May 25, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE clamour has ceased! To the victor — the spoils; to the vanquished — Vae victis — woe. We have witnessed the rise and...
May 18, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
ARE we so busy — so self-obsessed, we have not the time to queue? The self-checkout facilities available in supermarkets have more to do...
May 11, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE notion of First Nations peoples’ “Welcome to Country” has merit in the theory and deserves to be commended and respected; however, the application...
May 4, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
FOR apostatics fettered by inflexible 1950s Roman Catholicism, the death of, and Requiem Mass for, the Holy Father, Franciscus, generated reflexive myriad recollections of...
April 27, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IT is unambiguous: “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”. It is the ninth of the Ten Commandments. For those who believe, and those who...
April 27, 2025
Artists join forces for exhibition
THREE Ballarat-based contemporary artists have combined their talents for a new exhibition, titled Triage, at the Kank Wolverang Art Space. Diokno Pasilan, Bacondrum AKA Stuart...
April 26, 2025
BAF seeks artists for next mentoring program
REGRETTABLY, the importance of the performing and visual arts are undervalued. In the centuries ahead, when historians and anthropologists look to make sense of...
April 20, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE Victorian duck shooting season bears no likeness to the annual shooting parties held on country piles across the United Kingdom. Both versions are...
April 13, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
FEW actors were better-looking than the late Richard Chamberlain. Like the late Jean Simmons, he, too, was absurdly beautiful. On coming face-to-face with either...
April 6, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
TO suggest the government’s new bail laws mark a sweeping reform is a preposterous misnomer. They are, for the greater part, a restoration to...
March 30, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IT is impossible to believe the moving of Saturday night football from free-to-air to streaming television is exactly what the followers wanted! According to...
March 23, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is an essential institution. It belongs to the Nation. It symbolises the collective voice and values of the people....
March 16, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE morality of a nation is determined by the way it treats its animals, its children, and its old people. Sadly, Australia, and much...
March 9, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
NEVER was local government more important than in the present. It is an essential representative body for the successful implementation of methodologies and protocols,...
March 2, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IF the ugly encounter between Australian professional soccer player Sam Kerr and the English police officers were in the reverse, and the police officer...
February 28, 2025
Roland reviews Lyric’s Kinky Boots
KINKY Boots is an exhilarating, feel-good musical, and the Lyric Theatre production at Her Majesty's Theatre makes you feel exactly that. It takes you on...
February 23, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE greater the distance from one’s date of birth, the more one is inclined to reflection. The photograph of an Australian soldier who died...
February 16, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE wanton vandalism wrought on the busts in the Prime Minsters’ Avenue is unfathomable. Ballarat is one of the prettiest cities in Australia. Around...
February 9, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
RACISM — the inability or refusal to recognise the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins, is, by...
February 2, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
DONALD Trump is President of the United States of America. He is, arguably, fortified with the collective Might and Power of that country, the...
January 26, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
TO celebrate Australia Day on January 26, the date on which the British invaders came ashore and claimed possession (terra nullius February 7) at...
January 19, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
BELATEDLY, I have made two New Year resolutions: I intend to be more intolerant, and much less perfect! Please, allow me to explain! Like many,...
January 12, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
HOW quickly the years pass! I am jealous not of success, but I am covetous of those opportunities which now present for those starting-out...
December 8, 2024
From the desk of oland Rocchiccioli
THE recent VicPol, state-wide, Neighbourhood Policing Forums were initiated to allow senior police command to meet, and discuss concerns and challenges, with residents, stakeholders,...
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