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...
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IT is unambiguous: “Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness”. It is the ninth of the Ten Commandments. For those who believe, and those who...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is an essential institution. It belongs to the Nation. It symbolises the collective voice and values of the people....
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THE morality of a nation is determined by the way it treats its animals, its children, and its old people. Sadly, Australia, and much...
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NEVER was local government more important than in the present. It is an essential representative body for the successful implementation of methodologies and protocols,...
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IF the ugly encounter between Australian professional soccer player Sam Kerr and the English police officers were in the reverse, and the police officer...
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...
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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...
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THE wanton vandalism wrought on the busts in the Prime Minsters’ Avenue is unfathomable. Ballarat is one of the prettiest cities in Australia. Around...
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RACISM — the inability or refusal to recognise the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins, is, by...
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DONALD Trump is President of the United States of America. He is, arguably, fortified with the collective Might and Power of that country, the...
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TO celebrate Australia Day on January 26, the date on which the British invaders came ashore and claimed possession (terra nullius February 7) at...
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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,...
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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...
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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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THE controversy surrounding the casting of the lead character in the stage musical, Kinky Boots, is an indicator of how attitudes have changed —...
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TO posit Ballarat is less safe, or more dangerous, than other locations in Australia would be an overstatement — a serious misnomer. The challenges...
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WHENEVER will they learn learn? Voters have scant interest in political braggadocio cultivated specifically to score cheap, political points, and creating furores of dubious...