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(above) Trent Jefferis with his mother who began a soup kitchen service to keep an eye on him as he lived in Adelaide's homeless scene.

Dr Aileen "AJ" Jefferis and the Our Street Family Matters shoestring operation provide a free breakfast, toiletries and clothing to street people every Saturday morning at 9:15 am outside the St Andrew's Medical Centre on Hutt Street, Adelaide.

(above) Adelaide Angels setting up tables for their annual free Christmas late afternoon meal for the underclass at the Pilgrim Church. The stout gentleman on the invalid scooter is Gene from Nanna's Free Food Basket in Semaphore. One of his daughters works as a psychology academic in the U.S.A. while he makes a living selling things on eBay.

(above) Adelaide Angels volunteers provide haircuts and a terrific meal and generous takeaway bags every Christmas day and Easter Sunday at the Pilgrim Church on Flinders Street, Adelaide.The underclass look forward and appreciate their events.

(above) Fall Guy Arstall. Tough fellow when it came to pushing around old disabled men. But when his job was done, the homeless industry bureaucrats and drug dealers threw him to the wolves. (See 29 December 2018 post in Adelaide Homeless Journal for fuller story).

(above) Items retrieved from an Adelaide supermarket rubbish bin by The Night Talker. See 30 December 2018 post for more description.

(above) St Vincent de Paul Fred's Van Kilburn free Christmas Hamper 2018. Everything came from IGA and it was all new stuff, not rubbish from Food Bank. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

(above) Better than average products given away by Playford Corps of the Salvation Army. Their free food morning is every Friday at 9:00am in Elizabeth East. No registration or I.D. required. The coffee beans, salmon and crackers were within the Best-By date. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Free early New Year’s day lunch
in city of Adelaide

Our Street Family Matters is having an 11:00am early lunch on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide on Tuesday, 1 January 2019.
 
No registration or I.D. is required and anyone can turn up. They will also give away articles of clothing, razors, toothpaste, soap, brushes and other useful items.
 
This is where you can meet the real street people. It is arguably the kindest free food operation in Adelaide.
 
Our Street Family Matters will also continue its free Saturday breakfasts at 9:15am throughout the holiday period. These are held next to the St Andrew's Medical Centre on Hutt Street. 
 
Our Street Family Matters  (Dr Jefferis)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide  
9:15am. Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Home cooked food in foil containers plus hot food from pots. All free.
Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome. Great opportunity to meet the real street people on their own terrain.

31 December 2018

Nanna’s free food basket pre-Christmas gathering

The rumour that everything in the Food Bank store would be given away free to guests proved untrue. Nor was the one-dollar donation display particularly good, but still worth at least ten-dollars, maybe twenty. There was a trailer load of ten-litre bottles of spring water. Some guests grabbed the bottles as if in an advanced state of dehydration.
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The woman who runs the Food Bank store got a little testy with the elderly emphysema man. He’d taken five empty ten-cent drink bottles lying on the floor. She said they were “our property” and that he should put them back. She kept on about it. Some Filipinos did the same thing, but nothing was said against them.

An older woman brought fudge and brownies to the tables. She said she made them from stuff left over the previous week, but they were nevertheless superior to those expensive rubbish cakes sold in supermarkets.

The lamb on a spit was disappointing as it was done in the back yard of Mr Plate’s house and guests missed the spectacle. He’d spent from early morning tending the flame while drinking beer.

The meat was delivered in trays. High quality pure protein with all nine essential amino acids.

The air-conditioning failed and the room temperature appeared to reach 39°C. It was so crowded as to be impossible for those with mobility problems to reach the serving counter. An old man crawled on his hands and knees between the tables while blowing a whistle.

Tables were set up outside under the shade cloth. Plastic cutlery in sealed packets was supplied to each diner. There was a delicious vegetarian option.

A woman told of her nieces’ parents being shot and hung. A man added that white people are pathetic and no longer have children; they have dogs and cats.

The meal was a mammoth task done well, but there should have been more tables and seating. Salt and pepper should have been more available. And the coffee urn seemed dormant most of the afternoon.

This is one of the best free food venues in Adelaide and will re-open on at 4:00pm on Wednesday, 9 January 2019.
 
Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park
Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:30pm at least.
Soup, coffee and meal served free.
Behind the Bower Cottages on the west end of the Causeway.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale. 
No registration or I.D.
31 December 2019
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(above) A sample of free quality food given away by Lifepoint Church at Modbury every second Thursday. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Salvation Army Unley Corps free Christmas day lunch

The Unley Corps of the Salvation Army sent out taxi buses to pick up infirm guests for their free Christmas day lunch. The taxis were also free.
 
Major Reno Elms brought in the Mormons to help, which prompted a comment about his left-wing tendencies and the Mormons having right-wing politics.
 
Lunch was better quality than last year, but still served outside. The Army gave each guest a present described by one guest as, “Quality things, the men got Cologne, not cheap and nasty and not hideously expensive but it was certainly above the $50 a bottle stuff. I wonder if the Mormons brought it.”
 
Lunch was delayed, perhaps so guests could socialise rather than eat and run. Jayne Hewittson, the singer and cook, was there with her daughter. Her ex-husband, Krusher Karl is long gone and still in the slammer in Perth.
 
David Gregory Pisoni, MP, missed his usual appearance.
 
One guest complained of the late lunch: “I didn’t get home until 2:30pm and then it was time to go to the next one, the Pilgrim Church.”
 
Unley Salvos host a weekly lunch that requires a small donation. They also do monthly hairdressing, also requiring a small donation. Their clients are the cream of the crop with luminaries such as George the Elder and Grinder making appearances.
 
Salvation Army,
70 Marion Street, Unley. ph 8271 2839 
31 December 2018
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(above) Fruit in an Adelaide northern suburbs supermarket rubbish bin. (The Night Talker, December 2018).

(above) Mushroom soup made by the Night Talker from packaged and fresh ingredients salvaged from Adelaide supermarket rubbish bins.

Demand Manager's REES Scheme Energy Audit fraud

Most welfare housing tenants get an energy audit from a private contractor who might offer a water-reducing shower head, LED lights and a power box.
 
A man named Rajneesh knocked on my front door last week. He hadn’t made an appointment and was vague. He didn’t say he was from “Demand Manager”, based in Sydney, and a contractor for the government’s REES Scheme Energy Audit scheme. He wanted to get inside to do an energy audit. I allowed him entry.
 
He asked if I was happy with my electricity bill. “Forty-two dollars,” I replied.
 
He looked at my LED lights then asked if wanted an energy-saving power box and shower head. I declined the shower head, but said I’d take the energy box.
 
He asked me if everything was “good”.  
“What do you mean?” I replied.
“Good,” he repeated.
“Yes,” I replied.
 
He spent two minutes tapping boxes on his phone then asked me to sign a blank screen. I did. As a reward, he went across the road to his truck and returned with an energy box that turned off standby appliances left on for more than a few minutes. I didn’t actually have anything on standby, but nevertheless accepted it.
 
A few days later, Rajneesh emailed a copy of the audit report that I’d signed. His boss, Heather Brooks, sent another copy.
 
According to their audit, Rajneesh’s visit was supposed to take between 30 and 60 minutes. It was actually 15 minutes including him returning to his truck to get the energy box and two minutes doctoring up a false audit report.
 
Rajneesh stated on the audit report that in winter I opened curtains, blinds and external shades so the sun could heat my unit. I don’t. The audit said I didn’t have an air conditioner despite him standing next to the beast recently installed by Anglicare.
 
The audit said I “usually use the cold or lowest temperature setting on the washing machine.” I use warm or hot.
 
Rajneesh’s audit said my fridge and freezer doors sealed properly and that he measured the temperatures at 3°C for the fridge and
-16°C for the freezer. All untrue. He never entered the kitchen.
 
The audit said that I agreed that I turned off lights when leaving a room. I don’t. They are LED lights and use very little energy.
 
The audit said I agreed that the oven door sealed properly. Untrue. It also said that I agreed that I used small kitchen appliances such as a microwave and electric fry pan instead of the oven. I don’t have either of these appliances.
 
The audit said that Rajneesh ran my shower into a bucket for ten seconds and found that water usage was not less than 9 litres per minute. There was no bucket and he never even looked through the bathroom door.
 
The Demand Manager energy audit funded by the government was a lie from start to finish. It was false documentation to justify funding for a service not performed.
 
I later asked a neighbour about her audit report. She said it stated that Rajneesh supplied a number of LED globes. “More than what he gave me,” she said.  
 
30 December 2018
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Take only what you need
from the Night Talker
 
“The photo above demonstrates, that not everything thrown into supermarket bins, is food/organic related or damaged. All of the items i collected in the photograph are undamaged and or still sealed.
 
“The only thing wrong with the items, is that the lid does not fit very well on the casserole pot and the other items were covered in tomato sauce…and this is how i found them in the bin.

“Just for curiositities sake, i went back into the supermarket that had thrown out the items and looked at how much the combined total of these items would have been, had i bought them off the shelf. It came to just under $40.00!
 
“That astounded me because the bin was full of items ( i only take what I need and leave the rest for others) and none looked like they could not have been cleaned and or handed over to a charity for distribution.
 
“For someone who is currently surviving solely on the Newstart Allowance, $40.00 is a lot of money and not always available.”
 
The Night Talker
30 December 2018
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Mannos rooming house around the corner from Crazy Cottage

“Anyone know a *** guy called ****** who lives at one of the Mannos boarding houses in Hurtle Square?“He is a liar and a thief who has zero morals beware this guy is nuts he only cares about himself and is the first to cry discrimination.

​“He is a total leech druggo.He is obsessive and gets on boring rants about things and expects everyone else to like what he likes. If you ask him a question, he will answer you like you are an idiot.Beware this guy will screw you over-even his own family don’t want a bar of him. He needs a ***** in the mouth. (but his false teeth that his ex bought him - yes he is so scummy he didn't buy his own teeth, his ex had to buy them for him, and how does he repay his ex of 20 years?

“Stole his atm card and went on a shopping spree while his ex was dying in RAH from a cardiac arrest!!!Lower than a snakes belly. This guy has not a loyal bone in his body and is a waste of space! Pretends to be caring buddhist, but thats part of it's act. BEWARE!!!

30 December 2018
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Fall Guy Arstall

Mark Nicholas Arstall, 41, must have thought himself a homeless Robespierre when he went about the Adelaide CBD slapping, punching, poking and knocking down elderly white men he believed he’d chosen as targets.

He might have felt invincible when Baptist WestCare employees supported him when he flipped a bowl of soup over a man in his seventies, and then condemned the old man.

And Arstall’s fellow Ice junkies at the Hutt Street Centre backed him up, whatever he did. What could go wrong?

Quite a bit, apparently, for Arstall thought that posting videos of his assaults would make him a hero, but few saw anything more than a younger man singling out and bullying older disabled men.

Nor did Arstall understand that the Ice junkies and employees of his labour hire employer were not encouraging him of their own free will, but acting on instructions.These junkies were beholden to the larger Ice distributors who wanted a group of elderly white men to stop exposing their predatory drug racket operating inside Adelaide’s Hutt Street Centre and Baptist Westcare mission, and at Adelaide’s outdoor free soup kitchens.

But Arstall knew none of this so he and his junkie associates hunted down nearly every contributor and person mentioned favourably on the Adelaide Homeless Journal website It was a dream assignment and nothing could go wrong.

Even the South Australian Police Commissioner said on radio that he wasn’t in the business of arresting Ice dealers. He quickly realised his gaff and backtracked, but those on the street knew the truth when they heard it.All this put Arstall in his own version of heaven, that is, until the fifth estate entered the arena and spoiled it.

Journalists asked questions about violence at the Hutt Street Centre. There was talk of closing it down. The homeless industry became nervous. They needed a scapegoat.

That’s where Mark Nicholas Arstall found himself in a new role, but this time as a sacrifice. His homeless industry backers suggested he take a leave of absence, that is, go to Sydney or back to New Zealand. His junkie associates questioned his sanity. Had he been brainwashed by some homeless psychological rehabilitation program? Former friends edged away from him at soup kitchens.

In South Australia, assassination rarely happens outside of drug circles. In any case, Mark Nicholas Arstall was both too small and too prominent. That’s what saved him.

Instead, police charged him with common assault for an incident inside the Hutt Street Centre then made little effort to arrest him when he failed to show up in court. When a Hutt Street welfare worker alerted the police of his presence, Arstall told them his name was Daniel, and they let him go.

When he failed to attend his next court appearance, the magistrate issued an arrest warrant. This achieved the result they wanted. Arstall fled South Australia. This put him out of their jurisdiction and the charge was too minor to justify extraditing him back to Adelaide. They’d gotten rid of him.

But for Arstall, it wasn’t over. While the Hutt Street Centre assault charge might have got him a good behaviour bond, it could also have opened the gateway to assault charges from other elderly men he’d attacked. That could result in jail time.

Even worse, Arstall’s chance of citizenship might have dissolved. He may even be deported on bad character grounds, which don’t necessarily rely on court convictions. Back to New Zealand from where he’d fled after conflict with his family and legal problems in their courts.  

Arstall has become the patsy of a South Australian political system that supports the Ice, heroin and prescription opioid industry. He destroyed the anti-drug Crony Gang, but when he’d done his job, he became a liability that had to be disposed of without this attracting attention. And that was done. They got rid of him.

And one can’t but feel some sympathy for him, this low-level patsy from start to finish.

29 December 2018
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R.I.P.

Carmelina DE IONNO 

Born on 2 June 1963
Passed away on 28 November 2018
Aged 55 years
Amongst other achievements, a volunteer
​with Angels of Adelaide

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The Night Talker on Diabetes


“Re: the 53 year old, unemployed guy, from the Gloucester Housing Trust Units (Elizabeth) with out of control "Diabetes."

“You might not think you need anything, but you urgently need to seek medical assistance re the fact you are not controlling your diabetes well. A blood insulin (or BI level) as low as what was stated, requires urgent intervention. Any lower and you risk slipping into a diabetic coma.
 
“If this happens again, you need to take some sugar (Jelly beans are ideal) so keep a bag on you, at all times. If you cannot get into see a G.P. (the Elizabeth Dental and Medical Centre on Philip Highway is open 7 days a week, from 8am until 10.30pm) or outside of these hours, go to your nearest Hospital E.D. Department *which is the Lyell Mac) and tell them what is happening. (They will treat you as a priority patient, especially if you start crying and tell them your going to faint and or are hearing voices etc etc).
 
“Finally, losing sense of where you are, is not essentially a by-product of diabetes but is an indicator that you have an additional problem (quite possibly neurological) that needs to be investigated.
 
“Finally you appear to be in no shape whatsoever to look for employment (I doubt you would pass a medical to get a job as a cleaner at Maccas, in your current state) so contact your Job Network Provider and Centrelink, after you have been seen by a Doctor or Diabetes Nurse. Centrelink will place you on sickness benefits for the duration, and this will in turn mean that you will not have to look for work, whilst you are sick.
 
“You will also be entitled to an additional pharmaceutical allowance which should assist with the cost of any prescription medication you may need.

“I hope this information assists you.”

The Night Talker
29 December 2018
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(above) Government-funded Jobs Statewide with its fake training and fake jobs that are part of the deskilling of Australian workers and importation of Chinese labour. Bribery has become so endemic that even former Trade Minister Peter Robb accepted a million dollars in a fake consultancy after signing over Darwin harbour in a 99-year lease to the Chinese.

(above) If any employee of Jobs Statewide in Salisbury had integrity, he or she would speak out against the demoralising and useless nature of the work-for-the-dole programs they force people into.

On the streets of Adelaide

Ruf Us in South Terrace, Wingfield is using work-for-the-dole to pick up and deliver furniture using the Lions Club van parked out front.

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Gospel City Church at Munno Para is getting the worse fruit and vegetables in Adelaide from Second Bite. The avocadoes are invariably rotten right through.

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Total strangers at the Elizabeth Food Barn and other free food joints offer uneaten portions of their meals to other diners, total strangers, who accept it with thanks.

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A woman with massively exposed breasts proudly announced that she’d got a $25 gift card from the Playford Fund. Meanwhile, Playford Mayor Glenn Docherty is reported as saying that some charities are too generous.

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“No,” said a person from St Andrew’s Church-at-the-Sea when asked if two strangers could go to their pre-Christmas party for Mary’s Kitchen. She said they were fully booked up. That was probably true. The heritage hall is usually crammed to capacity for their last gathering of the year.

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A member of the anti-drug Crony Gang was arrested and sent to prison for five months for assaulting a police officer. An associate of the gang sent him money to supplement his prison wage.

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Volunteers at many free food venues get first pick of food brought in by Oz Harvest, Food Bank and Second Bite. Is this right? Theoretically, it is not allowed. However, the volunteers are often poorer than the clients.

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The insurance company replaced the stolen laptops donated to St Bede’s drop-in-centre by Regency Park Rotary club. Anglicare was hush-hush about where they had gone.Months later, one appeared on the shelf of the storage room in in the St Bede’s hall. This was despite that small area having been thoroughly searched after the initial disappearance.The reappearance of the stolen machine means that the drop-in-centre theoretically has three laptops. However, they’ve all disappeared and Anglicare management won’t explain where they are.

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While South Australian Ice dealers preying on the homeless operate with near impunity, one car driver in S.A. is fined every 75 seconds, day and night.

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Adelaide Zero Project bureaucrats are developing a new terminology to describe how their program to reduce homelessness in Adelaide has failed, except to provide paid work for themselves. Perhaps the key words of their new terminology are “Tavistock Institute”.

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Adelaide cats with rich owners can access surgical procedures quicker than humans without money.

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It is strange that government-funded charities with plenty of salaried employees close their free food services over Christmas by using the excuse, “The volunteers need a rest.”Yet some charities with no paid employees keep going over Christmas while those with paid employees shut down. Many volunteers like their work and want to continue over the holiday period.One factor might be that most paid employees go on holidays over Christmas and they don’t want the unpaid volunteers to show they can go it alone.

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“The Big Bash is more exciting than the Test,” a soup kitchen man said of this summer’s cricket. Another soup kitchen man, Anthrax, who hangs around bus stops, flies overseas to watch cricket.

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A small hard derelict living outside and drinking alcohol took all the biscuits from the tin at St Paul’s drop-in-centre in Port Adelaide.

28 December 2018
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More bin diving
from the Night Talker
 
“Bin diving at Christmas and New Year is always lucratrive for us hard-core b.d. afficinados, but also a bit sad and confronting. For those of us with more front than a PANZER TANK, its just another day, but where the rewards at this time of year, are particulary good.
 
“For those new to the scene (and that really is what it is now, as more people are bin diving, than ever before) it can be harsh and a bit scary.
 
“When i started bin diving back in Christmas 2012, I rarely saw anyone else outside of supermarket staff and the odd security patrol.
 
“Now more often than not, someone is in front of me (sometimes as many as several persons in a group b.d effort) or has been before me or is coming up behind me (or saddest of all) waiting in the shadows, not really knowing what to do.
 
“I help where i can and have got to know some of the people in b.d. scene.  The greyhound rescue guy with nine greyhounds to feed, the older guy on a d.p. who lives alone and drives a tiny 3 cylinder car, he fixed up and got running from a pile of parts, the Nigerian teenage boys with several other siblings, whose father did a ruuner and whose mother cleans buses, trains and trams from midnight till dawn, and those who have come occassionally or just walked in off the street and for whom remaining anonymous, is what keeps them safe.
 
“All have the same need. To find sufficient, good quality (free) produce to keep themselves, their families and their pets fed. If anything else is found, well that is a bonus and much appreciated.
 
“Well as you can see from the photographs above, i  did very well ( but on the downside it is clearly evident, that there is more wastage than ever) (So much for foodbank and other charities distibuting this excess food?)  That aside, i have more than enough for the next couple of days and will go out again on Monday night and in the new year. Its all about thriving, surviving and bin diving! So if you’re in need, you know what you can do!
 
“There is existence in resistance!”
 
The Night Talker.
28 December 2018
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Anglicare Family Centre North
 
This is the fancy name for the Food Barn building. It sounds nicer than “Old people on Drugs Centre” especially since most clients are on prescribed drugs.
 
Mick (not Tricky Mick) said in the Food Barn that he was born a pig. He went to the funeral of his neighbours’ son’s in Salisbury. Mick said the rope the boy used was taken from his car. The boy tried to hang himself twice before. He said this time he was going for a walk. Mick was a pall bearer.
 
The sex maniac talked about sex. A bald fellow across the table said, “I’ve had enough of this,” and left. The maniac always talks about sex and the dozens of women that chase him. “An old man’s dreams,” Kosovo Kristine’s boyfriend said. Kristine still works in a nursing home.
 
The invalid scooter woman said that Home Assist put two boards across the manhole cover in her ceiling. She added that these were inadequate to prevent the Elizabeth manhole cover burglar from returning.
 
In his most recent intrusion, he got eight cans of caramel flavoured latte she’d bought at the Royal Show, two cases of apple-favoured bottled water and money. All this while she slept.
 
She said the insurance company isn’t paying her because she cannot show receipts for the caramel flavoured latte or say exactly how much money he stole. “I got the caramel latte from the Royal Show,” she shouts across the table to us. “How can I get receipts?”
 
She is getting more roller shutters put on her windows. She said that one evening a “gentleman” was watching her undress. She put her hands over her stomach as she told us.
 
Another woman, a 60-year-old, said she worked unpaid at the Food Barn to build up her hours to get NewStart unemployment payments as well as working at a paid part-time job. She said she’ll be unemployed during Christmas and doesn’t want to do unpaid work then.
 
The meal was sausages, Coleslaw, fresh salad, bread and margarine, All Natural Bakery wheaten slices, and bean and corn salad. The invalid scooter women said she wouldn’t eat the sausages because they made her vomit while Sally rolled hers into a serviette and said she’d take them home.
 
A normally happy man at the druggy’s table has developed sores on his arms and has a slightly wild appearance in his eyes.
 
Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
 
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
28 December 2018
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(above) Lifepoint Church on the corner of Milne and McIntyre Roads in Modbury offer a free lunch and takeaway fruit and vegetables every second Thursday at 11:30am. ph (08) 8395 0888 for 2019 dates.

(above) Modbury Lifepoint church free lunch and takeaway food comes with a religious flavour that might annoy some people, unlike St Vincent de Paul's Fred's Van or most other church free food places where they simply provide the free food and venue.

Lifepoint church’s recipe of free food, work-for-the-dole and Jesus

The thin older woman surprised me with an application form. She required my name, address, date of birth, family details, source of income, where else did I go and that I took full responsibility if the food made me sick.The church does this in fear of being sued if someone becomes sick from their food or suffers an accident.

They fear losing the church. However, they are protected in part by the Good Samaritans (Limitation of Liability) Bill passed in the South Australian Parliament in 2002.I filled in the details, but objected to signing it. She let me through.

I aimed for the comfortable couches, but was guided to a high table and put on a high stool. Light from ceiling fixtures reflected off the sharp cornered tables creating a flickering effect that increased my risk of having a seizure.

They brought me restaurant-quality lunch of chips, Coleslaw and beef schnitzel. Nothing like the Anglicare Food Barn.I avoided the meat in response to which a parishioner showed me a joke on his phone about the silliness of not eating meat.

While I was eating the MSG-laden chips, the older woman receptionist returned with the application form and insisted I sign it. I almost walked out, but stayed.None of the others ate and I felt like an animal in a zoo. To be fair, they had to pay and one woman, more a girl, didn’t have enough money and said she was going to McDonalds. Their church work is a calling and a sacrifice.

Later, two fat white women and a little girl arrived. They were clients and the four of us constituted the total contingent of underclass people seeking food assistance.The church women left my table to be with these new clients, also sitting at a high table.

More meals were brought out, this time by work-for-the-dole women. One had a bent smile as if having suffered a stroke. Other involuntary welfare labourers sat in a back room, happy to be resting and amongst themselves. Some appeared over sixty years of age. They were poorer than most people the church was attempting to attract to their free lunch.

My back hurt sitting on the high stools. I missed the dirty nine-dollar chairs at the Food Barn. Or standing in the rotunda at Gawler Fred’s Van.

A church Elder told me about his ordeal with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (N.D.I.S.) and how Feros Care Australia was useless.

There were tables of free takeaway bread, fruit and vegetables in the corner. Not Food Bank and Second Bite rubbish, but perfect tomatoes, bananas, avocados, mangoes and Kestrel potatoes donated by a friend of Steve of the church, and better quality than that from the supermarkets. Once again, Baker’s Delight had shown its generosity with bread baked the previous day. 

When I left, my solar plexus was burning with anger that continued throughout the night and next day. Why was that? I had wanted to sit quietly and drink coffee rather than being challenged and observed. Nor leave any documentation.

But it is worth going there.

Lifepoint ChurchCorner of Milne Road and McIntyre Roads, Modbury North.
11:30am every second Thursday for lunch and takeaway fruit, vegetables and bread. All free.
They insist applicants complete an intrusive registration form, but don’t require I.D.
Ph (08) 8395 0888

Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
27 December 2018
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(above) With the Christmas shut-down of most charities, discovering a functioning water tap is like discovering gold. This fountain in Port Adelaide provides a small trickle of water for homeless people. It is in a park near where the ablution block was knocked down to prevent it being used by drug addicted prostitutes.

Fred’s Van Semaphore
​speed dating

​A few hard men lingered on the outskirts of our crowd of twenty waiting to get inside the St Bede’s hall on the second Sunday before Christmas.Catholic St Vincent de Paul unpaid workers had replaced the Anglicare morning crew. They placed plastic floral cloths over the tables.

The usual Anglicare salt and pepper shakers on every table was reduced to one each on the front counter along with Heinz ketchup containing more tomato paste and less salt and sugar than normal tomato sauce.

The meal was chicken, excellent roast potatoes and carrots (not English-style, which means boiled in water and the nutrients poured down the drain) and mixed frozen vegetables (English-style). I cannot remember the nature of the dessert due to a migraine.

A pleasant woman brought coffee to the tables in those horrible soft blue plastic cups similar to Fred’s Van at Kilburn. There was cordial, but no wine list.

Takeaway bags consisted of a loaf of bread and meat pies. Some clients dumped them on their messy plates and walked out.

After nearly everyone had gone, the man known formerly as ‘the most active volunteer’ complained that the floor cleaner was using too much disinfectant and that was enough to close the joint down.

What surprised me was the speed of the operation. We were in and out within half an hour compared to the two-hour sessions of the Anglicare Tuesday and Wednesday breakfasts in the same hall. Yet compared to a decade ago, Fred’s Van Semaphore has greatly improved.

What they need now is salt, pepper and tomato sauce on each table and more time allotted to the meal. They put so much effort preparing the meal so why mess it up by giving us the boot within minutes of arrival.

But what was especially nice was that the Catholics gave it to us unconditionally.

Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Healthy meal eaten inside. Free. Toilets available.
27 December 2018
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(above) In response to the public having become bored with reports of child sexual abuse, charities such as the Salvation Army have shifted their fundraising campaigns to the "all white men are bad" industry of domestic abuse. That is where the money is. They wouldn't dare put an Aboriginal, Asian or Moslem woman and children on their fundraising leaflets. Nothing but trouble if they did that.

(above) The Salvation Army say they've used models for these photographs. This could mean paid actors or CGI composites from a bank of noses, eyes, hair and teeth.

(above) Fundraisers use actors or composites of better than average appearance because donors are reluctant to give to those who fit the profile of slack women who provoke men to violence then rejoice in their victim status. Nor do fundraisers show horrific injuries as these might trigger blood lust in donors, which would do the opposite of attracting donations.

Night Talker not happy with druggy neighbour taking up religion

​from the Night Talker

“When faith based drug and alcohol rehab, turn tolerable people, into complete and utter morons.

“My neighbour who is only a young man in his early 20's had (until recently) all the outwardly appearances of a lazy, dumb-arsed, unemployed "stoner."

“Along with his twice pregnant, slightly simple, teenage girlfriend and their two ADHD addled kids, they lived a fairly typical lifestyle for a small country town. (Or any lower class suburb, for that matter).

“They were grotty, self-centred, owned a large cross breed dog that barked incessantly and tried to **** anything, that stood still for long enough and drove a battered commodore.

“Other than the dog and the occasional loud party, that required police intervention, they mostly kept to themselves. When annoyed or confronted, they would respond with either singular grunts or two word expletives. Any annoying activity or act their two kids were involved in, (which was usually every two to five minutes) was generally met with a loud ‘get the **** over here, and Jesus Christ, not again.’It is alleged that the older child (now school aged) regularly responds to anything his teachers ask him to do, with, f*** off and what the f*** are you looking at?"

“So what changed? Our stoner father was required to attend his local Job Network Provider, where they finally realised (after several years of unemployment) that our friend was a drugged up and generally rarely sober, "stoner who couldn't qualify for a job, for love nor money." This required our young father to attend drug and alcohol rehab.“Being extremely poor however, the only kind of rehab he could afford was some faith- based church group, in the Northern Suburbs. So he (was forcibly) enrolled and ended up in some kind of Christian Boot Camp, out in the "boonies" (so my neighbour on the opposite side of me, told me?) So we didn't see our stoner friend/neighbour for several weeks, and then he returned...……….

“The returning of my neighbour to our little town, was something akin to an adult version of "Damien" reappearing in the Omen as an adult. Except Damien was clearly the son of Satan and apart from, wanting to start the next apocalypse/world war Three, was actually quite hot.

“Not my neighbour though. Hair shaved off. Number nine buzz cut (really) and wait for it, dressed in corduroy pants, a mauve coloured long sleeved shirt and carrying a large bible under his arm. His new appearance was not duly appreciated by his girlfriend/partner, who loudly ejected, "you look like a right stupid f*****, get inside now, before someone notices you" and his kids responded by asking, "mommy who the f*** is that, at the front door?"

“Since that time, our born again friend has got rid of his dog and his Commodore (it has been replaced with a Subaru station wagon, spends copious amounts of time, trying (largely unsuccessfully) to hand out religious pamphlets, to people walking past his house (who respond with everything from expletives, to actual threats of physical violence) and worst of all (I think) has developed a passion for playing excruciatingly long and drawn out, hymns on an old 1960's, Hammond Organ. Such classic Christian top 20 hits like, "Jesus my Redeemer and "How great thou Art".

“These aren't played once or twice or just occasionally, they are played at full volume and sometimes several times over during sporadic times throughout the day and night.

​“This results in dogs in the street howling in unison, screams of "shut the f*** up" from surrounding houses and even the odd brick or beer bottle, thrown at the house of my godly friend. I actually feel a bit guilty now, that I did not appreciate him more when he was a morose, stoned drunk. Now what has metamorphasized is far worse and I want my old friend back!. God help us all!”

“P.S. My neighbour still remains unemployed. Apparently now he can't find employment locally because nobody can take him seriously and he pisses everyone he meets off, in an instant with his holier than thou attitude and rapid desire to covert anyone, within a 500 km radius.“Well done Job Network Australia, you really have created a monster!.”

The Night Stalker
26 December 2018

​Food Barn news

“Something changes every day,” Joe the Cook said as he found the mop had part of its handle sawed off and was now more suitable for a midget kitchen worker.

​Meanwhile, Clown Prince Wayne tried to get Kay the dishwasher to take him to the volunteers celebration. “After all I’ve done for you,” Wayne lamented when she refused.

At the tables, the elderly sex maniac said the RAA had cancelled his car insurance. He said they’d accused him of being a criminal who had been in jail. The maniac said he’d never been in jail though he might spend Christmas in jail for not turning up to court three years ago.

The maniac added triumphantly that he’d gotten pensioners’ insurance for both his car and house for $44 a month when he’d been paying $38 for car insurance alone with the RAA. He said he’d also made a date with the sales woman because he said he lives on the second floor and she likes second floors.

Good News: The Food Barn is closed on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, but remains open during the holiday period.

Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Very bad salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
26 December 2018

St Bede’s pre-Christmas party

The woman who sits at the back of Cash Converters was a special guest. A tattoo on her shoulder read: “RIP Nana XX”.

The new Anglican preacher’s daughter sang Christmas songs while playing an organ. She was better than the old man last year who used a karaoke machine and charged $100. She smiled naturally and wore a push-up bra, upon which numerous elderly men commented. Her singing was appreciated, then she became background music.

Jack Kelso from Rotary Regency Park was another special guest. He sat with Mr and Mrs Moonboots, volunteers of eleven years who were edged out when the New Employee arrived, and left. Jack is Le Fevre peninsula through and through.

Volunteers marshalled guests to chairs, an action that stifled the usual movement among tables or congregating at the coffee urn. This meant we sat through the whole lunch without speaking to anyone except the three or four people sitting near us. Nor were many smokers congregated outside because few can afford to smoke White Ox tobacco at nearly a hundred dollars a pouch.

The Anglicare media photographer moved about the tables. A woman ran over to me, fearful of who he was. Another Anglicare employee announced that he would be photographing us and that anyone not wanting their picture taken should approach him. Inserting this stranger in our group was like a slap in the face. Meanwhile a third employee, known as The Executioner, used her tablet to obtain our images. We were products to be marketed.

There was no sauce, vinegar, salt or pepper available. I ate little so Jim next to me asked if he could eat a potato left on my plate. He probably has diabetes as a side-effect of psychiatric medication and is perpetually hungry.

Lea from the Cottage Kitchen complained about some idiot making a noise with the gunpowder fueled streamers. I switched to blowing a whistle.

There was a quiz and the winners were a tie between Amanda’s family and the Moonboots people. The prize was out-of-date chocolate recently unloaded by Food Bank.

Amongst the presents for regular clients, was a movie pass to the Semaphore Odeon cinema.

The Bede’s Bazaar people were also invited. They operated an Op Shop on Semaphore Road until they realised their profits were being absorbed by the landlord. So they moved to the St Bede’s hall and earn money to keep that operating, which includes letting Anglicare use it rent-free.

Four or five of the volunteers began crying when they stood at the front while Malcolm the Mormon, 77, a client, said we were all his true family and he was thankful. Jill Rivers also cried when The Executioner announced her worth. Everyone knew that.

Her presence changes the atmosphere in a room.For example, when a volunteer handed out a raffle ticket to each guest, I asked the purpose of the second book on the table. Her answer was, “You only get one each,” and then she looked up and added, “Fair is fair.”

Jill would have replied, saying that one ticket was good for multiple draws and the other book was a spare. That would have been her response to curiosity without the less pleasant implication given from the other woman, whose actual message was similar to what most of us get at free welfare joints: do not ask questions, you are a beggar. However, this rarely happens at St Bede’s and that is why it is a superior free breakfast joint.

Note: St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre is closed and will reopen at 8:30am on Tuesday 8 January 2019.

25 December 2018
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(above) St Bede's Drop-in-Centre at Semaphore gave regular clients movie passes to the Odeon Star on Semaphore Road.

(above) This woman walked into the gardens of an Anglicare retirement complex at Elizabeth and cut flowers grown over the past year by an 88-year-old tenant.

(above) After cutting the flowers, this woman demanded a vase from a 91-year-old tenant. Then she stole a garden decoration from another tenant then argued as if she was the victim. Another elderly woman tenant phoned the police, but they were not interested. The retirement units have become an easy target as Anglicare has stopped replacing departing tenants since early this year.

Anglicare Threads Van

Two young women parked the “Threads Van” between the St Bede’s Anglican Church and its adjacent hall. Ruth the Preacher randomly issued numbers with the woman in the wheelchair being first.

The van was parked with its side door facing the church to ensure less humiliation for people fitting clothing though they were clearly visible from the bus stop 20 metres distant.The van could have been placed differently, but those doing the humiliating don’t have the same sensitivity as those being humiliated, and the latter know from experience not to breathe a word of criticism.

The free clothing consisted of jeans, skirts and tops. David Swan got a bright tropical shirt and blue jeans. He appears debonair in anything so the Anglicare women wanted a publicity photo of him. “For internal purposes,” they said, standing over him as he sat cornered on the pavement. He lifted his head and sought guidance from others. He saw the shaking of heads and declined.

A young man watching the clients said, “They’re greedy.” Another said the clothing appeared to be junk.They were both right. We grab anything and everything, keep what is appropriate, give the rest to friends or toss it into charity and rubbish bins. Hoarders pile it ceiling-high in their rooms and hallways. Others actually wear it.

I was the last client, but the two Anglicare employees talked to the man in front of me for twenty minutes while they packed up. That was a clear enough message for me and I left. That’s charity welfare.

Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
24 December 2018

From the anonymous contact page

Hi all,

I would like to advise that the Free Grow Cart at Elizabeth Grove is a Food Swap cart and it is not designed for the wider community only really the local community. with the intention that people add to the cart as well as taking what they need.

Can this please be removed from this sight as it defeats the purpose of what we are trying to create.

Thanks so much really appreciate it and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

kind regards, 
Leonie 

Editor: The entry in the Adelaide free food guide has been adjusted to indicate the swap cart in front of Anglicare on Fairfield Road, Elizabeth Grove is not a free food cart per se. However, this is Elizabeth and heavy with drug addicts and those people treated with disdain by welfare authorities for two generations so expecting respect for your ideals is perhaps hoping for a lot.

24 December 2018
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Bin diving with the Night Talker
 
“Having recently started bin diving again each weekend, I noted with some concern, a largish group of young people congregating near the back of the munno para library in the early hours of Sunday Morning, just passed. It was not a particulary nice morning as their was a constant drizzling rain that made you damp very quickly.
 
“The group i was surveying from my car across the road looked miserable and moved around, in a semi depressed fashion. Funnily enough there was no sign of the police who usually behave in a very beligerant and pro-move on manner towards, anyone seen to be using the library site as a shelter. But then again maybe this was a blessing for the group concerned.
 
“After i had raided my last bin i went back to my car to store my gains in the boot and drive home, i noticed the group heading towards the bins.
 
“I hoped they would find some edibles and at least be able to take something back to where they were staying. Bin diving is like that. Some people take to it immediately and find something good every time, others take a while, but get there in the end, whilst others can't bring themselves to do it. Like i have said before, it takes all sorts.”
 
The Night Talker.
24 December 2018

(above) Instead of more services being available to those living outside in Adelaide, the opposite is true. Welfare workers perversely give house dwellers what they want while telling homeless people that, "There are places you can go," then direct them to drug dens or psychology joints.

(above) Global Care offers a free BBQ on Saturdays at 6:30pm at the Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre on the corner of Kings and Martins Roads, Parafield Gardens. Entrance is behind Aldi's.

Running away from Global Care

A starving bird may perish rather than seek out food under a dense bush or shrub that may be a haven for its predators’.  Similarly, free soup kitchen people will scout a venue until dangers are located and judged either surmountable or to be avoided.

I sat in my car outside the Parafield Garden’s Recreation Centre watching the Global Care crowd set up a banner proclaiming their free BBQ.They withdrew inside the sports complex.

Twelve cars quickly arrived carrying Filipino families, some in basketball clothing and little girls in ethnic costumes.Later, a car of our people arrived. A very fat man and a very fat woman. They parked in a disability space. The man, the passenger, kicked open his door. They both lumbered towards the stadium, the man scratching himself.

Another couple, including Steve from Fred’s Van Salisbury, arrived with walking sticks.Then came more Filipinos. Middle class types. Hard workers. Not my type. Too many of them. I fled the scene.

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 stadium. Painful because it is in the middle of ethnic sports evening.
24 December 2018
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Our Street Family Matters extra holiday service as Hutt Street Centre slows down

Along with its Saturday free 9:00am breakfasts, Our Street Family Matters will provide the same at 11:00am on Boxing Day, 26 December 2018, on the grass opposite August Towers, on the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street, Adelaide.
 
Another supplementary breakfast will be served at 11:00am at the same address on New Year’s Day, 1 January 2019. All free. No I.D. or registration required.
 
Our Street Family Matters continues its Saturday free breakfast service throughout the Christmas and January holiday period.
 
Our Street Family Matters  (Dr Jefferis)
Saturday at 9:15am near the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide  
Hot tea and coffee, small amount of used clothing and toiletries. Home cooked food in foil containers plus hot food from pots. All free.
Operates mainly for people living outside, but everyone is welcome.
23 December 2018
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Cos We Care free food

Street Smart in Melbourne sent Cos We Care 100 twenty-dollar Coles gift cards that were distributed to clients last Saturday and Sunday. Street Smart recognise that Cos We Care reaches the right clients and operates on a tiny budget that does not involve paid employees.
 
Instead of Christmas hampers this year, Cos We Care decided to put better stuff on its free tables. Ann Cooper said, “We were always dictating what people got; we want to give them choice.”
 
Cos We Care also gave away new handbags crammed with “women’s products”. Twitchy got one. She goes to the Food Barn and is one of the brightest women in the underclass scene. Sarah was also there with John, the ex-fruit and vegetable merchant.
 
Another new woman named Carly has become a volunteer. It was clear she was top shelf the day she arrived.
 
The canned food at Cos We Care is generally less old than at most other places. Ann and John Cooper collect it from placing red bins outside supermarkets and receive the cans straight from the shelves.
 
And what does the “COS” in “COS We Care” mean? Ann said it stands for “Come on Sunday” and goes back when she and Laura began the free food service on South Terrace, opposite the TPI building that made way for August Towers. They so liked helping people living outside that they couldn’t wait for each Sunday to come around.
 
Cos We Care continues its free food service throughout the Christmas and New Year holiday period.
 
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.
 
23 December 2018

​Last Fred’s Van Elizabeth for 2018

A slightly smaller crowd filled the dining room while others occupied the picnic benches under the gazebo.

German Sabine speaks little English so she sat with German Marten who speaks less German because he has spoken English as a first language for fifty years. Marten later apologised for speaking German, but he was doing good because Sabine is excessively shy.

They sat with George the Elder and a new woman continuously helpful to Sabine. Sabine worked as a school teacher and isn’t a real derelict, but is quickly learning the tradecraft.  

The soup was not popular. George described it as a perfect pasta sauce, but too rich as a soup. I cannot remember the whole meal, but there were huge platters of fresh salads made from fresh vegetables and containing no rotting product from Food Bank. The meal was so good that few bothered with the dessert of cheap ice-cream and canned fruit.

The takeaway bags were rubbish, but so much was left over from the meal that unpaid staff scrambled to put it into clear plastic containers for clients to take home. Sabine laughed as veteran diners helped fill her bags with 10 kilograms of food.

Outside, an older obese woman complained loudly that she’d been told the food hampers would be distributed at the Conference Centre at the back of the Op Shop at 12:00pm and not 2:00pm as was the case. A volunteer said he knew nothing about that as it was “above my pay grade”, which was zero. The obese woman smiled quietly at that.

As we left at 1:20pm, a diplomatic old man in charge of distributing 150 Christmas hampers snuck around nervously, not wanting to engage in conversation.

Not many diners were present; they’d left the building. That’s where the charity welfare divide occurs. Certain people go to free soup kitchens that don’t demand registration or identification, but abhor anything that requires an application form.This other crowd, including most of those picking up the 150 hampers, won’t mix with us derelict and criminal types, but have no problem signing applications for assistance. The two groups rarely intersect.

Sundays at Fred’s Van Elizabeth have finished for the year and will restart on Sunday 6 January 2019. The Wednesday meals will return on 9 January.

Fred’s Van Elizabeth on Sundays
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). Every Sunday at 12:00noon.
Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Hot dogs, main meal, sandwiches, dessert, coffee, takeaways. Limited free bread and fruit in Op Shop most days. Also on Wednesdays at 6:00pm.

23 December 2018

(above) Pathways Baptist at Modbury in Adelaide’s northeast. Parcels of free fruit, vegetables and bread given away once a week for those living in surrounding area. Best to phone for details on (08) 8395 1881. Centrelink card required.

(above) Lunch made by The Night Talker mostly from ingredients retrieved from Adelaide supermarket rubbish bins. (December 2018, Adelaide Homeless Journal).

Army gave away $50 Woolworths gift cards

It wasn’t clear what brought the police to the Elizabeth East Playford Corps of the Salvation Army last fortnight. Some say it was a fight over “presents”, but nothing is clear.
 
What did happen was that the Army issued $50 Woolworths Gift cards in lieu of hampers. What was surprising was who missed out.
 
The 53-year-old from the Housing Trust Gloucester apartments didn’t get one. He’s on the dole and can barely walk, loses hours where he cannot recollect where he’s been, and has diabetes. He was at the Friday free food event with a blood sugar level of 3.1. “I feel dizzy,” he said.
 
Army employee, Eleanor, kindly offered to see what she could do for one man, but he backed out saying he didn’t really need it.
 
Meanwhile, the cameras placed to stop people dumping rubbish have disappeared permanently from the wall near the donation bin. They were ripped apart by vandals.
 
The caretaker was seen at 6:35am last Saturday, wheeling a dead stove from the bin area to inside the compound.
 
Gloria and Matt were there. Gloria grabbed a few stuffed toys from the giveaway bin as someone said there’d be no room for Matt in her bed.
 
The free food included green leafy vegetables that no one wanted plus good fruit and canned items. I got a kilogram of Coles coffee beans and a packet of Salada biscuits, both within the Best-By date. An Indian woman got a jar of Indian curry. Two Moslem women distributed the bread while other Moslems were in the queue. They send their kids to the government school and not the private Moslem school in Elizabeth East.
 
The mood in the queue was generally happy with five clients dancing to accordion music from a phone. Gloria and Matt laughed and gesticulated.
 
Salvation Army Elizabeth East
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East. ph 8252 7196
Fridays 11:00am to 12:30pm. Free. Decent toilets.
Barbecued sausages, onions, vegetables, sauce, homemade soup, bottled water and coffee.
No I.D. or registration required.
Free vegetables and bread from 9:30am to 10:00am. Quite good. No coffee.
Free fruit and vegetables available intermittently in Op Shop. No I.D. needed.
Better bags of groceries and gift cards require interview via appointment with current I.D. not necessarily a Centrelink Card. No appointment needed on Fridays.
22 December 2018

Demons give horror to bland language

Community Housing Ltd deviously named their private company with the generic title of ‘Community Housing’, which usually refers to Housing Trust properties given to non-profit organisations such as Anglicare or Junction Housing. But Community Housing Ltd is a private business operating for profit.
 
Managing Director of Community Housing Ltd, Steve Bevington, told stockholders that…

“…Through mergers, stock transfers, public and private partnerships and other development activities, the CHL Group has grown significantly… in South Australia, the total number of properties managed, increased to 992 following the transfer of 767 properties by the Housing Trust…”
 
Properties are leased by Community Housing Ltd on condition that tenants submit to frequent audits into their personal lives, the data of which goes into an eternal data base open to strangers from numerous government and private agencies. Steve Bevington describes it thus,
 
“Our Social Impact Framework was realised in early 2018 allowing CHL to now measure the social impact affordable housing has on the lives of our tenants and to use that information as both an advocacy and planning tool.”
 
22 December 2018

Comment on thieves predating on Anglicare Aged Care Village....

“The woman in the picture, should have been arrested for crimes against fashion! What a disgusting outfit! I sometimes channel my "inner bag lady" but I am the equivalent of Jennifer Hawkins, compared to this schlubby scrubber/schickza!”
 
The Night Talker
22 December 2018

Army Captain sacked?

Divisional Commander Major Barry Casey has reportedly sacked Captain David Collinson of the Ingle Farm Corps of the Salvation Army.

​22 December 2018

Food Barn pre-Christmas lunch
 
It was worse than last year. Same 30-40 minute limit per shift of diners, but this year the soft drinks were warm. They made no attempt to chill them. Even the sauces, salt and pepper were not available. Luckily, the ex-motorcycle rider with the eye-patch brought his own salt and pepper and shared it with me.
 
When the dessert was issued, diners were told to take it with them outside. There weren’t any presents for the kids.
 
Darren from Liamsans Security dyed his hair turquoise.
 
One man dressed as Father Christmas, but that attracted repeated taunts of “pedo” from another diner.
“He’s just a harmless old man,” his girlfriend said.
 
Despite many seats empty for our shift, a woman was denied entry because she hadn’t registered. And those who did register had no choice of which shift they could join, meaning that friends found themselves sitting apart.
 
The meal itself was quite nice: genuine pork and gravy, genuine roast potatoes, pumpkin and carrots. (no English-style boiled-in-water food). The staff were kind, but slightly distant as the format confused them as well.
 
It wasn’t a bad lunch and those secret agents that had been following me last year were noticeably absent.
 
And the good news is that apart from public holidays, the Food Barn remains open throughout the Christmas and January period.
 
Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
 
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
22 December 2018
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Flower Lady
 
From the anonymous contact page
 
Is "this woman" who "stole flowers grown by an 88-year-old tenant" [the] Bait Woman?
 
Editor: No, the Bait Woman is smarter and meaner.
22 December 2018

(above) Thick soup made by The Night Talker mostly from food taken from supermarket rubbish bins. (December 2018).

​Jamie Oliver free Adelaide Christmas lunch

Jamie’s Italian restaurant is providing lunch for 70 "homeless" and "lonely" guests at 12:15pm on Christmas day.
 
According to a Jamie’s Italian restaurant employee, the guest list was chosen by the Smith Family charity. It is believed the guests are those who have agreed to a Tavistock “support program”.
 
While readers of the Adelaide Advertiser might have believed the lunch was as an open event, Jamie’s Italian have classed it as a private event.
 
However, there will be boxes of takeaway food available at the restaurant for those in need. The lunch opens at 12:15pm for the invited guests and the boxes will be available for others sometime after that, according to an employee.
 
21 December 2018

Thieves predate on Anglicare retirement village

A fifth retirement unit has become empty in an Anglicare-administered group of 16 at Elizabeth. Anglicare stopped replacing departing tenants earlier this year.Local thieves scouring the neighbourhood at night have seen the empty units and hang around the cars inside the property.

​A 91-year-old driver said she discovered her petrol cap dangling from its cord. Another tenant chased a man and woman from the property.

Last week, a woman entered the property in broad daylight and stole flowers grown by an 88-year-old tenant. When another elderly woman tenant phoned the police, they were not interested.

This last elderly woman tenant asked Anglicare to send an employee to explain to remaining tenants why the units were being left empty and were they about to be knocked down. Her request was ignored despite employees having visited the latest departing tenant at least three times last month. And the grass cutters arrived yesterday to cut grass that didn’t exist as the increasingly despairing and aged tenants have stopped watering it.

Anglicare was previously an Anglican church charity, but now operates on a commercial basis since taken over by former South Australian Premier Lyn Arnold. He was succeeded by the current Chief Executive Officer, Peter Sandeman.

21 December 2018
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Vladimir Putin and the Therapy Cat

Piano Player Wayne said that President Putin of the Russian Federation watched a video of his Therapy Cat produced by the South Aussie with Cosi travel program.

Wayne says that as a consequence, he has been invited to the Russian Embassy in Canberra.

Luckily, Wayne says, he speaks fluent Russian with a perfect accent that he learned while studying music with a Russian teacher from the Orthodox church in Greenhill Road.

Wayne still resides inside the Flinders Medical Centre and is expected to be there for a few more weeks for treatment of an infection of his foot caused by diabetes.

21 December 2018
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The Night Talker goes religious
 
In response to Grumpy Salvation Army Officer at the Elizabeth East, Salvation Army (see "Comment on the Grump Dude, 18 December 2018).

"Truly I tell you, whatever you have not done for the least of these, you have not done for me. Your refusal to help the least of my brothers and sisters, is an direct refusal to help me your God. Then he said to those standing on his left, "Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels!"

"Beware the false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves."

Matthew Chapter 7:15
Matthew Chapters 25-40:41

The Night Talker.
21 December 2018
 

​From the Rundle Spy

"Thick soup made by The Night Talker mostly from food taken from supermarket rubbish bins. (December 2018)."

Delicious Congratulations.

Any VEGETARIAN ?

P.S. A fast talkin incessant smoker guy at Hell Hole / Shit Pot Elliott Lodge gave the opinion that whoever runs this site is out to get even with Westcare or something similar.

Hoping like hell the smoker guy is not an amphetamine dealer / user / Jekyll and Hyde type having sympathy for Mark Mark Arstall and Company or similar.

Gave my view to the nicotine fiend smoker guy that we knew the author of all this and he's alright...

TRUST NO ONE UNTIL TRUST IS EARNED / PROVEN LONGTERM... LIVED... ENJOYED... WORTHY.
 
Rundle Spy
21 December 2018
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Christmas closures
 
Tis the season of shut downs and lots of phoning to see who is open and who is closed. Here is a small sample of who is closing up over Christmas and January.
 
Kilburn Fred’s Van had its last free meal yesterday evening and re-opens on Thursday 10 January at 7:00pm.
 
Pilgrim Church free coffee lounge at 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide finishes up today and won’t re-open until at least mid-January 2019.
 
The Salvation Army DUO program at 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide on Saturdays has finished until 9 February 2019. The Wednesday meals at 4:30pm. via the back entrance. will continue through the Christmas period.
 
St Bede’s drop-in-centre Tuesday and Wednesday breakfasts at Semaphore have finished for the year and re-open on Tuesday 8 January 2019. There is one more Fred’s Van at Semaphore in the hall before closing up for the year.
 
Cos We Care continues through the Christmas period at both their Hutt Street and Elizabeth outdoor venues.
 
Our Street Family Matters continues its services through the Christmas period with its Saturday morning free breakfast outside the St Andrew’s Medical Centre on Hutt Street, Adelaide.
 
The Salvation Army Elizabeth East Friday market days have finished, but will restart on 11 January 2019, according to Malcolm in the Gloucester apartments on Yorktown Road.
 
The Food Barn in Elizabeth will be closed Christmas, Boxing and New Year’s day, but otherwise continues through the holiday period.
 
The Hope café on Goodman Road, Elizabeth south has shut down until some time next January.
 
Sundays at Fred’s Van Elizabeth have finished for the year and will restart on Sunday 6 January 2019. The Wednesday meals will return on 9 January.
 
Hutt Street Centre and Baptist Westcare usually operate through the holiday period, but with reduced hours.
 
Mary’s Kitchen has finished for the year and usually recommences at the end of January or early February.

Nanna's Free Food Kitchen re-starts on Wednesday on the 9th January at 4:00pm.

 20 December 2018
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(above) Most citizens don't see the cost of selling off government welfare housing in Port Adelaide. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Moving in silent desperation
 
The middle-aged Elizabeth man searched through his fridge. He had one diabetic pen. He wanted at least five. He wanted to pump the lot into his body.
 
“I’ve given up,” he said at a soup kitchen.
 
He sufferers extreme depression and has multiple physical illnesses. He doesn’t use drugs and wants a transfer from his unit in a group occupied by Ice and heroin addicts.
 
He has no hope. The Housing Trust is a heartless agency that responds best to lies and this man says, “I won’t lie.”
 
We hear of helping agencies self-promoting their grand worth, but in reality they respond to those who tell the best stories. Living on welfare is a competitive lifestyle and most of the benefits go to those slobs doing the rounds.
 
22 December 2018

Daily free lunch at the Food Barn

The kitchen worker didn’t like it when asked if they were serving fish. It was chicken.

During the meal, guests not finishing their meal passed pieces of half-eaten chicken to others. The sex maniac gave Tricky Mick a plate of half-eaten vegetables.Hardly anyone is thin in the Food Barn ― except the Ice and heroin addicts ― yet there is a profound fear of starvation, and actual starvation from diabetes, mostly brought on by denatured food and medication contra-indications.

The crowd was small on this day despite it being a Monday. With the chicken was a fresh salad, potato salad and the inevitable bread and margarine.

When the Food Bank man brought in bags of chocolate doughnuts all slopped together, Clown Prince Wayne said, “Wednesday”. That is when they arrived, baked six days previously, at least. Wayne said Friday’s product would arrive on Tuesday. They tasted similarly to food experienced by someone without a sense of taste.

Near the main doors, an elderly woman guarded the free table that contained UHT soup and boxes of cork napkin holders. No one was interested in the cork, but when I looked at them the guard hardened her voice and said, “You can have One.” My offence had been to ask what use they might have. Questions are not welcome in welfare.

Anglicare Mission Lunch and Breakfast
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
Monday to Friday. Free morning tea 10:30am-11:30am.  Free lunch 11:30am-12:30pm.
No dessert, No takeaways. Strange salt and peppershakers.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
No I.D. or registration required. Free tampons from machine.
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
20 December 2018

Free food at Seventh-day Adventist church​

​“Jesus is coming,” a sign above the door of the church advises.
 
Inside the small hall, the Adventist people are happy as usual, similar to the Christadelphians at their Armageddon BBQ in Hurtle Square.
 
A client with partially exposed breasts talked about sex and how she is making Christmas cards with her children. She asks a man for a smoke, but he says he’s got just three left.
 
The food seems diminished with the better loaves of Coles bread filling half the space. The quality of vegetables and fruit from Second Bite have been in decline for the past year. On the positive, there were large bottles of Ice Tea with crushed tops and frozen hamburger beef.
 
Numbers of clients are down since the church reduced allowed visits from nine to four a month. However, the kindness level remains high.
 
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.
20 December 2018

(above) Homeless campers remaining in the Adelaide CBD parklands have become more furtive to evade employees from the Adelaide City Council and numerous "helping agencies". (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Comment on the grumpy dude
from the anonymous contact page

“Hands up for people that have been yelled at by the grumpy dude in the cowboy hat at Salvation [Army] in Elizabeth. Some people need to take a chill pill and check they way they speak to people. Rudeness is never ok.
 
“If my stuff isn’t ok just say so. Don’t be rude about it. And don’t walk around like your crap don’t stink. 

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

18 December 2018

(above) A rare surviving camp in the Adelaide CBD parklands. Authorities with the backing of the "homeless agencies" have closed down most homeless camps resulting in people sleeping on concrete footpaths along Adelaide's busy city streets. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Victory Church free BBQ
​at Salisbury

​Twelve members of the church wearing lime Hi-Vis vests served sausages on bread with sauce, but no salt and pepper.It was a hot day as Old Celia leaned against a tree while two fat church members sat on chairs. The badass alcoholics had left their seats further toward the Stockade Hotel.

​The church had run out of milk for coffee, but the dozen Street Reach team were too lazy to hoof it over to Coles and get more.They turned their backs toward me, one or two occasionally looking around with hostile stares.

Yet these are kindly people doing a good job, but they cannot fathom that anyone can criticise their good work. As unpleasant as it is, every welfare service needs occasional prods from clients, and those that take notice improve their service to others.

Victory Church Street Outreach free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, coffee, cordial.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 7:30pm. Free. No registration or I.D. required.
On the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station. Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury
18 December 2018

(above) Victory Church Street Reach operates a free sausage BBQ with instant coffee every Friday from 6:00pm to about 8:00pm at the Salisbury railway station in Adelaide's north. No registration or I.D. required. It can be humiliating seeing the scorn on the faces of people getting off the train.

Port Adelaide AngliPrison spawns a new Ice hub

The men occupy two floors while the women are on the upper floor. Visitors aren’t allowed inside and must meet the prisoners at the main entrance or on the front lawns on Dale Street.

The walls of the old Archways Rehabilitation Centre on the site are long gone. Everything outside the new building is visible to the public as shaming is the name of the game. Not that many care.

A man can buy sex with a woman prisoner for a few cigarettes. Other prisoners sell artificial heroin strips cut into three and called “dots”. Thirty dollars a dot.

These and other drugs obtained legally on prescription are sold to buy White Ox tobacco.Prisoners allowed out during the day use their contacts to trade in Ice, heroin and cannabis, then return to their AngliPrison room in the late afternoon.

The Port Adelaide Enfield Council has placed new seating in front of the library that enables the dealing. The Council even reduced the size of its single disability parking spot in front of the library to make more space available to the AngliPrison drug dealers.

Any AngliPrison prisoner caught with non-prescribed drugs in his or her urine is given a warning. Too many warnings and its off to the women’s prison at Yatala or the remand centre in Currie Street, Adelaide.

However, many drug addicts know how to get around the urine tests and never get caught.These junkies are intelligent and resourceful people, and successful in their own calling.

The idiots in this story are those who control the AngliPrison and Port Adelaide Library for they have combined to spawn a new drug and prostitution hub in Port Adelaide.

​17 December 2018

Lamb on spit at Nanna’s
​Free Food Basket

Bronwyn Plate and her team purchased at least one lamb earlier this year and will serve it on a spit at their pre-Christmas gathering this Wednesday, 19 December 2018.

The usual one-dollar donation free food tables will operate from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, earlier than usual. Rumour has it that they will give away their entire stock including the items they sell.

The free lamb-on-a-spit meal runs from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Everything is free and requires no pre-registration or I.D.

Incredible.

Nanna’s Free Food at Semaphore Park
200 Bower Road, Semaphore Park
Usually Wednesdays 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Best to arrive by 4:30pm at least.
Soup, coffee and meal served free. A small miracle.
Behind the Bower Cottages that are on the west end of the Causeway.
Free takeaway food for a one-dollar donation. Other food for sale.  No registration or I.D. required. No salt and pepper.
Posted 17 December 2018

​Mobility Allowance Payment (Centrelink)

from the Night Talker

“Can't or don't want to use public transport or there is no public transport near you AND you are a current centrelink recipient? Then the Mobility allowance may be for you. If you are NOT a current NDIS recipient and you are receiving a current centrelink benefit (e.g. either Newstart, Single Mothers/Parents, DSP or Carers allowance) and either looking for work, working or volunteering for a minimum of 15 hours a week, then you are might be entitled to this allowance.

“It provides a payment of up to $134.00 a fortnight, that is paid directly into your bank account each fortnight. You can also apply for a once a year, lump sum payment. I have attached the application form below.”

The Night Talker
17 December 2018he 

(above) Free meal every Friday at 6:00pm at the Salvation Army, 84-86 Lavender Drive, Parafield Gardens. Ph (08) 8250 1455. No I.D. or registration required. It's a family oriented gathering with a children's church service afterward, but unaccompanied derelicts are still welcome. Best to phone first to see if it is on during the Christmas holidays.

Salvation Army at Parafield Gardens
 
The woman captain faced me through cool inquisitive eyes. I returned her wariness through my bleary bloodshot eyes. “Welcome,” she said. I sat down then got up and went outside to my car in the Aldi carpark.
 
After five minutes, I returned, not wanting to run away as I did with the Global Care BBQ the previous Saturday.
 
A woman Army soldier said that finding Jesus was her passport to freedom. Her father told me of those he’d beaten up while in the SAS.
 
The free meal was chips and chicken from a takeaway joint, and a homemade salad made from fresh vegetables rather than stale stuff from Second Bite or Food Bank. Coffee was from a machine that ground the Vietnamese beans while I waited.
 
After the meal, the Captain’s bald husband began a children’s church service during which he sang and they danced. The Friday gathering is a church service for busy families. The Army continuously evolves with the times.
 
As an old derelict, everyone was friendly to me and there were not any hard stares. An average person living outside would be tolerated here every Friday evening. Maybe even welcomed.
 
While we were sitting and talking, someone dumped a dirty double bed mattress in front of the donation bins, which will cost the Army time and money to dispose.
 
Salvation Army 
84-86 Lavender Dr, Parafield Gardens.
ph (08) 8250 1455
Free indoor meal on Fridays at 6:00pm. No I.D. or registration required.
16 December 2018

Piano Player Wayne

Wayne remains at the Flinders Medical Centre. He went there to avoid the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. He went into surgery upon admittance and the doctor says he will be there at least one month.

​His foot is infected due to diabetes plus he caught two new bugs from the hospital. They might saw off his foot.

Wayne said the meals are good so they probably are not provided by Spotless as with the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH).

Nurses told Wayne that if he causes trouble, they’ll send him to the RAH.Friends are taking care of his Therapy Cat.

16 December 2018

Good Start Early Learning Centre from Penfield

The Good Start mob donated 500 cans of food to Cos We Care. It was good stuff and not out-of-date junk from Food Bank.The free food was better than usual, as is the case at most free food venues at Christmas.

​Old John Cooper cooked the breakfast himself. He says Ann is working too hard. She says she loves what she does.Twenty-three of us were waiting when the tables were brought out of the Cos We Care van. Another 15 arrived within ten minutes.

One man didn’t want food; he wanted tobacco. Boobalet from India was there; Kerrie from Finland; Sally from Wales; Cath Walker’s great grandson sat at the back; John from Calabria, Martin from Germany; an old Canadian hung around the sidelines.

The Africans and Moslems were missing as was Jung from the Korean monastery.

Former SA Best political candidate Sonya Taylor was there before heading off to the cricket. She has been on the board of Cos We Care for at least a year and serves food nearly every Saturday in the park.

The generous donator from the Elizabeth Spiritualist Church talked about seeing the grey shapes of people having passed on, but still waiting in the wings. Another spiritualist serves coffee and brings sandwiches at her own expense. She laughed when a client said the government was dropping morgellans and smart dust on us from airplanes.

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.
 
16 December 2018
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​Free lunch at Church of Christ Elizabeth on Christmas Day

Ann Cooper of Cos We Care was taking names yesterday in Elizabeth for a free Christmas lunch at the Elizabeth Church of Christ.

The church is on the corner of Short and Ashfield Roads, Elizabeth. Ph  (08) 8255 2467.
 
It is also known as the Beacon of Hope church.
16 December 2018
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(above) Bureaucrats regularly seek out a disabled alcoholic druggie under the ramp of the car park near the stolen goods dealers back of Cash Converters in Port Adelaide. He is a goldmine in rehab statistics.

Nanna's free food basket

“Seventy-five per cent,” Bronwyn Plate answered the Men’s cooking class teacher when asked if she was 100% exhausted.
One client pushes his bags around Port Adelaide in a shopping trolley as his emphysema is so bad that one minute carrying them leaves him gasping. “I won’t be here much longer,” he once said.
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Asian Gene didn’t sit with us white fellas as there were two Asian woman at another table. But they weren’t having any of it and soon found an excuse to disappear.

I cannot remember the meal, but could taste the age in the beans and corn that came with it. They had that musty taste of canned food past the Best-By date and required seasoning to kill that taste.

Nevertheless, it’s a small miracle that Bronwyn and her team of a dozen people manage to put on such a free event every week.

Special Note: The free food distribution runs from 1:00pm to 3:00pm this Wednesday, 19 December. The  free meal starts at 4:00pm and includes a lamb on a spit.

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

15 December 2018
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One bag per household rule
 
Adapting to each soup kitchen’s often unspoken rules is difficult. Gladys and Daniel (not their real names) discovered this last week.

They were giving Christmas cards to volunteers and clients at an Elizabeth free food venue earlier this month when they burst into anger.
 
This pleasant couple in their thirties aren’t raging intellectuals and couldn’t adapt to the distribution rule of one amount of takeaway food per household.
 
They thought a couple should get twice as much as a single collector at the food tables. That is logical, but not the rule. They said they live in different houses and are not a single “household”. They were not believed. They stormed off, shouting abuse.

​Someone laughed at their anger and distress.
Most people using free food venues have been subject from childhood to threats, violence and shame. To laugh at their shame was unintentional cruelty. A sign of fear, perhaps.

What Gladys and Daniel should have done was to accept the limitations of this soup kitchen then go to others, getting the best from each service. We call this strategy “doing the rounds”, which is what they did, to some extent.They go to the Salvation Army in Elizabeth East and register as two households, which perhaps they are.

The sad part is they no longer go to the other soup kitchen where they added to the cultural and emotional milieu.

15 December 2018
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(above) The Night Talker is intrinsically placed within the government bureaucracy and recommends stockpiling of prescription and over-the-counter medicines. (See December 15 post for more details.)

Stockpiling prescribed medication

​from the Night Talker
 
“With the public health system the way it is in this country, it would not be an unwise idea to start stockpiling away medications that can be used in a medical emergency or SHTF (shit hits the fan) situation for both pets and humans.
 
“I have started stockpiling broad spectrum antibiotics, for over a year now. (See attached photo) I use them (when necessary) on myself and my pets. I get these from doctors/e.d. departments (hospital emergency rooms)  and by ocassionally dropping into my local STD clinic. (You need a good story and have a blood test done) but other than that, all meds are 100% free.
 
“Remember that antibiotic eye drops and ear ache liquid and salve is equally as valuable/useable, so stock piling these products, is a good idea as well.
 
“It is not hard to see that the hospital/health care system in this state is in utter crisis as is our electrical grid, our roads, public transport,telecommunications reliability, schools, wage staganation, housing crises/homelessness, unemployment/underemployment and urban spread ( including an ever increasing gap between well to do/cashed up suburbs, and those mired in poverty and disadvantage) all it would take is two or more of these frameworks to crash ( e.g. electrical and hospital/health care system together at once) and its goodbye normality, welcome chaos and calamity!
 
“Aside from the absolute worst case scenarios, having these medications on hand, can prevent (in some instances) a costly trip to the vet (as vets essentially use the same antibiotics on animals) or several hours wait in an overcrowded e.d. department on a grotty, disease infested, public hospital.
 
“Please be mindful though that antibiotics are not the be all and end all of all medical treatments. If u are seriously unwell, have prolonged pain/symptoms or broken bones etc u need to see a doctor or go to your nearest hospital.

“You also need to be aware of side effects of antibiotic useage and when and when it is not safe or advisable to use ( on humans and pets) You can find this information out on google in most instances.
 
“Resistance is existence! Rage against the established order!”

15 December 2018

What about Stockpiling of NON-Prescription Medicine?

Examples:

Tea Tree Oil (good for almost all antibiotic purposes to include earache)

Magnesium mineral supplement (safe in large quantities to help cancel out 100% nervous conditions, bone problems)

Some of us want to give AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE to the Mega-Monopolistic Prescription Cartel and to AVOID getting busted for any illegals.
 
The Rundle Spy
20 December 2018

Living Faith free food at St Agnes

This church in St Agnes on North-east Road offers bags of groceries to people in need every two weeks for up to three or four months.

They require a Centrelink card, but don’t require an application form. You just turn up.

Living Faith has closed for the year, but will re-open on Friday 8 February 2019 and thereafter every second week.

Living Faith
1238 North East Road
St Agnes.
Ph (08) 8264 4933
Fridays 10:00am to 12:00 noon.
15 December 2018

(above) St Paul's drop-in-centre in Port Adelaide has shut up shop until 15 January 2019. Customers are distraught it won't stay open through Christmas, as with any commercial cafe.

(above) St Paul's Church hall in Port Adelaide, near Farmer Joe's, have a table and a free coffee urn in their Op Shop that is open to derelicts, alcoholics and mad people. However, the biscuit tin is frequently empty or contains quite elderly product. The staff are intelligent and interesting, but go a little strange when The Night Stalker talks dirty or cynical.

On the Street

Horse Trader Steve at Kilburn Fred’s Van poured salt into the palm of his hand from the bottom of a salt shaker. He said he needed it to prevent cramps, but that having too much would also give him cramps.

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A woman fumed at St Paul’s Drop-in-Centre in Port Adelaide. She’d been to the UnitingSA shopfront building and found that employees had locked the formerly public toilets and now reserved them for their personal use only.

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A young woman said a doctor recommended a certain medication, but wouldn’t name it or describe its side-effects until she agreed to go on it. She declined.

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A Liberal party insider says that Labor Party MP, Steve Georganas, plans to introduce a television license bill in Parliament.

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A man connected with the Pitjantjatjara crowd in the desert said that when white fellas in the 1950’s discovered a group Aboriginal women and children, the conversation among the women was which one would be eaten by the Aboriginal liaison men accompanying the white fellas.

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Perth Prison inmate and former meat cook at the St Luke’s Christmas Day lunch, Krusher Karl, is rumoured to be moving to a pre-release centre in preparation for parole.

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Two women who don’t know each other both stopped going to the Salvation Army DUO event in Pirie Street, Adelaide due to the threatening atmosphere. This is nothing new; the turnover amongst clients is high, often for this very reason.

14 December 2018

(above) Farmer Joe's in Port Adelaide make regular generous donations to the St Bede's Drop-in-Centre in Sempahore.

Michelle Lensink, failing politician

Nothing has improved since the change of government in South Australia. The Housing Trust continues to evict tenants then leave the properties empty. The call centre employees are polite, vague and secretive.

14 December 2018
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​Pensioner Education Supplement

from the Night Talker

“Want to study but don't have any money? The Pensioner education supplement may be for you.

“Centrelink have a long standing scheme that is not well advertised, but still currently available. If you are a carer on newstart or you are on a DSP or a single person on Newstart (in certain circumstances) you "may" be entitled to a annual entry payment of $250.00 and a fortnightly supplementary payment of up to $60.00 per fortnight. Be mindful, you need to be studying or enrolled to study.

“Cheating on Centrelink (if found out) will get you put in the debt collectors "dog-box" so avoid applying for this, if you have no intention of studying. If you do want to study, but cannot face going to daily classes (which require extra expenses like petrol for your car or constantly recharging your metro card) then look at doing an online course. (which is acceptable, under (current) Centrecrud guidelines.”

The Night Talker
14 December 2018
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Two sets of rules

The Playford Council in Elizabeth comes down hard on people with excessive amounts of cats and dogs. 

But when a resident complained about the Housing Trust leaving building rubble on common ground in front of a residential complex, the Council refused to do anything, or say why they wouldn’t order the Trust to remove the mess.

14 December 2018

(above) The church serves an excellent free lunch followed by quality takeaway fruit, vegetables and bread. Not Food Bank stuff. They ask guests to complete a form, but don't require I.D. Only half a dozen people turn up. They are very friendly, but also talk religion. One educated church lady said that faith in God was her ticket to freedom on this earth. Their food service is closed over Christmas, but reopens early next year.

Fight at Elizabeth East Salvos?

"Can anyone shed any light on the cop cars at the Salvation Army on Kinkaid Road [Elizabeth East] today [Wednesday]?

"I went in to collect my Christmas hamper and there were 7 cops and 3 cars. Someone told me they had been there since lunch. A fight over presents?"

Anonymous
13 December 2018

Former welder of Collins Class submarines rips shirt 

The former welder from Osborne, known on the streets as “Johnny”, danced wildly on King William Street in Adelaide last week.

His eyes were wide like saucers as he shrieked and ripped his shirt.“Hello,” he said, calmly, as The Cousin from the Salvation Army DUO program walked by.

The Cousin later said that Johnny looked like a “madman”. He also wondered if the government was embarrassed having people sleeping on the main street of Adelaide in the middle of the day.

Johnny used to operate from Hackney Lodge where Spanish Peter thought he was a tradesman with his tool kit. But the tools were drug paraphernalia that any self-respecting professional druggy carries.

It is, of course, a tragedy that Johnny ended up addicted to Ice. He is a philosopher and has a certain strength of character, but the drug has permanently ruined his mind.

13 December 2018

Dominic Renaro reported dead

Dominic Renaro, 67, has been reported dead, probably from cancer and diabetes.Dominic was born in Naples, but moved to Australia as an infant. He had serious throat surgery as a child and had trouble speaking clearly. He was also illiterate.

Dominic was the cleaner of the toilets in Hindmarsh Square, but after they were knocked down, he became a client of the Jasmine Restaurant soup kitchen in the square.

He was a long term friend of Jill, who grew up on a wheat farm on the Eyre Peninsula. She suffers depression and apparent Alzheimer’s Disease and rarely is aware of the day of the week or where she is.

Dominic was a regular patron at the Adelaide Casino where he was treated well until he lost most of the proceeds from his mother’s estate. This loss of status left him confused and angry. Gone were the red roses from female employees and respectful smiles from the guards.

Yet Dominic had a sense of humour and could see the absurdity of his life such as trying to expel a blue-tongued lizard from his house using fly spray. Or his embarrassment of going into stores asking about underwear large enough to fit himself. Once he was nervous when getting out of my car and the pressure of his hand broke a hole in the dashboard.

He showed courage in the homeless scene, but hated being called a “wog” and threatened to hit Sparkles with his umbrella at Mary’s Kitchen when she did. He was respected for his tenacity and even the most dangerous drug dealers kept their distance from him. He was such an unknown quantity.

Dominic Renaro lived at the Housing Trust complex known as Stowe Court, near the Arkaba Hotel. He was recently seen on a walking frame at Fred’s Van in Gawler Place.

His passing is a sad occasion though it is hard to believe that such a person could die. Maybe he is still alive.

13 December 2018

Free Salvo hairdressing in Gawler

​“I went to the free hairdressing and footcare night held at the brand new Salvation Army riverside centre complex. The night was good and the staff extremely friendly, but there was hardly anyone there outside of Salvo staff and vounteers.
 
“I think part of the reason for this may be because, the complex is quite hard to find. I drove around for a while and then pretty much found the place by accident?
 
“That aside the complex is lovely and new and a far better place to visit, than than that depressing salvos joint in Elizabeth. Although i was tired…, i enjoyed my meal, my haircut and my feet treatment. I also appreciated greatly that this service was provided free of cost. All in all a good nite.”
 
The Night Talker
13 December 2018

(above) The government uses work-for-the-dole slave labour to remove undergrowth from bush land near Adelaide's West Terrace cemetery. This makes it easier for Adelaide City Council employees and police to discover homeless camps and order the residents to leave. It's the classic technique of using the poor against the poor and not a word of dissent from managers at the Hutt Street Centre or Baptist WestCare. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, Dec 2018).

Continence Aids Scheme Payment

from the Night Talker

“Can't or won't wait to find a toilet? If you have medical, physiological or anger management issues that prevent you from being continent, the Continence Aids Scheme Payment is for you.

“The payment is currently set at just under $600.00 per year (it rises annually) and is administered by Medicare. It is paid directly into your bank account, usually at the end of June each year.

“It only requires one form to be filled out by your G.P. The phone number to inquire is below. I have also attached a link to download the application form.

“(Be mindful to remember, if you are an NDIS recipient, then you are not entitled to this subsidy). Phone: 1800330066.”

The Night Talker
13 December 2018
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(above) Government-funded "employment" offices like Status in Salisbury are little more than work-for-the-dole joints. Management of such places abuse employees who transfer that abuse to clients in what has become a government and corporate inspired process of social devolution.

Sparkles reported pregnant

The genial druggy-about-town, Reginald Jennings from the Hutt Street Centre, is reportedly to become a father. The lucky woman is none other than the person previously known as Sparkles. Reginald is known for his sense of humour and penchant for liberating phones from their owners.

Sparkles is the generous alpha female and former missus of Peter Glazebrook, 44, whose decomposed remains were sadly discovered late last year in Onkaparinga National Park.

Reginald was formerly tied up with Robyn with whom he could be seen regularly fighting over drugs outside the now defunct Byron Place homeless centre.

Robyn has recently “quietened down” and even inserts money into soup kitchen donation tins in contrast to The Bait Woman who, along with her ex-boyfriend, liberated the donation tin from St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre along with cutlery and volunteers’ house and car keys.

​Robyn has recently “quietened down” and even inserts money into soup kitchen donation tins. This is in contrast to The Bait Woman who, along with her ex-boyfriend, liberated the cutlery and volunteers’ house keys from St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre. And the person who walked off with the St Bede's donation tin heavy with coin and notes.

​12 December 2018
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Message from Semaphore

“There’s all kinds of power, but where’s the power to love.”Liam of Semaphore Hostel

12 December 2018

St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre

The portion size of bacon and scrambled eggs resembles an entrée. This is followed by cereal, toasted sandwiches and sliced fruit. The coffee is high quality and not that horrible stuff served at The Food Barn.

The two-minute noodles on the takeaway counter run out before half the clients have passed by. The limited takeaway bread is often baked that morning or the previous day. The free used clothing has improved in quality and quantity though last Wednesday staff forgot to put it on the stage. The toasted sandwiches don’t have enough filling though aren’t as bad as at the Stasiland Café at the Salisbury Uniting Church.

Last week, a man entered the building carrying a chrome hiking stick then disappeared.

Our Blind Guy says he never folds up his white cane when sitting down in a public area. Lurch from the SRF is having trouble at St Bede’s. He doesn’t realise that slapping old men and shouting pornographic words at women is detrimental to his popularity status.

The latest paid employee named Cynthia is shaping up reasonably well, but works just one day a week because she “plays cards” on Wednesdays. The good mood at St Bede’s has returned with the input of quality people.

A volunteer who avoids the limelight gives away large chocolate bars twice week to the winner of the table tennis games.

Mitch paid $30 for a haircut when he could have got it for free at St Bede’s, but he rarely stops in. Steve refuses to have a shower at the SRF. He splashes a little water on his head then claims to have showered, but that fools no one. He also avoids washing or changing his clothing despite having a wardrobe of fresh attire.

Amanda is pregnant and smiles coyly when asked if she knows the name of the father. So far, all her children have proved to be of high quality.

The Anglicare Threads truck arrived at St Bede’s yesterday for which there will be a report next week.

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 crackers, noodles, limited fruit and vegetables.
Tea, coffee and Milo. Table tennis. Horrible toilets, excellent staff. Ice dealers not tolerated.

12 December 2018
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​Employment office problems?

from the Night Talker

“Is your job-network provider behaving badly? The best advice is to request a transfer to another provider. In the event this can't happen because there are no other providers to go to or your current provider is preventing you from transferring across, you can ring the Job Networks complaints line.

"Personally, I have not had a lot of positive feedback from this agency, and how useful they might be, but it may be enough impetus for your provider to either leave you alone, or allow you to transfer, with no further issues. (When speaking to the customer service officer, start to cry and tell them your jSa is making you feel suicidal and that you have just been diagnosed with an STD and think you might be pregnant etc etc. (e.g. make up a really good story)- this will help immeasurably).

"The phone number is 1800-805260.
(You can also try phoning the National Unemployed Workers union on 0404089575).

The Night Talker
12 December 2018

​Elizabeth East Salvation Army Friday BBQ

“Be careful. They’re raw inside. I chucked mine in the bin. I don’t want to get food poisoning,” a woman told the ex-baker at the Army’s regular Friday free outdoor BBQ.

She didn’t have to worry further because the grease on the hotplate caught fire. The smoke was intense enough to pass through the front doors of “Morbidity Hall” where the interview customers found a new reason to complain.An old Army lady stayed calm and tried best to ignore others shouting instructions.

Eventually, she shut the lid and starved the burning grease of oxygen.She opened the lid and put the charcoaled sausages on the serving dish. No problems. Some people prefer burnt food.A young blond woman at the bus stop smoked cigarettes then went into Morbidity Hall. 

The Army people also served soft drinks including Fanta (invented by the Nazis) and bottled water. No salt and pepper, but lots of sauces. However, the big bonus was instant coffee from an urn secreted in the church. Rumour has it that the Army is giving away Woolworths gift cards near Christmas.

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

(above) Most who go there will be church people, but there will be a healthy smattering of homeless-style people including Bullet Mark.

Elizabeth Fred’s Van on Sundays

​“It’s not right,” the elderly woman sitting inside the cafe said of church and other charities closing up during the Christmas and January holidays. “People feel alone at Christmas. Nowhere to go.”
 
This is a common sentiment as the burst of Christmas generosity is followed by up to six weeks of closure.
 
Outside, an optimistic pleasant-looking young white drug couple sat under the gazebo with other diners, most tobacco smokers.
A feeling of anxiety and exhaustion was apparent in the regular patrons.
 
Two eastern European woman were there for the first time. The fattest one ate a hot dog, then as the Lions Club staff served roast chicken, egg salad, fresh salad, and Lion’s Christmas cake with custard and dodgy cordial, she said, “I thought the hot dogs were the meal,” she said.
 
Clients rushed the takeaway bags. One man took two, but he was new and would learn proper etiquette. There was plenty of slightly old, but expensive Coles sourdough and European-style breads, and none of that horrible white stuff in plastic bags.
 
The Lions Club man named Terry brought out packaged pizzas after enough clients had gone and he could guarantee that each person remaining would get one. We rushed them like wild animals, seeing this as a survival game rather than a humiliation. Terry later handed out chilled packets of Vegie Delights mince. He gave me two. They were in-date and not horrible smelly stuff from Food Bank.
 
There wasn’t any toilet paper in the men’s toilets and the filmy door handles made washing one’s hands useless. 
 
Fred’s Van Elizabeth
St Vincent de Paul Centre, 8 Langford Drive, Elizabeth (near Elizabeth railway station). 12:00 noon Sundays. 6:00pm Wednesdays. Free. 36 seat restaurant plus outdoor seating. Much improved soup, main meal, sandwiches, dessert and coffee. Staff don’t rush the diners. Excellent salt and pepper shakers. Limited fruit, vegetable and bread takeaways, which are also sometimes available from Op Shop most weekdays. Better food and purchase cards are given away from their Conference Centre back of the Op Shop, but this requires an interview.
11 December 2018

Balaklava community library disability free shower

“The toilet shower is not in the library building itself, but behind it. Other than being discreet and not staying in the toilet/ shower too long (as other library users use this facility as well, the Library staff, don't mind who uses the toilet/shower. Just be mindful to clean up after yourself and return the key to the librarian at the front desk, when you are finished.

“(If the Library is not open, there is a free 24 hour a day seven day a week shower available at the Back of the Port Wakefield BP Service Station. It is basic but clean and the water is always nice and hot. You however need to bring your own towel, soap and shampoo as this is NOT supplied.)”

The Night Stalker
11 December 2018

(above) Lack of continuity is an aggravating fault of Adelaide's free food industry. Hope Central church in Elizabeth South cancelled some of their November and December free Sunday breakfasts. This resulted in clients arriving hungry and thirsty to find the the joint locked and empty.

(above) Hope Central church's cafe on Goodman Road, Elizabeth South. The last free breakfast is on 16 December and then they are finished until an undetermined time in 2019.

(above) Street prostitution outside the Crown and Anchor Hotel, witness protection, meth labs, established whore houses, Housing Trust special housing, youth rehab housing joints, Cash Converters, the AngliPrison, Offenders Aid, Neami, needle dispensing machines: they're all crammed together in a semi-closed community in the Port Adelaide area.

Christmas and pre-Christmas
​free events

This is an incomplete list to say the least. It may not even be accurate. Most charities have a Christmas lunch or pre-Christmas event that they keep secret so as to reserve it for regular patrons only. Most church charities including Aboriginal organisations have something.

​The pre-Christmas period is a boon in the homeless scene in preparation for the drought when many joints close down for four weeks.
 
Our Street Family Matters, on the grass on the corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace, Adelaide, opposite August Towers. Saturday, 15 December at 9:00am, Majestic Hotels people will be there with special breakfast and gifts. The following Saturday at 9:00am, Rotary Club of Glenelg will help with a special breakfast plus more gifts. Our Street Family Matters serves hot food every Saturday at 9:00am either on the grass or next to the St Andrew's Medical Centre on Hutt Street.

Salvation Army Marion Christmas Day lunch. 0433 859 327 or 0401 062 777. Free.
 
Adelaide Angels 4:30 pm on Christmas Day in either the Pilgrim Church Hall for the Adelaide City Council hall behind it. After St Luke’s, this is the next biggest event on Christmas Day. No registration required.
 
Nanna's Free Food Basket, 200 Bower Road, Semaphore South. 19th December 4:00pm  Giving everything away. Free. No registration required. Might be the best one in Adelaide.
 
St Bede’s in Semaphore. 10:30am Wednesday 12th December. Regular patrons only. Free.
 
Marion Life Church of Christ. $5.00. phone 8277 0304. Christmas day lunch.
 
St Luke’s Church, 35 Whitmore Square, Adelaide. 25th December. Free lunch and presents. No registration required.

The Port Church (semi-Baptist), 541 Victoria Road, Osborne. 4:00pm to 7:00pm. Ph 0410 588 907. This appears to be near the Skate Park and across the road from Liquor Land. 

Jasmine Restaurant in Hindmarsh Square. Not sure of date. Phone Jasmine for details. Free. No registration required.
 
Fred’s Van Kilburn, Wednesday 19th December. 7:00pm. Must register for hamper, not sure about meal. Last day to register is Thursday 13 December. Note that pre-Christmas night is on Wednesday and not the usual Thursday. Free.
 
Hutt Street Centre, 258 Hutt Street, Adelaide. Open Christmas Day 7:00am to 1:00pm according to Little Rodney. Lunch is usually around 11:00am. Employee hung up phone when asked. Free. No registration required. 
 
Anglicare Food Barn pre-Christmas lunch on Friday 14 December. Usually no good. Free. The Holy Cross church next door has a free Christmas lunch, but might be booked out.
 
Chat and Chew has finished for the year.
 
Pilgrim Church Lounge, 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide. Pre-Christmas lunch on Wednesday, 19 December at 12:00 noon, then they close down until mid-January. Free. No registration required. 
 
St Luke’s Church at Whitmore Square. Lunch starting about 11:30am to 2:30am on Christmas Day. Free. Lots of presents. Best food of all Christmas events. 400 people arrive. No registration required.
 
Baptist WestCare, 212 Wright Street (Miller’s Court), Adelaide. Nice lunch with nice people. Free. About 12:00 noon. No registration required.
 
Early 9 December 2018
​Second Edit late 9 December 2018

(above) Adelaide CBD campers choose more exposed open areas in November and December to avoid the sharp seed pods covering the ground on both sides of the West Terrace Cemetery. (Adelaide Homeless Journal December 2018).

Anglicare Food Barn at Elizabeth

A man gave the one-eyed ex-motorcycle rider a small “money bag” of fine tobacco he’d obtained from butts collected on the street. It was the black eyepatch man’s 48th birthday.

Aiden’s mother objected when Joe the Cook turned on the brutal air-conditioner. She said Aiden recently had the flu. Joe turned it off. Aiden’s father had gone shark hunting. This man is more an outback adventurer and less a suburban welfare recipient. That’s what structured unemployment does to society’s underclass. The hidden government that dictates this, and the Ice and heroin trade, is a criminal organisation.

The Liamsan’s guard gave half a dozen diners the four-second stare. One man I’d thought was a drug dealer might not be. He might have simply have adopted the fashion sense of the more flamboyant dealers. They’re the trend setters in fashion that many at the Food Barn try to emulate. 

Lunch was sausages, onions, spinach, potatoes, pumpkin (English-style), fresh wheaten All Natural Bakery bars, stale apples, coarse salt that doesn’t flow out of the improvised sauce bottle, Joe’s authentic homemade chilli relish made by Joe the Cook (kills everything English), very cheap and nasty instant coffee (nicely served) and no dessert, ever.

Kate was angry that people poured cups of coffee in the rinsing tub. There was a shortage of volunteers. Caz hasn’t been seen for a year.The atmosphere was livened up by twenty quiet Aboriginals, many of them pure black tribal people. One had a bandage around his left hand and looked like Gerry, the son of intellectuals.

Preparation for the pre-Christmas lunch in the Food Barn has been in disarray because Daniel the Chef has resigned and gone to Southern Cross Care in Port Adelaide. Belinda is the stand-in chef and had trouble arranging the special lunch, which has now been established for the 19th of December. Registration is crucial, which means regular patrons may be barred unless they have registered at the front counter.

Anglicare Mission Breakfast and Lunch
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.
Breakfast 9:00am to 10:00am Monday to Wednesday
Security guard in car park and in dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in.
9 December 2018

​Free Telstra landline

from the Night Talker

“Telstra "staying connected" Free incoming call only telephone line (for life).

"ired of paying for a landline phone connected to your place of residence. Telstra has a free service that will provide you with a permanent landline (incoming calls only) called ‘Staying Connected.’It is technically an incoming calls only phone line, but you can call any 1800 number and certain 1300 numbers (police, centrelink, corrections, hospitals etc) It requires some f****** around, but once you have managed to get it connected up, you are all set to go and Telstra don't contact you any further (I have had my service now for almost a year, and it works well).

​“You need to phone the following number and request that you want the STAYING CONNECTED SERVICE. The customer service officers will try everything to dissuade you from getting this FREE service, but just remain persistent. If they start to play hard-ball, then threaten to contact the Telecommunications ombudsman's Office. The number for the staying connected service is1800-808-981.”

The Night Talker
9 December 2018

Free hairdressing in Gawler

A leaflet on the COS We Care tables in Fremont Park advises that the Salvation Army offers free hairdressing this Tuesday, 11 December 2018 at Salvation Army Riverside Gawler, 17 Edith Street, Gawler East. Hairdressing times are 5:30pm to 8:00pm.

They request clients book a time on (08) 8523 4844 this Monday and Tuesday during the hours of 9:30am to 2:00pm.

Be prepared to arrive really pissed off because Google maps doesn’t like the address and when you ask directions by phone, the Army people might rattle off vague directions then say, “You can’t miss it.”

8 December 2018
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Semaphore Fred’s Van fails to arrive

​Clients arriving for the Fred’s Van Sunday evening meal on Sunday 2 December at St Bede’s Church hall in Semaphore found a note taped onto the front door.  On it, the Fred’s Van crowd apologised for such short notice to say that the meal had been cancelled.
 
It was a nice note, at least.
 
Fred’s Van run by St Vincent de Paul is Adelaide’s most reliable free food service so a rare lapse is forgivable.
 
The last time I can remember a Fred’s Van failing to arrive is Christmas Day at Gawler Place, Adelaide, about three years ago. An old Catholic  man arrived crying and apologising. Luckily, it was the Adelaide Angels night at the Pilgrim Church so we rushed over there.
 
Fred’s Van Semaphore
St Bede’s Anglican Church Hall (near Semaphore Road)
200 Military Road, Semaphore. No I.D. required.
6:00 pm Sunday. Healthy meal eaten inside. Free.
 
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
8 December 2018

Library shower

“Balaklava library has a disability friendly tiolet /shower that the public can use.You just need to ask the librarian on duty for the key.”

The Night Talker

​Editor: The key to its worth will be its location within the building and the attitude of the staff to those living outside. They might say it is reserved for disabled people then look at you as if you suggested a lewd act.
8 December 2018

“The Sickness of Michelle Lensink (Public Housing Minister).
from a Vietnam Era Vet

"’Honourable’ Michelle Lensink has a history that includes working at the Repatriation Hospital Daw Park Adelaide.

“Many veterans are still suffering horribly as a result of abuse and homelessness.

“Zoe Bettison, the previous "Honourable" minister, let (or encouraged) Public Housing to drop to new lows of crime and dysfunctional habitation.

“For those of us who are veterans and who do live in Public Housing, it makes us sick, almost violently ill, that we would valiantly stick up for the re-opening of the Repatriation Hospital, but continue to be "shat on" by HSA (Housing SA 'er Hell SA), to live in fear and disconcerted conditions, and nothing satisfactory is being done about it, by the newly elected government, to include “Hon. Michelle Lensink.

“Some of us spent HOURS, DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, YEARS in front of Parliament House North Terrace, arguing and demonstrating for the continuation of the Repatriation Hospital (REPAT) that Hon. Michelle worked.

“Yet now it is apparent that Hon. Michelle Lensink and other Liberal and Labor politicians prefer to avoid helping us out of our hell-hole housing problems, to include being molested and attacked by malfunctional tenants.

“We are truly sickened by this situation : 

“What we hoped for is either being delayed in delivery, or deliberately put off to the side, perhaps to never be dealt with.

“To some politicians, perhaps most politicians, Avoidance is Bliss.

“Homelessness and unsatisfactory living conditions for Veterans is reality, a long term reality.

“Welcome to the Hell of being a veteran either homeless or in "public housing" in South Australia.”

Vietnam Era Vet
Via the Anonymous Contact Page
7 December 2018

(above) The South Australian government continues to leave Housing Trust units and houses empty in the poverty-stricken suburb of Elizabeth. Government Ministers and bureaucrats use the "maintenance is required, but money is not available" excuse to justify keeping them empty. But people living outside would still rent them and the government could compensate by reducing the rent.

On the Street

Two men were eating boiled egg salad sandwiches outside Fred’s Van at Elizabeth. One said the bread was stale. That got the two of them talking about all the times they’d become sick from free soup kitchen food.

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Little Rodney said that two men were taken away in a box by police from the Hutt Street Centre last Wednesday morning before opening time.

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Cos We Care has been chosen by the Playford Council as their preferred free food outfit.Cos We Care has written into its constitution that none of the directors can profit by their involvement with the free food service.The founders, Ann and John Cooper, each work an unpaid sixty hours a week collecting, cooking and distributing free food near the Hutt Street Centre on Sundays and at Fremont Park in Elizabeth on Saturdays. Times at both venues are 7:30am to 9:00pm.

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Sharp grass pods are making camping in the West Terrace parklands on both sides of the cemetery difficult. They get into shoes and bedding.

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Robyn the Junkie from the Hutt Street Centre escaped the Royal Adelaide Hospital because she was unhappy with the food. That’s her story, anyway.

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Clients at free food events are nearly unanimous in their belief that court sentences are too light for those convicted of house breaking and violence.Others are bitter for a different reason: the Child Protection agency took away their children.

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A man at a soup kitchen said he tried to hang himself twice after getting a court conviction.

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A woman arrived at St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre near closing time. She didn’t want breakfast, but took some fruit and vegetables from the takeaway section of the counter. She avoided eye contact then left quietly and discreetly. “Homeless,” a regular patron said.

This is typical of most people living outside or in their cars. They become too emotionally vulnerable to sit in a crowded dining room. Too vulnerable to ask for anything.

They go off the grid, leaving the homeless industry so desperate to justify its funding that the bureaucrats grab people living in houses and label them as “at risk of homelessness”.

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he Queen Elizabeth Hospital has stopped sending letters to GP’s. Previously, the hospital would advise the patients’ GP’s what diagnosis and treatment had been given. Now, they send only a technical report from their records that most GP’s can’t read.

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Kitchen assistant Carmel has transferred from Chat and Chew to the Semaphore Uniting Church Friendship Café where she works with St Bede’s former ‘Most Active Volunteer’.*Trish the Hairdresser and Sharon brought a new load of used clothing from Murray Bridge to the St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre. Certain residents of Semaphore Hostel plus a couple of drug users swarmed the boxes.

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Mitch and Steve were arguing outside the Semaphore Hostel while Shane is in trouble for shouting pornographic insults to an Adnyamathanha woman. It is expected that Shane will go for a tumble from a single blow of her fist. Or get kicked out.
“It was cooked with love,” a client said of the Wednesday breakfast at St Bede’s free breakfast at Semaphore.

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Bad Barb brought two donation tins that were displayed at the free Port Church meal. She went around to each table and shook a tin in each diner’s face. This was despite the meal being advertised as free.

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Malcolm, 53, is the depressed man with arthritis. He regularly loses periods of his life and has no memory of what happened. He said he takes “one hour to get to the centre”, a distance of one kilometre. “On a good day,” he adds.

Centrelink recently took $50 off his NewStart unemployment payments because he missed an interview. He cannot get the invalid pension.

7 December 2018

(above) Quality takeaway food from My Goodness in Station Arcade at end of day. Station Arcade runs from Hindley Street through to the Adelaide Railway Station.

Victory Church Street Reach

Going to a new free sausage sizzle is horrible. Staff either swamp the new client with questions or refuse to serve anything before receiving a whining plea.It was the latter at this barbecue staged on the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station.A volunteer named Andy refused to serve me coffee. He ignored me for four minutes as I stared into his reflective sunglasses. Then he turned and said, “What would you like.”“Coffee with two sugar and milk,” I replied.“Not you,” he said, and served the large man behind me who had just arrived.

The short Jesus-looking man serving cordial was more friendly. I ordered two, one for myself and one for Cecilia who was sitting on a Victory Church chair supplied especially for her.

There were sugary buns, sausages, bread, friend onions and tomato sauce, but no salt and pepper. What’s with a poverty industry that abhors clients using the simple condiments of salt and pepper. The sauces they provided are loaded with salt and sugar.

Railway and bus passengers walked past us, wearing strained smiles of embarrassment or disdain.

The usual crowd of dangerous Salisbury railway station alcoholics sat further away. An Aboriginal man amongst them walked over to the Victory Church preacher to receive a blessing from Jesus via a prayer. Otherwise, the church people ignored us and talked among themselves while occasionally giving us suspicious stares.

Sleepy Bill and Jenny and their clan were there with an ex-Holden car factory employee. Beverley Brooks was there, always helpful.

Tomorrow, 7 December, Victory Church will serve steak sandwiches and hamburgers.

Victory Church Street Reach free barbecue
Sausages, bread, onions, sauce, coffee, sugary buns, cordial and coffee.
Fridays 5:45 to at least 7:30pmOn the footpath between the Stockade Hotel and the Salisbury railway station.Near the corner of John and Gawler Streets, Salisbury

Adelaide Homeless Journal Second Editor
6 December 2018

(above) Another empty semi-detached government welfare house in the Adelaide suburb of Elizabeth. It may sit there empty for a year or more until the government knocks it down or makes repairs. The new Minister for Housing, Michelle Lensink, is just another cowardly politician out of her depth. She should risk her career to confront this insanity.

(above) This same house from the back with its huge backyard. The bureaucrats and politicians must be mentally sick to keep it empty while Adelaide families live out of cars. And large government-funded charity executives must be corrupted or have lizard brains to do nothing, but make "tut-tut" sounds, while quietly endorsing this cruelty.

Need transport assistance? 
from the Night Talker

“The Department of Public Transport, and Infrastructure has a passenger (taxi) assistance scheme that anybody with special needs can apply for. You can have medical, mental health, psychological and or anger management issues, that prevent you for using public transport and therefore you may be entitled to up to (80) taxi vouchers per six month calendar period.

“These vouchers can provide you with an up to 80% subsidy on your final return, trip fare. if a recipient you are also entitled to take someone with you for free (This includes registered assistance animals) via your companion card…[an application form from Centrelink] is required to be signed off by your G.P.”

The Night Talker
​6 December 2018

Information inequality

“If you want to buy your groceries but could only find out the price after you agree to purchase there would be outrage.

“But after being offered community housing and having 24 hours to accept I still don't know how much the rent is... 2 weeks after accepting the property.

“Nobody can give me an answer. 
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“This is the sms response I get from my case worker.

“’I'm unsure and I’ve asked for them to provide the actual rent amount.’”

Anonymous via the Anonymous Contact Page
6 December 2018 

Speeding up a telephone reponse from Centrelink
from the Night Talker

​“Having trouble getting through to Centrelink?

Circumvent the usual 1300 numbers that have an average wait time of 90 minutes plus, and just go straight to their complaints line (which has a wait time of less than ten minute.)

​“If the customer service officer is "pissy" because you have rung the complaints line number instead of the usual 1300 numbers, start to cry, (great hacking sobs, usually does the trick) bark, argue with yourself, whisper "bitch" several times and then casually say you have "Tourette's" syndrome. Your issue will be dealt with in record time. (Trust me, I have actually done this myself and I got a three month dispute over wrongful overpayment, fixed in under 15 minutes) The number is 1800-808-981.”

The Night Talker
6 December 2018

(above) Adelaide inner city "rough sleeper" statistics. Many people sleeping outside are never "counted" because they avoid being detected. They stay hidden because being classed as "homeless" may exclude a person from welfare housing unless he or she agrees to a lengthy "support package". (Graph is from the Adelaide Zero Project dashboard).

(above) They say RSVP (répondez s'il vous plaît) by 17 December, but it is frequently booked out long before that date.

Food poisoning tale

A diner from Nanna’s Free Food Basket ate the beef stew meal late one Wednesday afternoon.The next day at the Tea Tree Plaza shopping centre, he “felt a rumble in his guts”.

He said, “I actually farted, actually brought out pieces of ****…rush to the toilet, actually shat in my underpants, put my pants in the nappy disposal thing.”He got on the bus for home, but when he passed the Ingle Farm shopping centre, he “raced to toilet, got another bus, got home and rushed to the toilet again. Pretty sure it was the beef. Had a cup of tea, pretty sure it wasn’t that.”

5 December 2018

Goodwood Orphanage

A soup kitchen man said his uncle told him of his time as a resident at the Catholic Goodwood Orphanage in Adelaide.His uncle told him the “…nuns beat the crap out of the boys, threw them down the stairs, broke bones…a kid was there one day then not the next: buried in the rose garden.”

5 December 2018

Salvation Army closing its Saturday service?

​A reliable rumour has it that the Salvation Army is closing its Saturday DUO meal and entertainment service at Adelaide Congress Hall in Pirie Street from 15 Saturday to early February.

​The last Saturday event will be on the 15th of December, but the Wednesday meals will continue throughout including that on the 26th of December.

One diner said the mood of the event deteriorated and hasn’t recovered since Major Geoff Waller took over then left. She said he “wasn’t a people person”. A volunteer described him as a “scumbag”, but put in a good word for his wife.

The loss of the Equity Queen was another blow. She was often entertaining and wasn’t afraid of confronting The Bait Woman.

Salvation Army
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide (close to Hutt Street) Every Saturday
5:00pm Coffee, milo, tea, cordial and water
6:00pm Main meal and dessert
7:00pm Church service (voluntary)
8:00pm Games, table tennis, quiz, barista quality coffee, sweet buns, pizza at 9:00pm
Occasionally swags and blankets for those sleeping outside.
Fascinating high quality and dangerous guests and staff. Closes at 11:00pm.
Drug dealers outside. Some inside.
 
Wednesday evening program from 5:00 - 8:00 pm. Free. Currently, free haircuts. 
5:00 pm Tea, coffee, cordial, water.
6:00 pm Small meal, small dessert.
7:00 pm Occasional band performance.
4 December 2018

​Overcrowding at Kilburn
​Fred’s Van

It was horrible. Not enough seating for everyone. Not enough coffee cups for everyone. The tables were so close together that some chairs could not be reached and, in any case, there were more diners than chairs.

In another symptom of mismanagement, the tiny salt and pepper shakers put on the tables were empty or nearly empty.

A man and woman said to hell with it and left. Robert from the Lutheran church at Ferryden Park sat on the floor. Others went outside, giving the meal a miss. The overcrowding was nothing unusual, but was made worse because ring-ins were registering for the high quality Christmas hampers.

A wayward teenage boy butted in when Rudi was saying Grace. Rudi told him it was rude to talk when he was saying the prayer. As with most underclass soup kitchens, a higher proportion of the diners were religious than in the general population.

The meal consisted of an oversalted mushroom soup with bacon flavouring followed by sausages, mashed potatoes, chips and fried onions.

A man walked outside gripping his stomach saying, “Those sausages aren’t sitting well.” His girlfriend left him the day before and he was either over-animated or stared blankly into space.

The meal was delayed due to the high number of diners and dessert even later. Horse Trader Steve kept yelling, “Free pizza in the carpark” to reduce the length of the dessert queue for canned fruit and nasty cheap ice cream.The takeaway bags were distributed from 8:45pm, but by then many patrons had left in disgust. The bags weren’t any good, anyway.

Fred’s Van Kilburn
Kilburn Community Centre
59 Gladstone Avenue, Kilburn. 7:00pm Thursday. Occasional fighting.
Meal prepared by Adelaide Wine Centre followed by a big bag of takeaway food. Free.
As with all Fred’s Vans, no registration or I.D. required.
4 December 2018
 

(above) One of the last tribal Aboriginal camps on the Le Fevre peninsula near Semaphore. As parks are given Aboriginal names, actual indigenous people are pressured to leave Adelaide and return to the APY lands or Yuendemu. (Adelaide Homeless Journal, December 2018).

Bad day at Ridley Grove
​Oz Harvest 

​The free food on Thursday last week was an insult. Everything was gone within five minutes of pushing and shoving by seven or eight people.

This process is demeaning and an insult to the poor.

Rumours abound that only those on the “inside” get anything and this happens in secret.

​There was a BBQ where sausages and bread were served only to church insiders while clients sat amongst them uncomfortably. Eventually, another plate was brought in and the clients were served. Tea and coffee was via a gold coin donation so none of the guests touched it.

Gus was there seeking new trousers. He doesn’t believe in washing clothing. Dirty clothing goes straight into the rubbish bin though he wears everything to the bitter end.

Tuesday mornings are better for free food as two deliveries are made.

It is possible they are running a racket to reward those involved with the community centre and that the meagre public offering is to justify getting the stuff from Oz Harvest. This is how many free food organisations operate, but not all.
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Woodville Gardens Uniting Church
66 Ridley Grove, Woodville Gardens. ph 8345 4079
9:00am to 12:00 noon Tuesdays and Thursdays
Tiny amount of free bread fruit and vegetables at 10:30am for about five minutes.
Free tea and coffee. Everyone ignores the gold coin donation request.
No I.D. or registration required. Very nice atmosphere, sometimes.
Late 3 December 2018

The Ark at the Lutheran Church in Salisbury including 2019 dates

An older man explained that he hadn’t been to Cos We Care that morning because the previous night a friend’s son had hung himself on a tree in a park in Salisbury. He said he was glad he had an alibi.
 
Cecelia sat outside trying to roll a cigarette with her right arm that shook violently in a sling made from transculent dressmaker’s cloth. She’d had a fall and was angry at having to undergo numerous tests and injections for her arm and shoulder that weren’t effective.
 
Inside the hall, the crowd sang Happy Birthday to Peter, the man on the walking frame.
“How old are you? Eighty?” a church elder asked.
“Seventy,” said Peter, not missing a beat.
 
Peter is notorious for asking others to fetch cutlery, drinks, meals and desserts for him at Fred’s Van and the Food Barn. He often arrives with Carers who seem in worse shape than him.
 
Meanwhile, another Peter, Peter Dawson, arrived fashionably late. He wasn’t about to be outdone by the first Peter and complained about pain in his side.
 
Then Mick at our end of the table became angry when recounting that a woman had given him a plate of orange soup at another venue. He thought it contained pumpkin and that she had tried to murder him. He said he was allergic to pumpkin and once spent three days in hospital after eating it.
 
His outburst, plus his method of eating, gave the elderly woman across the table a headache. She buried her face in her hands and leant over the table.
 
I tried to calm the situation by talking about tombstones and cemetery burials. The headache lady has a strong sense of family and has spent a fortune ensuring her relatives were buried with long plot leases. She knows the business.
 
A regular patron and stalwart of the church knitted a beautiful scarf using 2300 strings from tea bags. She plans to knit more.
 
The meal included solid slices of beef, Coleslaw and fresh salads. The dessert included fresh home baked cakes, not stale junk from Food Bank or Second Bite.
 
As I left, a woman left the building crying heartily, followed by another.
 
Lifeline 131 114 (24 hours).
 
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 January 26, February 23, March 30, April 27, May 18, June 29, July 27, August 31, September 28, October 16, November 30, December 21 (Christmas party by registration only).
3 December 2108
 

(above) The abandoned South Australian police academy on Lady Gowrie Drive at Largs Bay, north of Semaphore. Why aren't homeless people welcome to use the empty buildings until the government sells them?

(above) The old police academy might be inhabited by the ghosts of dead coppers drawn back to the intensity of their training.

(above) All these empty police academy buildings in Adelaide. Homeless people could be paid to live there so the police trainees could practice raiding them

ShelterSA subverted
 
ShelterSA’s housing advocacy has become subverted by feminist ideology. The ShelterSA homepage has Twitter links to “Girls take over Parliament; White Ribbon Day; Domestic Violence; Let’s end domestic violence.
 
Photographs on the ShelterSA webpage are 90% of women and the men shown are generally old with white beards. The photograph on the entry panel for its “Multicultural Directory” emphasises a young woman with good teeth wearing a hijab while the white folk shown are weird and worn out old people, some hidden in shadow. 
 
As to homelessness, the emphasis is on women despite the majority of people living outside being white men and Aboriginal men. 
 
ShelterSA attempts to give legitimacy to their emphasis on women being homeless by expanding the definition of homelessness to including women wanting to break up a relationship and therefore needing a new home.
 
ShelterSA should qualify as a women’s interest organisation, but to fund it for the homeless cause is maladministration and should be subject to an integrity commission, or even a corruption commission. 
 
2 December 2018

From the anonymous contact page
 
“And wherest mighst we findst the author of this blog ?

Hiding inside an onion no doubt.

An onion : a bulb a root a rooter

Onion Rooter

TOR : The Onion Rooter.
 
Anonymous
2 December 2018
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HepatitisSA free consultations
 
The HepatitisSA agency based in the Hackney Lodge building on Hackney Road conducts free education sessions for hairdressers and any business that comes into contact with human blood.
 
HepatitisSA will send an expert to conduct a one-hour session on “Best practice around blood”.  To book a free session phone (08) 8362 8443.
 
Australia, Egypt, France, Japan and Germany lead the world in eradicating Hepatitis C., according to HepatitisSA Community News magazine of November 2017.
 
Most Hep C sufferers are former drug injecting druggies while the next largest group are active drug injectors.
 
 
My ex-hairdresser came into contact with my blood. She was slicing hair above my ear with a cut-throat razor. We were talking about organ transplanting. She had friends on the organ waiting list. I told her the brain dead donors were not dead. I said that cutting out their vital organs was what killed them. Her hand jumped and I felt the razor slice into my ear and warm liquid drip down. That is why she became my ex-hairdresser.
 
Adelaide Homeless Journal photographer
1 December 2018
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“He bashed me”: a king hit
 
A man at the Food Barn said his ex-partner got custody of their children by claiming that he “bashed her”. He said, “That was bull****.”
 
Two years later, she has been charged with carrying a commercial quantity of crystal methamphetamine.
 
The man hopes he will regain complete or partial custody of his children. However, he faces an uphill battle because of sexist legislation and that his ex-partner will be supplied with pro-women lawyers and support agencies while he will be on his own.

1 December 2018
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https://tinyurl.com/huttstreetcentrerobyn
  The Hutt Street Centre and Kent Town Rotary are portraying Robyn as homeless for the purpose of collecting money. However, Robyn is not homeless. She has lived  for years in a comfortable home in an exclusive suburb across the South Parklands and within walking distance of  the Hutt Street Centre. Rotary may not know this, but the Hutt Street Centre does as Robyn has been going there for decades. This is a problem with homeless welfare where  clients get drawn into an agency's  propaganda unit. Robyn has had a tumultuous life and has adapted her tactics to meet those challenges and her endurance is a credit to the survival skills of humanity.

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

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

Lutheran Adelaide free stuff directory

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

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

http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece

The WestCare Letters (click here)

Remembering PJ

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

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

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