’s vagrant father kept his cool at first, but began shouting back. Big Al emerged from the kitchen and ushered the police officer’s father outside. He’s been banned for life, but gets back in occasionally.
Damian’s problems weren’t over with Dracula’s sister, either. Someone robbed his shopping trolley of his birth certificate and other I.D. This had happened before and a member of Parliament had purchased him a new certificate, but this time the answer was no.
There is no proof it was Dracula’s sister. She has many wonderful points. But no one should rob a homeless man’s shopping trolley.
Early 5 November 2022
(above) The single toilet at the children's playground at Outer Harbour is locked or out of service nearly half the time. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022).
(above) A faulty design compounded by inadequate flush water means this toilet is frequently blocked and requires repeated expensive maintenance. Someone must be getting a kickback. (Image blurred. Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022),
Citadel news from Salisbury
Two Somalians had their hands inside a woman’s sleeping bag as she slept on the concrete outside Westpac bank at Salisbury in Adelaide’s northern suburbs. She’s the 35-year-old who dresses in gowns and wears gloves and a face mask.
This is across the street from the $43 million Salisbury Council offices known as The Citadel. Authorities told the woman to move away from The Citadel as she’d been having sex with Matt and numerous men day and night and citizens were complaining. And with Matt arrested and in prison, she’d become especially vulnerable.
Anyway, a white fella phoned the police about the two Somalians. The police acted quickly and surrounded the white fella’s car and demanded Identification. Luckily, a security guard from the Hong Kong contractor walked by and said the white fella was okay.
The police found the two Somalians, but let them go as they were “from a different culture”. And – though this wasn’t discussed openly – the white woman was a drug addict, insane and with a cooked brain.
Late 4 November 2022
Updated report on Christmas Hampers
Late 4 November 2022
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children. This is a partial list only and represents perhaps just 20% of places offering Christmas hampers.
Playford Community Fund
Hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare Corporation
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
One Anglicare outlet is the Magdalene Centre City joint at
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
Church of Christ Blair Athol
379 Prospect Road, Blair Athol. Phone (08) 8548 9265. Left message. Will get back.
Wynn Vale Baptist Church
Phone 8289 1866. Phone next week from 8 November.
N.E.C.A.P.
Phone next week from 8 November. They’re at 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780. Open Mon - Fri 9:30am to 2:30pm and service 20 surrounding suburbs. Popular with ex-prisoners.
Hope Chapel Gawler
Awaiting reply.
St Mark’s Anglican Golden Grove
Ph 8289 4003. Awaiting reply.
Australian Communist Party at Whitmore Square
They’re considering what they’re doing at Christmas and are cognisant of the fact the big money homeless outfits close down over Christmas.
Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide.
Christmas lunch to those registered on the Eternal Shame File, but the operator didn’t seem to hear me asking about hampers.
Puddle Jumpers
Operator didn’t know anything about hampers and didn’t offer to find out. You can all them on 7071 5270.
Late 4 November 2022
(above) Professional mixed-race Aboriginals cleared the ground before setting up camp in a perfect spot for safety and privacy in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Bottled water and gas cannisters in the city parklands. It is crucial not to take stuff lying around as it might not be discarded. homeless etiquette should be followed strictly. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Early report on Christmas Hampers
Some churches require extensive documentation when giving away Christmas hampers while others require nothing. Hampers are always in short supply and fully allocated by mid-November so it is import to act quickly. Please don’t take more than you need as this will deprive others of a hamper for their children.
Playford Community Fund
Offers hampers to people in the Elizabeth area and perhaps out of the area from 7th November 2022.
Next to the Anglicare Windsor building with its dirty windows in the Elizabeth shopping centre. It’s across the carpark from library. Tuesday to Thursday from 9:00am to 11:30am. Phone first on (08) 8255 1599 to quote your Centrelink card number. Free food, frying pans, blankets, gift cards, prescription vouchers, help with electricity bills and secret help.
Adelaide Day Centre
Offers Christmas hampers to anyone in Adelaide who asks for them and is taking names now. They deliver the hampers two weeks before Christmas. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 Christmas hamper depot.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects.
Anglicare
Anglicare across Adelaide offers Christmas hampers only to those who are already clients. This can mean anyone who has accessed free food or services from them during the year. They have branches across Adelaide and South Australia.
Magdalene Centre City
82 Gilbert Street, Adelaide. ph 8305 9434. 9:00am to 11:30am Monday to Friday.
Small free supermarket. Free underwear, pillows and quilts. Health Care Card required.
Uniting Communities
Pitt Street, Adelaide. Phone 1800 615 617. They’re taking names all of November for Christmas hampers, but it is best to phone early before the books are full.
UnitingSA
This huge corporation on Dale Street, Port Adelaide offers supermarket purchase vouchers instead of food hampers to its clients, but they discriminate against homeless people and insist they register for rooming house housing at the Western Adelaide homeless service in Lipson Street, Port Adelaide. It might not be too late to become a client.
Phone 8440 2110.
Salvation Army
The Army gives food hampers to nearly anyone who fills out their unpleasant application forms. You can apply via their Call Centre on (08) 8130 6188 or if you’re in Elizabeth visit 39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East or phone (08) 8255 8811. Those in the city can visit 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide or phone Ph 08 8227 0199.
Baptist WestCare Homeless Centre
The receptionist at 212 Wright Street, Adelaide said they aren’t giving out hampers this year, but will probably have a Christmas day lunch with giveaways. Phone 8118 5200 for updates.
Marion Life Church of Christ
They do provide Christmas hampers, but their criteria is not known. Phone 8277 0304 for more details.
Cos We Care
They aren’t providing Christmas hampers per se, but will continue their service through the Christmas and New Year periods, which is better than getting a hamper. They also provide extra stuff to clients during this period.
U Care Gawler
They’re taking names for Christmas Hampers from the 7th of November. This is for those living in the Gawler area, but homeless people can say they live anywhere because they do. Phone 08 8522 4522.
St Vincent de Paul Society
Phone 8112 8700. They’re taking names now and may deliver depending on the area.
Victory (Life Adelaide) Church 8262 7733
Awaiting reply.
Lifepoint (Revival City)
Yes, but not sure if they’re for clients only or not. Phone 0403 865 740 for details. They’re on corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads at Modbury north.
Pathways Baptist at Clovercrest
They’re not doing Christmas hampers, but provide a free food service all the time.
Taperoo Uniting Church
63 Gedville Road, Taperoo. Yes, like most Uniting Churches that are linked to a database so people won’t double up. Phone 0422 851 455 or 7422 2140. Very generous people.
Beacon of Hope Church of Christ Elizabeth
38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth. Phone 8255 2467. They did last year and had a terrific Christmas Day lunch. Very generous church.
ONE Life Parafield Gardens
13 Ormsby Avenue. Phone 8258 3865. Not sure as they already provide free food every Wednesday and are a small church. They punch above their weight.
Port Church at Largs North
No hampers to free food clients on Wednesdays. They’ve decided to concentrate on two schools instead.
This is a preliminary list and will be updated in three or four days.
2 November 2022
Another slight drop in
Adelaide CBD homeless countThe Actively Homeless count in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands has dropped from 234 to 226 from August to September 2022.
The Sleeping Rough number dropped 178 to 155. These theoretically include those people sleeping behind the State Centre Parking station in Gawler Place where Fred’s Van sets up each evening. They sleep on cold filthy concrete without mattresses amongst rubbish bins, but at least they’re out of the rain.
The Temporarily Sheltered number has risen from 32 to 43. These include that crowd who sit on the park benches in front of Sunny’s Backpackers on the corner of Morphett and Franklin Streets. Has anyone actually seen real backpackers at that horrible joint?
The Actively Homeless – other number has risen from 24 to 28. These include those who have dropped out of site including leaving temporary and permanent housing.
The newly identified number rose from 14 to 25 with eight not yet completing the degrading homeless triage interrogation.
The Toward Home press gangs have been increasingly visible in the city and Glenelg areas. It isn’t clear if they actually help people get housing or that homeless people go invisible in fear of them. This is because Toward Home is more about control via psychiatric drugs and control of welfare incomes than actual housing.
A weakness in these statistics is that the Salvation Army – who are a component of Towards Home – won’t list from where or how they collect the data.
One thing that has become apparent is that homeless people have displaced those with rooms and flats from Fred’s Van and the Magdalene Collective’s free services in the city. That might be seen as a good result as those living outside are more desperate.
https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/
2 November 2022
(above) Much of the millions spent on the Hutt Street Centre renovations went for surveillance purposes. Homeless people slept behind the opaque iron fence so it was replaced with a Perspex barrier. The water tap was removed years previously. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) West Terrace cemetery employees removed the Sisters of Mercy slabs and began digging as other staff closed the gates for the day. Rumour has it that the bodies of homeless people lie under certain slabs after seeking places to sleep. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Four Sisters of Mercy bodies were lowered into the graves then covered with dirt. But what happened to that of Janet Mead? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Strangers using the shower
Dominic Boleno’s rooming house tenants in Salisbury discovered strangers walking into the house, sitting in their kitchen, eating their food and using their shower. One even departed with the washing machine.
Dominic Boleno Junior put a message in the Salisbury Council toilets saying homeless people could use the showers at one of his rooming houses. This wasn’t quite an act of kindness as Boleno was in trouble with the Council health department for renting rooms in houses infested with bedbugs and in one case, a house without water. Letting homeless people use the shower was making amends.
Meanwhile, Boleno Senior was discovered stealing empty drink cans from tenants who spend days and nights collecting them from rubbish bins to pay the high rent for the rooms. One tenant said Boleno Senior said he had a right to take them, but changed his mind when confronted by an angry tenant holding a plank of wood.
Tenants in the Boleno family rooming houses tend to be those using drugs or dealing them. Others are on parole for drug offences and trying to stop using then placed by the Department of Corrections into rooming houses inhabited by drug addicts and dealers.
But the Salisbury Mayor Gillian Aldridge says Dominic Boleno is a lovely man and his tenants are lovely people. She urged me to move from my tent into one of this lovely man’s lovely rooming houses. When I declined, her Compliance Team and other Council employees hid in the bushes waiting for me to leave for the day then stole my tent, bedding and camping equipment.
She phoned later in regret that they had acted so quickly.
Second Editor
31 October 2022
(above) Nature reclaiming a vacated homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
“I don’t want to be a dealer. I’ve got a place to live. I don’t want to lose it.”
A homeless drug user recently having obtained housing pressured by welfare housing neighbours to supply them.
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“Time to feed the animals.”
A soup kitchen client waiting for the Pilgrim Church to open.
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Three Towards Home Alliance employees have been hanging around St Andrew’s Church-at-the-Sea. They try to get homeless people to sign treatment and rehabilitation contracts. Two outside men now avoid St Andrew’s to avoid them.
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Red Geronimo has returned to The Ark. He’s gained weight and is uncommunicative. Before his disappearance, he was chain smoking and laughing wildly outside the OTR on Salisbury highway. An OTR employee brought him a free coffee and then he disappeared.
Another Lutheran Ark diner threw rolls of toilet paper onto Salisbury Highway and watched cars drive over it. He’s fine and dandy and without legal problems because he understands the nature of strategic withdrawal.
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HousingSA via the South Australian Civil and Administration Authority obtained an eviction order against Mick of Mick and Denise. It was for last Thursday. Mick said he’ll hang himself if evicted, but then changed his mind to the option of returning to living under trees in the city parklands. But he’s older and sicker than before and that lifestyle would be more difficult. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours).
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Some clients call the Hutt Street Centre, Slut Street. This slur is appropriate since it’s joined its mortal enemies in the Towards Home Alliance. Hutt Street Centre has surrendered its principles set down by the Daughters of Charity and its Board and employees crave power and money. Break through the superficial layer of kindness and you’ll find vipers writhing in unfulfilled satisfaction.
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That young woman living on the concrete outside the Salisbury Community Hub (The Citadel) spends her nights singing and talking to herself while walking the streets of Salisbury City.
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Christmas Hamper season fires up on Tuesday 1 November. There will be a rush of applications and within ten days the books will be full. Interested people might consider spending Monday phoning every place listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal Free Food Guide. We hope to have a list here by Wednesday or Thursday.
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The colostomy bag activist is taping clean bags onto power poles and bus stops around the Adelaide CBD. His aim is not clear.
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Revolutionary urinators have been active in the Adelaide CBD drawing attention from offended citizens. What can anyone expect with the removal of public toilets that is a form of locational curfew?
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A man released from Port August prison said he wasn’t impressed when someone told him he’d try to be good. The ex-con said you’re either good or bad; trying to be something makes no difference.
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A white woman snarled at a mixed-race Aboriginal man at an Adelaide CBD soup kitchen last week. She said, “There’s the rapist, there you are. You put your hand up my…when I was sleeping.” The man ignored her then denied it.
When she left, another white women rapped her knuckles on the table until it shook saying “chicks” shouldn’t make accusations without everything being “black and white” otherwise it demeans those who were raped.
She said she was raped on the streets and spent two years trying to obtain a conviction, but the perpetrator was acquitted. She said it was heartbreaking. She later apologised for making a scene in the dining room, but that wasn’t necessary.
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A Glenelg parking inspector woke up a woman sleeping in her car and gave her a parking fine. She was in a no-parking-at-night area. An elderly woman from St Paul’s Lutheran church spoke up for the homeless woman and the fine was rescinded.
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Two men in housing who don’t know each other and are facing homelessness have been talking about hanging themselves. Lifeline 131 114 (24 Hours).
30 October 2022
(above) Free food at Ridley Grove Uniting Church Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:00 noon. No I.D. or registration required. Quality varies from good to not good. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Homeless campers not welcome at Ridley Grove Uniting Church. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Starvation Army
It was travelling back in time. A few older people and drug addicts have died in the past five years, but most are still alive. Hardly anyone noticed I’d been gone except a small drug addict lady who alerted her Fraternity. But we’ve got a truce of sorts: I won’t mention them and they ignore me.
Old Bob was missing. He’s the compere. His knee replacement surgery went wrong.
Tad from Port Adelaide advised anyone who would listen that Satanists were everywhere. The laughing woman talked about rude sex saying a man had given her twenty dollars and a ride home, then acted rudely. Army staff weren’t happy with her thirty-minute shouting description and asked one mam did he want her to stop? He didn’t. She said she put her mother’s name and phone number on Facebook advertising a rude service. The police arrived the next day.
Christian sang in the corner. Same as five years ago. He’s improved and gave the Benson Room a good feeling. Staff served coffee. The joint is open from 3:30pm according to an Army magazine. The meal is served at 6:00pm giving patrons time to rush to Fred’s Van at Gawler Place. The Army Do Unto Others (DUO) team also operates an addiction meeting at 6:45pm then Bible study at 7:30pm. Someone said a foot doctor was there earlier.
The Baby-Faced Drug Addict has changed. Instead of being zonked out in the disability toilets, he walked around normally. Maybe he’ll reach old age.
The meal was pasties, pies, mashed potatoes, gravy, string beans and a small container of mouse that few ate, but The Man from Peterborough ate seven.
It was an inspiring gathering and a credit to those organising it. And more time to relax and less food than other joints. Pushing junk food has become a problem. Some myth about people going hungry. Malnourished of vitamins from dead food, sure, but not lacking carbohydrates.
Salvation Army Adelaide City
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. (close to Hutt Street). Ph 08 8227 0199. Monday to Friday. 9:00am to 11:00am for vegetables, bread, free hot coffee and cakes. Best to arrive early. No I.D. required for this or free dine-in meal 6:00pm on Wednesdays, entry 5:00pm for coffee. Increased groceries if you sign up for an interview and provide a Centrelink card. Water tap in back lane available 24/7.
29 October 2022
Oznomadic
The World's Tilting. I was having a "Fat Butt" in my "Brass Pipe". I get told that I'm "Smokin'a Crack Pipe.". Police Arrived, I offered them my "offending item". An old brass toker, 4 inches long, a pot pipe that I smoke tobacco from. So I'm walking away. With my Pipe. People, "Crack Pipes " are Glass not Brass.
29 October 2022
Mr Doughnut
From the anonymous contact page
I had three communists take me out to lunch one day. We had pork and fish and rice and spices with vegies. We had chop sticks and wine. F****** good Tucker. Let’s have more communist lunches and vodka.
29 October 2022
(above) To survive the politically constructed shortage of housing in South Australia, one person places a caravan in a strategical position and lives there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2021.)
(above) When eventually threatened by authorities, this camper simply moves the house on wheels to another location. Very clever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Doors closed
From the anonymous contact page
“What has happened to salvos? Dropped in today to put my name down for yearly hamper to find doors were closed with a sign on door saying to phone for support. I could see people inside but they did not open up. I tried the number on the door and it said it was not taking anymore phone calls- wt?????? Stuck by covid or cost cutting is my question. I will post an update on food parcels voucher do you want something I don’t smoke and Christmas if I find out 2moro. Following for details on other places I can register this year so I don’t miss out again. Cheers.
Second Editor: They’re putting into place a Statewide Call Centre where most requests for service will be via the phone. The Call Centre sends their orders to the local corps who serve the clients with blankets, gift cards, food, etc. Employees at Corps level who previously evaluated requests for assistance are being deployed elsewhere such as Elizabeth East and City Salvos where they’ll still process client interviews in person. It might be wise to ask the Call Centre not to record conversations.
28 October 2022
Respectful anonymity
Unlike the Playford Community Fund where employees speak through slits in the Perspex, the elderly woman at St Paul’s Lutheran church in Glenelg asked me to sit in a comfortable chair at her desk. She asked if I’d like a bottle of water.
She wanted to view my Centrelink card, but said if I didn’t have one that would be alright. She held a clipboard with an application form then said the information doesn’t leave the church property. It’s kept on paper and very year they destroy all their welfare records. This means clients’ personal details are not sent to the Eternal Shame File.
St Paul’s Lutheran fund their free food program via profits from their Op Shop on the same property. They don’t get government funding so don’t have to betray their clients’ confidentiality. How different from the big money homeless joints. It had been a bad night in the car so this kindness was emotionally overwhelming.
The two women at St Paul’s go through a checklist of thirty or forty pantry items plus toiletries and vouchers for the Op Shop. They take the list into the back room and emerge with bags.
This sort of kindness and respect deserve the same back.
St Paul’s Lutheran church, 48 Brighton Road, Glenelg (near corner of Jetty and Brighton Roads) Phone 8295 6376. Mon and Wed 11:00am -2:00pm. Choose pantry items and toiletries from a list of forty items. Centrelink card requested. They don’t send your personal details to the Eternal Shame File and destroy their paper files each year. Polite and kind.
28 October 2022
Best value quality restaurant (Chinese)
Chef Wayne says the Kung Fu restaurant in O’Connell Street, North Adelaide is the place to go. He recommends the sweet and sour pork with rice or the beef in black bean sauce, both with rice or noodles. Once again, he recommends buying the takeaway packs of beef or pork without the rice that is easy to cook at home. He says the added spring rolls and prawn crackers are worth dying for, which seems a little close to the bone considering Wayne’s lengthy residency in Royal Adelaide Hospital.
But he gives the Kung Fu only 9 out of 10 as the sweet and sour sauce seems a little too sweet and the beef contains too much garlic. But Chef Wayne admits this is his subjective opinion.
Once again, the cheapest way to buy it is in takeaway packs of either the pork or beef with sauces while cooking the rice at home. He says everything is cooked fresh every day and that everything on the menu is worth trying. He says the rice, crackers, spring rolls and either beef or pork costs about $55.
28 October 2022
(above) Camper in Salisbury area. The Compliance Unit will attempt to put him in a high-rent rooming house full of drug users. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Communist Sunday lunch
The communists served food, but were preoccupied discussing politics amongst themselves and others. “You’re still going to vote Labor,” one communist told a woman after explaining how the Labor party would betray her interests. But the Labor woman showed more interest looking into the eyes of another communist talking about music.
The communist with compassionate eyes and a nasty tattoo on the side of his forehead told another that helping a family required understanding each member to determine how best to serve them. True, no point giving them stuff they can’t use.
The toothless Eskimo Lady with thin legs and a wizened face had dressed herself in little girl’s clothing, as usual. She’s a survivor and unlike many of her colleagues might live to retirement age.
The Australian Communist Party no longer has a camp stove with boiling water, but rather a taped-up insulated jug. They don’t realise how a flame and steaming water positively affects homeless people on a glum rainy day.
The server was reluctant to serve even the hot coffee from the insulated jug. He said the heat would melt the cups. The meals were good, but cold. They should realise homeless people want hot food. Cold food is okay for those with ovens at home, but not if you’re living outside. Cold food demeans the communists’ excellent service.
But in the balance, this unfunded group provides an oasis on a Sunday while the big money Hutt Street Centre building on the other side of the CBD lies locked and empty.
Communist Party City
Whitmore Square, Morphett Street, Adelaide. Phone 0418 894 366. 11:30am - 1:30pm Sundays. Free. No I.D. required. The Community Union Defence League provide free clean used clothing and an excellent lunch on the grass. This includes hot food, takeaway packs, coffee and biscuits for two hours. Homeless and underclass welcome. Food and coffee sometimes cold. Real homeless-style diners. Lois Boswell & Don Frater not welcome.
26 October 2022
Chef Wayne reports from
the Royal Adelaide HospitalBest value quality restaurant (Indian)
The Gordon Ramsay Report from Chef Wayne, aka Hairdresser Wayne, Piano Player Wayne, R.A.H. patient Wayne. The human version of a Rubik’s Cube.
As the third most senior patient at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Wayne has plenty of time to think about food. He likes good food so he gives the hospital caterers 1.5 out of 20.
Wayne says you’re what you eat so “rather than the junk at these agencies” people should dine on food from the North Indian Diner on Hindley Street, near Bank Street. Their spicy food ranges from hot to not hot. Wayne says they prepare the food on the premises from scratch. This includes the sauces. “People can trust me on this because I’m a fussy bastard,” he says from his hospital bed. He gives the North Indian Diner 9.5 out of 10. Their score fails to make 10 out of 10 as the chicken pieces aren’t cut small enough and the lamb pieces cut too small.
Wayne dined there with Omo, his white cat. Omo would sit on the table and occasionally take a bite from the meat dishes. But Wayne says the most economical way of buying the food is in takeaway packs. He says to buy the lamb or chicken separately and cook the rice at home. Each pack costs about $40, Wayne says.
26 October 2022
(above) Until recently, Mick spent months living in this car - including the hot months - up to 23 hours a day at North Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Someone smashed his windscreen so he placed bedsheets on the outside of the front and back windows. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) While Mick spent those months in his car, plenty of HousingSA units and houses remained vacant and reserved for special interest groups, or just kept empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Does this note left in his car resemble something written by a government employee? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
A ruthless welfare corporation
Have you ever wondered what happens to those contracts you’ve signed at welfare agencies? The ones where they force you to give them permission to collect and share information with anyone they please. Do they continue to do this after you’re long gone.
I wrote two letters to Anglicare Chief Executive Grant Reubenicht saying I’d rescinded all permissions for them to collect and share information about me. I can require this legally as they evicted me from the retirement units at Elizabeth so I’m no longer a client.
Grant never replied. Why should he? But he delegated two employees who said they’d work on it. There was no further word on whether they’d inserted file notes saying they no longer had the legal right to collect or share my personal details.
I wrote a third letter to Reubenicht asking for confirmation. He never replied. Why should he? There’s no legal obligation for him to reply.
I decided to make a Freedom of Information Request of my file to see if they’d done it. This is where they supply a copy of everything they hold on a person. It’s free if you have a Centrelink card. Anglicare Corporation promised to provide Freedom of Information Requests to tenants and ex-tenants similar to that of government departments. They did this as part of the deal when HousingSA transferred over 1000 housing units for Anglicare Corporation to manage. But once the contracts were signed, Anglicare removed information from their website on how tenants and ex-tenants can access their own files.
Why did they do this? Anglicare ceased being a charity and became a corporation under former Anglicare church Reverend Lyn Arnold after he left politics after the State Bank lost three billion dollars.
As a corporation, the Board and executives of Anglicare are now required to maximise profits and growth rather than act on a moral basis. Sure, the AnglicareSA website displays images of clients acting pathetic and grateful, but the reality is different. They claimed two years ago to have 1200 employees and 600 volunteers, but have revised this to 1800 “hardworking staff and 300 dedicated volunteers”.
Unpaid volunteers have little place in this growing corporation. It discourages applicants with courses indoctrinating them to use gender neutral language. Anglicare Corporation prohibits volunteers from talking to clients out of hours even if they’ve gone to the same schools and grown up together.
While not following any religion, this appears to be the Anglican Church’s imagery of the Biblical Beast subsuming individual dignity and natural decency in its quest for worldly power.
Second Editor
Adelaide Homeless Journal
24 October 2022
Gourmet baked beans on a budget
By Chef Wayne aka Piano Player Wayne
“Better than a bridge blown up in the Crimea and more bang for your buck. You’ll need four kilos of baked beans. Heinz are better,” says Chef Wayne on using canned beans as a base for this recipe. His instructions are:
Start by washing three kilos of baked beans of their sauce or gunk as Chef Wayne refers to it. Allow to stand and dry. Slice six to nine onions, not diced. Then two red or yellow large capsicums sliced. Two or more whole rashers of bacon finely chopped. Two whole jars of tomato passata (pureed tomato). Two cans of Italian diced tomatoes. 500 grams of Western Star butter.
Put everything in a pot except the beans. Add half a cup to a cup of macadamia Sun Coast Gold oil. (Wayne says it stops the butter from burning). Melt the butter and vegetables together on a high heat, stirring for five or six minutes. Once the ingredients are coated in butter and oil, take the pot off the stove, turn the heat down low ― keep pot off stove for five minutes if using an electric stove ―, then place pot back on stove. Simmer for one hour, stirring every five or six minutes. Keep lid on pot and sweat vegetables as they braise.
Add jalapenos freshly diced. Add one cup of real maple syrup. Be aware maple-flavoured is not maple syrup. Add baked beans that have been washed of sauce (gunk). Add tomatoes canned and passata. Stir until thoroughly mixed. Allow to simmer for ten minutes, occasionally stirring. Add one teaspoon of salt or more. Add final kilo of baked beans still in sauce (gunk).
Optional extra is one can of creamed corn. Eat with bread from the Skala bakery stall at Central Markets.
24 October 2022
(above) Small notice on window of Enfield Uniting Church where homeless people sleep. That's the problem: public toilets have been removed or are closed at night as a social control mechanism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
“Magain real estate are running ads on tv using the homeless. Truly bizarre.
From the anonymous contact page
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A person owning seven houses and business properties and who visits free soup kitchens was invited to a weekend BBQ. Each guest brought some food. This person brought an apple containing a worm hole then ate three plates of fine meats and salads. The host had a word to him afterwards, but without effect.
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Pilgrim Uniting Church and the Baptist Church, both on Flinders Street in the city, are renting sections of their buildings to lawyers.
Gateway Baptist Church in Albert Park bought a warehouse to use as a church as the old-style church buildings bring back too many bad memories to people harmed by churches, according to a parishioner.
The Michigan Minister at St Andrews-at-the-Sea church in Glenelg gives a prayer before their Tuesday evening meal that doesn’t mention God, but rather something about us being loved.
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Why would the Salisbury Council Compliance Unit confiscate then dispose of the tent, bedding and camping equipment of a 71-year-old homeless man camping in The Paddocks park when they allow public masturbators to operate there year after year next to the children’s playground?
And why do they allow the drug addicted prostitute to wash herself in the children’s water fountain after servicing clients around the Council offices?
There is a reason. These are clever people, that’s why they’ve gained power over our lives. They don’t adopt these policies without having a reason.
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A Puddle Jumpers shower truck driver said he agreed that anyone “dobbing them in” should be stopped from using the shower truck and food hub services. “Dobbing in” means speaking and writing about their mismanagement.
The driver said two people defecated in the shower truck two or three weeks ago and they had to clean out the tanks. Were they banned?
As to Puddle Jumpers not letting clients use their toilet, the aged volunteer said clients could go across the road to the hamburger joint. That’s Nordburger. No wonder people defecate in the shower truck then wash the effluent down the drain.
I used the truck last summer and smelt fresh faeces, but could find no evidence. Now I understand the evidence was washed down the grate into the collecting tank.
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The free monthly BBQ at Arndale Salvation Army is in doubt as two employees are being transferred as the Army adopts a centralised welfare allocation system.
Instead of meeting with an employee at a particular Corps, applicants for food parcels, supermarket gift cards, money for prescriptions and power bills will be required to phone the central Call Centre.
And will the interrogators feel braver to ask more intrusive questions and will everything be recorded?
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After spending a year getting Megaphone Man evicted from his Housing Trust unit, his N.D.I.S. contractor neighbour and her husband have sold their unit. They paid $195k for it three years ago then sold it three months ago for $400k.
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“I’m exhausted,” said Rose Darling of C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide at the end of at their free Friday breakfast the week before last. Rose had just recovered from Covid. Staying home for a week had been disappointing. She’d planned to get lots of work done, but was too exhausted to do anything.
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Orange Sky has missed more sessions on Wednesday evenings at Elizabeth than they’ve attended according to a disappointed client. But the Sunday sessions have been more reliable, he said. The problem is the one load per client rule. That annoys clients who then see the machines sitting idle.
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Spanish Tony, 78, hasn’t been well. His hands are shaking and he’s in pain while at Fred’s Van in the city. He says his health is 50/50.
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Peter from the Pilgrim Church said at their Sunday evening meal that I could sleep in their carpark at night. They lock the boom gate when they leave, but cars may exit at any time.
It’s an exclusive parking area, but is plagued by surveillance cameras and lack of public toilets.
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A man who talks dirty about women is furious about a man whom he says talks dirty about women. He was ferociously angry while stating this so we didn’t bring the obvious to his attention.
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A man said he walked Catherine the Doctor home as she showed him the houses she owned.
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We were disturbed at our carpark homeless camp at 4:45am last Friday as government agents flooded the area while a strange contraption was installed outside the military establishment.
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The free hairdresser at City Salvos was swamped with clients last Wednesday evening. She started at 4:00pm and is scheduled to be there every month.
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The Chief Messenger of Infinity has bought an SUV. He gave his car to one of his wives. It was plastered with Infinity messages. His new car has personalised number plates: “SoSo”, but no Infinity messages.
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The man with gangrene creeping up his legs finally made it to the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He delayed it for two weeks as he didn’t want to spend $55 on a taxi to take him there. He finally found a charity worker to take him. He doesn’t like the word, “stumps”.
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Hope Chapel at Gawler said they have no plans to restart the food trailer this year. Another client said someone vandalised the trailer. But why should a small church have a professional food trailer and leave it sitting idle?
23 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Re:"South Australia government has put three National Socialists in the Remand Centre on Grenfell Street. One has been there two years and claims letters sent to him by friends and relatives are not getting through."
Had a post office box for UFO mail and sometimes no mail would come through for weeks or months.
Then a whole big bunch would show up in the box from much earlier dates circled by a rubber band.
Remember, ASIO spies on UFO club in Brisbane, probably Adelaide UFO club too.
23 October 2022
Whatever happened to…?
Remember Gerhard, the man camping 2 metres past the highwater mark at Largs North beach? He’s living in a SRF rooming house at Rosewater and subject to numerous health interventions.
And Raymond, the retired hitman who lived in the abandoned St Joseph’s nunnery then under the Largs Bay jetty? He’s living in a Care home in that vicinity.
23 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
You should be following this bro. Serial killer who targeted predominantly homeless. Drive by shootings. Everything about this case doesn't fit into the narrative. Gun laws in California worked. So he went black market. He was pretty smart but then he should of been aware he was being followed, if he was as smart as they say.
Interesting case considering the history of adelaide.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/police-suspect-in-serial-killer-slayings-used-ghost-gun/987e34d6-18ce-4c7c-ae55-d3972d057c9a?ocid=Social-9News
23 October 2022
(above) Homeless people connected to the Eternal Shame File get a $500 credit at Ruf Us in Wingfield when transitioning to a room or house. The grant covers used furniture, beds and large appliances and delivery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 20022.)
Mary’s Kitchen slipping
There weren’t enough chairs and tables set up. Each extra table was brought out when diners found themselves standing in confusion and with nowhere to sit. This has resulted in diners pushing to be amongst the first 30 in the door to sit at tables already set up. This creates unnecessary anxiety for all concerned.
The prayer wasn’t religious. Something about us being loved. How many clients at soup kitchens believe that? Some are desperate and despairing and appreciate hearing about eternal life and happiness whether it’s true or not.
The meal was fine including an excellent no-meat alternative, but they sabotaged their effort by not putting vinegar, tomato sauce, salt and pepper on each table. These are inexpensive items.
John Johnson was the life of the hall. He asked for tomato sauce and got the kitchen’s complete supply that equated to 15ml in a glass bowl. He was angry remembering how last year he’d been locked in the church toilets by volunteers. He also lost his keys last week and five-dollars this week. In his youth, he took a shortcut across the Adelaide airport runway before they tightened security. Now he’s 77 and still works at Bedford Industries.
Apart from these gripes, the church stages nearly the best social meal in Adelaide. And it’s free and without our personal details put into the Eternal Shame File.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items on one of these days. All free.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
22 October 2022
Catherine the Doctor at Fred’s Van
“Nice rings,” a young Aboriginal man told Catherine as he opened her cloth and metal shopping trolley. “Big house,” he adds and says she shouldn’t be here. “I shouldn’t be here,” she agrees, but in a different way.
While we waited in the queue for twenty-minutes, she demonstrated exercises to fix my knees that a surgeon said needed “replacement surgery”. But the surgery can fail and leave you in pain, Catherine said in her difficult to decipher Vietnamese accent.
She worked as an obstetrician and gives advice to homeless people on both medical and life problems. She’s on the buses until 10:00pm delivering soup kitchen food to families who spend their whole salaries on mortgages leaving nothing for food for their children.
But despite being popular, this 70 or 80-year-old is the butt of bad opinion. They say she has three houses and an apartment and operates a rooming house where she serves food from free soup kitchens.
Catherine grabs too much. She takes five times what hungry derelicts take. She also warns soup kitchen clients to seek education whether in universities or on the job training. She says some building workers get $200 an hour and she knows this from building her own houses.
Catherine the Vietnamese Doctor warns that Australians are letting foreigners boss them around especially Indian and Chinese people. She says that worries her.
And as she leaves Hemmings’ Courtyard, the Life Christian Centre people wave her goodbye as if farewelling a celebrity. Perhaps she is one. And the homeless men and women with their large dirty bags blend into the dirty concrete as they disappear into invisibility.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. It is important not to become involved in others' battles or even to look certain people in the eye.
22 October 2022
Whatever happened to…?
Remember Gerhard, the man camping two metres past the high water mark at Largs North beach? Sunnydale SRF staff came to his tent and offered him a place in a SRF rooming house at Rosewater where he was subjected to numerous health interventions.
And Raymond, the retired hitman with terminal cancer who lived in the abandoned St Joseph’s nunnery, then under the Largs Bay jetty? He’s living in a Care home at North Haven.
22 October 2022
(above) Anglicare Thread Together offers free new clothing that otherwise would have gone into landfill. The phallic representation seems unnecessary. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Oct 2022.)
(above) The Army at Parafield Gardens has racks of bread in their foyer. Anyone can take a few loaves without having to ask anyone. But rumour has it that this Corps along with others is closing down soon though staff deny it. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
From the anonymous contact page
What example do you want us to follow sir? You said Boswell and Fraser [Frater] set an example we should follow, which one? Both told us about the safe and effective MRNA therapy that was never safe and effective. How much money did they receive for this? Pathological liars involved in the deaths of thousands and suffering of many more. Are you telling us we should strive to be them? It’s not summer and you're already cooked (joking)...
Read the study below, they always knew. And yes you should Always check first with your government health advice just to see what lies today..
https://maajidnawaz.substack.com/p/one-serious-adverse-event-per-eight
20 October 2022
Chef Wayne’s Recipe of the Week
aka Piano Player Wayne
KFC Soup
Put one bucket of KFC Original Recipe chicken pieces into very large pot. Cover chicken with water. Bring to boil then simmer for one-hour. Strain resulting mix through colander. Add grated and chopped onions, celery, carrots, sweet potato, turnip, broccoli, zucchini and cauliflower to strained mix. Add six OXO chicken cubes and seasoning as desired such as chilli, garlic, ginger, coriander, etc. Bring to boil then simmer for three hours then mash everything then add chicken pulled from bones.
The Chef says KFC is fantastic as a base. Also chicken flavour Pringle chips can be used as a base. Preservatives in chips and KFC help preserve the food.
20 October 2022
(above) Click on image to direct social workers to location of a homeless person, or yourself, or send them on a wild goose chase. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)The kindness of Lois Boswell and Don Frater to a strangerLois Boswell and Don Frater were unloading groceries, well, at least one of them. This was outside their home near Whitmore Square. A homeless woman approached them. She’d been knocking on doors. Residents rarely answer to such people knocking on their doors. Too many ruffians in the area. But Don and Lois were outside their house. Big shots in the South Australian government.
The sunburnt woman was about 60. She’d been treated for a medical condition in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. They discharged her at 7:30pm one evening. They provided her with a Uber. Go to the Hutt Street Centre, they’ll provide food and a place to sleep. That’s what the hospital said.
Bad news. The Hutt Street Centre was dark and empty and locked when the Uber driver unloaded her. Two street women drank energy drinks in front. They gave the hospital woman a smoke. She smoked it then extinguished it in one of the street woman’s drink. That got things going. They shouted and screamed at her. She offered to buy them another. That didn’t help so she fled.
She slept two nights in the parklands in absolute fear. This was the first time she’d been homeless and at her age it was a massive shock. Along the way someone stole all her stuff in the parklands so she was really in trouble.
In her wanderings, she discovered Michael’s filthy car at North Adelaide. He’d lived there for months, rarely leaving the vehicle until he was taken away. It was empty so she moved in. One rainy night a man knocked on the window and insisted she take his coat. He later brought groceries.
It hadn’t always been this way for this exhausted and grieving woman. She’d worked at a normal job for most of her life, but lost it and her relationship and found herself without a place to live.
Then she saw Don and Lois unloading groceries. They were sad themselves. It had been three years since Numan Mohamed stabbed to death their friend, Kim Chou, in their house.
The homeless woman wanted to charge her phone. They took her in and served her a meal and gave her money saying that cigarettes were very expensive. Later, Lois arranged the woman collect $3000 backpay from Centrelink. And five days in Scotty’s Motel, then another couple every once in a while via a support worker.
She used the $3000 to buy a car that she sleeps in. Much safer than on the ground or in doorways.
Her face wears the fatigue of despair and desperation and she speaks in a shaky voice. But she has landed a work-from-home job in the technical industry. She’s no fool and has worked all her life. This is the beginning of her new life: working from her homeless home.
But the key to the story is the kindness of Lois Boswell and Don Frater to a stranger who asked for help. And the stranger who was worthy. They’ve set an example for the rest of us to follow.
Late 18 October 2022
(above) Free purchase cards obtained by one person in a week. Others can't bear the humiliation of going to a single charity even though most are government funded. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)Salvation Army reducing
decision making at Corps level
from the anonymous contact pageYour "Anonymous" person on the 12th [October] is correct.
However, unlike your picture of the PG Salvos where you claim in your comment, "rumour has it that this Corps along with others is closing down soon" again I have to correct your inaccurate information that has been given to you.
None of the corps centres are closing and if you just ask them. It is going to a call centre model and the best bit is. It will be in Adelaide!
Apparently most centres that have their pantries can still help with parcels but its either e-vouchers or pick up vouchers after a phone interview. Some workers around the traps confirmed that they have been doing it in NSW and QLD for years now.
I hope they don't get rid of Alison and Elanor. But get rid of the absent fat minister at Elizabeth East.
Anonymous
Editor: Staff at suburban Corps say their knowledge of each client will be irrelevant and subservient to decision making based on file notes and statistical entitlement.
Oh, and I phoned Parafield and they said they weren't closing down. Thanks for correcting my assumption.
Early 17 October 2022
Few takers for COVID shots
at Fred’s Van KilburnThe front man for Fred’s Van announced that he thought he had to make a statement and we could make of it what we wanted. He said the Covid Injection team were available for injections though he didn’t say where.
Two injectors had already met us in the foyer. The Italian Stallion jumped at the chance to get No. 4, but others were silent. Two old men loudly recounted stories of vaccine disasters. The injectors ignored them; they’d been trained to ignore dissenting opinions. They left the foyer and we didn’t see them again.
The free vegetables were horrible. I later cooked the stinking broccoli. Maybe the heat would kill the germs that make vegetables decompose. It didn’t and I got sick. The bags contained half-thawed refrigerated seafood. That range bells of alarm in some diners’ ears. There was plenty of bread and potatoes in bags that no one wanted.
The meal included Wine Centre soup consisting of a strange mix of vegetables blended together. It was hot. I had two bowls. The spaghetti Bolognese disappointed some diners, but there was an agreeable non-meat option.
Staff numbers were low so the milk and cordial ran out despite fewer diners than usual. The Fraternity were there with one man telling a woman not to talk in the dining room. That suited everyone fine.
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.
Early 17 October 2022
Father entertains child https://www.bitchute.com/video/04y9PwO6JOew/
One lucky three-year-old kite flyer
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PdOtEFppP9FO/
Early 17 October 2022
(above) Port Baptist Church at Woodville Bunnings raising money to provide free Wednesday evening meals to homeless and underclass people at Largs North. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
The Anglicare employee who played a key role in evicting a 70-year-old Australian citizen from a retirement unit due for demolition has been given an award for compassion.
While half the units in the complex scheduled for demolition had been empty for up to three years, Anglicare had placed a dozen refugees straight off the plane from Afghanistan into the units. The employee got them permanent housing within three weeks. That’s why he got the compassionate award.
The old male Australian citizen has been homeless for eight months.
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A diner at City Salvos said a free hairdresser will be at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide this Wednesday from about 5:00pm. There should be a huge rush for this service. Coffee is served at 5:00pm and a free meal at 6:00pm. Despite the food not being so great, they still get up to 100 diners, according to an insider.
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Anglicare pledged to adopt the government’s guidelines for Freedom of Information Requests. This was when the government leased them over a thousand HousingSA units and houses to manage.
Since then, they’ve removed all mention of such a pledge from their websites. Where is their Freedom of Information Request page? Will it magically reappear?
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The comical homeless man has recovered from a bad Ice trip he experienced last week. He was raving at the Pilgrim Church on a Sunday then spent a few days lying on the ground in Hurtle Square, but has recovered to his previous state, sort of.
The nice thing about him is that he has retained a friendly manner despite a terrible life.
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A vinyl record fair was held in the Anglican church hall at Semaphore two weeks ago. They got 1000 attendees and every seller sold out of CD’s and vinyl records.
This is in contrast to the vinyl fair five years ago when on the following Monday we discovered the rubbish bins overflowing with vinyl LPs, CDs and DVDs.
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An elderly Baptist charity worker talked to three old men about the COVID injections. Two of the men said they’d never had them while a third said he lost 30% of vision in one eye after the second shot. He added that his doctor wouldn’t record it as a vaccine injury.
The charity worker began the usual government/pharmaceutical corporation viewpoint, but her voice strained when the 30% blind-in-one-eye man told her of presentations by David E. Martin. In these, Martin cites studies claiming the virus was an artificial creation and the vaccines were designed to destroy our immune systems and make us dependent on further shots. He asked rhetorically, “Why do those having had five injections keep getting COVID?”
Readers should check the websites of pharmaceutical corporations and HealthSA for the official truth.
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The pleasant woman from Elizabeth wasn’t happy at Fred’s Van last week. It wasn’t because Child Protection took her baby at birth last year though that didn’t help. The problem was another woman stealing $160 from her handbag. The alleged thief got a smack whether she did it or not.
But the fact that the money was missing kept the pleasant woman storming back and forth in impotence until she disappeared down the street.
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A man swore at volunteers handing out the Jasmine Restaurant free food at Hindmarsh Square last week. He growled “Fu** you,” continuously for ten minutes. As they packed up and were ready to leave, he approached them and asked in a submissive voice, “Can I have a feed?”
He later stared at me and made guttural sounds of threat. I was frozen in fear until realising he has Tourette's syndrome and isn’t necessarily threatening.
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There was a larger than usual crowd on the last visit of the Adelaide Day Centre soup van until next year. Over forty people clamoured for the last soup at Hurtle Square so there weren't any takeaways. There was a sense of mourning.
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Old Nieta was lonely on Thursday as Welfare’s reduction of Carer visits hit home. She woke up early feeling anxious. It’s merely a matter of time before her health declines and she accepts their decision to force her to move from her two-bedroom house into a nursing home. They reduced her hours to reduce her health.
Welfare is also trying to reduce her disposable income. They got her to receive two meals a week from Meals on Wheels even though she dislikes the food and cannot afford them. “$10.50 a pop,” she said, then added that she’s got another welfare joint partially paying for them.
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Piano Player Wayne can’t get a prescription filled as his chemist won’t deliver to the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the hospital won’t prescribe the same skin medication. He’s trying to attract the attention of the media as he’s been stranded in the R.A.H. for eight months, he says.
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The Semaphore Uniting Church begins their Thursday lunches at the church on Semaphore Road, Exeter on the 20th of October at 11:30am. But they won’t be free as planned, but require a Gold Coin donation, which means only a dollar.
The meal is prepared by prisoners on parole and supervised by guards to ensure they don’t spit in the food. But the church Verger says any thought of sabotage is ridiculous as the kitchen staff are both positive and supervised.
Early 16 October 2022
(above) Grass growing over campsite in the CBD south parklands near where that homeless woman's body was found earlier this year. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Albert Park free barista coffee
The Baptists purchased a huge warehouse with a generous carpark on Jervois Street back of the corner of West Lakes Boulevard and Port Road. They offer quality free coffee and buns with no strings attached although one church member was collecting donations for a quiz night last fortnight.
The ferals haven’t moved in so the church members are relaxed and friendly and merge with the guests without preaching anything.
The men’s toilets have a visible urinal area so women passing by the opening door can see the men in profile at the urinals. A board covers the genital area, but it is still undignified and typical of feminist influence on toilet design.
The Baptists have purchased the warehouse from their own money and are still paying it off. That’s commitment to the cause.
Gateway Baptist Church
6 Jervois Street, Albert Park. Ph (08)71236494. Free barista coffee and sugary buns every Friday 11:30am to 1:30pm. No I.D. or registration required. All welcome. Relaxing and spacious.
15 October 2022
(above) C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide offer a few nice items along with their decent breakfast at the Masonic hall on Friday mornings at 9:00am. See free food guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Soup could have been a little warmer
That’s what an old hand at Mary’s Kitchen said. He was the one who saw the blood inside Steve’s unit at the Kingslea Apartments after Steve’s missus cut his throat then killed herself.
The government responded by replacing the other tenants with Home Detention people. The whole joint.
A migraine raging through my neurons so I avoided eating in case it contained MSG that triggers migraines. Who wants to extend the stroke or epilepsy symptoms of a migraine?
The preacher lady at St Andrew’s Church is leaving and of her next job she said it will be “Not another church.” She said her contract had ended and that was why she was leaving. And that the church likes to bring in new people, something like that. Not many of the self-absorbed diners responded to her announcement.
Despite cold soup, the joint wasn’t lacking in clients. Staff repeatedly set up new tables and chairs to cope with the influx. At last eight homeless people were present including one who found sitting in the crowded hall overwhelming so staff took his food into the courtyard. That happens when you sleep in doorways.
The Towards Home Alliance pair weren’t at the meal, but the woman of the two had been there for the soup lunch. Judging by the continuous presence of homeless people obviously suffering from excessive wind and sun, their recruitment campaign hasn’t been successful. Maybe if they simply rented rooms and units without the psychological add-ons, they’d have more takers.
I didn’t do anything crazy, but felt the mild mania that comes with living outside. Immersed in such a wild life makes acting normal in a crowded room a huge challenge. Other homeless people at the meal suppressed their anxiety with cheap red wine. Whatever, this homeless life brings a changed state of consciousness as everything takes on a charged atmosphere reminiscent of military battles.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 14 October 2022
(above) Prime location Housing Trust apartments on Greenhill Road, Eastwood in process of demolition. Deemed by gov't as too good for welfare people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Some apartments had been kept empty for years despite the huge waiting list of homeless people looking for accommodation. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The new development will include some welfare units, but they'll be more cramped than this one. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The powerless and excluded are not without their symbolism. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Graffiti is the response of those erased from history. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Many welfare people who led crippled lives after abuse in children's homes haven't forgotten the role of Adelaide's churches. And how strange the government placed notorious child molester Ric Marshal under house arrest next door to victims of child abuse on Greenhill Road, Eastwood. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)Puddle Jumpers positive feeling
at Hurtle SquareThe unpaid staff at the Monday food delivery at Hurtle Square clearly like what they do. They like the clients and they effectively distribute bread, cooked pasta meals, the odd grocery item and plenty of almost rotten vegetables.
Of the four volunteers last Monday, one worked as a Samsung promoter, another a Vodaphone manager and a third works in the school canteen at Urrbrae.
Catherine the Doctor was cautioned not to take so much. She later complained there were so many free food places listed in the Adelaide Homeless Journal free food guide that she didn’t have enough time to visit them all. Catherine is currently the most educated person in the homeless scene.
Volunteers were in no rush to get it over and leave like with Fred’s Vans volunteers. This allowed those fearful of the initial crowd to arrive later and access what was left. Volunteers also offered extra stuff to those who waited towards the end for a second lunge. After nearly 90-minutes, they drove to the Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub at Hindmarsh where they unloaded what they had left.
The Monday giveaway at Hurtle Square was a pleasure to attend. And the volunteer staff set the tone for a friendlier than average meeting between often fighting clients.
Puddle Jumpers Hurtle Square
Free fruit, vegetables, hot food at Hurtle Square, Adelaide on Mondays. 7:30-8:00pm, but they usually stay later. No I.D. or registration required. No questions asked. Similar to Adelaide Day Centre soup van and Fred’s Vans. Puddle Jumpers is one of the best new participants in the free food scene and they don’t subscribe to the Eternal Shame File. They have 750 volunteers and zero paid staff.
Early 13 October 2022
(above) The Hutt Street Centre is good at self-promotion, but doesn't mention excluding homeless people who won't join the Eternal Shame File. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) The Daughters served bread and soup at the back door and didn't require names and dates of birth. The Hutt Street Centre today is a different beast with nuns replaced by lawyers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
(above) Huge government funding required them to record names and birth dates of anyone using their showers. Homeless people who want to remain anonymous aren't allowed to use the showers. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Some Salvo centres closing down
From the anonymous contact page
Anonymous Please - To the person asking about the Salvos closing you are indeed right. I was told last week by the site on ****** ***** it will be my last appointment as they were moving to a call centre. When I asked for the number they went quite and said they did not have it yet. One man went to go get the number but was told he was not allowed?
They could not tell if I could still come for day packages, showers or free bakery. Guessing this call centre will be interstate or overseas like the new Australia. Anyone have an insider with knowledge if this will be all Salvos if I travel.
Anonymous
Editor: Thank you. I will follow this up further.
12 October 2022
Comment on the Squealer Page
from Di Dum
“That squeeler page? What would happen if people entered locations in quiet areas free from prying eyes and then waited for the goons to come? Surprise them?
“I've seen some sick sh** in homeless industry, but that takes the cake. At least the secret police in Nazi Germany didn't pretend to be something they're not. Street to home and such are nothing but Gestapo and the homeless today's gypsy's jews and disabled.”
12 October 2022
Via the anonymous contact page
Hi.
I just saw on this website a claim that the Drop In Care Space put a wheelchair ramp and pot plants on it veranda in order to stop black peoples sleeping there. Is there a source for the claim that the reason for the wheelchair ramp and the pot plants is to stop black people from sleeping there? I suspect that the reason for the wheelchair ramp is to make the Drop In Care Space wheelchair-accessible.
Name and email supplied
Editor: Their main entrance is off Hanley Street. The shopfront door is rarely used so the ramp seems non-functional except as a deterrent against people sitting in front of the front door. I’ve never seen anyone enter the front door, always from the side street. But I could be wrong.
12 October 2022
Cold comfort no problem
at Moore StreetTeam Leader Wendy announced from the back door that the ovens wouldn’t fire up. The soup was okay, but the oven food would be heated on the burners. Service would be slow. No one complained. Some were happy. No rush, then. Still, too bad Vince Focarelli had to close his restaurant and leave the country. His back door was forty-metres from the Magdalene hall. We could have used his ovens.
We talked about The Gorilla. He collected cans until he died two years ago. It was near the time when Filthy Phil, Bluey and Donny the Can Collector died. All four were victims of child molesters at the Glandore Boys’ Home and subsequently became can collectors and shoplifters.
The hall wasn’t crowded as staff had assembled six large tables with chairs in the main lane and a line chairs in the back lane. The staff were university students studying agriculture, medicine and dentistry.
Cambodian Jenny criticised Catherine the Doctor for greed. Jenny is Chinese and unsophisticated while Catherine is Vietnamese and sophisticated. They’re both personable people.
The Ghost was previously the life of the party, but these days sits silent and alone even at crowded tables. His contemporaries have died and the rest withdrawn to nursing homes, medication and TV.
The meal included three types of soup, a main course of meat, carrots and rice with the vegetarian option being a superior lasagne. Dessert was apple pie, bread and butter pudding or chocolate cake, all with ice-cream.
But there wasn’t any tomato sauce and the pepper grinder failed to grind so no pepper. The soup could have been hotter. Salt was from a single container for the whole room. Why do they miss the fine details?
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
12 October 2022
(above) Lifepoint Church at Modbury now records how many cups of coffee are consumed by each morning tea participant. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
Ms Nat Cook
Minister of Human Services
Level 8
Riverside Centre
North Terrace, Adelaide. 5000
[email protected]
Dear Ms Cook,
Would you please send me the addresses of the approximately 2000 HousingSA units, flats and houses that are empty as of this week?
You criticised the former Minister for Human Services about leaving good accommodation empty so I would like to analyse the list of currently empty properties to determine if you have operated differently.
I would also appreciate a list of HousingSA properties sold due to an inability to find tenants for them. This seems incomprehensible considering the high number of people living in cars along the beach suburbs and those on the waiting list for public housing.
Yours sincerely,
***********Name, address, email and phone number supplied.
Sent on 25 September 2022
Posted on Adelaide Homeless Journal 10 October 2022
(above) The Code Blue racket resembles those free trial offers on the internet where they require your credit card number. Code Blue requires signing away your privacy. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, October 2022.)
On the Street
Cos We Care’s free food giveaway in Fremont carpark No 1 at Elizabeth returned to a quiet environment yesterday after last week’s violence. The clash was between people who knew each other plus two Cos We Care volunteers who bravely tried to intervene.
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Hutt Street Centre employees have changed from the previous generation. Where they once blended in with the clients both in dress and personal modesty, they now wear bright uniforms and display the fixed smiles of dominance.
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A homeless man said he was surprised when discharged onto the street after being in a coma during a five week stay in the Royal Adelaide Hospital for a spinal infection.
The publicity put out by the homeless industry gave him the impression that recovering patients who were homeless were given respite in temporary accommodation.
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Homeless people are staying at the Detox Centre at Whitmore Square while pretending to be affected by drugs. They don’t pretend to be drunk as the breath test would catch them out.
One such person said she won’t be able to stay there forever and, anyway, it’s not a nice place to sleep.
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St Bede’s at Semaphore now keeps an Attendance Register. Names were collected theoretically for the coffee delivery from Copenhagen on Semaphore Road, but that’s been subsumed into a reset of being used as an Attendance Register, either for Anglicare or St Bede’s Anglican Church, or both.
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Old Nieta went to the Cottage Kitchen and Moose (formerly Chat and Chew) when she had more mobility. She’s now facing difficulties. Welfare wants to move her from her two-bedroom HousingSA house to a Care Home where they take 85% of her income.
She’s resisting their pressure so they’ve reduced her My Aged Care help from about ten to six hours per week. This will cause a deterioration in her physical condition that will be used to justify a Guardianship Board order forcing her to move.
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Puddle Jumpers reduced their opening hours from 5pm to 9pm each evening to a new closing time of 8pm. They didn’t put a notice on their door of this change so clients experienced a few weeks discovering the door locked and lights out. They’re now intending on resuming the 9:00pm closing time.
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Those alcoholics below homo hill constantly bare their arses while urinating in the carpark. Why don’t they use the bushes on Homo Hill where their drinking pals are based? They’re almost as bad as those slappers at The Paddocks park at Para Hills.
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The late rains have been a bounty for those living in tents in the Adelaide CBD parklands. The lush growth of bushes and grass has provided extra camouflage.
Early 9 October 2022
(above) The LGBTQI Drop-in Care Space at Whitmore Square placed large pots plants on either side of their front door and a disability ramp to discourage tribal black people from sleeping and drinking there. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Government squealer page
Here is a link to the government’s squealer page where concerned citizens can report homeless people. This officially is designed to help homeless people get help, but what about the 211 people officially sleeping rough in the Adelaide CBD tonight? It hasn’t helped them.
There must be another reason for the squealer page. It does create employment for those roaming the city documenting those sleeping outside. And who is putting fake locations on the squealer page to send the bureaucrats on wild goose chases?
https://www.streetconnect.sa.gov.au/home/launch
Late 7 October 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Mary Mags Dinners will have more tables set up outside on Saturday nights with the longer days
www.marymagsdinners.org
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
Late 7 October 2022
(above) Where Gary "Gazza' de Blassi slept for years at West Terrace Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)William’s Wardrobe
at Fred’s Van CityTwo women brought a car full of old clothing and toiletries. A sign on the door said “Clothing Adelaide’s Homeless Community”, something like that.
William's Wardrobe is named after a popular homeless scene man who killed himself.
One women gave Spanish Tony, 78, a dressing gown that he didn’t want. He wanted razors only, but can’t speak clearly since his strokes.
A film crew from Sydney was doing a promotional piece on William’s Wardrobe, but didn’t want to know about resources billed as helping the homeless end up with the bureaucrats. We can expect no help from the likes of them.
An old man raved about Homo Hill and that the women and film crew should go there. But the film crew were suddenly tired and hungry and non-communicative. They’ll misrepresent us saying we’re doing well and the Wardrobe Women are gifts from Heaven.
Another diner shouted “c***s” at a police security patrol entering that building where the bureaucrats worked overtime last month to move invoices from one department to another to make it seem the government made savings where they said they would.
Fred’s Van itself ran out of takeaway bags, but had enough sausages with the last one being a non-meat sausage. How things have changed for the better if you don’t eat meat.
I felt a pang of anger seeing non-homeless people grabbing huge amounts while the homeless crowd hung back. They must be hoarders or collecting for others who either don’t need it or are reluctant to visit free food joints.
But the strongest impression was the despair of one man living outside who has suffered catastrophic burns.
6 October 2022
(above) A pair of trousers placed to dry or to mark someone's territory in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Grill’d better this time
Some clients dined inside, but got takeaway packs to eat at tables in case they had to make a run for it. Diners included a disparate group of street people from various other places. No one did anything gross though the Traffic Manager derelict wanted tomato sauce instead of the Beerenberg-style relish. They had six types of non-meat hamburgers in either vegan or vegetarian versions.
Some diners kept to themselves saying nothing to anyone and after eight months homeless I feel the same way and have to force myself to converse.
Staff stood at the front door to prevent normal people from entering so we were within our own culture. At 7:30pm closing time, eight or nine staff sat down for a meal, but left the closed-to-everyone-except-street people sign blocking the door. They didn’t kick out the three or four of us left including George who previously resided inside a MacDonalds junk food joint.
One diner said we were blessed having such a free service. It does seem incredible. The joint was hopping, but not overwhelmed as most people were at Fred’s Van as they’re too socially polarised to be able to venture down Rundle Street, which is slightly upmarket.
The staff all appeared under 30, while nearly all the diners were over 50 including one at age 77.
A man was sleeping on the concrete footpath in front of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra building this evening. Another was in front of the police station, both on Hindley Street.
Grilled/D 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide
Free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Best to arrive before 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jack. Reserved for street people and the soup kitchen culture, which includes clients of Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and similar places. No questions asked.
Early 5 October 2022
(above) Homelessness is a primal experience at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
City Fred’s Van on Saturday
No wonder Fred’s Van reinstated their Saturday evening free food service on Saturdays in the city. Despite Moore Street going full steam, nearly 40 clients still attended Fred’s Van at Gawler Place. There were at least three newcomers: two white fellas and an African man who asked directions.
Diners included more marginalised and homeless people than those who go to Moore Street. Thin Gabby from her homeless camp was unrecognisable in cloth covering her body, arms and face. Similarly dressed to the homeless Uni academic living in a squat. Gabby had just got out of the watchhouse and was wary of anyone and everyone.
The Traffic Manager from Port Adelaide got a brand new blanket. He swears obscenities at the black fellas and they laugh back at the crazy white fella. He talks filthy language to everyone with good humour, but it isn’t nice. No wonder he manages traffic at roadworks. No one needs to hear him.
Three homeless men said they were as broke as Brokeback Mountain, something no one wanted to think about. Tony, 78, moved around talking to people. He’s more relaxed now that the scissor-wielding psychopath from Baptist WestCare has moved to Semaphore.
The vegetarian option came in a plastic container wrapped in foil. It was hot despite having been in transit for 30-minutes, a credit to Fred’s Van. It was white rice with a cheese-sugar sauce. Not so good, but nicely presented. The sandwiches had lots of filling and better buttered than usual. Only a tiny section on one corner wasn’t greased and had gone soggy.
The sounds were the most significant feature of the gathering. Everyone spoke normally with no anger or sounds of violence. Times have changed, but complacency can be fatal.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by Life Christian Centre, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van.
4 October 2022
Assaults and continuing threat
at Cos We Care Elizabethhttps://7news.com.au/news/adelaide/charity-volunteers-brutally-attacked-while-trying-to-hand-out-food-in-elizabeth-park-in-adelaides-north-c-8426234
https://www.facebook.com/coswecare/
Cos We Care City
Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. Either outside St Andrew’s medical centre or on the grass. 7:30 - 9:00am Sunday. Free. No I.D. or registration required. Clients include genuine homeless people. Hot food and coffee, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk, used clothing. Occasional yelling and screaming and surprisingly pleasant extras. Also on Saturdays in Carpark 1, Fremont Park, Yorktown Road, Elizabeth from 7:30 – 9:00am. They operate a school free lunch program and supply food to domestic violence victims. Operates totally on unpaid volunteers.
4 October 2022
(above) Covid testing station next to homeless campers at West Terrace Cemetery. One guard had his face completely covered. Other staff stood around with nothing to do. Money should instead be spent building apartments for those living outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Piano Player Wayne hits new milestone
Wayne today achieves an 8-month occupancy in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. That’s $3000 a day, most of the time not getting medical treatment, but simply waiting for approval of a support plan from the N.D.I.S.
They tried to move him to a six-room house at Elizabeth with entry buttons on every door. Wayne and his 25-year-old Nepalese Carer said this wasn’t good enough so they’re building a special house for him at Gilman near Port Adelaide.
Wayne says there are 150 patients languishing in the R.A.H. while awaiting transfer to suitable housing. And a total of 300 in Adelaide’s hospitals combined.
Wayne said, “You couldn’t make this sh** up. There are days when I think I’m going mad.”
He said the R.A.H. lost his shower chair and foot-pads for his wheelchair then said he hadn’t arrived with them. His Carer pulled out a photo of Wayne next to a hospital worker with them. Wayne says she doesn’t miss anything.
But Wayne’s mind is still active and critical. He says Queen Elizabeth in the days before her death told Princess Anne to go after Megan Markle with a carving knife.
3 October 2022
Pilgrim on Sundays in the city
Ros said we can park cars in the exclusive Pilgrim Church carpark. The boom gate opens at 4:30pm then closes at 7:00pm, but an exit is still allowed after that.
Old Mel said all free hairdressing has stopped in Adelaide since the Plandemic, but that isn’t fully true. She says things then gets angry if disputed.
Young Mel ate half a bag of Twisties and didn’t say a word the whole session. That was a relief.
Robyn from Hutt Street Centre sat at the back of the hall alone. It was nice to see her, like seeing an old friend, but she might think we are still mortal enemies. I hope not. She’s a fantastic manipulator, but like many leaders she is more alone than others. She spoke to no one.
The man who for the past twenty years says he wants to die is now the fourth oldest person in the soup kitchen scene. A friend is going overseas and might bring back poison for him.
A good-natured man said he’s been in the Royal Adelaide Hospital 34 times this year with fluid in the lungs and heart and everywhere. He says it’s quite frightening not being able to breath. He was in a car smash after giving the driver a drink of Fantasy. “I wouldn’t change a day of my life,” he said.
The goofy homeless man arrived dragging his bedding along the ground. He yelled about anything to anyone or nobody. A Pilgrim Church volunteer suggested he seek medical treatment as he wasn’t breathing normally. He didn’t hear a word of that.
I forgot to count how many were there, but the number wasn’t much above 35. The shame was staff packing up within 30 minutes of us arriving. They spend so much time producing the food then sabotage their excellent efforts by making the meal time too short. Still brilliant.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
3 October 2022
(above) Those who manage the Eternal Shame File triage interviews take note of dress sense. Out of fashion clothing can ring the warning bell: deviant or "unprogrammed. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
Are the rumours about Catherine the Greedy correct? She pushes into queues and takes huge amounts of free food. Critics say she operates a rooming house and serves old food to her residents.
But Catherine claims to be a retired doctor who took an early retirement. The 83-year-old admits her relatives compete with each other to see who can become the richest, but she takes her scavenged food to families with children and mortgages. That’s what she told us.
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Rumour has it the Chief Messenger of Infinity is banned from Baptist WestCare for allegedly taking home damsels-in-distress who went to WestCare for help.
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A man said the Hutt Street Centre banned him for life for allegedly assaulting his missus. He lived with her for years. She was a professional ballet dancer and has a poster signed by Rudolf Nureyev. Then she got on the juice.
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A man remembers from 2006 when he and his homeless comrades caught two Adelaide City Council employees sneaking around their camp during the night. They chased the two intruders. One homeless man carried a machete.
But the intruders returned the following week and when the homeless men returned to their camp, they discovered everything they owned had been slashed with knives.
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Diners solidly backed the Adelaide Day Centre soup van volunteers last week when a regular client called one of them a “Piece of Sh**”. She’d grabbed his arm when he tried to take three extra blueberry muffins. Children from St Mary’s school near the Archbishop’s House had baked them for homeless people. The hulking blueberry fanatic said the elderly volunteer could have damaged the tendons in his wrist. “Tendons are very important,” he said.
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Ruffians at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place showed an old man to the front of the queue last week.
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ONE Life church at Parafield Gardens gave each free food client eighteen 200-gram packets of Organic Brie last week.
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Anthony is the unsung vegetarian hero. He’s spent years asking for non-meat meals at free food joints. He’s suffered the disdain of certain staff and volunteers. But other places accepted his requests so we non-meat eaters now have an adequate choice of food.
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ONE Life church members wouldn’t allow Cambodian Jenny’s five children into the healing service so she sat in the cafe waiting for the free meal. When it arrived, she complained it was inadequate. One boy was so hungry he ate chocolate with the wrapping still on then vomited it back up. One church member was apoplectic with rage.
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A letter was sent to the Minister of Human Services, Natalia “Nat” Cook, asking for the addresses of the 2000 empty HousingSA units and houses. A flick on a keyboard should produce the details easily sent by email.
One homeless man said an Aid will put the request in the trash without the Minister evening reading it.
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An older woman with a little girl’s voice was dizzy and confused at Mary’s Kitchen last week. She’d left her wallet and phone at the Glenelg Family Practice and couldn’t remember the number.
A homeless man called the doctor then passed his phone to her. They had it. A St Andrew’s at-the-sea church volunteer took the woman to the practice to retrieve her phone, then took her home.
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The ferals in the HousingSA complex behind the empty Anglicare Food Barn building complained to the police. They were disturbed by the singing and dancing at the Lutheran Church across the street. They wanted something done about it. But maybe the story is incorrect. One resident said it was the Arabs making a noise with one man threatening to cut his girlfriend’s throat.
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Lutheran Cornerstone Housing has taken over the Youth With a Mission building at Elizabeth. Lots of craziness, now.
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A diner at the Soup Van said he believed his digestive system was shutting down and that he would die. He added that he’d had a Domino’s family pizza for lunch. He failed to garner much sympathy.
Meanwhile, Life Christian Centre provided pizzas at the Friday Fred’s Van in Gawler Place, Adelaide.
Even the Communists provided Domino’s pizzas for last Sunday’s lunch.
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That old woman who phoned the police last year complaining soup van diners weren’t keeping 1.5 metres distance was at it again. She didn’t call the police, but nevertheless complained that patrons at the soup van weren’t far enough apart. She is probably insane though appears normal.
Early 2 October 2022
(above) An obvious homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Most are so secretive that even homeless people don't know where each other camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)Largest ever crowd
at C.H.A.T.S. Port AdelaideEighty-two people turned up for the C.H.A.T.S. free breakfast yesterday, but Rose Darling saw none of it. She got Covid, probably picked up from visiting that foreign country, New Zealand, earlier this month.
There was a discernible disappointment amongst the regulars at her absence, but her sister, Lee-Ann, yells almost as well. The crowd included perhaps one-quarter new people most of whom were hugely unsophisticated. Just the type of marginalised clients preferred by the Darling sisters.
The Verger from Semaphore Uniting Church phoned me four times as I’d lost my phone in my car. Living in a car means it’s nearly full to the roof and finding things is a constant challenge. He cut his hand pulling the phone from between the seats and his blood spilt on the concrete in front of the Freemasons’ Lodge.
The food was good, but could have been hotter. Volunteers face a chronic challenge of maintaining it at ideal eating temperatures. Not as bad as the Seventh-day Adventist church at Elizabeth Park where a woman spends all day preparing a different national cuisine each month then staff serve it cold. But it is a problem that needs attention in the form of multiple hot plates on the serving tables.
Volunteers had difficulty yesterday dislodging three old men who wouldn’t leave at the end of the breakfast. They were networking about other places to visit. The old man who lives on a boat said he hadn’t a clue that such services existed until this week.
And Rose, will she be back next Friday? Rumour has it that she works too hard even in retirement. But the crowd demands the return of the Queen.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Community Help and Togetherness
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
1 October 2022
From the Anonymous Contact Page
Where ave u bin roondle spy? Missed your misandry like a whole in the head. Good to see your back, but now your back its not so good anymore.
Asada
1 October 2022
HELL I AM HERE
Thursday 22 September 2022
Day of official mourning for Queen (England Scotland etc)
Day of official gangland tribal fighting at HellRiot Hotel, 40 Park Terrace, GILBERTON.
Affray started with LOUD BASHING BANGING EXPLOSION type sounds from group of 6 units.
Since this group of units is drug-related, immediately other unit groups took notice and came to investigate and challenge.
Main antagonist medium tall solid build black African taking on the world for arguments sake.
Soon other tenants were racing to grab and pick up chairs from surrounding area, place sticks in hand and take aim at offender.
Chair used as weapon and slammed upon one combatant. Sharpened sticks pointed menacingly at times.
Soon THREE (3) SAPOL (police) utes (utility cage trucks) show up at which point all involved had lost stomach to fight, and situation defused into peace and quiet.
Such is homeless hell in a once affluent suburb of inner city Adelaide hosting several prison hotels, non-asylum wards for insane / criminally insane.
HellRiot Hotel ("Elliott Lodge") GILBERTON
P. S. 1/2 dozen gangers/tribers involved. Not enough injuries to warrant ambulance but sometimes offenders do not want attention ambulance would bring to drug scene.
The Rundle Spy
1 October 2022
(above) Funerals are a major reason visitors camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) The Wonga granny's funeral is over so the campers have moved on. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Last soup van delivery on Monday
Staff at the decrepit Adelaide Day Centre soup van said their last night will be Monday then not again until the first week in May. While their van is old and small, their soup is high on nutrition and taste.
Last night, two homeless people got blankets and sleeping bags and clothing from the van along with an ice-cream container of soup. One diner said his stomach hurt because he’d eaten a family size pizza for lunch then chased it with a can of Coke. He said he didn’t want to end up like another diner with a colostomy bag. “All is not lost,” said the bag man upon hearing this. He was happy as he’d found a fine leather coat at a bus stop. Who finds coats at bus stops?
Early 30 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Has the Salvos closed? Been calling all week with no answer
Alias Alias
Editor: Not sure what section you mean? The City Salvos DUO Wednesday meal happened on Wednesday. They never got back to me about a coffee van on Hindley Street.
There is a rumour most suburban food services are stopping in October at Salvation Army Corps in Adelaide with the exception of City Salvos and Playford at Elizabeth East.
Early 30 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
"Let's watch MP Nat Cook cheat the homeless out of housing" Duz Nat Crook an Miss Shell n Sink wear the same pair of pants?
Rundle Spy
Early 30 September 2022
(above) Deaths by suicide at homeless camps happen. An example is the cleared Port Adelaide camp. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Man moves into “women’s shelter”
It was a nightmare cooked up in hell. What better way to create discord than to turn a block of apartments into a refuge for battered women then later bring in men involved in domestic disputes.
How clever was that in generating a “need” of clients that required government funding to contract “Care” operators?
Our new tenant was filled with hope when the Lutheran Cornerstone Housing manager told him his new unit in Elizabeth would be repaired and cleaned before he moved in. And he was good to his word except for a couple of boarded-up smashed windows and tiny amounts of glass fragments in each of the rooms.
Otherwise, it was beautiful, except perhaps for the floor lino chewed up by the previous tenants’ large dog. Cleaning the walls and ceilings of splattered blood was perhaps another unfortunate omission, but otherwise this tenancy has proved to be a serene experience for our new tenant.
Except for delays in getting the hot water working as Elizabeth ferals had stolen the copper pipes. And the faulty wiring that the electrician worked valiantly to repair except perhaps for dropping a light fixture then suggesting to our tenant that he didn’t really need two lights in the lounge room.
But once the faulty plumbing was operable our new tenant had a wonderful hot shower until interrupted by the minor problem of the man and woman in the next unit – also diversity tenants – screaming and smashing each other. He fixed that problem quickly by running from the shower naked and banging on their door then politely telling the woman tenant with black eyes to shut up.
Our new tenant has retained a positive frame of mind and is hugely grateful to Lutheran Cornerstone Housing for placing him into such an apartment. “You’re lucky,” the housing manager said.
And in an effort to harmonise with the lifestyles of his neighbours, our new tenant has ordered his N.D.I.S. worker to sweep dust, debris and dead insects from his apartment into the common entry area shared with his neighbours.
Early 29 September 2022
Oznomad Oznomadic
“Being Homeless?.......that very first night and the fear!. The truth is that there's many ways back to normality, you just need to "Attempt" being normal. Yes many people have pre-existing or now post existing mental health conditions.......best get out of "the life" while you still have a life.”
Early 29 September 2022
(above) Homeless man a few minutes before going to bed at Salisbury. You can find the hidden homeless in Salisbury at night by listening for the rasping coughs. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Bedding of homeless people outside the Salisbury Council $43 million Citadel. One homeless girl works at night out of the St Augustine Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)Toward Home Alliance
at Mary’s KitchenThey discreetly scanned us from the front of the historic hall. The Main Man was tall and soft with a second chin developing. He stood next to a younger and shorter woman. They glowed with purpose.
The Main Man walked down the side of the hall behind a U-shaped row of diners spread out to stop us contaminating each other with one particular disease. The Uniting Church at Glenelg subscribes fully to the deadly virus theory and its required restrictions.
He stopped near a man glowing not with purpose, but with gratitude. “I’ll be grateful to you for the rest of the life,” the diner told the Main Man. “Just doing my job,” came the reply. The diner had been on bail subject to finding a semi-permanent home within six weeks.
The man and woman were from the Towards Home Alliance collecting some nice overtime working nights at Mary’s Kitchen in Glenelg where four or five diners were homeless.
But it isn’t like a previous era where homeless people would be fast-tracked into a welfare unit. Requirements now consist of answering a savage triage questionnaire to determine how worthy one is as a client. If you’re doing too well at being homeless, you’re excluded, but they still keep a file on you including your answers to intimate questions.
And the fast-track has been reduced to six-weeks in the St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter at twenty-dollars a night then a transfer to a seedy rooming house or quasi-hotel. Like Wright Lodge near Whitmore Square where residents pay at least $65 a night and agree to pay $1000 if steam from the shower sets off the smoke alarm.
And further progression to welfare housing requires undergoing various social, psychological and medical treatments deemed necessary by government contractors such as the Toward Home Alliance.
No, it isn’t easy anymore despite the more intense rhetoric by the homeless corporations proclaiming how desperate are the homeless and what wonderful jobs they are doing helping us unfortunate wretches.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg.
Phone (08) 8295 1771. Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member. Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated. Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 28 September 2022
(above) Power, money and control over others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Marion Council evict Vitamin Derelict
The enemy amassed four sheriffs, three Marion Councillors, two police officers and a locksmith while evicting the Vitamin Derelict from his deceased brother’s house late last week.
The Derelict kept a cool head throughout and even hired a videographer to record the incident. He got his opponents running around trying to catch his two cats as they’d didn’t want to risk locking them inside and gaining the ire of the R.S.P.C.A.
He is also locked out of his warehouse due to an unpaid psychologist bill from ten years ago. The psychologist has been in a bad mood ever since the Vitamin Derelict made it clear he wasn’t paying it. And it has risen to ten times the original amount with additional legal costs. The government has attempted to auction the Vitamin Derelict’s warehouse to pay the bill. He thwarted their attempt by arriving during the auction and shouted that any buyer would face severe legal problems.
Meanwhile, the Vitamin Derelict in his mid-seventies has managed to bed down temporarily at a friend’s house.
Early 27 September 2022
Richard’s Religious Revival
“This is embarrassing,” said the 35-year-old woman as she twisted and turned and fell on the ground. A young revival man with clear skin moved closer to her as she moved away. That made her furious and after twenty-minutes she withdrew from the religious encampment on Whitmore Square.
A man played guitar and sang then a preacher from the Elijah’s Challenge group spoke about growing up in Bosnia during the war and coming to Australia as a refugee then losing hope and selling drugs at work despite living a normal life. He was about to kill himself then was inspired to find Jesus and everything improved. Another man had an even more incredible story.
The whisky lady insinuated herself back into the encampment whereupon four or five members of Elijah’s Challenge held their hands over her and asked Jesus to call out the devil within whereupon she snarled in a devil-like voice and ran away.
The three-hour encampment contained two-dozen soft chairs, tables, hot water, BBQ and a public address system that fitted into a white trailer. This was the trailer stolen by housebreakers a few years ago while being custom built in the factory. The gang waiting until it was finished then stole it on Christmas Day. They painted it blue and for the next week used it to move stuff they stole from houses. The church people put its picture on the Web, which prompted the police using the Star Group and a helicopter to arrest the gang.
Richard’s Religious free Friday BBQ at Whitmore Square
Free BBQ and free blankets and sleeping bags every month about 4:30pm at Whitmore Square, Adelaide. It isn’t clear what Friday they’ll be there. Richard worked previously at WestCare.
Early 27 September 2022
(above) Free Oz Harvest food from Woodville Gardens Uniting Church Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 noon. They don't require I.D. or registration. Worth the visit. See Free Food Guide for more details. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Junk talk from Rohan Feegrade
It shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the Towards Home Alliance conference booked out early. Held in August at the Rydges Hotel Skylight Room on the corner of West and South Terraces, it was a fine opportunity to avoid a day’s work while still collecting a salary.
The usual suspects included Ian Cox, Neil Willmett, Carmel Williams, Heather Holst and David Pearson. Remember David from the Adelaide Zero Project about ending homelessness in one year, then two years, then three years and then he disappeared. Well, he’s back in the game.
The spectacular view included the area of the homeless camp south of West Terrace Cemetery. Had any of these conference attendees been down there?
Another spectacular view were the one hundred and twenty Towards Home Alliance and homeless industry employees present. What do they actually do for a job? I’ve never seen any of them at Fred’s Van or other street food services.
Chief Executive of Toward Home Alliance, Rohan Feegrade, announced their goal was to end Adelaide CBD street homelessness by 2025. This extended the deadline by another three and a half years. Feegrade added a qualifier of “street homeless”. This escape clause allows them to put homeless people into hotels for a few weeks then declare “street homeless” eradicated.
What they didn’t do was provide videos of the conference. Why tell homeless people what they’re cooking up for them?
Looking at these Towards Home Alliance employees, each eating up a generous salary, it was easy to imagine them dismissed and the money spent on builders to construct vandal proof housing for the roughest of those living outside. And building more public toilets and showers for homeless people. Homeless industry employees sacked could at last find useful work keeping the amenities clean.
https://towardhome.org.au/huttstcentre-joins-alliance/
Early 26 September 2022
(above) Homeless man in northern suburbs sleeps in an arrangement of cardboard boxes resembling a coffin. He has a radio and thermos of hot drink in the morning before packing up and leaving before the stores open.
(above) School children jeered the disciplined and quiet homeless man on this day. An observer said they weren't from a Christian school, but from a Centrelink school.
(above) The homeless man flattens his cardboard box shelter and stores it behind a recycling bin where he picks it up that evening.
On the Street
The Chinese-owned Port Plaza shopping centre now instructs a black African woman to enter the men’s toilets without notice and walk behind the men urinating.
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An Emergency Department patient in the waiting room at the Lionel McEwin Hospital observed their treatment of a woman. This patient said the woman had arrived bleeding from a domestic violence incident, but was sent back home untreated and with a paper towel against her wound.
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A man didn’t lock the door on the disability toilet room at the Para Banks Shopping Centre. A cleaner walked in as he was lowering his pants. “Do you mind, I’m trying to have a ****,” he told her.
She called the guard who demanded, “Are you abusing our staff?” The toilet man repeated his statement in a loud voice suggesting the guard and cleaner were a little strange. People outside laugh at the guard who made a quick retreat.
Meanwhile, a 38-year-old guard at the same shopping centre has three girlfriends and appears to be pimping one of them.
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Victory Church (Life Adelaide) has stopped its monthly Saturday free breakfasts as only half a dozen people turned up. Saturday morning wasn’t an effective time or day as N.D.I.S. Carers generally don’t work on weekends, the buses have a reduced schedule and there is little else that can be fitted into the journey to make it worthwhile. It was a good effort, though.
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A soup kitchen woman is leaving her partner for another man who claims to be a woman despite everything about him being a man.
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Janet Hobbs’ husband, Bill, died last week in hospital. He’d been living at the Semaphore Residential Care joint on Lady Gowrie Drive for two years after being kicked out of Rudd’s (Semaphore) Hostel for being too sick. Janet is crushed.
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Staff at the Woodville Gardens Uniting Church made free food clients wear masks as they approached the main doors that were blocked off by two tables. This was despite most inside the church building not wearing masks until the doors opened.
Clients remained about 1.5 metres from volunteer staff inside. Nearly everyone knew this was silly, but we’re used to doing silly things demanded by authority and not questioning them. It’s political and psychological and has little to do with infection control.
The church has a sign in the outdoor waiting area saying, “No sleeping.”
Staff had no meat to give out, the reason being, according to one client, was that “The freezer went fritz and the Old Fart chucked out the meat.”
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Someone smashed a $1200 window in an attempt to break into the Anchor Church’s “Worn Again” Op Shop at Port Adelaide. It’s the fourth attempt so the church has obtained a muscular man who will live on the premises. He’s a former VFL football player.
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A friendly drug addict said the Trolley Man from Fred’s Van in the city was threatening others with a pair of scissors at Fred’s Van Semaphore last week The scissor man is usually ensconced at Baptist WestCare in the city. He’s considered the most dangerous person currently in the homeless scene
25 September 2022
(above) Adelaide Cemeteries Authority knocked down the dignified toilet block used by elderly visitors and homeless alike. The Authority used the land to sell $2 million of grave plots. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) The dignified block was replaced by mini toilets designed to dissuade and humiliate those needing them. This is called hostile architecture and an example of civilisation going backward. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)A refreshing policy
from Adelaide Day CentreA member of the Adelaide Day Centre said they collect very little client data and what they do collect doesn’t go into a computer let alone get sent to the homeless industry’s Eternal Shame File. She said they know some clients only by their first names. She said one of their primary policies is to let people use their place largely anonymously. I’m paraphrasing here.
They give away food and blankets and are the No. 1 supplier of Christmas food hampers. They’re also involved in constructive projects like gardening and art.
Adelaide Day Centre is how the Hutt Street Centre was before it joined the big money crowd.
Adelaide Day Centre
Hard to find address via lane-way alongside Magdalene Hall at 28 Moore Street, Adelaide or via the same lane off Queen Street with its tiny sign that says Adelaide Day Centre. Monday to Friday from 9:00am. Ph (08) 8232 0048. Free food parcels and blankets. They don’t require I.D. or put your name on the Eternal Shame File. Mainly for homeless men, but they give food parcels to women. Free lunch program for those involved in their projects. They don’t advertise or seek acclaim. Run by Sisters of Mercy Catholics.
24 September 2022
Good news from Baptist WestCare
A client at the soup van at Whitmore Square said Baptist WestCare has a free doctor, nurse and optometrist available on Wednesdays. The client said they understand homeless issues so are effective at treating the illnesses we experience. The client said his heart is on the blink.
Baptist Westcare Adelaide City
Millers Court (off 212 Wright Street near Whitmore Square), Adelaide. Ph (08) 8118 5200. Monday to Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm. Free use of washing machine, line drying (no drier) and three showers for males and one for females. No water timers like at the Hutt Street Centre. Free breakfast 9:00am – 10:30am. Lunch from 11:30am to 1:00pm. $2.50 lunch cooked by a chef or the free meal of soup, garlic bread, dessert and coffee if you haven't any money. Credit available. No I.D. required. Free doctor, nurse and optometrist currently on Wednesdays who understand homeless issues. Open Sundays from 11:30am to 1:00pm for free brunch. No data collection except for free bread, fruit and vegetables in store from 9:00am-12:30pm Mon to Thurs if you buy one-dollar of stale food and have a Centrelink, student or immigration card. Three $45 free vouchers for store available each year if you submit to an interview. Lots of other homeless-style services.
24 September 2022
Worth the journey up the hill
The food gets better and better. The vegetarian meal is difficult to describe, but has a balance of ingredients that makes it filling so the diner doesn’t feel the need to pig out. The soups contain meat with the non-meat version being pumpkin, which is a little boring as nearly every other free food joint supplies pumpkin soup. But this version doesn’t stink. How other joints get the soup to stink may be better to remain ignorant of.
Dessert included cake, ice cream, canned fruit and muffins. The tea and coffee staff were efficient and polite.
The religious message was about two disciples having the courage to call Jesus their Saviour ‒ or something like that ‒ despite threats against their lives. The man telling the story didn’t mention that most of the disciples came to a sticky end. Or whether in the face of unprecedented change, Christians today should take a stand at what could be seen as evil.
The session is somewhat regimented, but otherwise relaxing with no fear of being knifed or mugged like at some free food places.
The compere announced that last Monday’s meal would be an hour earlier at 5:00pm so we could watch the Queen’s funeral. That shocked me as I was thinking he was going to say Hitler’s birthday. What a crazy thing to think.
Lutheran Good Shepherd at Para Vista
388 Montague Road, Para Vista. Mondays 6:00pm to 7:00pm, free meal inside church. No I.D. required for meal. Real chef who tells us his soup won a medal at Casablanca. Orange Sky Laundry 5:30pm to 7:30pm Mondays. Closed Christmas and public holidays. Continues through school terms. Takeaways and supermarket purchase cards might be available from office. Ph 8263 5087 Tues-Fri 9:00am-3:00pm. Nice people once they establish you’re not a grifter. Vegetarian friendly due to requests of the Activist Vegetarian who doesn’t go there anymore.
Second Editor
24 September 2022
(above) Public toilets in Adelaide are filthy, unreliable and humiliating to use. Homeless people are especially vulnerable. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) These disease-ridden public toilets are one of the ugliest inventions ever. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Suicide in the homeless scene
“And all the grannies that hung themselves in the trees in the parklands,” a maniacal raging homeless man shouts in the dim laneway back of the Magdalene Church two weeks ago.
Funerals are major events in the indigenous homeless culture. Obituary notices left at homeless camps are quickly removed by government operatives.
Some boys found a man hanging from the railway bridge that crosses the Port River at the homeless camp. They asked a camper to call the police, but he told them to make the call as they’d found the body.
Another hanging victim was discovered where Pigeon and Milat were camping at the same location.
The homeless life can be drab and demoralising from being pushed on ten times a day and even during the night. The key to survival is maintaining an inner sense of existence. This will overcome nearly all external torments and despairs. Dangers to this survival instinct are employees and contractors from helping agencies pushing mind-control drugs. And their databases that project a false reality through which the homeless industry controls us. These are poisons it is wise to avoid.
Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 23 September 2022
(above) Homeless patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital are given this slightly outdated leaflet upon discharge. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Big drop in Adelaide CBD homeless
The Actively Homeless number in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands dropped from 283 to 234 from July to August 2022.
This included the Sleeping Rough number dropping from 211 to 178. The Temporarily Sheltered figure also reduced from 49 to 32 while the Actively Homeless – Other rose from 23 to 24. This could be a reason to rejoice, but let’s first explore the numbers.
There isn’t evidence the reduction was due to the Adelaide Zero Project program. Their placement rate rose from 15 to 17 from the previous month though this number could be irrelevant. A partial explanation was 37 people were “Moved to Inactive”, that is, no longer considered homeless. The previous statistical month included just 13 put into this category. Another factor is that 14 people were “Newly Identified” as homeless compared to 30 the previous statistical month.
So we have an increased number removed from the books and a lower influx of newly identified homeless people. It is difficult to determine whether these disappeared people were housed as the statistics don’t cover that area. All we know is that they haven’t been turning up at certain homeless joints from which the figures are determined.
What we do know is that the reduction makes it appear the annual influx of government grants are paying off or, at least, the industry is making it appear that way.
https://saaeh.org.au/progress-dashboard/
Early 22 July 2022
Grill’d should have been better
How can anyone complain about a high-end free hamburger, chips and cold drink? The music was too loud, that’s why. We sat mostly each alone amidst the racket.
Other than the noise, the hamburgers were of such quality that sauce, salt and pepper weren’t required. We just walked in and didn’t even have to say we were Friends of the Salvation Army or St Vincent de Paul. They knew it by looking at us. We have that withdrawn appearance.
Staff denied entry to a few young Asians because they were not Friends. Friends get this free food one Tuesday a month for two hours. Another small miracle.
Ash from the Street didn’t go because she said she felt guilty not being homeless anymore. I was hoping they’d stop me and say, “You don’t look homeless,” but they didn’t.
Grilled/D, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide offers free chips, soft drink, meat or vegetarian hamburger first Tuesday of the month from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. Best to arrive before 7:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. Dine in or take away. High quality food, not like McDonalds or Hungry Jack.
Second Editor
Early 22 September 2022
(above) Richard's Religious Revival once-a-month last month in Whitmore Square. They're there today, 16th of September at 4:30pm for free BBQ, coffee and witnessing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Adam headbutts Dracula’s sister
Buying a bicycle from Cash Converters at Elizabeth can’t be a smart move in anyone’s language, but the woman who wears corpse-style make-up did just this. More likely her new bicycle would have been stolen or faulty or both.
She discovered the chain rattled against the guard and with a friend of Dr Jefferies’ son tried to fix it outside the Elizabeth shopping centre. That’s when Adam barreled up either on the juice or damaged from it. He offered to help fix the bike then inexplicably gave the chain guard a massive kick.
The make-up lady wasn’t amused and told him so. Adam said if she didn’t shut up, he’d headbutt her. She didn’t so he smacked his head against her face resulting in blood pissing from her nose and over her thick white make-up. She looked more like a zombie than usual.
Two men came to her rescue. They kicked and punched Adam mostly in the body to minimise bleeding and bruising.
Then a black African Samaritan thought Adam was innocently being attacked and came to his aid then complained when the Dracula Lady’s blood got on his shirt. She had nothing but contempt for this Samaritan.
Adam was banged up and went into hiding for a week then reappeared at the Beacon of Hope church at Elizabeth where he quickly grabbed some free lunch then disappeared.
Meanwhile, Dracula’s sister has more trouble. A man hiding above her ceiling has drilled holes through which he peeks down at her. He sneaks down at night through the fireplace and steals stuff. She assembled a pile of junk in front of the fireplace, but he replaces it as he retreats back into the ceiling. She knows this because he never reassembles the stuff the way she left it.
Adding to her troubles, she was also forced to turn off the electricity in fear that an ex-boyfriend has fiddled the wiring making it a fire risk that could burn her to a crisp. She asked a university academic from a free soup kitchen to check it, but he said he wasn’t any longer licensed as he’d moved into academia.
So what is the moral of this story? The first is don’t buy anything from Cash Converters. The second is to avoid head butters. The third is that if you mix with certain types of people then you have to expect them to behave as they do. The fourth is especially pertinent to Dracula’s sister and that is to fill the holes with plaster to stop the man in the ceiling peaking down at her.
Early 21 September 2022
Edit: 1 October 2022
(above) Camp near West Terrace Cemetery of people visiting from the desert for Mrs. Wonga's funeral. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Unhappy full house at Para Hills
Victory Church isn’t having trouble attracting clients for its free Thursday evening meal at Para Hills.
But there was dissent last week when a church photographer took images of diners including one man who complained to staff that he hadn’t given legal permission for his image to be taken or used. This was despite the church saying week after week that they aren’t taking photographs.
Another patron responded by photographing church staff, one of which said he wasn’t allowed to do what they were doing. And would he not return the following week. The man who organises the Victory Church Friday morning BBQ asked this diner why he hadn’t been going to the free BBQ. The answer was: “I don’t eat offal.”
Diners at one table complained the chicken was pink inside. A diner at another table said the serving sizes were for children, not adults.
The food came in Cumin Express Indian Pakistani boxes from the restaurant in the shopping centre next to the Para Hills Community Hub. Strangely, church staff denied it came from there so the unpopular diner asked at the restaurant. The answer was, “Yes”.
Victory Church (Life Adelaide)
Pittman Park on Commercial Road at Salisbury. Free breakfast of bacon, eggs, bread and coffee last Saturday of every month from 9:30am to 11:00am. Also, free BBQ lunch every Friday at 12:00 noon. No I.D. or registration required so you can dine with them anonymously. Safe as the drug addicts are still in bed. Life Adelaide also hosts a free 6:00pm meal Thursdays at Para Hills Community Hub, 22 Wilkinson Road, Para Hills.
Early 20 September 2022
(above) No I.D. or registration required. Free every Sunday at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide.
(above) St Andrew's Church, Jetty Rd., Glenelg. Tues, Thurs and Fri :11:30am - 1:30pm. Free fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items once a week. No I.D. required, but they require phone number and name for "contact tracing". Soup, muffin and coffee free during these times. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) RepaySA people working to pay off fines. They're picking up garbage from an Aboriginal homeless camp near the West Terrace Cemetery. The tribal campers can't believe it's happening. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Mary’s Kitchen at Glenelg
Two friendly alcoholics told a man to get away from their huge three-legged dog resting on a mattress back of the church. He moved away angrily saying he wasn’t afraid of the animal. He then regaled others with tales of fighting dogs including knocking one dog unconscious and cracking one of its teeth. He said he made a quick getaway in case the animal was angry when it regained consciousness.
Orange Sky Operatives were engrossed in shop talk about things going wrong with the laundry van and a new app to make reports on their shifts. These are morale problems as well as technical challenges. Three or four people brought their laundry. There didn’t seem to be enough water in the machines to wash the clothing including one machine holding a thin quilt. Why can’t management realise the settings are wrong for homeless people. However, the Orange Sky volunteers were so interesting I was late for the evening meal.
They served sausage stew and tuna mornay, both with a fresh salad, but it was the no-meat minestrone soup that was the hit. The gentlemen around me had three bowls each.
One man pounded the table when I told him the Hutt Street Centre wouldn’t let me use the showers unless I submitted to an intake interview. A former employee nearby said it took only half an hour and would be done to determine if I was in any danger. Yeah, danger from them forming a dossier then using it against me at a later date. This is no joke because the industry is all about power and control.
John Johnson still works in a sheltered workshop at 77 despite talking about retiring seven years ago. He got surgery to fix his eyes and now uses a phone with pride. Catherine the Doctor also graced the room with perfect poise and aloofness while surveying the environment for opportunities. One diner said she could buy the church in flash, she was that rich.
Other diners included the man who lived at the Kingslea Apartments where Steve’s wife slit his throat and then killed herself. Also, Sylvia and Bill from Moose, a woman from Port Church, Ben from Bedford Industries and the foreign man from the Communist Soup Kitchen at Whitmore Square. But not the woman who vomited on the table six years ago or the old man who took 18 loaves of bread then got hit and killed by a Land Cruiser as he walked home. Or Mel who killed herself.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Lifeline 13 11 14
Early 19 September 2022
(above) The Port Adelaide Enfield Council purged the riverfront of homeless campers so they moved elsewhere in the Council area. No where else to go despite many good units and houses kept empty by HousingSA and Chinese investors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Pigeon and Milat have left the area under the trees. Pigeon pays rent to Anglicare for a unit. While not totally innocent, he finds their administration so oppressive that he camps outside. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
A police van was parked last week in front of the Sisters of Mercy graves at the West Terrace Cemetery during a training session for a police attack dog.
An officer ordered the dog to savage the padded arm of another police officer. “Good girl,” the police woman said as the animal snarled and ripped at the arm. The other officer didn’t appear as impressed and moved away quickly in case the dog broke loose and tried to finish the job. Who are the government going to attack with this creature?
Still on cemetery news, rumour has it that homeless people have been trapped and died under grave slabs after seeking privacy at night. One man says he prefers lying on top of the grave stones during cool summer nights as they’re still warm after a hot day.
Second Editor
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A tenant at the HousingSA units behind the Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth said he saw a man casually climb up the side of the building to the third floor. He smoked a cigarette as his feet dangled from a balcony.
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A senior church member yelled at others inside the Elizabeth Park Seventh-day Adventist church last week. Volunteers had set aside too much Second Bite food for “deliveries”.
They allegedly sheepishly returned much of the deliveries to the tables for distribution to clients outside the hall.
One client said the offerings had declined in recent weeks though generally everyone is happy with both the church members and what is offered.
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A woman and man last week went into a disability toilet room at the Para Banks shopping centre at Salisbury. After a lengthy stay, they came out and were greeted by a man in a wheelchair saying he wished he’d been inside watching them.
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Hutt Street Centre has joined its alleged mortal enemy, the Towards Home Alliance that grabbed some of its government funding earlier this year. The Alliance itself remains uneasy with the Salvation Army partner wondering how it has become subservient to the smaller and lesser involved Lutheran Welfare.
Some Alliance employees don’t even know the real name of the Alliance and have never seen The Great Leader, Rohan Feegrade.
As to the Hutt Street Centre, they’ll do anything to maintain their dominant status in the homeless industry. Their motivations are money and power disguised by concern and compassion. Claims the Hutt Street Centre has anything to do with the Daughters of Charity should be refuted by the Daughters, if any of them still exist.
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A man new to the homeless scene said he held nothing against another client at Cos We Care in the city who threatened to stab him in the neck. The new man said the other was off his head and not in control of himself.
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A homeless man said he phoned the police after his wife drank four bottles of Whisky over a weekend. Instead of taking away his wife, the police arrested him and he spent a year in prison. The court stopped access to his children. He lost his job in the public service. He was eventually released from prison in his jail clothing and told to find a homeless joint. The case has been adjourned repeatedly over the past two years. His lawyer expects it to be dismissed as there aren’t any witnesses. This is the other side of the Domestic Violence industry not revealed by the legacy media.
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Being homeless sparks new sensitivities such as seeing so many others sleeping in their cars at beach carparks. Even quiet cars in suburban streets at night reveal themselves as containers for people sleeping.
And all this with 2000 empty HousingSA houses and many more thousands kept empty by foreign investors. And social workers paid to make homeless car dwellers think it’s their fault and require them to undergo rehabilitation before housing is offered. How does such insanity prevail?
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Mary’s Kitchen is cancelled this Thursday and Friday due to staff being absent. The Good Shepherd Monday meal is an hour earlier at 5:00pm due to church people wanting to watch the Queen’s funeral on T.V. Who actually watches television?
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That pleasant and homeless whore from Port Adelaide remains on the run after allegedly liberating $10,000 from a client on Hanson Road. I’m glad I refused the handful of $100 and $50 bills she offered me.
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Rumour has it the Salvation Army has a coffee truck operating on Hindley Street on Friday evenings. I phoned City Salvos where an Indian woman said she was in a different department and had no idea about it. The building has about six people in it. How many departments can that involve?
She put me through to the furniture pick-up section at another location who said they knew nothing about it. Then a call to Head Office got the Call Centre who gave me a special number. It was the number they refer those with difficult questions: an answering service that never responds.
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Noisy drug addicts in the HousingSA units behind the old Anglicare Food Barn claimed singing from the Lutheran Church across Wishford Road was disturbing them. The public housing units are largely inhabited by the unfortunate combination of victims of crime and those who commit such crimes. These are the blocks of units where ankle tracking devices are a fashion statement. Travel for these people is in and out of prison or fleeing the state due to warrants.
Early 18 September 2022
(above) Janet Mead, the Sisters of Mercy and the Adelaide Day Centre crowd planted a garden back of empty Adelaide Gaol to provide fruit and vegetables to make lunches for homeless old men and others. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A few old men in the homeless culture remember doing time at Adelaide Gaol as a right of passage into lifelong poverty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
C.H.A.T.S. at the Masonic Hall
The tough man with the whispering voice invited us into the foyer as it had been raining. We declined because a crucial component of the Community Improvement and Togetherness free breakfasts is networking. The government’s minions relentlessly change the rules to keep us disoriented so we network hard to stay informed. Isolated individuals are sitting ducks.
A woman living in her car said she ran out of petrol at Outer Harbour. The Western Adelaide Homeless Service kindly gave her a Woolworths petrol card despite there not being any Woolworths stations in the area. She caught a bus with a Jerry can and returned with it full.
There was dissension in the raffle contest as an ex-security guard who lost her ticket two weeks in a row accused the caller of not shaking the bowl enough. Another diner used Liquid Paper to block out his number and replaced it with the number called.
The woman whose parents told her to get out now rents a shed with a toilet and leaky roof for $120 a week. The old homeless man said he sees no light at the end of the homeless tunnel. Frank the Busker discovered he’d been put on the Aspire housing program at the Hutt Street Centre without knowing it. They’d been soaking up government money under his name for months. I warned Frank they’d classify him as crazy as they did with most homeless people. He said, “I am crazy.”
The oxygen bottle man said he’s got Long Covid and suffering lung infections on top of Asbestosis. I told him dying can be a learning process and smiled then remembered I’m dying as well and stopped smiling.
We sang happy birthday to Diane, a crucial volunteer who is quite old. Her face went red, but it was already red along with her arms from recent sunny and windy days.
The C.H.A.T.S. unpaid workers gave away a piece of chocolate upon entry followed by packets of grain bars, liquid breakfasts, cleaning cloths, little bottles of hand sanitiser, shoe laces and two-minute noodles.
Breakfast included chopped fruit, yoghourt, bacon and eggs in muffins, cooked spinach, roast tomatoes, baked beans, cooked mushrooms, sausages, toast and Vegemite, chocolate and vanilla cakes, coffee and tea.
The other giveaway food included bread not as fresh as other places who get day old or even fresher bread from Semaphore Bakehouse or Bakers’ Delight though it was still good. Vegetables included fresh cabbage, decent tomatoes, grapes and another dozen choices. I took very little of these as cooking out of my car has become difficult since the Salisbury Council stole my tent.
Everything went smoothly despite the Darling sisters and Greg being on holiday in New Zealand. Along with them, the only thing missing was a band playing “Let’s Stick Together.”
One problem was staff packing up early. If the place is listed as open until 10:30am then the services should remain open until that time.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
Early17 September 2022
(above) Another tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Negotiating skills are of paramount importance to avoid injury and loss in the city homeless scene. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A dream come true: a skip of clean cardboard boxes at a Modbury medical practice to construct a makeshift mattress. Avoid the next bin, it's medical waste. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
The Fraternity at Kilburn Fred’s Van
The mood was tempered by an influx of The Fraternity with their Minders. One guard stood with his feet spread out at the front door as if mimicking the prison screw that he might have been. They watched us non-user diners with suspicion, but ignored the Fred’s Van volunteers. These unpaid workers rarely intervene in any controversy, but simply provide the food, the prayer and clean up after we leave.
Another Fraternity member stood in front of the dining room talking seriously into his phone like an executive or police commander.
That’s the nature of the situation where a dollar from southern China costs a thousand here. It’s politics and we’re at war with China as well as our own chemical technology.
Diners at a back table said the meal was the best this year. The non-meat option was excellent. No trace of neuro-toxins such as MSG. The takeaway bags brimmed with rubbishy old fruit and vegetables plus a few grocery items. These are crucial to diners as it allows them to live relatively normal lives despite being from the underclass. It allows them to drive cars or visit better quality doctors. Or to take their grandchildren on short holidays, which is the point: most Fred’s Van clients are over fifty with many of us in our seventies.
Note: The Fraternity will be elsewhere next week as they're continuously on the move.
Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre, 59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm every Thursday. Decent meals with soup from The Wine Centre. Improving takeaway bags at end of meal, but the shouting and yelling is worth the visit. Occasional fights. I.D. or registration not required. Meals improving. Good toilets, but the lights exaggerate the redness of your eyes. Decent Catholics. Decent local clients so it is important not to badmouth Kilburn.
16 September 2022
Pain and gain at Glenelg
Something wasn’t right driving down the coast road. A section of my mind had gone numb as if a stroke was slashing my mental awareness. The blur of the Ozone Reserve with its outdoor shower flashed by the side window. After parking behind St Andrew’s church on Jetty Road, the truth hit like a sledgehammer: a migraine had struck.
I slept in the car for an hour then staggered into the historical hall and somehow found an empty table. As usual when in a migraine, others sense something isn’t right and avoid me. After half an hour I ordered a coffee and muffin then stared unblinking at the wall for another thirty minutes. Others thought I was on drugs or crazy.
A regular client walked up to me and we talked about Mel who killed herself seven years ago. Her self-doubts had been fuelled by a man who’d gas-lighted her for months. After she died, someone found one of his books in her house. It was about controlling people.
What bleakness she felt near the end yet we remember with affection and regret while others are forgotten.
Anyway, that’s what a migraine does. It crushes the mental ego and puts the sufferer into a primal flow of mind. Every dark cloud has a silver lining.
St Andrew’s Glenelg (Mary’s Kitchen) Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon. Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
16 September 2022
(above) Seven months after evicting a now 71-year-old into homelessness, his rental unit remains empty. Some units at this Elizabeth complex have been vacant for three years. How would a psychiatrist diagnose the minds of Anglicare executives and Board members? (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) Homeless woman on the run. She's accused of taking $10,000 from a Hanson Road client. The money lasted a week, but the legacy of her action will haunt her for decades. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Sunday at the Pilgrim
That woman who spat at me five years ago was off her head. She yelled at an older man for twenty minutes straight. She repeatedly ran across the room as if to attack then stopped short.
Men might think: well, it’s just a woman, what is the threat? But women in the homeless scene have learned effective offensive tactics. One is to play the threatened female asking a male to help fend off another man. This can lead to injury and even death. Female drug dealers enlist strong young men to neutralise real and perceived threats. Robyn the Junkie uses this tactic. Another is carrying sharp instruments and being willing to use them in eyes, ears or anywhere. A third is infectious disease. All kinds of diseases are rampant in the homeless welfare scene including sexual and drug resistant infections. Golden Staph is a threat difficult to control with drugs. Yes, women are not powerless in the homeless scene.
The older man was white-faced, but looked her in the eye and said, “And?” That shut her up, but the tension remained in the room.
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
15 September 2022
Unexplained deaths around the world
This video examines how European countries with the highest vaccination rates for Covid have the highest increase in death rates. This includes Spain, Portugal and Estonia.
Slovenia, Bulgaria and Hungary have the lowest vaccination rates and the lowest increase in in deaths and in some cases a reduced level of deaths.
The video has not been removed by youtube and comes with a link to the Australian Department of Health.
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15 September 2022
St Bede’s at Semaphore
So that’s the angle,” another diner said when googling the name and finding a wedding photographer. She connected this to the Suzanne Elliot Charitable Trust recycling cabinet at the back of the church hall next to the water tap. But perhaps the photographer is a different person that the benefactor of the Trust.
The Semaphore Bakehouse bread was in short supply so I gave it a miss as there is plenty of bread in the homeless scene. The breakfast itself was fine though after living outside it has become difficult to relate to those living inside.
St Bede’s Semaphore Free Breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road). Tuesdays 8:30am to 10:00pm. Free good breakfast with yoghourt, bacon or sausages, fruit, toast, ham and tomato, toasties, fried eggs. No I.D. or registration required, but they do take names ostensibly for free Copenhagen coffee. Professional staff. Toilets. Mirrors. Free fruit, vegetables and fresh bread to take away. Free clothing. Water tap outside that requires special handle from Bunnings. Occasional visits from hairdresser and Thread Together free clothing.
15 September 2022
(above) Homeless campers at Modbury. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Pilgrim expanding service
“Pilgrim Sunday Night Tea (SNT) news: pasta nights to be held at 5.30pm on the third Sunday of September, October and November - beginning this coming Sunday 18th. There will be beef or roast vegetable lasagnes, salad and fresh Italian bread, plus cake, fruit and drinks as usual. We would greatly appreciate you getting the message out. Many thanks Carol and Peter (SNT coordinators).”
Pilgrim Church Hall Sunday meal in the City
12 Flinders Street, Adelaide (entry from back of church). Free. No I.D. required. Open 5:30 pm each Sunday. New winter menu includes three kinds of healthy soup including one vegetarian plus fresh bread, butter and cakes. Fresh food purchased by the parishioners plus tea and coffee. Healthy atmosphere though some staff fear for their safety Quite nice and if you're quick you can run across Flinders Street to Fred's Van at 6:00pm. Ph (08) 8212 3295 for latest Pilgrim updates.
Early 14 September 2022
St Andrew’s Glenelg
What a joy to see a few of the old crowd at the Tuesday light lunch. One diner implied forgiveness for past misdeeds when he said, “Everyone makes mistakes." I’d been tormented by guilt for years after disclosing personal details of diners told to me in-confidence.
The lunch included cake, coffee and soup with access to the free food room of fruit, vegetables, bread and five pantry items. I got celery, two large cans of tuna and a box of Salada crackers. They were good quality.
Diners ranged from drug damaged people to a retired golf caddy. One diner said the Tuesday evening meals had improved dramatically and now resembled a $50 restaurant meal. Volunteers were all new from five years ago as were most of the diners. How quickly things change.
How powerful is forgiveness. I must forgive the feminist who removed the inner door of the men’s toilets.
St Andrew’s Uniting Church-at-the-Sea, Jetty Road, Glenelg. Phone (08) 8295 1771.
Tuesdays 6:00pm Free three course meal. Social gathering outside church from 5:00pm. Meal is served inside the historic hall built in the 1860’s. Friendly helpful workers. Clean toilets, but second door removed from men’s that allows those passing in the hallway to see you standing at the urinal including a profile view from the mirrors of your dangling member.
Light lunch 11:30am to 1:30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables also at lunches plus five grocery items at the Tuesday lunch. All free. No I.D. required, but they ask for name and phone number for Covid contact tracing, which seems outdated.
Orange Sky Laundry Tuesdays 5:30pm last wash at 6:30pm; Fridays 11:00am last wash 12:00 noon.
Two free PBS prescriptions vouchers each week.
Early 14 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
The Shopping Trolley Man?...Removes His Victim's By Trolley!.
Oz Nomadic
Early 14 September 2022
(above) Padlock on tent stopped the "funny guys" from doing rude stuff on my bed at The Paddocks park in Para Hills. But it didn't stop the Salisbury Council: they grabbed everything and took off. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
C.H.A.T.S. Port Adelaide
“Seventy-two,” the former roustabout put in a coma for three weeks when younger told us. “Not including volunteers.” This was the first wave; the second wave is smaller and includes those avoiding the mad rush.
Frank the Busker was dressed in flowing scarves, a colourful hat and decorations difficult to describe. He lives outside in the city. Between us sat an AngliPrison day release prisoner wearing a tracking bracelet. He’d been a normal worker until a dispute with his wife landed him in the slammer awaiting trial and being kicked out of his house.
The Darling sisters forgot to buy spinach in their rush to stock up for an extra week while they went to New Zealand for a holiday. No one complained especially the man who insists Rose paid $45k to install the elevator, won an Order of Australia medal last year and put him in a hotel for two weeks at her expense. And that Port Power players serve the breakfasts. He had been homeless, but now lives at Terra Firma on Waymouth Street in the city. It’s hard to get into and administered by Sonder, a privately operated government-funded psychiatric business that dabbles in other welfare programs. Feigning or having a mental illness is a pathway into cheap rental housing.
The C.H.A.T.S. breakfast includes bacon, eggs, chopped fruit, toast, yoghourt, roast tomatoes, cooked spinach (usually), cooked mushrooms, baked beans and chocolate cake. Clients respond to the kindness of the Darlings and the kindness of volunteers with generally positive responses.
The ninety-minute event resembles a carnival show and without traumatising drama and that is what most diners want. The only aspect lacking is the inclusion of the most isolated homeless people. They sit alone behind fast food joints, rubbish bins or where only a few locals know of their existence. The fear of losing their possessions and contempt from others keeps them in their relatively safe and enclosing sphere. They don’t realise that some of us see them as at the pinnacle of homeless status. Us tent and car dwellers, even squatters have it easy compared to them. But with them it is better to deliver necessities than bring them into the fold.
C.H.A.T.S. at Port Adelaide Masonic Hall
Incredible free breakfast and takeaway food for anyone on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am. Mason Hall on the corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. No I.D. or registration required. Bacon, eggs, toast and jam, cereals, coffee and more. Takeaway milk, bread, vegetables and other stuff. Toilets. Shonky elevator prone to overloading. Crowded. Lots of yelling from raffle lady. Safe environment, but no bags allowed in women’s toilets due to theft of toilet paper. Good for a laugh and lots of good stuff.
Early 13 September 2022
Port Church strangely normal
What a job to provide a quality meal for seventy diners. Wednesday’s offering included two fresh salads, Cole Slaw, pasta and sauce, lamb, plant based protein (it used to be called fake meat), bread rolls and a small number of pies. The thin Tablet Lady left the building with dignity when asked to move tables for a family group. She returned later to collect food off the tables for her dog. The nervous Canadian from Vancouver wasn’t there, but I did see this person at Unley Salvation Army on Monday.
We talked at our table about an old man who traded a packet of cigarettes for sex with a morbidly obese woman. And how he is the most educated and skilled person in our group. And of the nature of kindness that can be found in the most unlikely people.
A younger man had to stop himself from crying when saying how generous to the homeless the new Premier, Peter Malinauskas, has been. He said Scotties Motel is now used exclusively for homeless people and their animals. I muttered about the tenants also being animals, but held back.
Nothing much happened and that was fine with me. So many shocks and traumas happen each day when you’re homeless that an unexceptional gathering is both refreshing and exceptional.
The Port Church at Largs North
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church). Meal and takeaway bags of food. 4:30pm every Wednesday during school terms. Everything free. Free new clothing. No I.D. or registration requirements. Healthy food and generous people. Very safe atmosphere. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. Ice Dealers tried to establish a presence, but were defeated. Users still go there, but they’re interesting and worthy. Strange toilets. Open during school terms.
Early 13 September 2022
If you want to destroy the enemy, destroy their mind
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13 September 2022
(above) Seven million dollars of government money for a lawn bowling club at Elizabeth while homeless people camp in tents metres away. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
(above) A church promoting Hope at a free BBQ at Redwood Park/Ridgehaven. Also, a place to meet notorious felons who changed their ways. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Fear at Fred’s Van City
The shopping trolley man sat alone watching us then sprung to his feet in a rage. He threw off his shirt and punched wildly into the air. No one reacted except by turning away to avoid being the focus of his anger. “He’s the only one I’m afraid of,” said a retired taxi driver from Broome. The 77-year-old can collector was also afraid of him and has lost his trademark smile. No one has faith the police or Fred’s Van staff would be of any use during an assault.
A third man approached and said the shopping trolley man was crazy. The taxi driver said this fellow was beaten senseless 18-months ago after being knocked to the concrete then repeatedly headbutted in the face.
A black African welcomed us to the Life Christian Centre version of Fred’s Van on Friday evenings. We’re getting used to that: African immigrants to Australia are devout Christians who set examples for the local crowd. The Fred’s Van client base is also representative of the general demographic that includes numerous black African homeless people. We’re normal in that regard and being of the homeless culture puts us in a separate stream of society that overrides racial characteristics.
The church crowd served sandwiches and fruit rather than the hot food those sleeping outside wanted. Even the coffee wasn’t hot enough. The insulated plastic vats had reasonably hot water, but that lost some of its thermal power during transit from their church on Angas Street. They should also let the milk warm at room temperature so it doesn’t cool the coffee. I wanted to say something, but feared they’d refuse service like at Puddle Jumpers Western Food Hub where they ban critics, even homeless critics while shooting up at the front door presents little problem.
Goodwill was in abundance on Friday evening. Paul and another Casino gambler escorted the old can collector away from Hemmings Park to safety. Why a single homeless man pushing a shopping trolley creates so much fear is that in an insane rage with superhuman strength, he’s likely to commit fatal injuries without knowing what he’s doing.
Fred’s Van Adelaide City
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at Hemmings Park, Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide from 7:00pm to 7:30pm. Everything free.
Saturdays and Sundays at the same address from 6:00pm to 6:30pm. Sausages, bread, sandwiches, fruit and coffee served with surprise special meals on certain days. This includes an additional vegetarian meal on Thursdays and Chinese food from the Concubine Restaurant on Tuesdays. Everything free. I.D. or registration not required. They might also have socks and blankets. Friday meals served by another church, but the food and service nearly identical to Fred's Van. This is Adelaide’s No. 1 soup kitchen. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. It is important not to become involved in others' battles or even to look certain people in the eye.
12 September 2022
(above) Food dumped at an Elizabeth abandoned homeless camp. Food is plentiful in the homeless scene, but housing units remain empty and locked up. The homeless industry is corrupt and its leaders are frauds. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
On the Street
A friend handed me a flyer for the Aged Rights Advocacy Service in regard to the Salisbury Council stealing my tent and bedding. But an advocacy employee said they exist for those in the aged care system and not for old homeless people.
Second Editor
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Land Cruiser Ralph said he sees people living in their cars for days and weeks and he never see them get out.
This is similar to that car in North Adelaide with bed sheets covering the outside of the windows. Stuff appears and disappears outside the car, but except for one occasion I’ve never seen the occupant. Fear and shame and presenting oneself as a target are reasons for staying in cars without getting out.
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A disabled man was brought in by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth hospital. He doesn’t use drugs yet produced a positive result for methamphetamine. He’d been staying at Port Adelaide Backpackers and is now wary of accepting drinks from strangers, even water or coffee.
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Don Frater’s house in Sturt Street has a sad aura. Don was head of the Covid vaccine program in South Australia and he’ll be in trouble it if turns out the Covid injections killed a few thousand people.
One lucky break was Numan Mohammed pleading guilty to stabbing Kim Chau eighty times in his house. This protected Don and his wife from an open court trial examining what had been going on in their house.
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The LGBTQI white fellas at the Drop-In Care Space thought they’d gotten rid of the tribal Aboriginals from the front of their building at Whitmore Square. They put huge pot plants where the tribal mob sat. The mob relocated in front of their next door neighbour, but last Thursday returned to the Drop-In Care Space where they screamed and yelled with more vehemence than usual. The LGBTQI crowd have a fight that will be difficult to win because the black fellas are incredibly persistent.
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That fat fair-skinned white fella who lays on blankets on Hindley Street appears to be a homeless ring-in cashing in on the positive sentiment toward genuine street dwellers. The ring-ins arrive from home each morning then spread across the Adelaide CBD to beg or busk or pretend to sleep.
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The Freemasons gave C.H.A.T.S. $22,000 to fund their Friday free breakfasts in the Masonic hall then broke the news they now charged rent for use of the building. In the balance, the Port Adelaide Freemasons have done well in hosting C.H.A.T.S. especially during the Plandemic when the big money homeless outfits closed down.
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The Salvation Army published in their monthly magazine the various types of people suffering from the housing shortage. The classifications included nearly everyone except white men who are the majority of rough sleepers and car sleepers in Adelaide.
Why would the Army make an obviously false statement? The clue is to “follow the money trail”. White men are a persecuted group and attract very little government funding. There are also white women in the homeless scene who aren’t drunks or drug addicts. They are just without adequate shelter.
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A homeless man said the slow-cooked roast lamb meal at the Hutt Street Centre two weeks ago was “enough to die for”.
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The Sikh’s free food service at Hurtle Square isn’t much good. The food is cold, some of it straight from the fridge. They offer bottles of cold water on winter evenings, but not coffee. That’s why homeless people go to the Adelaide Day Centre soup van where the soup is hot and rich in flavour and vitality.
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Frankenstein bought another house at Red Hill for $35k. His mother is expected to move there from Elizabeth. What she’ll do there is anyone’s guess as it takes years to be accepted by the farming community surrounding Red Hill.
Meanwhile, Black Gold at Port Pirie got the invalid pension by claiming he suffered from incontinence. Black Gold is reputed to be crazier than Frankenstein.
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I met “the slasher” for the first time in five years. She remembered me, but couldn’t find a reason to pull out her piece of jagged glass and raise it near my throat as we spoke. She has mellowed over the years.
Second Editor
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Puddle Jumpers have instituted a policy of tormenting or outright banning of homeless people who criticise them either at their Western Food Hub or elsewhere.
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West Terrace Cemetery staff waited until closing time when they pulled the stone covers off graves in the Catholic section reserved for Sisters of Mercy nuns. They replaced the stone slabs with sheets of thick plywood, but visitors can still see areas of ruffled dirt. This destroys the illusion created by the polished granite and marble headstones. What happened to the body of Janet Mead who died earlier this year? She was from Adelaide Day Centre and the Sisters of Mercy.
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A health inspector visited the Semaphore Uniting Church in preparation for the opening of a free Thursday lunch service. The inspector listed 35 infringements on the modern kitchen currently used by the Seeds of Infinity prisoner group. Dust on a window sill is an infringement.
The church was forced to pay for the inspection and must make the corrections that are mainly cleanliness issues. But even these excessive rules and regulations haven’t discouraged the plan.
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A Baptist WestCare client said her heart was in knots after Linley May Earl, 62, died in May this year at the Joyce Sneadon Reserve at Port Adelaide. But she is fine now because a shooting star told her Linley had made it to Heaven.
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An employee of the South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance told Adelaide Homeless Journal the new government under Premier Peter Malinauskas claimed they’d made savings in some departments. But the employee said her section had been getting overtime moving invoices to other departments and that there hadn’t been any savings.
11 September 2022
(above) Tenant of this HousingSA house in Elizabeth South put her furniture in the middle of the street during the night. A friend smashed the windows of her house then she told police the neighbour who helped her clean up had done it. She was sent to prison. Ice addict. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, September 2022.)
Into the maelstrom
Lutheran Cornerstone Housing nightmare
A disabled man faced homelessness due to disputes with neighbours. He was technically homeless living in someone’s back yard then moved to a medical halfway house, then that drug joint called Port Adelaide Backpackers. He left the Backpackers in an ambulance then was released and did the rounds again this time adding Scotty’s Motel and the Sombrero Motel then returning to the back yard. The government paid for the lot.
During this process he had a dozen welfare workers helping him negotiate the revolving door game from one joint to another. Everyone was a winner except himself especially when his huge National Disability Insurance Scheme financial package ran out. His loyal paid workers abandoned him though he wasn’t in as bad shape as those losers at One Care in Woodville West. They sat in their own faeces when their annual allotment ran out a month before renewal. Nevertheless, our disabled man was left without support in his time of need.
The Western Adelaide Homeless Connect joint in Lipson Street in Port Adelaide was his next call. Their previous name was Homeless Gateway, but that had too many connotations with a locked gate barring entry. They required him to contact a dozen housing associations before offering anything. It was a rite of passage despite numerous government funded associations telling Homeless Connect to stop referring clients as they hadn’t any vacancies. But he still had to perform this circus act. Being a white man made it even harder.
UnitingSA had also fed off the carcass of the man’s N.D.I.S. funding. An employee gave him a list of rooming houses to contact. Wasn’t that kind? Another employee drove to his motel and helped phone them. A problem arose when owners said they hadn’t been in the rooming house business for years. UnitingSA had provided a four-year-old list. The employee who drove to the motel and made the calls charged the man’s N.D.I.S. account $300 for this service. No wonder the cash ran out.
Lutheran Cornerstone Housing came to the rescue. They manage a complex of units in Salisbury. The Housing Manager was an unpaid worker himself trying to get better housing for his family.
The tiny units were designed by idealists with no understanding of the levels of distress, disability and outright insanity of their future tenants.
The disabled man could barely move in this unit. Boxes lined the walls and covered his bed. He’d previously lived in a two-bedroom Housing Trust unit. Now he slept on a recliner chair in front of a screen playing instructive youtube videos all night. He is a high-functioning A.D.H.D. man with an intellect superior to 95% of the population. And he mocked those less clever than himself, which included nearly everyone.
One solid door from his unit led to a common room used by other tenants. Our man would arrive home smelling dope smoke that had seeped underneath the door. His fellow tenants pounded on the door asking for food, tobacco, money and car rides to other places. When the man cooked a meal he had a tenant banging on the door saying he was hungry.
The police were frequent visitors and on one occasion used a battering ram to gain entry to a neighbour’s unit who had threatened to kill himself. On another occasion, a neighbour cut his wrists to the bone. A problem these weak-willed tenants suffered was being predated upon by drug addicts using their units to host three day parties.
The Cornerstone Housing Manager had hoped the disabled man would influence the other tenants to amend their ways such as paying rent. This clearly failed. The man also talked to others about the insane behaviour happening in the complex, which contradicted the propaganda published by Cornerstone Housing. It was time for another revolving door transfer. Now, what would be the worse place he could go? Perhaps a women’s shelter that had adopted the diversity program of introducing men as fellow tenants. This is what happened.
Stay reading for the next instalment in two weeks.
Early 10 September 2022
(above) Campsite of 71-year-old homeless man at The Paddocks, Para Hills, a suburb of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal Aug 2022.)
(above) The Salisbury Council Compliance Unit waited until the man was absent to take everything. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
From the anonymous contact page
much gout about ? got Chilblains whilst living homeless roughshod in Adelaide Hills (7 years).
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chilblains/symptoms-causes/syc-20351097#:~:text=Chilblains%20(CHILL%2Dblayns)%20are,on%20your%20hands%20and%20feet .
feel sorry fer old fella kicked and knocked about even when tent mattress living then rug pulled out from under him by council criminal thugs.
does not spell well for those of us in similar situations. prepare for worse times ahead.
might be good to list some worthy departure schemes i.e. Youth In Asia, Peaceful Pill etc.
Second Editor: Life is too interesting.
Late 9 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
"P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e
and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$."
i.e. toe$. no$e one end, toe$ other end.
btw those little bloody toe patches are called chilbains.
Late 9 September 2022
(above) Someone found a use for at least one face mask outside the methadone depot on Langford Drive in Elizabeth. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)The vandals took the handles and the hairdresser went walkaboutMy attempt to arrive clean for a haircut was foiled by someone stealing the shower attachments at Ingle Farm Salvation Army. This didn’t matter because the hairdresser at Unley Salvos didn’t turn up on a Monday and hasn’t been seen since.
Brenton with the glass eye welcomed me then told of free food at St Andrew’s Church-at-the-sea in Glenelg. No I.D. required, he said. An interesting thin woman talked about being stared at, weight stabilisation and acidity. I mumbled a response to her while staring at the table.
A retired nurse was fascinated by talk of the homeless industry in Adelaide. Like most people, she didn’t realise it was a concrete and electronic jungle of predators disguised as helpers. She asked three times where I was camping then added that she’d had a fall and banged her head.
The meal included a vegetarian version of lasagne and salad with coffee and desert of cake and slices of fresh pineapple. The surprise was the gentleness of both clients and staff. So different from Playford Corps and even worse, Elizabeth Fred’s Van.
Salvation Army Unley
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839. Free quality lunch every Monday at 12:30pm. Dining room service or eat in the courtyard. Free quality coffee. No I.D. or registration required. Hairdresser disappeared, but might return. Pleasant guests, employees and volunteers. Well arranged building. Most over 70. The dishwasher is 92. Coffee and cake on Saturdays from 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Early 8 September 2022
(above) A clever homeless family at this long-abandoned camp used the RAAF base fence as protection on one side and railway fencing for another. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
(above) The family topped their protective fence with barbed wire as this was the most dangerous camp outside the West Terrace Cemetery area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, August 2022.)
(above) What happened to this homeless family is not known. Thousands of adults and children live in government-funded motels on Main North and Glen Osmond Roads. This defies logic because 2000 government-owned public houses and flats sit empty. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Aug 2022.)
Moore Street on Saturdays in the city
“I like to see fear in their eyes,” the homeless man punching the air with his fists and feet says as he looks me in the eye. Others move away from the inner section of the laneway leaving me in the front line.
A man in his mid-seventies says he’s glad I’m between him and the fists. The angry man says he’s going to obliterate all dogs, mutts, paedophiles and the woman who stole his dole money and I.D.
Before his rage blossomed, he said he’d been homeless all his life and wouldn’t have it any other way. Another homeless man says he wishes he had a warm bed to sleep in tonight instead of twenty feet up a tree. A third man carrying a swag says the benefit of being homeless is that if trouble starts, it’s easy to move away. A fourth homeless man sits away from us, on the ground. He dislikes chairs.
Dennis the Menace lumbers enters the laneway on his walking frame. He complains of not getting the various supplementary Covid and cost-of-living-increase payments. He cracks a dirty joke and talks of Mr Wilson on the Dennis the Menace TV show of the late 1950’s.
Nearly everyone here tonight is a replacement for diners six years ago. The turnover is incredible though a few tough characters stay for decades. For the others disappeared, their only contact with their past life in the homeless scene is via this website. That’s why reader contributions are valuable.
A Chinese man and woman bring prepared food in large aluminium disposable trays. They’re the diplomats of the government’s white replacement policy. They’re not much different from us. I don’t see what they bring, but of the three choices of main course on the menu, I choose veggie bake. Instead of the usual blown-up quiche this was restaurant quality with fetta wrapped in cabbage and other foods hard to identify in the dim light. One diner from the Crony Gang says it’s the best food he’s ever had at Moore Street on Saturdays.
Magdalene Church Hall
26 Moore Street, Adelaide. (Entry back of the hall next to the Church). Free. 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Soup, Main Meal, Dessert, Tea, Coffee, Dine inside plus takeaways and books. Sit inside or in laneway. Drunks and dogs welcome outside. Great chance to meet real street people like Jesse Gunter. Excellent volunteers. No I.D. or registration required. A wild crowd with very few beatings because they take disputes elsewhere. Horrible nasty toilets. A true street experience.
7 September 2022
From the anonymous contact page
Zorry to read about Knot $ea$ Commy$ $tealing campzite and gear from old partially blind crippled fella. welcome to eternal $hame... vile!
P.Z. if we have our way, Knot $ea$ Commy$ would pay through no$e and other end for Knot $ea$ Commy$ crime$.
AVOID Knot $ea$ Commy$. Juzt like 911 Chernobl, Knot $ea$ Commy$ have plenty more Bad Karma on the way.
Never trust New$...
New$ are the real Knot $ea$ Commy$ Terri$ Fa$hu$ Ray$hu$...
NO New$ iz Good Newz.
ZORRO ZALLAM
7 September 2022
List of external archival sites for Adelaide Homeless JournalMusic played by child molesters who hung out at Veale Gardens
And whose victims are now the old men and women
who attend Fred's Vans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RkC6MYT2E
A weird version, was it unconscious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UXSdFlVOs
8 May 2021
Paul Boden in the U.S.A. says the homeless industry got bigger while homeless housing got less: a mirror of Adelaide’s homeless services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y3M-GaR84s
13 December 2020
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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 DeKortPhotograph of Ngongotaha (Mark Nicholas Arstall, 39) given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage.
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