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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,...

December 1, 2024

From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli

THE controversy surrounding the casting of the lead character in the stage musical, Kinky Boots, is an indicator of how attitudes have changed —...

November 24, 2024

From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli

TO posit Ballarat is less safe, or more dangerous, than other locations in Australia would be an overstatement — a serious misnomer. The challenges...

November 17, 2024

From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli

WHENEVER will they learn learn? Voters have scant interest in political braggadocio cultivated specifically to score cheap, political points, and creating furores of dubious...