September 26, 2021
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...
September 19, 2021
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...
September 5, 2021
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...
August 29, 2021
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...
August 29, 2021
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,...
August 22, 2021
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...
August 15, 2021
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...
August 8, 2021
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:...
August 1, 2021
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...
July 25, 2021
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...
July 18, 2021
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...
July 11, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 11 July
Yearning for the days of yore – if indeed they ever existed – is an exercise in futility; however, the increase in...
July 4, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 4 July
It is a simplistic concept and probably fraught with danger as a consequence, but it is time. Let the punishment fit the crime! Obviously, there...
June 27, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 27 June
In a truly democratic, capitalist society, those who have prospered have a moral and ethical obligation to support those for whom the...
June 20, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 20 June
The management of the Bendigo Art Gallery is to be heartily congratulated on the brilliance and daring of their entrepreneurial programming. It...
June 13, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 13 June
It takes a deal of courage, but I have done it. I have thrown-out 55-years of my life; however, I am not...
June 6, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 6 June
It is hard to imagine anyone would be surprised by the revelations contained in Lord Dyson’s report investigating the BBC, the disgraced...
May 30, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 30 May
You may be confident, if nurses elect to take strike action, there is something seriously wrong with the system.
THE Ballarat Day Procedure...
May 23, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 23 May
It is a truism: If you persist, loudly and long enough, in telling people something which is untrue, there are those who will come...
May 16, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 16 May
What is the point of the Commonwealth of Nations if, when push comes to shove, we do not rally-round to support our...
May 9, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 9 May
The astounding public confession by a New South Wales politician, conceding he signed documents which he neither read, nor understood, is cause...
May 2, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 2 May
I am creating a body of work for which, 30-years ago, I had neither the wit, nor the wisdom. Capacity comes with...
April 25, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 April
It is unforgiveable when the basic facts of a topic are incorrect; occasionally, the premise for the article is a total nonsense....
April 18, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 18 April
The unedifying spectacle of two women fighting in a supermarket aisle over lavatory paper, caused me to ruminate about the Australia we...
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