| Home Adelaide Homeless Gossip is archived by the National Library of Australia Homeless Hot Gossip 2 Latest 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Oldest 12 December 2006 to 15 February 2007 Send your latest insights to [email protected] The most recent message appears at the top. Updated 15 February 2007 Homeless Legal Service The Homeless Legal Service operates out of Byron Place Community Centre and the Magdalene Centre. Each place has a separate legal firm giving advice and the coordinator, Bill, says once you go to one place you can�t go to another on the same case. Fair enough. The annoying part is customers don�t know this until turning up at the other place after going to the first. A wasted trip. Another anomaly is the Magdalene Centre often closes at 10am when it reaches its quota of appointments. This means you can�t walk in there after this time and make an appointment for the legal service. They want you to phone, waste fifty cents, more if the phone is buggered, when you might be walking by the place anyway. This seems an unnecessary cruelty. The Magdalene Centre should put a notice on the door saying that appointments can be made around the corner at the other part of the Magdalene Centre on Moore Street. 15 February 2007 *********************************** Does anyone know the name of the creeper that grows up the wall of the Department of Administrative and Information Services in the Gawler Courtyard where Fred's Van serves food each night? It isn't Ivy. [email protected] 15 February 2007 ****************************************************** Now, what is that meddling priest up to now? Cappo has placed an ad in the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper welcoming phone-ins about �Repeat Youth Offending�. It�s part of another �broad consultation� with probable results like with the homeless issue where little has actually changed except a few new social worker and psychiatric careers have being bolstered with the influx of money taken from the housing sector. 15 February, 2007 ************************************************** The Scam Artist is telling people his father was a long-time police officer in the Riverland. Police are often respected and maybe the Scam Artist thinks this will make himself appear to others as more trustworthy for a loan. 15 February 2007 ***************************************************** A man going to Fred�s Van says the government may sell 10,000 Housing Trust houses to repay a $800 million debt to the Federal government. He also says the Salvation Army has trouble getting volunteers for Fred�s Van due to the violence. 15 February, 2007 ***************************************************** A few young people are camping in the parklands near the East End. The Adelaide City Council is trying to get the psychiatric body, Street-to-home, to deal with them. But Street-to-home has nothing to offer except psychiatric control orders. They haven't rental housing to provide at all. Even its employees often wonder what there role is except to replace and exclude Hutt Street Centre, Westcare and Byron Place from the homeless housing scene. But Street-to-home has a growing waiting list, itself. They're reduced to having extended meetings amongst themselves just to justify their presence in the office. The corruption is breathtaking. All the money supposedly going to help the homeless actually ends up with the bureaucrats. 14 February 2007 *********************************** Remember Wayne and D****, the homeless couple? They are both "housed" currently. Remember all the reporting on this site of their meetings with Street-to-home? All that time and money spent on them by Street-to-home? Guess how they obtained housing? Wayne is living with a friend in Unley. D**** is living with S. in Elizabeth? Both obtained accommodation independent of Street-to-home. They said Street-to-home were useless time wasters. But let's guess if Street-to-home claimed in their reports to government that they solved Wayne and D's housing problem. 14 February 2007 ********************************** Tony, who has had three strokes, had blood in his eye last night. He says doctors at the RAH tell him nothing can be done and just to take pills. Robert at Teen Challenge got him to agree to go to the doctor at Hutt Street who might be able to pull strings to obtain better treatment. 9 February 2007 ************************************************ Fish and prawns were the meal at Teen Challenge at Hindmarsh Square yesterday. It was prepared by Jasmin Restaurant at Hindmarsh Square. Quality cooking, quality ingredients. 9 February 2007 ***************************************************************** Cardboard recycling day in the city means mattresses for those living outside who grab cardboard from rubbish bins. All the welfare workers like Street-to-home, with all their tricks and money to burn, can�t arrange ground cover for those living outside. It takes a business like a bicycle shop to act as accidental welfare workers. 9 February 2007 ******************************************* �Ugh, I don�t want to sit near that,� said a woman at the David Cappo Skin Cancer Dining Area at the Otherway Centre yesterday. She was referring to the vent back of her chair coming from the toilets. �It�s not too bad, today,� the man who looks like a theatre director, replied. 7 February 2007 *********************************************** Disability Information Resource Centre After getting kicked out of the Seniors� Information Centre internet lounge in Flinders Street, Adelaide, for life, the Scam Artist moved to the Disability Information Resource Centre internet lounge over on Gilles Street where he obtained over a thousand dollars from a client there. He avoids this place now but still uses the Hutt Street Library internet terminals to communicate with those in the homeless scene (workers and clients), apparently in the hope of making new connects from which he can obtain large non-repayable loans for his �children� who, apart from an adult son, may not even exist. What appears to exist, according to others, is the Scam Artist�s gambling habit. 7 February 2007 ********************************************************** �Screwdriver�, said a woman with sunglasses and drinking a bundy and coke in Wright Street near Whitmore Square last week. A younger man had lifted his shirt and asked her what weapon would have caused the injury he sustained the previous night. 5 February, 2007 ********************************************************************* Cappo the Crime Fighter Cappo has wasted so much money on the homeless issue without much result. The money would have been better spent providing housing for homeless people rather than on the bureaucracy and Cappo himself. Now, this meddling priest is a self-styled crime fighter aiming for the Salisbury/Elizabeth Aboriginals. Cappo is a church version of Alan Jones, the Sydney shock jock. All fluff and stuff. 5 February 2007 ************************************* John Hancock, spin doctor for the Department of Health, has admitted the Scam Artist was on a committee, but won�t specify which one and says it was many years ago. The Scam Artist still flashes his photo ID badge from the Royal Adelaide Hospital to gain credibility with people he is cultivating for the purpose of �borrowing� large amounts of money. 5 February 2007 ***************************************************** Drop the ballast, dude. That meddling priest, Cappo, got another award, some Australia Day thing. He�s going to be so loaded down with accolades that he�ll have a hard time rising to Heaven. The guy at the Pearly Gates might have to advise Cappo, �Make up your mind, pal, its either the trinkets or Heaven.� 2 February 2007 *********************************************** I went to Westcare for their Friday soup, fish and chips, salad, coleslaw, bread with trans-fatty margarine, and trifle and cream. The meals were served by the paid office workers and volunteers. Everyone in the kitchen and those serving in the dining room wore gloves. The dining rooms were clean, spacious and customers could sit wherever they wanted. There was no demand for ID. It cost two dollars and those not wanting to pay got the same meal except not fish and chips but meat pies. John, the Portugese fellow who also speaks French and sells Big Issue played the piano prior to the meal. One client was helping an old man fill out some government form. The old guy was born in 1924. 2 February 2007 ************************************************* A man at Otherway Centre said yesterday that he was collecting cans at 2am in the morning near Thebarton when a car with three lads pulled up alongside him. One jumped out wearing a balaclava and holding a replica gun and demanded money. The man said he had just forty cents so one of them kicked his bags of cans over the street then they left. The man said the police wouldn�t be interested in it and didn�t report the incident. 2 February 2007 *********************************************** John Andrew Green,the Scam Artist from Barmera, has been seeking a $50,000 grant from the Central Northern Adelaide Health Service. �For research,� he told another person in the parklands last week. He has been hoping to gather intelligence on people in the homeless scene, where he lives, then pass it on Street-to-home and other bureaucrats who are too afraid to interact with people in the parklands and, in any case, don�t have the Scam Artist�s ability to gain the target audience�s confidence. Greg Calder, manager of Street-to-home, is quite hostile to the Scam Artist but Calder�s boss, John Forward, works with special projects and appreciates the fact that flawed people like the Scam Artist often have certain superior abilities, which thickheads like Calder can�t even dream about. The Scam Artist also has a sense of justice and wants to improve the services offered to people living outside. He isn�t all bad, just don�t trust him with your money, especially big amounts. 2 February 2007 ****************************************** To whom it may concern, Please be advised that the person referred to as the "scam artist" is not connected with the Royal Adelaide Hospital in any capacity. Thankyou John Hancock Senior Media Officer Central Northern Adelaide Health Service Department of Health 2 February 2007 **************************************************** John Green, the Scam Artist from Barmera, has inveigled himself onto a patients� advisory board at the Royal Adelaide Hospital giving him open access to the hospital and to vulnerable people with life savings. The Scam Artist needs a steady source of money to, according to two sources, fuel his gambling addiction. 1 February 2007 ****************************************************************** The Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust, Jay Weatherill, recently said that it might take the selling of 1000 homes a year to keep HousingSA afloat. Last year 400 were sold though the real figure of housing lost is kept secret. These lost houses are when public housing suburbs are razed then redeveloped. The loss of thousands of houses and units is counted as redevelopment even though they�re not available for years. Even bare ground left for years after two semi-detached houses have been bulldozed are counted as being �redeveloped�. 1 February 2007 ************************************************* PJ had a shouting argument with a young fellow at Teen Challenge meal at Hindmarsh Square. The other guy said PJ was taking too much of that rich fudge-like cake provided by the Jasmin Restaurant. 29 January 2007 ******************************************** PJ yelled at him, followed him around, lunged at him, even. The other fellow eventually apologized and shook PJ's hand. PJ is over 65 but he certainly isn't a pushover. The other fellow was big enough to apologise instead of beating PJ over the head. PJ should get all that frozen stuff out of the programmer's freezer. 29 January 2007 ************************************************** A programmer (not the man mentioned above) with the university was looking for PJ. There was a freezer full of food that belonged to PJ at his house. The food, anyway, belonged to PJ. The person wants to give PJ the freezer or at least take the food out. PJ has been difficult to nail down on the issue and the person doesn't want to throw out the food because he does not to get rid of the freezer. 29 January 2007 ********************************************* Scam Artist Pulls Another Dirty The scam artist surrounded himself with a couple of pals, recently. One of them, "X", knew him from Darwin where the artist scammed "lots" of money from Kevin Naughton when the latter was with the ABC there. "X" didn't know this about the Scam Artist, thinking he was a great sort of human. "X" got a little angry with me when I told him the Scam Artist was preying on people in the homeless scene. It is very dangerous to have anyone angry at you in the homeless scene. Then "X" decided to put my accusations to the test. "X" tested the Scam Artist in a pub. He deliberately left money on the table where he and the Artist were sitting. "X" went to the toilets. When he returned both the money and the Scam Artist were gone. Was "X" pissed off. The money was nothing. He was offended at the Scam Artist's attitude. The Scam Artist has made himself scarce ever since. 29 January 2007 ***************************************************** Lomax-Smith We've heard Lomax-Smith is against the expansion of the Victoria Park Race Course. Oh, sure. She's supposedly making "big waves" against it inside the government, which has decided to go ahead with it anyway. She must pretend to be against it because her electorate in the CBD doesn't want the redevelopment. But she wants to stay in Cabinet so plays both side of the field. Similarly with people living outside. She backs housed residents in their attempts to remove all residents from the CBD who live outside. But publicly she plays the "compassionate routine" and repeats the platitudes of that meddling priest, Cappo. 29 January 2007 *********************************************** "I've got to get back to work," said Mark Parnell, Greens MP, as an excuse to avoid listening to a voter at the ShelterAGM in Parliament House. "Very interesting, yes, yes, thanks for that," said Mark to the same voter when he was seeking election. 29 January 2007 ************************************************* The St Vincent de Paul restaurant at Whitmore Square that stays empty 23 hours a day is like the hospital in the TV series, �Yes, Minister�, that could only operate on budget if it stayed empty of patients while retaining a full complement of paid staff. 29 January 2007 ****************************************** "They have no morals" �They have no morals. Gave a 72-year-old man four nights then kicked him out onto the street.� DS on the street talking about the St Vincent de Paul Night Shelter at Whitmore Square 25 January, 2007 ************************************** �Street-to-home, yeah, they visit me under the tree on Sunday at 9am. Does it help me? No. They do it because they get triple time on Sundays.� DS on the street 25 January 2007 ************************************************ �Teen Challenge, they have a broader perspective. Street-to-home: gov�t, gov�t, gov�t.� Another man living outside 25 January 2007 ******************************************* �Someone stole my blanket at St Lukes. Left me pillow. The thieves are at the west end. It�s okay in the east.� 25 January 2007 Man living outside and talking at Otherway Centre last week. ************************************* �Good, they�ll open up that house,� DS on the street responding to the rumour that Teen Challenge is taking over St Lukes. A lot of homeless housing is kept empty by charities for political reasons. Posted 25 January 2007 ***************************************************** �He�s never there when you�re there, and vice versa.� A regular at Fred�s Van noticing the evasive movements of John Green, the Barmera Scam Artist. 25 January 2007 ***************************************************** No Conviction Recorded �D�, the ex-homeless woman, now in private rental, appeared in Court 2 of the Adelaide Magistrates Court today. She was charged with carrying a concealed weapon in Grote Street. It was a folding knife for �self-protection�, she said. She entered a �guilty� statement and was fined $15 plus costs. No conviction was recorded because she has no prior convictions. "D" conducted herself with dignity and was accompanied by �S� with whom she shares a house in the Elizabeth area. The couple quickly left the court buildings after the appearance. The knife was confiscated. 22 January 2007 *************************************** Teen Challenge has expanded to Light Square, Adelaide. Free sausages, hamburger patties, bread, coffee and cordial on Fridays at 12 Noon. It is called the Raven Trailer Ministry and their aim is to spread their religious message. While eating you can view the hole in the window of Stormy Summers's brothel through which her boyfriend threw a piece of furniture when they were being evicted. 22 January 2007 ********************************************* Teen Challenge Taking over St Lukes Rumour has it that Teen Challenge, which is a church similar to the Assemblies of God, is taking over management of St Lukes Mission. They're going to provide overnight accommodation. St Vincent de Paul once did that at their shelter until they switched to housing compliant medication users only. 22 January 2007 ******************************************** Food ran out at the Teen Challenge Meal at Hindmarsh Square last Thursday. They keep failing to order enough containers of food. That small Sicilian fellow got pretty angry, to say the least. Ten people missed out including the workers from Teen Challenge. Demi and Warren have been away for the last few weeks and Jonald and the other guy haven't quite got things under control. Warren, the diabetic, was spotted that morning buying non-diabetic food in the tunnel that runs from the railway station to Hindley Street. 22 January 2007 ******************************************** They were giving out boxes of high-protein health bars at Byron Place Community Centre last week - two weeks past the use-by date. They smelt horrible. You could eat them but you felt a little crook afterward. I got 20 bars but removed them from their wrappers and threw them in the grass for rats and birds. Six days later they're still there. Even the ants avoid them. I ate three. I'm thinking of going to a doctor? 22 January 2007 ********************************************** Fred's van was giving away big bags of Bi-Lo or Coles chips, three months past the Use-by date. They were great as long as you didn't smell them. I put them with the protein bars and the birds and animals ate them quickly. 22 January 2007 ************************************************* David Waterford, a junior employee of the Social Inclusion Commission, still hasn't finished writing the final report on homelessness by Roseanne Haggerty. Her visit cost $250,000 of money that should have gone to people living outside so at least Waterford could churn out the final Haggerty report. Make it thick, David, so homeless people can use copies as makeshift mattresses this winter. 22 January 2007 ********************************************* �Ecstatic,� was the word John Lamprell used last night to describe someone from Street-to-home talking to his mob about Street-to-home�s success in housing homeless people. Perhaps someone dropped a tab of E-Skanck in his or her cocktail. 17 December 2007 �Jeez, youse were having a good time in the parklands last night, singing and carrying on after youse got kicked out of detox.� A man at Byron Place Community Centre 17 December 2007 The homeless woman mentioned previously, and with oncology problems, was charged by police with concealing a weapon. Wayne, her estranged husband said he will be at the court hearing and expects �lover boy� to admit he slipped the knife into her coat pocket without her knowing. Wayne remains loyal though admits it is over. 17 December 2007 **************************************** The tall man, apparently living outside, and attending Fred's Van last night, offered to pay the John Green's debt to me. He said the Scam Artist was a good fellow and had lent him $500. Pretty good interest for the Barmera Scam Artist if the man payed the whole $1400. I told him I didn't want him to pay and that it was the Scam Artist's duty to repay the debt. Plus all the other debts the Scam Artist has accrued. But this incident shows what a persuasive conman is the Scam Artist, John Green. 10 January 2007 ************************************ John Green's 26 Convictions for Fraud and Forgery John Green claims to have good friends like Kevin Naughton, Chief of Staff at the Sunday Mail newspaper in Adelaide. "We were great friends in Darwin," John Green said. "Our families were very close." "Quite the opposite," Kevin Naughton laughed cynically when I spoke to him last Saturday. [John Green, the Scam Artist from Barmera] "has 26 convictions for fraud and forgery." "Did he get anything out of you?" I asked. "Lots," Kevin replied. 9 January 2007 *************************************************** Green Interests I told John Green in better days that a friend in the environment scene lived simply so he could donate his money to benevolent causes. Green pounced on my indiscretion and last week attempted to ingratiate himself with my friend, pretending to have an interest in "Green Issues". I've warned my friend and apologised. 8 January 2007 ************************************************************** John Green, the Barmera Scam Artist, is cultivating people in the Adelaide Homeless Forum. http://forums.homeless.org.au/showthread.php?t=9 He uses the pseudonym "shortyjag" and tells long stories about his "boys", who don't exist. He has visited the home of one lonely woman on the forum but discarded her after discovering she was poor. She sends friendly emails not realising she has been discarded. The Artist laughs with derision. He's working on another woman on the forum. She lives on Hindmarsh Island. She responded to my criticism of him by unleashing a barrage of abuse, accusing me of defaming the Scam Artist. You have to admit: he knows his criminal trade to cultivate this sort of response. She'll be good for a couple of thousand: one night at the Sky City Casino. 9 January 2007 *********************************************** John Greenpretends to be many things. He claims to be an ex-ABC journalist, but the ABC told me that they'd never had him as an employee. He also claims to have been a journalist on the Northern Territory News. One veteran journalist of 25-years at the NT News says he's never heard of him while another said there was a record of Green working there from 1989-1991. He wouldn't act as referee for him. 8 January 2007 ************************************************ John Green meets Short Fuse Short Fuse Greg Calder of Street-to-home has reportedly told the Green that he requires psychiatric evaluation. It was trying to get a job with Calder's boss to fund his alleged gambling addiction. They should book a double appointment. 9 January 2006 *************************************************************** Two diners at Fred's Van noted that career criminal John Green avoids places when he thinks his creditors may be there. It is a life of dodging and ducking, lying, taking back streets. 9 January 2007 ****************************************************** One source says that John Green's father, a retired businessman from Barmera, used to pay off those cheated by his son but that he, "got sick of bailing him out." Now he denies being related to his son. 9 January 2007 ************************************************* Scam Artist John Green was seen in Escape Travel at 4pm on 2 January, 2006. Then he disappeared. Staff said he was in a rush to "catch a train". They knew his name. He must have changed his mind because he was with a mate in front of the State Library an hour later. "What's all this sh*t on the website," he demanded. "You stole $1400 from me, you thief," I replied. He wanted to talk away from his mate; I wanted him to hear what I said but the Scam Artist shooed the poor fellow away. Green spoke as if he had been trying to repay the money but that I'd impeded his progress. He did say he'd repay $500 tomorrow (3 January) but walked away saying, "Have it your way," as if I was still blocking his valiant efforts to repay the money. He didn't pay anything. But Escape Travel? Is the Barmera Scam Artist planning a move to greener pastures? Posted 8 January 2007 ***************************************************************** John Green scams money from people saying he needs it to help his children. He claims to have three sons yet someone once close to him says he has just one son, an adult who lives in Adelaide. This Scam Artist has presented two children, a boy and a girl, as his own to a victim who lent him six-hundred-dollars. This victim would drive the scam artist to his psychologist appointments. He also drove the Artist to Janet Frost, his GP who pulled strings to rush the Scam Artist to hospital for surgery for cancer. The surgery was successful. The Scam Artist responded by borrowing money from the driver, not paying him back and then disappearing. He repayed the GP by saying she was crazy and has sold out. 8 January 2006 ************************************************************ There was almost a fight at Fred's Van last Thursday. The guy who uses tablets and has lots of facial expression and comment angered the black fellow with long hair. The latter went onto the road, threw his shirt to the ground and challenged the loud dude to a fight. The loud dude did go onto the road while traffic snuck around one side of them. The dude was careful not to get within hitting range but kept up a range of insults. The long-haired fellow looked much more dangerous and he spat at the loud dude and went back to the eating area. He could have murdered the loud dude yet the latter kept shouting insults and demoralising him. It was like Ali versus Liston 1966. Two loaded police cars turned up as the potential fighters made themselves scarce. 8 January 2007 ************************************************ A reliable source told me that some St Vincent de Paul women won't help at Fred's Van because of the violence. He said, "Didn't you notice how tense the women were tonight?" 8 January 2007 ************************************************** The tall man who apparently lives outside, and wears three-quarter length orange trousers, better be careful. It is becoming increasingly evident that the Scam Artist sees every person as a potential source of gambling money. Even someone living outside has a fortnightly welfare payment that could be used by the Scam Artist at the Sky City Casino. Be careful. 8 January 2007 ***************************************** "Glad to hear John Lamprell is injured?" John Green, from Barmera, upon hearing that a St Vincent de Paul organiser injured his arm after falling in the kitchen while making the evening meal for the homeless people going to Fred's Van. "If you don't shut-up I'll rip off your other leg." John Green at the Disability Information and Resource Centre during an argument with a disabled man with one leg. 8 January 2007 *************************************************** One man from Portugal goes to Teen Challenge each Thursday at 5:30pm at Hindmarsh Square. He's just over sixty. He worked for BHP in Newcastle and Port Kembla, at the blast furnace. He's had three strokes, inoperable, and takes tablets. He loses balance easily and collapses. He collects deposit containers. He lives at Crazy Cottage run by Sister Betty though he isn't crazy. That is just the name street people have given it. His support worker takes him and his deposit containers to a Bottle Recycler and the man gives part of his money for the support worker's children and visits coffee shops with the rest of it. He says he collects the bottles for exercise rather than the money. His voice is slurred from the strokes but he doesn't express a hint of self-pity. He is one of the people who lives inside a building but goes to the Homeless Places. Most people visiting these services are ex-homeless and most have suffered serious injuries or medical conditions. I haven't found anyone there who hasn't suffered extreme trauma. 8 January 2007 ***************************************************** A white fellow wearing a top hat but no shirt was at Fred's Van last night. He accused the African man of living somewhere because he said he saw him leave a building with a security pass. He also said the black fellow's scars weren't real tribal scars and wanted to know what country, what tribe, what village he came from. He shouted this while being served a greasy pie and a hot dog. A white woman, who was with the top hat man's group, called the top hat man a "dickhead" while the white homeless people and Aboriginals visibly backed the African man. 3 January 2007 ************************************************** The top hat man made a point that a number of Fred's Van clients live inside buildings. This is a constant point of issue in the homeless scene. Many housed clients are ex-homeless living in horrible places who go to Fred's Van because it is their cultural milieu. They also supplement their meagre income with free food. Others pick up food to take to sick and despairing people who don't eat properly. One type of weirdo you never see at Fred's Van are those from Street-to-home. They know some of the homeless might want to express their anger to these psychiatric drug-pushing social workers. Cappo has made himself scarce also. Someone might ask about his humble dwelling. *************************************************** There was sand in the stale bun with pink icing at Fred's Van last night. I felt the crunching on my teeth for half an hour after consuming the delicacy. Maybe it's a new government program to increase dental health. Last night saw a huge crowd, mostly friendly with a mob down from the PitLands. There wasn�t enough food and the cordial ran out, as usual. 3 January 2007 **************************************************** A 35-year-old woman died from a drug overdose in Garland Street, Kilburn last weekend. This was where Street-to-home tried to dump the homeless woman with cancer symptoms. What a place to attempt to place someone fighting a deadly disease. Chris Salter, writing in The Advertiser called it, physically, a "dead end street". The homeless woman is fighting to live. 3 January 2007 *********************************************** Three sentiments in the homeless scene are: 1) treat women with respect 2) hate child molesters 3) never rip off other homeless people There are unofficial enforcers in the homeless scene who maintain standards. 3 January 2007 ****************************************************** Numbers were down at some homeless Christmas parties. You could see the despair amongst those who did go. Christmas is a horrible time when you're living outside and made worse because homeless joints reduce hours. A veteran welfare worker said he still doesn't understand why numbers are down. 3 January 2007 ********************************************* Still no word from the Thinkers in Residence section of the State Government. What will Roseanne Haggerty finally recommend to "help the homeless". One would expect something good for the $250,000 it has cost for her consultations. Will David Waterford, the Listerine Kid, write the report for her, just like last time, then paste in a few pictures of Cappo and Roseanne. Will they plonk Dave Walker's picture in it as an example of a success story. They plonked Dave out at Thebarton and put him on drugs but the side-effects are causing major health concerns for Dave. If nothing else the reports will provide insulating material for those sleeping on the ground when the weather turns cool. 28 December 2006 ************************************************* Monsignor Father Vicar General Social Inclusion Commissioner David Cappo, man of humble means, put three pictures of himself in the latest Social Inclusion newsletter. It was just four pages and I'd like to report its contents but couldn't understand a single sentence. It was written in social work jargon. It could have meant the pancakes are burning or it could have meant they're going to shoot the homeless full of drugs. Could have meant anything. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Cappo didn't order his pictures in the newsletter. It might be David Waterford seeking promotion. 28 December 2006 ************************************************ Fred's Van were giving out shower packs including soap, a towel, toothbrush, Vietnamese Colgate toothpaste, shampoo and underarm deodorant shaped a bit like the male member and scrotum. The stuff came in a bag you hang from the shower. 28 December 2006 ************************************************* "Why don't they just open it up?" asked a man living outside. He was commenting on the locked buildings and courtyard owned by Baptist Community Services at the Westcare Mission in Miller's Court. The buildings are awaiting renovation, have been for years. The courtyard would at least provide protection from the weather. 28 December 2006 ************************************************* The senior social worker's voice verged on inaudible when asked how Wesley Uniting Port Adelaide Mission used Social Inclusion Commission money to help the residents of Supported Residential Facilities (psychiatric boarding houses) in Semaphore. "She didn't answer your question," an observer noted. "It was because we were becoming angry." This was right. They were becoming angry because of bad experiences in these places. One man further commented, "They welcome you with open arms. You move in and then you realise you've been conned. This leaves you with an emptiness that grows, blossoms but not in a good way." 28 December 2006 ************************************************ Rumour has it that a couple of Cappo's cronies, Theo Maras and Jane Lomax-Smith have been jogging together. 28December 2006 *********************************************** Jabberwocky Tony Roach, the boss of Fred�s Van referred me to Mike Wock of St Vincent de Paul Society when I asked why the Society kept the old Iliad Restaurant empty 23 hours each day while people were served food outside via Fred�s Van in all weather and where toilets were not available. Mike Wock hasn�t replied. Yet again. Is this corruption within the charity industry? Ooh, that's a bit exaggerated. Perhaps gross conscious inefficiency? That sounds nicer. ***************************************** St Vinnies wants donations then leaves buildings it controls empty. At least St Vinnies resisted going into the Job Network business where they get paid to kick people off welfare. The Salvos joined it boots and all. 27 December 2006 *********************************************** Gladys, the woman in the electric scooter was at the Teen Challenge Christmas Party in Hindmarsh Square. "Let's give her a big cheer," Warren called, saying Gladys was turning 80 the next week. Afterwards Gladys went to Fred's Van. Her toes were bandaged due to Diabetes symptoms. 27 December 2006 ********************************************************************** The Westcare worker who lent money to the Scam Artist for a "family reunion" in Loxton lent it from his personal money, not from Westcare money. The Scam Artist didn't pay it back. I asked the Scam Artist about it but his memory failed him. The Scam Artist couldn't seem to remember it. He acted confused, worried. Was there something that had slipped his mind, again? 27 December 2006 ************************************************ "Good day, Good day, Good day," Billy said at the Teen Challenge Christmas Party, lightening the mood. We were all pretty tense and sad as people who live outside or on the fringe tend to be around the "festive" season. The staff at the Jasmin Restaurant brought tables and white cloths and served ham, turkey and prawns. One old man spent part of the time hiding behind the big tree crying. Two Salvation Army volunteers doing the rounds of Christmas Parties were amazed at the quality of the Jasmin food, comparing it with the Salvos. "The Salvation Army can't quite get it right, she said, commenting on the culinary skills of Army personnel. 27 December 2006 ************************************************ "Feast or famine," said one man at Westcare just before Christmas. There were about 800 pies, loaves of bread and pastries on a day when visitor numbers were down. 27 December 2006 *********************************************** "Macha, hah, they run Afton House. That should be bulldozed with half the pricks inside. Afton isn't fit for a dog. Better outside," said a senior citizen living outside. 27 December 2006 ************************************************* John Green Update �It�s just a game for me,� said John Green, the Scam Artist from Barmera, yesterday at a chance meeting in Bentham Street. �It isn�t a game for me,� I replied, asking him why he hadn�t returned the $1400, borrowed for one-week to buy a car for his son. He became vague citing �issues� though admitted no car was purchased for his son. He agreed to pay some of the money back by putting it into my bank account. He wouldn�t specify the amount but this was irrelevant because he didn�t keep his word. I served him with a Court Order called a Final Notice of Claim which gives him 21 days to repay the money before the case moves to the Small Claims Court. What struck me was how relaxed, even happy he was with the whole business. 20 December 2006 ************************************************** Wayne and his wife, ���.., are reputed to be living on the streets again after an incident with a knife. It was a warning by a well-meaning third party and not an attack, my informant says. 20 December 2006 ******************************** Wayne (Rufus) has returned to care for ��. his wife, facing oncology problems and being bounced from one dump to another by social workers and Street to Home. He has already been threatened with a knife, or so the story about him goes. I will try to corroborate it with Wayne. 19 December 2006 ********************************* Cappo�s Cronies Cappo is promoting a bunch of real estate sleazebags including Theo Maras as the next weapon against homelessness. Cappo says he�s very proud of these sleazebags: �I am very proud of Adelaide�s business leaders. Joining forces with us in the fight against homelessness will produce great results.� But what sort of results? Jay Weatherill, Minister for Destroying the Housing Trust gives a hint as what to expect from these �business leaders�. In his Media Release of Saturday, July 15, 2006 he says of people already "housed". �These previously were the homeless people least likely to be housed and are now in secure accommodation.� �Secure accommodation� often means semi-prison housing with the inevitable psychiatric drugs and daily visits from government enforcers to observe the tenant swallowing his or her �medication�. A man who lived in this type of �secure housing� remembers one of Cappo�s Cronies. "Sometime in the 1980's I opened my bedroom window at 52 Hill St. North Adelaide only to hear loud vile abuse coming from a chunky pig standing in his back yard. It was Theo Maras (real name Kalamaras) The staff were always warning us to stay away from "that" neighbour as he caused a lot of trouble with his contacts in politics and "the department". One boy did break into his house and was later found dead. Bill Manos (of Manos Chickens) lives on the other corner. They are both still living there but in between them, Stuart house (where I lived) is no longer a boys� home. I think it was sold by the department to appease the neighbours." So says the former inmate who sums up by adding, "The most terrible lies and injustices are this country's biggest growth industry." Thanks for his recollections of Theo Maras. 19 December 2006 ***************************************** Scott and a woman from Street to Home were prowling about Byron Place Community Centre last week. One observer said it didn't appear either was wearing Identification Badges. Maybe they removed them before getting out of the car. 18 December 2006 *************************************** "Maybe." Elderly woman in Barmera after being asked if John Green was her son. 15 December 2006 **************************************** Homeless Man Hit by Car Denied Treatment at Royal Adelaide Hospital (Another Case) Insiders might remember those pledges from John Forward of the Department of Health saying that Emergency Department patients at the Royal Adelaide Hospital will be kept in a special room with sandwiches and liquids. This was in recognition that many are hungry and dehydrated upon arrival. Wasn't that pledge a load of disinformation? Below is South Australian MP Sandra Kanck's media release about a homeless man being denied treatment at the Royal Adelaide Hospital after being hit by a car. Wednesday 13th December 2006 SOCIAL INCLUSION? - NOT FOR HOMELESS "Royal Adelaide Hospital A & E Department has again come under fire after mis-treatment of a second homeless man in recent weeks. "Democrats MP Sandra Kanck has heard that a man was the victim of a hit-run accident in Pulteney Street on Monday 11th December. �He suffered some injuries and was transported by the MAPS team to the RAH. He waited there for several hours without treatment before signing himself out. �The following day the Salvation Army arranged for him to go back to RAH A&E where he was greeted with �What are you doing back again� and shunted from triage, to area A then area B, each time being told they didn�t have room for him, before being sent to out patients. �At the time of his second presentation to RAH A&E, his visible injuries consisted of a red, swollen knee, lacerations along his lower leg, a cut to the back of the head and bleeding from the ear. �I just don�t get what is happening here. There are a multitude of government schemes and platitudes but when it comes to on-the-ground treatment for people who are living rough and doing it tough the action does not match the rhetoric. �John Hill has already assured me that processes are in place, clearly they are not and this doesn�t look like a caring and inclusive society to me. Sure people attending A&E need to wait and to be seen in priority order depending on their injuries, but this man had been smashed up by a car and was ignored,� said Ms Kanck. ---------------------------------------- Ms Kanck previously asked a series of questions* in Parliament about RAH�s treatment of PJ, a homeless man. Minister Hill has stated: `Improved procedures are now in place to better identify homeless people when they present to the emergency department.' Posted here on 15 December 2006 ******************************************** �Everyone knew it was a lie, except the public,� one veteran insider in the homeless scene told me last month. Street to Home hired inexperienced uni students to check the South Parklands one morning last winter for people living outside. The students found 37 people sleeping in the parklands south of South Terrace. The other areas of the Adelaide CBD weren�t checked but that didn�t stop Street to Home telling Roseanne Haggerty that the total number of people sleeping outside in Adelaide CBD was just 37. Roseanne then told the media. The Adelaide Advertiser printed the "37" figure then declined to print anything contradicting this obvious lie. Rex Jory promoted the lie and told one person living outside, and who counted more than 37 people sleeping on the ground, to �get lost� when he corrected the �37� figure. 13 December 2006 ************************************************************** The homeless woman with oncology problems has moved back into the Black Hole (Catherine House), according to a source in the parklands. Nowhere else to go and she needs a few days recuperation after exploratory surgery for cancer. Street to Home proved obstructive to the woman obtaining housing because she wouldn't agree to call her self crazy. 12 December 2006 ****************************************** Woolworths has employed a full-time security guard to watch over its rubbish bin in Fisher Place back of Rundle Mall. Hungry people living outside have been removing food from it during the night. 12 December 2006 ****************************************************** John Green, mentioned below was seen in the Sky City Casino during the night, according to one informant. Another person said he was back of Fred�s Van on the weekend. He usually pushes his way into the front of the queue. He was surveying the scene to ensure his creditors weren�t around. Perhaps he is also looking for new people to approach to borrow money from then not pay it back. 12 December 2006 *************************************************************** Rosanne Haggery "wrote" Ending Homelessness in South Australia as part of her $250,000 "Thinkers in Residence" job. After reading "her" report one can't not marvel how she quickly picked up the Australian dialect in just a few weeks, even government jargon? Actually, she didn�t write it. She threw some ideas together and David Waterford and a few other bureaucrats in the Social Inclusion Commission whacked it together. �I didn�t write it,� Dave tells anyone who will listen, even if they don't ask him if he wrote it. 12 December 2006 Prevarication, Lies, Deception continued To: David Panter Chief Executive Central Northern Adelaide Health Service GPO Box 1898 Adelaide, SA 5001 Your References: 06MH0446 Doc: 06CNA01680 File: 06/00088 Dear Mr Panter I received your letter of 27 July, 2006 where you say Rob Pegram via John Forward will provide staff to answer further questions. You said you didn't think he had refused to answer questions previously as I had stated. I acted in good faith and responded to your letter and sent a list of questions to Pegram via John Forward as you suggested. Forward replied saying he would reply by 10th October. He didn't. It is difficult not to assume that your letter and Forward's email was merely a charade to confuse and delay any investigation of the matters detailed in my questions, particularly the alleged assault by Greg Calder of Street to Home. Yours sincerely, N Barber 12 December, 2006 ************************************** Is David Panter about to shoot through? His job of Chief Executive of the Central Northern Health Service has been advertised in The Advertiser newspaper of Saturday, 9 December. 12 December 2006 Home |
