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(above) This good furniture and fridge sat in the light rain for a few nights outside the little used rented Ruf Us warehouse on South Terrace, Wingfield.

(above) This stuff has been sitting in the rain for months at the Ruf Us Warehouse in Wingfield.

(above) Piano Player Wayne's foot after the latest amputation. He said this is the nice view because underneath it is quite gruesome. This is the effect of diabetes. A week after surgery his foot became reinfected and he is back in the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn latest news

The Croatian-Ukrainian woman from Bosnia who goes to the Food Barn dressed in ballroom gowns laughed coquettishly at something on her phone while her accompanying male friend at across the table from her. He was wearing rings and gold chains on his fingers and wrists. “A friend, not a boyfriend,” an elderly diner whispered to another.
 
She had tripped and fallen the day before and he’d carried her to the car. The problem had been her high-heeled shoes. He collects ten-cent deposit cans and looks others in the eyes.
 
Last year someone asked her why she dressed so well for the Food Barn. I didn’t hear her answer perfectly, but it went something about life in Bosnia during the war had been so terrible, she felt the need never to succumb to that despair.  Therefore, she dresses as if going to a fancy ball and not the Food Barn.
 
Her attitude is similar to that shown by a schoolgirl dodging snipers in Bosnia in the 1990’s while carrying her cello to her music class. She wasn’t going to let the horrors of the environment stop her from learning music.
 
A man told of a friend who lost her car. She searched for five days then discovered it was where she had left it. “That figures,” said another diner who knew her.
 
An elderly woman server unsmilingly asked each customer: “What do you want?” She was good at her job and was using her particular English-style vernacular and ethnic expression.
 
The meal was one thick slice of pink pork cooked English-style (boiled in water), an excellent potato salad and a pasta salad with green leaves along with white buns and margarine.
 
“There’s my month’s supply of salt,” one diner said, as she tasted the pork.
 
What always shocks me is when clients not finishing their meal offer it to others half-eaten.
 
A woman left the table to give herself a diabetic injection.
Late 31 May 2017

Salvation Army free BBQ
 
The morbidity was on the rampage inside the main waiting room due to clients waiting for interviews to get blankets, groceries and purchase vouchers. They stared open-eyed and didn’t respond to greetings. There weren’t any free vegetables on offer, either.
 
However, the mood was much better outside with possibly 55-60 people getting grilled sausages and onions with sauce on bread. Also, sausage soup. But no drinks. There should be coffee.
 
Servers included a friendly fat old white man, a young man who is losing weight through exercise and restraint and a much younger man who looked like a character from a Harry Potter movie.
 
Some of the women clients have extreme weight problems and there weren’t any chairs outside. That needs to be remedied. Nevertheless, the outside area was a healthy social scene.
 
An 88-year-old soldier told me she collects for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.
 
Salvation Army Free BBQ plus food parcels.
No I.D for the BBQ or free vegetables.
Health Care Card and interview required for other stuff.
Fridays 11:30am to 1:30pm.
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East.
Late 31 May 2017

(above) Matthew Pantelis sat in his car. Josephine Lim was in her vehicle. These four media employees sat for hours outside the house. They dashed to a nearby park between houses to urinate on the ground. The woman complained that men found it easier to urinate in these circumstances. They were unhappy and appear damaged. Josephine appeared in a state of depression. What a horrible job. Nothing close to investigative journalism.

(above) Corporate television cameras outside the Elizabeth area drug addict house of the woman allegedly attacked with a hammer by six people wearing masks and surgical gloves. The journalists never discovered the true story nor did they seem interested. Their role was enabling the emotional blood sport of hunting down some social reprobate for the vicarious pleasure of degraded people who live in front of television screens.

(above) Close-up of four slaves of the corporate media. Desperate people paying off HECS, perhaps a mortgage, afraid of losing their job. Nevertheless, they’re dangerous attack dogs if the corporate bosses set them onto a person. Strangely, their corporate bosses never show interest in the Ice dealers that prey on the homeless in the Adelaide CBD.

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Posted 31 May 2017

Puddle Jumpers
 
“They give away free pet food, clothing, toiletries and you can have a meal and a drink before you head home. I was really impressed the last time I went.
 
“The crowds are large, but I managed. I got a kilo bag of dog kibble and three cans of cat food, a lovely new skirt and a warm singlet. It was worth the drive and effort...”

The Night Talker
Puddle Jumpers
21 Maple Avenue, Forestville (behind the closed down Le Cornu on Anzac Highway)
[email protected]. Ph 0400 999 349
Every Monday from 5:00pm to about 7:00pm except public holidays.
Free fruit, vegetables and kitchen knick-knacks. Friendly atmosphere.
Children and babies especially welcome.
Posted Late 30 May 2017

Piano Player Wayne back in hospital
 
Piano Player Wayne returned to the Royal Adelaide Hospital late this evening despite having just being released after surgery to his foot.
 
The terrible infection has returned despite having another toe amputated. Wayne believes the infection is originating in the hospital.
 
Wayne said his energies have never been this low.
Late 30 May 2017

Chris had more to say than that

WestCare dragged up a client named only as “Chris” to promote itself and the Advertiser and Sunday Mail blanket appeal.

However, the journalist, Martina Simos, failed to elicit anything else from Chris except a rehash of his own personal desperation and praise for WestCare. It was WestCare’s leading employee, David Secomb, who they asked for overall comments. Should they not have asked Chris’s opinion of the quality of homeless services in Adelaide?

 This is typical of homeless joints using clients to front the media to praise their organisations. At least Chris will get favoured treatment from WestCare for the next few months. And so he should.
Late 30 May 2017

Surgeons do bum job
 
Surgeons are planning to sew shut the anus of a soup kitchen man who has had surgery where his lower bowel has been replaced with a colostomy bag.
 
Suffering bad health is an indicator a person will likely end up at a charity soup kitchen. Nearly every person over 35 at soup kitchens has suffered severe physical trauma either from car smashes, illness like cancer or they were born with a disease or disability.
 
Despite frequent examples of millionaires turning up at soup kitchens, 90% of clients are amongst the lowest 5% of the Australian wealth and income level.
Late 30 May  2017

Peterswool Road free food
 
Clients appear more worried in the waiting room at Peterswool Road than at Life Church at Munno Para. Clients at Life Church know each other and the church folk try to get to know the individuals whereas at Peterswool Road it is strictly a food distribution point. Still friendly.
 
A man in the waiting room said he’d lost ten kilos after a GP recommended Panadol for pneumonia. He gained the weight back, but wants to get rid of it a second time, but without the pneumonia.
 
The Adventists handed out the usual canned beans and spaghetti, but also yoghourt and even Pepsi along with a range of terrible vegetables including some decent spring (green) onions.
 
Seventh-day Adventist church free food
Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30am to 12noon.
Health Care Card required for Second Bite
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park.
Late 30 May 2017

Queenstown A.D.R.A.

“The community pantry payment shemozzle aside, ADRA isn’t the world’s worst charity I have dealt with...Nick Xenophon’s dad was there.”

The Night Talker commenting about the Seventh-day Adventist church at Queenstown charging for Food Bank rubbish bin food. Note: the Night Talker is a different person than the Night Stalker.
Late 30 May 2017

From the power player
 
Name
Nat L

Email
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Comment

“Hi. Every Sunday morning from 6 until 1 the Torrens island market takes place.

“When the market closes there is usually a fair bit of free fruit and veg. Quality is not always great and its pot luck what’s there. Could be handy for some.”
Cheers
Posted Late 30 May 2017

Piano Player Wayne defends Lowitja O’Donoghue

Even Piano Player Wayne has respect for Lowitja. He said from his hospital bed this morning that:
 
“Even though she is a left-winger and a member of the ALP, she has the courage of her convictions. I have known her for over 25 years personally, met her when I was working for ATSIC at the Arthur Gollan Waillie (ATSIC) at Murray Bridge. It was half-detox, half retirement.
 
“I had fond memories of our conversations up there at Murray Bridge. I was the only white person on premises, but they respected me because I was the cook. Happiest days of my life in terms of a kitchen job.”
Late 29 May 2017

Is the Don Dunstan Foundation stealing from the homeless?  

The Don Dunstan Foundation sent a mass email to subscribers, using the subject heading: “Help us to empower homeless people.” The Foundation asked readers to “vote” for projects worthy of funding. They provided a list, but none seemed directly connected to people living outside except a regional Orange Sky shower van, which is somewhat ludicrous in itself.  The voting list is at: https://yoursay.sa.gov.au/fmc_rounds/fund-my-community-2017/fmc_ideas
 
If the prospective voter did not like the list, the Don Dunstan Foundation asked for write-in suggestions based on their criteria of an Industry Driven Youth Project, Social Enterprise Nursery Café, Connecting Disabilities in SA, Patient Transport Vehicle, OzHarvest Food Rescue Vehicle, Guerrilla Arts, Anti-Racism Education, 'Cut it Out' Social Enterprise, Rebuilding Smiles, Time for Kids.
 
But how do any of the above directly help those living outside where the imperatives are getting a shower, avoiding mosquitoes, avoiding having your stuff stolen, getting enough sleep, washing your clothing, and finding homeless-friendly doctors and dentists?
 
The Don Dunstan Foundation is syphoning off prospective donors concerned for those sleeping outside, then directing the donors to further the Foundation’s version of social engineering by donating to their chosen list of causes. They are effectively stealing from the homeless.  
Late 29 May 2017

Pretender to the throne

 A Salvation Army woman soldier has reported that a man is using Rundle Mall to walk his black cat on a leash. Who is this pretender? Piano Player Wayne and his Therapy Cat were the first to perform this feat in Rundle Mall.
Late 29 May 2017

Sorry Day
 
“Hardly anything at Sorry Day [at Victoria Square]. All the Aboriginals were at WestCare.”
Late 28 May 2017

The nasty network called the Don Dunstan Foundation

David Pearson is the executive director of the Don Dunstan Foundation. He is an Adelaide white fella who has worked as a policy advisor for Senator Penny Wong and her values, and MP Mark Butler and Premier Jay Weatherill. They are part of a political alignment that includes Lynn Arnold and the One Community organisation led by Community Member No. 1 and Brad Chilcott of the Activist Church in Hawker Street, Bowden. One Community corruptly snuck over half a million dollars of taxpayer money to run ads against the federal government at the last election.
 
However, David Pearson is not connected to Noel Pearson of the Northern Land Council up at Cape York, which must be some comfort to Noel.
 
David Pearson has no understanding of the hardships faced by those living outside. He is more a political fixer and manipulator, and now a social engineer.
 
David Pearson, the white fella, was quoted in a mass email as saying, “We are also honoured that this year Dr O'Donoghue will also be saying a few words in a rare public address.” This was in regard to Reconciliation Week.
 
Louise O’Donoghue is an Irish-Australian woman with a little Aboriginal mixed in. She calls herself Lowitja and has worked throughout her life for the Australian Aboriginal cause. However, she has been absorbed by the mainstream society and has lost some of her credibility with the Aboriginal folk. Too much salary, too much superannuation, too much involvement with mixed-race Aboriginals who were chosen by white folk to be Aboriginal leaders.
 
Pearson said he was honoured that Louise (Lowitja) will “be saying a few words in a rare public address” connected with Reconciliation Week and Sorry Day. But the honoured woman should be wary of those she associates with, such as those controlling the Don Dunstan Foundation.
Late 28 May 2017

Medical student living in car
 
An Adelaide man living in his car in the carpark of a closed down shopping centre says he is a medical student half way through his course. He went to a free food joint where he met an educated woman. She asked him to show her his student I.D. then diagnose an ailment she had. She said he passed on both counts.
 
Meanwhile, the Hutt Street Centre staff lavish their considerations on small time druggies already in housing, but who nevertheless base themselves at the Hutt Street Centre to cruise the homeless scene searching for new customers.
Late 27 May 2017

(above) Blue tarps should be avoided because they expose campers' secret hideouts. They should be folded up tightly each morning and wrapped in a brown or dark green rubbish bag.

(above) This Seventh-day Adventist church on Frost Road, Brahma Lodge offers a free vegetarian meal each Thursday at 6:30pm during school terms. They don't understand homeless people, but could be educated.

A friendly country town in 2017
 
The dope dealer could not believe his luck when he got the job driving the government funded free community bus.
 
He picks up drunks and drug addicts off the street and takes them home, for their own safety. He also takes people home to change clothing or pick up high-heel shoes and credit cards then takes them to their next party.
 
And, of course, he uses the bus to make his own deliveries.
 
And the police and the government accept this. It is better the locals are doped out and manageable than drunk or zonked out on Ice.
Late 27 May 2019

(above) Having a discreet entry and exit area to a homeless camp is imperative. On the left is a little-used park in Port Adelaide where the camper can enter as if someone walking home then cut across the dirt track and enter the bushes on the right. It is important to mask the entry point and use dull green and brown camping equipment such as bedding and tarps. It is also important to maintain multiple sites because it is not uncommon for a camper to arrive home at night and find everything gone.

(above) One might assume that a charitable monolith like AnglicareSA at Elizabeth would allow derelicts to rummage through their rubbish bins for scrap plastic and metal, and cardboard to sleep on. However, the opposite is true. They lock their rubbish bins and patrol them more ruthlessly than private businesses.

Wayne’s world
 
Piano Player Wayne watched television from his bed in the Royal Adelaide Hospital last week. He watched a woman in a wheelchair talk about having to miss out on food to pay for prescribed medication. She had a son. Wayne said she was “over forty, easy.” He said the woman was part of a promotion for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal.
 
Wayne recently had another toe removed and doctors said he could try walking on the rest of the foot. The day after he got the medical clear to take short walks he went down to the front of the hospital on North Terrace and was about to cross the street to get some strawberries from the IGA.
 
He heard yelling and saw a woman in a wheelchair whom he said was the woman he had seen on TV. He said she was “very small, serious illness.” He said she was “out front yelling and screaming and asking for cigarettes.”  Her boyfriend was yelling at her that she was “two-timing” him.
 
This is what Wayne said.
Late 27 May 2017

Angry New Zealander
 
He said Kiwis were treated worse than refugees. No chance of citizenship for Kiwis even if they came here legally. No dole at all despite paying taxes like everyone else.
Late 27 May 2017

The Ghost buys new glasses
 
The Ghost who walks has purchased a new pair of glasses, which now allows him to see the road and other cars while he is driving.
 
He was without glasses after someone stole them with his coat from his unlocked car in front of his house.
 
The car was on the street because the Unley health inspector told The Ghost he had too many cars on his property. The Ghost has been fined many times for too much stuff on his property. One of his legal bills was for $20,000. It took him years of collecting cans and scrap metal to pay it.
 
However, the Ghost has outwitted the inspector by parking his excess cars on the street. And it is all legal.
Late 26 May 2017

Blanket PR for Blanket Appeal
 
John Mylan and Susan Moore were photographed by Sam “Shunky” Wundke in a Sunday Mail newspaper article promoting the Advertiser newspaper Blanket Appeal.
 
John kindly offers his services without pay to Marion Life. He  was shown wearing a green Hi-Vis jacket with a yellow synthetic blanket draped over his shoulders. Susan held a more sensible brown blanket, the colour of camouflage for rough sleepers. Susan is wonderfully typical of certain independently thinking women who do not feel forced to dolly themselves up in the streetwalker style adopted by most female welfare bureaucrats.
 
Both John and Susan had a hand on a plate of delicious “Marion Mishmash”, a favourite recipe of Marion Life at Mitchell Park.
 
Unfortunately, the journalist, Roxanne “Hog” Wilson failed to get printed in her article a quote from either John or Susan, but concentrated only on the worthy Leighton Boyd who said the Blanket Appeal was “hugely significant” without explaining further how that was. However, he thoughtfully added that if “you feel cold within your home, you can imagine how it would be for someone living outside.”
 
This begged the question: How many of the blankets will go to people actually living outside? And should the blanket appeal include tarps and dense camp mats?
 
Marion Life Community Services serve a communal meal at 6:00pm on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month. Gold coin donation or free if you are broke.
 Breakfasts for men are on the 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month. Free though there is an ominous one-dollar donation tin.
 Others services are also available. Their address is 887 Marion Road, Mitchell Park (entry from Mary Street) ph 8277 0304.
Late 26 May 2017

Heather’s body language
 
WestCare’s Strange Stuart seems at a loss for anything to do these days. He hangs around the serving counter at lunch trying to place himself as an arbiter between the kitchen staff and the underclass guests.
 
The kitchen staff are too discreet to ask him what he is doing, but their body language shows their unconscious reactions.
 
His Strangeness has been caught up in factional disputes amongst the homeless community and this is impeding his natural kindness and wisdom.
 
Meanwhile, some of the new Christian volunteers have freshened the atmosphere and should prosper under the guidance of veterans David Secomb and Ken Henderson.
 
Where Stefan “Tic-Tac” Tocci fits in is another question.
Late 26 May 2019

Food Bank Pop-up surprise
 
A man said that 1512 people went to the free Food Bank Pop-up in Elizabeth Downs on Wednesday on 17th May 2017.
 
A woman said they offered homemade knitted items and adult nappies.

Those attending were there for a purpose: free food and other stuff. They were not bureaucrats or students bussed in to build up the numbers; they were real people with a real need.
26 May 2017

 
A friendly country town
 
Jac****’s neck is crisscrossed with scars from where a 17-year-old heroin addict girl slashed her throat. Jac**** spent three months in hospital. “I saw her sitting with T*** outside the store last week.”
 
Later, T***’s mother stood outside the house of an old man, telling him she was going to tell Sh*** that the old man was sleeping with Sh***’s mother. (She put it more bluntly than this).
 
The accusation was not true, but the significance of this is that Sh*** has already killed one man and left another with permanent brain damage.
 
However, when Sh*** did turn up, it was to go drinking alcohol with his mother who returned later screaming that Sh*** had hit her with a pipe.
 
The police were called. The mother showed them the wound. They told Sh*** to go home and that was that.
 
In a friendly country town where frequent assaults are similar to that sustained by Jac***, the wound from a pipe blow was not worth laying charges.
25 May 2017

Wayne calls for Royal Commission
 
“There needs to be an inquiry, a Royal Commission into the homeless industry,” Piano Player Wayne said from his hospital bed last week.
 
“I would be in favour of a Royal Commission of the homeless sector because I know the results. There would be a lot of rats chased out of the system.”
25 May 2017

Adelaide Day Centre free soup van
 
The Romero Soup van has returned to Hurtle Square. The unpaid volunteers serve four kinds of homemade soup each evening except Saturdays. Apart from one of them, the volunteers treat us clients with respect, which is food in itself. 
 
Their bread is never much good. Frozen stuff thawed out. They should get Baker’s Delight bread that has been baked in the morning and thrown out that evening.
 
The Ghost Who Walks also has a complaint. He said the pea and ham soup last week tasted as if it had fermented. He also prefers “lumpy soup, something to chew, not nursing home crap.”
 
He likes the Concubine Restaurant chicken and corn soup donated to the soup van crowd.
 
Romero Soup Van (Adelaide Day Centre)
Hurtle Square 6:30pm and Whitmore Square at 7:00pm every day except Saturday.
Free good soup, blankets, poxy bread, occasionally muffins and biscuits.
25 May 2017

(above) The Anglicare welfare joint on Elizabeth Way in Elizabeth does not have showers or storage lockers for homeless people. Why not? Because Anglicare's first loyalty is to the powers-that-be so it is obligated to participate in the war against the homeless by denying them essential services. If Anglicare actually helped those living outside, funding would dry up and the bureaucrats would be looking for new jobs.

South Australian Transport Subsidy Scheme

Fairness comes from ticking the right box.
 
The refusal of South Australian Transport Subsidy Scheme bureaucrats to give an 88-year-old woman a pad of  half-price taxi vouchers was based on her ticking the wrong box.
 
When asked if she could get on a bus or into a taxi without help, she said, yes. The right answer was, no.
 
She can get onto a bus without help, but it is becoming so close to her having a fall that a bus trip is now a dangerous proposition.
 
And she can’t have surgery to fix her knees and shoulder due to a permanently collapsed half-lung plus other infirmities of age.
 
And also because of her age, she is not always capable of taking action to improve her life such as finding another doctor after he refused to fill out a second set of application forms for the taxi vouchers.
25 May 2017
 

Reconciliation Week Events
 
Adelaide
 
Victoria Square, Adelaide
10:30am to 2:30pm
Friday 26 May 2017
Speeches and free lunch
Very few people turned up last year, especially not the tribal people from the South Parklands.
 
Elizabeth area
 
Stebonheath Park, Davoren Road, Smithfield Plains
Begins at 10:00am with a free lunch about noon at the
John Mcveity Centre,
182 Peachy Road,
Smithfield Plains
Friday 26 May 2017
 
Port Adelaide
 
Tauondi Aboriginal College
1 Lipson Street, Port Adelaide
10:30am to 2:30pm
Friday 26 May 2017
Speeches, stalls and free BBQ
There are dozens, perhaps hundreds of similar events around Adelaide, but hardly anyone takes interest in them unless it is part of their paid employment or they are students being ordered to attend.
 
http://statedevelopment.sa.gov.au/upload/aboriginal-affairs/Reconciliation-Week-2016-Calendar.pdf
 
In contrast, what I found inspiring was the Aboriginal nurse and doctor at Nunkuwarrin Yunti treating my illness without prejudice. That was something to break down racial barriers.
Posted Late 24 May 2017

Did Scott get the boot from St Luke’s church mission in Adelaide?

A number of diners have given up on the St Luke’s lunch that costs about three dollars at Whitmore Square. The service is so intermittent that nearly every week it will be closed for no apparent reason. It is even worse than WestCare when their paid staff cancel lunch so they can indulge in a meeting.
 
Scott the Manager’s reputation went downhill a year ago when he and the Gang of Nine got rid of, AJ, the bikie-style cook.
 
Scott, an ex-policeman, accused AJ of giving him diahorrea with bad food.
 
But after nearly 18 months of rumbling, Scott has reportedly being dismissed.
 24 May 2017

The Viking can collector’s just reward
 
The Viking Can Collector makes a living collecting cans and bottles then cashing them in for the ten-cent deposit. He refuses to accept the dole and lived nearly a decade under a bridge.
 
Recently, a woman gave him $50 while he was collecting cans while a man put $20 inside a bag of cans he gave The Viking.
 
The Viking is an exemplar of one moving amongst despair, but not being captured by it. He is a lucky man.
24 May 2017

Rotary Regency Park donates new fridge to St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre

The Rotary Club of Regency Park last week donated a new fridge to the St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre.
 
The two-door fridge has a large freezer tray at the bottom. It is bigger yet uses less electricity than the older fridge.
 
The Regency Park Rotary Club has previously donated an expensive slate billiard table, a ping pong table and two laptops (knocked off) to St Bede’s.
 
The club donates good quality items and not cheapo stuff from Kmart. The club’s donations are felt as a statement of faith in St Bede’s, an impression that ripples through the clientele group.
 
The donated items are well protected at St Bede’s, which has installed new locks and spy cameras after a break-in last year.
24 May 2017

The Port Church
 
Meals are now served inside the heated Baptist Church on Wednesday evenings due to the colder weather.
 
The preacher said something about us wondering why they gave us a “free feed”, which burst the bubble of the mood for those guests bothered listening. He said the free meal was a means of sharing their religious message, though he put it in other words. They placed at least one church member at each table to remove the “us and them” image. However, the church woman at The Night Stalker’s table became dizzy and disappeared.
 
The preacher said the church was a safe place, which it is. There are numerous physically strong men and women keeping an eye out for Ice junkies, who have withdrawn.
 
Eighty-two-year-old Maria happily and competently handed out the free canned tuna, reasonable bananas and apples, good capsicums, tomatoes and onions, excellent chillies, mushrooms and bread. She came to Australia on a boat with her sister at the age of 17. Life was not easy for her.
 
The meal included three kinds of soup without MSG; pasta with ham, shepherd’s pie, fried chicken, mineral water, rice, bread and butter, mineral water, tea and coffee, but no Coca Cola.
 
The Muzak was softer than from those nasty tinny portable speakers used outside. The free clothing room had a few racks of women’s clothing.
 
The Least Active Volunteer from St Bede’s was there. He is absolutely broke having spent all his money on physiotherapy.
 
The Port Church ( Separation denomination, but using the Baptist Church building)
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North
5:00pm to 7:00pm every Wednesday
Free meal, pre-loved clothing, fresh fruit and vegetables
24 May 2017

Queenstown A.D.R.A. goes bad
 
The Queenstown Seventh-day Adventist church now charges for their formerly free outdated food. They still offer a limited amount of free bread and vegetables such as onions and potatoes, but the elderly grocery items now cost money.
 
The church now sells such food items that are less fresh than what rubbish bin food activist David Brockschmidt got from supermarket rubbish bins in the 1980’s. David was persecuted, but was his actions were the precursor to getting charities to accept old food from the supermarkets. He was a visionary, but what he didn’t envision was that such a cartel as Food Bank would step into the process and exploit the disadvantaged people of Adelaide.
 
The Adventist Chaplain at Queenstown said they don’t make money from selling the stale food because Food Bank charges them. If the church knew the cartel nature of Food Bank, would it turn away from such an outfit?
 
One needs only to view the fancy new trucks at Food Bank headquarters in Edwardstown and the increased numbers of salaried employees to understand where the money is going.
 
The Seventh-day Adventist church relief service is open on Thursdays from 10:00am to 12:00noon at the corner of Webb and Spring Streets in Queenstown.
Late 22 May 2017

Destination of  fruit and vegetables rejected by Anglicare

After Anglicare allegedly rejected tons of free fruit and vegetables due to a restrictive contact with Food Bank, the growers sent it to the rubbish dump. The Night Talker tells the story:

“Further information re Anglicare refusing to accept slightly blemished, fruit and vegetables following January's flooding of the outer northern regions of Adelaide.

“I was told by a source at Anglicare, that after Anglicare refused to accept the produce offered, it was taken away and dumped at the Mallalla refuse dump, where it slowly rotted away and provided sustenance for countless rodents, no doubt probably increasing the already significant mouse plague the outer north is experiencing at the moment.”
 
From The Night Talker
Late 22 May 2017

(above) The illusion of open Adelaide suburban bushland is washed away once a person begins to see the symbols of homelessness territoriality.

(above) The mind never ceases to evaluate the camping possibilities of suburb bushland once it has been traumatised from a period of homelessness.

Homeless joint can’t get enough customers

Former deputy Premier Don Hopgood has announced that the Eleanora Centre homeless joint in Kalisz Court, Noarlunga Downs has shut down.

It had been operated by the Uniting Church as a self-funded joint with capacity for 26 adults. It was opened back in the days of the John Bannon government in the 1980’s.It is closing up due to a lack of homeless people customers. To break even, it must run at full capacity.

It is incomprehensible that it cannot get tenants when other homeless joints are always full.   Perhaps staff demanded unfair conditions such as forcing prospective tenants to sign away their confidentiality allowing staff to disclose personal information to families, doctors or anyone.

Don Hopgood speculated that the lack of clients might have been due to restrictions on drugs and alcohol ― not mismanagement.

Somewhat predictably, Eleanora staff kept the joint open until they’d soaked up the financial reserves. Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide is expected to take over the site.Late Late 22 May 2017

Police called during bed bug search at Sunnydale SRF at Semaphore

Supported Residential Facility tenant, Mr Kennedy, allegedly shoved Sunnydale owner Melissa Richards’s fiancé Shane Heffernan during a search for bedbugs that resulted in the discovery of a huge bag of cannabis. The police were called and Mr Kennedy was allegedly kicked out of Sunnydale Supported Residential Facility.
 
Rumour has it that Mr Kennedy was subsequently charged with possession and assault, but this has not being confirmed. He was very unhappy, to say the least.
Late 21 May 2017

Piano Player Wayne stays awake during latest toe amputation

A surgical team removed the third toe on Wayne’s right foot today. They put a block in his leg for local anaesthetic so he stayed awake during the chop. They could not use full anaesthetic due to Wayne’s asthma.
 
Wayne said the procedure was “...the single most terrifying event in my life.” He now has two toes on one foot and four on the other.
 
He is not happy the way his life is developing.
Late 21 May 2017

Veteran Affairs to the rescue
 
More people with tape measures have visited the 88-year-old woman living in an Anglicare retirement joint. They were associated with the Department of Veteran Affairs who have agreed to build her an invalid ramp without charge.  Her deceased husband was in the military.  
 
A clothing rack will also be installed on the side of the unit because the old girl is not strong enough to lift her arms high enough for the concrete back yard Hill’s hoist.
Late 21 May 2017

Another false rumour
 
The Vitamin Derelict denies the rumour that he had five meals of fish and chips at Ikea near the Adelaide airport because they were on sale at one-dollar a plate.
 
He said he went there over two or three days for the five meals. He admitted he took his own salad.
Late 21 May 2017

From the Contact Page
 
Comment
From the Night Talker..........

“South Australian's pay to send Premier to China for five days, so he can watch a football game and participate and eat his way through several exclusive Chinese buffet luncheons, but we (apparently) cannot afford to pay for a 24 hour a day, seven day centre, to assist those living outside?

“It galls me to find out that as a South Australian taxpayer, i am paying for our current premier (Jay Ditherall......) to attend a football match in china and then several days of feasting, whilst at the same time, we do not have ONE SINGLE facility for the homeless/transient etc, that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In the same vein, we have no mobile service for homeless/street people (other than MAPS (Mobile Aboriginal Patrol) that only operates in the city on weekends and public holidays, for Indigenous Persons)for people, in similar situations. Also we have no homeless shelters for anyone (youth included) in the outer Northern parts of Adelaide. NOT EVEN ONE!!! OMG PEOPLE'S. We need to get out priorities right, or we will have people dying of cold on our streets! (This happened some years ago, when a known homeless person with a chronic health condition, died of exposure to cold in the Adelaide Parklands, when the temperature dropped to two degrees.)

“Trust me, nobody wants to come across a poor expired soul, who has died outside due to exposure out the front of a bus shelter or train station/building. In a similar vein, there needs to be somewhere for people living rough to go on extremely hot days/nights, which poses just as much danger as extreme cold/wet weather.

“Pull your finger out Premier and all you well paid fatcats. Closing facilities for the homeless/street people at 3.00pm, is just not good enough? You want a new industry for SA, you have it? (YOU CREATED IT) IT IS CALLED HOMELESSNESS, UNEMPLOYMENT, GRINDING POVERTY AND UNDER-EMPLOYMENT! NOW DAMN WELL, DO SOMETHING TO HELP THOSE CAUGHT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR AWFUL ECONOMIC DECISIONS!
From the Night Talker
Posted late 21 May 2017

More surgery for Piano Player Wayne tonight

Piano Player Wayne has been fasting since early this morning. He is awaiting a spot on the emergency surgery list. Surgeons will amputate the third toe on his right foot then clean the ulcer at its base. This will be Wayne’s fourth toe amputation. It is also his fifth two-week stint in hospital this year.
 
Wayne has been fasting on a diabetic infusion since morning. That meant no breakfast, no lunch, no dinner. The nutrients are fed through a picc line from a drip. Nurses are constantly checking on his readiness. He will stay on the nutrient juice during surgery.  
 
Surgery may begin about midnight. Hopefully, the surgeon will not fall asleep during the procedure.
 
A number of visitors have been to see Wayne today in “S” Ward at the old Royal Adelaide Hospital. There are people who really care about Wayne.
Late 20 May 2017

St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre
 
There was a rush on the usually quiet Wednesday morning that resulted in not enough buns being available for the hamburgers so staff resorted to wholemeal bread.
 
The processed hamburger meat was greasy so the cooks removed some of the dripping as it was being cooked. They served it with beetroot, cheese and tomatoes. Salt and pepper in normal shakers were available on each table along with tomato sauce and high quality serviettes. There were also side dishes of bacon and fried potatoes. St Bede’s no longer supply cake for breakfast due to the health implications. Nor toasties.
 
Staff also served sliced watermelon, Chinese gooseberries and grapes.
 
His Lordship, Peter the Sensitive, was there and requested table service.
 
The man who lives near Dublin and walks barefoot in winter took the two blankets from the free clothing display. They had been sitting there for weeks. He doesn’t use drugs or alcohol, but is simply a quiet and observant non-conformist.
 
Theresa, the new Anglicare employee, spent some minutes talking to Mrs Moonboots and another Anglicare employee of unknown pedigree. Theresa’s background is in government mental health so it will be a huge leap for her to adapt to St Bede’s.
 
Sally’s husband is planning to put heavy wheels on the billiard table to get it out of the dining room. He has huge hands that he claims are the same size of Joe Frazier and Cassius Clay.
 
A snatch of conversation among guests included the words: “...smashed the TV, on my ass and bleeding.”
 
The takeaway food included potatoes, carrots, onions, apples, bananas and rice crackers.
 
A woman in a Subaru donated four heavy bags of women’s clothing. “I gave the men’s clothing to the Hutt Street Centre,” she said. “Those scumbags,” one client retorted.
 
Diminutive young Cora asked me if I was alright carrying one of the clothing bags.
 
St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre
200 Military Road, Semaphore
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings 8:30 - 10:30am
Free quality breakfasts, scheduled free hairdressing, table tennis, small amounts of take-ways, occasional free used clothing and a good social scene that is friendly to everyone including those living outside.
Late 20 May 2017

(above) The imperative of institutional self-preservation plays itself out in the war against people without homes. The gate back of the Anglicare joint in Elizabeth is locked to stop homeless people from entering during the dark hours.

(above) This large unused block of land perfect for sleeping is what is hidden behind the Anglicare Elizabeth Mission locked back gate.

Seventh-day Adventist monthly banquet

Review from the Night Talker

“Suitably impressed at recent ADRA free lunch held last Saturday, next door to the Adventist Church [corner of Webb and Spring Streets in Queenstown].

“I travelled to the ADRA church...to partake of the Saturday pantry. I was told that the pantry had been moved to Thursday, but that i was free to stay for the free lunch that was open to members of the public. I was also given a newsletter of upcoming ADRA events (including free training programs)

“I have to say i was suitably impressed. The people i met there (including the Philipino Pastor and his wife) appeared genuinely kind and the buffet lunch was suitably generous. It was an odd mixture of Chinese, Philipina, Australian and Russian/Polish food (I later learned there were several ethnic Russians of chinese/Russian heritage at the lunch, who were also church members) but never the less, it was clear that everything provided (food and drink) was made with care and served with love.
 
“This is certainly a step up from a number of charitable organisations I have eaten at, where asking for a second helping will get you the evil eye or a blank vacant stare. I noticed a number of people who were clearly not church members, entering and exiting at different times, and all were clearly enjoying the hospitality provided.

“The next open to the public free lunch, to be held at the Exeter church hall (next door to the Adventist Church) is going to be Saturday June the 13th from 12.30pm-2.30pm.”
 
From The Night Talker (as distinct from the Night Stalker)
Late 20 May 2017

False rumour
 
There was a rumour last week in the Adelaide CBD scene that the photographer for this journal was attacked. This rumour is false.
 
There are some dangerous characters trying to instigate violence, but the majority of people in the homeless scene fear and loathe the Ice dealers.
 
The addicts are also dangerous because their dependency on the dealers for their next fix make them easy to manipulate.  This is the nature of crystal methamphetamine addiction.
Late 20 May 2019

Who was Mouse?
 
A man using the street name of Mouse was featured on a Red Shield appeal pamphlet placed in Adelaide newspapers last week. But who was this man?
 
His legal name was Morgan Wayne Perry who was 42 when he was stabbed to death while camping under a bridge in Melbourne  in 2014.
 
The killer was Easton Woodhead, 19, who had believed that the homeless people nearby had stolen his bicycle. After smoking dope and playing a video game, he went into a psychotic episode during which he took a knife to the bridge and stabbed Mouse repeatedly.
 
Mouse had been involved in the drug dealing scene at the age of 15.  He had a number of children and a sister, Michele Perry, who now works for the Salvation Army in Melbourne.
 
Woodhead was found not guilty due to mental impairment.
 
The Salvation Army has not made it clear why Mouse should feature as the face of their Red Shield appeal. Perhaps he was one of those rare humans who stayed kind while passing through the filth and paranoia of the homeless drug scene. Or, perhaps, there was another reason.
20 May 2017

Demented Anna shipped out
 
The Royal Adelaide Hospital has gotten rid of a senile woman from the room next to Piano Player Wayne. It is not known where she has gone.
 
Wayne said that he now gets adequate sleep free from her yelling in the next room, “Ayee, ayee, ayee,” day and night.
 
Nevertheless, Wayne is not a bundle of joy because the infection has jumped legs and is now in his right leg. Doctors are trying to save Wayne from an amputation.
Late19 May 2017

Police warn against collecting Road Kill for food north of Adelaide

“Formally cautioned by SAPOL over act after truck driver reported persons car registration details to police. Local told by visiting police officer, they will be fined and face possible court action (e.g. for being danger to traffic, public nuisance and obtaining property by default) (apparently the rabbits killed on the road, officially belong to the Highways Department??) if caught trying to do the same thing again?)

There is a story doing the rounds in and around the country town i live in, that locals in need (including aged pensioners, the disabled, unemployed, single parents and those on youth allowance) are resorting to eating road-kill (primarily rabbits) because they simply cannot afford meat of any kind (including pet-food) anymore. When the source questioned a local who "in confidence" admitted to this practice (he said he regularly procured road-kill rabbits, in order to feed himself, his disabled girlfriend and their two mongrel dogs) The source said if the Rabbits are good and fresh, ‘I skin and gut them and give the innards and the heads to my dogs. The rest gets cleaned and cut up and put into a stew pot with whatever vegetables, we have managed to scrounge. If they are like mashed up by cars, I still feed them to my dogs.’ Either way they get used up.
 
“When the source asked the local what his rabbit stew tasted like, he replied it was a 100 times better than the tinned crap, they give you Kadina Salvo's. (The source can vouch for this as she was given a bowl of rabbit stew and it was indeed extremely tasty!) Source told that local along with friends now only collect roadkill at night, to avoid being persecuted by local police. Source described local police officer at a complete #rsehole with *hit for brains!”

From the Night Talker (as distinct from the Night Stalker)
Late 19 May 2017

Clean Needles Program free food
 
A thin woman aged 35ish with a pleasant voice opened the door and showed me to the tiny free food area. She walked away while I took some almost rotten tomatoes, good salad mix with dressing and noodles, and some excellent mushrooms. There were sausages in the fridge and some other excellent vegetables in a box.
 
The next two customers, both men, were already waiting as I walked out. One was pulling a shopping trolley.
 
Mission Australia Drug Addict joint
35 Richard Street, Hindmarsh (behind the Entertainment Centre)
Mondays and Wednesdays after 3:00pm to 4:30pm.
No I.D. or Health Care Card or referral needed. Open to everyone
Late 19 May 2017

Free Vet for animals of
homeless-style people

The Ghost Who Walks reports that a free vet will be operating near Marshmallow Park, Glen Osmond Road in the South Parklands on Sunday 21 May at 9:30am.
 
Bookings are requested via the Hutt Street Centre though it might be tolerable for people to simply turn up. The veterinary clinic from Hahndorf  will be there primarily for animals owned by people living outside. However, the usual situation is that they will cater for ex-homeless people as well.
 
The problem is that few people living outside will know the free clinic is happening as most homeless people don’t have contact with homeless joints.
 
It is important that prospective customers phone the Hutt Street Centre to confirm the vets will be there this Sunday.
Posted early 19 May 2017

Drug in Salvo chocolate?
 
A man said he woke up feeling quite strange after eating a small amount of chocolate he got from the Adelaide Congress Hall Salvation Army free food room in the city.
 
He took the wrapper to his doctor who told him it contained morphine. This tale will seem absurd to most readers.
 
Yet one day I found myself standing for thirty minutes under a tree as if in a drugged state. My body was tingling strangely. I had that day consumed a prepared meal from a work-for-the-dole project and drank a coffee at another soup kitchen. I thought I’d been drugged, but a retired social worker said it was probably food poisoning.
 
However, I wonder about the wild laughing in the kitchen at the Food Barn.
 
The Appleton Institute is hosted by the University of Central Queensland at their campus on Greenhill Road, Adelaide. This institute conducts sleep studies to gain data to develop new versions of crystal methamphetamine for use by sleep-deprived shift workers to maintain concentration. The Appleton Institute’s studies are conducted a few hundred metres from where homeless crystal methamphetamine addicts live in the bushes. These homeless people are sleep deprived as well.
 
Stranger things have happened in the world such as the Australian government spraying its soldiers with mustard gas to measure their injuries. Or the actions of American medical scientists in the 1930’s. They treated syphilitic psychiatric patients and black African-Americans with placebos so they could measure the progress of the symptoms that led to their patients’ deaths.
 
But could such horrors be happening in Adelaide? The Hutt Street Centre homeless joint seems to collect younger crystal methamphetamine addicts who are lauded when they threaten and attack elderly non-drug users. What imperatives are being prioritized here?
Late 18 May 2017

Army officer pregnant

According to Army soldiers, Lieutenant Fiona “Fi-Fi” Allan is pregnant with twins. Two boys. These will be her fourth and fifth children.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Dale Allan, her husband, walks around the Playford Corps building in his socks, even outside. He is slightly overweight, but carries himself with humility. He leaves the office door open when moving about the building, which is felt as a sign of respect to both the soldiers and guests at their Friday free barbecue.

The mood had been morbid recently, but both Fi-Fi and Dale’s presence have improved things with the help of a soldier named Karen, who is a natural social lubricant.
The Army served free sausages and onions on bread with sauce and pumpkin soup. The giveaways were potatoes, carrots, onions, shockingly bad Mandarins and a box of canisters they couldn’t get rid of in the shop.
The Army also gave away bags of food and purchase vouchers for people who went through the interview and provided a Health Care Card.
It was a pleasant lunch with tolerance and forgiveness thick in the air.

Salvation Army Free BBQ plus food parcels.
Fridays 11:30am to 1:30pm.
39 Kinkaid Road, Elizabeth East.
 Late 18 May 2017

Comment on the Food Barn at the Anglicare Elizabeth Mission

“Stopped in at Anglicare Elizabeth to have lunch before driving home, and i have to say the meal was quite reasonable and i was served immediately (the wait yesterday was quite long- they did not start serving until 12.20pm and by that time, the queue was almost out the door. Even the quantity served was quite reasonable (it was Tuna Mornay, which apart from the addition of Lima Beans (yes, you would never guess, that someone would think to add Lima Beans to Tuna Mornay) it was most certainly edible. It was also quite heavy and filling, which is actually something that people need in this colder weather. (Not flamin salad and watery broth, with a handful of diced vegetables thrown in) which is what i had for dinner last night at Vinnies.”

The Night Talker (as distinct from the Night Stalker)
Late 18 May 2017

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

David Pope Dead

One-legged David Pope died two weeks ago from a drug overdose. He was 38. He was living in a nursing home. He died in his wheelchair. Nurses thought he was sleeping, but when they checked him four hours later they discovered he was dead.

David had many encounters with the police and on one occasion was charged with assault after removing his plastic false leg and throwing it at a woman officer.
David might have come from Tailem Bend.

A woman social worker said, “David had/has a considerably older half-brother called Jeff. He was a prison officer at Yatala for years and years. Nice guy. I worked alongside of him for several years…”

David Pope. Demanding. Double trouble. A tragic life. Cremated. R.I.P.

17 May 2017

Note: David Pope should not be confused with David Pope, an employee of the Salaried Medical Officers Association, or David Pope who lived in the creek bed in the South Parklands and gave Robyn the Junkie a smack.

(above) No I.D. or referral required. And never has anyone been required to produce a copy of this leaflet to get in. You just turn up. Might be best to get there well before 10:00am as there might be a queue of hundreds of people. Nor does it matter in what part of Adelaide you live, but it might help to say Elizabeth, if asked.

Armada Arndale shopping centre refuses invalid scooter to a disabled woman: too fat

A woman of large girth due to medical problems was refused the use of an invalid scooter at the Armada Arndale shopping centre in Kilkenny, Adelaide.
 
Therefore, she went to the WestLakes shopping centre where there was no problem.
Late 16 May 2017

No Second Bite from SecondBite
 
A small charity was offered a truckload of fruit and vegetables by a large supermarket. The charity was desperate for such quality and quantity, but declined the offer.
 
The supermarket was SecondBite’s territory. Paul of SecondBite. The supermarket didn’t know this.
 
Despite SecondBite not being able to pick it up, the smaller charity wouldn’t touch it. They knew the recriminations from the powers that be in the charity industry if they did. Cross any secretive demarcation line and you’re finished. Better the stuff goes into the rubbish bin.
 
It’s a nasty game out there. Similar to the Mafia. Played hard by those smiling charity bosses you see on TV asking for money to help the homeless.
Late 16 May 2017

Acceptable cannabis dealers
 
Cannabis dealers in a small country town receive a text message. Go to a certain location and sit with a certain item or food product next to you. This tells the bigger dealer the buyer has brought so much money for so much product.
 
Six-hundred dollars worth is the usual amount. About what the person can muster from their fortnightly Disability Support Pension or the dole, either after or before rent is paid.  Larger amounts of product are delivered in person.
 
The police go along with the business provided it is not too obvious. Better that people are selling and using cannabis than crystal methamphetamine.  
 
In Adelaide, the free CBD buses are the preferred courier vehicles for junkies and smaller dealers. This explains the level of disputes on them.
 
At night and other times when the free buses are not running, the minor dealers use bicycles to skit in and out of side streets.
Late 16 May 2017

The Playford Fund
 
The ultra-thin woman with oozing red sores on her face was trying to pass off a picture on her phone as identification. The hardnosed woman bristling with adrenalin sitting behind the bulletproof plexiglass screen was having none of it.
 
The kindly ultra-thin woman gestured for me to go ahead of her while she rummaged through what seemed a mini-filing cabinet with thirty or forty plastic cards.
 
The Playford Fund offer bags of elderly food plus they pay for prescriptions and other stuff if the applicant supplies photo I.D. and a Health Care Card. They supply nappies for babies, but not for adults despite some of their staff nearing that stage of life.
 
Playford Fund
Elizabeth Shopping Centre
Elizabeth (It has an outside entrance near that government joint that takes kids away from their parents)
Monday to Thursday 9:00am to 11:00am
Posted late 16 May 2017
 

Does Food Bank operate like a drug cartel?

According to a source within Anglicare Elizabeth, when the last major flooding happened due to storms in January of this year, Anglicare was “offered several tons of (slightly) blemished but perfectly edible, fruit and vegetables from the Virginia, Two wells and Mallalla areas...could no longer be sold to supermarkets...included pumpkins, trombones, Pontiac and Kiffler potatoes, tomatoes, grapes, pears, plums and peaches, cauliflowers, cabbages, zucchinis and Brussel sprouts.”

According to the source, Anglicare turned down the offer point blank, saying to the representative of the growers cooperative for the lower northern Adelaide region that they had a financial and legal binding contract with FoodBank Inc (SA) and would be sued in breach of their contract if they took produce from any other source.

The source within Anglicare said that the Manager of the co-op left a sample bag of the produce which the staff at Anglicare quickly divided it up amongst themselves.

The source said it was all perfectly edible and the fruit was especially tasty. Unfortunately, according to the source, the clients of Anglicare, including the Food Barn, didn't get the luxury of trying any of the tonnes of it that had been offered.
Late 15 May 2917

Magdalene Church Hall on Saturday
 
On the Saturday before last, they served lasagne, chilli-con-carne, chicken, boiled frozen vegetables, ice-cream and lamingtons, pumpkin soup and another soup describe as a “mystery” brew.
 
“Better than Salvos,” one guest described the Magdalene. “Not packed, not much waiting.”
 
Magdalene Church Hall
Moore Street, Adelaide (entrance through the laneway between the hall and the Saracen Head hotel)
Free meal every Saturday at 6:00pm
Drunks and drug affected people welcome, but you must sit on the chairs in the laneway, which is the best place, anyway. Grinder always welcome.
Late 15 May 2016

Do Unto Others at Salvos
 
The Crony Gang has effectively left Adelaide Congress Hall for fear of violence of the drug dealers.
 
John Swan got another award for service to humanity by running the Karaoke sessions on Saturday evenings.
 
The Equity Queen is going overseas on a mystery trip. It isn’t clear the purpose of the journey or whether she will go with relatives including Quiz Master Bob. “Again,” Piano Player Wayne commented.
 
The Ghost Who Walks got a pie and takeaway pack after returning from the Magdalene Centre. He bought a huge garage that came in a kit, but doesn’t know how to fit it together.
 
The sleeping room opens on Saturdays in June for homeless people or guests not able to make it home.
 
Do Unto Others Social Evening
Salvation Army, 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide
Every Saturday
5:00pm to 11:00pm
Free coffee at 5:00pm; free meal at 6:00pm; free barista coffee at 8:00pm; free pizza at 9:30pm
Also Wednesdays 4:30pm to 7:30pm.
Everything free including video of you.
Late 15 May 2017

Clown Prince Wayne at the Food Barn
 
“All rise,” Wayne said as a guest walked through the door into the dining room at the Anglicare Food Barn last week.
 
Leaflets for the next Food Bank Pop-Up in Elizabeth were placed on the tables. A diner told me to get the latest Heart and Soul secret list at the Playford Fund.
 
The Barn staff served sausages that one diner said had tough skins that were hard to cut. The Food Barn knives are dull to make them ineffective as a fighting weapon.
 
A man with a shockingly burnt face arrived near the end. He wore black glasses and a baseball cap. He must be on the path of wisdom.
Late 15 May 2017

Sunday Mail Blanket Appeal

Josephine Lim reported in yesterday’s Adelaide's Sunday Mail newspaper that their blanket appeal has a target of $35,000. This might equate to 1500 new blankets.

Joints like the Hutt Street Centre will give some of them to “the homeless and those at risk of homelessness and people in need.”

But the sad truth is that most of the blankets will go to people living in houses, many of whom will trade them for drugs or cigarettes.

Those living outside will get a tiny proportion of the blankets, but what they need most are camp mats, tarpaulins and swags, which are more durable in the winter rain. Padding between the cold ground and a warm human body are as important as bedding above the body.

Humans also need safe places to sleep. There are enough available rooms, courtyards and porches within Adelaide homeless support agencies to house twice the number of people sleeping in the Adelaide CBD parklands and surrounding suburbs.  

Michael Francis, a highly paid employee of the Hutt Street Centre, was quoted as saying he appreciated the Blanket Appeal. And so he should. The blanket routine keeps the housed people pouring into the Hutt Street Centre and thus maintains their statistics, which guarantees next year’s funding and donations.

If Josephine Lim had done some digging, she would have gone into the men’s ablution block after the clients were booted out at 1:00pm. There she might have observed the dirty toilets, showers with 4-minute timers and toilet rolls placed on the cubicle floor.

After being chilled overnight from sleeping on the ground, the homeless person stays chilled throughout the day then has to head back out at dusk. It is the half-hour hot shower in the morning than can raise the core body temperature to at least provide comfort during the day. And this is the one thing denied by the Hutt Street Centre and other establishments.

Josephine Lim could also have questioned management about the Hutt Street Centre’s $155,000 car bill last financial year.

15 May 2107

(above) The Therapy Cat visiting Piano Player Wayne in the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Wayne is in bad shape because he can't get any sleep because Italian Anna in the next room keeps screaming, "Ayee, ayee, ayee," day and night.

Italian Anna kicked out
of nursing home

Anna was kicked out of her expensive nursing home. She is about 85 and demented and yells, “Ayee, ayee, ayee,” throughout the day and night. She also shouts, “I need my tablets; I need to go to the toilet.”

The nursing home management and residents could not take any more so they dumped her into the Royal Adelaide Hospital, next door to Piano Player Wayne’s private room.
Wayne says his health is going downhill because of Demented Anna. He says he can sleep through a brass band concert, but not Anna yelling all night. The Therapy Cat has ceased visiting.

Anna has been in the R.A.H. hospital for eleven weeks. The nurses hope to get rid of her this week depending on what the doctors say. They have tried to get Anna’s expensive nursing home to take her back, but they refused. They’ve also tried nursing homes in Murray Bridge and Meningie, but they too have refused.

Late 14 May 2017

Unley Council aids theft
 
The Unley Council health inspector with Nazi inclinations told The Ghost Who Walks that he could not keep all his cars on the property. This is despite The Ghost owning the house and land, and paying top Council rates in this expensive area.
 
The Ghost remedied the problem by parking some of his cars on the street. This is legal. But then some thief stole his coat and glasses from the unlocked car.
Late 14 May 2017

Father Christmas
 
Mr Christmas avoids Fred’s Van. He says the food is “all sh**”. 
“Do you cook at home? a friend asked Mr Christmas who responded by saying his son takes him to McDonalds and Hungry Jacks each evening.
 
Mr Christmas occasionally goes to the Jasmine free meal in Hindmarsh Square on Thursdays.
Late 14 May 2017
 

The Go-between
 
Margot C**** of Bill Shorten kissing fame has been asking non-drug users if they contribute to this website. She conveys their responses to others including Ice dealers.
 
The reason she does this is unknown, but the potential lethal consequences is felt far and wide by others.
Late 14 May 2017

Hutt Street Centre’s V.I.P.’s
 
Hutt Street Centre management is reportedly treating Robyn the Junkie and The Show Pony with exceptional understanding, even feting them as heroes.
 
Meanwhile, the employee who was witness to The Show Pony, (Mark Arstall,38) knocking the glasses and hat off an elderly non-drug using client inside the Hutt Street Centre still hasn’t provided a witness statement to police. She went on holidays quickly after the incident.
 
The Hutt Street Centre welcomes Ice dealers and addicts, catering for most of their needs and desires, but despises acute observers and intellectuals.
Late 14 May 2017

Hearing Tests at WestCare
 
While doing a hearing test at WestCare, more than one person read a notice on an office wall listing the names of thirty or so Aboriginal elders.
 
One observer said this was so staff would give them with especially good service. The observer wondered: “Bull**** favouritism or genuine respect for them [due to] their land taken over?”
 
There was also a list of people banned from WestCare. Just three people were on it. The Show Pony’s name was not seen on the list.
Late 14 May 2017

(above) Front windows of the Elizabeth Anglicare Mission that houses the Food Barn where the peppershaker is a plastic tomato sauce bottle that squirts a thick stream of pepper. Same with the salt bottle. You don't measure use by shakes, but by centimetres and inches.

Liberal insider’s correct prediction
 
Liberal party insider Piano Player Wayne was correct when he predicted nearly a year ago that people on the dole would be drug tested and, if they failed, put on the Basics Card.
 
When issued with a Basics Card, only 20% of a person’s welfare payments can be spent on drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
 
Wayne says the limited number of 5000 people drug tested is the thin end of the wedge and the drug testing for welfare recipients will become universal.
Late 14 May 2017

St Bede’s Op-shop may move
 
There is talk of moving the church’s Op-shop on Semaphore Road to a different location.
 
Profit barely covers the rent prompting some to question the value of keeping it going at that location. Why not operate from the church hall or the tin shed near the carpark?  
Late 14 May 2017

From the Night Talker

“Police drive straight past homeless(?) teenager, sitting outside of McDonald's Elizabeth at 2.00am in the morning. (When the temperature hovered around the five degree mark).

“I was going through the drive-through at McDonalds on Sunday morning in my car at 2.00am (after a night of hard-core dumpster diving) to get my usual $3.00 coffee and $1.50 hot-apple pie before my fifty- five minute drive home (it is the one vice, i am unable to break) when i was confronted by a (very) young (and quite shabbily dressed) female, asking me if i could drive her to Taperoo? As I live in the North of Adelaide out past Two Wells, near Wild Horse Plains, i was unable to oblige her. She then asked me for money, but as i only carry my eftpos card on me, (to prevent theft of cash) i could not help her out either. I asked her where she was from, and she told she had come from Pt. Hedland (Western Australia) and been dumped in Adelaide? I told her that the trains (at the Elizabeth Station) would resume functioning around (10.00am?) and she could take one into Adelaide without a ticket, if she got off at the Adelaide station and told the Trans Adelaide Staff, she needed to see an emergency on-call social worker, from Travellers Aid. (Who have an office in the station underpass) Alternatively, she could ask to be escorted to the transit police office which is manned 24/7. Unfortunately, that is the best that i could do for her.”

“What makes me really angry, is as i was getting my coffee and hot apple pie, at the drive through in Elizabeth, i watched a police patrol, curb crawl around the Elizabeth Train Station and then the carpark of Cashies (aka crime-converters) for close to 15 minutes, then drive through the McDonalds Car park (with external light blazing on the top of their patrol car) but they apparently, missed this young girl sitting out the front (by herself) at 2.00am in the morning??? Or they chose to do nothing?? (I think the latter might be the case).”
 
“What extra work would it have taken, to pick her up and take her to the Elizabeth Police Station (which is .5 of a km away and manned 24/7) and left her in the care of the duty social worker/duty officer, until at least the morning? Alternatively, they could have dropped her off at the Lyell Mac Hospital which also has duty social worker that must be present on all shifts. (Both the Lyell Mac Hospital and the (old) RAH run a 24 hour a day, seven day a week medical/mental health and or at risk of harm, service for homeless/transient and or destitute persons via Outpatients. For persons under the age of 18, assistance is mandatory as required under current child and (youth) protection, laws (as valid in this state)”

“Clearly the two police officers who were out patrolling last night (early this morning) were either unaware of this, or just not that concerned??? Mind you if i decided to take my car and drag race up and down Peachy Road at 2.00am in the morning, i would imagine, I would have a patrol car (or two) in my rear view mirror, in next to no time????”

“My last comment is that a midnight to six am mobile service for homeless/transient persons living rough in the outer north (from Elizabeth right down to Gawler) is urgently needed. In Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, many organisations stock up purpose built vans with supplies (everything from hot soup, to blankets, swags, bottled water, takeaway food, metro/phone cards/bus tickets and toiletries and drive to specific spots throughout the night seven days a week (e.g. train stations, parks, bus shelters etc where homeless people/youth reside) to assist those living outside. They are also able to contact police, C.A.R.L. (child, abuse, report line) C.R.U. (Crisis Response Unit) M.M.H.A.T. (Mobile mental health, assessment and retrieval team) and Ambulance services, if need be. These mobile patrols, are manned with at least one qualified social worker and two experienced, outreach workers. Some mobile patrols also carry on board a qualified Registered Nurse, provided for by the R.D.N.S. of that district/state.”

“Adelaide needs to do the same! Stop spending thousands on ridiculous pamphlets and glossy billboards and radio media time with the likes of Leon Byner and Jeremy Cordeux (who although both extremely wealthy, have zero tolerance and or understanding of the lives of the underprivileged and disenfranchised and actually start a service for those out there would are DOING IT EXTREMELY TOUGH!”
 
This report thanks to The Night Talker (as distinct from the Night Stalker).
15 May 2017

(above) A comment box left on the street by the Trinity Uniting Church in North Terrace, Adelaide.

Old Nick turns off his fridge
 
Old Nick turned off his fridge because all he stored inside was a bottle of milk. Since the Salvation Army began giving away aged milk powder on Saturday afternoons in the city, Old Nick decided he would save electricity and kill the fridge.
 
“Puddle Jumpers are also giving away powdered milk. Why don’t you stockpile it?” I asked. The old sugarcane cutter was firm. He does not stockpile anything.
Late 13 May 2017

Stasi Land free lunch
 
Old Nick went to the Salisbury Uniting Church free Wednesday lunch. He said they served a sandwich instead of a meal. He said the contents were so thin he was afraid to check in case they blew away in the wind.
 
However, he said the sandwich tasted like, “a million dollars, five or six dollars in a cafe, restaurant good.”
 
Nevertheless, he said that other diners were looking around for the main meal to arrive. It did not. But Old Nick was satisfied. He likes the Stasi Land lunch.
 
Stasi Land Lunch
Salisbury Uniting Church
59-61 Park Terrace, Salisbury (near school) ph 8258 2675
Free lunch on Wednesdays at 12:00noon during school terms. No I.D. required.
Free vegetables and bread soon after 12:00noon on Wednesdays. No I.D. required.
Monthly hampers once you register with them with a Health Care Card.
It is quite good and Marta is a dream once she determines you’re not a scumbag.
Late 13 May 2017

Queenstown free food

The Seventh-day church at Queenstown has changed their free food day from Saturdays to Thursdays from 10:30am to 12:30pm. They offer a bag of 18 canned and packaged foods including bread and a small amount of vegetables.

Seventh-day Adventist Church (A.D.R.A.)
Corner of Webb and Spring Streets, Queenstown (near Port Adelaide)
Health Care Card required. Four visits per year allowed.
Late 13 May 2017

Peterswool Road free food
 
A few guests seemed depressed. Young men hung their heads. Women appeared paranoid and dull. One happier young woman said she was getting a “stem” put in her foot to help her walk properly after a stroke.
 
A young woman with the thin fingers of an Ice addict talked to her boyfriend who watched her intently. Later she held open the door for an old man at the Food Barn across the road.
 
On one side of the room, the Adventists had placed three long tables of elderly bread plus a dodgy Indian party mix that contained an unspecified “added flavouring”. They also gave away horribly flavoured baked beans and spaghetti plus excellent almonds, interesting sauces, good green beans, good Wombok, quarters of cauliflowers, very old bananas, tomatoes (cookers at best), small amount of broccoli, apples and pears (cookers). It was worth the visit.
 
The preacher stood outside the back door as clients departed. “Thanks, Chaplain,” one client said.
 
Seventh-day Adventist church free food
Mondays and Thursdays from 11:30am to 12noon.
Health Care Card required for Second Bite
20 Peterswool Road, Elizabeth Park.
Late 13 May 2017

Heart and Soul free food dates
 
Here are the new 2017 times for Heart and Soul at the Para Districts Masonic Hall, 77 Phillip Highway, Elizabeth South  where they give away free bakery products, fruit and vegetables and elderly groceries. Quantities are often generous. Start times are 7:00pm and it is best to get there at about 6:30pm. All dates below are for 2017.
 
Tuesday 16 May, Monday 22 May, Monday 29 May, Monday 5 June, Tuesday 13 June, Wednesday 21 June, Monday 26 June, Monday 3 July, Wednesday 12 July, Tuesday 18 July, Monday 24 July, Monday 31 July, Monday 7 August, Tuesday 15 August, Wednesday 23 August, Monday 28 August, Monday 4 September, Wednesday 13 September, Tuesday 19 September, Monday 25 September, Tuesday 3 October, Tuesday 10 October, Wednesday 18 October, Monday 23 October, Monday 30 October, Monday 6 November, the following two weeks are still to be decided, Monday 27 November, Monday 4 December, Monday 12 December, the last week is still to be decided.
 
Free food evening is also on Thursdays from 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Pennington Scout Hall, (which is called the Semaphore Scout Group), Sinclair Square, Pennington. This time and date are firm. No I.D. required ever at Heart and Soul.
Late 12 May 2017

Same old rubbish from Homelessness Australia

Jenny Smith of Homelessness Australia has given a reply to the government 2017-2018 budget.

It is a well informed analysis and judgement of money flowing into government funded welfare housing and homeless support programs.
However, it is all meaningless for people living outside because nearly all the money allocated will go to bureaucrats and others not living outside.

Nothing will change except the addition of increased surveillance and intrusion into the lives of people living outside and then acquiring “supported housing”.

Same talk each year from ACOSS and other welfare peak bodies. All meaningless except for bureaucrats and their careers.
Late 12 May 2017

(above) Mrs Telstra on an Adelaide bus after ordering at least one old person to get out of the seats reserved for elderly and disabled people so she could plonk her bags there. They were full of what she daily plunders from the Salvation Army and other charities. Mrs Telstra makes Adelaide more interesting. Note: Adelaide Homeless Journal will not publish images that will identify Mrs Telstra.

Priority seats on Adelaide buses
 
According to Piano Player Wayne, he got leave from his room in the Royal Adelaide Hospital to return home for unspecified reasons. He got on the bus outside the hospital.
 
Later, Mrs Judith Telstra got on the bus. She ordered two old people from the disabled seats then put her bags on one. She then sat on another seat next to a man.
 
Piano Player Wayne mocked her so she complained to the bus driver. He told Wayne to ease up. Wayne pretended to talk about Mrs Telstra on his phone and mentioned a website.
 
Mrs Telstra went back to the driver and complained about this website. The driver told her to sit down.
 
Whatever one can say about Mrs Telstra, she certainly has the gall of Bea Miles, or Chidley, or even Piano Player Wayne. They are a credit to a diverse culture.
12 May 2017

(above) The Mission Australia needle exchange building at 35 Richard Street, West Hindmarsh, an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. They give away small amounts of food from 3:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays. Friendly staff. No I.D. required.

Mission Australia Hindmarsh
free food

“You can come in one at a time, but there isn’t anything,” the friendly black African man told three decrepit old white folk begging for food.
 
Inside, there was a few packets of bread rolls, some canned peaches and a bottle of milk in the bar fridge.
 
I thought he didn’t want more than one person inside for fear of being attacked, but the real reason was lack of space. He laughed when I told him. He said the best times to arrive are at 3:00pm on Mondays and Wednesdays when the food truck gets there.
 
I returned an hour later and crouched behind a car. A shambolic woman rang the doorbell built into the surveillance camera then another woman inside the building opened the door. She spoke in the same kind manner that the African man had spoken to us.
 
Mission Australia Drug Addict joint
35 Richard Street, Hindmarsh (behind the Entertainment Centre)
Mondays and Wednesdays after 3:00pm to 4:30pm.
No I.D. or Health Care Card or referral needed.
Late 11 May 2017

(above) Life Church rent a failed shopping centre in Munno Para that they have turned into a church. They give away free food on Thursdays at 11:00am and Saturdays at 10:00am. Distribution takes about 20 minutes then guests can stay another 40 minutes for coffee. Life Church is at 1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler) in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

Life Church free food
 
SecondBite delivers less stuff than before. Last week, even the bread was in short supply. There were perhaps 35 people there so each got half a shopping bag of elderly fruit and vegetables plus the bread.
 
However, the gathering is also a social occasion with two minutes of religion thrown in, which makes it a healthy experience even for card-carrying atheists.
 
Life Church offered very ripe bananas, cooking tomatoes, perfect Brussels sprouts, excellent red and green grapes, bread, savoury buns and crumpets, tiny amounts of cut lettuce, Bok Choy, spinach, potatoes (old and starchy), onions, apples, perfect Kiwi fruit and snow peas. Dora served coffee at the kitchen counter while Lorraine handed out the grapes and crumpets.
 
A feature of Life Church is that everyone gets the same amount. If anything is left over after everyone is served once, then the surplus is offered to the clients.
 
Seven or eight guests pounced on a table of free used clothing. They collect it, apparently, for their extended families.
 
 
Life Church free food and coffee
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am - 11:00am
Free bread, fruit, vegetables and coffee.
Health Care Card or a good story required
Late 11 March 2017

(above) Everything is bigger and wilder in Elizabeth, a northern suburb of Adelaide. The yellow bin is a dirty needle dump for drug addicts using the Anglicare Elizabeth Mission near the police station.

Elizabeth Food Barn
 
There was more laughing in the Food Barn kitchen. Even the Chef, who could impersonate Alfred Hitchcock, was laughing. It was not clear what they were laughing at, but the Welsh coffee lady was also overcome with mirth and began dancing around the kitchen.
 
The blue-eyed guard was the only serious person in the building with his cold accusing stare that masks a normal person underneath. He keeps those criminals away who sell stolen Basics Cards.
 
Two diners were pulling ragged suitcases on wheels. Those living outside always head for the edge of any underclass food venue.
 
A diner told me a neighbour on the street was robbed of his “key card” and gave the robber a false password. The robber returned and beat him up and he died a week later. That is what she said. “Aboriginal,” she said. I almost said, “That figures,” then recounted a visit to Nunkuwarrin Yunti medical centre where both the doctor and nurse were Aboriginals.

And they were superior professionals to almost all medical people I have experienced in the past. They were also mentally and physically superior to myself in my prime. They were and are inspiring.
 
The Food Barn staff served stew that was described by one guest as, “Not bad.” They also had croissants, buns and fresh fruit including good apples.
 
Clown Prince Wayne blessed the gathering with his presence.

Anglicare Mission Food Barn
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
11:30am to 12:30pm Monday to Friday
Free lunch. No dessert. No takeaways. Strange salt and pepper shakers.
Dangerous looking security guard in the dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in
Orange Sky Laundry no longer there on Fridays from 10:30am to 1:00pm
10 May 2017

Semaphore free breakfast

Tuesday of the previous week, St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre was the busiest it had ever been. It was rowdy, chaotic and friendly.

The alcoholic who sleeps on the bench outside changed his shorts for full trousers. He actually came inside and had breakfast, but didn’t do himself credit by telling a mother that she should take her one-year-old baby outside. His damaged mind couldn’t process the happiness of the extended family at the table. He also wanted the table cleared of baby toys: they also bothered his mind. He went outside.

The Ice dealer who supplied S*** S********* S** sat at a crowded table, alone in his mind. He becomes more weird with every passing month. Meanwhile, the eyes of a woman who has stopped using Ice have become normal, responsive.

Jill Rivers has found a new coordinator for the Drop-in-Centre. Her name is Theresa. She has small shoulders, thin arms and is slightly haggard, but has good teeth and a swift mind. Her background is government mental illness.

She is not the same Theresa who steals the cutlery. Jill will hover over the area intermittently to see that Theresa is getting along well in the kitchen. Others are already watching the other Theresa to see that she does not return to steal more cutlery.

Michelle won the AFL footy draw. The family from Finland weren’t there, but they did go to Fred’s Van on Sunday. Craig said that after having the locks changed, someone still managed to break into his house and urinate in his socks. Now, he wants cameras and a security system.

Breakfast was yoghourt, cereal, sliced fruit, bacon and scrambled eggs, hash browns. The Night Stalker complained that just once piece of bacon was served when he has twelve at home. Takeaway food included fresh carrots, potatoes, green beans and limited biscuits. The potatoes were old, which increases the starch content and makes them better for chips.

The former Minister of Housing did a superb job of preparing the venue and washing the dishes.
St Bede’s free breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings 8:30 - 10:30am
Quality breakfasts, scheduled free hairdressing, table tennis, small amounts of takeaways including rice crackers. Free used clothing and a good social scene that is friendly to people living outside and from Supported Residential Facilities.
10 May 2017

Stevo's free brunch at Enfield Uniting Church

An older woman who worked as a financial counselor asked a client where homeless people parked in their cars at night. She asked this after a client told her that homeless people rarely go to venues for disadvantaged people. Clients living in houses frequently edge out the car sleepers. Or in rougher homeless joints like the Hutt Street Centre, where the housed drug dealers pressure the car sleepers to buy drugs from them.

Last week the Stevo’s volunteers at Sefton Park Uniting Church served sausages and vegetarian pasties with sauce on bread. There was also a plain mix of stale salad leaves taken from a packet. No salad dressing.

One volunteer said they do as well as they can, which leaves plenty of room for improvement. Stevo’s needs someone with vision such as Jill Rivers of Anglicare. She looks for incremental improvements to counteract the enervating forces of contraction. She also responds to client suggestions.

While I was talking with the volunteer at Stevo’s ― and turned my back on the tables and chairs ― they were packed up, leaving me with nowhere to sit. And nowhere for new arrivals. This was at 11:34am when Stevo’s advertise being open from 10:00am to 12:00noon.
However, another patron had a much more positive experience:

"I have now gone twice to the Uniting Church Breakfast at Sefton Park, and i am quite impressed. I went today and they had the usual sandwiches and tea and coffee, but also cooked up sausages and vegie (bubble and squeak) burgers and even had a copy of todays newspaper to read. It was a nice touch. They don't ask for any id and don't give you the evil eye (which you get at the Elizabeth Food Barn)."
Stevo’s free soup kitchen at the Enfield Uniting Church
corner of Park Street and Main North Road, Sefton Park. (next to Target)
10:00am to 12 noon. Tuesdays. Only during school terms. No I.D. required.
Varying quality, but they often serve snacks, sandwiches, a hot meal and coffee. The toilets are clean. Limited takeaway food emergencies only. Everything for free.
9 May 2017

Strange Stuart on the job
 
His Strangeness can be spotted at the front of the WestCare homeless joint each morning before 10:00am. He compulsively checks his watch each minute. This sleuth watches the street for a certain intruder named Mrs Telstra. She isn’t allowed into the complex until an hour after opening time. This is to prevent her from rushing the shower room and other services before homeless people, or at least less aggressive housed people, can use them.
 
Strange Stuart is determined to enforce the ruling from WestCare’s Central Command. He cannot be blamed for that. He is doing a good job.
 
But how would Mrs Telstra be treated by Central Command if she was a crystal methamphetamine addict? Or a dealer? Better or worse?
 
9 May 2017

(above) A night shot of the water tap back of the Elizabeth Food Barn. This simple tap is important for those homeless people who know about it. In contrast, the Hutt Street Centre removed its outdoor water tap, then sought donations of bottled water. During heat waves, management announces through the media they're giving away bottled water to the homeless.

(above) Fred's Van arrives reliably at the St John the Evangelist Anglican Church Hall on Church Street, Salisbury each Sunday with their free food at 6:00pm. From there, we watch with pity the fools driving into the McDonalds food joint across the road.

From the Contact Page
 
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Comment
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Posted 9 May 2017

Police put Sunday Mail photos of the Show Pony on their computers

South Australian police have reportedly put photographs of the Show Pony (Mark Arstall, 38) on their identification system.
 
This was the result of the efforts from a number of people, none of whom are connected with the construction of this webpage.
 
Of course, the Show Pony can be easily identified by going to the Hutt Street website. http://tinyurl.com/mileskemppuffpiece
 
He will be both aggravated and ecstatic at this latest development because unlike Robyn the Junkie, the Clued-up Drug Dealer and the other Ice addicts, Arstall craves both being in the limelight, and wanting to be alone. This is a difficult dilemma for him to resolve.
8 May 2017

Government dental trickery
 
The South Australian government dental service for underclass people has adopted a method of making the waiting list seem smaller than it is.
 
Once a person is accepted for treatment, each appointment is extended out to five or six weeks. This means the government can enlarge the number of people currently receiving treatment thus making it appear there is a smaller number on the waiting list. This drags out the treatment period from a few weeks to a few months.
 
This is in conjunction with making people wait twelve months before going back on the waiting list, which can be years. This little trick statistically hid one year of the waiting list.
8 May 2017

Bruce runs ahead of the bus
 
Elderly Bruce tries to reach the Salvo Marion free breakfast before closing time at about 9:30am. He also hates paying bus fares.
 
But the last bus he can catch to make it on time leaves his stop at 8:50am, for which he will have to buy a ticket. To avoid this, he runs forward so the bus will catch up to him at 9:01am and the trip will be free.
 
Bruce was not born yesterday.
8 May 2017

Correction on stuffed towels
 
It was incorrectly reported that soldiers at the Playford Corps Salvation Army base had made stuffed dog figures using towels. This was incorrect.
 
The towels were not stuffed and they were not dog figures. They were floppy figures of little men.
 
The misunderstanding about being stuffed arose when a soldier suggested that making floppy figures from towels was silly upon which one of the towel artists told her to “get stuffed”.
7 May 2017

Piano Player Wayne back in hospital
 
Wayne is back in the Royal Adelaide Hospital with a new infection in his other foot. He said upon admittance that he’d “given up all hope,” but has somewhat recovered his spirits.
 
He said the last five years have been the worst. Ever since the cancer.
7 May 2017

Elizabeth Food Barn free lunch
 
The Barn is built with solid tree trunks and rough wood joists. The barn is heated in winter and cooled in summer.
 
A 4-year-old boy wearing a superman costume threw himself against an exuberant kitchen worker named Caz, while she spoke to diners. She played along with his tough guy act.
 
Seven or eight other children mixed with the smaller than usual crowd. The Food Barn is patronised by a dozen extended families and friendship networks. Aboriginals intermix with the white folk and Asians. The Bosnian woman who dresses in evening gowns was there with a man whom Old Nick described as, “Wearing more rings than fingers.”
 
The mood in the dining room is much superior to that of the Salisbury Uniting Church on their Wednesday lunches. The Food Barn kitchen staff are responsible for the high quality of interactions.
 
But there could be a wider range of food. It was a stew with floating sausages and small amounts of beefsteak. A vegetarian got a bowl of beans with a bun floating on top. The coffee lady is a joy to be around, but she uses that horrible thin low-fat milk.
 
Ah So and Ah Jung were there along with the other work-for-the-dole people. Orange Sky is still missing in action.
 
Old Nick jumped when I sat beside him. He thought I was the murderer who killed Alexander Watts the previous week. We talked about medicinal marijuana with a 40-year-old man who has pancreatitis, liver disease and diabetes.
 
Old Nick said he likes the Stasi-Land meal at the Salisbury Uniting Church. “It suits me fine,” he said.
 
But a new tenant in his Anglicare retirement village doesn’t suit him fine. He says she is a hoarder who has a dog that defecates on other tenants front doorsteps.

Anglicare Mission Food Barn
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
11:30am to 12:30pm Monday to Friday
Free lunch. No dessert. No takeaways. Strange salt and pepper shakers.
Dangerous looking security guard in the dining room. Invalid Scooter plug-in
Orange Sky Laundry no longer there on Fridays from 10:30am to 1:00pm
7 May 2017

(above) Healthy free takeaway food from Cos We Care made by a work-for-the-dole joint. The fish was top quality, not basa from Vietnam.

(above) Cos We Care gives away free food in Car Park No 1 at Fremont Park in Elizabeth Park, across Main North Road from the Elizabeth shopping centre and library. They arrive at 7:30am and leave at 9:00am on Saturdays. They're also in the Adelaide CBD on Sundays at the same times on the corner of South Terrace and Hutt Street.

Cos We Care Elizabeth
 
Anne arrived in the Cos We Care refrigerated van followed by Bryony in her clapped-out bomb. John stayed home due to exhaustion from overwork.
 
Simon, Rob, and four other waiting men swung the back doors open and began unloading tables and food. Anne brought out a low-pressure camp stove to heat the water. She hooked the hose to the 9kg bottle, and then lit one burner upon which the inside of the stove caught fire. She tossed that aside and pulled out the old stove, but that also caught fire where the hose screws into the stove. That was tossed aside and a client provided an ultra slow single-burner stove.
 
There were 15 people waiting with another ten sitting in cars. Later, another dozen arrived including two homeless men pulling wheeled suitcases and drinking white wine from soft-drink bottles.
 
Another homeless man sleeps at the bus stop a few metres across from Harris Scarfe where Alexander Watts was stabbed to death the previous week. Shane Falkiner has been charged with his murder.
 
The quantity of food was inadequate, but it included carrots, potatoes, mushrooms (from last week), curled cucumbers, mini-squashes, excellent work-for-the-dole frozen fish and vegetable packs, cooked chicken wings, apples, green beans, yoghourt, bananas and cereal in bowls.
 
But to be fair, Anne and John began their free food service to provide food for isolated men and women living outside who can carry only limited amounts. But the customers have become mainly low-income people living in houses.
 
A white woman about 30 brought four sealed boxes of toothpaste for distribution at the Cos We Care tables on Sundays in the city. She and her friends buy toiletries from their own money then take them to three hospitals to distribute to women patients.
 
Cos We Care
Saturdays 7:30am - 9:00am at Carpark No 1 at Fremont Park, Yorktown Road, Elizabeth
Sundays 7:30am - 9:00am on South Terrace near Hutt Street, Adelaide
Free vegetables, fruit, hot coffee, sugary buns, canned food and other good stuff.
7 May 2017

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New Salvation Army free breakfast
 
The Marion Corps of the Army serve a free breakfast every Monday morning. The official title is “Come as you are.”
 
Old Nick said they throw eggs at you. You can eat as many as you want. He said they, “melt the eggs into the toast”. He likes the place, but he said they like to clear the joint of customers by 9:30am so it is best to get there as early as possible.
 
Salvation Army free breakfast
155 Sturt Road, Seacombe Gardens (corner of Morphett Road and Sturt Road near the Marion Shopping Centre).
8:30am to 10:00am on Mondays
No I.D. or Health Care Card required
6 May 2017

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Defamation cases is heading your way ******, [and] the 70 year old goat bike rider, see if you can get out of this one you clowns
 
Posted 6 May 2017
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Soul Cafe free evening breakfast at Elizabeth
 
This Sunday, 7 May at 5:30pm. Free. All welcome. Entry from back of Food Barn at Elizabeth Mission. They call it a Family Centre or something like that.
 
Soul Cafe Elizabeth
Soul Cafe in the Food Barn (entrance from back of Barn)
Anglicare Elizabeth Mission
91-93 Elizabeth Way, Elizabeth
(near the shopping centre and police station)
5:30pm to 6:30pm. 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month.
Free bacon, eggs, beans and dessert.
Posted Saturday 6 May 2017

Orange Sky at Hutt Street Centre
 
Orange Sky has changed their Hutt Street Centre service from Sunday to Saturday, when they operate from 7:00am to 9:00am, the same hours as the Hutt Street Centre’s new opening time.

Hutt Street Centre
258 Hutt Street, Adelaide (near corner of Hutt Street and South Terrace)

Orange Sky Laundry real time updates for all of Australia. http://www.orangeskylaundry.com.au/locations
6 May 2017

Free foot doctor students at Salvation Army in Adelaide

Adelaide Congress Hall is hosting UniSA student physiotherapy and foot doctors to provide free services every Wednesday.
 
The aim is to give the students practice on real people, instil a sense of social justice in their minds, and to help others in the underclass and homeless scene.
 
Salvation Army building
277 Pirie Street, Adelaide (same place as the DUO Saturday and Wednesday free meals)
Phone 1800 316 790
Wednesdays 1:00pm to 4:30pm. Free. No referral needed.
They prefer appointments, but this is not necessary.
Good luck. Let’s hope they’re better than student dentists.
6 May 2017

Adelaide Homeless Videos

Videos about Adelaide people in the homeless scene
Excellent interviews of Hutt Street Centre people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWDVK7dLrkw
 
Excellent documentary about Shorty (Robert) who used to sell Big Issue magazine in Adelaide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYNdHeVhGN0 
 
Adelaide Angels Christmas 2016. Free meal for the homeless, but all the people interviewed are housed. Exhausted vulnerable homeless people avoid such gaudy events. The East London black woman hairdresser was excellent. Also features Piano Player Wayne and John the Baptist. Margo Casey is shown saying the Angels event restored her faith in humanity. Of course, anything would restore her faith compared to those people she hangs around with, destroying themselves on Ice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNbQpCIpWo0
 
A excellent propaganda video from Hutt Street Centre including Sister Gwen, Ian Cox, Peter Gibson and others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_gw6MmZggI
 
Adelaide Homeless Expo video with brief shots of The Ghost Who Walks, Robyn the Junkie, Grinder, Ajay, Alice Clark, a Nunga woman dressed in furs, Leo (deceased), that crazy fellow who plays PVC pipes in Hindley Street, Gary (Gazza) Pritchard and a few veterans of the Whitmore Square culture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKrhTXkruEQ
 
Homeless Connect 2008 in Whitmore Square, Adelaide. Includes that crazy American law lecturer who can’t answer simple legal questions, but who is an astute social commentator. “The cure for homelessness is having a roof over your head that is affordable...,” he says. Jeremy Urquart from Big Issue magazine and Joao (John) de Sousa also appear. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFVob23ZNC0
 
Includes that crazy American, again, and old PJ who says he’s done some good things and that he lives every day as if it is his last. PJ has some wisdom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCiBYTnN4c
 
TV station report on bashing in parklands. Shows some good views of tents plus less good shots of Anne Moran of North Adelaide. Also, the voice of Alice Clark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKiBNxPmq7g  
 
Andre Agostini from Youth With A Mission at Salvation Army , 277 Pirie Street, Adelaide. Shows a few of the DUO regulars. Spoken in Portuguese.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AwnB41VVT4
 
Salvation Army Do Unto Others promotional video shows a few of the regulars on Saturday evenings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn4XdF6WJFQ
 
Intrusive video of an old man sleeping in a vacant lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ooxUc0LIo
 
Port Power players making sandwiches then serving them to people at Fred’s Van. Shorts shots of Ajay Stewart when he should have been the featured speaker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRiptvKN-Y
 
Mainstream media report on people living in the Adelaide parklands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8ceiMxvZdQ
 
Common Ground and government propaganda with Roseanne Haggerty. It features Richard the Messianic Jew who lived in the parklands for a number of years. He saved Katrina when her boyfriend, Benjamin Yardwood was smacking her head against concrete. In response, the younger Yardwood savagely beat Richard who went into hiding afterward. Richard said the police told him they would not having charged Yardwood for beating him up if Katrina also hadn’t made a complaint. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBq4RXkpenA
Late 5 May 2017

(above) Memorial to Alexander Watts who was stabbed to death last week at the Elizabeth shopping centre. Shane Falkiner has been charged with his murder.

(above) A popular yet enigmatic man sleeps at the bus stop across from the murder scene. But he arrives after everyone has gone and missed being a witness to the murder.

The Port Church meal not so pleasant
 
The mood was pleasant until the preacher turned on the church Muzak. This made conversation difficult. The preacher appeared offended when a group of derelicts moved away from the speakers.
 
Instead of a short reading from the Bible, which can be inspiring, the preacher’s wife went on a bit about wanting to get to know us. She added that this required that we tell her church members about ourselves. She was insensitive to the fact that underclass people are routinely forced by welfare authorities to adopt the posture of supplicants and divulge painful personal information.
 
Then certain children of the guests were accused of “messing up the toilets”.
 
The preacher then announced that there had been too much “enthusiasm” of people getting the free groceries. He also said the following week’s free meal was cancelled to give the “wonderful people” in the church a break.
 
“It’s all bad news,” said the Night Stalker.
 
An autistic man named Malcolm became angry when the food ran low and he was offered half a sausage. The limited amount of soft drinks were also warm and served in small plastic cups.
 
“It’s us and them,” said the Night Stalker, as he observed that the church people had take the tables close to the church while the guests were on the outer near the parked cars.
 
P.S. Constable Kevin was not there because he’s been shipped out due to smashing up his government house. He is in a new place and presumably has been followed by his nine full-time Carers.
 
The Port Church
47 Carnarvon Terrace, Largs North
5:00pm to 7:00pm every Wednesday
Free meal, pre-loved clothing, fresh fruit and vegetables
Usually pretty good.
5 May 2017

Queenstown A.D.R.A. secret session

They are giving away the same old out-dated free food that must be stored in a warehouse for months before being donated to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This includes frozen meat products.

Their new secret Thursday offering is less humiliating than on Saturdays when the church’s children gather to watch the weirdo beggars. It is terrible on Saturdays to watch the big names in the underclass scene reduced to freaks in the eyes of children.
 
 No soup on Thursdays.

Seventh Day Adventist Church
Corner of Webb and Spring Streets, Queenstown (near Port Adelaide)
A bag of 18 canned and packaged foods including bread and small amount of vegetables. Hot soup usually served on Saturdays
12:00 noon Saturdays though some Saturdays it is at 12:30pm. Also Thursdays from 10:00an to 12:00pm. Health Care Card required. (Confirm with Lee Bodich on 8244 2627.
Four visits yearly allowed, but an unconfirmed rumour has it that Thursdays and Saturdays are classed as separate so one if allowed eight visits a year.  
5 May 2017

Rapid Relief (Exclusive Brethren)
 
There was not any coffee. The Brethren serve coffee one month then not the next. It detracts from their quality free hamburgers and the pleasant atmosphere.
 
Again, the Wesley Mission failed to put out chairs for the patrons. However, the Night Stalker asked one of the Brethren for chairs so she walked through the building, opened the unused cafe, and brought out chairs. Simple as that. The Night Stalker said it is most effective dealing with people at a personal level. He’d just arrived after blasting his new social worker for low performance.
 
Brothers Bernie and Lance were there plus a dozen tough looking Port Adelaide Aboriginals, but none of the SRF people and their Carers. One of David R******’s boys was there. David grew up in the Vaucluse area of Sydney then in later life began collecting cans from rubbish bins to earn money to give to his children. He wanted to compensate them for failing as a father, as he saw it.
 
Rapid Relief Team (Plymouth Brethren)
Hosted by Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide
(entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area)
Free hamburger and water, and sometimes coffee on the last Tuesday of every month from 11:30am to 1:30pm except December when it is on the 19th, which is the second last Tuesday.
5 May 2017

Strange Stuart
 
The neurological structures of His Strangeness’s brain seize up like overloaded RAM when he sees the 70-year-old bike rider who called the police on The Show Pony (Mark Arstall, 38). His Strangeness feels no ambivalence as to whose side he is on.
 4 May 2017

Pathos, threat and danger
 
The Show Pony (Mark Arstall, 38) yelled at a technology volunteer named Chris *****  at WestCare last week. The elderly volunteer is from the Tusmore Australian-Asian church and was the boss of introducing new technology into the state government computer system.
 
The Show Pony accused him of being connected with this website.
 
Meanwhile, the Hutt Street Centre will not investigate the Show Pony knocking off the glasses and hat of an old man last month. Police are awaiting a crucial witness report from an employee who has conveniently gone on holiday. The Hutt Street Centre has a formal complaints mechanism but, of course, it has been deactivated for this case.
 
More dangerous is the The Show Pony’s attempts to get the drug addicts to beat up anyone he suspects of being connected to this website. For this, staff fete him as he prances about the building trying to attract attention. He is a useful tool for Hutt Street Centre management who want to stop clients leaking information to third parties.  
 
4 May 2017

Sunnydale SRF
 
Melissa Richards ordered half a dozen residents to a special meeting to discuss drug and alcohol use, not cleaning their rooms and failing to have adequate showers.
 
The drug use is hard to determine as the effect of psychiatric drugs are little different than the illegal stuff.
 
Meanwhile, Micky paid a visit after his escape from Sunnydale. Rumour was that he’d moved into a nursing home, but he called it a retirement joint. He was plumper in the face and appeared, perhaps, a little sedated.
4 May 2017

The Clued-up Drug Dealer’s former apartment building

A man in one of the Unity Housing Company studio apartments at The Terrace building is installing a security system at his own expense. Drug addicted thieves have broken into his rooms twice and he’s sick of it.
 
Matthew Woodward is the C.E.O. of Unity Housing Company.
4 May 2017

Not quite the truth
 
SecondBite say on their promotional leaflet that, “Since 2005, SecondBite has rescued over 12.6 million kg of surplus fresh food.”
 
Actually, the “fresh food” is not fresh. It is barely useable, but still healthier than elderly processed food from Food Bank.
4 May 2017

Chat and Chew
 
The Wesley Mission obtained the services of a new cook named Stephen, who also works at Clubhouse at Diamond House in Kilkenny.
 
He made spaghetti bolognaise with parmesan cheese. The Night Stalker complained that the parmesan smelt of vinegar. Staff agreed, but no one else noticed. It seemed okay.
 
Collette the social worker gave the lone vegetarian some pumpkin Dahl she’d purchased at her own expense during the day, intending to take it home.
 
Dessert was bread and butter pudding, a usually obnoxious dessert turned tasty by the new cook.
 
Damian from the old days was there. He shows signs of being a savant. So was the man who says he is an undercover psychiatrist. He was born in Sydney, but his parents took him to the Soviet Union as a child because they believed in communism. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they returned to Australia. The undercover psychiatrist still has a Russian accent.
 
Others not there from the old days included Barry and Aileen who died, and two others who committed suicide.
 
A 77-year-old whose wife died 16 months ago said he feels worse every day. He also railed against Amazon for taking jobs from Australians. He said Amazon should be required to prove it will operate in the best interest of Australians. He said Norway had that law.
 
Collette said children were not allowed at Chat and Chew because it was for isolated individuals and that children might run amuck. We thought it was because they didn’t trust us with children.
 
M******* and Dw***** did not attend because they were not allowed bring their 14-year-old daughter
 
The Reverend George Martin died earlier this year. He was Superintendent of the Port Adelaide Central Mission, which was the old name for Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide. I wish I had asked him what he thought of the changes in the Mission since his days of command.  
 
Back in 1981, the Mission offered the use of a house to the Port Unemployed Self Help group on the site where the Family Centre now sits. When the Mission discovered that I was the interim coordinator, they withdrew their offer. When a permanent employee replaced me, the house was given back.

The new employee then oversaw a regime where the group made money from selling marijuana while its Treasurer molested two children and went to jail. One of the two children never recovered and the father never forgave himself for allowing them to come to harm.
 
Less than 20 guests attended Chat and Chew. Phil Jones gave Bernie, Lance and Pam a lift home, just as he did with me for two years.Chat and Chew
Uniting Care Wesley Port Adelaide
58 Dale Street, Port Adelaide.
(entry from back gate off K-Mart parking area)
4:30 - 6:30 pm (Every second Wednesday) Free
Main course, dessert, tea and coffee. No takeaways
3 May 2017

Life Church free food at Munno Para
 
Gerry said a prayer then announced the Art and Play groups were resuming the following week. Another churchman said that when he moved to the Munno Para area 50 years ago, employers would hang around school gates handing out forms to boys to take home to get permission from their parents to leave school and start work.
 
He said there had been full employment, but now the unemployment rate among youth was 45% and among “blacks”, it was 80%. He said no wonder they get into drugs and alcohol. Nothing else to do.
 
Life Church gave away strawberries, tomatoes, lettuce, avocadoes, bananas, good quality lemons and limes, apples, small cucumbers. Everything was in low quantities.
 
An ultra thin woman with two kids and a husband were there. She experienced stomach pains for five years before having keyhole surgery. Her two blond children are part of an extended family that goes to the Life Church.
 
This is why Life Church, which rents an abandoned shopping centre, is so valuable to the northern suburbs.
 
Life Church free food and coffee
1 Karri Street, Munno Para (between Elizabeth and Gawler)
Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm
Saturdays 10:00am - 11:00am
Free bread, fruit, vegetables and coffee.
Health Care Card or a good story required
3 May 2017
 

St Bede’s Drop-in-Centre

Romello has been pouncing on people getting out of cars on Semaphore Road. He asks for money for cigarettes. He began yelling in the St Bede’s Hall last month. An inspiring volunteer named Cora went outside with him and talked to him in sign language. Romello cannot talk or hear.

The fault of the Byzantium welfare system is that those most disabled and desperate are not capable of manoeuvring  through its obstacles and dead end traps. Romello is boxed in.

An old man wearing shorts and with a bandage on one leg has been sleeping on the bench under the verandah where Homeless Lil slept last winter. The verandah gets the full brunt of the cold winds coming across the gulf. He looks like a Korsakoff alcoholic. He didn’t come inside.

The breakfast included bacon and eggs, fried potatoes, grilled sandwiches, fresh sliced fruit. Takeaway food included apple cucumbers, apples, potatoes, carrots and fresh rice crackers.

Mr Moonboots set up the laptops then helped elsewhere. A few weeks ago, he locked himself in the storage room near the stage. He said the door had accidently locked and he couldn’t get it open.
St Bede’s free breakfast
200 Military Road, Semaphore
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings 8:30 - 10:30am
Quality breakfasts, scheduled free hairdressing, table tennis, small amounts of takeaways including rice crackers. Free used clothing and a good social scene that is friendly to people living outside and from Supported Residential Facilities.
3 May 2017

Dangerous Clem
 
Dangerous Clem pulled up his trouser leg outside the Brian Burdekin Clinic last week to expose a 35cm scar. He had been on foot next to a parked ambulance on Glen Osmond Road three years ago when a car with its lights off suddenly surged forward and hit him.
 
Dangerous Clem explained that after three years, he still hadn’t received injury compensation. As he spoke, a not-quite-taut woman interrupted and urged him to get into a car. The homeless scene legend got in and disappeared down Selby Street.
Late 1 May 2017

Ruf Us Charitable Trust
Financial Report

The Ruf Us annual financial statement for the year 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 was prepared by Rosenberg and Co of Eastwood. It is a clear statement, but does not provide the detail and nuance one might find in a quality annual report. Being a small charitable trust, Ruf Us is not required to lodge a public annual report.
 
The Ruf Us address is listed as 265-267 Halifax Street, Adelaide, S.A. 5000. Board Members are listed as Alan Donald, Victoria Donald, Nicole Heaft, Peter Jolley and Jennifer Richards, but not Two-minute Tim. Their contact email is [email protected] .
 
Income for the financial year was $61,677.35 (less than half the employee car expenses of the Hutt Street Centre). $43,313.95 was listed by Ruf Us as Sundry items including payments to the removalist, Two-minute Tim. It is a shame the figure was not broken down further to show what portion was paid to Tim.
 
Fundraising expenses were $5,543.33. The rent on the warehouse was $8,460 as it was leased partway through the year. The report for the next financial year will show its true annual cost. Ruf Us estimated it had nine volunteers. This was before the Founder and nearly all the volunteers defected to Our Street Family Matters.
 
It will be fascinating to discover what number of volunteers they will claim next year. Who will they be?  The Board plus Two-minute Tim and his wife?

But the immediate issue is what presence does Ruf Us have in the Adelaide homeless street scene? And what have they done with the $94,000 raised by the Founder in the second half of 2016? 

 
Financial Report Download Link is at
 
https://www.acnc.gov.au/RN52B75Q?ID=B6067676-9B31-4361-B395-3EBEC722831F&noleft=1
 
Annual Information Report
 
https://acnc.gov.au/AIS2016?ID=B6067676-9B31-4361-B395-3EBEC722831F&noleft=1
 
Original governing document
Go To https://www.acnc.gov.au/RN52B75Q?ID=B6067676-9B31-4361-B395-3EBEC722831F&noleft=1  then click on the Charity’s Document link
 
Late 1 May 2017

(above) What can be mistaken as dumped junk is often the makings or remnants of a homeless camp such as this one in Port Adelaide.

(above) This corner of the Anglicare Elizabeth Food Barn parking area is a perfect sleeping spot for a homeless person. But Anglicare staff have fouled it with rubble and garden waste.

Piano Player Wayne back home
 
A doctor tied a machine to Wayne’s diabetic foot. The machine “sucks the gunk” from his surgical wound then pulls the skin together so it will heal without a graft.
 
Wayne didn’t want to leave the hospital. He likes being a patient. He shouted at a medical attendant that he couldn’t get up the stairs to his flat. “How am I supposed to go home without getting re-infected,” he asked. “Is that the plan?”
Late 1 May 2017

Playford Army Corps
 
Soldiers constructed stuffed dog figures last week using tea towels. One soldier commented that it was unbecoming of God’s soldiers to be doing that. The stuffed tea towels were Mothers’ Day gifts.
 
Meanwhile, Lieutenants Dale and Fi-Fi Allan are going to Melbourne for a short holiday during which they will recount Salvation Army Adelaide stories to their friends and relatives.
 
Late 1 May 2016

Staff meetings at WestCare

One diner said that lunch had been cancelled recently due to a staff meeting. Can that be true? Would an organisation cancel an essential service to stage a meeting?
Late 1 May 2017

https://www.lccare.org.au/lisp-and-er-directories.html

Photograph of The Show Pony (Mark Arstall, 38) given freely to Mark Brake of the Adelaide Advertiser and published by the webmaster of the Hutt Street Centre on their webpage.

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Remembering PJ

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

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The Decent Man

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

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