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...
November 10, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE time has come for the silent majority to tell the vocal minority to back-off! Wokeism, with all its extremism, must be curbed. Published research...
November 3, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
WHEN precisely, in the span of time, were journalists touched by the cosmos with the exclusive responsibility of predicting the future shape and form...
October 13, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
CONSIDER: 2.6-billion people — more than a third of the world's population, live in nations and territories gripped by repression, corruption, and human rights...
October 6, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
Time-and-tide take the edge from our childhood recollections; however, there are those elements which never fade… Of the myriad treasured remembrances from Gwalia, an Australian/European...
September 29, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
At school, football was not my sport-of-first-choice. I was too skinny; too self-conscious. Paradoxically, it has played a major part in my career. The...
September 22, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
“’Allo, ’allo, ’allo,” said Constable Plod, clasping his hands behind his back, and rising-and-falling on the balls of his large, flat feet For fans of...
September 15, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
The more one sees and reads, the more one is convinced our lives are being controlled by characters who are, at best, average in...
September 1, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
Being a small part of a successful television programme is most rewarding; however, it does have one serious disadvantage. The passage of time… I never...
August 25, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
How could it be? The 2024 NAPLAN results show: one-in-three Australian school students is not meeting literacy and numeracy benchmarks. One-in-ten requires additional support. It...
August 18, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
BACK in his Italian, Tuscan village, my father, Ginger, was a pastore — a shepherd. They made pecorino cheese. In Australia, he taught himself...
August 11, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
Don't answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they. Conversely, be sure to answer the foolish arguments of...
August 4, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IT is too easy to reflect; to say: “things were so much better back then.” In truth: fact and fiction become clouded — distance...
July 28, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
Unequivocally, there is no place in our society for political violence; however, we would do well to remember: to every action there is an...
July 21, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, used a Labor caucus gathering to remind colleagues they sit in the House of Representatives, and the Senate, by...
June 9, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
It is impossible to fathom how we came to this precarious pass. From an ethos when the world was the oyster-of-the-young, our youth, through...
March 10, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli for 10 March
When I acquired my little cottage in Ballarat I hoped for fairies at the bottom of the garden. That would have been perfection. BE...
February 29, 2024
Four stars, plus one more for Sandy the dog!
The Lyric Theatre production of the stage musical, Annie, is playing at the Civic Hall.
Annie is based on the popular, 1924 comic strip,...
February 25, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 February
The Premier of Victoria Jacinta Allan delivered to the State Parliament, and all those Victorian children who suffered institutional abuse, a superbly measured and...
February 11, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 11 February
The ABC is an important broadcasting institution. It is the voice of the people. It must be impartial, unfailingly. THE increasing inclination of journalists to...
February 4, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 4 February
It was simple: you worked a second job - usually in the hospitality industry; saved a 10 per cent deposit; met with your bank...
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