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...
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...
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