August 21, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 21 August
The public reaction to the death of musician Judith Durham reflects the place she occupied in the hearts of her many fans...
August 14, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 14 August
Anyone who came to visit my late mother, Beria, never left empty handed. Always, she gave them a bottle of her homemade...
August 7, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 7 August
Discrimination in any of its hateful embodiments is unacceptable, and should be denounced, unequivocally.
HOWEVER, we should not be without tolerance for the...
July 31, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 31 July
It takes the reaction of other people to remind you of your own intellectual and emotional freedom.
A SCHOOL report said of me,...
July 24, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 24 July
One photograph reminded me! Fifty-years ago, almost to the day, I was at the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, stage directing the Melbourne Theatre...
July 17, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 17 July
The Australian Broadcasting Commission – as it was called in my youth and early career – is celebrating its 90th birthday. In...
July 12, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 10 July
A delicatessen stall owner at Prahran market commented, “If you buy it from the supermarket, and not from me, you’ll end-up with...
July 3, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 3 July
The announcement of a new Australian production of Agatha Christie’s play, The Mousetrap, stirred myriad memories of my time in repertory theatre,...
June 26, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 26 June
Unequivocally, recreational drugs are a curse of modern society; and while their proliferation is much greater now than in times past, it...
June 19, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 19 June
Given the new Albanese government has an Assistant Minister for the Republic, I watched with a special interest The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee...
June 12, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 12 June
A recent story about a renewed public interest in knitting patterns from times past set me to thinking about my childhood.
MY favourite...
June 5, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 5 June
His Majesty, King George VI, died on 6 February 1952. His daughter, The Princess Elizabeth, with her husband Prince Philip, was on...
May 29, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 29 May
The late Hector Crawford’s television series of, The Sullivans, screened on Channel 9 from 1976 to 1983.
The Sullivans recounted the story...
May 22, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 22 May
Listen carefully to any election discussions regarding Federal Government funding for rural health care. All that glistens is not gold!
BOTH major parties...
May 15, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 15 May
When will Australian governments realise: bad teeth and poor oral hygiene are at the root of much serious illness.
THAT dental care is...
May 8, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 8 May
A plea to all politicians: Please, will you stop with the b****** and the scaremongering, and tell us, in precise terms, what...
May 1, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 1 May
The date is 21 May, and never has there been a more important Federal election.
THE Coalition has been in power since the...
April 24, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 24 April
Political allegiance notwithstanding, the vicious personal attacks on the nature of the Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, do nothing to advance the Nation’s...
April 17, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 17 April
Is Australia so intellectually superior we can afford to summarily dismiss tertiary qualifications from another country’s learning institutions?
THE numeracy and literacy rates...
April 10, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 10 April
The knocking-down of the Berlin Wall, together with the subsequent unification of East and West Germany, and the collapse of the Soviet...
April 3, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 3 April
One of the many lessons to be learned in life is not to take yourself too seriously! We are, none of us,...
March 27, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 27 March
In the same way that not all Germans were Nazis, not all Russians are supporters of Vladimir Putin and his thuggish regime....
March 20, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 20 March
In 2013, following an historic public consultation on racial profiling practices within Victoria Police, a broad three-year plan to improve the treatment...
March 13, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 13 March
I have, over the years, spent a total of months in the old USSR, and what is now the Russian Federation. It...
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