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...
April 11, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 11 April
Always, Australia has bragged about its mateship ethos, which, it is claimed, was forged in the trenches of Gallipoli. Something has changed....
April 4, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 4 April
Let us not be silly! Of course the Prime Minister was not suggesting the women of Australia are lucky not to be fired-upon when...
March 28, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 28 March
The content of the domestic assault story was so confronting, so deeply disturbing, I had to go outside and sit in the...
March 21, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 21 March
Unsurprisingly, the Oprah Winfrey television interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, has raised the question of an...
March 14, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 14 March
I am partial to a good anecdote, apocryphal, or not! To suit an audience, I have been known to claim the best...
March 7, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 7 March
Civilisation as we know it will not cease to exist if we do not have Facebook in our lives. Be assured: the...
February 28, 2021
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 28 February
The Bendigo Times is a new weekly, free newspaper, which, in these troubled times, is cause for great celebration. It requires an...
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