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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
FROM THE DESK OF ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI – October 04, 2018
Strong woman: Roland’s mother, Beria, shown here
in Perth in 1952, was a...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – September 27
Sportsmanship: John Landy stops to help
a fallen Ron Clarke during the Australian
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...