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Archived by the National Library of Australia Archive for June and July 2019 Adelaide Homeless Journal (incorporating Adelaide Homeless Journal) Read by bureaucrats given expensive tickets to attend the homeless conference at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

               Anonymous Contact Page                          Adelaide Homeless Journal will publish secrets that the welfare agencies want               kept hidden. Your contact is welcome.                 Disclaimer ​                   Free Food Guide for Adelaide, Australia                 Unemployment Workers Union Rights Guide ​    ​              A brilliant document written by a legal professional.              Free showers in Adelaide                   Free Dentistry and Homeless-Friendly Doctors                              Free Hairdressing in Adelaide                      Semi-useful list of Adelaide welfare joints  Lutheran free stuff directory Adelaide Zero Project homeless statistics https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/ (above) The manager of the Salisbury Housing SA office is told each year to make vacant a certain number of Housing Trust units for incoming refugees and their extended families. A method of creating vacancies is to put a drug dealer amidst a group of clean tenants. (above) Housing SA employees are trained to treat questions from the public with vagueness, even hostility. When the Australian citizen becomes aggravated, he or she is accused of being abusive. It is a choreographed routine. (above) The Salisbury Institute building where Fred's Van arrives every Sunday at 6:00pm. Diners at the free meal include a number of homeless people sleeping on concrete or grass. One rough sleeping man has been described as "blue in the face" when he gets out of bed. The Housing Trust is across the road. They have dozens of houses and units left empty for months at a time. (above) Fred's Van diners may arrive 90 minutes before opening time to use Orange Sky Laundry, which parks outside the back glass doors. The depleted free food room is on the right and the dining room on the left. Fred's Van doesn't require I.D. for entry into the Eternal Shame File. (above) St Bede's church and Hall at night. The drop-in-centre is negotiating with One Voice and Orange Sky Laundry to bring shower and laundry services to St Bede's once a week. There are 17 homeless people camping near the beach along with others further up the peninsula. Meat eating diners fooled by plant stew at Fred’s Van No meat was served, but few knew this at Fred’s Van at Elizabeth at a recent Sunday lunch. The sausage dish was made from plants; the hamburger stew was from plants and the meat stew was actually plant stew. Apart from one man who thought the sausages didn’t taste right, the other diners were unaware and unbelieving the “meat” was made from plants. The Mousse dessert was made from milk. I was too late so “G” gave me his. I’d had a migraine and couldn’t remember anyone’s name. Last month a migraine left me not able to remember any of my passwords and my secret password book is in code and I couldn’t remember the code. Once the migraine passes, my memory returns. No one seemed surprised by this as half of Fred’s Van clients have serious disabilities. Diners rushed the racks of rotting vegetables. Lemons      were snapped up. Most diners are not drug addicts, but even the addicts know that fruit and vegetables are good for you. The bread was old and there was twice the amount that we could take. People on the dole and paying private rent have nearly nothing left for food so Fred’s Van is a valuable resource. Yet it is hard to believe this is happening in Australia, especially while corrupt officials stage “homelessness” conferences in expensive venues. Rock Solid was there. He kicked Mick of Mick and Denise in the back of Mick’s bad knee. Mick retreated behind a car. Rock Solid was joking and didn’t realise Mick had a bad knee. Rosie was with Mr Solid. She is no longer called Twitchy. She is actually a nice woman. She is polite even when she dislikes someone. George the Elder was there. I couldn’t remember his name due to my migraine. He said Anglicare was installing an outdoor seating area for tenants at his retirement complex. This is after building fences between the units to stop tenants snooping on each other. George also said that an astronaut who landed on the moon had a special message he broadcast back to earth. The message was to his neighbour and said that he could go next door and have sex with the astronaut’s wife. This is what George the Elder told us. Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview. 30 July 2019 Cold hot food at Salisbury Fred’s Van The Maranello pizza arrived hot, but was served below body temperature. The woman who lives in a Housing Trust unit amidst drug dealers said she hadn’t eaten properly for days due to anxiety. She said the sausage stew was excellent, but was cold. The plates being stored in a cold room didn’t help. What is wrong with Fred’s Van that they cannot even serve food either hot or warm? Where is that St Vincent de Paul C.E.O., David Wark (Wark-Shy)? Where is the Fred’s Van manager? How do these fellows fill in their time? Is there no quality control? The volunteers work hard preparing the meal. Some begin in the morning, but they need better coordination. Even the salt and pepper shakers don’t get filled regularly. And the salt used is coarse cooking salt that won’t fit through the holes. It’s time Mr Wark-Shy got out of head office and headed up to Salisbury. Orange Sky Laundry didn’t turn up for the second week in a row. They made a last minute decision not to come. To hell with the clients they claim to help with positive conversations. What’s wrong with Orange Sky management? It is downright rude to broadcast a service then not turn up. It’s cruel. Not many people arrived for the free meal. This meant there was adequate seating for everyone though one man stands in a corner and eats. The chairs are crowded too close together. He lives outside and to suddenly be put shoulder to shoulder with strangers is too much for him. The free food room still had 30 people passing through. There were six eggs per person, orange flavoured sugar-free Coke, old bread and three or four half-rotten fruits and vegetables. Someone said that Bill from the Food Barn was dead and that his son had tried to kill himself. Jason MS was there with new batteries in his N.D.I.S. mobility scooter. He said it took three weeks for them to be fitted. The man who wore a moon boot last year was there with an artificial lower leg. One-eyed Steve said he’s getting surgery next week, earlier than expected. And despite these complaints, it was a pleasant gathering and the staff did a wonderful job. Fred’s Van is also the most reliable food service for homeless people in South Australia. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free Orange Sky Laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Decent toilets. Decent staff. ​ 30 July 2019 From the Anonymous Contact Page “In response to "In response to defamation blog" Pravda : Brainwa$h Propaganda Keep yer New$ out of our face... such a di$grace.” The Rundle Spy 30 July 2019 (above) The Adelaide City Council publishes a guide to services available for homeless people in the CBD. But it doesn’t warn that most joints have little to offer other than a referral to another agency and an entry into the Eternal Shame File. It takes skill and experience to negotiate the minefield of the homeless helping industry. Homeless not welcome at Adelaide homeless conference The $110 to $185 ticket price to next week’s one-day homeless conference at the Adelaide Conference Centre will keep out the homeless. Not that the salaried bureaucrats will be paying. They get free tickets plus a day’s pay for sitting through it. The first speakers will include Michelle Lensink, the Minister in charge of the Housing Trust that denies housing to Australian citizens in preference to “refugees” and their extended families. Then Sandra Verschoor, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide whose employees harass and steal the tarps, bedding and tents from homeless campers in the CBD parklands. Jake McQuire from Community Solutions follows the two politicians. His corporation is creating an Eternal Shame File on every homeless person in inner Adelaide. Then comes Simon Schrapel from Uniting Communities, which is building that glass semi-prison on the site of the demolished Maughn Church. Others include Rosemary Wanganeen, Lynn Arnold, Leslie Wise, Chris Leishmann, Dr John Falzon, Jack Snelling, Dr Amanda Stafford, Nat Cook, Dr Priscilla Ennals, Greg Knagge, Alisa Willis and another half-dozen deadbeats. A somewhat revealing aspect of the conference will be a group photograph of those supporting the “Raise the Dole” campaign. While this is admirable, it is also a policy of the Greens and a section of the Labor party. They’re from one side of politics, which probably explains the whole conference. But the reality is that these clowns attending the conference are living in a Twilight Zone not connected with the lives of those sleeping on concrete outside suburban toilet blocks and sports stadiums. The one-day conference will be held in the expensive Panorama Rooms at the Adelaide Convention Centre from 8:30am to 4:30pm on the 7th of August 2019. Post Conference Drinks will begin at 4:30 pm when, instead, these Twilight Zone bureaucrats should be loaded onto cattle trucks and taken to a sports stadium and made to sleep on concrete for the next month, next to a druggie infested toilet block. 29 July 2019 ​ From the anonymous contact page " He said they remove each garment separately, hold it up to the light, then shake and examine it." Yep. I do that with my washing as socks, tissues and the like can get caught in it. It also staightens out the cloths and ensures they are in a fit state to had back. I also check mine *before* washing, however I can understand the O.S.K. not particulaly wanting to do that. Whatever may end up in there has just been through a wash cycle. I doubt it is some "secret squirrel" covert search operation. Furrfu. Anonymous 29 July 2019 In response to defamation blog  ("Defamation is a serious crime" 27 July 2019) "Pravda" (Russian, listen/truth) John 8.13-32 "’The truth shall set you free." So Jesus said to the Jews who believed him. ‘If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.’ “There is probably more honesty and/or honest opinions on this website, than most anywhere else on the web or in print, at this point in time. What are you so frightened of?   “Also the comment about "vital services", they appear to only be vital to those persons or agencies who actively make a living (e.g. make) money out of these services. What you consider vital (e.g. harassing homeless people in the parklands to hand over sensitive, personal information or breaching the unemployed because of some miniscule infraction) isn't vital at all (Its usually cruel, demeaning and or just plain, time wasting, red tape.) All these kind of behaviours do, is justify your pay cheque and your continued existence.   “Finally, what kind of person, threatens participants/readers of a "homeless website."? You truly are a Wolf in Sheep's clothing. As my mother used to say, "don't let a snake into the house...…." The Night Talker. ​29 July 2019 ​  Gospel City Church Free Food Harry the Dogger’s wife, Jean, died last month. She’d kept coming to the free food Saturday right to the bitter end. Except it wasn’t bitter. She kept up a pleasant demeanour despite being hardly able to move. No self-pity with Jean. They’d been married for over 50 years. Harry was proud of that. He’s trying to keep busy now that she’s gone. He thought the black rubbish bin in front of the serving counter was a child. That’s what he said. The Second Bite fruit and vegetables weren’t much good. The bread was too old. The pastries, fish and meat given out at the serving counter were good. They’ve got heaters that blow the fuses. The building has been sold so their tenancy is up in the air. Gerry and Dora say whatever happens will be God’s will. Charlie’s wife, Elyse, hasn’t been around for awhile. She broke her back doing something simple like getting out of bed and it gives her continuous trouble. Fairlie has taken over the checklist of people attending. She took over from Jo. Elsbeth’s mother cleans the toilets. Jo used to do that. They are dedicated people. Gospel City Church at Munno Para 1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler) Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am - 11:00am Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time. 29 July 2019 (above) A government employee is passing out shortened versions of the 28-page Adelaide Homeless Journal free food guide. She should have copied the whole thing, not just four pages. But at least she did something. The most desperate people living outside don't know of these places. P.S. She didn't include the juicy entries. On the Street An expert in the Hutt Street Centre drug scene says that “hot shots” are used to get rid of troublesome drug addicted customers. The dealer mixes a stronger concentration of heroin or adds an extra nasty ingredient or potency to crystal methamphetamine that kills the client. The police and the Coroner aren’t interested because the drug industry is too secretive and powerful to investigate. And what is a tragedy to the addicts’ friends and relatives is a relief to the authorities. One less addict swamping hospital emergency rooms. * A welfare insider said that the Lyell McEwin hospital emergency department is sending patients without private health cover to charities like the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. The insider said that no one at the Salvos has appropriate medical experience. The insider added that the Lyell McEwin hospital prefers privately insured patients from whom it can claim extra compensation from the federal government. The benefit for privately insured patients is they receive better rooms and treatment, and don’t pay the insurance gap they usually pay at a private hospital. * An Orange Sky customer has become nervous about volunteers taking his clothing from the washers. He said they remove each garment separately, hold it up to the light, then shake and examine it. * George the Elder said there were few people at City Salvos last Saturday evening. He said the Salvos loaded the plates with so much food that, “It put me off.” * Blythe Spirit from City Salvos is in Tasmania. * A client at MADEC Job Search Australia (Job Network) says one of its unpaid volunteers joined to convert the clients to his religion. * Morris from Gospel City Church found $15 in coins with his metal detector. He is old, but still on the dole. He sold his car because it had become too expensive to operate. * The Ghost Who Walks is looking healthier by the month despite losing weight from blood cancer. Eccentrics like The Ghost are a healthy countermeasure to the increasingly Orwellian nature of Adelaide society. * Lesterine has been reported as being in jail for exposing himself at West Lakes. Lesterine should not be mistaken for Lester the Philosopher. * A woman on the dole tried to get a ticket to the Big Issue magazine lunch in September at the Hilton Hotel, but was told it was for “select VIP guests” only. * The Vigilantes have moved from Channel 6 to Channel 3 on CB radio. Their names and addresses have been broadcast by rivals who accuse them of seeing child molesters around every corner. “Everyone is a paedophile,” mocked one anti-Vigilante man. The Vigilantes had been using a repeater station at North Adelaide, but have moved it to Flagstaff Hill. * The Night Stalker (as distinct from the Night Talker) was shouting at the Bower Cottages. It was during the Nanna’s Free Food Basket Wednesday meal. He said someone needs to go to the toilet. Diners seemed not to notice the shouting. * Horse Trader Steve is still the main suspect in the disappearance of the Nanna’s Free Food Basket sign placed on Bower Road. * Neeta said she had a dream that someone was trying to choke her. She said she was half awake and half asleep. Neeta is on prescribed medication that inhibits the swallowing reflex. Deaths of psychiatric patients from choking is not uncommon. Neeta says she will speak to her doctor about this. * Mr Rock Solid applied for a job. He said he’d worked at a hot dog stall. He said he squeezed the hotdog from the buns and let them drop into a bucket of water as he handed it to the customers. Since the wieners were observed being put into the bun, it was assumed by the customers they had fallen out after delivery. This doesn’t sound true, but the astonishing aspect is that Mr Solid believed it was a right piece of information to put on his verbal resume. * Job Search Australia (Job Network) contractors give free tickets to musicals and concerts to clients. One client asked for a ticket to the Glenn Miller tribute band show, but was told the Salvos didn’t approve of it, but that she could have a ticket to the Book of Mormon or receive a Hillsong CD. * The Night Stalker praised the man who robbed two petrol stations on Grand Junction Road last week. The robber arrived on a bicycle with a wooden stick and robbed them of milk, bread, chocolate and cigarettes. The Night Stalker wants more of it and says people should be more angry. 28 July 2019 ​ (above) One of two people sifting through donated items left outside the Salvation Army at Elizabeth East at 11:30am on a Saturday. This man was quite harmless. Others are more brazen and enter Op Shops to steal volunteers' handbags, purses and keys. Photo taken early July 2019. "Defamation is a serious crime" From the anonymous contact page ​“I'd put a bit more effort in to verifying what you post. Between the blatant misinformation and the slander there is a risk of serious action being taken. “Considering some of the incorrect info posted may have the (possibly intended?) outcome of discouraging vulnerable people from seeking vital services, the publisher will not be looked upon favourably should things escalate against them.”   Anonymous Editor: What incorrect information are you referring to? Mistakes will usually be corrected or, at least, a dissenting opinion will be posted below the post in question.   27 July 2019 Editor: See response to this post at "In response to defamation blog" of 29 July 2019. Gawler Fred’s Van Graham from Salisbury said that Celina’s chicken and vegetable casseroles were the best he’s ever tasted. Celina of “D” Team said she’d bake tuna mornay in four weeks for the fish-vegetarian. The old man who won’t collect welfare said that “D” and “B” Teams were the best. Tracy and her daughter brought bamboo cookware, a brand new cooking pot, food, clothing and gloves she’d bought brand new, and new age books she’d found at Op Shops. She also gave Kate a blanket she’d crocheted over the past year in colours Kate said she preferred. Tracy’s daughter was emotionally responsive to us. Tracy paid for everything herself. The meal included perfectly cooked rice as a side dish to Celina’s casserole, sandwiches with inadequate fillings, hot dogs, hot pies from Gawler South Bakery, cheesecakes from Gawler Cheesecake Shop, soft drinks, apples, custard. The two Pats went around to ensure those hanging at the back didn’t miss out on anything. Everyone left happier than when they’d arrived. Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thursdays 6:00pm. Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread. In the Lions Rotunda during wet weather, otherwise on the grass. Showers nearby. 27 July 2019 (above) What may appear to be little than an animal trail can disguise the most ingenious homeless camp used for years without detection. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). Is the Don Dunstan Foundation fiddling the books? The Don Dunstan Foundation still haven’t published their homeless count figures. What is going on? Are they fiddling the books?   Eighteen months ago, they said they would eradicate homelessness in the Adelaide CBD in two years. Then they lowered this to halving the number. Instead, it has nearly doubled, at least on paper.   One theory doing the rounds is that most of those included in the homeless count are not homeless. They are ex-homeless who have been transferred to hotels, rooming houses and backpacker joints. Or they have been shipped to suburbia, but are listed as CBD homeless because their controllers work in the city. These are the rumours.   https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/   26 July 2019 Victory Church Street Outreach BBQ at Salisbury railway station They arrived late. Not that this bothered too many people. A cold rain was falling so most had stayed home or at their squats including those teenagers who sleep on concrete without cover. Once the BBQ trailer arrived, church people quickly got the fire burning. They set up two gazebos over the cooking and serving area. Three school boys were on the railway platform. There was the sound of a broken bottle. One boy carried a stick. They were aged from 10 – 13. Just boys exercising their freedom. One was allowed to serve coffee. They wanted to be involved and therein lies a key to youth unrest. One of his tenants reported that Dominic was disappointed that so few renters were sympathetic to his predicament. His wife wants a divorce and all 18 houses that the couple own. One tenant was not sympathetic. He said, “It’s his fault; he got caught with his pants down and now his wife wants a divorce.” Mick and Denise were together. Mick referred to her as “love”. They were smoking cigarettes outside Tricky Mick’s car. The Horse Trainer Lady still can’t get her car operating. She lost her last key. We talked of options, all expensive. Another diner said he’d seen a man sleeping at the water tank. “He was blue in the face.” The diner said he’d also seen a pregnant girl camping near the shopping centre with her equally young boyfriend. Not many people were at the BBQ due to the rain and cold. Victory Church free barbecue Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial. Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics. On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They run out of hot water by 7:30pm. 26 July 2019 ​ St Bede’s free breakfasts ​at Semaphore Katie Burt was in the Messenger Press. She brought copies to the soup kitchen. It was about her living in her car at Semaphore beach, then staying at a friend’s house, then getting private rental accommodation for herself and her daughter. The Least Active Volunteer dumped his meal upside down on a chair. It included a wet hamburger sauce. His health has become so precarious that his duties are limited to playing ping pong and talking to people. He is good at what he does. Shane Whelan was sad. He said he was living on the streets. He walked down Semaphore Road and crouched on the seat at the bus stop outside his SRF. Tanya is back, like a dream come true. Her elderly friend, Colin, was joyful. He’d thought she’d gone. There were at least 45 people there last Tuesday morning. Pauline is a volunteer. She used to be a coordinator. She said she works harder as a volunteer at St Bede’s than when she got paid elsewhere for being the boss. Someone donated a ripped sleeping bag so Jill gave it to old Kris as a mattress for her dog. Jill talked to a group of homeless people, but I forgot to eavesdrop. It might have been about bringing the One Voice shower van and Orange Sky Laundry to St Bede’s. The IGA on Semaphore Road is giving good quality vegetables to St Bede’s, better than Food Bank’s stuff. St Bede’s Anglicare staff encourage people to speak kindly to each other. Staff follow this example and there is no humiliation of clients or other staff. Some of the homeless people were exhausted and depressed. St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall 200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road) 8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free. Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated. 26 July 2019 (above) Old tent left by homeless people in the winter of 2019 in Salisbury, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Did the Broadley Trust ​do their dough? The Don Dunstan Foundation still hasn’t published the monthly homeless statistics. They were paid by the Broadley Trust to perform this function.   The bureaucrats are spending their paid hours planning that silly homelessness conference at the Adelaide Function Centre. Homeless people have been excluded from speaking at this conference. Just the salaried bureaucrats talking to each other.   https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/ ​25 July 2019 From the anonymous contact page “Re: Brutalist School of Architecture exudes ... isolation. This destroys a sense of community, which makes individuals more vulnerable to government manipulation. Wish Aye could build plenty isolation into my homeless Housing SA residence. Aye wish to be TOTALLY ISOLATED from thundering loud drunken druggin' "music" that resembles humans vomiting. Aye wish to be TOTALLY ISOLATED from human community that makes place seem like Aye am an inmate at.” From Gypsy Soul 25 July 2019 Cheap Private dentist at Elizabeth Martin Dentist and Denture Clinic. 100 Philip Highway Elizabeth South (Next Door to Domino's Pizza, Elizabeth South) Open Monday through to Saturday Phone: 08-82556349 Can be linked in with the National Dental Health Foundation for Free/low cost ongoing dental care. Competitive rates and understanding of the issues that people on low incomes experience. Will accept letters of referral from case managers, parole officers, G.P's, unemployment case managers, etc etc.  The Night Talker. 25 July 2019 ​ Complaint to Housing SA From anonymous “SA Housing Authority Feedback form SA.GOV.AU “Thank you for providing feedback to the SA Housing Authority “Your feedback will be forwarded to the appropriate area for follow-up. If you requested to be contacted, someone will be in touch shortly. “A PDF copy of your submission is attached for your records. “Details Given name LoudAss Family name Bikie My feedback is a Complaint I am a Other Other - please specify Tenant “What would you like to tell us LoudAss Bikie at Unit 40 / 40 Park Avenue GILBERTON 5081 was LOUDLY revving motorbike engine early this morning at 1 a.m. Monday 22 July 2019 to displeasure of many of us living nearby who just want to sleep before beginning the work week. NOISE continued for about 1 hour. These type of LoudAss Bikies have infested this Housing SA complex before and have often been eventually EVICTED, but after YEARS of infraction. This makes us hate the LoudAss Bikies, and also the SAG HSA officials who seem to condone and perhaps encourage the problem. SAPOL is often completely ineffective in dealing with these problems. “What would you like to happen now Invite the LoudAss Bikie at Unit 40 / 40 Park Avenue GILBERTON 5081 to leave the premises (EVICTION). Invite other deliberate antagonistic Criminals to also leave the area. “Attach any documents related to your feedback Do you want to be notified about the result or contacted if we need more information? Yes, I want to be contacted Enter your details How would you like to be contacted?” From anonymous 25 July 2019 ​ Garbage to Garbage   Supermarkets and food wholesalers have rubbish to get rid of. This costs money so they phone Food Bank.   Food Bank sends a truck to pick it up. It is taken to the warehouse at Edwardstown. It is then sent to charities and given to welfare clients. They taste the product and in some cases discover it is stale or rotten. They throw it into the rubbish. It ends up in the same place the donators would have sent it.   25 July 2019 (above) Adelaide's suburban parks appear to have few places to secretly camp, but upon further examination, homeless people on foot will find beautiful spots far superior to caravan parks. However, anxiety can be a crippling condition so it might be helpful to adopt mind control or a religious practice. Uniting SA at Clayton’s From the anonymous contact page “RE:An applicant for help at the UnitingSA office at Clayton’s Uniting Church in Beulah Park said staff ask the most personal questions at the front counter with others listening nearby. The applicant said that privacy doesn’t exist in any area of this UnitingSA office. “*** when Karan Ames was of the support workers there she was fantastic - she made sure no one felt like they were beggars or loosers!! sadly due to management & the politics of the place she went elsewhere where her talents were appreciated!!high turn over of voluntary staff maybe management needs to exercise a duty of care!!” Gypsy Soul 24 July 2019 Job Search Australia private contractors worse than criminals From the Night Talker “Why the average employment consultant is even lower (and of less use) than a drug dealer. “I am not going into bat for the "average" drug dealer, because I know only too well, the havoc they wreak in regards, the life of your typical addict/junkie. But that said, in defence of Drug Dealers, they are selling a product (however destructive it may be) that is in demand and usually produces a desirable effect (in the short term at least) they are also a useful, go- to source, if you are in chronic pain or are looking at ending your life (on your own terms) So there are some positives, in regards the average DD. “Then we come to your average (base grade, dumb as pig-sh**) Employment Consultant/work pathway coordinator. (Both stupid terms, because neither of these labels, actually justify the fact these persons do pretty much nothing, in regards finding participants any kind of ongoing and or sustainable, employment) “Unlike drug dealers, they don't provide any kind of service, that is positive, nor produces any kind of euphoric effect and is certainly NOT in demand or desired by anyone. The service they do provide is cruel, calculating, demeaning and counter-productive. Other than compliance and policing, there is little that can be mentioned, that even justifies, their continued existence. “Most drug dealers in deference to employment consultants have excellent marketing/customer engagement skills (you need this in the highly competitive environment, of drug-dealing) They know their target group and always keep in top of the latest trends, within their industry. “Employment consultants on the other hand, struggle to send an email to the correct email address, have virtually no understanding of labour market trends (e.g. ageism, wage theft, exploitation and casualisation of the labour market) and their mantra is the tired worn out old slogan of "go out there and get a job." (Conveniently ignoring the fact, that for every one advertised position, even those that are part-time or ad-hoc, there are in excess, of fifty applicants.) “This becomes even worse in regional and remote areas, where jobs are not being advertised, full stop, because there simply aren't any jobs, to advertise. “And woe betide anyone that complains or criticizes, because you will find yourself breached, quicker than you can exist your local JSA building! (Its funny but if you ask for any real or meaningful assistance, you will be pretty much ignored (e.g. "our job is to get you job ready, not find you employment?" (Try turning up late to your appointment, or forgetting to attend and see what happens?) but in the meantime, we will happily breach you for anything we like or could think up, at the time. If a drug dealer treated his clientele in this way, he/she would find themselves devoid of any customers as addicts, would quickly find a more amenable dealer. “On a final note, the UEWU (Unemployed Workers Union) did some research on the difference between penalties imposed on convicted offenders/including those on home detention and or community service orders and found the penalties to not be as punitive and or harsh, as those sanctions, directed towards JSA clients (including those on WFTD (Work for the Dole) Schemes. “Community correctional orders are legislated under law to not run for more than three months in consecutive order, but WFTD clients, can be put into programs, that run up to six months repeatedly. So in this respect, WFTD clients can be doing this program, over and over again for years on end. “Convicted offenders have a number of avenues they can pursue, if they believe their orders are too harsh or not able to be successfully carried out (these avenues include legal aid (free lawyers) Prison Visitor services and or the Correctional Services Ombudsman, OARS case managers, Community correctional case managers and the Parole Board. “JSA participants have the 1800 complaints line phone number (which tells the participant to go back to the JSA provider, and sort out the issue themselves) Seriously, that is it? That is all the available resources that JSA participants have??? “I should have embarked on a life of crime, rather than ended up as an unemployed, middle aged professional. I would be treated better for starters!” The Night Talker 24 July 2019 (above) The trick to being homeless in Adelaide is to have multiple secret camps that few recognise as campsites. Having multiple entrances and leaving and arriving at a different time each day helps maintain your privacy. Bedding, mosquito nets and tarps should be of similar colour to your environment. ​Is Adelaide Zero Project ​hiding the statistics? The monthly statistics were not published yesterday. Is the Don Dunstan Foundation adopting the Rann government’s trick of releasing the figures to welfare bureaucrats before the public, including the homeless, get to see them?   Are they giving the welfare bureaucracies a jump on putting their spin on the statistics before anyone else? That's what Rann did for Monsignor David Cappo and David Waterford of the Social Inclusion Commission.    The July statistics should have been published by at least yesterday morning, Monday 22 July.   https://dunstan.org.au/adelaide-zero-project/dashboard/   9:05am Tuesday 23 July 2019 Free breakfast at Port Adelaide Freemasons Those red, white and blue hoodies are turning up everywhere. They had been destined for landfill in Sydney, but were retrieved by Thread Together, which operates from the back of the Baptist Church at Largs Bay. Breakfast was bacon and egg muffins, cold toast, coffee, fried tomatoes, takeaway bread, doughnuts and beanies. There was a problem with the hot water because it wasn’t hot when we arrived. Nor did it get hot because someone kept adding cold water during the meal. The beanies were of ridiculous colours that no 13-year-old boy would be seen dead in, let alone homeless men. They were more suitable for 45-year-old female office workers with weight problems who spend their nights crying into pillows. Or for old men suffering head injuries from a fall. Dwayne got one in Aboriginal colours then gave it to a young desert woman. He has a strong sense of right and wrong. A real asset to the soup kitchen scene. An older man using a full frame Nikon D2 camera took pictures of us. He said he asked permission before taking each shot then showed us a group photograph of which he hadn’t asked permission. “They told me to take it,” he said, not overjoyed at saying who “they” was. There were out-of-order signs on both elevator doors to stop the tribal kids from using them as bouncing castles. That also stopped disabled people from using them, possibly including a man on a mobility scooter outside. Elizabeth (Libby) from the Port Church was there with her lightweight walking frame. She climbed the stairs after seeing the out-of-order signs. At the end of the breakfast we went down in the elevator while I told her that it got stuck between floors for twenty minutes the previous month. Ricky has got a friend writing anti-Nanna’s Free Food Basket messages on the internet. He was kicked out of being a volunteer for not being reliable. Bronwyn runs a tight ship, a training ground for discipline and skill development. A nice aspect of the breakfast was seeing tribal people and homeless white folk in attendance. The meal was produced by Nanna’s Free Food Basket while the Freemasons provided free use of the kitchen and dining room. Nanna’s Free Food Basket at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Men’s toilets designed with strange door giving women visual access to men inside. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets with normal doors. 23 July 2019 ​ Fred’s Van Salisbury “This is a place to eat, not a ballerina studio,” the man usually homeless and pushing a Coles shopping trolley complained. Two girls of the woman with five kids danced around the tables. A 10-year-old performed a dance she’d obviously seen on TV complete with the miserable countenance of a woman being exploited or exploiting herself. The shopping trolley man wasn’t amused. Nor was anyone. He and another homeless man muttered about Shuffles at the front table. “Look, she’s on her third,” one said as Shuffles brought back a third plate of food. This is a common and legitimate complaint of people living outside, that those needing it least get the most. Those living outside usually get less from suburban charities than those living inside. Even people owning their own houses get more than those living outside.  “There are places you can go,” or “The Hutt Street Centre can help you,” are two sentences those living outside often hear. Shane Quinn, the independent political candidate for the South Australian seat of Ramsay was there to see what was going on. He wants to meet the real homeless. He might locate that pregnant 14-year-old living in the park with her boyfriend or the man sleeping at the water tower. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff. 23 July 2019 ​ (above) An example of the Brutalist School of Architecture at Blake's Crossing, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. Every aspect exudes hostility, mistrust and isolation. This destroys a sense of community, which makes individuals more vulnerable to government manipulation. (above) Shared walls, no gardens, no trees at Blake's Crossing, and limited public transport to other suburbs and the city centre. These are hallmarks of the Uniting Nations Agenda 21 program. It was signed by Bill Hayden when he was Governor-General of Australia under Prime Ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. These buildings were built ugly because the government wants them ugly. (above) The government forces developers to build such units to reduce water and energy usage, and to isolate people from their neighbours. And to limit residents' abilities to grow food, making them more vulnerable to government and corporate manipulations. With buildings that discourage personal interactions with neighbours, residents can be removed and replaced without anyone knowing it has happened. Elizabeth Fred’s Van on Sunday Rock Solid was out of character. He was relaxed and friendly. I was nervous, but others including a friend of The Ghost Who Walks found him funny. He talked about his violent life, time in prison and that his son is a police officer. “Our friendship is over,” he told Marten the German when the latter piled bags of food on the table in front of him. Marten missed the humour. Mr Solid said he wanted a painting on the wall of the café. He added that he didn’t have a filter. He said, “The thoughts are verbalised without constraint.” The takeaway bread sticks were old. Clown Prince Wayne advised us to soak the bread in water then re-bake it in the oven. A woman added that she sprinkled old bread with milk then covered it with a wet tea towel before re-baking. Clown Prince Wayne is an expert on the movement of bread in charities: he knows when and where it comes from, and whether it has been frozen. There were two couples with kids. They were normal people and not criminals or addicts. Another half dozen diners appeared to be new. A derelict was scathing at an elderly man and woman removing items left in front of the Op Shop donation bin. The six clocks in the café showed different times, all wrong. Rosie wasn’t there. Nor was George the Elder. Or Lisa, who is staying away for a month after a man hit her with a metal water jug the previous Wednesday. The meal provided by the Lion’s Club was roasted chicken, a nice fresh salad, boiled eggs, Minestrone soup, ice cream and canned fruit. Plus, silly coloured beanies. No one did anything crazy and it was a pleasant lunch. Too crowded, though. They need another gazebo or maybe open up the Conference Room as a second café. Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but require an interview. 22 July 2019 At the rubbish binsFrom the Night Talker “Good thing I like canned soup, as it looks like I will be eating it for a while. “I recently went bin diving and was surprised to find a supermarket bin, almost filled to the brim, with various flavours of canned soup (Tomato, Chicken, Mushroom, Beef, Pumpkin etc etc) I thought maybe the soups out of date or nearly out of date (nope checked) Then I thought, maybe the cans are punctured, split or dented (nope checked) then I thought, hang on lets pull out one and try and open the can from the ring pull at the top? (Bingo, the ring pull came off in my hand). “So nearly fifty cans of perfectly good soup got chucked into the bin at the back of a supermarket, because you can't open them from the ring pull, on the top? (WTF?) They can still be opened with a can-opener? “I took as many as I could carry and left (a considerable amount) for anyone else, who might come bin-diving after me. I have stored a dozen in my emergency, food storage box, given half a dozen to my neighbour across the road and started consuming the rest. “I can't remember the last time that Foodbank at Elizabeth, had a good variety of canned soup on their shelves??? Something really stinks about this kind of waste (and its not the rotten stuff in the bin either) I have to agree with other readers, that there appears to be two distinct things going on in regards reclaimable food (for charities and food waste). “One is that discarded food products aren't getting to charities to begin with, and secondly, what is getting to charities is either taken by staff and volunteers before it reaches handout stage or is old and or even rotten, when finally handed out (There have been numerous comments of late, about rotten fruit and vegetables being given out to recipients. (I have personally witnessed this on more than once occasion). “In a similar vein, many local community groups have donated products such as handmade quilts, beanies, blankets and scarves, but they never seem to make it to giveaway stage either. “Does anyone know what happened to the thousands and thousands of dollars worth of donated, underwear, bra's, singlets and socks that was given to the Hutt Street Centre, but never actually handed out to persons in need? Must be in some locked cupboard somewhere or filling the drawers of staff and volunteers! “Disgraceful!” The Night Talker. 22 July 2019  (above) Demolition site of forty Housing Trust homes on Maltarra Road, Munno Para. Some houses were empty for a year before the Royal Park demolition crews arrived. The land has been sitting undeveloped and fenced off for nearly a year. What was the rush in knocking down the houses? Homeless people could have lived there on multiple 6-month contracts. The decision makers live in beautiful houses in the rich suburbs. The charity bosses breathe platitudes. They're all traitors. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). On the Street The Persian man who has constant trouble with the police slept outside SA Water on a recent cold night. He’d previously lived in the parklands near the West Terrace Cemetery during which he’d been to a homeless art class. This is where they taught homeless students how to make those begging signs displayed by Adelaide city beggars. Well, recently he’s been sleeping back of the Pilgrim Church in Flinders Street until the police told him and a friend to move on. The two men then moved to SA Water and were bedded down at night when the police told them to leave that area. They were exhausted the next day and stored their bedding back of the Pilgrim Church. * Two people in different areas of Adelaide have reported they are afraid to live in their Housing SA rental units due to nearby drug addicted tenants. Housing SA is ordered by the government each year to supply a certain number of empty units for incoming refugees of varying degree. This seems a wild theory, but Housing SA appears to have discovered a way to create vacancies for incoming refugees. Its bureaucrats insert a violent Ice or heroin dealer into a peaceful group of Housing Trust units, then watch the vacancies appear. * The Elizabeth shopping centre owners set up seats near the disability parking spaces to keep drug addicts from hanging around the Coles entrance area. There were usually seven or eight druggies using the benches, but now they are empty. The chemist that hosted the nearby methadone room has closed down so no more druggies in that area of the shopping centre. They didn’t cause much trouble. * Robyn the Junkie continues her charm offensive in the Adelaide CBD homeless scene. Her new persona is that of a benefactor of the downtrodden. It fools many, but the old hands in the scene observe the continuing wreckage of women “helped” in their downward spiral by Robyn the Junkie. However, politics is politics and anyone who can rouse thugs to keep anti-drug critics out of the homeless scene is a hero to the welfare establishment. * Most clients of rubbish bin food distribution services are not aware that each time they give their name or their Health Care Card number to a bureaucrat, they are classed as having received “food assistance”. This data is entered into a giant file called the “Shame File”. This file is kept for eternity and accessible by a large number of bureaucrats in preparation for “The Big Cull”. * St Paul’s drop-in-centre and Op Shop in Port Adelaide was trying to give away frozen buns. Every customer was offered a batch. Their freezers were crammed. * The white guards at the Chinese government’s Port Adelaide Plaza shopping centre told a man not to collect deposit cans from their rubbish bins. He’s subsequently moved to the streets to collect cans. He was outside the Salvation Army store on Commercial Road last Wednesday. He said he’d collected $2.40 worth of cans in 45 minutes. * An applicant for help at the UnitingSA office at Clayton’s Uniting Church in Beulah Park said staff ask the most personal questions at the front counter with others listening nearby. The applicant said that privacy doesn’t exist in any area of this UnitingSA office. * Bronwyn Plate said they had to spend $60 on a 100kg bag of potatoes for Nanna’s Free Food Basket giveaway at the Bower Cottages. She said they had tried a few places, but couldn’t get free potatoes. She said that profit from the Wednesday two-hour shop paid for them. Meanwhile, Cos We Care got a large donation of sprouted spuds they couldn’t give away. * Earlier this year, a woman at a soup kitchen told us how she’d met a wonderful man on the internet. He lived and served in a foreign military force. She showed us his image. Six months later, the police visited her. They wanted to know why she’d opened a bank account that had received money from another woman. And why she had put that money into her new military friend’s account. And that the women who put the money into her account wanted it back. * “While it is a joy to sleep in a safe and dry bed at night, I miss the wind and storms and drama of sleeping outside like someone on an expedition.” From a long term homeless man. * ACH and Housing SA plan to build a 75 room semi-prison complex at Light Square with 24-hour surveillance. It will be for elderly people with issues, though that term “issues” has not been defined. This is not exclusively a homeless trend, but part of a larger social trend where the population is becoming semi-prisoners in ghettos designed with limited transport to other suburbs. Welfare housing organisations such as ACH are not our friends. 21 July 2019 ​ (above) A hard homeless camp along the Little Para River in the northern area of Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). Feeding pets on a low income from the Night Talker “Some simple "hacks" that may prove helpful, when trying to feed pets on a low income. “It is not a huge secret that I have a dog and eleven cats (of varying age and heritage) and that for large parts of the year, I have to feed and care for them, on a limited income. “In regards pet-food, I found the following works really well. Buy a couple of large sized tins of NO-Name Dog food. Divide each can's contents up into three equal parts. Now mix one part of dog food with a cup of cooked rice, a can of (no name) peas and carrots, two large tablespoons of powered beef flavoured, gravy mix and a quarter of a jug, of boiling water. Mix it all together and feed to your dog either once or twice a day, depending on your dogs size (My miniature terrier mix bitch, clearly doesn't eat as much as someone's, Kelpie/Lab mix) but you get the idea. “Now one large can of dog food, can last for up to four days. Do exactly the same thing with cat food. I also do this with sardines and pet mince for cats, I have bought cheaply. It enables me to take one tin of sardines or two handfuls of pet-mince, and feed three cats with it. “If you have a really large dog, (or a couple of dogs) go and buy Saveloys cheaply (Aldi sells packets of 12 saveloys for $2.00) Boil them up, add three cups of cooked pasta (macaroni is cheap and good) one tin of (no-name) peas and carrots, two tablespoons of butter or margarine, some salt, cut up the boiled saveloys and put in and then mix a large can of no-name dog food in. This is enough to feed (up to) three large dogs at once. “I fed my 40kg Kelpie mix on this kind of diet and he lived, until he was 16 and a half years old. (He was humanely euthanised in March, after suffering a stroke) He never had so much as a rotten tooth and only became a regular down at the vet, in the last twelve months of his life. “In a similar vein, I have a cat that is 19 and a number of others whose range in age from 13 through to 17. All are living exclusively on this diet without issue, so I must be doing something right.” The Night Talker 20 July 2019 Peterswool Road Second Bite ​free food It was embarrassing. The gates opened at 1:15pm. The church lady jumped out of the way as a dozen vehicles roared through the gates, raising dust in the small church yard. They drove desperately as if getting there first meant something. Others parked further down the street, then limped to the church gates in a forlorn fashion. No one was fooled by their caper. Getting food from this church is a lottery. There are too many people so each person gets a numbered card. Each number is allocated to five cards. The numbers are called one at a time. Those called first get reasonably good stuff from Second Bite while those called last get practically nothing. It’s a lottery and everyone understands the sense of humour of the family that operates the church’s distribution system. Seventh-day Adventist Church 20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays. Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some groceries. Health Care Card required. Four visits each month allowed. Happy atmosphere. 20 July 2019 (above) Abandoned homeless camp near Salisbury in South Australia in July 2019. That Freemason elevator The Very Worshipful Brother Ray Brittain did the Port Adelaide Freemasons a favour when slipped on the stairs and went for a tumble. Some say that falling down the stairs was the crowning achievement of his Masonic career. It was a wake-up call for the Freemasons. If it had been an outsider, they might have demanded compensation. However, Ray is a decent fellow. He only wanted an elevator. The Freemasons are flat broke. That’s why they rent the ground floor to that massage parlour operator. But who actually gets massages in Port Adelaide? In the soup kitchen scene, the only mention of massage parlours come with the names Juicy Lucy and Fancy Nancy. The Masons found some outfit called the Multi-Cultural Council who forked out $100,000 for an elevator. That was to prevent an ethnic person falling down the stairs. The Very Worshipful Brother Ray Brittain isn’t ethnic unless he’s a descendent of Roman invaders arriving with Julius Caesar in 54 B.C. Not that the dodgy elevator was in use last fortnight. Someone put “Out of order” signs on both doors. It wasn’t out of order, but the cripples didn’t know this and were back using the stairs. The signs had been put on to stop tribal Aboriginals using it as a bouncing room. Those bush camp folk aren’t stupid. They know entertainment when they see it. Meanwhile, someone busted the Plexi-glass ramp covering the heritage tiles at the side entrance leading to the elevator. (Massage parlour clients use the front entrance). A Nanna’s Free Food Basket volunteer believed a disgruntled Friday morning breakfast client smashed it. However, the Freemasons say a worker dropped a hammer onto the $8700 piece of glass. They got a new glass sheet and expect insurance to pay for the replacement. Let’s hope the hammer guy doesn’t return or the next replacement might be marine plywood. It is nice of the Port Adelaide Freemasons to let Bronwyn Plate’s mob use the joint to put on Friday’s free breakfasts. The Masons don’t charge her a cent and she does not charge us a cent. Port Adelaide Freemasons Nanna’s Free Food Basket free breakfast and takeaway food on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. No questions asked. Bacon and eggs. Cold toast. Clean toilets. Safe atmosphere. 19 July 2019 ​ Cos We Care at Elizabeth   “You don’t need to mention the potatoes,” Ann Cooper said. They were no good, reflecting Cos We Care’s difficulty in obtaining fruit and vegetables. This is because they collect their supplies shop to shop rather than getting a load of junk delivered by Food Bank, Oz Harvest or Second Bite and thus becoming dependent on these organisations. And adding our names to the eternal shame list. Cos We Care don’t do this.   The mushrooms were terrific. Cos We Care gives away the best mushrooms in Adelaide.   They also served homemade vegetable soup, ham and cheese sandwiches, cereal, coffee, Coles lemon cakes, pizza and other prepared foods. There was a bit of bread.   They had a huge amount of free clothing, much of it snapped up by a Chinese woman though she took things selectively.   Ten drug addicts conferred in the park before a few joined the queue. In another era, they would have been workers paying off their houses instead of Chinese crystal methamphetamine consumers.   One addict got a shirt for his 8-year-old son. Another grabbed an Auschwitz-style dressing gown. It is strange that concentration camp uniform designs are becoming fashionable. There were also used bed sheets, washed and folded, then put into zip-lock bags. Cos We Care supplied toothpaste, tooth brushes, soap, and deodorant.   A Safe Drive driving instructor paid $5 for a cup of coffee. There were about 35 customers and seven volunteers.   Cos We Care Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth 7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. No registration or I.D. required. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns, clothing.   Also on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide every Sunday from 7:30am to 9:00am. 19 July 2019 Gospel City Church at Munno Para Only 17 clients were sitting at the tables when Gerry said the prayer. A few more arrived for the free stuff that included excellent force-fed corn-on-the-cob, apples, lettuce, good broccoli, good spring onions, frozen fish and meat, Coles lemon cakes, Barista almond milk, hot chicken soup and good quality instant coffee in expensive paper cups. There were plenty of pieces of sliced watermelon, but this was no good. Gospel City had expected to get two or three from Second Bite, but instead was offered seventeen. A grower had arrived at the Second Bite front gate with 2000 watermelon. Harry was there, but without Jean. He thought he saw a little kid standing in front of the serving counter, but there was no child. It was a black rubbish bin. Harry worked as a dogger in the outback. He shot wild dogs preying on lambs and calves. His wife of over 50 years died last month. Her name was Jean. She’d had daily cancer treatment for the past few years. She could barely move or talk, but showed no despair or self-pity. It was as if death and pain were nothing to be worried about. No wonder Harry stayed with her for over half a century. “G” introduced the conversation at our table. He asked whether the atomic bomb dropped on Japan really ended World War 2 and whether the Bible was real. He had the answers. Gospel City Church at Munno Para 1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler) Thursdays and Saturdays both from 10:00am -11:00am Health Care Card or a good story required. Free. Vegetables, bread, coffee and cake. Some used clothing and knick-knacks. Best to arrive before opening time. They talk religion, but it’s a well thought out intelligent religion. 19 July 2019 (above) A homeless camp in Elizabeth, a northern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). Judy Jones dead Judy had a heart attack. Her funeral is today, possibly at the Northwestern Community Church, which is a Church of Christ at 193-201 Port Road, Queenstown. UnitingSA at Port Adelaide should have more information. Judy worked for years running the car wash that allowed disabled people to earn a small income to top up their invalid pensions. She was known as “J.J.” After she retired, she still worked unpaid at the Chat and Chew meal back of the Family Centre on Dale Street, Port Adelaide. Judy had been on and off chemo-therapy for years. She never expressed self-pity when the cancer attacked her face. When, at a Christmas party, she was recognised for her efforts helping others, she began to cry then slipped back into her extroverted personality. Even those people who worked in her car wash, and are sedated with psychiatric drugs, retain a certain gratitude to her. Not many knew who Judy was. She remained a mystery. It is sad she died. Maybe the cancer returned. It usually does. Perhaps she was lucky she went so quickly. She must have been about 70. It is still sad. 18 July 2019 Nanna’s Free Food Basket Bronwyn Plate announced from the steps of the back door of the food selling area that the $1.00 donation for the free food in the courtyard was no long necessary. “Keep your money,” she said, then added that it might be spent in the store. An Indian employee of a government department handed out copies of a leaflet showing where to get free food in the western suburbs. It was copied from the 28-page Adelaide Homeless Journal free food guide. The free food included rotting vegetables plus decent celery and lemons and excellent Skala Bakery and Baker’s Delight bread. Also, Sprite No Sugar soft drinks and another 20 items, all free. The Moral Guardian’s wife stood by the fridge inside the store alongside The Night Stalker (as distinct from the Night Talker) to ensure no one took too much. The shop sells mostly sugary food, but the fridge is the exception. Faith has discarded her face mask as the rest of her implants have fallen out. Clink, clink. She awaits surgery for new implants and hopes these won’t also fall out like the others. There might have been 70 or 80 people at the Bower Cottages on this recent Wednesday. It’s like Heart and Soul with the bonus of a free hot heal. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Men’s toilets designed with strange door giving women visual access to men inside. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets with normal doors. 18 July 2019 Salt Church Gawler (now called Encounter Church) They’ve changed their name, but the free food was similar to previous weeks. One old church man put his hands over the lemon cakes when I passed while the woman at the Coke box walked away. Prior to this, we sat at the café tables where an old man with white hair talked about magic mushrooms, killing people and that he’d been at the Slug and Lettuce hotel at Parafield Gardens the day after a man was murdered. He added that the day before that, someone had been stabbed. Fifteen-minutes after the start whistle had sounded, we raced to our cars and we were gone. Three people walked down the road to the Tambelin railway station. Salt Church at Gawler (Encounter Church) 25 Northside Court, Evanston Gardens. Ph (08) 8522 0000. Thursdays 3pm. No registration and identification required Bread, surplus fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables from local growers and whatever they can get their hands on. Coffee at 2:30pm. Occasionally excellent, other times no good. 18 July 2019 Fred’s Van Gawler Tracy and her son weren’t fazed when one or two regulars grabbed most of the stuff she’d brought for us. She said there would be a positive flow-on regardless. She acts independently from Fred’s Van. That old American handed out the Free Food booklet, but approached the same people he’d given one to last week. His mind is going. Sean hasn’t been to Fred’s Van Gawler for at least six-months. A friend says he spends most of his time at an exercise gym to “bulk up”. The meal was soup, hot dogs, lasagna, sandwiches, cheesecake from the Cheesecake Shop in Gawler, sweet buns, coffee, sauces and other drinks, but no salt and pepper. The problem is that they serve the food too quickly. Just 50 minutes from arrival to departure so diners spend most of their time in the queue. To eat with dignity, one misses a number of the courses. However, the atmosphere is friendly and guests leave feeling better than when they arrived. Twenty-seven people initially joined the queue under the Rotunda while a few more arrived soon after. It was a pleasant meal in the crisp evening weather. Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thursdays 6:00pm. Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread. In the Lions Rotunda during wet weather, otherwise on the grass. Showers nearby. 18 July 2019 St Bede’s Semaphore free breakfast It was a crowded house as usual. The influx of people living in their cars has added to the marvel. Without disclosing particulars, guests included former government officials who now live outside. One homeless guest said he spent $4500 on a set of false teeth. “Where are they? another diner asked. “In the boot of the car,” the toothless man replied. Shane Whelan wore an army coat. Mitch has stopped pulling shrubs from the ground in front of the hall, but there was an incident at Rudd’s with urine. The free takeaway fruit and vegetables have been improving in quality. These are from the Semaphore Road IGA and are better than Food Bank because the latter collect their stuff from local supermarkets, take it to their Edwardstown warehouse then return it older and knocked around during transport. The donated free clothing on the stage was inadequate, but blankets are hidden in the store room for homeless people though Fred’s Van people on Sundays are rumoured to jump over the wall and steal some of it.  St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall 200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road) 8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free. Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated. 17 July 2019 Chat and Chew at Port Adelaide Fewer than twenty people were there despite two or three new guests. There were empty chairs in the shrunken dining room. The excellent cook was sick and rumoured to be in hospital. The meal was roast chicken, salad, chips, canned beans, ice cream sticks, cordial and coffee. The tables were beautifully laid out. It was like going to a quiet restaurant. Chat and Chew (UnitingSA) 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2220 (entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area). 2:30 pm entry to outer area; 4:00 pm coffee; 5:00pm meal; 6:30pm closing time. (Every second Wednesday). Free. Stephen the Cook in residence. Fancy like a restaurant. Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways. No children. Horrible nasty toilets. Ride home for invalids in the Port Adelaide area. It is for isolated people, which is why families are not encouraged to visit. 17 July 2019 From the anonymous contact page “Thanks for the info backing up my story about how the charities, really operate. “I have found a way around the 9am call in time. I go into various charities and tell them I am paranoid schizophrenic, on newstart and can't afford to get my anti-psychotic medication, script renewed. I then say, I can't accept a foodbank voucher because everything at foodbank (bar the free fruit and vegetables) has additives in it, and additives make me psychotic. “So far I have managed to obtain two $50.00 supermarket vouchers and a $100.00 voucher to "spend-less shoes." I used the vouchers to purchase pet-food and a few other essentials, and then I went and got a nice solid pair of shoes for winter. “Mind you, I had to sign up for some "back on track crap" but other than that, everything is good. I have completely bypassed the system (e.g. I don't need to phone anyone anymore or make any kind of appointment) If I need something I just walk in. They are in such a hurry to get rid of me, I am surprised they haven't offered me the kitchen sink! “Further to this, if I need extra, I go "bin-diving." I just go around the back of the supermarket find the bins, and have a look at what is available. “The other week I found a six kilo back of white rice, three pairs of all day comfort socks, a large unopened jar of Vegemite and five kilos of washing power, in a ripped bag. I couldn't use the washing power because my front loader only accepts liquid, so I traded it with my neighbour across the road, for three Japanese pumpkins and as much Rhubarb, as I can eat. (As I love Rhubarb and Pumpkin, it was a good trade as far as I am concerned) My neighbour was happy with the washing power, (he transferred it to another container and we are both happy. “Keep up the good fight!” Name and address supplied 17 July 2019   Comment from Gypsy Soul “Kudo's to the volunteers at foodbank Bowden - nice fresh bananas 🍌 oranges - the staff were mainly women but it had a nice 'vibe' to it.” 17 July 2019 ​ (above) Public toilets at Semaphore Beach in Adelaide. Don't they appear nice? We live in an era of personal isolation and governments dislike public facilities that encourage people to meet in groups. Nor do they want to encourage the homeless. (above) The Semaphore beach public toilets haven't been cleaned properly for years. They are a health hazard. Do you believe this is bureaucratic inertia or a budget problem? (above) Most persons using this roll of paper put their soiled fingers inside the core. This may spread infections such as Golden Staph or E Coli. Is this an event unforeseen by Council health inspectors? (above) Why would the Port Adelaide Enfield Council spend a huge amount building this ablution block then deliberately not supply a soap dispenser? Can you see an agenda? The strange business of Toop and Toop and Channel 6 CB radio There is an underground war against child exploitation in Adelaide. It ranges from the sexualising of children in schools through the “anti-bully” programs to outright sexual attacks elsewhere. The protagonists are often confused with the antagonists. Who are the good and who are the evil? In the case of Channel 6, the drug dealers and motorcycle gang members are taking the high ground against the child molesters. It’s a contradictory dichotomy where the government employees in schools promote what some see as sexual aberration while the criminal motorcycle gangs hunt down the paedosexuals. But innocent people get caught in the crossfire. The woman at Toop and Toop is an example. Her mobile phone number has been broadcast on Channel 6 with a robot voice saying what will be done to her. The apparent drug dealers also speak in person. They have some disgusting plans for her as well. The antagonist is a 50-year-old alleged paedosexual living near Hectorville, the father of the Toop and Toop woman. He may or may not be guilty. She is not guilty. These allegedly good guy drug dealers work out of Salisbury. One allegedly sells drugs in the local area. There is also a person who works for a sensitive government department and reputed to have supplied explosives to that fellow who tried to blow up power lines. Urban guerillas with ideals. All the above may be true or untrue, but one can only imagine the pain suffered by the Toop and Toop employee hearing the repulsive acts the drug dealers plan for her. It is reminiscent of Mark Arstall’s campaign, along with some Hutt Street Centre and Baptist WestCare drug dealers who targeted a group of elderly disabled men and women who criticised their drug dealing at homeless joints. Arstall and his drug dealer pals unleashed a barrage of websites and text messages, all of which have been removed by the host providers. Arstall’s actions were given the apparent blessing of the homeless joint managers and CEO’s. Anyway, you have to have it happen to you to understand what torment the Toop and Toop woman might be experiencing. With luck, she will understand that such public shaming and threats are becoming increasingly meaningless as they become more common. Few people take notice of this stuff, anymore. And the motorcycle gang men have no intention of actually physically harming her. 16 July 2019 ​ (above) "...whilst our team of Volunteers were redistributing food to people in need at our Elizabeth market, some less than desirable "people" were at our Hackham West location torching our beloved Refrigerated Truck "Ruby", reports Eman Rahim from Heart and Soul free food. Click image to reach their crowd funding page. Burnt truck was insured Eman Rahim, the founder and manager of Heart and Soul free food, said today that their delivery truck was insured, both the vehicle and the internal fittings. So why their gofundme campaign to raise $20,000 over the burnt truck? There were some old Food Bank products in the back, apparently, but was that worth $20,000? Ms. Rahim has also changed her story about why she started Heart and Soul. She originally said she was prompted to begin the organisation after being charged with shoplifting when she ran out of food. Her new version is that she saw a woman unable to buy her kid an apple, but bought some chips instead because they were cheaper. That made Eman want to provide free apples. Oh, well, we all have our stories and Heart and Soul is a positive addition to the free food scene. What most people don’t know is that Second Bite, Heart and Soul, and Cos We Care all came from the same group based at a property north of Elizabeth. Then they developed in opposing directions. 16 July 2019 (above) Pleasant outdoor sitting area at the Port Adelaide library provided for drug addicts from the AngliPrison and Offender's Aid (O.A.R.S.). They use a room in the library to discuss their new lives as "recovering drug addicts". (above) Grass replaced parking spots in front of the Port Adelaide library. This reflects the changing trend of library patronage. The book collection has deteriorated in size and quality. Patrons are increasingly involuntary and from the illegal drug scene while government funded sing-along events in the library are directed to their children. Libraries are no longer a source of knowledge, but more a centre of surveillance. Is this the background to Heart and Soul’s burnt truck?From the anonymous contact page “I volunteered with Heart & Soul so I have experienced this first hand. I witnessed drivers, volunteers and family and friends and the lady who goes by the name “Em” TAKE produce and products given in good faith taken home before the “needy “ even gets the scraps left over. “Em” and volunteers put aside items for their favourites that work and have husbands that work who don’t fit the needy description. “I witnessed the volunteers taking before the doors are open to the needy. The drivers even put aside what they pick up from places from Coles, Woolworths, Foodbank and Bakeries before it gets to the storage point. “The lady “Em” stores items in her shed at her home and willingly helps herself and lives of what should be supposedly should be for charity. Margaret and her family who consists of her sister whom she picks up from the Marion area, her husband and her son run the southern area. I’ve seen the greed from the sister and family help themselves before it goes on offer to the “needy “. They save for their favourite friends and family before offering to the “ needy “. “I found this distressing after watching first hand. When I mentioned that what they were doing was unethical I was asked to leave and never return. I was 100% in the needy classification and told I would not be able to access their services ever. “I personally only ever took something if it was left over . Mostly bread because they were going to throw it in the bin. The amount of bread left over was unbelievable and was just wasted. “I was disappointed to see this happening when there were other charities like Anglicare, Salvation Army and other church groups that didn’t have any for the “needy “ that accesses their services. “WHY is this allowed to continue to happen and investigators need to name and shame. I even know a man down south picks up from Bakeries and then delivers to his church. Before it gets to the church his family and friends garnish the load before hand. Seriously it is a joke that this is happening and if I’ve seen it first hand others must have also. “Please do something about this unethical behaviour. “Cheers.” Anonymous ​Heart and Soul free food Queenstown Community Centre on Mondays from 6.00pm at 67 Spring Street. Queenstown. Para Districts Masonic Centre on Wednesdays from 7pm at 77 Philip Highway, Elizabeth South. (except 30th October & 13th November when markets will be held on Tuesday) Two Wells on Fridays from 11:30am at Two Wells Uniting Church, 34 Gawler Rd, Two Wells. (cancelled until further notice due to arson attack on truck) Hackham West on Saturdays from 12.30pm at Hackham Primary School, 50 Glynville Dr, Hackham West. Addresses and times change occasionally. Phone 0411 962 337 or www.heartandsoulinc.org.au or register for email or facebook updates. It is wise to arrive early on first visit. 15 July 2019 Wasteful movement ​of rubbish bin food Food Bank and other food collection NGO’s send vans and trucks 30 kilometres to pick up supermarket food destined for the rubbish bins. Food Bank returns the food to their warehouse at Edwardstown for sorting. Second Bite returns it to Cavan. Oz Harvest to Bowden. For example, Food Bank may drive 30 kms north to pick up food, then return it to their Edwardstown warehouse for sorting. A charity van from a smaller organisations in the area where Food Bank picked up the food is driven to Edwardstown to collect this same food and return it for distribution to clients. All this time and movement deteriorates the food even further, especially during summer. It is then often stored for another day or two in a hot room or shed before being distributed to people are described in the mainstream media as “grateful”. It would be better in the Munno Para and Elizabeth area for Cos We Care, Gospel City Church, Anglicare Food Barn and St Vincent de Paul to collect the food directly from the supermarkets and cut out Food Bank. 15 July 2019 Walk a mile in my boots From the anonymous contact page “Aye've been lookin over this Hut Street Walk a Mile in My ROSSI Boots 2019 August 9 7:30 a.m. Friday mass publicity postcard (ROSSI is listed as a sponsor on the postcard) and wonder why is everything Boots ? Did ROSSI Boots donate the $50,000+ Walk-a-Mile-in-My-Boots mobile SUV ? Boots Boots Boots... What about thongs... sneakers... barefootin' ? Do they really expect homeless to go Boots Boots Boots in another military fascism parade charade this year?” Anonymous ​15 July 2019 From the anonymous contact page Comment “Thank you to the Night Talker for raising an issue that always grinds my gears....the 9am call in time. They all do it. What about those with children like my neighbour that is her drop off time at school and kindy. “Then there are people like myself who always miss out. How do the same people always get appointments, seriously? I have started dropping in to a few centres in hope of an appointment but am never the first one. I am not big in the scene but even I recognise the same faces. Sitting in their cars smoking waiting for open time. “A few weeks ago a lady almost bit my head off when I walked by her car to tell me she was the first one here. I missed out again and wasn't offered an overnight parcel by the man like some others. “Did I not sound desperate enough or because I do not go to church? I didn't eat for 3 days aften then as they were closed for training and missed out at the other joints I tried. “Don't worry people my cats were fed. I have worked out that you can only try and commit to one place each day because of the 9am booking time, but how do some manage appointments at both on the same day. I overheard the rude lady tell the bloke that she had to be seen soon as she had another appointment at xxxxxxxxx at 10:30. SCAMMERS.” Anonymous 15 July 2019 (above) A politician recently asked a police sergeant at Salisbury station where the homeless camped. The sergeant replied that they didn't know because the homeless don't want them to know. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). ​On the Street Food Bank had a bin outside the entrance of Coles at Tea Tree shopping centre at Modbury. Food Bank volunteers impeded customers leaving the store, getting them to rummage through their trolleys and remove an item or two for Food Bank. * “I overheard someone in the Playford Council Chambres talking about giving away Book of Mormon tickets. How many of these tickets are there? They must be everywhere. “ From a source close to Playford Council * In the realm of domestic violence, certain benefits are accrued when a person is classified as a victim. Would a violent dispute between an Ice dealer and addict living in the same house be classified as domestic violence? If the dealer was the victim, could she or he then claim extra benefits from the welfare industry? * Pattie Chug, the Executive Officer of ShelterSA in Tasmania, says the government is finally making a move to reduce homelessness by providing money to count them. But who will this help apart from the bureaucrats? Will this help that famous ABC Four Corners reporter from yesteryear who became a derelict in Hobart? She did a program about paedophiles in high places, then everything went wrong and she ended up living in a Hobart carpark. * “In Sydney, ‘Travelers’’ Aid’ tell people to sleep on trains. Safer than in Belmont Park or the railway terminal. Apparently, security guards very aggressive.” From a source who wishes to remain anonymous. * A diner at St Bede’s said that his WorkSkill Job Active contractor was evil. No one disagreed. The employees have to be haywire to get a job with them. * The South Australian Housing Authority has been sending out letters to those on the waiting list. They say it is to update each person’s details. Meanwhile, the Manager of the Salisbury Housing Trust office told a politician that each year they are told to ensure there are a certain amount of properties made vacant for incoming African refugees. Since very few people voluntarily leave tenancies, and very few new units are being built, the bureaucrats must get rid of a certain number of current Australian citizen tenants. How do they do this? * Second Bite is sick of its premises at Cavan. The rent is too high. There isn’t any air conditioning so it’s cold in winter and blistering hot in summer. They’re hoping to buy a disused factory. Plenty of them in South Australia with most manufacturing industry moved to China. According to one insider, there is also a problem with the conscripted work-for-dole unpaid workers. “They cannot tell the difference from an orange and an apple,” this insider said. “Let alone pick out the rotten fruit from the good stuff.” That shouldn’t have been difficult with the recent donation of 2000 fermented watermelons and bins of rotten pears. Throw the lot out. * Junice was distraught when the Playford Council wouldn’t buy her a new mobility scooter. She said their rough footpaths had damaged it beyond repair. She said they had a duty of care, but the Council refused to pay. Then she discovered that her home insurance covered damage to mobility scooters and she got a brand new machine without charge. * Some quasi-church NGO’s have built up financial empires by delivering their clients to the government. When their betrayal is exposed in future generations, those surviving traitors will claim they didn’t know this was happening. Just like with the child molesters. * A credible elderly soup kitchen client said he’d worked for the Australian Federal Police and at one point was part of the bodyguard for Prime Ministers Hawke and then Keating. He said Hawke was loved while Keating was loathed for his arrogance. * Carmella got her provisional driver’s license. She works in Aged Care and needs it. She is related to a famous football player. She used to be a volunteer at Chat and Chew and would get into arguments with Sharon. Her husband was attacked by drug addicted Housing Trust neighbours with a plank of wood and lost most of the sight in his left eye. 14 July 2019 ​ How to stop the Job Network (Job Active) contractors getting paid for your efforts The Night Talker “It’s a screwed up industry that draws in maladjusted psychopaths with an axe to grind. That’s my opinion on Job Network Australia,” says the Night Talker. As for denying the Job Network joint a financial reward from the government, when the Night Talker found a job without their help, she says: “I can report my earnings online to Centrelink in the morning then go to meeting [at the Job Network joint] in the afternoon. I don’t even need to tell them I am working. All I am obliged to do is keep reporting to Centrelink. They will find out I am working eventually, but it will take them awhile. “It will massively screw up their ability to claim against my employment because they are meant to lodge claim forms within seven days of being offered employment. “They have to justify a back dated claim and that is not easy. The further the backdate, the more paperwork they have to do. They also have to ring Centrelink for payment info. That means 90 minutes on the phone in the queue. Also, due to endemic JSA claims rorting, they need to provide scanned copies of your payslips plus a signed declaration that you have willingly handed over this info. Then they submit this and get paid. That’s why you never hand this info over if you got your own employment. They claim thousands of dollars [from each client] for doing stuff all. The Night Talker 14 July 2019 Victory Church service fail This was the first failure of service in 25-years said a man from the Victory Church Street Outreach team. They still arrived with free sandwiches, sugary buns and unsliced loaves of bread, but were gone within an hour. During that time they blessed two people with Jesus’s healing powers. But no hot coffee. The church man said they would miss another Friday in 25-years. This is because the BBQ van is used at the church for their 25 year celebrations of the church’s formation, this one being the first. They will be back every Friday for the next 25 years. A reliable outfit. Victory Church free barbecue Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial. Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics. On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They run out of hot water by 7:30pm. 13 July 2019 Charities prefer the scammers From The Night Talker   “I rang them [Vinnies] a while ago and the old hag on the phone was nasty as. If you are a bit slow or behind the 8-ball, you get nothing.   “This ringing up at 9am is sh**. The only fuk**** who get appointments are the scammers who live ten-minutes away. The people in real need can’t get an appointment. Like your ***** [slightly mentally retarded] friend.   “He can’t negotiate the system because he’s a little backward. I see it All The Time. He can’t get help, but some fu**** turns up in a big shiny Toyota Prado and gets like a big trolley fulla food.   “They [the charities] flapping well encourage this kinda system. There is no place for him [the mentally challenged man]. The scammers are all they are interested in.   “The mentally challenged get the worse end of the stick. Everyone mistreats them. It is human nature. We are scum to each other. I hate most human beings.   The Night Talker 13 July 2019 Salisbury Fred’s Van Fred’s Van staff should keep the Maranello pizzas warm. It is delivered warm and at no charge by Maranello pizza restaurant, near the Stockade Hotel next to the Salisbury railway station. The pasta was also cold. It was donated by someone else. Excuses aren’t enough. St Vincent de Paul management in Adelaide should do something about it, not just make excuses. Keep the pizzas warm. Otherwise, the salad was fresh, the crisp bread delightful and the dessert of trifle terrific. But where were the salt and pepper shakers? Gone. Fred’s Van Salisbury needs a quality control team that checks that every aspect of the meal meets their standards. Thirty people went through the free takeaway food room. Supplies have become so little that many give it a miss. Others do it as a ritual rather than an expectation of bounty. Volunteers catered for 50 diners and slightly more than that arrived. Orange Sky Laundry didn’t turn up. No one seemed to notice. One veteran volunteer said that some volunteers hold certain diners in contempt. Those are the ones who clamber at the serving counter asking for containers of food to take home. They do this before everyone has been served. Some therefore miss out. Despite this criticism, it was a pleasant evening and appreciated by nearly every diner. Mr Long was there. He’s been a volunteer for twenty years and was the third person to join Salisbury Fred’s Van. He’s completely at ease with everyone. The Eskimo Woman from the Hutt Street Centre arrived with two friends on bicycles. They spent 15 minutes locking their machines to a pole. The Eskimo Woman appears to be an Inuit and says she is from Canada, but doesn’t have an Eskimo accent. She is a brilliant survivor. The young Asian woman pulling a suitcase on wheels visited for her second or third time. She was more relaxed than her last visit. She dresses as if she lives outside. She didn’t talk, but made little crying noises of appreciation of the food. Then she ran from the hall while talking to her suitcase. No one speaks to her, but many look at her with kindness. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff. 13 July 2019 (above) Ingle Farm Salvation Army offers free food at 12:00pm on the last Friday of every month. They don't require I.D. or registration or your name. It is best to arrive at 11:00am. There is a free shower room. P.S. The pears were totally rotten and suitable only for compost. Free coffee at Elizabeth ​Salvation Army “Free coffee at the salvos on Kinkaid Road [Elizabeth East] everyday and food parcels are back.” Luke R.12 July 2019   From the Anonymous Contact Page ​From Gypsy Soul “The government seems to normalise the issue of homelessness the talk fests that are held annually at a inflated cost that inflates corporate ego's - Maslows Hierarchy of needs illustrates that we all need the basic survival of food shelter and water - a basic human right - but the planet is shifting we are told conscious individuals trying enlighten those in the dark $$$$ corporate greed robbing us of humanity - Government departments all becoming less proactive - 'work smarter not harder' “I recall a conversation I had with a chap who slept in the sand dunes around Onkaparinga an articulate and educated male who seemed comfortable with his seaside address - he didn't mind only when the elements were harsh!! He ditched it all after a mental breakdown his career as an engineer was testament to that!! Gypsy Soul 12 July 2019 Pagan Always responds Re: Gypsy Soul "robbing us of humanity" No need to rob here. Just feel free to take all that "humanity" from us and leave us as natural beings... pagan to the core. P.S. Certainly dont want all those human wars against the Middle East, human alcohol, human greed for gold, etc HUMAN NO WAY ! 12 July 2019 Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sunday German Marten brought his own cutlery. Another diner said that under a microscope, a viewer could see little bugs crawling across the cutlery, which were distributed from the front counter. Clients grab knives and forks from an open tray, touching other pieces in the process. A high proportion of clients at soup kitchens carry drug resistant infections including Golden Staph. That thin drug-addicted woman who lives outside in the city made a visit. It was nice seeing her. A tragic blast from the past being destroyed by Chinese precursor imports. That part isn’t nice. Marten’s dog died. It stopped eating and died on Friday. Marten soldiers on. The Lion’s Club provided the meal. It was hot dogs, lasagna, shepherd’s pie, a fresh salad and crisp bread. Dessert was ice cream and canned fruit. The racks of semi-rotten fruit and vegetables were ferociously attacked by diners, but no one wanted the artichokes. Nor did anyone take the rotten pears. They were from the same batch the Salvos at Ingle Farm gave away the previous Friday. They were rotten right through. One Lion’s Club woman passed out acrylic beanies. Another woman had knitted them while she was sick. There were 30 or 40 of them so she was either a fast knitter or had been sick for a long period.  It’s strange that beanies are grabbed quickly, but in the following weeks are rarely seen on the heads of people who took them. I’ve seen thousands disappear this way. Serving customers at the front counter was stopped momentarily when the plates ran out. A Lion’s Club man searched the tables for used plates and hurriedly washed them. It was speculated that clients had stolen them to match their stolen salt and pepper shakers. After they’d gone, Sharka Byrne brought in jars with holes punched through the lids. The Indian family didn’t return from the previous fortnight, but the white couple with their baby sat at the back table. The indoor table addicts were missing, but the outdoor addicts were there. One dealer might be in jail after the Food Barn raid last month. The dangerous couple were there. They arrive angry and won’t speak to anyone. On the scale of 1 to 10, they are a 9. Since the drug addicts and dealers are part of the soup kitchen culture, we have adopted a live and let live policy. They don’t bother us and we don’t bother them. There were about 55 diners and the joint is too small to handle this number. Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but requires an interview. 12 July 2019 No such thing as a free lunch The Night Talker “A reliable, insider source that works within the welfare industry and has information sources within the JNI (Job Network) industry, has confided to me that "free" tickets to events and shows as well as supermarket vouchers are being given to participants, in return for behaving in a compliant manner, to remain quiet, if they have lodged a complaint against a provider/agency and or for information. ​   “This information can include handing over payslips or employee timesheets, or "ratting" on another participants (e.g. claiming they are welfare frauds so the agency can report them to Centrelink) or politically active in organisations such as the AUWU or APA (the Unemployed workers union or the Anti-Poverty Alliance) etc.   “One of the biggest sticks that JNA's (Job Network Australia Agencies) use is compliance (do this and I will breach you, say that and I will breach you, etc etc etc) with one of the biggest counter-agents to that compliance, is NEGATIVE MEDIA/CRITICISM. (Which comes from websites like this one, and from other forms such as Senate Inquiries and Political Parties and Charities and other advocacy groups etc, going to bat for the unemployed etc)   “This is actually a really powerful tool and to demonstrate this, there is one particular JNI which has a contract at the moment, which I shall say rhymes with "SAX ENJOYMENT" who have so many complaints lodged against them (if you go onto review.com.au, you can read them all at twelve pages long and growing!) that they were tabled (discussed) in Parliament during question time, by several politicians.   “This kind of adverse media usually leads to JNI providers, not getting their contract renewed, at the end of their three year term (This is what happened to Salvation Army Employment Plus).   “Back to the tickets and other freebee events. I think you realise now, that nothing is FREE and that everything that comes from a JNI or charity, usually has some conditions attached to it. I have no problem with someone like Vinnies handing out free tickets, if they come across them. I do however have HUGE reservations, about JNI providers doing the same.” The Night Talker 12 July 2019 ​ (above) You get some weird stuff from free food joints. This drink is 10% coconut and was imported from the United States and sold in this wasteful container. It didn't sell and by the time it got to us it was putrid. ​From the Anonymous Contact Page Regarding the picture of the coconut drink - where is the accountability?? In all this?? Why do we treat the homeless like social experiments for food - I often wonder WWJD in these circumstances break bread 🍞 and feed those impoverished- charities need to examine their concious morals more - or is all this killing us slowly one by one - feast or famine. Gypsy Soul 12 July 2019 (above) The Port Canal shopping centre has been demolished as the Chinese government-owned Port Adelaide Plaza shopping centre extends to Thomas Place, across from the AngliPrison. The Chinese bring in the drugs and the Anglicans imprison the victims. Meanwhile, local Member of Parliament, Susan Close, smiles as she looks the other way. What are the political mechanics of this destruction of Australian society? Government pressuring charities to become Twitter trolls The South Australian government is sending troll packs to housing organisations urging them to insert government messages, graphics and videos onto their web pages and emails. The government also wants these funded organisations to insert this propaganda into their Twitter and Facebook pages. It is voluntary, but government funded groups like ShelterSA, Anglicare and the Hutt Street Centre would be brave to resist becoming trolls for the South Australian government. It could affect next year’s funding including their salaries. Here is a section of the government’s pressure pack: “The pack includes: Social media posts (Twitter and Facebook) An article suitable for websites, newsletters or internal communications A media graphic suitable for social media, websites, newsletters and internal communications).  Please use your channels to promote this material…If you or your staff need any further information or assistance, please contact SA Housing Authority Communications and Engagement by email housing.communications@sa.gov.au or phone 8415 4461. Matthew Bowman Senior Manager, Communications and Engagement SA Housing Authority Late 11 July 2019 Port Church at Largs Bay Not much food, but four types of homemade soup including a vegetable brew without MSG. Huge crowd and that has quickly filled the expansion area. That un-self-conscious Chinese looking woman from Good Shepherd was there. “You’re the only one who complains,” a Baptist woman in Thread Together told her. The Chinese woman wanted to know everyone’s’ names, and not for nice reasons. Inside the church, she sat on the edge of the couch with her legs sticking out. She is refreshingly indifferent to the opinions of others. Could be crazy. Bullet Mark was there with the bullet still in his head. His speech is slurred, but he isn’t a fool. He was with Crazy Craig who isn’t crazy. Not any more, anyway. Others guests were defectors from a variety of free groups including Nanna’s, Chat and Chew, CK Hub, St Bede’s, Fred’s Van, Mary’s Kitchen, the Anti-Poverty network and other places. The Thread Together free clothing shop smelt like an old-fashioned store and without that musty odour of most Op Shops. Why do Op Shops smell of mould when even the men’s clothing is impregnated with perfume that won’t go away in the washing machine? The preacher, Ben Carbonne, was at a religious retreat at Mylor so Jacana’s husband filled in for him. His message was actually inspiring and nearly every diner joined in the prayer. Such churches are the backbone of a society. The Port Church 47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church) Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling. Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread. No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. No Ice Dealers. 11 July 2019 Salt Church Gawler free food Heaps of free soup vegetables including big turnips and good lemons. Enough to keep a family in thick soup for weeks. Also, lots of Coles pastries plus a bit of bread and some junk food including rancid Coconut Water. Free coffee from about 2:00pm, which makes it a social occasion. An interesting aspect was that the conversation didn’t change when the table cloths covering the food were removed. The happy talk continued. This is different from Puddle Jumpers at Glandore where clients rush in like wild animals, grabbing and shoving. Both places are good, however, in that they don’t enter clients’ personal details into a massive digital shame file. Salt Church at Gawler 25 Northside Court, Evanston Gardens. Ph (08) 8522 0000 Thursdays 3pm. No registration and identification required Bread, surplus fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables from local growers and whatever they can get their hands on. Coffee at 2:30pm. Occasionally excellent, other times no good. 11 July 2019 (above) Mick from a Fred's Van soup kitchen smashed his TV last week when he saw Deborah Lamb's image on the screen. They were close friends in 1977 when she was murdered at Port Gawler by Christopher Worrell and James Miller. Mick and Deborah had both grown up in government children's institutions. Gawler Fred’s Van Pat, 83, asked whether we preferred the food served outside or in the recreation centre. It was a poignant question. Crowded indoor events discourage homeless people who have difficulty bringing in their shopping trolleys or bags. But others living outside relish a temporary escape from the elements. There were just 14 of us when the van arrived early, then another 16 appeared as the volunteers were lifting the tables and food onto the rotunda platform. There were eight children under 10. One boy had a shaven head exposing what appeared to be surgical scars on his scalp. He moved about normally, but his father treated him protectively. One of the Fred’s Van drivers at Gawler hadn’t been there because he got his hand caught in an auger. The hand disappeared so there was nothing to sew back on. With luck, he will continue as a volunteer, if only to inspire us by his presence. Tracy arrived with her son. They brought two boxes of aluminium foil, DVD’s, pasta, canned food and other stuff. She buys it from her own money. Her spirit guide gives her advice. It seems that nearly every soup kitchen organisation has a spiritual or religious background. And some of the most sensitive and astute soup kitchen workers are from the LGBTI religious crowd. That’s the marvel of these free underclass services. They show the decency of so many people and cut through prejudices. The Fred’s Van food included hot pies and pasties, pasta with meat sauce, sandwiches and cakes from The Gawler Cheesecake Shop. They forgot to bring water for the cordial so a man ran back and forth from a tap. Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thursdays 6:00pm. Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread. In the Lions Rotunda during wet weather, otherwise on the grass. Showers nearby. 10 July 2019 ​Peterswool Road Seventh-day Adventist Big crowd despite the restriction from two visits to one visit a week. An Afghan man who has been in Australia five years says his wife has had 14 bouts of surgery to “clean her bones”. The toilets were out-of-action, which must have disappointed the person who steals the toilet paper. The bread is usually a bit old. The Second Bite vegetables were not so great apart from good potatoes and green onions. There were Dr Oetler pizzas, ice-cream and soft drinks. Also sugar-free Sprite. Seventh-day Adventist Church 20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park. 1:30pm to 2:00pm Mondays and Thursdays. Best to get there at 1:30pm sharp. Free bread, fruit and vegetables and some groceries. Health Care Card required. Four visits each month allowed. Happy atmosphere. Never any eye gouging or knife attacks. 10 July 2019 (above) It is optimal to use a mosquito net and overhead tarpaulin at night, but wise to lower them during the day and seal everything in a dull green plastic rubbish bag. It might also be helpful to leave a laminated note asking that nothing be removed. How a group of strange gentlemen took over the Port Adelaide public men’s toilets Few straight men ever used the Council toilets twice. These were situated in the two-floor carpark back of Foodland and across from Cheap as Chips. The toilet rooms were small and cramped. There was a fist-sized hole carved through the cubicle wall. A man squatted next to the hole watching who went into the next cubicle. The hole was called a “Glory Hole”, but there was nothing glorious about it. I remember going there once during a 5-year homeless stint.  Some weirdo peeked through the Glory Hole, then groaned when I jammed a role of paper across the hole. Outside, a group of men sat in cars, smiling at anyone exiting the toilets. I remember nervously leaving the building rather quickly, never to go there a second time. In later years, I talked to a reliable source who made it his lifetime quest to observe the seedier aspect of Port Adelaide. He says a group of men bribed both the cleaners and a Port Adelaide Council employee to turn a blind eye to their takeover of the toilets. This group paid $50 an hour for the privilege. This is why complaints were ignored by Council staff and local politicians for years. The toilets were eventually closed. The Council claimed it was due to “vandalism”, but that isn’t the truth. My reliable source says this same group took over public toilets in a similar manner across Adelaide. Second Editor 9 July 2019 What about homeless pets ​such as DOGS? from Anony Mouse   “Do Adelaide homeless seem to prefer small pets over larger ones, or starving pets above overfed fat pets? “Do Adelaide homeless ever resort to drug user-dealer-pusher dog breeds such as 1. pit bulls 2. Rhodesian ridgebacks 3. bull terriers 4. Rottweiler 5. other Rabid mongrels??? “Druggie and other crims refer to me loudly as "White Dog"... even though they have white dogs themselves. Is a white dog as a pet a way of getting away with calling others nearby a "White Dog" ? “HELP I'M HOMELESS EVEN WHEN A HOUSING SA TENANT “A HOUSING SA PLACE IS NOT A HOME WHEN ITS HELL. Anony Mouse 9 July 2019 ​ Ingle Farm Salvation Army ​free food day The door to the food room opens at 12:00 noon. Whoever arrives first gets the best stuff. Numerical tickets are issued when each person arrives. One client wondered how the early arrivals got tickets starting at 30. It appears those doing programs in another part of the building are given tickets before the official ticket allocation process. The free shower occupies a disability room. It is spacious, disability friendly and absolutely clean with a washing machine built into the wall. The toilets are also clean with no sections of the walls gouged out with knives or hatchets. The mood of the waiting clients was relaxed and friendly. We got to meet those we’d seen at other free food venues, but who had moved addresses. People in the homeless scene have trouble sustaining healthy relationships and are constantly on the move. The government placing paedosexuals, addicts, drug dealers and predators amongst us exacerbates the problem. The group of Tyndale Christian School help the ed Army maintain order is what was a group of 70 elderly invalids. The kids watched us as if they were watching a weird species of creature. The free food included onions, good carrots, rotten pears, dry mandarins, good lemons, dented canned food, sauces and pickles, chips, energy drinks and Coke. There were four tables of expensive breads. I didn’t check the Best-By date as I’ve stopped eating bread after gaining 10kgs in 18 months from eating soup kitchen free food. The woman next to me said she lost 10kgs from anxiety and outright fear when the Housing Trust surrounded her with drug addicts and dealers. They knocked on her door trying to make friends and get her on drugs and joining their nightly thieving or prostitution groups. Salvation Army Ingle Farm Corner of Bridge and Maxwell Roads, Ingle Farm. Ph 8397 9333. Free drinks, produce and pantry items last Friday of the month. No I.D. or residency requirements. 12:00noon to 1:00pm. First come, first served, but food room doors don’t open until noon. Free showers. 9 July 2019 Anti-poverty Network Anti poverty network (SA) had credibility for 5 years the original co-ordinator fled to Sydney and took the secrets with him - now he's infiltrating the poverty scene like a jock itch - lots of jockless fellas in APN too busy lying in the same bed -grassroots political platforms for future careers in politics. Gypsy Soul 9 July 2019 From the Anonymous Contact Page “Excellent article on Socialism Credit System.”  9 July 2019 ​ (above) After choosing a camp site, it helps to enter and exit the area during the dark hours via a hard surface. This obliterates the trail. The camper should avoid breaking branches. Privacy and safety are also helped by disguising the impact area. (Adelaide Homeless Journal July 2019). Is China’s Social Credit Score program incubating at the ​ Hutt Street Centre? China is arguably leading the world in its scorecard rating of its citizens. Each person has a psycho-social score depending on how much they earn and how much they cost the government plus whether the government approves of their lives or not. It overtly includes how regularly each person pays his or her bills, what they purchase, where they work, their financial, medical and legal records, social media interaction, social and political affiliations, compliance to ideology and every other aspect that can be measured and put into a single digital data base. So how does this Chinese program compare with that initiated by Rosanne Haggerty, Community Solutions and the Hutt Street Centre? You might say there is none and that any comparison is ridiculous. But consider that to get assistance with housing, an applicant at the Hutt Street Centre must sign a privacy waiver allowing the firewalls between their legal, medical, financial, social, housing, education and every other information data base to be breached and formed into a single psycho-social profile. As it develops, everything a person does will be allocated a positive or negative rating giving the government or the Deep State a panoptical view of the totality of a person’s life. Allocation of such services as medicine will be based on the level of the patient’s social credit score card. This already operates in Adelaide and has done since humans gained consciousness, but the degree is being exponentially intensified. For example, when an addict friend of John Andrew Green of the Hutt Street Centre was attacked with a knife, surgeons crudely stitched the wounds on her face. If she had been a leading citizen and not a drug addict, she would have been given invisible micro-stitching. This also operates with South Australian government dentistry. Why repair the teeth of Ice addicts when their teeth will fall out anyway, due to the use of drugs? So far, it is all logical and reasonable. In China, it goes to extremes such as sending citizens to re-education camps or, in the case of members of the Falun Gong religious group, using their bodies as organ banks. Chinese surgeons sedate and paralyse these unfortunate humans, then remove their kidneys, hearts, livers and lungs, then transplant them into more “worthy” citizens or foreign organ tourists. In Australia, Community Solutions and the Hutt Street Centre Navigators enter the lives of their clients in a subtler and preparatory manner. Their measurements of people seeking housing assistance cover all the above-mentioned parametres of human experience plus the fine details of dress, odour, skin condition, prostitution activity and how many powerful friends each person has. At a crude level of evaluation, a homeless person scoring too well will be told to go elsewhere, while a bad score may result in being taken away to an institution. It’s the middle spot that counts. Anyone not complying with the interrogation is deemed, “not sincere” and stays living outside. And we cannot totally blame the Hutt Street Centre for this. This scorecard evaluation of its clients only mirrors what is happening in the National Disability Insurance Scheme and My Aged Care. It is a troubling trend in Australian society. And for what scenario are we being prepared? And what is the purpose of those government employees who hunt down homeless people sleeping in cars or under trees, then enter their personal details in the data base, but offer no actual help in housing? Is the Australian population being prepared for something altogether different, starting with those most vulnerable, the homeless? 8 July 2019   The Ark at Salisbury Denise sat next to Mick, formerly of Mick and Denise. Mick referred to Gabrielle as his “fat buddy”. Gabrielle in good humour said it possible wasn’t his best description. A church woman didn’t have a car because her 2008 VW Golf is off the road with an ignition problem and the part has to be ordered from Germany. The cooks catered for vegetarians very well. The beef schnitzel was donated by a pub. Nothing crazy happened so there is not much to write about. It was just very nice. Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark) cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Free meal once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2019 are July 27, August 31, September 28, October 16, November 30, December 21 (Free Christmas party by pre-registration only). 8 July 2019 ​ (above) Backyard mandarins put in the fruit and vegetable swap cart outside the Anglicare office at Elizabeth Grove. It is thin pickings because the Housing Trust "clears" the land between tenants so there is little incentive to plant fruit trees and gardens. It's part of of the government's dictate that poor people must have "neat and tidy" gardens. From the Street   Who are the enablers? Many Ice and heroin dealers use free food services as venues for locating new and existing customers. Paid and unpaid workers manage a balancing act to include the roughest street people while excluding the drug dealers.   It is an impossible balance as the dealers and addicts move from venue to venue while spies within advise them which will be the most lucrative place on any particular day.   It can only work with enablers inside the organisations either running the Ice businesses or at least turning a blind eye.   *   A lodger at one of Dominic’s doss houses says that Dominic and his wife own 18 houses and last year had a gross income of $565,000.   However, one house is for sale and Dominic is “crying bankruptcy”. He’s been in court, but another lodger says this is for a divorce with his wife who wants everything.   *   The de-hoarding craze is camouflage for forces within the government who want to destroy personal history in preparation for persuading people to commit “voluntary euthanasia”. This is a precursor to The Big Cull.   *   Mick, formerly of Mick and Denise, said that Bruce Kurtzer of Faith Works was “a nice fellow”.   *   A man sitting at a table at a Fred’s Van meal told someone in the queue alongside him that he’d a bad shoulder. The man standing in the queue noisily bounced a white pill on the table. “Steroid,” he said Without a word, the man with the bad shoulder popped it into his mouth. Neither are drug addicts.    *   The Victory Church preacher works as an ambulance driver and is going to Birdsville with his wife for holidays.   *   Pilgrim Church has not finalised negotiations with Baptist WestCare for the latter to take over the Pilgrim hall to house homeless people on Code Blue and Code Red days and evenings.   Nor is it clear how a person living outside discovers whether the Pilgrim hall will be open on what night. A Pilgrim Church official said, “…on the radio and that kind of stuff, at the agencies and the bus station.”   *   Ingle Farm Salvation Army proudly announces on their video screen, inside their entrance doors, that City Salvos run a coffee van on Leigh Street in the city, between 10:00pm and 3:00am.   City Salvos, however, say the van does not exist.   *   A man at the Victory Church free BBQ in Salisbury said he’d smashed his TV the previous evening. He says he always loses control when he sees Debbie’s image on the screen.   He knew her while he was working at the Holden car factory in his teens. Deborah Lamb was living at the caravan park that existed near Elizabeth. He paid her rent. It was $40 a week. This was 1977. They had both been Wards of the State and grew up in children’s’ homes.   He had been doing overtime that evening while Deborah was allegedly hitchhiking on the corner of Hindley Street and West Terrace in the city. He said they were going to meet that evening, but never made contact.   She got into a car heading toward Elizabeth with Christopher Worrell and James Miller. She ended up at Port Gawler where she was buried alive after being raped.   Worrel died in a car smash. Debbie’s boyfriend later served time in prison where he met James Miller. He said he punched Miller three times in the face, but was not charged with assault.   He needs a new television.   *   An employee at MADEC Job Active joint in Kadina was overheard saying that Salvation Army work-for-the-dole participants should be forced to see the Book of Mormon musical.   *   Timothy, the food server at Fred’s Van, was reportedly kicked out of one of Dominic’s doss houses and is being sought by the police.   *   A man from a Baptist Church says that WestCare doesn’t require I.D. or registration for its lunches because the Day Centre section of the complex is mostly self-funded via the Baptist Union of Churches.   However, the Hutt Street Centre requires personal data for its digital shame file from every client attending its breakfasts and lunches because its food area is shared with its government-funded activities.   That makes the Baptist lunch service more independent though the Baptist person says Hutt Street Centre C.E.O. Ian Cox is a top operator in the homeless scene. But Ian still betrays us by submitting our details to the digital shame file.   *   George the Elder is surprised when strangers walk up to him and ask if he is alright. “Of course, I’m alright,” he says.   George doesn’t catch buses by the timetable. He stands on the lane divider between bus stops, then runs across and catches the first bus that arrives, regardless of its direction.   Considering George’s disability, he is a genius and should get an Australia Day award.   *   The aggressive donation collection at Christies Beach Church of Christ free evening meal on Tuesdays is due to a $100-a-week sponsor pulling out. The minimum donation is $2.00. The meal is no good, English cooking.   *   Rumour has it that the unfortunate woman who lent money to the Vitamin Derelict when he was in jail has been kicked out of City Salvos for begging. Note: However, there is no evidence this happened to her at City Salvos or anywhere else. She has never been known to beg anywhere, but has exercised unusual integrity and financial discipline over the years and, as a result, moved on to a better life, and we wish her the best in the future.     *   The latest rumour on Religious Mike is that his girlfriend applied to be his Carer. When Centrelink found out, they contacted Mike’s sister. It seems the girlfriend has tried this on other people. She is also alleged to have taken money from his account. Religious Mike was allegedly angry when she turned up at City Salvos because there is a court order saying she cannot make contact with him.   *   It may appear that writers on this website are LGBTI intolerant. Some are critical, but overall, it is recognised that most of the best welfare workers in the homeless industry are LGBTI.   7 July 2019  ​ Victory Church free Salisbury BBQ The preacher is a 51-year-old ambulance driver with sensitive eyes. He preaches for five minutes then “breaks bread” before coffee is served. Last week he said God’s love was nothing you can find on earth and that Jesus brings that love. There was a big crowd on a warm night with a separate group of 18 Aborigines further apart. Wayne was there, grieving for not being able to drive after a stroke. He said the doctors’ pills gave him the stroke. He’s worked all his life. That decrepit American gave Old Val his seat after she fell down. The Horse Trainer Lady accused Old Val of grabbing the last seat everywhere she went. Old Val jumped up and refused to sit down. The preacher and some of the other dozen church people laid hands on the blond druggie lady and prayed for her. They did the same for Wayne. He said he felt better. He’s a Seventh-day Adventist. Mick, formerly of Mick of Denise, said he missed his Messenger newspaper income. That’s what fed his dogs including the one that knocked him down the stairs and hurt his neck. He went to a charity to get food for his dogs, but was refused. I said for him to get human food such as meat and fish and give that to his dogs. Victory Church free barbecue Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial. Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics. On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. They run out of hot water by 7:30pm. Third Editor 7 July 2019 (above) Bags and bedding of two old people who live outside near Semaphore. Meanwhile, a thousand government welfare houses sit empty while SACOSS, ShelterSA and the Anti-poverty Network say nothing. (Adelaide Homeless Journal photo June 2019) The Night Talker responds to posts dated 29 June and 2 July “Further response to mine detractors/enemies. Etc etc.... “Blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda, whatever! I work for a JSP [Job Network] and how dare you tar us all with the same brush! (Suck it up sweetheart, there is a first time for everything!) My (now departed) father used to say, "if it looks like (deleted) and smells like (deleted) then it is (deleted)" (The readers, are smart enough to put in the missing words.) “Maybe rather than spout indignant anger at the spotlight being shone on the JSP industry (which yes I freely admit too, that I have NOTHING good to say about) why don't you open the doors and ASK ALL THE READERS OUT THERE, TO SEND BACK THEIR RESPONSES ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES (IF ANY?) OF THEIR JSP, and or a time, when they were a client. (I think that is fair, don't you?) “Furthermore, why don't you (or anybody else for that matter) go and do some research, via the BIG WIDE WEB, and find out what people are writing about (this includes other websites as well) in regards Job Network agencies and how they currently operate and their outcomes/success rates etc. “I can point you in the right direction; there are several websites where you can read personal stories about people's experiences in the JSP industry (this includes workers as well as clients) These websites include the AUWU (the Australian Unemployed, Workers Union) Review.com.au, the CPSU and the AWU (the Community Public Sector Union and the Australian Workers Union, Then National Poverty Alliance, SACOSS and ACOSS, Shelter SA, Anglicare, Uniting Care Wesley, Brotherhood of St. Laurence, Monash University, St. Vincent De Paul, Centacare, Indeed, The Homepage for the Greens Political Party, The MCWS (The Multicultural Welfare Society) The Benevolent Society, this website, the national inquiry (Senate based) into the Job Network agencies (2018) and the list goes on and on and on. “Mind you, none of what I HAVE READ (online) or personally experienced or when speaking with others, have ANYTHING AT ALL TO SAY, THAT IS POSITIVE ABOUT THE JOB NETWORK INDUSTRY, as it currently stands. In fact, the National (Senate) Inquiry into the Job Network (which is online and was released in 2018) paints a damming picture of a program that FAILED IN ALL AREAS. (In fact, several commentators (including politicians and academics) have labelled the program, "WELFARE TO WORK- E.G. WELFARE TO NOWHERE. “It is a punitive system, whereby being unemployed, puts you in the criminal category. In fact, the AUWU, have done some research and stated that, offenders on community correctional orders, aren't required to do as many hours, as the participants on WFTD schemes. Staff within JSP's are grossly under skilled, often come with loads of personal/emotional baggage, spend up to 40% of their time doing compliance and or surveillance activities and often come from other industries that have no cross matching skills, that are advantageous, and provide little assistance/knowledge, when required to work with some of the most marginalised and or disadvantaged persons in our society (Explain to me, how previous experience working in a fast food chain or your local Bottle O) translates to a working knowledge/understanding and the capacity to manage those who are experiencing multiple barriers to labour market engagement? “And who do I think I am? Someone who IS a lot more qualified than you, for starters. Someone who HAS a conscience and a working moral compass and someone who does get angry at injustice etc, but at the same time, I can back up my statements with actual fact. You my friend are just angry......and your indignant and your trying to justify your existence and the job you do (For want of a better word, if you want to call it that. I call it turning up and then spending eight hours, thinking of ways to penalise persons already doing it really tough and then going home and spending another eight hours, justifying what you do for a living. “Finally, I don't have a problem with Homosexuality, what my issue pertains to, is the media constantly pushing aspects of Homosexuality as a salient, lifestyle choice. It isn't. (That is not to say, that individuals do NOT have the right to choose, they do) These choices however (including deciding to become transgender or gay at a VERY young age) has LIFE LONG consequences. (and not always for the better) “Also just a quick one...…"People that live in Glass Houses, should be wary of angry participants, who walk softly but carry a whacking great piece of two by four...…" “You my friend, are only employed, because others aren't and your employment will only remain as long as your contract is active. It is not endless and your funding could be withdrawn tomorrow...…..you just remember that. While your at it, give your MATES/PERSONAL HEROES, Tony Abbott and SCO-MO (aka praise be HILLSONG CHURCH) a wave for me, when you next see them.......I will respond BY FLIPPING THE BIRD! The Night Talker. "(Who by the way has three undergraduate degrees, one advanced diploma, two diplomas, two cert IV's and is currently studying at Post Graduate level, thank you very much!)" 6 July 2019 Elizabeth Fred’s Van on Sunday The St Vincent de Paul charity shop industrial rubbish bin was locked with a chain. Five elderly men pried open the plastic lid with a metal candle lantern and dragged out DVD’s, water bottles and other knick-knacks. A drug addict under the gazebo shouted, “Give it a rest. It’s rubbish.” Mick of Mick and Denise said he won’t bring a load of children’s clothing to St Vinnies if they throw out such good stuff. He’s been helping a Salisbury woman clean out her son’s bedroom. He hung himself from a tree. There was wariness at the addict’s table after their expulsion of the New Crony Gang from their table the previous week. But the matter has been settled and there is no animosity. The New Crony Gang lost. “G” said he’s planning to melt down plastic bottles to their former petroleum state. He is looking for investors. “You’ve come to the right place, here,” a diner said. “G” said he went to the A.D.R.A. Seventh-day Adventist free meal at Brahma Lodge on Thursday where the preacher stated there was no point in striving for peace when only God controls that. “G” was outraged. The meal was thirty-minutes late, but this caused little consternation as it allowed more socialising. It finally arrived as lasagna, rice with meat and an egg quiche. Dessert was ice cream sandwiches. The takeaway fruit and vegetables were grabbed quickly, but the ten-day-old bread was a slow mover until the end when “G”. took it for his chickens. Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. The excellent salt and pepper shakers were knocked off by clients so now they use glass jars with holes in the lids. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but requires an interview. 6 July 2019 ​ "Junkies take the last train to DUMBVILLE." The Night Talker “A friend at a recent bonfire, I attended in their backyard last weekend, told an interesting story, that was told to him, by his now (deceased) father who was a Veterinary Surgeon, for all of his adult life. “Two addicts, broke into the Veterinary Surgeon's treatment room, late one night. They headed straight for the drugs cabinet and managed to jemmy the metal door open, enough to extract some vials of drugs, that were locked within the cabinet. Being so desperate for a "fix" they ignored the BIG RED LETTERS on the BOX, which read EUTHANOL-PENTYL-PHENO-BARBATONE- ONLY TO BE USED BY A LICENCED, VETERINARY SURGEON. “Well they also ignored, the BRIGHT GREEN COLOUR, (all drugs are good drugs, right?) WRONG? They got the needle into their vein and then pushed the plunger, and (the coroner stated) they might have been aware something was wrong, but it would have all been over in around sixty seconds........... “The early morning staff of the VET Clinic arrived, and found both the Junkies on the floor of the clinic, still sitting there cross legged, hands on needle plunger, eyes open, but VERY VERY DEAD (Why be dead bored, when you can just be DEAD?) “Like I said, they took the last train to........DEADVILLE.........hope it was worth it guys???? “True Story.” The Night Talker 5 July 2017 ​Fred’s Van Salisbury “I hate you,” a short older woman told one-eyed Steve in the foyer. She accused him of not taking another woman to a dinner. She slapped his face twice. Steve didn’t respond. Five-minutes later, she was laughing and joking with everyone including Steve who wasn’t amused. Another diner said his wife left him with a $270,000 debt when they divorced. “At least she’s a good mother,” he added. Mick said he ran down the street when Denise began crying. That’s when she calls the police. Her brother is a W.A. cop. At our table, we talked about artificial intelligence and whether humanity had any control over its destiny. The man who repeats everything six times was subdued and repeated everything just twice though later reached four times, but never six. There was hot Milo, chocolate rice bubble balls and cordial for those arriving early. The cold wind whipped through the open back door and out the open front door. Orange Sky Laundry didn’t seem to have any customers. They should go to St Bede’s on Tuesday or Wednesday mornings. They’re caught in the rut of comfortable repetition. Slightly under forty diners were there unlike the usual 70. The old men watched the woman and her five kids. The optimistic and natural children are a pleasant counterpoint to the rest of us who are old, sick and dying. The meal was cottage pie and boiled vegetables and pumpkin soup. Also, cold Maranello pizza. They should keep it warm after Mr and Mrs Maranello take so much time to bake and deliver it without charge. Slack St Vincent de Paul. It’s an abuse of Maranello’s generosity like City Salvos when they served donated pizza half raw. Fred’s Van Salisbury needs a quality control appointee who checks that everything is up to standard. The takeaway room was extremely limited. Many clients have given up joining the queue. Rotten vegetables and old bread. But, all in all, it was a pleasant evening and the volunteers put in a good effort. The Orange Sky volunteers suffered in the cold with little to do. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff. 5  July 2019 (above) Entering the vegetation from the beach during the dark hours is the safest way to protect your privacy. Using a piece of brush to brush away footprints may also help. Avoid using the same path every day. Don’t feed the worms From the Night Talker “Know your rights, if you are a person existing on Centrelink Benefits or currently a participant, with a Job Network Provider, or Disability Services Provider (DES) and or someone who is currently having to do WFTD (work for the dole, or other JSA required activities) If you are involved in the above, either as a recipient or a participant, it is always wise to know your rights (and obligations) The AUWU (The AUSTRALIAN UNEMPLOYED WORKERS UNION) has put together an excellent booklet, that you can download via this link https://unemployedworkersunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/rights_guide_12_10_2018.pdf . This booklet spells out in plain fashion, the obligations that your JSA [ Job Network, Job Active contractor] needs to adhere to, what you can do in certain circumstances (such as being breached or suspended) and who you can contact, if you are unhappy with an activity or participation requirement. If you require one on one assistance, you can phone the South AUSTRALILAN AUWU advocate (Jeremy) on 0404089575 and or alternatively, email him on media@unemployedworkers.com “Many JSA providers [ Job Network, Job Active contractor], continue to get away with bullying and or other inappropriate behaviours, because participants, do not know their rights, as a participant. They also do NOT want bad publicity, particularly when it concerns their own JSA and the behaviours of the staff they employ. “JSA's survive (and or continue) to be granted contracts of funding from the Federal Government, dependent on their star rating. (This rating is determined by the number of complaints they have had (or not had) their outcomes (how many actual jobs they have got their participants in, over certain time frames) and feedback from participants and other external provider sources. “Remember, to NEVER give your JSA [ Job Network, Job Active contractor] the opportunity to claim for employment, You yourself have got!!!! This is where your Job Service Provider, gets payment from the Government (usually in the thousands of dollars) for employment outcomes initially, at the time of employment offer, then at four weeks, twelve weeks and twenty-six weeks of employment. “You WILL be hounded by your JSA to provide them with pay slip details. DO NOT HAND THIS INFORMATION OVER! The only agency you are obligated to provide information to about your employment (if any?) is Centrelink. So long as you report all income earned and hours worked, during any given fortnight, you are in the clear. If your JSA states that Centrelink has requested YOUR pay slips on THEIR BEHALF, they are LYING!!! “Download our copy of your Unemployed person's rights book, and keep it handy. It is NOT a magic wand, but it may help you dodge a FLAPPING LARGE BULLET, WITH YOUR NAME ON IT!” “Take care!” https://unemployedworkersunion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/rights_guide_12_10_2018.pdf The Night Talker 4 July 2019 Victory Church free BBQ at Salisbury Peter Dawkins made a cameo appearance. Steve the Preacher handed out cupcakes while they were lighting the BBQ. They ‘broke bread’ and talked about Jesus for five minutes. That meant passing a piece of bread around the group with each person breaking off a portion and eating it. I hid behind a tree. The coffee man did a good job until the hot water ran out. They don’t bring enough. Why not? Hot water is cheap. A man from Egypt who is a Coptic Christian is part of Victory Church. There were unlimited sausages, but the onions ran out. Becky, who doesn’t like being called ‘Shuffles’, got a sausage sandwich for herself and took one to an old man at the bus stop. He grabbed both. She laughed. Later, he tried to get on a bus and fell backwards onto the concrete. The Coptic fellow helped him onto the bus. The Victory Church people didn’t put on their orange Street Reach vests. They cooked extra sausages for the odd person who was sleeping outside that night. There was a tiny amount of takeaway bread. Not too bad. Victory Church free barbecue Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial. Fridays 5:45 to at least 8:30pm. Free. A wide range of clients, not just alcoholics. On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. A bit religious. ​ 4 July 2019 (above) The vegetation on sand dunes back of Adelaide beaches provides a relatively secure place to sleep at night. Other South Australian citizens, mostly old people, sleep in their cars and vans. Meanwhile, hundreds of Adelaide government-owned welfare houses are kept empty and refugee-ready for overseas arrivals. The Night Talker charges back “Am I somehow responsible for the theft of your motor vehicle? (Here's an idea, learn to take the rotor out of your distributor, if you leave your car anywhere) or go spend some money, and get an immobiliser, put into your vehicle, which would mean, your car can't be started and driven off (well not easily) And if you have full insurance cover, then it will pay for you, to purchase another vehicle (so why are you so angry?) And as for my "crappy little Japanese car" I am still paying it off, three years later, and it is the first new car, I have ever had and I am almost 50, so not sure, if you are jealous or angry, or…? “If any or all of the aforementioned, then go seek some help (Is it my fault, if your a loser and a douchebag and or quite possibly, an employee at a Job Network Provider? (There definitely seems to be some kind of hidden agenda here). “You also need to read the posts on this site, NOT JUST RANT, LIKE AN UTTER MORON! Also as for not replying to your post, the ONLY PERSON who has the final say, and will or will NOT post replies on this site, is the editor/s. NOT YOU AND NOT ME! “As for studying psychology? (Why don't you that?) I already have three undergraduate degrees, and I have probably been in the workforce, since BEFORE you were born, and or when you were still SH******* IN YOUR NAPPIES! (The editor of this site, who knows me personally, can verify this). Simply because someone is out of work (for whatever reason) does NOT give YOU (or any other person) the right, to denigrate them and make judgement calls, when you don't know what you are talking about. “I pray to God, you do not have any kind of front-line position, where you are dealing with, extremely vulnerable person (if this is the case, I would have to question, the suicide rate, of your client group?) because its been a while, since I have personally experienced, such a vitriolic (big words here) attack on my persona. (And trust, me, I have been abused by the best, over the last 28 years of my working life). “Oh, and as for not have ever worked or not having worked a ten hour day, I have worked 11, 12, 14 and 16 hour shifts. My last full time employment was till Christmas last year, within a Federal Government Agency, and I then worked casually over the new year and into March of this year. I am also about to sign on for three months with a new employer next week. “I am required under legislation to attend my JSA provider, when my working hours, do not meet the minimum requirement (hence the appointments that I need to attend on a monthly basis. When I am not employed, I study. I have recently completed a CERT IV upgrade, in training and assessment and am doing Post-Grad studies in Counselling and Social Work (I am a qualified social worker and counsellor) (What are you qualified in) I also have qualifications in Australian History, Criminology, Social Science, Mental Health and Community Sector Management. (So don't tell to go and get a degree!) I would also like to remind you, that there are MANY, MANY graduates out there with degrees, who can't get work. (That point, you seem to have overlooked?) Finally, when I travel, (in my crappy little car) even to the city, it is a 206km round trip for me. There is no public transport in my district and as such, I am reliant on my "crappy" little car, in a way, that you would never understand. “My final advice to you, is to release your anger if you can, and If you cannot, then I strongly suggest you seek urgent assistance, from the psychologists you speak of.... (who quite possibly are treating you albeit, not very successfully).” The Night Talker. 3 July 2019 Fred’s Van Salisbury The takeaway food was no good, but there were plenty of bright coloured beanies and scarves. Cheerful colours for cloudy days, but those living outside need natural coloured knits so they can blend in with the vegetation. Mick, formerly of Mick and Denise, said he’d lost his job delivering Messenger newspapers. Home delivery has stopped in the Salisbury area. Orange Sky Laundry had a few customers. They should allow double loads for homeless people who want to wash their quilts. The machines are underutilised as it is. The meal included Focaccia and pasta from Maranello’s near the Salisbury railway station, plant sausages, chicken (not hot enough), potato fritters, fresh salad, pumpkin soup, a tasty cake in sweet sauce, horrible old watermelon and good ice cream. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff. 3 July 2019 ​ (above) This liveable AnglicareSA retirement unit in Elizabeth with a split-system air conditioner has been empty for one-year and four months. Another six units have been empty for over six-months. Anglicare told the remaining nine tenants they will be evicted and transferred between February and August 2020. Why haven’t the units been filled with elderly homeless people on short-term leases until the redevelopment proceeds? This is not systemic maladministration. It is a conscious agenda. Remembering Byron Place Community Centre Closing during the afternoons was the death knell for the Byron Place Community Homeless Centre in Adelaide near Whitmore Square. This meant it could no longer meet its funding requirements so the government cut off the money. This was a deliberate act by employees within Uniting Communities (Adelaide Central Mission) to destroy the homeless establishment.   The luggage room was the nerve centre of the building. It was the only secure area in Adelaide where homeless people could leave their belongings for up to three months. Homeless campers lodged their bedding at the counter in the morning and picked it up in the late afternoon. Closing the building in the afternoons made this service largely redundant.   There was a model of the Mayo Hut near the front door. The crumbling Mayo Hut on the Heysen Trail had been rebuilt by Wright Court Day Centre clients including some living outside. Wright Court was the predecessor of Byron Place.   It had been Eric Felgate’s idea to rebuild the Hut for walkers needing somewhere to sleep while walking the Heysen Trail. Eric had been a Mission accountant, then later became the manager of Byron Place Community Centre. He knew his job, but was undermined by the same employees who later destroyed the place. Eric was described as “too solid a Christian”.   Admittedly, there had been a problem with drugs. Robyn the Junkie and Reginald Jennings were among those you could see outside the building screaming at each other about pills that didn’t work. Peter once yelled that he’d call the police if they didn’t stop the noise. Peter was an employee. He’d been a speed addict himself.   Both he and another employee, Martin, had been criticised for spending too much time in the courtyard with the smokers and drug dealers. Peter said they were getting to know the clients. That was important at Byron Place.   Peter and Martin were friends of Marg who replaced Eric Felgate. Eric had replaced Paul Nicholas who had brilliantly managed Wright Court Day Centre. That’s where Marg started out.   There was a down side to Byron Place. It was a purpose-built building owned by the Adelaide Central Mission that gave staff a clear view of most areas most of the time. There was a glass-walled courtyard within the building.   Ironically, the dozen crystal methamphetamine addicts and dealers stationed there used the glass walls to reverse its purpose and monitor employee movements within the building. The addicts were obvious with their compromised livers and sandpaper skin, and they couldn’t disguise the hard wariness of chemical addicts. By keeping a high level surveillance, they were able to run their Ice and heroin businesses within the building.   But did the drug dealers destroy Byron Place? Their clients certainly antagonised the owner and employees at the wheel alignment business across the street. These druggies slouched on the footpath against the building and intimidated customers.     But ultimately it was the senior employees and directors in the Adelaide Central Mission that killed the Bryon Place Community Centre. This was a shame because it was a better service for independent homeless people than the Hutt Street Centre and Baptist Westcare. Maybe that’s why it had to go.   2 July 2019 ​ From the anonymous contact page “I’M ANNOYED THAT SOMEONE BEAT ME TO IT. “I agree with the other reader who the hell does this Night Talker think he is. As someone who works in the JSP industry, we can only do what our clients are willing to put in. Yes there are some lazy employees but don’t you dare paint all of us with the same brush you egotistical sack of crap. “Some JSP were gifted cheap tickets to The Book of Mormon to give to clients. Who gives a crap. I suppose you’re against The Salvos giving out Show Tickets, Air Show Tickets or Santa’s Cave tickets. At no point does The Book of Mormon even talk about Homosexuality, it’s about 2 missionaries in Africa. “We can all see which side you voted for in the Plebiscite last year. You probably didn’t want Aboriginals or women to have the vote either. Like my fellow reader wrote, “’Your obsession with homosexuality reeks of someone who really needs to come out… do yourself a favour and open that closet door that you’ve kept tightly shut for so long.’ “Maybe you should take his/her advice and stop giving lonely truck drivers “reach arounds” in Port Wakefield on your way to seeing your JSP in Kadina. “BOOM ...” Third Editor: Are they real Mormons in the Book of Mormon musical? The RAA is giving discounted tickets to members.Employment joints offer them for free. If it is so good and popular, then why are tickets being discounted or offered for free? Who is behind the production? 2 July 2019 From the Anonymous Contact Page Getting back to that Book of Mammon Arrggh they forcing homeless and unemployed to watch and worship the Book of Mammon ? How about Mammon ? Forced to worship Mammon and the capitol City of Mammon (NYC)? The Rundle Spy 2 July 2019 (above) They don't require I.D. or registration so your name won't go onto the digital 'shame file'. How many people can a veteran Hutt Street Dealer kill in a career? Let’s assume a dealer has been operating for thirty years and has had 100 dedicated customers for lesser periods over that time. Can we also assume that a Hutt Street Centre addict has a life expectancy thirty years below the average of 80? No addict has the same dealer for a lifetime. The addict may die, spend time in prison or might change dealers due to debts or weak product. To avoid exaggeration, could we assume that our fictitious Hutt Street Centre dealer has only a 10% effect on the reduced life expectancy of each of her clients. This would mean that she is responsible for just three-years reduced life expectancy for each of her 100 clients. This works out to be 300 reduced years of life in total and equivalent to approximately four lives. We cannot say this was murder because many addicts are on a path of self-destruction, anyway. However, let us consider Emma Hines whose body was discovered in the South Parklands in 2016. Emma had been troubled since childhood, but it was a Sydney syndicate that got her hooked into prostitution and heroin addiction at the age of 19. She was well established in her downward spiral when she returned to Adelaide and the Hutt Street Centre. Could she have been saved? Probably not in the environment of the Hutt Street Centre where at least one dealer supplied her with a concoction of drug cocktails that sent her totally insane. Was her last major dealer responsible for her death? The fictitious veteran dealer who claimed to be Emma’s best friend after her death. Can we claim this fictitious dealer who has operated from Baptist WestCare and the Byron Place Community Centre is responsible for multiple murders? And who is given special access to other clients at Hutt Street Centre because she is a “person with medical issues” and supplies some potent product? 1 July 2019 Fight at Fred’s Van in city It was last Tuesday. A Gay man and an Aborigine woman were shouting at each other. One of them spat in the other’s face. It was reciprocated. Then they were punching each other in the face.   It isn’t clear when the police arrived, but it didn’t help the Gay man. Other Aborigines joined the fray and gave him a beating. ​   Fred’s Outdoor Food Van Gawler Place (between Flinders and Wakefield Streets), Adelaide. Monday to Friday 7:00 - 7:30 pm. Sunday 6:00 - 6:30pm. Closed Saturday Sausages, sandwiches, buns, tea and coffee. No I.D. required. Special vegetarian curry on Thursdays and Sundays from Sathya Sai. Other takeaway foods. Often blankets and socks. No toilets. Free. Occasional vicious fighting, but most evenings are quiet. Avoid spitting at other diners. 1 July 2019 (above) A linear park runs along the Little Para River from the rifle range in the foothills, then underneath Main North Road and through Salisbury back of the shopping centre, then down onto the salt flats. A placement of blanket stashes along the park allows a homeless person to live a reasonably safe existence. (above) Living in this linear park that passes through Salisbury gives access to Orange Sky Laundry, The Ark, Fred's Van, the Uniting Church, Victory Church BBQ and other free services. But no hot showers. Not cold enough for executives Hi leaflet man, “The CEO sleepout to raise funds for Hutt Street Centre & St Vincent De Paul, that is happening tonight 26/06/2019 - should not be allowed to proceed in my opinion, as there is a forecast overnight temperature of 11 degrees Celsius. This is one of the warmest nights, we have had this Winter. “The CEO sleepout should be postponed until it is 3 degrees Celsius or less, to give these executives a real taste of sleeping rough on a freezing Winter's night. The people who participate will think they have made a real achievement having done this exercise in their high priced clothing on a mild Winter's night, wearing their $600 jackets from Kathmandu. “Just my 2 cents worth from someone who doesn't sleep rough, but is finding it freezing sleeping inside this winter. I have no idea how anyone is sleeping outside this winter, but I know our state's homeless people would be sleeping rough in their Kmart clothing and not a $2000 outfit made from the warmest materials such as duck down and Merino wool. “Thanks.” Name supplied. Third Editor: Not dangerous enough either and they should sleep on concrete. 30 June 2019  ​On the Street “We don’t want that clientele down here.” An Adelaide Casino employee explaining that they charge higher prices for meals on the ground floor to discourage low spenders in the table areas.  This includes the Fred’s Van crowd. * A man at the free Victory Church BBQ on Friday evenings says the church has until Christmas to find an indoor venue or they will be stopped by the government from giving away sausages. * “All the soap containers stay there when he is not there. Jesse Gunter couldn’t take the toilet rolls from the dispensers so he stole the whole dispenser. The soap dispenser was missing for three months in the disability toilet on the ground floor in the Barossa Room. “Staff were notified, but it took three months before it was replaced. The door lock was also faulty so people kept walking in on others. Or it would lock when a person went out and others couldn’t get in.” From a source inside the Adelaide Casino * A man was picking his nose while paying a pokies machine at the Adelaide Casino last week. A regular patron said, “I’ve never seen them being cleaned, never, never, never. People sit there and eat; they put their greasy fingers on the machines. * “Marilyn, a natural musician with no training. ‘A spare dollar, a spare dollar, I’m worth a dollar,’ she’d cry at her toy piano outside the Adelaide railway station.” From a passer-by. * Gregory on the walking frame got kicked out of the Casino. He was banned six-months for incontinence and for falling asleep. He’s moved to McDonald’s where he sits all day, every day. Hardly anyone talks to him. After the ban ended, he returned, but was banned again. Con was kicked out for sleeping while watching TV. Diane in the red coat was also given the boot, possibly for going through the rubbish bins. * A diner at Salisbury Fred’s Van says Dominic is selling his eleven doss houses. He rents out rooms and sheds to homeless and Baptist WestCare clients. The diner said Dominic’s wife wants a divorce and wants all the property. * “Gamblers take jugs of beer into the disabled toilet room to drink in peace and not be put upon by alcoholic gamblers for a drink,” said a pokies player at the Adelaide Casino. * The Celebrity Can Collector has asthma and recently took time off from busking at the railway station. * “I miss her,” an Adelaide Casino friend said of Geanne who was shipped off to a nursing home in Sydney.  She wore a flower in her hair while she played the pokies at the Casino. * Jill is alive and well. She runs away when she sees people from the past. She used to go to the Flourish group at City Salvos on Saturdays. She visits Dominic at his house near the Arkaba Hotel. He is undergoing cancer treatment. * Sparkles was seen at City Salvos with a new boyfriend. No sign of the pregnancy. She may be living in the city. She says Peter was murdered. * Why don’t the One Voice shower van and Orange Sky Laundry go to the homeless camp at Semaphore? Instead, they go to welfare joints that homeless people avoid. They’re fixated on public relations venues and less upon providing a service to those who fit their criteria. 30 June 2019 Port Church free meals Since the independent Port Church moved into the deteriorating Baptist Church, the building has been renovated. An office wall has been knocked out and replaced as a church area. The Port Church is now part of the Baptist Union. It was a good fit. Their free clothing shop is called “Thread Together”. It’s open before and after the free meal. The clothing is old fashioned, but brand new and otherwise would have gone “into landfill”. They don’t require I.D. or registration from people who receive it, but keep an eye on hoarders. It was founded by Andie Halas who says it “costs five-dollars for us to provide someone with a full wardrobe”. She says that a third of garments manufactured are never sold and go “from factory to landfill”. The meal included nicely blackened sausages, four types of soup, vegetarian patties, 4-bean mix, a rice and corn salad and bread. The dessert was no good, just stale iced buns. Craig, who is a friend of Bullet Mark, said that Jesus saved him at the ages of 16, 18 and 21 from methylated spirits and cake flavouring. The free takeaway food included glass bottles of Coca Cola, potatoes, oranges, mushrooms, capsicums, bread, onions and an esky of vegetarian meals in plastic wrapping from Coles. The Port Church 47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North. (Le Fevre Baptist Church) Wednesdays 5:00pm to 6:30pm. Baptist. Bit of religious yelling. Free dinner, free new clothing and takeaway fruit. vegetables and bread. No I.D. or registration requirements. Inspiring. Phone 0414 693 218 for more details. No Ice Dealers. 30 June 2019 Hopes Café on the Parade ​near Norwood from Sassy Café “Hopes Café - Beulah Park has become a place for those needing a free meal but the downside to this place is that those that volunteer there need to practice hygiene. They seem to only look after their 'paid staff', not like their volunteers and the mind numbing activities just don't seem to bring numbers through the door. Too many greedy regulars who just exploit the system.” Clayton’s Uniting Church cnr Portrush Road and The Parade, Norwood. Ph 8331 3529. Wednesday and Friday. 10:00am – 3:00pm. Lunch served at 11:00am. Donation tin not compulsory. Upper class diners with a liberal sprinkling of genuine derelicts. Barista coffee. Decent toilets. Orange Sky Laundry on Wednesdays from 11:00am to 1:00pm. No residency or I.D. requirements. Free bread and vegetables from 11:00am to 12:00noon on Wednesdays for people in surrounding suburbs and this requires a Centrelink card. ​ 30 June 2019 (above) A bag of items given away for a $1.00 donation at Nanna's Free Food Basket at the Bower Cottages in Semaphore South every Wednesday at 4:00pm. No I.D., registration or documentation required. Religious Mike in Adelaide   Mike’s relatives are wealthy. Mike is not, but owns his own house. Mike’s sister is rich. Her son is a police officer. He went around to Mike’s house and told Mike’s girlfriend she had five-minutes to leave the building. This is from a regular client at Kilburn Fred's Van who tends to be reliable.     Mike’s sister has Power-of-Attorney over Mike’s affairs. She is afraid Mike has made out his will to his girlfriend, described by some as “no good”. Mike is quite old and in difficult health. He is generally seen in the homeless scene as a decent fellow.   The soup kitchen client says the sister got a restraint order against the girlfriend requiring them to keep apart from each other. That sounds a little unbelievable.   Meanwhile, the happy couple have been seen at a welfare venue. “They’re not supposed to be together,” the soup kitchen man said.   29 June 2019 What to do when you are offered a Food-barn voucher From the anonymous contact page I agree with Night Talker regarding JSA [Job Network]. The behavior of the staff members have caused me to become depressed and so anxious that I am unable to feel comfortable leaving my home. I have qualifications higher that those children employed by the government ponzi schemes called JSA. I am not entitled to a pension even though it is centrelinks policies which have caused my mental health to deteriorate. I am over the age of 50 and they want me to be employed in an industry that I am unable to do. Thank god I have a good doctor whom supports me fully. Anonymous 29 June 2019 ​ From the Anonymous Contact Page WHEN WILL THE NIGHT TALKER STOP TALKING CRAP? “Firstly, Ditch the God complex buddy! Who the f*** do think you are to make such gross judgements about people and society condemning everyone as sinners! I’m sure you are hardly in a position to assume such a superior stance either. “Secondly, It’s highly unlikely that God ever existed. It’s more likely that the Bible is an anecdotal ancient storey, and the concept of Heaven & Hell was used [irresponsibly] against people to put the “fear of God” in them. “Finally, when did you become a thespian and an expert in the arts? In fact, when was the last time you actually went to the theatre? Apparently, Book of Mormons is an excellent production that’s highly entertaining! May I suggest you go and see it before you liberally express you distorted bull**** opinion. Like my previous post I could go on and on, but I’m not gonna waste my breath [or time on you]. “Put simply mate - get over yourself, cut the crap and stop bull****ing because you aint fooling anyone but yourself! And please don’t bother replying, because I really do not give a sh** what you think. “PS. Your obsession with homosexuality reeks of someone who really needs to come out… do yourself a favour and open that closet door that you’ve kept tightly shut for so long. Emancipate yourself!” Asterisks added by the Third Editor 29 June 2019 ​ (above) Horse Trader Steve has begun blessing Nanna’s Free Food Basket with his presence. They provide a free meal every Wednesday at 4:30pm at 200 Bower Road, Semaphore South. They don’t understand the Horse Trader. He likes three meals at least, not one. He exhibits ferocious posturing when his requirements are not met. That’s why they put these notices on every table. But Steve is a homeless celebrity and should be allowed certain behaviours not acceptable from other diners. ​From the Night Talker I went to the back of Fred's Van Elizabeth, where there is a conference room and asked for some emergency food assistance. The woman came back with one of those Food-barn voucher pads. I said I can't eat food barn food, as it is loaded with preservatives and additives and that makes me psychotic. She then went back to her office and came back to me with a $50.00 Woollies' Supermarket card. She then said, I can choose what I want to buy and this will make sure, I don't eat any food with additives or preservatives in it. I thanked her, signed for the card, pocketed it and left...…..See it wasn't that hard. The Night Talker 29 June 2019 ​ The decline of Adelaide libraries Leon Byner said on his Adelaide 5AA radio program that a library he visited seemed quite busy. He doesn’t understand that suburban libraries have changed and not for the better. He doesn’t know that these libraries are rarely used by people seeking knowledge. Quality books have been replaced by junk books for the simple reason that most quality book publishers have gone out of business. The surveillance of computer use is so intrusive that few self-respecting citizens will use them. Instead, these computers are used involuntarily by those on parole or remand and doing online drug rehabilitation courses. Or by parents bringing in their children as part of a program to avoid the government taking them away. Job Active government contractors send their clients to libraries to apply for jobs rather than letting the clients do this in the Job Active buildings. This is because they hate the sight, sound and smell of their clients. This change in library clientele is why surveillance cameras linked to the ankle bracelet software for criminals has been installed in libraries. And the reason for expensive renovations that have removed cosy areas that cannot be surveilled. 28 June 2019 From the Anonymous Contact Page “MICHAEL S - CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? “Dear Michael S, “After reading your extremely average posts the only assumption I can make is that YOU'RE A LAZY WHINGING BLUDGER WHO NEEDS TO GET A JOB AND DO SOME HARD WORK! “Firstly, I really need a car since mine has been stolen and would be more than grateful to have that "crappy Japanese car" you use to drive to Centrelink, so you can meet the criteria to get free money from hard-working tax payers! And I bet you can't remember the last time you worked a 10-hour day buddy because you never have! “Furthermore, your gross assumption that Centrelink staff and Job Seeking Service employees never do any work and just sit around all day on the gravy train is a load of crap and nothing short of offensive. If you weren't so lazy, there's not a lot that stops you from doing a degree in psychology and earning a salary - just like the people you are so quick to judge. “Oh, and I'm still struggling to understand exactly what you expect from facilities of the government services you frequently visit, but they aint the Hilton buddy and never will be, so suck it up pal! I could keep writing to point out my many observations on you shortcommings, but I’m not gonna waste my energy on your bullshit! “In short - get off your lazy ass, stop whinging and expecting the world to bend over backwards for you, and pay some fu***** tax and get a job mate! And please don’t bother replying either because I know you’ll be on the defensive and I really don’t give a shit what you think because you can’t handle the truth. “Boom!” Asterisks added by the Third Editor. 28 June 2019 From the Anonymous Contact Page Saw Drugen$tein monsters / Franken$tein twins emerge from 13LIMO black limo taxi on Grenfell Street this morning about 8:15 a.m. They often proceed into Rundle Mall Plaza. Strange how some scum bums with back-of-old-pants appearance can afford to hire a LIMO taxi... Aye've not taken a taxi in 32+ years now... No New$ is Good News...” The Rundle Spy 28 June 2019 (above) A hostile architecture bench placed in a park near the West Terrace Cemetery. Its secluded placement contradicts the current government policy of making every amenity subject to both passive or aggressive surveillance. Unease at Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sunday The usually likeable 35-year-old druggie woman shouted that the 83-year-old man at her table better leave. “All the places are taken,” she said, despite no other druggies being there except another druggie woman. Their druggie male friends were outside. The druggie woman grabbed the old man’s bag and dropped it to the floor. St Vincent de Paul volunteers saw nothing. He went to another table. An Indian family got up from another table and went outside. We moved to another table. I tried to cheer up the old man, but he remained pale. He said he thought he was going to be hurt, not from the younger women, but from the men outside. There had been an argument at that table the previous week. Rock Solid called the Greek man a “dog” and followed him outside where there was more shouting. Neither turned up today. These minor incidents often lead to beatings off the property. Beatings that include damaged eyesight, transfer of infections, knocked out teeth and damaged organs. These are common experiences for druggies, but are major crises for others. Another factor has been fallout from drug arrests at the Food Barn. The paranoid druggies have accused each other of being a “dog”. It is not uncommon for druggies to escape a charge by supplying names to the police. No one wants to be caught in their crossfire. And only a fool talks to the police. Another diner said he was sick of life. He’d put down one of his dogs and another was sick from old age. A second man said when he broke up with his wife of 34 years, she phoned the chemist and cancelled his heart medication. A third man said he had trouble looking into mirrors. Kate gave an armful of wool to a friend of the 83-year-old man. She knits scarves and beanies for people living outside. And a friend of Kate watched the scenario at the drug table and was ready to offer seats to those displaced. The rice ran out and the café was too crowded. It’s always too crowded. The chairs and tables are too close together. But it is the feeling that violence will break out that makes the gathering tense. Not that this is chasing away customers. The place is always overcrowded. More so than the Food Barn. Fred’s Van Elizabeth Sunday St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but this requires an interview. ​ 27 June 2019 Fred’s Van Gawler The bakery van parked over the desecrated graves of the early white settlers. It didn’t bring enough pies for everyone, but that wasn’t their fault. We get what is left over at the end of the business day. Nice enough of them to do that. We were standing in the Lions Club Rotunda in Pioneer Park at Gawler. The Fred’s Van also drove over the dead bodies. The unpaid workers loaded the tables and food onto the platform. Charlie and a woman spotted a non-meat pie and brought it over to me at the end of the queue. I felt like a Michelin food critic being given the best service. The vegetarian pies are often gone by the time I reach the serving tables. Two men in the queue had the pallor and wariness of those living outside. They’ll be cold for six-months while Housing Trust houses sit empty. At least thirty people are living outside in this booming town. And these are those known to the Department of Communities and Social Inclusion (DCSI). Many more live in hiding, but their locations won’t be disclosed here to prevent the Navigators documenting them and getting them on medication. Just 25 were at Fred’s Van. There wasn’t that much food. No cheesecakes or takeaway food. The fresh hot pies from the Gawler South bakery ran out before everyone was served. Diane wasn’t there. I talked to a man who gets cans from rubbish bins and won’t collect the dole. Before coming to Pioneer Park, I went around to the Salvos. It was a dead zone at 5:00pm. Gawler Fred’s Outdoor Food Van Pioneer Park, Horrocks/Lyndoch Road, Gawler (opposite the Visitor Centre) Thursdays 6:00pm. Fresh soup, Gawler South Bakery pies, sandwiches, coffee, takeaway bread. In the Lions Rotunda during wet weather, otherwise on the grass. Showers nearby. Second Editor ​27 June 2019 “In response to ‘Key’ Kadina Employment Services Circus” From the Night Talker “Thank you so much for your support, just a quick one though.... He is a She. (Or at least, I still was, the last time I looked in the mirror) and in order to get any kind of financial compensation from my current JSA, I would have to storm into my JSA, Patty Hearst or Bader Mein Hoff style, complete with balaclava on my head, wearing a suicide vest and toting a fully automatic, sub machine gun (or something similar;).” 27 June 2019 ​ (above) Another night, more rubbish dumped outside Playford Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. The Army's work-for-the-dole people crush it to reduce rubbish dump fees. The Army would have more money for welfare services if they got their soldiers to lug it home, then get their local Councils to remove it for free on hard rubbish days. (Adelaide Homeless Journal photo June 2019). St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore An older diner living in her car cannot get the dole because she returned to New Zealand to care for her dying father. When she returned, they said she has to wait ten years. She says that as soon as her heart problem clears up, she will return to work as that is what she has done for most of her life. There were eight homeless people there and blankets were handed to one man. They are in such short supply that they are kept in the storeroom and given only to people appearing to live outside. The toilets at St Bede’s have been renovated somewhat, but are still inadequate in number. But they are clean. The big problem is finding a place to shower. That One Voice shower van should come to the carpark at Semaphore beach where people live in their cars. Or to the St Bede’s carpark where there is a water tap. They’d do a roaring business instead of making public relations appearances and getting few customers. One client living outside said at breakfast that the Hutt Street Centre saved his life. The homeless people coming to St Bede’s has changed it for the better. They are interesting and they stick around until 10:30pm. A woman named Jayne has turned out to be an expert in communicating and listening to people. What luck to get her on board. St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall 200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road) 8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free. Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated. 26 June 2019 Why are Job Network joints trying to unload tickets to denunciation of Mormons musical? Low cost tickets to the "Book of Mormon" “I read in the Advertiser a few weeks back, that you can purchase tickets to the "Book of Mormon" for $25.00 bucks. So If you want to see a lead character dancing around, professing his homosexuality to other young Mormon men, in (Todd McKenny style) then this is right up your alley..(go get em tiger!) “I am not sure how this show is faring, as far as ratings are going, but the last I heard, is that Job Network agencies and certain charities were trying to rid themselves of FREE tickets, they had received via various corporate sponsorships. “Local Adelaide arts/media celebrities Peter Goers and Russell Starkey (both also long-time heavyweights, in the South Australian, LGHBTI community) have written rave reviews, about this particular musical and another upcoming one (due here in Australia, in September) called "Hamilton" which wait for it (is also about a lead character who is homosexual, although he cannot openly profess his love, as he is a member of the American Senate, during the time of the American War of Independence in 1788. “Am I missing something here, or are musicals now seeming to all be based on homosexual characters and or behaviour and or is this a continuing flavour of the month? “I seem to remember something called "Angels in America," which was about gay men, gay men meeting other men in the park in dark, having sex, then HIV came along and then angels started flying around the room and singing hymns...…..(and I think you get the picture? “The recent (hit musical?) the Wizard of OZ, the Wizard is clearly homosexual? (Run Munchkins run!) "All that Jazz" the director is a raving homosexual. A "A Chorus line, a gay male character in the chorus line, gives a ten minute song and dance spiel, about bumping and grinding his way against other men, whilst travelling home each night, on a crowded New York Subway Train...……. Let's not forget Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and L is for...…(two high rating tv shows from the last ten years). “Then more recent films like "Boy Erased" and "Juno" where a teenage boy is sent to Religious Boot Camp in order that his homosexuality is removed, whilst Juno is about an extremely obnoxious 16 year old, who finds herself pregnant, after daring her (somewhat dim witted) gay male/friend, to have unprotected sex with her? (and guess what the end result was??) “Perhaps, there needs to be musical called, "My Life as a Gay man with HIV and or other physical and mental health issues," and see how many rating stars, that gets?” The Night Talker. 26 June 2019 (above) Anyone living outside might camp on the Salvation Army's hectare of land on Anderson Walk, Munno Para. It's been vacant for three years. The Army probably won't call the police. The Salvation Army works toward housing people, right? How could they object? Bad publicity. Don't break into the old school. It's heritage listed. Salt Church Gawler ​free takeaway food A man aged about 35 said he’d died twice. Once in an ambulance. It was his heart. “Runs in the family,” he said. The two English fellows from Gospel City were there. We sat at the tables drinking coffee. They had two urns, perhaps in response to the other one going dry two weeks ago. Some of AJ’s (Allan Junior) family were there. They are actually nice people without the exuberance of AJ. There wasn’t much bread. No door stoppers or underwear. Lots of healthy soup vegetables. Each person could take 20 kilograms. Also, cans of Coke and frozen meat. Nearly half the soup vegetables were left over after everyone had fled the building twenty minutes after the cloth was removed from the tables. They do that, rush away as if in desperation. The question with Salt Church is whether it is worth the effort and car expense to go there. It is if you like the people and the soup vegetables. Salt Church at Gawler 25 Northside Court, Evanston Gardens. Ph (08) 8522 0000 Thursdays 3pm. No registration and identification required Bread, surplus fresh and healthy fruit and vegetables from local growers and whatever they can get their hands on. Coffee at 2:30pm. Occasionally excellent, other times no good. ​ Late 25 June 2019 In response to Rosie Batty, making poor life choices From the Night Talker “In regards Rosie Batty (what a sad last name that is, because its closer to home, that she will ever know.....). “ I agree totally with you. Rosie herself has stated, she does not "read" people well and that the loss of her mother at the age of six (I do not know, what caused her mothers, actual passing) may have affected her ability to determine, whether someone is a good person and or not a good person (Using non-psychological terms). “As for Greg Anderson, I also agree, there is very little that anyone can say, that is positive about this person, other than perhaps it is a better world, without him in it. “Just on a bit side tangent here. It is interesting to note, that Rosie and Greg, met whilst they were working together at a Recruitment/Labour Hire Company (of sorts?) back in 1996. “It staggers me, that Rosie who has (self) confessed poor emotional cognicity (e.g. the ability to connect, and read others, in order to make safe and sound judgement calls) and then there is Greg, who clearly showed MASSIVE RED FLAGS as far as major personality disorder/psychopathy's, are concerned, would even be considered for employment, in this particular kind of industry. “Greg (even before he went completely off the rails at a later time and sunk to the levels of a Pederast, (he was arrested at a Public Library in Melbourne, accessing Child Porn) and child murderer) was everything you do NOT want in your workplace. “Rude, aggressive, overtly sexual, condescending, highly emotional, lazy, dishonest, egotistical and bullying. (Wow, not exactly the poster-boy for Employee of the month, you would think?) “But then again, fast forward to 2019 and Greg would probably now be, a Manager at some Job Network provider or Multi-national Recruitment/Labour hire Company, cause he appears, to have had, many of the traits, that are exhibited by Employment and or Recruitment Consultants in this current decade. “As for Rosie, regardless of the poor choices she has made in the past, her life has been irrevocably damaged, by the actions of Greg Anderson. “I do not wish to make a judgement call but from a professional perspective, Rosie's behaviour is that of a person, who lives to "enable" others. (Which I think in some respect, she has admitted to, more than once) “Enablers are not generally abusive, in their own right, but they contribute to ongoing abuse and trauma, by behaving in a manner, that allows the abuse to go on and on. They are often also very altruistic (self-sacrificing) (to the point, where others suffer, because of this) and are pretty much, the human equivalent of a Christ like figure (e.g. I am sacrificing myself, on the CROSS of this relationship). The end result of hard-core enabling, is rarely good and in a number of instances (such as Rosie's, quite horrific). “Enablers, are attracted to "bad people" and I mean REALLY bad people (not just someone who has an off day, every once in a while). The names might be different, but the behaviours, are carbon copy/text book. “They are all Greg Anderson's in one form or another. They are aggressive, abusive, dangerous, untrustworthy, deviant, anti-social and highly destructive. But to hard core "Enablers" (who are predominately women, but can occasionally be men) they may as well be, Chris Hemsworth, naked and handcuffed to your bed-railings! “There was nothing physically attractive, about Greg Anderson (he was stick thin, had a rat like face and was going prematurely bald) but to Rosie and to woman like her, he was a BAD BOY and HOT STUFF! (read another article that was written about Greg Anderson by a journalist available online, called LUKE BATTY, KILLED BY THE FATHER, WE NEVER REALLY KNEW). “Greg Anderson (until he went really downhill) was never short of girlfriends; albeit, the relationships didn't last long, usually because he got violent or starting behaving like a whacko, demanding arsewipe, after the first five minutes) but the point I am making, is clear. These persons (they can also sometimes be women) actively look for, the Rosie Batty's of this world. “And whilst we continue to have Rosie Batty's walking around (in male or female form) we will continue, to have tragedies. Rather than Rosie campaigning for changed Domestic Violence Laws, (which I am not against) how about educating girls and boys, (starting in primary school) about what is a positive relationship and what is a negative relationship (e.g. certain personality/character types, are NOT good relationship material and any relationship you have or intend to have, with these kinds of people, needs to entered into, and or considered, with EXTREME CAUTION.) “Rosie wants perpetrators of abuse to be registered (I agree with her) but as a trained social worker, I believe that PREVENTION, IS BETTER THAN THE CURE! It is so much easier to disengage yourself from a potential/and or near-miss situation, rather than extricate yourself, from a relationship, that is a complete "train-wreck" heading for the nearest cliff! “What do you think?” The Night Talker is responding  to the 23 June 2019 post titled: “Rosie” Batty’s faulty life choices ​ 25 June 2019 Cosmic Pages bookshop “got complimentary tickets to attend psychic hemp expo. probably only homeless or homeless looking person in attendance. tickets $15 concession $25 waged placed great hope and faith in diane bellchambers ("cosmic pages" next to theos society) years ago... now washed away today... perhaps next time if catch her attention will bow forward in laughter, slapping my knees and covering my giggle hole with a hand and call out in loudly muffled tone: ha ha ha... comic pages... comic pages... ha ha ha... so much for the new age its really a new$ age.. The Rundle Spy 25 June 2019 Former Tax Office employee banned from Casino for pissing her pants Geanne, 78, worked for the Australian Tax Office. She owned a nice house in the Adelaide suburb of Campbelltown. She didn’t have any children. She was a thin, small woman from Mauritius. She hated Indians and Chinese. She hated bus drivers with turbans. Apart from that, and accusing others of stealing her stuff, she had a pleasant personality. You could find her at the Adelaide Casino. She stood out because she didn’t seem as crazy as most others who hang around the Casino. She didn’t offer to do dirty things with men for twenty-dollars. She was Casino friends with the homeless soup kitchen crowd who have made the Casino their home. They’re surprisingly sane. Problems arose when she began wandered around at night. She’d find herself in strange suburbs when the police would pick her up and take her home. Near the end, she’d forget where she’d left her walking frame within the Casino. She once won five fuel vouchers, then two weeks later had no memory of the event. The Casino tolerated her as they tolerate most old people with money who are close to death. But when she pissed her pants, she became a liability. She wore an incontinence pad, but rarely changed it. She stank. It annoyed the Asians and other players. That’s why they kicked her out. Her brother came over from Perth. He’s the one who wears hearing aids, but keeps them turned off. The other was from Sydney. He worked as an accountant and had Power of Attorney over Geanne’s assets. This second brother stopped the Casino from getting his sister’s house. The brothers flew her to Sydney where they put her in a nursing home. They sold her house and got rid of the contents. The calm atmosphere of the nursing home has helped Geanne regain some of her memory. She phones friends saying she’ll be returning to Adelaide. She wants to return to get her teeth done. She got a second set, but they were no good. The dentist wanted her first pair. “You don’t need them anymore,” he said. But Geanne did want them because the new ones were no good. “I’m coming back to have my teeth done; I’m coming back to my house,” Geanne says. No one has the heart to say her house has been sold and her stuff gone. 24 June 2019 ​ (above) Mark Butler's election poster still tied to the back fence of the old Social Security building across from the AngliPrison in Port Adelaide. No matter how hard he tries, Mark cannot camouflage his Charles Manson eyes. On the Street   A former client of Baptist Westcare is looking forward to getting his ankle bracelet removed. He transported cannabis by the tonne between growers and dealers. It was a good life until he got caught. Now, he has given his life to helping others.   *   The uncle of an employee at Port Adelaide Cash Converters said they have a secret room upstairs where they hide the stolen property during police inspections.   *   Laurie from City Salvos has resigned his paid job with the Salvo’s DUO program and returned as a volunteer. His replacement was described by a guest as “an older woman with grey hair, hard expression. She won’t take any nonsense.”   *   The Asian woman who wants her ailing white boyfriend to put his Woodville house half in her name has told him to wait until she fixes up a Centrelink claim she owes them $43,000. She doesn’t want Centrelink getting any part of her half of the house.   Meanwhile, the woman’s former husband says that she drove him bankrupt through gambling. And the house owner, who can barely stand up, says everyone around him says he is a fool. “But I love her,” he replies.   *   German Marten says the Faith Works Red Shed on Barndioota Road in Salisbury is closing down.   *   A diner at Unley Salvation Army for Monday lunches by donation says hardly more than ten people turn up each week.   Another diner is “always complaining, moving from table to table. She has cancer.”   She sits sideways on bus seats and rests her legs in the aisle and is “going off at everyone”.   *   A former drug dealer victim went to an Offenders’ Aid drug and alcohol rehab meeting at the Port Adelaide Library. He listened as the addicts told how they been “off the gear” for so many weeks or months.   But this former addict was not fool. He observed their eyes. They were still “on the gear”.  They professed to “going clean” because they were either on parole or on remand in the AngliPrison and couldn’t afford to tell the truth. The "therapists" and guards know what is going on. They are not fools. This is the rehabilitation racket. It's a cover for not taking action against the Ice dealers. Too many people on the take. It's too lucrative to smash.   23 June 2019 Response to the Night Talker about Kadina Job Network “Enjoyed reading about the Night Talker standing up for himself at the Kadina job network circus. He should be getting a fuel card to attend in future. They do have them. Thanks to Dunstan who sold off the country rail to Whitlam it’s not like there’s a train station in almost every town. “As a non-homeless regular reader I am thankful for the true insight into homelessness, gov’t departments and charity corporations. I have used many of the contributors to this space to help friends, strangers and myself on hard times. “In regards to Kadina office if they fail to give adequate notice and you cannot budget an unexpected drive let them know. They can offer a fuel card or reschedule an appointment. They are paid to help clients not hinder. The Key (name and email supplied) See The Night Talker's post dated 21 June 2019 23 June 2019 “Rosie” Batty’s faulty life choices Second Edit: 24 June 2019 The Night Talker has responded to this post on Tuesday morning 25 June 2019. Ms Rosemary Anne Batty is at it again, calling for the resignation and destruction of a man’s career for his comments about the reduction of men’s rights over recent years. Her target is John Setka, Secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union in Victoria. Ms Batty wants him to resign and in the process possibly destroy his career. This is because she did not approve of his comments. He also faces a harassment charge that is still before the courts. Ms Batty’s real problem is that she herself made some bad life choices. She chose a man who was insane and murdered her son in the most gruesome and public manner. That was Greg Anderson. Greg and Rosemary had lived together for years, then she left him due to his violence. They reformed their relationship years later during which she became pregnant. It is difficult to say a good word for Greg Anderson. Though one might ask if Rosemary could have done something to temper his vicious anger and violence. Perhaps his psychopathy was too severe and there was nothing she could do. However, “Rosie” has trouble reading people. Why did she return to Anderson after already having experienced his sexual violence and having lived years apart? And why the need now to destroy Setka’s career? It seems that “Rosie” Batty is still a sucker for violent people, the latest being those that are using her to hunt down their targets, in this case, John Setka. And who are these hidden manipulators using the hapless Rosie for their own purposes? 23 June 2019 ​ (above) What appears an abandoned homeless camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands is not. To avoid having their stuff stolen, those living outside leave very little at their camps. An exception is new homeless people. They bring pots and pans and stoves along with personal items and within a few days they are all gone. That is why there should be safe managed storage areas such as that at the defunct Byron Place Community Centre. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2019). Slight drop in Adelaide CBD homeless number According to the Adelaide Zero Project, the number of people “sleeping rough” in the Adelaide CBD and “inner city” has dropped from 227 to 215. This drop might reflect statistical collection rather than actual figures as the previous month’s surge was due to the annual census of those sleeping outside. Nor is it clear where exactly are the boundaries of the “inner city” and whether the number of “rough sleepers” includes people from outer suburbia being referred to the Hutt Street Centre. And we don’t have an absolute definition of “rough sleeping”. During the homeless census, as much details as possible are collected from each person deemed homeless. This information is passed to a private psychiatric business named Neami National. It’s a Byzantium game and in this world of homeless politics few know what is actually going on. What we do know is that it is more about psychiatric and medical treatment than housing. 22 June 2019 ​ Puddle Jumpers free food at Whitmore Square The Adelaide Day Centre soup van and the Puddle Jumpers crowd both arrive outside the Salvation Army joint at 7:00pm every Monday at Whitmore Square. The soup van serves four varieties of high quality homemade soup with dodgy bread and occasionally homemade blueberry muffins. They park near the Salvo drunk tank at Whitmore Square. The Puddle Jumpers crowd park closer to the Salvo Op Shop. Last week they offered hot baked beans with chopped sausages and vegetables. Also a curried rice dish made by two Indians and roast potatoes in foil. Puddle Jumpers’ takeaway food included packets of chopped fruit, Bulla boysenberry drinks, oranges, decent apples, corn-on-the-cob, frozen Ice coffee, grapes, biscuits, tomatoes, raspberries. One client told me in the dull light that Puddle Jumpers on Mondays was “a bloody good find. I’m good for three or four nights, I reckon. Much better than Fred’s Van.” This is a much needed service to rival Fred’s Van that can get 100 clients on Monday evenings. It is also safer than Fred’s Van. No I.D. or registration required. You just need to turn up. The soup van is there every evening except Saturdays while Puddle Jumpers is there on Mondays only. Puddle Jumpers 52 Pleasant Avenue, Glandore, ph (08) 7071 5270. No I.D. or registration required. Every Monday at 5:00pm - 7:00pm except public holidays. Free vegetables and packaged food, hot coffee, soup, hot pies and toiletry products. Hairdressers every Monday with masseurs, doctors and dentists occasionally. Outside Salvation Army detox in Whitmore Sq. from 7:00pm Mondays for free fruit, bread and vegetables with the same at their Op Shops at 300 Port Road, Hindmarsh and 975 South Rd, Melrose Park during the week. Adelaide Day Centre Soup Van Hurtle Square 6:30pm. Whitmore Square 7:00pm. Free. Variety of quality soups and bad bread. Every evening except Saturdays. Operates from the 1st Monday in May to early October. 22 June 2019 ​ (above) The master of the forward slash has hidden the kernels of truth within a mirage of qualifications to protect its meaning from the profane. So-So's latest volume, Ons Goings on Goings On can be downloaded free. http://smarturl.it/infinitymessage So-So on Equity An excerpt from the latest volume from So-So. “Equity generally and mostly refers to evenhandedness, equitableness, fairmindedness, fairness, fairplay, impartiality, connected to/with uprightness and/ honesty. “Equity is rectitudenal; and hence sourcefully spiritual, hence fairness or/ impartiality justice founded in/on ethics/moral/honest and natural reason, rights and upright fairmindedness/handedness. “In jurisprudencial field, equity supplements and corrects law and statute/coded law when there is absent or inadequate remedy for purposes of justice and ‘rightness’. “Equity supersedes law both statute/coded and otherwise when they are in conflict. “Partly majorly in infinitism consciousness enlightenment, equity refers to fairness – the principles of fairness and way of life of fairness, equal alignment, adjustment or and distribution, etc; for example giving to each her/his/their due according to the true sense of natural equitability and equal rights. It is the quality of being impartial comingled in fairness 0referring to impartial fair act(s) and decisions etc in all of Lifes/living spheres always.” So-So is the Chief Messenger of Infinity and moves about the Adelaide homeless scene. His latest volume: “Ons Going/Goings On” can be accessed along with his other books at http://smarturl.it/infinitymessage without charge. So-So buries his gems of wisdom in near impenetrable prose so that only the most determined readers will discover the truths. Early 22 June 2019 The Rundle Spy on the street Found 6 A4 page Adelaide Free Food Guide on footpath in front of Housing SA Flinders Street this morning. Because aye've found it, along with a Baptist Care Free Food Op leaflet, they will not just be blown away, not just wasted. Strange how people can discard a totally useful piece of paper or set of papers, yet pay up big for something almost totally worthless, such as the Adelaide Advertiser, Australian, Age, Herald rags. New$ World... New$ World... New$ World... Its a New$ World... P.S. Aye've nyet (not) bought a rag / newspaper in almost 30 years now. Second Editor: The odd agency or government department reprints those now 28-page leaflets after cutting out anything critical of them. Early 22 June 2019 (above) Wool blankets left on the ground near the West Terrace cemetery from last summer. Some people treasure wool blankets they receive and use them for years after they move from outside to inside a house. Others leave them on the ground then demand new blankets. A farce that only the Job Network Agencies can pull off...….. From The Night Talker “Got an SMS text reminder at 12.15pm yesterday, saying I had a job network appointment with my provider at Kadina, (today at 10.15am). “The appointment letter which was meant to be sent to me a month previously, never turned up in the mail (nothing unusual here, as this JSA is lazy and incompetent as). “So bundle myself into my crappy little Japanese car and headed down to Kadina. Get to my JSA and enter. As usual, it is pretty much devoid of clients, except for maybe six or seven staff members, who as per normal operating procedures, appear to be doing very little (and or nothing of any real importance, which I can discern?) “I glance at the training room (empty) and go and wait in the computer room, which contains one aged IBM computer, no printer, no heating or air conditioning, a couple of very cheap, and very uncomfortable plastic chairs, one large, nearly empty desk with one newspaper on it and a suggestion box (I fill a suggestion and pop it into the box. “I have written that my JSA should shut down and all the staff, spend the remainder of their natural lives, attempting to repair the damage they have caused the unemployed persons, whom they have bullied, intimidated, discredited and devalued) “I then fill out another few suggestions, which contain expletives of various natures (e.g. what was HUNT rhyme with, you arsewipes?) and encourage various named staff members, to seriously think about alternative careers, that do not require, any higher level interpersonal skills) “I then get called into my appointment, (which is in the middle of a large open, plan office, by my dumpy, power dressing, shellaque, nine inched nailed, employment consultant (the second one, I have had in less than eight months) “This one although younger and less grumpy than the previous one, (who was for want of a better word, slightly mentally challenged and overtly hostile) starts pulling out bits of paper, whilst actually doing sweet F.A.. “Not being in the best mood, I stated to her, I don't appreciate appointments, where I have less than one days notice (the drive from my house to Kadina and back is a two hour round trip) and I had to cancel another appointment I had organised today to attend this meeting, where as usual, nothing is achieved. “Well, you could have heard a pin drop, as my dumpy, twenty something unemployment consultant, started hacking and coughing, like she was attempting to bring up the biggest "FURBALL" on the planet. “Suddenly, Chubby , cheerful, lazy employment consultant (who also happens to be the area coordinator of some obscure project or something similar) starts raging and venting; "I'm not putting my name to any jobs, that might be suitable for you? You keep telling us, your a qualified so and so, and you won't accept any job other than what your qualified in?" (Damn straight sister!) “I said, what would you know about what jobs I will and wont accept (this aside, I haven't actually been offered a single position that has been procured for my by the JSA in question, in the eight months, I have attending appointments, so I really don't know where this argument is going?) as you have only been my consultant for the last two months? “More ranting, I have been listening in on your conversations, with your other consultant. Really? How does that fit into your agencies current stance on the privacy and confidentiality of clients? (including myself) “Silence now (but you can still hear the cogs ticking over in TUBBY's brain, as she now is starting to realise, "shit, I might have really fu**** up here?" “So her plan to get her out of this situation? she pulls out one of her cards with her name on it, and writes a phone number on the back of it and saids, I need to call it to go and transfer to another provider. (Smart you say, get rid of the bad client, and then "Tubby" can get back to her Facebook page and sending SNAPCHAT messages and talking to other staff, about her latest genital piercing) “No afraid not. "Tubby" is just not that bright (she did proudly boast to me a few minutes earlier, that she has been employed since she was 14) “I counteracted by telling her, that working at Macca's or some similar fast food joint, doesn't really equate to any kind of higher level learning, so it might be in her own best interests, to just shut up about her former career in the fast-food industry) “So she tells me to leave and flounces off to go and probably have a good cry, to the office manager, (who is herself, probably only in her late twenties and seems to have had a prior, illustrious career as a child, care worker) (so I was told in a later conversation with her) “I get back to my car and call the number that "Tubby" has scrawled on the back of her business card (in large, childish writing)only to find that between ordering me to leave and myself entering my car, "Tubby" who doesn't respond to emails, and has the mental range of a windscreen wiper, has breached me, and suspended my payments. “Reason? For not fully participating in the interview process??? What "Tubby" doesn't realise, is that by suspending me, she has affectively kyboshed my ability to transfer to another provider. (I told you, she was pathologically stupid and doesn't know her own job) now you have proof. “So I am advised by the Human Services Rep I am speaking too at the Job Network Complaints line (of which the number "Tubby" herself gave me) that I have to ring back the provider (the area manager of Kadina) and have them remove the suspension) this I duly did (throwing in a few threats about ringing up Leon Byner from 5AA breakfast talkback fame) (who has a pathological hatred of all job Network providers), the Big Issue Editor, and Hang Jongen's office in Canberra (the CEO of Centrelink) if my benefits are not immediately reinstated. “(Surprise, surprise, they were reinstated in less than ten minutes) I demand a confirmation of this (for my own protection) which came in the form of a SMS reply, which is now safely stored on my phone. “Miss Former Child Care worker now area manager, although snarky and rude (as are the majority of staff at my current JSA) is strangely subdued, because she is a bit more clued up than "Tubby" and realises this incident this morning, will most likely have fall out effects. (Give the lady a prize!) “After I got off the phone with miss former child care worker, I got back on the phone to the number that "Tubby" supplied me with, and lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Human Services, in regards having my private and confidential information, breached by a staff member who has nothing to do with my case worker or myself. “I threw a few choice words around like statutory obligations and breach of code of conduct, and bingo, the complaint went straight to a senior investigative officer at DHS, who took all my details down and issued me with, a formal Complaint lodgement number. ​ SUCK ON THAT "TUBBY" You might want to rethink your former career at MACCAS/KFC, once I am finished with you!” The Night Talker 21 June 2019   Nephew from Argentina airlifts Spanish Peter to Argentina Peter came to Adelaide after being stabbed in the hand in Melbourne. Someone accused him of being a child molester. His hand never got better. Peter, or Pedro, as some called him, lived in Hackney Lodge where he was attacked and never fully recovered from a head injury. After that, he threw salt over his shoulder when he walked by his attacker’s room. Peter had a way of provoking people with accusations. Or making leud comments in French, not realising that some of us speak that language. He was also attacked in the Hutt Street Centre. According to a source there, “He got whacked in the head down at Hutt Street Centre…they grabbed his walking stick and whacked him in the eye.” Peter was third generation Lebanese Catholic from Spain. He could speak multiple languages, worked as a teacher and could recite the Bible. I remember sitting in the back of Vince Focarelli’s restaurant with Peter and one of Vince’s Moslem henchmen. They were debating religion and Peter was dignified as the younger man talked over him. He also liked women. Lots of them. That’s why he never had a cent to spend on anything else. Spanish Peter lived at Crazy Cottage then moved to The Terraces, known as Unity House, on South Terrace, former home of the Clued-up Drug Dealer and others. Peter never used drugs and eventually got kicked out. Like many in the homeless scene, he suffered food neurosis. He never got enough and claimed that volunteers wouldn’t serve him. Yet he knew everywhere to go including Chinese churches and the Bahai Faith. He even pretended to be a school official and walked into a school on South Terrace and stole 30 cans of soft drink. On another occasion, he walked out of the South Western Community Centre near Whitmore Square with their cake and gourmet cheese. But over the last year he aged quickly. His unsteadiness became so acute that he’d cross roads pushing his walking frame backwards. He could no longer get into or out of cars and fell backwards from a bus door. He tripped a lot in his oversize slippers because, like many elderly homeless people, he’d lost the ability to buy clothing that fits properly. Yet he was a decent fellow and an intelligent conversationalist and what lay behind his torment is a mystery. The Adelaide homeless scene has lost another insightful identity as a generation fades away and is replaced by a new era of lost people. 21 June 2019 ​ Tenancy Information ​Advisory Service From anony@mouse via the anonymous contact page “TIAS (Tenants Information Advisory Service) mentioned that many public housing units and houses remain vacant because tenants used them for drug labs and are regarded as unsafe for living because of hazardous chemicals still present. “Also, SOME TIAS Staff are more interested in writing novels than interacting with homeless or those at risk of homelessness... “P.S. An exec of SYC or ‘Southern Youth Commitment’ (TIAS parent body) was found guilty of stealing $350K from SYC meant to help struggling teenagers. Ref: Executive is charged with stealing more than $350,000 from a charity for struggling teenagers 21 June 2019 (above) Nowhere to hide at night. The Adelaide City Council continues its hostile horticulture program of removing undergrowth near the West Terrace Cemetery. This makes it easier for authorities to surveil homeless people. (Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2019). Pilgrim Church Code Blue ​false alert? Pilgrim Church in Adelaide has been promoted in the print and electronic media as letting homeless people stay in their building on cold nights. However, a Church spokeswoman said this morning that this is not the case. The idea of operating as a night shelter on nights deemed Code Blue is still in negotiation with Baptist WestCare. That is what the elderly woman on the phone said. She added that if a deal is made, WestCare will run the overnight shelter using the Pilgrim Church’s building. 20 June 2019 ​ Self-congratulatory homeless conference In another example of wasted money that could be better used building houses, the Don Dunstan Foundation is hosting their annual 2019 Homelessness Conference. It features speakers from the United States and Australia talking about their successes in preventing and reducing homelessness. It’s true, there have been successes, but these are limited to small geographical areas. While our political and legal system may allow small successes, the Deep State agenda of engineered homelessness won’t allow these successes to expand. And the Don Dunstan Foundation won’t comment on this. As to keeping up their optimistic propaganda, are the Don Dunstan crowd blind? Do they drive about Housing Trust suburbs and see the boarded up units and houses that have been empty for months or years? Or the expanses of grass off Hanson Road in Woodville Gardens where houses had previously stood? Have they been to Semaphore or other beach suburbs at dawn and seen the run-down cars and vans leaving the carparks? Do the American speakers visit Seattle or Los Angeles or any American city? Do the Don Dunstan crowd understand the corruption of Adelaide’s homeless industry? On each weekday, there are dozens of government employees rushing to meetings in government cars to discuss homelessness. They return to their offices and churn out reports that no one reads. Yet none will speak publicly of the 1000 Housing Trust and community houses and units sitting empty. Adelaide’s homeless industry bureaucrats are the oppressors of those living outside. There are hundreds of these bureaucrats. They siphon off money that could be used to build houses. Meanwhile, back at the Preventing Homelessness conference, a ticket will cost $185 for the day, $110 Concession or free for a limited number of others if they plead their case. Hearty pleading. And there won’t be any homeless speakers, or anyone critical of the homeless industry.   The self-congratulatory conference is on Wednesday 7 August 8.30 am - 4.00 pm at the Adelaide Convention Centre. They could stage it in a church hall, but that would be too obvious. All those bureaucrats clacking into the hall. The carpark and surrounding streets jammed with their cars. Using the Adelaide Convention Centre will allow them to filter through the crowds unobtrusively so few outside their corrupt circle will know about their event. 20 June 2019   Free food at the Bower Cottages ​at Semaphore South There was a friendly mood amongst the crowd collecting the free food ($1.00 donation) despite one client spending 15 minutes talking loudly on his phone about being pursued by drug dealers. Bronwyn got two kids to hand out certain items so they learn to serve others and understand responsibility. The St Peter’s Cathedral dead Deacon’s sister had been attacked by a pet bird just above her right eye. It was a horrible injury luckily missing her eyeball. She is the CMAX Kid’s adopted mother. He adopted her. That woman who manages the Food Bank store spoke politely to The Night Stalker. Another woman, the one who always complains, did the same about the meal. She said it wasn’t good enough. Barbara was missing. So were the salt and pepper shakers on the tables, but this had nothing to do with Barbara. The meal included “plant sausages”, the new name given to sausages without meat. They were so good that meat eaters preferred them to the poxy hot dogs made from both ends of a cow’s digestive tract. Most people didn’t stay for the meal due to inadequate seating both inside and outside, and three 15-minute waiting times standing in the queue before being served at the counter. However, Bronwyn Plate is shaping her outfit incrementally more professional week by week. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Men’s toilets designed with strange door giving women visual access to men inside. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets with normal doors. 20 June 2019 (above) Business as usual at Playford Salvation Army in Elizabeth after the scavengers have fled the dawn. The good stuff is gone before it reaches the Salvo store. Re: Indian Man can't get newstart unless he volunteers somewhere? “This is only partly correct; In order to claim Newstart, he has to apply online via the centrelink website and then connect up with a JNP (Job Network Provider) Centrelink will not do this for him. Then he has to enter into a Job plan agreement with a JNP. “He can't just decide to go and volunteer somewhere, without the first off approval of the JNP provider, he is registered with. Usually the volunteering happens after he has been on centrelink for a minimum of six months, but depending on his age (e.g. if he is 64.5 years of age, and has like six months to go before he is eligible for the aged pension, using this as an analogy) the job network provider, will probably let him do volunteer work (at a minimum of 15 hours a week) to bide his time, before he turns 65 and can begin to claim the aged pension. “Just another quick note, if he is at that age, he needs to put in his paperwork for the aged pension claim, at least six months before he turns 65. (Centrelink makes allowances in their claim process, to be able to do this) mainly because, it can take up to 19 weeks for a claim (for the aged pension) to be processed and then approved. “The big issue here is despite both parties (Centrelink and JNP's) having similar working roles (one provides payment, whilst the other provides compliance, threats and so called job ready activities (using this term extremely loosely) neither work together and both LOATHE each other. Centrelink staff hate JNP staff and JNP staff, feel the same about Centrelink staff (trust me, I have worked in both areas, in the last 15 years) “Centrelink staff however, are (by and large) sufficiently educated, reasonably well paid, tightly controlled and held accountable for the work they do and the outcomes they approve (and or not approve). “The same cannot be said for JNP staff, who are (mostly) not well educated at all, often psychologically unbalanced and/or prone to bully and verbally abuse people on their case load, poorly paid, lack the interpersonal skills necessary to be able to do their job well, and work in an environment where favouritism, nepotism and unreasonable employment outcomes, are the flavour of the day. They also have to deal with some (very) average behaviours, on an often continual basis, (which unlike Centrelink staff) they are not shielded against) (in in response, high staff absenteeism/turnover is common within JNP agencies) “I strongly suggest that if this gentleman wants to get back on Newstart he ring Centrelink and ask to speak to one of their social workers. They have the power to override any previous decisions that have been by Centrelink and or investigate any decisions made by a JNP. “I am assuming that if he was previously on N.A. he would have been registered with a JNP somewhere? If you are breached for whatever reason, (I have been once in the last twelve months) you usually just have to go online and do something (like sign your job plan for instance) and your benefits will be returned? “I am not sticking up for either Centrelink or the JNP providers (as both could do far better, in my opinion) so what is the issue here? If you don't want to be on Newstart and your not eligible for the aged pension (or some other allowance) I am afraid, all you have left is destitution (e.g. living on the street or out of your car) or finding a job (in a real hurry) If you don't like this, ask yourself what you would be eligible for in India, if you were currently unemployed? “Good luck in your journey.” The Night Talker 18 June 2019 ​Hampstead Rehabiltation Centre Piano Player Wayne says that young druggies are moving into the Hampstead Rehabiltation Centre. Other patients lock their rooms when they go to the café or gym. One patient suffered an overdose and was taken away, then returned to continue physical rehabilitation after a tumour was removed from his spine. He was on methadone and was a pill poppr. “The dietician in here reckons those [homeless joints] joints should be closed down until they supply proper food.” Visitors bring drugs in and exchanges are made in the café, or patients meet the dealers in the carpark. 19 June 2019 From the anonymous contact page Mama Goulash “The lovely lady who ran & owned Sofias bistro cafe in north Adelaide during 1992-2007 sadly passed away in May this year after a short battle with cancer - she would open her doors to the homeless at Christmas time especially to charities like teen challenge & waranilla her motto was always love & kindness she went out of her for those who needed good homemade cooked food.” 19 June 2019 From the anonymous contact page Housing Trust “HELLiott Lodge (Elliott Lodge), Park Terrace, GILBERTON: Last night Crims Illegals Savages broke / bashed many outdoor lights. Lights and fixtures broken are back and front porch lights, that many of us rely on for light at night since we have no electricity inside units (electrical turned off or cannot afford it). Interesting thing is, the SAHA (Housing "Authority") housing officer was doing major set of visits and inspections yesterday at units... We always look for correlations... And deduce / induce possible motives... 1. PERHAPS Crim Clients were angry at official visits to their premises, drug labs etc OR 2. PERHAPS housing officer actually prompted and encouraged subservient Crims to pop out lights so place can be even further run down and sold off to Development Syndicate and reap a big profit to Syndicate Australia (SA) Government (SAG)... 3. PERHAPS neither or both of the above... Why why why... take a perfectly good public housing trust place and run it down into a violent crime-ridden garbage dumping ground ??? HELLiott Lodge Reporter 19 June 2019 (above) The IGA at Semaphore gives their day-old bread to St Bede's Drop-in-Centre at 200 Military Road, Semaphore. Police remove Junior at ​Victory Church BBQ The tall Somalian was pushing around a group of short black Africans. His name is Junior. He came over to the church BBQ area and knocked Old Val against a tree. She’s a Coca Cola addict, but has no other addictions. Junior moved into the crowd hanging around the barbecue trailer. The preacher sang and clapped and said Jesus would take away all our worries. Other members of the church put their hands on the afflicted and called on Jesus for help. The garden-size BBQ van was parked against the fence. The cook dished out sausages and fried onions on white bread with sauce. The man who repeats every statement six times was amazed at the huge quantities available. He told me this six times. The police parked in the bus area and talked to Junior for twenty minutes. More police arrived including one with a huge stomach. “He’s not very fit,” the man who repeats him told me six times. One young officer told Junior, “You’re not in trouble. We just want to take you home.” Junior wouldn’t get into the back of the paddy wagon. “I want a normal car,” he demanded. Twenty minutes later, a normal unmarked police car arrived. Four officers half pushed Junior into the car. He called out, “My people, the white people are abusing me.” No one was fooled by that line including his African friend who told him to get into the car. Eventually, he did and he was gone. Junior was treated more politely than someone beat up by a drug thug. Too much paperwork. Old Val showed us a tube of Dencorub. She’d had a fall two years ago and her ankle had never gotten better. She hoped the Dencorub would work where the others ointments had not. She also talked about Coca Cola. She said her father told her that something had to kill you eventually, in this case, Coco Cola. The Horse Trainer Lady joined the conversation. She collects cans from rubbish bins. It turns out she is a Believer and a quasi-missionary on her tours of rubbish bins. There have been rumours for years that she is a wonderful human. It was she who stuck by Junior over the hour he was at the BBQ and negotiating with the police. Later, she waved her hands in front of my eyes as I flipped in and out of a seizure. The preacher made a poignant comment when he said, “We love them even if they are regulars.” The point being that their Ministry uses the Friday evening BBQ as a means of bring people to Jesus. They want new people to get a sausage and get the healing of Jesus. And they did arrive. A group of well-dressed Aboriginals with stick-thin ankles; a Nepalese family; more black Africans; a couple of druggies. I didn’t recognise any homeless people. They usually go to bed early to maximise the hours of low quality sleep. And then as I emerged from a seizure, I saw that the clients had disappeared and the eight orange-coated church people had turned their backs to me. It was time to leave. Second Editor Victory Church free barbecue Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial. Fridays 5:45 to at least 7:30pm. Free. Quite nice. On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury. A bit religious. 18 June 2019   Salisbury Fred’s Van The illiterate man who collects cans from rubbish bins and rarely speaks more than two words is from an old family. He lives in a vine-covered cottage fronting one of Salisbury’s last olive groves. He is a local identity.   The CMAX Kid’s adopted mother suffers back pains from a recent car smash. Insurance has paid for the car, but her back hurts. Shuffles says she’s lost her “mojo” after her recent heart attack. Long from Vietnam managed the depleted free food room that included a few eggs for those first in the queue. There were ten Aboriginals people and one black African. The rest were white folk and some islanders. Kate’s friends have been missing from all soup kitchens for the past two or three weeks. The meal included Maranello pasta, chicken schnitzel, cheese and ham buns, a fresh salad and some questionable deep-fried dim sims. Dessert was apple crumble with custard and canned fruit. Half the guests left before dessert was served. As usual, the joint was too crowded, which put disabled people at a disadvantage. It’s survival of the fittest at most free meal venues. Volunteers try to include everyone fairly, but the meal time is not long enough. People living outside don’t go there as they cannot face the undercurrent of potential violence. They’re already running on empty and cannot afford a physical or mental assault. Those of us in houses can repair ourselves after an emotional upset with a safe night in our safe beds. Staff began packing up the tables and chairs within ten minutes of the last patrons finishing dessert. Too soon. We aren’t animals at a feed station. Mick, formerly of Mick and Denise, drove one-eyed Steve and Tricky Mick home whose clapped-out cars were both off the road. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. Decent staff. 18 June 2019 Correction Please From the anonymous contact page Adelaide Homeless Journal wrote: "A South Australian Housing Authority (Housing Trust) employee threatened to hang up when a client said he was recording their conversation. Yet the housing trust records client phone conversations as well as office conversations." "Housing Trust" is defunct or morphed into "Housing Terror" Can't Trust 'em. Can't Trust 'em 'terris... terrorists.” The Rundle Spy 18 June 2019 ​ (above) Five years ago, Peter Byrne from Baptist WestCare threw these tennis balls at the Department of Education building while he was waiting for Fred's Van in Gawler Place Courtyard in Adelaide. Later, a blood vessel burst in his brain and he died. ​The Royal Adelaide Hospital Nursing Home A regular patient from the homeless scene staying at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) says that one floor is a virtual nursing home with senile residents wandering from room to room. This regular patient has the Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) superbug caught in the hospital. This patient stays in a single room in the hospital, but says the senile residents wander from room to room, including those holding infectious patients. These senile patients are ready to leave hospital, but are kept inside due to inadequate nursing home beds in South Australia. Meanwhile, people arriving at the RAH with life threatening conditions are denied proper treatment due to lack of beds. 17 June 2019 ​ A process known as "Ratting" From The Night Talker “Some years ago, a family friend (now deceased) who spent almost thirty years in a senior and then executive management role, with a well known South Australian Charity (that still operates to this day) told my parents and myself, about the process known as "ratting." “This is where volunteers and paid staff, "acquire" for themselves, good quality or valuable commodities that were freely handed over as donations by the general public. These valuables included antiques, cash, vintage clothing, (including leather and fur jackets/suits/retro and vintage/expensive shoes/handbags/dresses/gloves/hats/corsets etc) jewellery, furniture, collectable toys, coins, militaria, records, kitchenware, photographs, stamps, letters, rugs, drapes and oriental ware. “The family friend told my parents that once at the home of a deceased person, who was under the care of the public trustee (the charity had been asked to clear out the home, as no living relatives could be contacted to do this) a MILO tin was found, which was alleged to have contained somewhere between $60,000 to 100,000 dollars. (This is not unusual, my father when he was dying, started hiding money in his microwave, which I only found after his death in 2011). “Somewhere between finding and handing over the tin containing the money, it mysteriously disappeared? As the owner was dead, and the Public Trustee did not want any bad publicity (the person allegedly died alone in their home, which was in a squalid condition, despite being under the care of the P.T) no further investigations (e.g. police were not contacted) were ever instigated in regards, where the money went? “This was not the only alleged incident. Several volunteers and a few paid staff of the particular charity in question, ran lucrative side businesses, outside of their volunteering and or paid duties. This included owning some very swanky antique stores in the Eastern suburbs, one very large Second Hand Store, off of Port Road and a regular stall at the Gepps Cross Market. (All of this was known to the manager and several other senior and middle management staff. “In fact, the family friend stated, that the stuff that actually ends up at Charities is by enlarge "rubbish" that is knocked back by volunteers and paid staff. “Even recently, I was sitting in my car outside of a well known charity near the Parafield Airport waiting for my car to be serviced at a service centre down the road, when I noticed several staff (wearing name tags and uniforms of a very well known charity, going out at regular intervals and placing boxes of items, in their own cars. (This happened several times over). “This particular charity, is also known to send donated clothes overseas, where they are resold at considerable profit. “So the next time you see someone, taking something from the front of a charity bin, I wouldn't feel so bad. I am NOT suggesting that DUMPING rubbish outside of charity bins is okay (it isn't) but I can tell you that a whole lot more "STEALING" goes on inside the charities, than does outside. The Night Talker 17 June 2019 (above) The surreal existence of the drug addict. How does someone living that life return to the regimented and surveilled life of your typical welfare recipient? Marilyn is dead Marilyn died six months ago. She played the toy piano alongside the Celebrity Can Collector in front of the Adelaide Railway Station, next to the Casino. She also sang, but preferred the piano. A cigarette usually hung from her mouth as she played. Her clothing was full of holes from ash dropping from her smokes. She was really fat and short and relied on a walking frame. She got beat up by her husband who was short and nasty. He might have gone to jail over it. What a fantastic and unique woman and she is gone. She is free and we have suffered a loss. 16 June 2019 ​From the Street The man with sores over his face got moved on by police from the Adelaide Railway Station. He was a busker who played alongside Marilyn and the Celebrity Can Collector. The sores disgusted commuters and amazed Asian tourists. The man was a druggie. The sores were his body expelling poisons contained in the drugs. * “I thought we were supposed to be working together.” Stephen the Cook from UnitingSA Chat and Chew free meal in Port Adelaide talking about three free meals occurring at the same time in the Port Adelaide/Semaphore area on Wednesday evenings. * That tall, slim man named Terry recently died from a brain aneurism. He was 27 and moved amongst the Adelaide homeless scene including the Hutt Street Centre. * Drugs are an effect of homelessness, not the cause, said an experienced welfare worker in the Adelaide CBD. “Usually,” the worker qualified. * A South Australian Housing Authority (Housing Trust) employee threatened to hang up when a client said he was recording their conversation. Yet the housing trust records client phone conversations as well as office conversations. * Clayton’s Uniting Church has solved the problem of Sunday being the quietest day of the week at the church. They’ve brought in Chinese Christians with heaps of pregnant women and little kids. Getting a parking space on Sundays is now a problem at the church. * “That’s a bit hard to believe,” said a street woman when told that all the troublemakers had disappeared from the Hutt Street Centre. * “She’s a nutbag. She’s dangerous because she fools so many people. She is cunning to the nth degree.” Comment from the street about Robyn the Junkie. * Rumour has it that the SA state government is pressuring the Hutt Street Centre to move shop, but “Ian Cox has dug in his heels,” and won’t move. He wants a redevelopment of the site. * Semaphore Fruit and Vegetables donate produce to the free breakfast at the Freemasons’ Centre in Port Adelaide. * “Threads Together” provide the free new clothing at the Port Church free Wednesday meals at Largs Bay. Rose Darling said the clothing otherwise would have gone into “landfill”. More details from the Adelaide Free Food page on this website. * “Please don’t poke a hole in my alibi.” Graffiti near a hole in the wall in the invalid toilet room at ​UnitingSA in Port Adelaide. * A home owner at a soup kitchen believes his brother poked a hole in his backyard plumbing. He said the brother offered to help him do any work on his property. The home owner believes his brother is trying to set the scenario for going to the Public Trustee and saying he is incompetent to look after his own affairs. The home owner says his siblings tried this previously. * Libraries including the one in Port Adelaide have installed men’s toilet doors that make a loud squeaky sound. When a man exits the room, the female librarians make extended eye contact. If any man does not believe this, go to the Port Adelaide library and test this for yourself. * The surveillance camera at the Port Adelaide library and Salisbury Institute building use the same software as ankle bracelets put on child molesters and inmates of the AngliPrison in Port Adelaide. We are facing the mass criminalisation of the Australian population. Meanwhile, library workers are destroying books to erase white Australian settler (invader) history and replace it with a new version. * Diners at St Bede’s still talk about the morning when Piano Player Wayne arrived with his Therapy Cat and the shouting that ensued. Wayne is currently at the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre. He’s got a plastic leg plus a wheelchair and has been there for three months. A doctor said they will now charge him $65 a day rent so he better go home. * A homeless man attacked two men at Semaphore after they provoked him with racial taunts. He later went to their house and apologised. He realises violence is his problem. * The Least Active Volunteer at St Bede’s Drop-in Centre is limping badly. He says he jumped in front of an old woman falling down some stairs. Others say his injury came from too much physical movement in bed with a woman friend. * A man at a soup kitchen said his doctor told him never to go anywhere without his nitro-glycerine spray for his heart condition. “Where is it now?” I asked, knowing the answer. “I forgot it at home,” he replied, then added, “My wife carries some.” * A source in the Department of Community and Social Inclusion (DCSI) says there are thirty homeless people in Gawler. * The old Indian man still isn’t on welfare. He was on NewStart unemployment payments then applied for the Aged Pension. Centrelink refused payment saying he couldn’t get the pension until he’d been in Australia for ten years. The man said he cannot go back on NewStart. I phoned Centrelink and they said he can go back on NewStart as long as he does volunteer work, which he has been doing at the Salvation Army in Elizabeth East. Maybe the Army can help the man return to NewStart and continue doing unpaid work back of their Elizabeth East complex. * Orange Sky Laundry had just one customer at Fred’s Van Salisbury last Sunday. * A man at an Adelaide soup kitchen has a jailhouse tattoo on the side of his face. He was in a motorcycle gang, but got kicked out when he started using drugs. The public doesn’t know it, but many motorcycle gang members abhor drugs and some gangs have campaigns against child molesters and paedosexuals. Nothing is purely black and white. * The Twelve25 Salisbury Youth Enterprise Centre controls the Salisbury Institute building. They provide information for homeless people. They still list Fred’s Van as being held at the Anglicare Hall in Church Street when it has been in their own building for over two years. * A client went to the Food Bank at Elizabeth Anglicare and saw “eleven volunteers walking around and doing f*** all. The shelves were pretty bare.” * Former AFL player, Daryl Poole, got a surprise at Nanna’s Free Food Basket free 9:00am breakfast on Fridays at the Freemason’s building in Port Adelaide. While speaking to The Night Stalker, he discovered they were distant cousins. * Lester and Brody wouldn’t come up the elevator at the free Friday breakfast at the Freemason’s building in Port Adelaide. So the CMAX Kid was relegated to taking down food to them at the side door. * A Common Ground tenant at Light Square, Adelaide said there are tiny cameras placed inside the “studio apartments”. The tenant said the building was riddled with “prison snitches” who lied about each other to management so they could gain “points” and be given higher quality rooms. This is the prison model. 16 June 2019 ​ (above) Hemmings Park, also known as Gawler Place Courtyard, is the site of Fred's Van in the Adelaide CBD. They were getting 100 clients on Mondays at 7:00pm. Puddle Jumpers and the Adelaide Day Centre soup van offer a better alternative on Mondays at 7:00pm outside the Salvation Army at Whitmore Square. (above) The courtyard is known officially as Hemmings Park. Terry provided an empty government building on Wright Street to Neil Bartlett of the Unemployed Workers Union. Later, Terry said of Neil, "He even got me to give him free electricity." Neil's mother took him to Boys Town when he was eight. She said she'd be back, but never returned. When Neil's heart went bad at 47, he chose to die rather than have surgery. Terry had a productive political career then in later years became the dishwasher at St Bede's Drop-in-Centre where he was the life of the party. The twilight of the dealer The Clued-up Drug Dealer is attempting another comeback. He dreams of the good old days when he controlled the main entry door to the Hutt Centre. The police are watching him like a hawk, not because of his line of work, but because he is an embarrassment to the Commissioner. The Dealer spent two years as the Hutt Street Centre’s bouncer. He determined who entered the building. Drug addicts were welcome. Rival dealers not welcome. He was immune from police and Hutt Street Centre management interference. Minor junkies operating at street level can make $2000 a day, but if their addiction costs that amount, then they are still poor and eat at the Hutt Street Centre. The Commissioner of Police went on ABC Adelaide radio saying, “I’m not in the business of arresting Ice dealers.” He qualified his gaff, of course, but the Dealer having any presence near the Hutt Street Centre is an acute embarrassment to the South Australian police. Robyn is backing his comeback, but a recent event where he was allegedly “wielding a knife” didn’t help things. But the sad truth is that the Clued-up Drug Dealer’s time in the sun has ended. Newer dealers with lower profiles and new modus operandi have taken his customers, forever. He’s like redundant ex-jockey hanging around the race track, placing his pension money on his next big winner than never reaches the finish line. 15 June 2019 ​ Semaphore homeless crowd ​visit St Bede’s Mitch from Semaphore Hostel has been given a last warning from Andrew the Manager after being caught pulling out shrubs from the front of the St Bede’s church hall. Jill Rivers opened the doors early on this morning. There was a cold wind blowing in from the Gulf of St Vincent. There were perhaps fifty people in the building including an influx of eight living in the cars in the Semaphore South carpark. Also, a man sleeping on a laundromat floor and a woman temporarily crashed in a man’s spare room. An elderly couple have been living in their van for nine months, while their neighbour is an ailing Vietnam veteran. A young man has no income and has been stranded in his van without petrol. Others without cars live amongst the coastal vegetation and in carparks further north along the Le Fevre Peninsula. One woman in her car said it was “absolutely disgusting someone who fought to keep us free is treated this way.” She was talking about the Vietnam veteran. One man living in a station wagon went to the government dentist to have two teeth removed, but the dentist pulled out five. The homeless man is going back for four more extractions and expects to have all his teeth pulled and replaced with dentures. He is 35 and doesn’t use drugs. This is dentistry for the poor. A young man living in the carpark said you should wear and carry everything of value during the day because whatever you leave in your camp or car might be gone when you return. He said there were about 80 people living in cars or the bushes along the coast north of Semaphore. An Anglican volunteer talked of robberies in the church. She said a drug addict asked to tour the church during a service. While the preacher was preaching, the addict stole money and valuables from every room to which he gained access. Then he went to other churches. A high school teacher has become the latest unpaid volunteer at St Bede’s. She said she had a day off every week so why not help out. A Monty Pythonesque character swanned into the dining room wearing a black blanket over his religious clothing. It was tied together with an ornate metal clasp. This was Priest Priest who is filling in for another priest he calls, “Ruth Baby”, who is on holidays. Priest Priest’s real name is Gary Priest, but he is also an Anglican priest. He fits in very well because he is at least as weird as we are. We still miss the preacher named Ken Bechaz because he told the drug dealers to f*** *ff. They did not return. St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall 200 Military Road, Semaphore (near Semaphore Road) 8:30am - 10:30am Tuesday and Wednesday. Everything free. Hamburgers or sausages, baked beans, toasted ham and cheese sandwiches, yoghurt, cereals, slices of fruit and biscuits. Takeaway fruit and vegetables. Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Inadequate toilets, but usually clean, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated. 15 June 2019   Stand against and deplore revengeAn excerpt from So-So’s latest book: “Ons Going/Goings On “Please do not ever revenge/be vengeful or bear revengeness or adopt or have reveng/eness/ingness consciousness/mind as good believe and/way of life for it should be always deplored, so please deplore revenge and its associates and its likes for it is neither sefl/person(s)/people(s) genuine defence(s) nor nonviolence/non violence infus/ed/ing, enhance/er/ing but violence/vicious circle of violence promoter and enhance/er/ing etc for all revenges and vengefulness stem from an im/unpure mind, unrectitudeness and are harmf/ul/ulness intended and does harm or/violence in the inner and out of person(s) and outer of the situation(s) in question…” So-So is the Chief Messenger of Infinity and moves about the Adelaide homeless scene. His latest volume: “Ons Going/Goings On” can be accessed along with his other books at http://smarturl.it/infinitymessage without charge. So-So buries his gems of wisdom in near impenetrable prose so that only the most determined readers will discover the truths. 15 June 2019 ​ (above) Fresh Paris Creek organic quark donated to Fred's Van in Adelaide. If you buy Paris Creek products, you are helping people who live in their cars. Bruce Kurtzer and Faith Works challenge Cos We Care in Elizabeth Bruce Kurtzer and his Faith Works team are offering free fruit and vegetables in Elizabeth on Saturday 15 June. They will be at the Beacon of Hope Church of Christ from 10:00am to 12:00 noon at 38 Ashfield Road, Elizabeth, which runs alongside Main North Road and back of Office Works at Phillip Highway. This means that people can move from Cos We Care over in Fremont Park from 7:30am to 9:00am to Faith Works at 10:00am. Both services haven’t any I.D. or registration requirements. Reviews and comparisons of the two services are welcome. Faith Works is overtly fundamentalist Christian while Cos We Care people keep their spiritual believes to themselves. An inside source at the Beacon of Hope says that Bruce wants to operate permanently from that location. It is believed that Bruce sent spies recently to Fremont Park to observe Cos We Care’s operation. Late 14 June 2019 ​ Shane dead Shane’s parents visited him at the hospice where he lived his last days before dying from cancer. One a particular day, his parents visited him, but were made to leave by another visitor. This was Robyn from the Hutt Street Centre. Shane lived on the streets. He was in the St Andrew’s Medical Centre carpark near the Hutt Street Centre when Trent Jefferis was stabbed with a broken beer bottle. Shane stopped the bleeding. He saved Trent’s life. Shane died two months ago. There should be a memorial near One Tree for Shane. 14 June 2019 ​ Diner not happy with Elizabeth Anglicare and The Food Barn “… it was canned pineapple mixed with grated raw carrot, cubed chicken, pea and a bit of rice in a weird sugary sauce with sloppy mashed potato and one slice of bread with marge thrown on the plate so the bread got all soggy. “…they have a fully functioning commercial kitchen and a full-sized storeroom. Put a huge pot of bones or vegetables on the gas hob overnight and make stock. Then add rice/met/diced veg/ Vegeta/tomato paste and make ministroni soup or veg soup or stew that can be served over two or three days. Not the ‘make an hour before the doors open’ shite they put together.” “Half the time they serve big portions to the Aboriginees, etc, who just turf it in the bin, whilst two elderly white men in their 80’s were served kid-sized portions. “The food bank shelves are three quarters empty on most days, the op shops always closed, the meals are awful and getting smaller by the week.” “Tell me where you think their funding is going? My guess is around 70 percent of it at Elizabeth is going for indigenous and kids playground shite…they got five dads and kids sessions running a week. “Toilets are a disagrace…” Anglicare Mission Food Barn 91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth (near the shopping centre and police station) Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm. No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers. No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine. Free breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Free Orange Sky Laundry from 11:00am to 1:00pm on Thursdays. Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in. From a regular contributor to Adelaide Homeless Journal. Name and address supplied. Editor: Yes, the Aborigines prefer meat, not boiled-to-death English food. 14 June 2019 ​ (above) Door stops given away by the Gawler Salt church on their free food Thursdays at 3:00pm sharp. They also gave away faulty underwear that allowed too much play. Is Robyn up to her old tricks at the Hutt Street Centre? You can see Robyn, 62, march into the Hutt Street Centre from Eastwood each morning. She moves as if she owns the joint. She goes through to the back where the drug addicts hang out. Conversation is sparse. From a vantage point in the August Towers across the road, she can be observed escorting a somewhat subdued younger woman into the parklands. They emerge an hour later, the woman jumping ecstatically, even psychotically while Robyn remains cool as a cucumber. How does Robyn manage to maintain her status at the Hutt Street Centre? Is it because she can rustle up a bevy of psychotic thugs to do her bidding? This is effective against homeless people, but lesser so to management figures. It’s true that she brings in the traffic and like all homeless joints, the Hutt Street Centre depends on maintaining numbers of clients to guarantee government funding. But there is something more. Not simply statistics or supplying a need to staff and volunteers, but that extra leverage that guarantees her legal immunity. What does Robyn know? After more than two decades of seeing dozens of associates into their graves, she remains standing, stronger than ever. What secret does Robyn know that brings management figures rushing forward to protect her from those wanting to disrupt her "lifestyle choice"? Hutt Street Centre 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near South Terrace) Free breakfast 7.40-8.30am Monday to Friday. Free tea, toast and yesterday’s lunch. Registration and Health Care Card required. Toilets and showers. Free morning Tea plus takeways from 10.00–10.45am. No I.D. required. Lunch $2.00. Health Care Card and registration required. Credit up to $20. Closed Sundays. 13 June 2019 ​ Ferryden Park Lutheran Church free vegetables and groceries Someone needed watching for medical reasons, but a retired qualified Registered Nurse refused to do it. “The last time I helped someone, I got sued,” she said. Melva’s husband said they had rats crawling inside their walls. He said the rats fed on chicken food from their next door neighbour. He said his house had recently passed from the Housing Trust to Anglicare, the latter being draconian about “neatness”, but not interested in killing the rats. The Asian volunteer won’t tell anyone his name. Not even an ex-cleaner from the RAH who takes him home each Friday. The stucco walls are filled with straw, creating a bitter-sweet atmosphere around some melancholy clients. This building helps us maintain a sense of ourselves, unlike modern building designed and fitted to colonise our minds. The interesting bags of free food include Paris Creek organic milk and yoghourt, in date. Also, expensive wraps and sandwiches from a sandwich van. Even fresh salmon. And bags of green salad leaves. Lutheran Church Ferryden Park Cnr Stuart St and Parker St, Ferryden Park. Ph (08) 8268 8722 Fridays at 6:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. $2:00 donation. They serve coffee, tea and sandwiches while the bags are filled from the Oz Harvest truck. An Aboriginal church, but they accept underclass white fellas. Quiet building and atmosphere. Happy and sad at the same time. Decent toilets. 13 June 2019 ​ (above) Semaphore Bakehouse give their end of day bread to the St Bede's Drop-in-Centre. When you buy bread from the Bakehouse, you're helping those who live in their cars including an elderly and infirm Vietnam veteran. Semaphore Bakehouse is near the intersection of Semaphore and Military Roads, Semaphore. They are generous people. Who is trying to frame ​Mark Arstall? From the anonymous contact page “HOW DARE YOU PUT MY PICTURE ON THE WEBSITE.YOU HAD BETTER GO IN TO HIDING.YOU WONT ONLY GET A SMACK IN THE HEAD THIS TIME I WILL PUT YOU ON LIFE SUPPORT.TAKE NOTICE THIS TIME,YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.I KNOW ALL THE PLACES YOU GO TO,BY WHAT YOU WRITE ON THE INTERNET.” Mark Arstall Second Editor: This is not Mark Arstall’s style of writing? This is not his way of putting forward thoughts. And why, when he is facing an assault charge at the Hutt Street Centre, would he be threatening harm here? He is not a fool. He has a strong survival instinct. So who is using his name and why? 12 June 2019 Nanna’s Free Food Basket ​at Semaphore South “How long have you been in need?” a young man asked Shane the volunteer security guard. “We don’t refer to ourselves that way,” I interjected. “This is our lives. It’s the way we live.” At 4:10pm there were forty-five of us in the free food queue and another 22 in the food store queue plus others in the carpark and in the dining room. And a dozen volunteers who are all poor. Horse Trader Steve was in trouble. The volunteers don’t understand that he eats three meals at a sitting. “I only eat once a day,” he says, regularly. A new security guard walked around giving everyone intimidating looks. He’s been trained nasty, I commented to another client who said he hasn’t been trained, but that was his normal personality. He was called in to bolster Shane as some were afraid of Horse Trader Steve. Unnecessarily. The Horse Trader is not known for violence anywhere. There was an argument between the moral guardian and an original volunteer who was stocking up before the free stuff was made available to the public. Mrs Plate took the side of the moral guardian. The meal included chicken schnitzel. Some diners described it as dry and tough, but it looked terrific. Pure protein and fibre. Exactly what poor people need. There was also boiled frozen vegetables and mashed potatoes, the latter complimented by The Night Stalker. The vegetarian option was horrible mushroom ravioli. No fresh salad. Ricky was missing. He’d been accused of taking donated food from the trailer and reselling it. Brody said his invalid mobility scooter cost $1250 from the RAA. He showed how it could be folded up like a small suitcase. He uses it on the train to the city then across to the Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge. It has a range of 6kms so he charges it up at the railway station along with Lester on his machine. Another diner said he had permanent knee damage after a Port Adelaide police officer hit him with a baton. Bronwyn Plate has formed a community of extended family and workers for her cause. It’s a sign of the new tribalism that is counter to the absolute control/absolute surveillance of our devolving society. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Strange men’s toilets. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets. 12 June 2019 (above) Two phones in the bush near a druggie's camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands in May 2019. Ricky on the warpath After getting kicked out of Nanna’s Free Food Basket for allegedly taking food from the trailer then reselling it, Ricky has posted messages on two local government websites saying that rats run around the donated food. A volunteer at Nanna’s has countered this by saying that Ricky’s wife allegedly stole from the shop. Meanwhile, another volunteer said that Barbara was not the hero of the story for stopping the burglar alarm that had been screaming for nearly half an hour. The volunteer said that Barbara deliberately left it ringing so she could watch how those in the crowd were being affected. Barbara’s role is unclear. She holds a position in the Bower Cottages that host the free food offering. Some say she is a Port Adelaide Council employee. Others say she is simply a negative presence. Maybe she is good-hearted and unhappy. Whatever, the free food and hot meal are attracting ever increasing numbers of clients who recognise the vast improvement of service and stuff given away. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Strange men’s toilets. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets. Late 11 June 2019 Chat and Chew: a learning venue “We’re never too busy for those we serve,” Ross the Social Worker told a new volunteer. The volunteers may not get paid for their work, but they are expected to perform as professionals. The payback for them is gaining a marketable skill and satisfaction. The cutlery and glasses are clean, the tables are clean and everything is laid out like a professional restaurant. The meals are brought to the table and appear the same as in a restaurant. The mood in the kitchen with Stephen the Cook is perhaps better than a professional restaurant. The usual crowd were at the tables last Wednesday in addition to the mother-in-law of a real government spy. She says she knows nothing. Theo has switched from concentration camp victim to the orthodox Jewish look. Esther lost her green phone. Sharon was ecstatic recounting how she made $130 busking near the Central Markets. The toilets were locked when we arrived. There was a scramble for a key from some office worker. This is wrong. A former Holden’s car factory worker said he is tormented by Satan. He explained how he’d spent his payout from Holden’s and this included $2000 to charities and $2000 on bus tickets. The simple meal included minestrone soup, crisp bread and butter, and Pavlova. What made the soup different was the presentation in huge bowls with natural fresh vegetables with the right amount of flavour. The Pavlova was a low-sugar version that didn’t leave the mostly diabetic diners gaga in their heads. Neeta was happy and didn’t want to leave. Chat and Chew (UnitingSA) 58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide. ph 8440 2220 (entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area). 2:30 pm entry to outer area; 4:00 pm coffee; 5:00pm meal; 6:30pm closing time. (Every second Wednesday). Free. Stephen the Cook in residence. Fancy like a restaurant. Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways. No children. Horrible nasty toilets. Ride home for invalids in the Port Adelaide area. It is for isolated people, which is why families are not encouraged to visit. Late 11 June 2019 From the anonymous contact page “The gentleman with the hat, might be an ex-cop or military…” Editor: He was a jackeroo for much of his life and lived in his car for many years. Decent fellow with a sense of integrity in speech and does not spread gossip. Late 11 June 2019 Michelle and Train Wreck Train Wreck has changed his name to Rain Man, but that isn’t sticking. He and Daniella still play the pokies at the Adelaide Casino, but Train Wreck then goes to the Strathmont as he’s set himself a $100 limit at the Casino before they kick him out. Michelle is another friend. She went to Siberia to live with a man she met on the internet. But the man proved to be quite nasty so Michelle returned to Australia. She tried five times to join the South Australian police force then decided an invalid pension and life in the Adelaide Casino was a viable alternative. Train Wreck is getting old and has trouble moving about, but the call of the gaming machines is stronger than his aged disability. Late 11 June 2019 ​ (above) These public toilets back of Foodland in Port Adelaide are kept permanently locked and empty. Homeless and unemployed people used the UnitingSA toilets, but their use is now restricted to the paid employees. Restricting toilet use is a hostile action used to control citizens' use of public land. It goes arm-in-arm with hostile public architecture and hostile horticulture. This is a conscious act of the authorities. (above) The official truth is never the real truth. The vandals were actually homosexuals drilling fist-sized holes in the partitions between cubicle walls. But that is a politically incorrect comment. ​Another generation of child abusers? ​Second edit We live in a strange era where children are encouraged to explore alternatives to being a male or a female. Children with typical teenage angst are given opportunities to change their gender and become their “true selves”. ​ But what does this involve? It includes injections of artificial hormones that change a girl into a belligerent tongue-tied teenage boy. Or female hormones that make a boy grow breasts and reduce testosterone production. As if it is that easy to change gender. Consider Chastity Bono, the daughter of Sonny and Cher. She was a beautiful, somewhat masculine young woman. Now, she has a beard and is looking for a penis. Where will she find it? Organ donation from the dead? A donation from a man changing to a woman. Or Frankenstein surgery to seal or enlarge parts of her anatomy? A man at Semaphore, a beach suburb of Adelaide, recently changed genders. He was happy becoming a woman. They put plastic implants into his chest to mimic female breasts. But putting girl’s hormones into a boy doesn’t create a girl. The hormones gave him breast cancer so both his natural male breasts and his plastic implants have been cut off and thrown into a hospital rubbish burner. This was a mature man’s choice, but to encourage 13-year-olds to follow such a path, like the government funded SHINE organisation is doing at 43 Peachey Road, Davoren Park (next to OTR), in Adelaide’s northern suburbs, may be the making of another generation of children being abused. Shine even has a children’s group called, “Transwellbeing (for small kids)”. But one expert in South Australia’s welfare system says that, “…they pump them full of puberty arresting hormones rather than council them around accepting the gender they were born with. These hormones affect sex drive and thinking patterns.” And how do these children and adults given sex changes fare in later life? Anyone who knows someone in this condition understands the high probability that he or she will require constant psychiatric treatment and have a high probability of becoming a drug addict or exotic prostitute. And can we compare children persuaded or allowed sex changes that require constant hormone injections for the rest of their life to the victims of Glandore Boys’ Home. These are the boys who were suffocated and raped then spent the night in their beds embraced by grey-haired government employees? Any comparison? This chemical gender manipulation reeks of a vast experiment to legally test drugs on vulnerable people without incurring prosecution for abuse. But what is the reason for this experiment? Second Edit: midday of 10 June 2019 Editor: Is it coincidence that this program is happening in Adelaide’s poorest suburbs where children are more frequently taken away from their natural parents? ​ Early 10 June 2019 (above) Hostile horticulture in the Adelaide CBD parklands. The Adelaide City Council is destroying all places where homeless people may sleep in privacy. They are heading toward a prison exercise yard model of recreational and parkland use. Photo: Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2019. Ice addict runs amuck at Fred’s Van Salisbury  I will call the man Felix. His face was swollen on the left side, dried blood running down to his neck. He held a Coke bottle filled with white wine though his behaviour was reminiscent of someone on crystal methamphetamine. ​ “Jamie hit me with a padlock on a chain,” he told another man who suggested they leave and beat up Jamie. “Nah, he was bleeding when I left him. I hit him on the beak and there was blood everywhere,” Felix replied, then smashed his fist into a door, hard enough to damage his hand. That’s the problem with those on ice: they feel little pain and have double their normal strength. Meanwhile, German Marten removed his thin Hi-Vis vest leaving him in a singlet on this cold evening. He paraded the hallway as if in a beauty contest, saying how he felt too hot. Marten said he sleeps with a bedsheet and airline blanket, but is sometimes too hot and has to throw off the thin blanket. He doesn’t heat his home. ​ A friend of Kate showed me a selfie of himself with Tony Modra at a special Crows football event. Another man said he’d gone to the Salvation Army for help in paying his Playford Council rates. The Salvo advice was not to pay them. That was similar advice given to a man in the Gloucester Apartments about his electricity bill. Inside the dining room, Felix pounded tables and made swinging gestures so at one point the room of 65 people was silent except for him yelling. Police accessible cameras scanned the room, but no one has faith in the police to react if an Ice addict begins maiming people. The cameras protect the rich and powerful or are simply surveillance devices. They are certainly not protection for us. And what is not always apparent, is that most people who go to these fee meals are old and infirm. The volunteers did nothing. They were afraid, too. Shane the Volunteer told German Marten to tell Felix he was the Berlin kick boxing champion. Marten declined saying Felix might call his bluff. There was also a friend of Felix, more dangerous than Felix. The meal was sausages, fish, Maranella pizzas, soup, bread rolls and dessert. The pizzas were cold as the St Vincent de Paul volunteers failed to keep them warm until serving time. Felix sat opposite Marten the German who told him he was sitting in “my lady’s chair.” Felix jumped up and ran against a wall and slumped to the floor and began eating his meal. He could react in either extreme. Marten was the hero of the story, but no one felt at ease. Nearly everyone had a bad time. The only highlight of the meal was Shane the Volunteer packing up the chairs quietly rather than the others on previous weeks who slam and drag the chairs and tables across the wooden floor. Fred’s Van Salisbury Salisbury Institute building, 17 Wiltshire St, Salisbury (next to PBA-FM radio station). 6:00pm Sunday. Soup, good main meal, dessert, coffee and lousy takeaways. Free. No I.D. required. Overcrowded and rushed. Free laundry 4:30-6:30pm. Good toilets. Fascinating people. Beautiful stone building. Ugly surveillance cameras. Slightly filthy toilets. 9 June 2019 Week 4 free breakfast at Port Adelaide Freemasons Rose Darling convinced two or three homeless men plus a man and woman couple living outside to come in for the Friday breakfast. One man brought his shopping trolley up the elevator. Attracting real “rough sleepers” is what many homeless services only dream about. Rose ran a transport company on St Vincent Street so she knows the area. Fred Levi from the Freemasons organised the hall to be offered to Bronwyn Plate’s group without charge. ​ The meal included self-serve bacon, eggs and fried tomatoes meaning a person could take unlimited amounts. Unlimited bacon is unheard of in the homeless scene. Takeaway food included overripe pears, worm-ridden sweet potatoes, decent oranges, unlimited good bread and some doughnuts. The breakfast ended at 10:30am, but staff made no attempt to rush us out the door. Afterward, Shane and the CMAX Kid pushed trolleys of bread down Thomas Street to the AngliPrison. Rose took another load to the UnitingSA Family Centre where they have racks of bread for anyone to take. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:00pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Strange men’s toilets. Also, a breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30am at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Germ-free toilets. 9 June 2019 (above) Fundraising leaflet for Playford Salvation Army at Elizabeth East. They're buying cheap machines because they plan to knock the joint down and move to Munno Para. Exeter Salvation Army should get a washer and drier for that hoard of people who live in cars and in the vegetation on the beach. (above) Property on Anderson Walk, Munno Para where the Salvation Army plans to build a new complex. It would make a good squatters' camp in the meantime. The Army wouldn't dare call the police. Is Mark Bickley reading ​an untrue script? Former Adelaide Crows football captain, Mark Bickley, has fronted advertisements on radio station 5AA for the St Vincent de Paul CEO Sleepout to raise money for the “homeless”. He says that by sponsoring the CEO’s we will be “…raising money for South Australians who sleep rough which in SA alone is 6000 people.” ​ But is the number 6000? Sleeping rough usually refers to people sleeping under trees. In a stretch we can add those in tents or in cars. But 6000? Hardly. The official CEO Sleepout website states it differently. There it is stated that “Every night, around 6000 people in SA are homeless or sleeping rough. The addition of the word “homeless” changes Mark’s statement dramatically because welfare bureaucrats have extended the homeless definition to include people in women’s refuges, Scotty’s bed-bug motel, boarding houses, caravan parks and those defined as “couch surfers”. When you add nomadic tribal Aboriginals in the north of South Australia, then we might reach the magic number of 6000. But 6000 rough sleepers. No chance. “Bicks” shouldn’t read whatever is placed in front of him. He’s smarter than that. https://www.ceosleepout.org.au/sponsor/adelaide 8 June 2019 ​ The Manchurian Candidate An active common assault arrest warrant remains in South Austraia for Mark Nicholas Arstall, 42. Mark and his Ice associates were given tacit approval to threaten and assault those who criticised the Ice trade at the Hutt Street Centre and Baptist WestCare in Adelaide. Both management and a certain motorcycle club wanted to remove critics of the Ice dealers who targeted young desperate homeless people at these two establishments. These forces appeared to manipulate Mark's anger against those he didn't actually hate. He was, perhaps, the ideal Manchurian Candidate. And the South Australian police commissioner went along for the ride. 8 June 2019 On the Street   Dominic the Argumentative Gambler was seen playing the pokies at the Arkaba Hotel. He relies on a walking frame. It’s the twilight of the Crony Gang.   *   A woman locked out her boyfriend from her Semaphore House. He found a nice spot to sleep in the mangroves near Semaphore until a bunch of derros woke him up saying it was their place. He moved to a building where he surreptitiously sleeps on concrete. It’s a tough life and it shows on his face.   Meanwhile, one thousand HousingSA houses and flats are empty plus hundreds more community housing units including some managed by Anglicare.   *   It is strange that the newly built Gawler Salvation Army building is so forlorn and little used in its beautiful location. Meanwhile, the Playford Corps rundown building on Kinkaid Road in Elizabeth East is busy nearly every day except Sundays. * A really decent sex change man, now a woman, got implanted plastic in the chest to mimic breasts. Then she got breast cancer and lost both her real breasts and the plastic ones. ​ 7 June 2019 ​ Beaumont Children Andrew McIntyre said that men in suits  were “directing traffic at each end of the street while my father performed some touch up work on the three dead children in the boot of his car.” These were the dead Beaumont children that Andrew says were brought to their house in Edwardstown on Australia Day 1966 by now convicted paedophile Anthony Munro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KllUDVDOLcM 7 June 2019 ​ Doors on showers at the ​Hutt Street Centre “They’ve all got doors now, whereas they didn’t have before, they got knocked off. When they got the [health] order they went through the place and painted it.” Insider at the Hutt Street Centre 7 June 2019  (above) There has been an organised campaign to create hostile water taps in Adelaide to discourage homeless people. These taps have either been removed or require a key to turn them on. This means other sources must be accessed including fire hoses. If you're living in your clapped-out car, you could even wash it as well. Global Care at Parafield Gardens The grilled sausages were nearly an hour late and ran out within 15 minutes. The Filipinos in the hall avoided the church tables while some Moslem women brought their own refreshments. The premises are shared amongst different groups, each knowing their territory. The Global Care coffee table is for anyone and everyone, no questions asked. Three children disappeared at one stage so men went rushing into the men’s toilets. What a cliché! They were discovered playing together in a corner. This fear seems to be an Anglo-Saxon white fear, perhaps based on the terrors of Adelaide children brutalised in church and government homes from a previous generation. The new abuse, invisible to us, is psychological, of artificial hormones and emotional for which the current generation of controllers will be asked in the future: how could you not know it was happening. Bill and Jenny from City Salvos served sausages with sauce and onions on white bread. Bill appeared as if he wished he were on the other side of the table. Steve with the eye trouble said police kicked down his diabetic hoarder neighbour’s front door to pull out his body. We talked about hoarders and apparently nearly everyone who goes to free soup kitchen could be categorised by social workers as a hoarder. It is a symptom of poverty. Yet the concept doesn’t apply to rich people with multiple cars, houses, boats, bank accounts, stock portfolios and all the other stuff that rich folk collect. Global Care BBQ Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (back of Aldi’s and Salvation Army) Corner of Martins Rd and Kings Rd, Parafield Gardens. Free BBQ inside busy sports stadium. 6:30pm to 9:00pm. Cards and board games. Very little food. Somewhere to go. 6 June 2019 Cos We Care Free Food Twenty-three people appeared in the queue as if from a 1930’s Great Depression as staff unloaded the tables. Another five sat behind the van while two helped unload. Later, another 15 or so turned up. Samantha brought a tray of baked tuna mornay. She made it at home. Julianne brought ham and cheese sandwiches, and served tea and coffee. Phil said he hated the government. Another client agreed, “They help us, but I hate them, too.” A client from Bhutan speaks five languages. Mick of Mick and Denise said he never got into the courtroom for his assault charge. His lawyer came out laughing saying the magistrate had dismissed it due to the victim, Denise, being an unreliable witness. The intervention order has also been lifted. Cos We Care give away new clothing in the city on Sunday mornings. But they have to be careful because previously one man filled a rubbish bag with multiple sizes and reputedly took them to Whitmore Square to sell. They are swamped by clients in the city. G. arrived with D. and talked about reading a book about government document dumps. Mick, formerly of Mick and Denise, said as a demolition worker, he’d discovered documents in a wall. He reported the discovery whereupon eight government employees rushed to the scene to remove them. So-So has published another book. This one is titled: “Ons Going/Going ons” and is another volume in his Infinity Message series. Excerpts to be published here at a later date. Cos We Care Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth 7:30am to 9:00am Saturdays. Free. No registration or I.D. required. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns, clothing. Also on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide every Sunday from 7:30am to 9:00am. 6 June 2019 In praise of Brenda “Chainsaw” McCulloch “You always knew you’d get a real nice meal made ‘cause they get a dietician to design it. You know it’s balanced… [though the druggies]… leave the good part or they have no teeth and can’t eat it.” A client at the Hutt Street Centre 5 June 2019 ​ Week three with Port Adelaide Freemasons The black-haired man in his thirties didn’t realise he was the star of the show. He brought his shopping trolley packed with bedding up the elevator. He had the stunned appearance one gets from sleeping with adrenaline pounding through the blood stream, being interrupted during the night, threatened, cold, bitten by mosquitos then entering a building with thirty people who have slept comfortably in their secure beds. That was us, the ex-homeless, or never homeless. Rose Darling made an effort during the week to invite a few Port Adelaide homeless celebrity men to the free breakfast. They hang out at the back of a church because the government-funded welfare joints are all locked up, even the gates. Or you can find them around railway overpasses or takeaway food joints while the locked Homeless Gateway building in Lipson Street is dry and safe, and empty. Darryl Poole arrived with a white towel around his neck. Had he been jogging or recovering from a session downstairs with the masseurs who rent part of the Freemasons’ building? Lurch, the Night Stalker, The Cousin, the Activist Vegetarian, a woman from WestCare and half a dozen homeless people had breakfast. The homeless men left quickly, while us old hands hung around to the bitter end. There were a few takeaway bags with unlimited sweet potatoes and bread. Nanna’s Free Food Basket people sew the cloth bags together at home. They want us to bring the empty bags back each week. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:30pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Free breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30 at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. Very clean toilets at the Masons’. 5 June 2019 ​ (above) Another rare new tent in the Adelaide CBD parklands. The government is pushing homeless people out of the parklands and onto city footpaths. Meanwhile, one thousand Adelaide South Australian Housing Authority units and houses are empty with windows boarded up. Some are being systematically vandalised. Photo: Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2019. Reflecting on the strength of the Ice industry ​while collecting free food    A local at the Lutheran Church kindly explained my car  to others sitting on the outdoor benches. He said I’d lived outside for ten years and saved money to buy it. The truth.   Who are you? An older Aboriginal woman asked when I handed out 26-page ‘Free Food Adelaide’ leaflets. “Just a nobody,” I said.   The leaflet is on the webpage, but many people using soup kitchens are internet illiterate or consciously stay off the surveillance grid.   Melva’s husband sat in the waiting room. I told him I wasn’t a drug dealer. He’d seen someone giving me money. I explained I’d lent it to him to renew his driver’s license and he was repaying it. “I know you’re not a drug dealer,” he laughed, also kindly.   I am acutely aware of rumours being spread, especially after Hutt Street Centre dealers were exposed on this website.   The dealers, staff from homeless joints and even operatives from a motorcycle gang set in place a rumour that resulted in Today/Tonight secretly watching me, an ABC radio producer wanting a “chat” and dealers arranging an assault on me in front of a Sunday Mail newspaper photographer at the Hutt Street Centre. That’s the power of the Ice industry.   Then came a hundred threatening emails followed by Ice enforcer Mark Arstall arriving at a Semaphore soup kitchen, zonked out on Ice and with his fists and a video camera operating. And where did management at the Hutt Street Centre and Baptist WestCare position themselves? They cheered the junkies and thugs, and the motorcycle gang.   This is the nature of the pervasive drug business that preys on homeless people and has captured most homeless service bureaucracies.   Anyway, the Lutheran Church where I was sitting felt a refuge from the evil. So quiet. Without flashing screens, beeps or clicking locks on doors. It was like a scene from the 1950’s or a sleeping Pitjantjatjara bush camp on a windless morning.   Even the local horror stories were muted. A woman newly on a crutch said her “partner” had knocked her around a few weeks previously, resulting in surgeons placing two plates into her hip. Her left arm was broken in two places and her shoulder recovering from being dislocated. She said a friend had discovered that he’d killed his previous girlfriend so she was perhaps lucky. She said the Housing Trust is moving her into another house, this one without steps.   Another woman said her two-year-old daughter had been 85% burnt in an Elizabeth house fire and had never fully recovered.   Four or five women sat in the food room waiting for the Oz Harvest truck. My mind was hazy and they smiled so beautifully. A donation jar required two-dollars while one woman took my two plastic bags upon which she wrote my first name. Did I want bread, fruit and vegetables, and groceries or all three? I gave the bread a miss.   The Asian man from Fred’s Van Kilburn filled the empty coffee jar at the urn. He feigned surprise that I remembered him when he couldn’t remember me. Of course not, he is a star at Kilburn and I am a nobody.   Volunteers brought out turkey rolls and sweet buns to go with the coffee. Later, they brought out the filled bags. They were nice about it. They seemed happy giving it to us. I said I didn’t deserve it. “Yes, you do,” one said.   The bags contained two-litres of Paris Creek milk one-week before the Best-by date. Lots of good fruit and vegetables. Four containers of prepared meals and some terrific packaged food.   From Adelaide Homeless Journal Second Editor Lutheran Church Ferryden Park Cnr Stuart St and Parker St, Ferryden Park. Ph (08) 8268 8722 Fridays at 6:00pm. No I.D. or registration required. $2:00 donation. You give staff your empty bags and say you want the lot. Others serve coffee, tea and sandwiches while the bags are filled from the Oz Harvest truck. Nice place. Quiet building. Quiet atmosphere. This Aboriginal Lutheran church allows white fellas and other local people. 4 June 2019 ​ Nanna’s Free Food Basket at Semaphore South It is hard to determine at what point the siren began. It started when the fudge and brownie cooker slammed a kitchen door and that set off the burglar alarm though others deny this. The screech sent us fleeing from the dining room and kitchen where the soup continued cooking. Outside in the courtyard, a good-natured gang associate was the moral guardian at the $1.00 free food distribution tables. He muttered about two black Africans who hadn’t put any money in the one-dollar donation box. They later did. They hadn’t understood that requirement. That’s the beauty of Bronwyn Plate’s operation: she has brought together a disparate range of people who work hard without pay under her disciplined regime. There was a shouting argument between two old women. The client woman went white in the face and even tried to smack Barb the Volunteer from the Bower Cottages. She told Barb to “f*** off”. Later, someone said that Barb had been making trouble all day. The siren continued and a tall man said the atmosphere was not particularly friendly. That was an understatement. The noise was sending us insane. Ironically, it was Barb the Volunteer who got the code to deactivate the alarm. However, someone said she’d known it all along and let the siren continue so she could observe our reactions. There was no proof of this. The CMAX Kid was there, still as a subject of a drug company experiment where he will be paid $2500 upon completion, if he survives. After being trapped for 20-minutes in the Masonic Hall new elevator on a Friday, he was robbed of his leather coat the next day at the Saturday free meal at the Magdalene Church hall in Moore Street, Adelaide. Then on Sunday, he was assaulted under the surveillance cameras in the Salisbury Institute in a random attack by a druggie who had had an argument with a Fred’s Van volunteer. Another diner stole his football logo coffee mug. The meal included chicken, pumpkin risotto, roasted vegetables and soup that had burnt when the kitchen staff had escaped the shrieking alarm. One diner said of the soup, “I’d be ashamed to serve it.” Horse Trader Steve made an appearance. This was good news. It helps any free food service to host an identity from the Adelaide homeless culture. He immediately created a scandal when he ate three main meals. “I only eat once a day,” he said, smiling his Horse Trader Steve smile. The $1.00 donation allowed guests to get about twenty kilograms of bread, fruit, vegetables and old groceries including ― last week ― 1-litre bottles of Listerine Whitening mouth wash. Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park 200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park (behind the Bower Cottages) Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:30pm at least. Soup, coffee and meal served free. No registration or I.D. required. Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. Free breakfast on Fridays at 9:00am to 10:30 at Masonic Hall, corner of Dale St and Commercial Rd, Port Adelaide. 4 June 2019   (above) A man removing donated items from outside the gates of the Salvation Army store at Munno Para. His actions are legal because the stuff is on public land. In any case, the Army would not prosecute as a public court battle against an underclass man might expose that they have billions of dollars of assets in Australia and their officers receive quite generous salaries. Photo: Adelaide Homeless Journal April 2019. Cos We Care free food ​on election day Anne Cooper asked me to buy a hospital lottery ticket. That was a shock, spending money. I bought two. The famous retired SANFL player wasn’t there. He’d worked a 13 hour shift last week selling sausages at Bunnings to raise money for Cos We Care and now, on this election day, was working at a polling booth. Former political candidate Sonja Taylor served us hot food in the early morning chill. She wore a Tuscany yellow-coloured thigh length knitted jacked with a subdued multi-coloured scarf. She has an exquisite dress sense, avoiding the harshness of most women trapped in the aggressive colours and lines of corporate dress. Or the whore-look of underclass women. Bryony was attired in the style of Gawler Kmart. Not the snappiest dresser, but she has the most ebullient personality that adds a lightness to counteract the grimness of many of us clients in the food queue. Her arrival is a light in the darkness. Samantha is unsure of herself and lives in a distant world. She is studying to become a dietitian and bakes food using Cos We Care ingredients that she serves every Saturday morning in Fremont Park. She quietly and generously gives herself to us. The sandwich and coffee lady, whose name I won’t mention, still resembles Judith Durham in her younger years: always observing from outside her role, taking second views of everything happening. She supplies ham and cheese sandwiches at her own expense and is polite and efficient while serving coffee. Meanwhile, Anne Cooper is straight out of Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War”. You never know how she will strike, such as the hospital lottery tickets. And this is what it takes to manage a shoe-string free food service that operates out-of-hours when the police phone asking her to supply a destitute person with food. The big money so-called charities with salaried employees have shut down for the day, but the unpaid Anne Cooper remains active. About forty of us clients were there on election day. The free food included bottles of Sweetiva, a sugar alternative made from stevia, a naturally occurring sweetener. Cos We Care is one organisation worthy of donations of fresh vegetables and canned food. And they need it. Cos We Care Saturday 7:30am to 9:00am, Car Park No. 1 at Fremont Park, York Town Road, Elizabeth Free. Hot food and coffee, bread, good fruit and vegetables, sweet buns. No registration or I.D. required. Also on Sunday on the Corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide. 7:30am – 9:00am. No I.D. required. Free hot food and coffee, boiled eggs, cakes, fruit and vegetables, cereal, frozen milk. Up to a hundred people on Sundays. ​ 3 June 2019 ​ Patient claims inadequate hospital medical records nearly killed him A 76-year-old man with serious heart problems went into the Ashford Private Hospital for knee surgery. The operation went well, but during recovery his heart began failing. He claims he called the nurses to administer his red nitro-glycerine spray onto his tongue. The nurses refused; they said there was no record on his medical charts that he had a heart problem. They fiddled about checking other records as the old man failed. They finally arrived with the spray, but sprayed in onto the enamel of his false teeth rather than his tongue. As he began losing consciousness, he told them of his false teeth, but they replied that they knew their job. In one last gasp, he spat out his false teeth and the spray began to take effect. He said it took quite a while for him to regain a semblance of normality and when he did, they told him, “You talk too much.” This is what the usually mind-mannered man said. And he was happy with the knee surgery. 3 June 2019   Protecting Mrs Telstra An employee at Baptist WestCare had wanted Judith Telstra, 71, to be banned from the joint for her own safety. ​He said Judith would “go on about all the bludgers and druggies and she’s in the middle of WestCare and you think ‘why are you here; you’ve got plenty of money. You’re shooting your mouth off and one of these people are likely to take offence and assault you. They don’t like what you are saying; it might be true, but they don’t want to hear it.’” Editor: Mrs Telstra was kicked out of the Salvation Army on Friday Market Days for telling Muslims in the queue to “go back home”. 3 June 2019 (above) Free takeaway food from the free breakfast produced by Nanna's Free Food Basket at the Freemasons' building on the corner of Dale Street and Commercial Road in Port Adelaide. It is every Friday from 9:00am to 10:30am. No I.D. or registration required. Shopping trolleys welcome and can be brought up in the elevator. People living outside and in their cars are especially welcome.  On the Street The Night Stalker might have saved a friend’s life when he visited her in the Flinders Medical Centre. She was recovering from open heart surgery and described how her legs weren’t right. Being a heart patient himself, and suffering regular blood clots, the Night Stalker realised she had at least one clot in her leg. He says the nurses were sceptical of his claim until he showed them the problem. The woman, really a girl, had a 5cm blood clot in her leg. This was remedied by hospital staff immediately taking remedial action, but it had been a close call. * Successful drug dealers may lack certain morals, but they cannot be accused of lacking cunning. Old people with no criminal records are used in Adelaide as mules. Those that decorate their cars with fluffy toys are particularly employable. These senior citizens deliver such innocuous items as birthday cakes or toys, anything that doesn’t arouse suspicion, if only in their own minds. And the recipients are overjoying to receive the delivery. They react as if they’re receiving more than a cake. * Operators have covered the high barred fencing with split bamboo stalks at the Good Start childcare centre on Bower Road at Semaphore South. While any action will have a covering argument, it was embarrassing for the business to have children poking their arms through the bars and calling out to strangers. It made the joint appear like a prison. * “Hi Bill,” I said to a total stranger, mistaking him for another man. “You’re looking well,” I added. Luckily, his name was also Bill, but he still gave me a quizzical look. * Oz Harvest has a phone app allowing anyone wanting to donate food can message Oz Harvest who will have a charity pick it up within three hours. That’s the plan. They are at 28 Fifth Street, Bowden SA. Ph (08) 7007 0080 or adelaide.info@ozharvest.org . * A non-religious free food service operator said that some churches pretend to be charities to get free food from FoodBank, then use it as a means of bolstering their congregation. * “Most of the troublemakers I haven’t seen…so they’ve gone somewhere. I don’t know where…Robyn walks through the building…no TV for anyone to hang around now. No computer room. There had been some incidents in there, some violence. “No smoking out front; they go out back to the courtyard to smoke. I think that’s a good idea because…before my time…a lot of people walking past going to the cancer centre got harassed, language, asked for money.” New volunteer at the Hutt Street Centre * Bluey is reported dead. He was a child prisoner at Glandore Boys’ Home. * “You don’t feel like there’s going to be a punch-up or someone’s going to attack you because they’ve had a bad day.” A new client at the Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge and the Hutt Street Centre talking about the atmosphere at the Hutt Street Centre. * It wasn’t on the agenda, but was a motion was introduced during an Adelaide City Council meeting to “bankrupt” a woman who had run a failed legal case against the Council. She’d challenged their right to dig up a section of the CBD parklands where she alleged was a rare species of grass. She lost the case and her assets. * The Ancient Old Lady has defended Reno Elms after another woman said he was a “real tightwad”. The Ancient Old Lady said Reno would do anything for anybody. 2 June 2019 ​ The Ark at Salisbury The former resident at Lochiel boys home in Campbelltown said he was the unluckiest man alive. He said a friend also told him this. He was robbed of $200 in Adelaide CBD the previous evening. He also recounted the time when he was walking down the street and a large dog ran out and grabbed him by the nose and wouldn’t let go. He then asked us the difference between an egg and a beetroot. Beck was there after not being seen for two weeks. She’d had a heart attack and spent ten days in hospital. She said she’d heard Mick’s dirty joke previously. Peter Dawkins said he’d gotten married 35 years ago in the Assembly of God Church. He added that as a child in Minda he’d been locked in a walk-in freezer overnight. Minda kids had many wild experiences. The Kill Box Lady’s 8-year-old son jumped a train to Melbourne while John Johnston from Mary’s Kitchen managed to take a short cut across the runway at Adelaide airport before being intercepted. The diners at our table talked about astral travel, ghosts, neurology and epilepsy. The meal included vegetarian sausages and a fresh salad. Salisbury Lutheran Church (The Ark) cnr of Winzor Street and Waterloo Corner Road, Salisbury. Ph 8281 2976. Christmas Party for 2018 is on the 22nd of December, but entry by pre-registration only. Free meal once a month on Saturdays at 5:00pm. Dates for 2019 are June 29, July 27, August 31, September 28, October 16, November 30, December 21 (Christmas party by registration only). 2 June 2019 ​ (above) Freemason's building in Port Adelaide. The entrance for the free breakfast every Friday morning at 9:00am is from the side door on Dale Street. The massage parlour is downstairs. The Case of the Disappearing Druggies The druggies’ table in the dining room of the Anglicare Food Barn in Elizabeth is often empty of drug addicts and dealers. Once they were overflowing onto other tables. And this dearth was before the recent police activity. The drug dealers at the back of Cash Converters in Port Adelaide are reduced in numbers though the addicts going into “Crime Converters” hasn’t reduced. A lifetime regular at the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide says the “troublemakers and addicts” are rarely seen there. This client might not know that they’ve been transferred to the back of the building. Observers watch Robyn march through on her every visit. She isn’t there for the fine cuisine and isn’t known for being overly social so it is a mystery why she goes there. But what appears to be the case is that management and government don’t want to disrupt the drug industry, so they keep it out of public view. Meanwhile, word has continually filtered out from the Hutt Street Centre over the past three years that clients have been threatened with denial of services ― or at least intimidated ― if they say anything in public about the drug dealing. But what about the dealers? Have they gone to WhatsApp with its “end to end encryption”? 1 June 2019 Support workers cashing in ​on the housing shortage A woman living in her car in Semaphore is looking for housing. She has a daughter, somewhere else, but she won’t go to Catherine House for fear the government will take away the child. This woman, aged about 35, has a “support worker”. These are crucial in welfare. No longer can a homeless person go to a single agency or charity. One must have a personal government-funded manager who has access to a data base showing that person’s total interaction with church and government agencies. This personal manager determines in large where a person can go. Our woman’s “support worker” says she must apply to the rental market for housing for the next few months. This is similar to unemployed people forced to apply for inappropriate jobs that only annoy employers and produce little positive result. After the expected failure to gain housing, our woman must then apply similarly to “Community Housing” associations. After that fails, she then goes onto the Housing Trust Category 1 for which it may take years to obtain rental housing. During this period, she will have dozens of compulsory “chats” about her life with many “support workers”. What will never be discussed is how the housing shortage is an engineered phenomenon, perhaps connected to Agenda 21, perhaps not. Also not discussed will be the thousand empty Housing Trust houses and units in Adelaide. Nor the fact that while the houses remain empty, people are placed in expensive temporary accommodation such as Scotty’s Motel on Main North Road, Prospect. Even with its bedbugs, residents with golden staph and traffic noise, the joint is hideously expensive and requires plenty of “support worker” interaction. Ah, nothing like the whiff of administrative corruption. 1 June 2019 ​ (above) Jobs Statewide in Port Adelaide. Employers avoid it. Involuntary clients hate it. The paid staff appear to have personality disorders. It serves no positive purpose. We refer to other countries as being corrupt, but the funding of such useless government-funded enterprises might be considered administrative corruption. From the anonymous contact page Comment Re: Eskimos... Cops... Would an Eskimo like an Iced Coppie ? Would an Iced Coppie make a good Governor for South Australia ? i.e. Shadow Government is thinking about putting Mal Hyde in as Governor. Mal = Bad in Spanish Hyde = Hyde as in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Not a wise move... but perhaps an Ice move... a bit like Al Capone putting Seagrams 7 in as President. Anonymous Editor: Malcolm Hyde is history. 1 June 2019 (above) Adelaide dying. New clothing, canned food and syringes dumped in the Adelaide CBD parklands. The money in the crystal methamphetamine industry has corrupted the welfare industry. The Police Minister of South Australia even praised an Ice dealer in Parliament. Was he fed bad information from a homeless joint employee? No wonder Police Commissioner Grant Stevens is frozen to his desk. He is no Harold Salisbury and even Dashing Dave Hunt wore better boots. Photo: Adelaide Homeless Journal May 2019. Rosanne Haggerty’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool at the Hutt Street Centre (permanent post) The Vulnerability Index-Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool (VI-SPDAT) is being introduced at Adelaide’s Hutt Street Centre during what they call “Connections Week” from 14 to 18 May 2018.   Those seeking most services from the Hutt Street Centre will be required to answer intimate questions, the answers to which will be entered into an international data base.   The rational of applying this algorithm is that by identifying people requiring huge amounts of medical and police interventions, then by taking control of their lives, the government can save money.   This solid argument belies the injustice that occurs in its broad application where bureaucrats will put every person living outside, or in their cars, through this intimate interrogation, then share the details with all and sundry.    The manner of questioning will be through an electronic drip-feed with the client not seeing the complete list prior to agreeing to answer the questions. The mysterious owner of the algorithm says the sequence of asking the questions is vitally important. This is because the questions become increasingly intrusive and offensive as the client progresses through the list. Clients will not be given a copy of the completed answer list or be told who will have access to their most personal details.   While the clients will provide excruciating personal details of their lives, those collecting it will identify themselves in the diminutive form of their first names such as Ben, Liz or Trish. Any further enquiries will be met with a stern rebuke citing privacy issues.   The initial questions include a homeless person’s nickname, hospital attendances, instances of cooperation with or incarceration by the police, suicide or self-harm attempts, sexual prostitution, difficulty locating toilets, incidents of being kicked out of housing and why, and where doctors have refused medication.   The interrogator will also smell the clients, look for rotting flesh or puncture wounds, note whether their clothing is fashionable or mismatched, ask if the person drinks mouthwash, has been to a psychiatrist, considered suicide, was a slow learner at school or suffered “abuse”. All of which will be added to the secret file kept on the client.     These questions are reasonable in certain circumstances where a person has consciously approached a professional for treatment. However, the plan is to subject every homeless person to them, that is, treat every person living outside as if they have been sexually abused, use Ice and sell themselves as prostitutes.   Answering such questions may subjectively feel like emotional vivisection for those already wounded and fearful. For the interrogator, it will be a pornographic experience where the wound will be tweaked at dozens of subsequent interviews, like a knife twisted in a wound. For the homeless person, the tightening of the interviewer’s smile, a hardening of the voice, even a wink will feel like a punch in the solar plexus.   The reader may agree that the test is for the greater good and that this increased suffering by the homeless class is a small price to pay. While there won’t be any pain for those conducting the interrogation, those undergoing it will come out feeling disgusted with themselves and fearful of the consequences of providing such personal details to total strangers. And fearful they should be, as the concept of privacy and dignity has gone from our society.   The interrogators will also be mandatory reporters legally required to pass on to the police or psychiatric authorities certain answers given by the homeless person.   For housing purposes, each positive answer to a question gets 1 point. Anyone scoring 3 or less is told to leave; 4-7 progresses the client to another series of questions to assess them for “rapid re-housing”. However, scoring over 8 points wins the dubious prize of “supported housing”, which means having their personal life monitored and controlled and may include compulsory medication.   The drip-feed method of asking questions is designed to immerse the homeless person in the interrogation process, making it harder to withdraw for fear of incurring the displeasure of the interviewer and the sickening feeling of having given sensitive information to a stranger who has suddenly adopted a hostile countenance.   Aggressive street beggars use a similar technique with their initial ultra-friendly approach while asking for a dollar, which upon receipt of the coin progress to a threatening demeanour while subsequently demanding a larger amount.   The last question asked by the VI-SPDAT interrogator at a homeless joint such as the Hutt Street Centre is, “OK, now I’d like to take your picture so that it is easier to find you and confirm your identify in the future. May I do so?”   This artificial intelligence algorithm tool is a progression from the Social Inclusion Adelaide CBD homeless count initiated by Monsignor David Cappo and administered by bureaucrat David Waterford in 2007.   We in the homeless scene laughed at the absurdity of that inaccurate count, which continues to this day, but it was Cappo, Waterford and the government bureaucrats who had the last laugh. The count was camouflage to disguise personal data collection on those living outside. The pledge of anonymity was deceit as the provision of initials and partial birthdate were enough to identify the responder across multiple private and government data bases. In this exercise, Baptist and Catholic homeless charities ran with the wolves.   The Don Dunstan Foundation is the current sponsor of the VI-SPDAT algorithm tool. In a media release offering a briefing on the results of their data collection onslaught, they advertised that, “During Connections Week, dedicated workers and volunteers across Adelaide will get to know every person sleeping rough by name…”   This newer and more powerful personal data list created using this algorithm, along with photographs, will be handed over to a psychiatric services provider called Neami National, a Melbourne-based corporation posing as a non-profit organisation with 900 employees.   Neami is contracted to replace Adelaide’s Street-to-Home psychiatric service that conducted interviews with homeless people in busy cafes. Armed with the data base and photographs in their tablets, Neami employees will be able to search out and identify homeless people in the Adelaide CBD and surrounding parklands.   Where the Hutt Street Centre’s C.E.O., Ian Cox, comes into this is not clear. Ian has for decades championed the right of self-determination for his clients.   Yet David Pearson, the executive director of the Don Dunstan Foundation, said, “The Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide are going to help us run Connections Week where we go out and make a connection with every single person sleeping rough.”   Pearson added, “It starts with knowing every person sleeping rough in the city by name and creating what we call a ‘by name list’.”   This means that the Hutt Street Centre will deliver its clients to Neami, a private psychiatric corporation, which must give Ian Cox sleepless nights.   Sticky Post For previous ten years of Adelaide Homeless Journal see the menu at top of this page https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn   The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity. www.predatorsandfriends.weebly.com The story of Sherri Robinson and Tony DeKort Work-for-the-dole crowd outside the Elizabeth Food Barn buildings https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-34.7150258,138.6721448,3a,90y,3.33h,91.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srFNhD3h0UhuZo6k4rcAeIg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory https://www.lccare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2017-SA-ER-Directory_v2.pdf Photograph of Ngongotaha Coward (Mark Arstall, 39) given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage. http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece The WestCare Letters (click here) Remembering PJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c All posts since 2007 have been archived and can be accessed via the menu bar at the top of this page. This website has also been archived by numerous American Net sweepers. The Decent Man The Decent Man formerly from Kilburn breaks up a fight in the Royal Adelaide Hospital Emergency Department Waiting Room where he lived for two weeks. (see also 18 May 2016 post) Video 1 https://youtu.be/79zVvg3HfWs Video 2 https://youtu.be/VmCSZk13aBc

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