Whose health is it? Chronic disease
From the patient’s perspective, the question is: “Hey! Whose health is it?” PATIENT B presents with morbid obesity; develops diabetes type 2 and dies...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 7 November
Ballarat is not some sleepy hollow sequestered in a 20th century time warp. It is an important regional city. Only a pessimist...
What is the Question November
This month Roland caught up with photographer and environmental campaigner Peter Kervarec.
What is your name? Peter Kervarec What is your occupation? Professional photographer...Vale Bert Newton: Roland reflects
Albert Watson Newton AM, MBE (23 July 1938 – 30 October 2021)
THE death of Bert Newton marks the end of a...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 31 October
There are those comments which are so profoundly stupid it leaves you questioning everything – even the very existence of the universe!
THE...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 24 October
It is a statistic which pours shame on every post-war Australian government; and one which should galvanise every thinking person to take stock! INCREDULOUSLY, forty-three...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 17 October
Theocracy: literally - a government of God; a country which is governed by religious leaders. A form known to many ancient peoples...
What is the Question – October
For October’s What is the Question Roland chatted with long-time 3BA on air talent Paul Taylor.
What is your name? Paul Taylor. What is your...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 10 October
Since when did the musings of the next-door neighbour, or the person who lives across the street from the scene of the...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 3 October
The death of actress Jane Powell, who starred in the screen musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, set me to thinking about...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 26 September
You need to wonder about keyboard warriors. They are so brave while they are tucked-away under their dark rock, anonymously spewing their...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 19 September
This requires a fleeting suspension of disbelief. Imagine if a shark were to wander into the middle of a main street. There...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 12 September
Comedy is serious busy, and hard work; especially if the audience does not respond in the way you anticipated. I have a...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 5 September
Para athlete, Ntando Mahlangu of South Africa, is starring in a CITI television commercial. He says, "It's okay, you can stare. If...
What is the Question – September
For September’s What is the Question, Roland chatted with former City of Ballarat mayor and current south ward councillor Ben Taylor. Photo:...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 29 August
How often must some people be told before it resonates: COVID-19 may kill you! Let there be no doubt. It is imperative...
The evacuation of serving Afghanis
-OPINION
THE shameful decision taken by the Commonwealth Government, to abandon those Afghans who worked alongside the Australian forces in the Afghanistan War,...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 22 August
We used to believe it mattered not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game. Certainly, it was the...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 15 August
If blokes were ordered to wear skimpy bathers to play beach handball we would have blood in the streets; however, when it...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 8 August
The anti-lockdown protestors are to be roundly condemned; however, the blatant civil disobedience might be interpreted as a manifestation of a more pernicious malaise:...
What is the Question – August
JANET Jones, a former Ballarat resident, was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in The Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Dr Rimas Liubinas said of her,...
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 1 August
Two things are infinite, as far as we know: the universe, and human stupidity.
TODAY we know that this statement is not...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 July
The actor, the late Robert Morley, said of banks, “They should be in backstreets with brothels!”
If that offends any member of the...From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 18 July
There are those moments in life, so profound, either you embrace them with alacrity, or you spiral into the deepest depression.
I...