February 6, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 6 February
If, on opening your eyes first thing in the morning, and before pulling the doona back over your head, you immediately remember,...
January 30, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 30 January
The ignominy suffered by the world’s number one tennis player, Novak Djokovic, is lamentable; a national disgrace. Anomalies notwithstanding, that it came...
January 23, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 26 January
Once upon a time, in another century, women’s most popular knickers were cottontails, and men wore baggy, white underpants, called Y-fronts. Both...
January 16, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 16 January
An army of Martians, visiting Ballarat as part of a reconnoitre for a proposed imminent invasion of Australia, could be forgiven for...
January 9, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 9 January
Beer loomed large in the lives of kids who grew-up in the heat of the north-eastern goldfields of Western Australia, where the...
January 2, 2022
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 2 January
When I think about it I shake my head incredulously. The notion is too absurd to be true! This year, 2022 marks...
December 25, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 December
Christmas is that time of year when, around the world, Christians gather together in towering cathedrals and small parish churches, to celebrate...
December 19, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 19 December
Victorian Senator David Van’s yobbish behaviour in the Federal Senate, and for which he later apologised, is an unsettling manifestation of power-drunk,...
December 18, 2021
Third parties in the health system
Over the last four weeks ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI has looked at different aspects of our health care. So far he’s discussed chronic disease,...
December 12, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 12 December
“It’s un-Australian”, whatever that means? Erroneously, one hears it from politicians wanting to condemn a situation, or a happening, which does not...
December 5, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 5 December
What the Australian test cricketer/wicketkeeper, Tim Paine, does in his private life is categorically none of our business. We have become a...
December 4, 2021
Health system funding and challenges
Over four weeks ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI is looking at different aspects of our health care. So far he’s discussed chronic disease and our...
November 28, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 28 November
It used to be said that ‘manners maketh man’ - and women, in this egalitarian age. Somehow, somewhere, along the line, good...
November 28, 2021
The medical boom: hospitals post war
Over four weeks ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI is looking at different aspects of our health care. Last week it was chronic disease still to...
November 21, 2021
Whose health is it? Chronic disease
Over the next four weeks ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI will take a look at different aspects of our health care including hospitals, the system...
November 21, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 21 November
Patently, heavy fines are not enough to convince some people that dog ownership comes with the most serious of obligations. Flagrant breaches...
November 14, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 14 November
War is not the opposite of peace. War is a breakdown of civilisation. War is what happens when language fails, and leaders...
November 7, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 7 November
Elvis Presley was one of the first, and remains one of the few, truly international superstars. He, and the late Marilyn Monroe,...
October 31, 2021
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...
October 31, 2021
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...
October 24, 2021
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...
October 17, 2021
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...
October 10, 2021
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...
October 3, 2021
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...
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