Streetsheet
Stories, poems and pictures by Big Issue vendors and friends
Save the Market
Vale Adnan
Fisherman’s Wharf Market in Port Adelaide is open every Sunday (and public holiday Mondays) from 9am-4pm, but now the lease has come up and the owner has been asked to close it down in September, after more than 20 years. You’ve got everything there, including kitchenware, car parts, toys, clothes, shoes, books, playing cards, bike parts and leather goods. Outside of the building you have food stalls: hot dogs, hot chips, hamburgers, hot coffees. Then you’ve got one called Danny’s Mini Donuts, which makes great little donuts and toasted sandwiches: cheese, ham and cheese, ham and cheese and tomatoes. Upstairs you have a stall called Mystical, run by Heather. She sells all different types of wolves, dragons, insects, dresses, shirts, toys, books, cups, lucky dips for children, parents and adults. The owner of the markets is looking for another site for them all to move. But they have to wait to see what happens. I would like to see all the Adelaide people visit down there – as well as interstate and overseas people, too. KERRY-ANNE THE BODY SHOP, RUNDLE MALL , ELIZABETH & ADELAIDE ARCADE I ADELAIDE
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t is with great sadness that we announce the passing of vendor Adnan, who was very recently diagnosed with cancer. You may know him from the cover of the Vendor Week edition in March. Adnan has been a regular with The Big Issue since mid-2020, working in Paddington and Coorparoo, Brisbane. He enjoyed selling the magazine because he loved meeting and learning about people from all over the world. He was highly political and believed “everyone in the world must struggle for the end of wars, for children not to die, for the end of hunger, for peace to come”. It was an honour to know Adnan and he will be sorely missed. PETER SIMMONS VENDOR SUPPORT I QUEENSLAND
On my third day selling The Big Issue a lady rocked up and asked me to mind her dog for five minutes while she did her shopping. But she didn’t say that it was really scared and shivering. Everyone thought it was my dog and people kept telling me to feed it. Some people bought me dog food. I ended up holding the dog, to try to comfort it, and I sold more magazines than ever before. She came back about three hours later – she didn’t even say sorry or thanks. TALLIS GPO QUEEN STREET I BRISBANE
PHOTO BY BARRY STREET
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