November 8, 2020
What is the Question – November – Brett Macdonald
What is your name? Brett Macdonald (please spell my surname right Roland!) What is your occupation? Broadcaster - radio 3BA What brought you to Ballarat? Broadcasting! Garry West who...
November 1, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 1 November
If the artist’s impression is true, the proposed six-story hotel planned for Doveton Street South Street lacks architectural merit!
INCREDULOUSLY, the developer countered...
October 25, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 October
Being a good person is the most difficult state to achieve in our lives. It demands courage and constant commitment to dodge...
October 18, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 18 October
What would Australia do without its legion of loyal fund-raisers and volunteers in all sorts of areas?
EVERY day of the year, there...
October 18, 2020
Ride only part of doctor’s huge effort
CANCER is the single largest killer disease of children in this country. It takes a special breed of person to work with youngsters suffering from...
October 11, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 11 October
The forthcoming council election is not the time for a donkey vote!
THE advent of social media has changed the ethos of our...
October 11, 2020
Staying at the Sofitel, or any other superior hotel, is not a rort!
TO insinuate that Ballarat councillors staying at so-called luxury hotels are living high-on-the-hog at taxpayers’ expenses is, at best, spiteful, and at worst, deliberately...
October 4, 2020
What is the Question – October
What is your name? Mick Moloney (…but you, Roland, get a one-off exemption and may call me Michael since you find “Mick” so displeasing to...
October 4, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 4 October
Is perceived notion of male superiority learned or inherent? IS it the consequence of relentless, careless subliminal sexism? Consider: our superheroes - excepting for Wonder...
September 27, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 27 September
The Tasmanian Senator, Jacqui Lambie, sent me an email. It was not personal, since we have never met.
NONETHELESS, it was a most...
September 20, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 20 September
On September 1, 1939, Nazi German troops invaded Poland. As a consequence, on September 3rd, Britain and France declared War on Germany....
September 13, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 13 September
Since when did blatant civil disobedience become de rigueur? THE perception that one can do whatever wants, whenever one chooses, regardless of the consequences,...
September 6, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 6 September
The decision to award Sydney based architects with the redevelopment of a Ballarat library has rendered me speechless - almost!!
IT is...
August 30, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 30 August
The maxim tells us: look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves; conversely, you have to spend money...
August 23, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 23 August
I like good television! Sadly, too much of what is screened turns the mind to milk. Ninja Warrior is one of my...
August 16, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 16 August
We must never forget: They gave their tomorrow for our today.
DURING the Second World War, the actress, Googie Withers, had a...
August 9, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 9 August
Each time I pass-by the original St John of God Hospital, and the former Loreto/Mary’s Mount Convent - now Loreto College - ...
August 9, 2020
What is the Question for August
For August’s What is the Question Roland chatted with David Haymes.
What is your name? David Henry Haymes What is your occupation? Formerly CEO...
July 26, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 26 July
I am not physical violent by temperament, but there are moments when other people’s silliness makes me want to bang heads together...
July 26, 2020
Lady Colin Campbell – Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
MEGHAN and Harry: The Real Story is Lady Colin Campbell’s latest book on the Royals.
A number...
July 19, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 19 July
I used to think some people were stupid. Now I am convinced. One is left pondering the parallel universe in which they...
July 12, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 12 July
When, in 2120, anthropologists, social scientists, and history students want to revisit the 21st century, they will look to our architecture, our...
July 5, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 5 July
If a group of black men and women were to dynamite and raze Rome’s Colosseum, there would, justifiably, be an international outcry....
June 28, 2020
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 28 June
The time has come for all even-handed people to call for a halt. The invisible and ubiquitous ‘they’, whomsoever they might be,...
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