August 25, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 22 August
The world is becoming more pretentious with each passing day. Everyone wants a fancy title. I imagine it massages their ego and...
August 11, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 8 August
The plethora of ‘motivational’ and ‘self-help’ books, which flood our television screens and on-line booksellers, reveal much about the fragile state of...
August 8, 2019
Call for care during Dental Health Week
MAKE no mistake - poor dental hygiene is at the root of illness, and research shows links to serious and fatal medical conditions. When it...
August 4, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 1 August
Australia has, since the arrival of the First Fleet, 1788, one of the world’s most dubious...
August 2, 2019
What is the Question with Sam Rizzo
What is your name? Samuel Joel Rizzo. What is your occupation? Currently, I am completing a metal fabrication apprenticeship. What brought you to Ballarat? I have lived in...
July 24, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – July 25
I have known for 65-years that the white man in this country has been stealing from the black man - and with impunity! IT has been...
July 17, 2019
FROM THE DESK OF Roland Rocchiccioli – July 18, 2019
Some years ago I wrote and appeared in a one-man show, Now You Can Eat Father Christmas. It was about my late mother, Beria,...
July 10, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – July 11
What is the ‘Wellness Revolution’? Do alternative practices really work, or are they a whole lot of mumbo-jumbo? IT would be folly not to have faith...
July 3, 2019
FROM THE DESK OF Roland Rocchiccioli – July 4, 2019
Israel Folau argues he is fighting for his religious freedom. That is spurious. He is not. He is free to worship a palm tree,...
June 26, 2019
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – June 27, 2019
Queen Victoria must have been quite a woman! Alexandrina Victoria was born in 1819. Two-hundred years later people still talk about her is if it were...
October 10, 2018
FROM THE DESK OF Roland Rocchiccioli
‘NOW every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; Now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay...
October 3, 2018
FROM THE DESK OF ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI – October 04, 2018
Strong woman: Roland’s mother, Beria, shown here
in Perth in 1952, was a...
September 26, 2018
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – September 27
Sportsmanship: John Landy stops to help
a fallen Ron Clarke during the Australian
September 12, 2018
FROM THE DESK OF Roland Rocchiccioli – September 13, 2018
The November state election looms. It is time to start thinking, seriously, about how you will cast your vote! I have to say, short of...
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